Topic: Who hasn't heard of bitcoins? - page 2. (Read 1517 times)

Bitcoin merchant sites like bitpay and coinbase will allow more online retailers to accept btc. More people will know about btc since they will see it on their favorite sites.

I know one person who has heard of them. 

My mom and my brother. My sister has a vague idea about it.

> So what are you going to do about it??! Be a local promoter!

I did somewhat, though I think I would have had better luck with most of these guys if I could have pointed to more (or even one) porn sites that accepted BtC... I have promoted the coin tirelessly within my own family, to the point where most folk's eyes glaze over when I show up. I even gave my nieces 5 coins each (back in the $12 days), the oldest spent hers immediately while the youngest has hung onto hers only to see it appreciate considerably (to the disgust of her father, who thinks BtC is libertarian madness... hah hah, very satisfying, thanks to me she now has way more money in her wallet than her bank account...). I tried once to convince a lady at a local flower shop it would be to her advantage to accept BtC for her online orders, but I couldn't tell her where to go for the software and such to integrate it into her system. I think until that's more widespread, "plug-ins" and drop-in software for retail sites, BtC will spin it's wheels. It's got to be almost as easy as regular money or I don't think people (retailers) will do it.

russell

Even though bitcoins have been featured on Bloomberg and the like I would most definitely agree that they seem to have reached a small audience thus far. I even had to explain cryptocurrencies to my uncle (he used to write software for HP).

So what are you going to do about it??! Be a local promoter!

Okay, I was bored here at work the other night, even cruising the forum was getting a bit tiresome, so I walked around the shop and conducted a kind of informal, totally unscientific survey of who in this place had even heard of Bitcoin. After some confusion regarding the singular/plural method of saying "Bitcoin" when I meant "Bitcoins" (sorry; this is the midwest) I came to the conclusion that not very many people out there know about Bitcoin, period. In fact, in this medium-sized machine shop (maybe a hundred folks here on second shift), I only found one college-age kid who really knew what I was talking about. Two or three others had heard the word before, but had no idea what it really was or represented. Median age here is probably mid-30's, i'd guess, I blame part of it on that, probably my sampling cross-section is not very good, mostly lower-middle class white males in their 30's and 40's. Anyway. I was a little shocked that I could find only one person out of maybe 50-70 that actually knew what the heck a bitcoin is. (Some people I just looked at and walked on.) In a white-collar environment the number would probably be higher, of course. But aren't these people the base of the economic pyramid? Aren't these the people that we need to get involved in this revolutionary financial experiment? Somebody needs to get the word out. I don't think I made any converts, though I admit, a few of them did get a little excited when I mentioned the possibility of buying automatic weapons and grenade launchers on Silk Road (Once again, this is the midwest). Bored, and just thinking.

russell