So Today I had my first ever verbal fight over Crypto, GlobalWarming, Dinosaurs with my Aunt

So for the holidays me and my family decided to visit my family on the southern east coast of the USA. After the 16hr drive we had finally arrived and checked Into our hotel and got some rest for the night. Next I met up with the family and we decided to go to a Mexican restaurant and catch up.

(Now a little back story, my family are the older generation and the type that it’s isn’t broken don’t fix it also live in a part of town that is upper lower class with a speckle of lower middle class, with a lot of homelessness in the area.)

So while eating joking etc I dropped the bait “well you could always invest in bitcoin or buy some”. My aunt perked up and said “hmmmmm tell me, can you actually spend bitcoin?”

Me: “actually yes you can, their are real estates firms that allow you to purchase housing with bitcoin”

Aunt: well I don’t think that I will trust that because I don’t want to invest in a make shift 401k and when I need my money it’s not guaranteed to get that back out.

Me: well first bitcoin and the whole cryptocurrency space isn’t a 401k account, IF you invested in BTC you could get back that amount you put back in depending on market conditions.

Aunt: I’m going to trust my back because it’s FDIC’d to if I put money in I can get it out whenever I want.

I roll my eyes and go to another point

Me: well I’m not trying to get you to invest just to share some education on bitcoin and cryptocurrency as a whole and how it’s useful especially in sending money to loved ones in another countries for less then what you would use third parties for.

Aunt: coin bit or whatever it’s called isn’t even tangible and it’s sounds like people with money only use it, if I can’t go to Walmart to use it then it’s really not that special because I don’t Wana just buy Teslas with it.

Me: Sigh

NOW here is where I almost gathered my family and left.

Aunt: that digital talk and bitcoin stuff sounds ridiculous just like global warming and Dinosaurs.

Me: Wait, you don’t believe global warming is real? Or Dinosaurs? (puzzled look shot to my wife)

Aunt: NO it’s all made up by the government and dinosaurs aren’t real because no one has ever seen them and the bones are fake.

…….Bruh….What….?