The problem, as I see it, is that you have to give people a reason to take time to understand or show interest Bitcoin. I hear all the time, "I like using my credit card" or "I like using my debit card". They like the convenience. You have to move them out of that convenience, if that is possible.
For example, I have a PMA package with Wells Fargo. My credit and debit cards cost my nothing each year. If someone ever uses my card numbers, I get reimbursed completely. Convenience. This is what Bitcoin is up against, and Bitcoin needs many more people to use it if it is to grow.
Topic: Everyone who's going to hear about bitcoin has heard about it (Read 4122 times)
You're not going to find a middle class guy who is remotely tuned in to CNBC or Yahoo/Google Finance who hasn't heard of bitcoin by now.
In the past, bitcoin expanded into new demographics. It started with the Slashdot crowd in 2009. Then the Wired/Silk Road article crowd in 2011. Then expanding more towards the VICE/Reddit/CNBC crowd in early 2013. By late 2013, it was on major network television in places like China, Russia, India, etc. You can't be a Wall Street Journal reader or a Google Finance reader without having read about bitcoin. It's been on the front page multiple times.
The next push won't be expanding into a new demographic. It will have to be on the strength of the technology itself.
In the past, bitcoin expanded into new demographics. It started with the Slashdot crowd in 2009. Then the Wired/Silk Road article crowd in 2011. Then expanding more towards the VICE/Reddit/CNBC crowd in early 2013. By late 2013, it was on major network television in places like China, Russia, India, etc. You can't be a Wall Street Journal reader or a Google Finance reader without having read about bitcoin. It's been on the front page multiple times.
The next push won't be expanding into a new demographic. It will have to be on the strength of the technology itself.
The next push WILL be expanding into a new demographic.
There will always be people leaving Bitcoin and people entering its sort of like a life cycle.
define many people, because you guys are always talking about your acquaintances, that it is only an inner circle of people, they don't represent many at all
and do not confuse "didn't hear" with didn't knowing how it work, because this is what i get from the "first a lot explanation is needed."
because there are many out there that did hear about bitcoin, but they do not have the faintest idea what it is
and do not confuse "didn't hear" with didn't knowing how it work, because this is what i get from the "first a lot explanation is needed."
because there are many out there that did hear about bitcoin, but they do not have the faintest idea what it is
You live in a country where everyone else aware at bitcoin. You dont leave in the country where the majority of people dont know about this thing. You cant ask many people about bitcoin just to make sure if the entire country know it but you can take a sample of some people and asked them and that is what I am doing and most people dont know/never heard about it.
Less than half of the world will have even heard about bitcoin never mind use it so we've still got a long way to go, but it's use will be growing daily. Give it a couple of years and I'm sure its use will have doubled and in five years maybe doubled multiple times.
hear about bitcoin and actually using bitcoin not same. Many people hear about Bitcoin but they do not know how to use it.
I don't agree with this statement.
I know many people in my country who are often on Internet, even buying and selling online, but they didn't hear about BTC.
Even merchants with company web shop didn't hear about bitcoin and if I or someone else try to suggest them to accept bitcoin in their business or start using it as buyer, first a lot explanation is needed.
I think that you are speaking from your own viewpoint and experience but reality is still very different.
I know many people in my country who are often on Internet, even buying and selling online, but they didn't hear about BTC.
Even merchants with company web shop didn't hear about bitcoin and if I or someone else try to suggest them to accept bitcoin in their business or start using it as buyer, first a lot explanation is needed.
I think that you are speaking from your own viewpoint and experience but reality is still very different.
define many people, because you guys are always talking about your acquaintances, that it is only an inner circle of people, they don't represent many at all
and do not confuse "didn't hear" with didn't knowing how it work, because this is what i get from the "first a lot explanation is needed."
because there are many out there that did hear about bitcoin, but they do not have the faintest idea what it is
This is just ridiculous. Many people who regularly uses the internet have never heard of ( care enough enough to find out when someone mention it) bitcoin.Most of my immediate friends and family who are quite internet savvy have absolutely no clue on bitcoin's existence(yes, it's anecdotal ) .Even among us who knows/interested about bitcoin that doesn't mean we're using it.I myself don't see my using bitcoin for the foreseeable future.
Exactly, I meet a lot of people on the internet on social sites/forums etc. and many of them still have no clue about it. Some have heard about it but didn't bothered to look into it as they didn't think it was worth looking at, others had simply never heard of it and these people are well educated and tech savvy and they come from countries where there are a lot of people use bitcoins and there are exchanges there who deals in Bitcoin.
I think there's still a lot of scope as far as making people aware is concerned and I don't agree with OP or other people who think that everyone's heard of it.
This is just ridiculous. Many people who regularly uses the internet have never heard of ( care enough enough to find out when someone mention it) bitcoin.Most of my immediate friends and family who are quite internet savvy have absolutely no clue on bitcoin's existence(yes, it's anecdotal ) .Even among us who knows/interested about bitcoin that doesn't mean we're using it.I myself don't see my using bitcoin for the foreseeable future.
There is still people who don't know what Bitcoin is that could benefit from its use.
The benefit has been privacy and private production of new coins. Today, after Edward Snowden, we know more.And people do not anymore mine Bitcoins at home.
I Simply Don't Agree.
Ask the people from Developing Countries. The reply would be What the hell is this?? There are many regions where they do not have access to internet many doesn't know what the smart phone is?? How can you expect that they are aware of bitcoins?? Still long way to go.
Ask the people from Developing Countries. The reply would be What the hell is this?? There are many regions where they do not have access to internet many doesn't know what the smart phone is?? How can you expect that they are aware of bitcoins?? Still long way to go.
those must be the minority, because i know that even africa are aware of bitcoin, how could any others industrialized country did not know about it? sry but it sounds like bullshit
My country is way better than most country in africa but it doesnt mean that the whole people of my country know bitcoin. Like 20 % of the population in my country knows it and that conclude the means that people from developing countries doesnt know it. Things will change for sure but it will be still years later
and how do you know that, did you ask to all of them if they know or no about bitcoin? you guy are talking a bit random here, there is no proof that they don't know about bitcoin, you can only say that your acquaintances may not know about it at best
i still think that those who don't know about bitcoin are only a tiny percentage(in each country)... we have internet nowadays, the info are spread very fast, it is almost impossible to not know about something like bitcoin
Because I know that from my own experience. Im in the science major here and guess what Im the only guy who know bitcoin. I know them since last year btw. Since you are not living in a developing countries I assume, you would not know that people care less about technology, especially the old people around.
To say Everyone who's going to hear about bitcoin has heard about it is quite a silly and ridiculous statement in my opinion. On the grand scheme of things bitcoin hasn't even even reached a few percent or its capability. Many people might have heard of it but are not interested in it currently but they may be in the future but there's still masses of people that haven't heard of it at all or have little to no idea what it's about.
I don't agree with this statement.
I know many people in my country who are often on Internet, even buying and selling online, but they didn't hear about BTC.
Even merchants with company web shop didn't hear about bitcoin and if I or someone else try to suggest them to accept bitcoin in their business or start using it as buyer, first a lot explanation is needed.
I think that you are speaking from your own viewpoint and experience but reality is still very different.
I know many people in my country who are often on Internet, even buying and selling online, but they didn't hear about BTC.
Even merchants with company web shop didn't hear about bitcoin and if I or someone else try to suggest them to accept bitcoin in their business or start using it as buyer, first a lot explanation is needed.
I think that you are speaking from your own viewpoint and experience but reality is still very different.
I Simply Don't Agree.
Ask the people from Developing Countries. The reply would be What the hell is this?? There are many regions where they do not have access to internet many doesn't know what the smart phone is?? How can you expect that they are aware of bitcoins?? Still long way to go.
Ask the people from Developing Countries. The reply would be What the hell is this?? There are many regions where they do not have access to internet many doesn't know what the smart phone is?? How can you expect that they are aware of bitcoins?? Still long way to go.
those must be the minority, because i know that even africa are aware of bitcoin, how could any others industrialized country did not know about it? sry but it sounds like bullshit
My country is way better than most country in africa but it doesnt mean that the whole people of my country know bitcoin. Like 20 % of the population in my country knows it and that conclude the means that people from developing countries doesnt know it. Things will change for sure but it will be still years later
and how do you know that, did you ask to all of them if they know or no about bitcoin? you guy are talking a bit random here, there is no proof that they don't know about bitcoin, you can only say that your acquaintances may not know about it at best
i still think that those who don't know about bitcoin are only a tiny percentage(in each country)... we have internet nowadays, the info are spread very fast, it is almost impossible to not know about something like bitcoin
I Simply Don't Agree.
Ask the people from Developing Countries. The reply would be What the hell is this?? There are many regions where they do not have access to internet many doesn't know what the smart phone is?? How can you expect that they are aware of bitcoins?? Still long way to go.
Ask the people from Developing Countries. The reply would be What the hell is this?? There are many regions where they do not have access to internet many doesn't know what the smart phone is?? How can you expect that they are aware of bitcoins?? Still long way to go.
those must be the minority, because i know that even africa are aware of bitcoin, how could any others industrialized country did not know about it? sry but it sounds like bullshit
My country is way better than most country in africa but it doesnt mean that the whole people of my country know bitcoin. Like 20 % of the population in my country knows it and that conclude the means that people from developing countries doesnt know it. Things will change for sure but it will be still years later
I just told a coworker about it two weeks ago for him to solve a financial problem to get around banks. Today he bought his first coin.
I really think it's just starting
I really think it's just starting
The same was said about the internet in 1996. We've all seen how that turned out.
I was living in Taiwan. The security guard at a property I was looking at knew what bitcoin was. This was the guy standing at the desk with a walkie-talkie radio. I said it in Chinese (比特幣) and he said it was a kind of money. Random Indian guy I met in Cambodia knew about it. Random bartender I met in Korea knew about it. I've traveled around the world over the past year and you'd be surprised how many people have heard of it. They haven't heard of anarcho-capitalism but they know something about bitcoin.
it's not easy to make those who have heard of bitcoin actually use it. i wonder what the reason for them is that they don't use it. did you ask them?
I was living in Taiwan. The security guard at a property I was looking at knew what bitcoin was. This was the guy standing at the desk with a walkie-talkie radio. I said it in Chinese (比特幣) and he said it was a kind of money. Random Indian guy I met in Cambodia knew about it. Random bartender I met in Korea knew about it. I've traveled around the world over the past year and you'd be surprised how many people have heard of it. They haven't heard of anarcho-capitalism but they know something about bitcoin.
I went to China early this year, and my grand-aunts/uncles, who don't even know where Vietnam is relative to China, has heard of bitcoin.
The state news CCTV1 must've talked about it occasionally, and pretty much everyone in China watches it so I'd say the vast majority of Chinese people have heard about it. But they probably don't really know what it is.
The state news CCTV1 must've talked about it occasionally, and pretty much everyone in China watches it so I'd say the vast majority of Chinese people have heard about it. But they probably don't really know what it is.
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