This meme is funny, but I was recently chatting with a nocoiner who told me every bitcoiner he's met so far comes across like a used car salesman. This is unfortunately true in many cases.
In contra...
All I say is "Do you take bitcoin? It would be a lot cooler if you did." At a store where I am buying stuff.
In casual conversion it almost never comes up unless the wallstreet price moves enough for some "news" channel to talk about it.
Then I basically pull a Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. "Well because anyone can run a node in this decentralized network. The peer to peer fee market does more to regulate the perception of Bitcoin's worth than the wallstreet price. My private key allows me to take these coins anywhere that goods are cheaper and do an arbitrage against the price on the television....did you want to talk about Bitcoin or just trying to chit-chat?"
Invariably they say, "chit-chat."
In casual conversion it almost never comes up unless the wallstreet price moves enough for some "news" channel to talk about it.
Then I basically pull a Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. "Well because anyone can run a node in this decentralized network. The peer to peer fee market does more to regulate the perception of Bitcoin's worth than the wallstreet price. My private key allows me to take these coins anywhere that goods are cheaper and do an arbitrage against the price on the television....did you want to talk about Bitcoin or just trying to chit-chat?"
Invariably they say, "chit-chat."