There is a trend to be seen amongst the anti-bitcoin crowd that I feel needs to be pointed out, even at the risk of sounding insensitive. I’m throwing this out there because I believe that once a person better recognizes the cause of the problem, they can better address it. I would like to preemptively make the disclaimer that there are always exceptions to the rules, however, I feel the generalization is true enough that it should guide our actions.

There are three main traits I see time and again of the typical anti-bitcoiner. First, the anti-bitcoiner is often old. And this doesn’t surprise me at all. Should it really shock anyone that a sixty year old can’t wrap their head around why a pseudonymous peer-to-peer digital currency created by an anonymous programmer with a distributed ledger system using public/private key cryptography could have value over fiat money? Most people over the age of forty that aren’t technically savvy don’t even know what most of those terms mean.

Second, the average anti-bitcoiner has never used Bitcoin, not even once. Now, I’m not necessarily going to rely on the proverb “don’t knock it ’till you’ve tried it” because I can think of many things I’ve never tried that I’m perfectly happy to knock. I’ve never injected heroin into my veins. I’ve also never killed an innocent human being. I feel confident in knocking those things because I’m not really down with poisoning my body or committing unethical crimes that will stain my soul forever. So, that proverb isn’t a good defense against the anti-bitcoiners. That being said, the difference between my examples of something I would knock and Bitcoin is night and day. Instead of Bitcoiners suffering from a burdened soul or life debilitating addiction, Bitcoiners seem to be happy, intelligent, and prospering individuals.

The problem with never having tried Bitcoin, is that it can be very difficult to wrap your head around, especially without having ever used it. Imagine trying to understand what music is without ever having heard it. People would be telling you how great it is. They’d try to explain it by saying it’s like sound, but with different vibrations, in certain rhythms, at varying pitch and volume, that is pleasing to the ears. Huh?

Third, anti-bitcoiners cannot explain what Bitcoin is or how it works. I’ve never met a person in meatspace, or seen a person on the television, that fully understands exactly what Bitcoin is and how it works and still doesn’t like it. Never. Not once. Anti-bitcoiners are always attacking Bitcoin from a position of ignorance. I would be much more likely to respect an individual’s anti-bitcoin stance if they fully understood Bitcoin and could give a valid reason why they still do not like it. But they do not and cannot.

These traits in anti-bitcoiners have helped me to refine my Bitcoin evangelism. First, I’m done trying to convert people over the age of sixty. The amount of time and effort attempting to teach Bitcoin to one old person could teach twenty young adults. Frankly, old people aren’t going to save the world. They’re most of the reason we’re in the mess we’re in. So, my attitude is that if they have their nest egg in precious metals, fine. They’ll weather the coming Dollar collapse and use Bitcoin once the rest of the world has converted. If their nest egg is in fiat, well, tough shit. They lose. Thanks for playing.

Second, if I confront a person under the age of sixty that doesn’t like Bitcoin I will challenge them on the fact that they’ve never used it and cannot explain it back to me. Politely getting the point across that their opinion is worthless considering they have no idea what they’re talking about seems to be the most appropriate strategy.

Ultimately, though, I think the best strategy is to ignore the old curmudgeons that are willfully ignorant and focus on the younger generation, particularly the productive class. Ignore the statists receiving welfare checks, employed or not. Those people aren’t interested in honest money.

Bitcoin is for the productive class, not the parasite class. With Bitcoin the producers of the world can boycott fiat and slough off the parasite class in one fell swoop. Let’s focus our energies on those people that really matter and let the rest drown in fiat.