They are socially conditioned to be ignorant cautious. Its a pseudo-intellectual trait many people have who are not educated enough to understand why you wouod hedge against the dollar in the first place. I would be willing to be they "trust the government" in the general sense of the phrase too.

If you bought Bitcoin when Poilievre said to buy it, you would have lost money, if you bought bitcoin when Trudeau insulted Poilievre about it, you would be barely breaking even atm.

Interestingly enough, Peter Schiff (gold bug) has made some gold NFTs pinned to the bitcoin blockchain for autehntication somehow. Trends like this are going to do a lot more for crypto, than everyday shut in wage slaved who are conditioned to serve.