The good news is you don't need to coax anybody. Once you study how it works (legitimately), you realize it has a ton of intangible value [1] and can trade with others who think the same. Anybody who disagrees can choose not to use it.

It's quite beautiful. It's universally frowned upon in the Bitcoin community to tell people they're going to make X in X time frame. All of that nonsense takes place with the Ethereum/shitcoin crowd which gets conflated with Bitcoin.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33586717

To be fair, there's no value in stuff like Twitter, stamp collections, the US dollar, etc unless you coax other individuals into them (in some cases by using armies).

It's a function true of pyramid schemes and any system that relies on network effects to be of any real value.

Not that I care about Bitcoin one way or the other.