[_cpancake]

Oh great, another Bitcoin rant about how the common person just doesn't get it, but Bitcoin really is a great technology - they laughed at Galileo!

Maybe, just maybe, Bitcoin actually is a shitty technology and that's why people don't trust it?

[kordless]

No, what I actually said was that the common person was currently unable to understand how the network implements something that can be trusted by them. There's a significant difference between 'going with the flow' (getting it) and fully understanding how something works, especially when you are considering the need to trust it for financial purposes.

Regarding your last claim, do you really think that everyone that doesn't like/hates Bitcoin really thinks it's shitty technology? Because, if you do, that would imply they understand how it works. I realize 'how it works' means different things to different people here, so to clarify, we're talking about how it arrives at consensus with the ledger.