Don't waste your time explaining bitcoin to people that don't want to understand.
It's useless insisting. They won't understand the value. They won't understand the freedom that bitcoin offers.
They will buy shitcoin and get scammed. They will sell at the first dump or the first +5% convinced they've made a good deal.

Have you seen how much power a whole series of institutions based on "trust" have assumed,
imagine what can happen in the long term when this same trust is placed in bitcoin.

Would you ask for a loan to be repaid in bitcoin or in FIAT currency?

It makes no sense to sell a superior currency to "raise money". It's mathematical.
This is a system that regardless of everything will always proceed on its own path.

Those who understand the basic about bitcoin, realize that this is not "an alternative".

Initially posted here = https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313900.msg64844002#msg64844002