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When Mom Got Her First Crypto: A $50 VANRY Experiment
I sent my mom fifty bucks in VANRY tokens last week. Her response? "So... it's Monopoly money, but online?"
Look, I should've seen this coming. This is the same woman who still writes checks at the grocery store and thinks Venmo is "for young people." But here's the thing—her confusion actually taught me more about crypto adoption than any whitepaper ever could.
The Setup (and Immediate Panic)
"Do I need to download something?" she texted, approximately 47 seconds after I told her to check her wallet. Then came the follow-ups. A barrage of them. "Is this legal?" "Will the IRS come after me?" "Why can't you just use regular money?"
I walked her through setting up a wallet. Every. Single. Step. The seed phrase explanation alone took twenty minutes. She wrote it down on a Post-it note—which, yes, I immediately made her destroy and rewrite properly. When the VANRY finally appeared in her wallet, she sent me a screenshot. With her seed phrase visible. (Deep breath. We fixed that too.)
What She Actually Said
After the initial panic subsided, Mom got curious. "So what even is VANRY?" she asked. I explained it's tied to Vanar Chain, a gaming-focused blockchain that's trying to bridge Web2 and Web3. Big brands are involved—Paramount, Legendary Entertainment. Real companies she's actually heard of.
Her take? "Oh, so it's not just made up."
That hit differently than I expected. Because she's right—that's exactly what most people think about crypto. It's not *just* the technology they don't understand. It's the legitimacy question. The "why should I care" problem that the entire industry keeps stumbling over.
She kept the tokens for three days before asking the inevitable: "Can I turn this back into real money?" I showed her how to check the price (it had gone up a bit), explained exchanges, talked about gas fees. Her eyes glazed over somewhere around "transaction validators."
The Bigger Picture Nobody Talks About
Here's what nobody tells you about crypto adoption: the tech isn't the hard part anymore. My 68-year-old mother successfully received, stored, and understood basic wallet mechanics. That's actually remarkable compared to five years ago.
The hard part? She still doesn't know *why* she'd want VANRY over fifty dollars in her checking account. And until we—the crypto-already-convinced—can answer that question without jargon, we're just sending our parents Monopoly money and hoping they'll figure out the game.
Where This Leaves Us
Mom still has her VANRY. She checks the price "just to see" every few days now. She asked me about Bitcoin last Sunday. Baby steps.
The Vanar project might succeed or fail on its technical merits, its partnerships, its execution. But the real test? Whether my mom—six months from now—actually *wants* to use it for something. Anything.
That's the adoption curve nobody's really cracked yet. And maybe that's okay. Maybe we're still early.
(She just texted: "It went up 3% should I sell?" We're getting somewhere.)
$VANRY
#vanar
@Vanar
Look, I should've seen this coming. This is the same woman who still writes checks at the grocery store and thinks Venmo is "for young people." But here's the thing—her confusion actually taught me more about crypto adoption than any whitepaper ever could.
The Setup (and Immediate Panic)
"Do I need to download something?" she texted, approximately 47 seconds after I told her to check her wallet. Then came the follow-ups. A barrage of them. "Is this legal?" "Will the IRS come after me?" "Why can't you just use regular money?"
I walked her through setting up a wallet. Every. Single. Step. The seed phrase explanation alone took twenty minutes. She wrote it down on a Post-it note—which, yes, I immediately made her destroy and rewrite properly. When the VANRY finally appeared in her wallet, she sent me a screenshot. With her seed phrase visible. (Deep breath. We fixed that too.)
What She Actually Said
After the initial panic subsided, Mom got curious. "So what even is VANRY?" she asked. I explained it's tied to Vanar Chain, a gaming-focused blockchain that's trying to bridge Web2 and Web3. Big brands are involved—Paramount, Legendary Entertainment. Real companies she's actually heard of.
Her take? "Oh, so it's not just made up."
That hit differently than I expected. Because she's right—that's exactly what most people think about crypto. It's not *just* the technology they don't understand. It's the legitimacy question. The "why should I care" problem that the entire industry keeps stumbling over.
She kept the tokens for three days before asking the inevitable: "Can I turn this back into real money?" I showed her how to check the price (it had gone up a bit), explained exchanges, talked about gas fees. Her eyes glazed over somewhere around "transaction validators."
The Bigger Picture Nobody Talks About
Here's what nobody tells you about crypto adoption: the tech isn't the hard part anymore. My 68-year-old mother successfully received, stored, and understood basic wallet mechanics. That's actually remarkable compared to five years ago.
The hard part? She still doesn't know *why* she'd want VANRY over fifty dollars in her checking account. And until we—the crypto-already-convinced—can answer that question without jargon, we're just sending our parents Monopoly money and hoping they'll figure out the game.
Where This Leaves Us
Mom still has her VANRY. She checks the price "just to see" every few days now. She asked me about Bitcoin last Sunday. Baby steps.
The Vanar project might succeed or fail on its technical merits, its partnerships, its execution. But the real test? Whether my mom—six months from now—actually *wants* to use it for something. Anything.
That's the adoption curve nobody's really cracked yet. And maybe that's okay. Maybe we're still early.
(She just texted: "It went up 3% should I sell?" We're getting somewhere.)
$VANRY
#vanar
@Vanar
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