I told my mother about bitcoin for years and she was like “yeah, cool, nah.” She’s in her 70s.
And then I was like “The HRF eg @gladstein is doing cool shit for human rights with bitcoin.”
And once I showed her some examples, she was like “holy shit” and joined their newsletter and is like 110% onboard with their mission. She reads their newsletters more than me now, and asks me questions about them, so I have to catch up on them to answer her stuff.
She still doesn’t own Bitcoin but is like, reading every HRF email and asking me about them and totally onboard.
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I managed to convince my mum to buy some BTC in 2020.
She simply trusted me with this.
She doesn't understand it, and doesn't study it, but that's ok.
For years occasionally I've been talking with a friend of mine about Bitcoin and never seemed to be interested. Five years ago I gave him €30 in bitcoin by sending it to a wallet on his phone and explained how to keep it safe.
Five years later and multiple new phones, he found his backup words, installed a wallet and did a restore. He was very surprised to see that its value had gone up 7x to €210. He's now interested to buy and wants to know more about Bitcoin :-)
where does the HRF money come from?
They always want to buy when it tops...
Seems like Bitcoin is the wrong thing to be using for human rights work. Well, I guess it depends on what type. Monero would be the better option though.
