I've run into the sentiment you're talking about both online and IRL. It puzzles me as well.
Three factors come to mind:
1. There's a deep-rooted idea today that money comes from the government and that everything else is a scam. Bitcoin challenges that idea.
2. Bitcoin refuses to die despite the predictions of just about everyone who first learns about it.
3. The technical underpinnings of Bitcoin are counterintuitive to say the least. That makes Bitcoin hard to understand even for the technically-oriented.
The combination of longevity, casual disregard for convention, and counterintuitive nature gets annoying after awhile.
Nor are these factors restricted to those who can't stand Bitcoin, its users, or the idea of private money. Many of the most vocal Bitcoin advocates today went through a period of disbelief or outright hostility toward the idea.
Three factors come to mind:
1. There's a deep-rooted idea today that money comes from the government and that everything else is a scam. Bitcoin challenges that idea.
2. Bitcoin refuses to die despite the predictions of just about everyone who first learns about it.
3. The technical underpinnings of Bitcoin are counterintuitive to say the least. That makes Bitcoin hard to understand even for the technically-oriented.
The combination of longevity, casual disregard for convention, and counterintuitive nature gets annoying after awhile.
Nor are these factors restricted to those who can't stand Bitcoin, its users, or the idea of private money. Many of the most vocal Bitcoin advocates today went through a period of disbelief or outright hostility toward the idea.