Topic: BTC in your country - page 41. (Read 44521 times)

Question: is bitcoin still widely-known in your country as it was back then? Well I did a Google Trends analysis about bitcoin and it seems that the attention about it diminishes over time since the 2013 ATH of bitcoin's price.

I'm from the second smallest city/country in Asia. Yes a city and a country - Singapore. It is a first world country and.. I believe more than 50% of the people here know Bitcoin. I remember there was lot of "Bitcoin" in the news in the 2013/14 Bitcoin bubble. Slowly.. there is less and less news when the price keep on getting lower..

I'm from the PH too, and I don't think that there are 7% of the entire population that really know bitcoin. There are some exchanges, services and people that promote the use of bitcoin but it seems that the general public is still iffy about the actual use of it. Also, it is surprising that even the smart minds in the IT industry aren't that familiar with the term "bitcoin" and what it really is.

I lived in the PH, only like 7 % of the entire population that know bitcoin.

 Poland here EU
I only know myself.We have in Poland btc embassy,but thay are doing nothing to promote btc.The only one thing is one way ATM machine in his place.I kow there is many miners.Now something move.we have really good and secure btc exchange,,we have two two both way  btc ATM installed in Warsaw and we will have more over all country,that people want also to start promote btc.I hope we will have btc to cash service
same like there is in Spain,withdraw ,exchange cash in bank atms
That what is kiling btc is taxation.btc here is property,pay tax when you own not when you sell and VATthat becouse of that you can buy nothing here with btc

U.S.  My friends and family know about it primarily because I made some money off Bitcoin 1.5 years ago and bought some really nice property upon which we are now building a house.  Alas, the project has been a very effective way of solving my fiat problem and there has not been another selling opportunity so I'm back to being poor again, but the good news is that I find life is neither more nor less fun when one's fiat account is ballooned.

Other than that I find that most people have heard of Bitcoin but their understanding of it beyond that is utterly minimal.  The mainstream types with a strong belief in one political party or another don't have much love lost for Bitcoin since it is a pretty blatant challenge to the state.  One of them won 1/4 BTC at a family gathering (I'll let you guess by whom that was donated) and would not even take it.  My more Libertarian friends don't seem to know much more about it but they hope it succeeds.

Judging by this thread (and my own observations) Bitcoin is an abject failure as an exchange currency for the masses which is exactly what I predicted.  I thought going in that Bitcoin could and would only excel if it became a reserve AND a guerrilla currency which jealously retained an adversarial relationship with the State.  Also, that it would only really shine in the dawn of state sponsored solutions which could occur some time between tomorrow and 100 years from now.  I have no reason to change either of these positions since the 4 years that I first formulated them.

The government here is like a vampire. The less you own on paper here, the less they can suck out of your wallet. Beside that, I really don't know what to start.

I live in Houston and most of the people I interact with have heard of it but most are clueless beyond just having heard or read the name somewhere. I find that of those who have some knowledge, like most things, the older ones have a more negative feeling towards it and the younger people are more interested in its future.

Maybe you should start a Bitcoin business then. You already know about Bitcoin and you have no competitors in your area so far.

I live in Western-Europe and in my area there is absolutely nothing you can do with Bitcoin unfortunately. I hope it will change in the near future.

The nearest place to spend Bitcoin in an actual store is probably 200KM away from here. Everything needs time to develop.

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I live in the USA.  Few people I deal with have even heard of it (before I brought the topic up).  It has been harder than I would have thought to meet people to buy BTC from (in person).

I do not run with an "IT Crowd" though.

No one in my family knows or cares.

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I was just in Peru for a while.  VERY different than Argentina (where BTC appears to be taking off nicely).

None of my in-laws know or care about BTC.

NONE of the four IT guys (kind of chosen at random in stores, etc). even knew about it.

As far as I know, no one in Peru accepts BTC as payment.

in UK
almost no-one still accepting
some obviously in London but wider UK little to no adoption, yet

shows still how early things are and the potential for huge growth

There is not many people in my country that use BTC.
And there is not many people that heard of it, and those who did think it's a scam.

On my state,bitcoin is illegal but it's not against the law. So use it under user's responsibilty.
I'm guess many of my people still don't know about bitcoin. I thought it's quite popular already, don't you agree ?

I'm Italy and no one I know in the real life uses Bitcoin. 

In EU things are shaping nicely. I went to spain to visit a friend and enjoy the nice climate and beach and it was great going into one of those no commission bit2me ATMs (any ATM with halcash will do). We mixed coins and cashed out 300€ just like that, instantly. It was pretty sick.

back when solo mining on pc was an option and also bitcoin price was high there were a lot of people mining bitcoin and profiting from this action. and that is how i was introduced to bitcoin.
but with end of solo mining a lot of them gave up bitcoin and sold all their bitcoins and got out.

Me too, but the trading volume is fake we can't believe it and coinmarketcap doesn't accept their volumes because most of volumes are made from arbitrage bots, the real trading volume is about 20-50% of current volume.

Pretty quiet in Belgium for now. We do have several Bitcoin ATM's, and our very first Bitcoincity in Ghent!

There's also the Belgian Bitcoin Association of course...

Not bad to begin with, right?

Yeah, that's exactly how humans reacting about new and unknown things. They ignore it, they laugh about it and they fight against it. And few moments later everyone want it

Here in my place (EU) i know not many people who use bitcoin. Most people have heard about it in the media and press. But they don't know what it is. I am the first who tell the people close to me what bitcoin is, how it works and why it is good. And there are only few places around me where i can use bitcoin. But i believe it will become more popular in near future