The statements like below attracts new comers: 

- Crypto and blockchain are the future
- Earn money from blogging through crypto
- Make your transactions secure through Blockchain.
- Digital currency is going to be the future and Bitcoin is the first. 
- Earn money for playing games. 


So a layman will see all the above and get attracted to it and start exploring. Scams and referral links will take them towards a different direction and they end up concluding, crypto is a scam. 

I find it very had to explain it to my friends as well. Every single concept like starting from mining to everything else becomes Greek and Latin for new comers. Only a few understands it and give it a try. Others go away and never come back again. 

I wish we could stop telling people that Hive had anything to do with crypto. It's a blogging site. Or a video site. Or a gaming system. Or [Insert DAPP here].

Hive is resistant to censorship and control by single individuals. That's it. 

Welcome to crypto where you also can have more numbers copy and pasted into a notepad than you will find in a phone book.
Gottta love simplicity and Hive offers that and I know without that simple part I would never have ventured as far as I have into the crypto world.

You're preachin' to the choir, Jon! I've been on this particular soapbox for a really long time... and it's amazing *just how much* it all mirrors the early days of the web, itself. The early "web nerds" really wanted mass adoption of their awesome "toy" but at the same time they were terrified of giving up their technical *"reins"* to the Internet and accept that we now had *"My mom from Topeka is sharing recipes on the Internet."*

But the whole *"your mom from Topeka"* scenario only became a reality because Steve Case at AOL created an *"idiot interface"* that *didn't* require anyone to have much technical savvy. Click the button and go. End of story.

So yeah, we need to get away from crypto (mostly) *AND* I think we need to distance ourselves from the *"make money"* angle. Creating content, gaming or whatever floats your boat is the *primary driver,* the rewards are merely *a consequence.* People don't sign up for YouTube (well *some* might) to make money, they sign up to *make videos.* But using the rewards as the *lead* sales pitch is folly... because most people will just end up disappointed if that's the success metric. 

Great post Jon  use case is what is important  to get folks into to crypto  and Hive is great for that and ctp and firepay  are good starts. re hived and twitered for you as well

i try to promote 3speak to german content creators: guess what: some people are annoyed by using Private Keys. I mean its 2020 man, LastPass is basically for free.

I both agree and disagree with you.

Crypto doesn't have to be simple, quite the opposite. But the presentation, the outer level of interaction for the regular person needs to be stupid simple. That's why Coinbase has the biggest userbase from the crypto exchanges out there, because it's simple.

About your example with J.K. Rawling, I'll be honest with you. From what you described this didn't go down well. If she would have said instead of "bitcoin" - "money", do you think it would have been less chaos in the thread? I doubt it. Other than many people thinking she lost it because she doesn't understand money, there would have been just as many types of explanations and potential scams thrown at her thread, maybe even more, because more people are "informed" on the subject.

Where I agree with you completely is that 99% of people don't care a bit about any of the topics you mentioned. They care if they can use something and use it without headaches and if they'll find their friends there or if it's a suitable environment to bring them if their friends haven't joined yet.

Hive is great for people who like to help other people, because crypto is confusing as hell.

Its a jungle in the world glad there are honest people in the hive community :)

The majority of people have no idea how money works, but they are using it every day... When the FIAT money collapse, they will not ask how crypto works, they will run into it... lol 

and we are moving slowly toward "masses" with doing things simpler... changing to username/pass system and adding later on the road crypto part...