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Who really uses bitcoin? and for you Who is the typical bitcoin user?
Who doesn't use it? and why does it matter?

I do. I buy things with Bitcoin on a daily basis, both online and offline.

All sorts of different folks, including: tech savvy people, geeks and nerds, anarchists, entrepreneurs, anyone interested in revolution and technological advancements, freelancers in foreign countries with poor banking facilities (there's billions of people with no access to international banking), investors, daytraders, speculators, and people valuing their privacy and independency.

Old people, bankers, the big audience and general sheeple. The latter mostly due to being ignorant of what Bitcoin is, how it works or why it's important, and equally ignorant of how they're being royally fucked over by their current money system, believing "it just works".

Because it's about time the complete and total power and control over the creation of our money and financial infrastructure is being taken away from a handful of banks, and given back to society.

you forgot to mention the deepnet markets ? typical druggists and illegal weapon suppliers are also into it ...

All kind of people on all kind of area , however we can't deny the fact that Silk road and deepweb played a big role on Bitcoin growth so bitcoin is actually used in a lot of illegal stuff (less then before with silk road shutdown but still ... )
I myself use it but not that much , I see bitcoin more as an investment for now so I prefer to hold then buy stuff using it & Hopefully that will change in the future .
for what comes to people who don't use it then those would be definitely the banks , even though some banks has shown real interest on Bitcoin like Société General & BNP PARIBAS .

Who uses it: I do on a regular basis. I earn in bitcoin and pay what I can for in bitcoin. Since getting a debit card that now means that I pay for almost everything in bitcoin.

The typical user: At present people like us but the numbers are growing and its no longer just tech savvy people.

Who doesn't: Way to many still and this does matter as we need more users to drive adoption even further.

a labour,gamers and many people who need additionl money. its i think
but many developer really use bitcoin for more important thing.

There are certainly a lot of casino users that actively use bitcoin at the moment.

I do use Bitcoin everyday. My Bitcoin usage at the moment looks like :

# Buying stuff.
# Receiving payments.
# Storing value.
# Paying people for some coding work, etc.

Yes. Medium of exchange and investment opportunity.
Bitcoin now a days mostly used for online transactions for the alternative to Paypal. Where ever Paypal has played a role or not at all available, there would be a big chances for using bitcoin more effectively.

Who really uses bitcoin?
- Most of people on this forums and many more than are not yet familiar with this forum. Mostly people who are trying to earn money online.

Who is the typical bitcoin user?
- Pretty much anyone as it can't be put in a bracket as it varies really in terms of types of users.

Who doesn't use it?
- Old or non-techy people.

why does it matter?
- it matters because the more people use it , more demands are being created and higher its value gets

Oh, well, since 99.9+% of all drug and weapon business takes place in US Dollars and Euros, I didn't consider that area to be really significant. But sure, I guess it works pretty well for that sort of activity too.

I guess This and the blackmarkets are currently the biggest users of bitcoin.

The typical user probably has a General interest in New technology or economics.

i think mostly young people who are interested in this new technology are using bitcoin. the rest who own bitcoin are the ones that are trying to make money and i don't consider them as using bitcoin, they are just traders and are in it for the money.


older generation and practically people who don't want to get into trying new stuff even if it is better.

this needs to change and bitcoin should be used by everybody not just a group of people if it is to grow big and become mass adopted and replace fiat as we know it.

Bitcoiners are usually those who are interested in freelance jobs, who want to trade in bitcoins and those who want to sell their stuff for bitcoins. Some are those who are interested in just learning about virtual currency and they mainly mine bitcoins. or me, I use bitcoins as another payment option except PayPal or Payza as many were using this currency instead of PP which can be chargedback easily while bitcoins cannot be chargedback.

anybody who understand it, will start to use it immediately, or at least getting involved.


this question can be answered by the first answer :P


from my point of view, there is only two possible answers to this question:

• anybody who didnt know/understand/beleive it
• anybody with dark interests lol

let them not getting involved during the next two years, that why i can get more bitcoins cheaper :P

Who really uses bitcoin?
All peiole who has bitcoin to hold and spend. They will more likely use it so those are people who does.

Who is the typical bitcoin user?
Someone who uses bitcoin in a daily basis. They earn and spend them. Those are.

Who doesn't use it? and why does it matter?
Obviously those people who don't have any idea what bitcoin is, they don't use it and more likely will never use it not until they have a glimpse of what bitcoins is. It matters because bitcoin needs to be popularize more to everyone. Every person who will be in the bitcoin community is a big major leap on the ongoing grow of our very own bitcoin

Exactly who ever into the gambling and some hidden activities they are using more as of now and that's why bitcoin will not disappear faster until some other better coins come in for these purposes. And also because of these kind usage bitcoins are not going easily to mainstream. Simple answer to your question is as of now bitcoins are using for mostly illegal deals or to avoid taxes or hide their transaction details.

I think the typical user is a male late 20's to late 40s. 

The non typical user is someone who is not using technology, (usually) older people.  I know I would have a hard time convincing my grandma to use Bitcoin, she doesn't have a computer, no smart phone, no tablet no internet.  No way she is going to be on Bitcoin ever.

drug dealers mostly.

everyone here seems to forget that lots of shady drug dealers acquired tons of bitcoin way before anybody else thanks to dark markets.
 

right. the black market(including HYIPs, cloud mining, etc) +gambling has over 85% from BTC market. The rest of them are speculative traders and people who earning pennies(they are paid to surf, etc) from their online activities.

Why would you use Bitcoin for online shopping? You already have debit cards/credit cards with zero fees and no risk.

Who really uses bitcoin?
Im one of it. I used bitcoins for some real life spendings when my budget is short. Recently I pay our electricity bill with my bitcoins because I will spend my salary in my upcoming out of town.

Who doesn't use it?
Of course the people who doesn't know bitcoin and those people that preferred fiat over bitcoin.

why does it matter?
There's no questions in why. So be it if people doesn't use it or not. Eventually all will came in one place.

- I do really use bitcoins, for spending, money transfering , gambling and investing purposes! And of course everyone on this forum uses bitcoin :D
- For me, the typical bitcoin users were geeks but right now I will also include those non-geeks who wants to earn online (that's me)
- Computer illiterate people don't use it ; people who don't have any idea and don't care what bitcoin is (obviously :D )
- It matters because they were getting out dated, they are missing a great technology that everyone should know ;)

It will take one decade (or maybe less) until we see the average joes out here doing payments regularly on Bticoin. They need to see benefits for them to drop Paypal or whatever they are using, otherwise they will continue using whatever it's out there already.

As far as I can see in my environment, the real users are those that use it as an investment / way to earn money. But as some other say, many of these people will use it to buy things if there were more shops and services offered.

The typical bitcoin user (again, from my limited perspective) is someone who invest on it. Either buying some from his wage and holding, or earning it online and investing /holding it.

Most people don't use it because they do not know about it. A few others, think it is risky. And other still find it too complicated to use at the moment (buying bitcoin with currency to use it, then not having much options to spend it).

I use bitcoin.
Mainly as an investment option. I also invest with bitcoin.
I want to use it more in the future though!

i use bitcoin to invest, send and receive transactions, holding and buying different things online from stores as dinodirect and such.

Im investing at some projects just with bitcoin,when i need i sell some but at the moment im investing it safety soo im getting new satoshis daily and well when it grows a better value maybe i can sell some.

Because if you don't figure out why people don't want to use Bitcoin - you'll never get over that hurdle and you put the whole notion of societal adoption at risk. You don't need every single person to accept it as a currency - just enough for merchants to accept it on the same level as fiat.

Unlike fiat money, bitcoin seldom needs to be used, it is a value certificate similar to your bank long term saving account, you might only touch it several years later. Or, you can use it to do international trade with much faster payment time (given that you and your business partner in another country have already established a stable business relationship), but the required skill set is too high for average Joe

there are plenty of payment processors, credit cards and so on. why would you need Bitcoin to make a payment?
as you said, Bitcoin is not for the average "Joe" so it is a niche market and it will remain like this. :)

i personally use bitcoin or atleast i try my best to. Imo merchants are primarily the majority of groups who use bitcoin for easier transactions,and the average consumer can be anyone and thats the beauty of btc

There are younger users, that's for sure. ;)

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I use bitcoins on a weekly basis to buy stuff, but most of my coins are kept in a stash. The typical users, however, are people looking into bitcoin as an investment vehicle and a store of value since there are not much places to spend bitcoins to.

Who uses it: I do, purchased some vps,and domain and also some online stuff and offline like smartphone etc

The typical user: i think mostly internet addict or techno savvy are using bitcoin and internet marketer

Who doesn't use it? and why does it matter? : people who didn't know everything about this technology

I just using my bitcoin just for buying things online..

i'm using it to buy game for now, and not expensive thing, still too early for that, i'll wait for open bazar to try to buy something expensive that i need like a good 4k monitor

for now g2a is accepting bitcoin, and it work even without their shield, i've already bought two game without it and they are working, pretty cool

Mostly people who think it will rise in value. And some merchants.

That's a long list with many names in it. The list ranges from teenagers(who find it troublesome to have a bank account), tech savvy people, merchants, people involved in black markets.
Nonetheless, I still think that there are many many normal people like you and me use bitcoin for the sole purpose of using it like normal money.

Who really uses bitcoin- Ordinay folk like me, use btc to pay bills, buy prepaid cellphone loads, ordering stuff online, online gambling and change to fiat when in need.

Who is the typical bitcoin user- One who has knowledge about crypto, how it works and benefit the system.

Why does it matter- For bitcoin to grow, it needs mainstream adoption.

According to popular belief of public opinion bitcoin is used by terrorists, anarchists, conspiracy theorists and crooked criminals who want to lurk under radar of authorities.
Law abiding citizens should not associate with bitcoin at all. Why am I using it? Because I don't give a damns about idiotic political correctness of the mass media.

BTC won't be adopted; it's fishy, not regulated, slow and so on.

The people likes regulations, safety, etc. BTC will remain for speculative trading, dark markets.
It has no advantage over any traditional payment systems like debit/credit cards/bank wires and payment processors like Paypal.

It's just "trendy" for now. Nothing more.

The trend is for regulation(see the exchangers who are looking for licenses which means AML, KYC and GOVs rules in the end) and this will be the end of Bitcoin. Why? Because the dark market( over 85% from BTC) will leave this e-currency when it will be "regulated".

Well.. you are entitled to your own opinions and i won't be prejudice against it.. I only stated what useful things bitcoin does for me. :)

yeah no advantages, like low fee, privacy, not-hackable while you spent a transaction, sure...

with fiat if you leave your credid card credentials on some website they can steal all your funds, with bitcoin it's impossible

I think i big group of users of bitcoin are students of informatics or people working with net services and people that love technology. I know a lot of people that didn't know anything about bitcoin.

Paranoid people would never trust and use Bitcoin.
Also people do not have basic understand of economy would stay away from bitcoin.
These are my guesses.
And software engineers would definitely use bitcoin.

I like how you're thinking. :) Not all people like being controlled and be fed up with BS by the government. Believe me, once the general public is fed up too and the dollar collapses, they would see bitcoin as a safe haven for their assets  ;)

Trader using bitcoin to gain money.

bitcoin is used by all the onine users who knows about bitcoin, as said by one user first actually it was started for silk route but after silk route got closed and most of the user came to know about it and price of 1 btc has made online user more friendly, students use it to gain for paying his studies fees, and some use to pay their necessity , now it has become one of the online currency

Soo besides posting you like to play some games i had play those and well im inloved for AGE OF Empires i play online with friends ,but well for sure a good way to invest some bitcoins .
There will be always someone against technology i know people that hates internet ,as whatapps and others things related to computer or cell phone,even knowing that some of them are used to keep in contact with family far away instead have to travel 8 hours a day to meet them.Bitcoin wouldnt be possible to be alive without the im against it because it has no name or bill that i get at home to pay....

well, I may agree with you IF:

- the debit/credit cards have ZERO fees for purchasing online and offline.
- i would not read news regarding to hacking of the Bitcoin wallets  all the time..
- i have to remember you the BTC wallets hacking is not a news anymore on the Bitcoin's market. It's a habit. everyday, a lot of wallets are hacked.

so, tell me one advantage of using Bitcoin against traditional payment systems. do not tell me about privacy because it does not exist anymore. all the exchangers requires papers.

nerds, hackers, terrorists, speculators at the moment


bankers are slowly moving in....

i doubt terrorists are using bitcoin, its like putting all your financial records out in public for everyone to see, you just have to find em. and im pretty sure NSA has the technology to find these kind of transactions.

I ordered pizza with bitcoin the other day.

the hacking about bitcoin, it's only because people don't know how to use their desktop

i still have all my bitcoin here from two years already, no one has ever stolen them, and this is why? because i simply don't download random .exe form the web or surf  malicious site

credit card are at risk of hacking every day, they can clone your card easily nowadays, and steal everything before you can even be aware of it and block the card

Early adopters use bitcoin. I hold and use bitcoin.

in my sense bitcoin users are online users who are mostly online and who came to know about it and knew its value and uses. bitcoin are also investment option for most of the user.

Everyone who know about bitcoin
Trader,Gambler,Business, and all people who know about bitcoin and crypto currency
Who don't know technology.

Probably they are using it nowadays, I heard some news regarding to ISIS supporters using bitcoin to fund those terrorists. And due to its "anonymous" (which is completely not) nature, its very possible it can be used by terrorists.

Everything has its bad and good sides. Everything!! Just to concentrate on bad sides of something and stay oblivious to all of the advantages is very hypocritical at least.

Are terrorist using it? Maybe! Just like they are using Fiat, gold, diamonds and whatever can facilitate their operations. We cannot really do anything about. This is not even worth of discussion!

I really uses it ;D. I use bitcoin for about 1/3 of my purchases in general but was able to live almost exclusively on it for over a month winter.

1% is high proportion. You are lucky in such a country.

Everybody on this forum uses bitcoin. (I think :O)

I think this is where people end up using it for after a while. The temptation is enormous to multiple your bits when you can't determine an actual value of it. One minute is it is worth $0.02 the next it is worth $0.05.

i really use bitcoins as i usually pay with it for my digital goods such as steam wallet or something like that, thats why i like bitcoin the most

pretty sure majority of this forum uses bitcoin so you're asking the question in a biased place. i mainly use bitcoin only for transactions that i do online buying/selling small stuff. sometimes i use it for gambling, but i rarely use bitcoin outside in public

I think everyone can use Bitcoin, i don't believe about existing "typical" bitcoin users, of course there is some people interested a little more than others about cryptocurrencies, i think they are a while using bitcoin more than others, but it's not general because we see many ppl just use btc to purchase goods and services or pay some fees, without really being interested about the cryptocurrencies world

It is true that there are lots of criminals that love bitcoins but there are more and more legitimate businesses popping up.

https://blockchain.info/

I don't know, check it out yourself...300 million usd daily.

I try to discuss about the criminal,
true that the criminals who use bitcoin, examples of the c*rder they use a lot of gold, either for what, I do not know

yes, mostly for trading and moving their coins, i doubt those are all money used to buy stuff

For me I think its true since bitcoin is hard to trace and criminals will definitely love that feature specially on crimes online


Carders were one good example of criminals that loves bitcoin as they used to buy stuffs with hacked credit cards then sell it to someone with bitcoin as payment.

That's why the legal status of bitcoin varies from country to country and is still undefined because of that illegitimate use of bitcoin. Monitoring the possibility of bitcoin usage in money laundering and other illegal purposes are really the first priority by them rather than the benefits of bitcoin is. This is the reason why regulating bitcoin in some Central Bank per country is not yet present at the moment.

With "Who really uses Bitcoin" I think OP meant real Bitcoin usage as in purchasing stuff, using Bitcoin to send and receive money, etc. And not really investing in it and holding coins.