Topic: What do people around you think about Bitcoin ? - page 26. (Read 42995 times)

The first thought most of my friends when they hear the word bitcoin is, do not believe it.

The most people around me still don't know about bitcoin. They still use fiat commonly.

While discussing with some friends one of them said that there is a new kind of money like paypal but it;s called bitcoin and i was like 'wow', people are thinking positively about bitcoin, not like others that think that bitcoin is only used by hackers.

So last night I was at a party and I happened to overhear some friends talking about, what else, bitcoin. I couldn't help but smile as they talked about how much bitcoin each of them had recently bought. The excitement on their faces and in their voices as they gabbed on and on about it and what each of them thought about prices and the halving and using bitcoin for whatever.

The funny thing about all this is that these are the same friends I had introduced - or rather, tried to introduce - bitcoin to over three years or so ago. At which time I was met with deep skepticism and apprehension, as if I were some kind of Amway salesman from the planet Neptune or a Scientology recruiter or some such. Needless to say, I was quite amused by this change of heart on their part. I wanted to make some kind of snarky remark referring to the time when I first told them about bitcoin, but instead I just held my tongue and welcomed them to the bitcoin club.

Of course, they only vaguely remember me "mentioning" something about bitcoin to them years ago, anyway.  

I did ask them what it was that finally convinced them to look into bitcoin and ultimately pull the trigger on buying some. They all basically replied along the lines of, "I did my own research on bitcoin. It seemed that it might possibly be something, so I bought some just in case." Another added that one of her tech-savvy friends had told her about bitcoin and that it was "legit." I was like, "Oh, cool," and left it at that and let the conversation go on from there about bitcoin current events.

It may have taken a while, but I'm genuinely happy that at least some of my friends are now invested and learning more about bitcoin.

I think people don't take bitcoin seriously and reason is that they are not aware about the benefits attached with it, and that is the reason they have negative attitude towards it.

Them thinking negatively about it is probably better than them not having any knowledge about it at all, I seen few people in my area that know what bitcoin is but wasn't successful in explaining it to any friends, They did not even know about silkroad or the topic the media was covering for months.

Yeah majority of the people are not aware about the bitcoin at a moment,and people who know they don't want to invest their money into it as they have a fear of loosing everything.

People must be willing to do it. If people do not have any interest in Bitcoin then it will be very difficult.

When you convince them to try Bitcoin and they like it, then everything will be much easier for them to adopt Bitcoin.

It will take a lot of time before everyone would know what bitcoin is and they are afraid of the unknown if it is not in the news or magazine they wont try it.

Most of the people don't know about this currency , but those who know , know the real value of this greatest invention .
The most important factor is it is the People currency for the people only.

Bitcoin should be introduced to them in the best an positive way then only we can expect that people will switch to bitcoins, or else it will be very difficult to convince them.

that's right..people who don't understand bitcoin would never really like it..Most probably their mind is focus on their traditional way of doing things in real life...But if we tell them the benefits that we enjoy having a bitcoin, It may change their minds..

Yes, I've noticed this too.  Most people I talk to believe that bitcoin is an illegal thing so they don't feel comfortable talking about.  Some are receptive when I talk to them about the technology but not many.  Those who are receptive, however, are still too nervous to take the next step and download a client.  At this point in its evolution, it takes a special mind to actively experience the power of bitcoin.  I was also afraid to mess with bitcoin at first; in fact, I reformatted my hard drive once, filled it up with video, and then reformatted again to get rid of any trace of my very first wallet because I thought the feds were coming....LOL

I did not see anyone among my relatives and friend who know anything about cryptocurrencies or bitcoin. and I am not interested in explaining it to them because people hate what they do not know and they will not understand how btc works

As my friends watch me do gambling, they believe that its a coin that can be used in gambling.

what kind of friends you have?they really oldschool,maybe you must show to them what can you get from bitcoin,and show to them what can you buy with bitcoin,tell them also,that every currecny have potential to used for illegal things or activities.

My friends say that it's a good way to save your money and make some money, but also do they think it is to complicated and it takes to long.
But I have the patient and I will prove them that it is pretty easy. 

Many people around me don't know anything about Bitcoin right now...

I'm also wishing for some friends to discus/work together bitcoin related things. It would be very helpful if a brother also interested in to bitcoin ecosystem. Really I do not have anyone to discuss about some new trends with the bitcoin and to get more knowledge about Cryptocurrency.

I think that most of the people around me probably do not even know bitcoin or are to scared to do so. Some of the people around me are probably bitcoiners but i probably would not even know as people do not like talking about bitcoin in public