A lot of Americans still don't know what Bitcoin is - page 4.

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Quote from: Josefjix on June 28, 2020, 05:12:36 AM

I had two clients from America I want offer graphics designing jobs for, I demanded my payment would be in BitcoinBTC or Ethereum. To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. Cheesy

Just like the whole world does.

Almost majority of people around the world does not have any idea about bitcoin,or even crypto currencies.

So i think you should have let them learn what this is and for when they need to use.

it is your call to lure them inside crypto.

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thats not surprised me, why ?
i have 2 reason about this...
1. Almost bounty project, they do not allow for US people to following the project.
2. Maybe, lack of promotion about bitcoin at US country.

I think there are only 2 reasons above that cause this to happen

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Quote from: bakasabo on June 30, 2020, 02:40:30 AM

According to statista.com, only 70-80% of United States adults have a pc a laptop. Not all of them are even connected to the Internet, and some just use them simply for minesweeper or to do basic work with documents. No wonder that with population close to 330 billions, there are people who dont know what Bitcoin is.

While I am not much into statistics, I assume that those numbers you are referring to are not very small whatsoever, they seem very decent in my opinion. However, it doesn't even matter for average user who wants to use bitcoin. Bitcoin is essentially a protocol that can be accessed through any device connected to the Internet. Be it desktop, laptop, cell phone or fridge, almost any device connected can hypothetically be used to run an app on bitcoin network. The only problem here is that the potential of bitcoin is not obvious for those who live in countries with flourish economics, where an access to financial products isn't restrained.

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Quote from: Josefjix on June 28, 2020, 05:12:36 AM

I had two clients from America I want offer graphics designing jobs for, I demanded my payment would be in BitcoinBTC or Ethereum. To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. Cheesy

From my point of view, there is nothing to be surprised off because there are still a lot of people who don't know about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Also, not only in the US because I think about 20% of people only know about bitcoin and 80% still don't know about bitcoin all over the world. It is the reason why other people advertise cryptocurrencies for more people will buy crypto and bitcoin.

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Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on June 28, 2020, 05:16:06 AM

There is nothing to be surprised. Still there are a lot of people around the world even did not hear about Bitcoin and American people are no different of course. Even those who heard about bitcoin to them it's a scheme or something which will pop up soon.

We are sill in the early stage of bitcoins.

I agree with you and I also say that there are many people who do not know about it. I do not speak of any other country. I only know that there are many such people in my country. There are people in my own community who don't know anything about bitcoin and Ethereum.

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Quote from: The cure on June 29, 2020, 10:22:20 PM

That's not impossible to happened, because not every people knows about bitcoin or cryptocurrency many are believing in the rumor that bitcoin is a scam that's why even though they already heard about it they just ignore it. I think that's your time to introduce or explain how bitcoin or cryptocurrency works.

This is due to the numerous scams and in the ransomware attacks which asked for bitcoins as a payment method. Moreover the news channels also describe bitcoin as a currency that is used on the dark web for illegal purposes, after watching this do you believe a person can try to buy bitcoins. Also there should be media campaigns that should advertise bitcoin as a currency and as a method to send money across borders without any significant fees and also we need to change the people's mindset towards digital currencies so as to increase the awareness and acceptance world wide.

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Quote from: Josefjix on June 28, 2020, 05:12:36 AM

I had two clients from America I want offer graphics designing jobs for, I demanded my payment would be in BitcoinBTC or Ethereum. To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. Cheesy

So you made a conclusion that a lot of americans don't know about bitcoin based on your experience?
If that so, then I think you are right, though bitcoin is already considered as popular in USA but we can't say that a lot of people are already using it, that would result to massive adoption if a lot of people are already using bitcoin.

maybe we can help measure its popularity by the number of ATMs

As per this article - https://www.coindesk.com/5-popular-us-states-bitcoin, it made a conclusion that " One bitcoin ATM for every 1.67 million people".. so with that data, we can already tell the status of cryptocurrency in the USA.

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Quote from: Josefjix on June 28, 2020, 05:12:36 AM

I had two clients from America I want offer graphics designing jobs for, I demanded my payment would be in BitcoinBTC or Ethereum. To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. Cheesy

You know it is very common and I was introduced to bitcoins by someone similar a few years ago when I was working and I usually used to accept payment in Libertty Reserve (it was a prominent payment method during those times and very popular just like Perfectmoney is today) so I was working for a client and they offered me $200 for the complete project (I'll keep the project private cause of NDA) so they offered me Paypal and I refused and what they said next was bitcoins which was completely new to me and that is how I first got to know about bitcoins and then slowly I rolled into it and now hardly ever I accept payment in any other method unless there is no option left.

Hence, word of mouth is a great promotion for bitcoins and I believe the biggest power of decentralization since no one controls them you always know that someone is not promoting you for referral commissions.

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Quote from: Josefjix on June 28, 2020, 05:12:36 AM

To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. Cheesy

Not only in America you will easily find a lot of people in other countries who don't know about bitcoin and its potentiality. I have similar experiences with some of my clients who have limited knowledge about bitcoin but good news is that after knowing about it from my side they start to use bitcoin and now they always give it priority as their payment option. Even some of them have already purchased a good amount of bitcoin for their future purpose. Worldwide crypto community is getting bigger day by day which is definitely a good sign for bitcoin and its overall growth.

There was a time people thought that bitcoin have no future and investing in bitcoin is too much risky but after seeing its growth and stability people have enough trust on its power and bright future. Maybe that day isn't too far when it will be the most popular payment option for modern civilization.

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According to statista.com, only 70-80% of United States adults have a pc a laptop. Not all of them are even connected to the Internet, and some just use them simply for minesweeper or to do basic work with documents. No wonder that with population close to 330 billions, there are people who dont know what Bitcoin is.

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It is not surprising at all for a reason that not only Americans doesn't aware of bitcoin or other cryptocurrency but mostly of the people all over the world. Cryptocurrency doesn't discuss normaly as what other concept can that is why numerous of people remain ignorant about it. No need to be dismayed at them. Instead, try to explain it to them. You also experienced not knowing it.

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Quote from: The cure on June 29, 2020, 10:22:20 PM

That's not impossible to happened, because not every people knows about bitcoin or cryptocurrency many are believing in the rumor that bitcoin is a scam that's why even though they already heard about it they just ignore it. I think that's your time to introduce or explain how bitcoin or cryptocurrency works.

The number of people in this forum combined together with the number of people who know a thing about bitcoin compared to the entire population is not that much, the community is still a mote in comparison, so be forgiving and understanding to the people who do not know about. OP sounded condescending just because they do not know about it, do not be like that. If there is no way that they know about it then adjust because they are your clients and you are offering your services to them not the other way around.

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Quote from: Josefjix on June 28, 2020, 05:12:36 AM

I had two clients from America I want offer graphics designing jobs for,

Clearly 2 Clients too small number.

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I demanded my payment would be in BitcoinBTC or Ethereum.

Foul because you don't have to demand instead just ask them if they can do the payment in Crypto.

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To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. Cheesy

Know what?you must be thankful because at this chance you can let them Know what Bitcoin and ethereum is so they may invest or either use the crypto as mode of payment.

I think you should consider this everytime that Crypto is just spreading and not totally known like PayPal did.

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You know what OP, the action you've just done is what will drive their curiosity to engage in bitcoin and cryptocurrency. The problem arises when we, bitcoin users became passive as if we are contented that we use it without thinking of helping bitcoin to grow, but through asking questions, they might search for it and see what it's capabilities.

IMO, it is also better than convincing people to try out bitcoin once in their lives, since asking them to directly receive payment from bitcoin will already prove its legitimacy.

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That's not impossible to happened, because not every people knows about bitcoin or cryptocurrency many are believing in the rumor that bitcoin is a scam that's why even though they already heard about it they just ignore it. I think that's your time to introduce or explain how bitcoin or cryptocurrency works.

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The reality is like that, there are some people who don't know about bitcoin. Some even know that bitcoin is based negative stories
from bitcoin haters. Therefore no wonder a country as big as America, there are still citizens who do not know about bitcoin. It takes
a lot of promotion and education to make bitcoin more recognized by people around the world.

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Quote from: Josefjix on June 28, 2020, 05:12:36 AM

I had two clients from America I want offer graphics designing jobs for, I demanded my payment would be in BitcoinBTC or Ethereum. To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. Cheesy

I will be more surprised if all of the Americans know what is Bitcoin than this.

My point is that not all the people really know what Bitcoin is. For us supporters, we are expecting that every person knows it but the reality is it isn't work like that. There are some who knows and supports Bitcoin. There are some who knows Bitcoin but isn't using or supporting it and there are people who doesn't know Bitcoin at all which is quite normal already.

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Quote from: Josefjix on June 28, 2020, 05:12:36 AM

I had two clients from America I want offer graphics designing jobs for, I demanded my payment would be in BitcoinBTC or Ethereum. To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. Cheesy

Not only in America, it's everywhere. Not everyone have the luxury to learn about bitcoin as majority of people dosen't even believe in the idea of using digital currency due to the risk involve in it. Only a little percentage of the world's population knows about bitcoin very well and the fact that most governments are portraying bitcoin to be some bad form of digital currency being used for illegal transactions do make people lose interest to even know what it is

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Well just because they are first world country and most BTC ATM are located in America doesn't mean everyone will know what Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin is. It is still an unknown technology for most people and needs more people to advertise and introduce it to the masses.

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Although most Bitcoin ATMs are in America, it doesn't mean all people there know Bitcoin and use the ATMs. It also doesn't represent that Bitcoin is something already familiar for all people there and each person knows it well. Moreover, not all people are following updated information related to digital assets or investment. So, it is not impossible if some people in America don't know about Bitcoins. In this matter, we shouldn't be so surprised if there are Americans who didn't know anything about Bitcoin.

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