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Bitcoin is must have right now!

Most people I've spoken about bitcoin to in real life think it's too risky (for them) to invest in, a scam or something criminals use.

That or they're too dumb or too scared to get involved in.

We need a lot more user adoption to really make some serious money.

all my friends think that bitcoin is something really expensive that criminals use to launder money lol. ive tried to get them started with bitcoin by giving em some bits but they just cant get into it.  :-\

Pretty much the same here. I did manage to get one guy I know to invest in bitcoin but apart from him nobody else is remotely bothered or interested.

They usually think nothing, they maybe heard about it, but don't think it as something real because it is decentralized and not tangible, and is used only by nerds and criminals

Drugs and child porn.  That's what people not familiar with bitcoin think about it, at least in my experience.  And there was some bullshit publicity about ISIS or Al Queda using it.  What most people are unaware of is how many fucking degenerate gamblers and small-time scammers are using it to fuel their dark desires.  And some people make t-shirts with bitcoin as a theme and then there are the computer geeks.  The media rarely reports the real uses.

they also thinks thats a just coins that don't do anything or worth a thing they only knew that criminals use it to lander money

What regular people think about bitcoin ?
I hear regular people talking about Donald Trump, sorry to say but that is the truth. Better days are still ahead for BTC.

My friends and some people I know told me,
that bitcoin is some kind of a scam and it is very risky.
They even warned me to stay away with it.
Even I already explain to them what bitcoin really is.
They just close their minds to the new opportunity given them.

The average people probably heard about bitcoin in the context of Silk Road seizure, so they'd associate bitcoin with drugs and illegal stuff.

Also here's a direct link to the Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFgol7d2Q4) if you don't feel like going to OP's website.

They just dont want, what they dont understand ;)

where I live, regular people who doesn't know what bitcoin is or how it works place it on the same table with those pyramid schemes. some of them actually think of it as some sort of game currency that can be traded with real money.
those who understood what bitcoin is are either don't care about btc or trying their hardest to get more btc.

btw OP are you trying to promote your site or what?

Well geeze man, the way you said that does indeed make bitcoin look like some type of scam.  Bitcoin, or any other crypto for that matter, really is not and shouldn't be considered a "get rich quick scheme".  It's a experimental and revolutionary new form of money, and should be considered just an experiment.  People will probably get very butt hurt if bitcoin goes down to below $100, or something like that, but the fact of the matter is that you are getting you're worthless Fed notes based on nothing, and switching them out for digitalized coins based on mathematics.  Pretty cool if you ask me...

And sure, having the price sky rocket is a nice bonus... that just allows us to purchase more things with our bitcoins (at the few shops on the internet and even fewer physical stores that accept them).

But just getting other people into bitcoin for the sake of having our stash accumulate more value in fiat makes it look like you're trying to get them into some kind of ponzi.

Regular people don't really care about Bitcoin and they don't really understand the concept of Bitcoin.

They too lazy to understand about what bitcoin is. Just heard from a bad-mouthing about bitcoin, so they think bitcoin is used for crime payment activity, too much lack, pyramid scheme ::)

If people have learned and starts earning, now it would have been used over every countries as equal to dollar.

I have talked about bitcoin with most of my friends, and I have realized that in my country there is a great misinformation about the bitcoin concept and its ecosystem, and when someone has a little idea about it, it is generally an erroneous idea.

They think what press and media tells them about bitcoin, assuming they even know what Bitcoin is. Currently, that the big news is that bitcoin "failed", unfortunately. Add to this many past news about bitocin being used for buying drugs, laundering money, being a scam, non-regulated, etc, and the general picture of bitcoin looks not attractive at all for a regular non-geek or tech-savvy people.  

Most of the regular people I know don't think about it at all. They never heard of it.

I also do not know why many people memikiran bitcoin only bad just like a scam, medicine, etc. Whereas too much excess bitcoin that impact both as ease of transaction, ease of selling services, etc. Perhaps the perception of ugliness bitcoin should be changed so that bitcoin received positive support from the people

Most of the people I know simply never heard about bitcoins. Those who heard about it immediatly associate it to terrorism or illegal stuff, say thank you to mainstream media!

I tried to explain bitcoin to some people but it remain really abstract.

regular people: "biiitcoin?!? what the fuck it is?""   ::) and i: a decentralized cryptocurrency to make payments online whitout chargeback, and safer than other method and bitcoin respects the anonymity ' if you use it in a correct way. - "oh well, i'm not a nerd, so i stay whit my dollars"  :-\ :-\

Really do you think that bitcoin is a must? I don't think is a must is not like that you really need it for your life.
Bitcoin is so great to have and own, because the price can just go high and with trading you can make profits.

Is just nice is like the normal people they are not that interested, because they are fine with there life.

we need media like youtube and facebook, that cna propagate info to average joe in no time, if one of those service can adopt bitcoin by starting at least a tipping feature, i can see the awareness about bitcoin growing very well in a short time

but expecting that many of those people will also use bitcoin is another thing...much harder

Regular people don't understand Bitcoin. You need to be pretty smart to understand. Well not really.

People around me don't think investing into bitcoin is a good idea.
Most of these people only judge by what the media is saying.
What the media is putting out is always negative.

What you say seems to be who wish to be a one among the society to lead a normal life. When it comes to people who try to earn more will have keen interest  as it will get them profit that they have never experienced anything before. Try to explain to a people who is fine with what he have, Sure the next day he will ask you how it works and I want to be a part of it. Its just because of human nature.

Ya agree with you, most of the people think media is god, who give correct details about society, but they dont know that media are the ones who are played like puppet through big players. In my circle when i got to know about bitcoin and when i told them about it they all laughed and did not got involved, but now today when i am earning more than $200 to $300 per month they are starting to get interested but still they have some fear, but i told is until you are earning why are you worrying 

I have introduced some people to Bitcoin back in 2013 and one of them have bought at the crash from a few days ago. He said he will hold it for a few years and not look at the price anymore from the day he bought. For him it's just an investment, but still, he thinks Bitcoin has some sort of a good future as he is willing to hold for the long term.

Normal people they always think that is difficult to use and they are not that interesting for them.
Is jus tbeter to let them be if they are not that interested I am sure that they are a lot of normal people that would like to use bitcoin.

The problem some times they don't have the technology for them.

the regular people think bitcoin as illusion, some of my friends doesnt believe that such "money" existed,

even after i let them see what things can be bought using bitcoin, what can i do with bitcoin, but they just seem to reject it all

Most of people are heard for bitcoin but they don't use it yet.
Probably they don't know much about it, and are not comfortable when they see price rising to 1000$ and falling again to 150$ how this can be good for adoption?

If Jon buys today for 400$ and tomorrow he opens wallet and have loss of 30% ?
He would probably be very mad!
Why would he transfer all his money to BTCs, If he is not investitor or trader ?
Price stability is biggest problem for average people!

...and this is somewhat advanced if you ask me. I can only imagine funny answers if people were asked in some poorer countries.

I think most of them think about it as a new think, they don't want to be a part of.
That's fair since bitcoin is not easy to learn.

I have a hunch that most people who have heard about Bitcoin from others but aren't aware of how it functions would presume that Bitcoin is some form of online gimmick or something currency that people in the deep dark web use to transact to buy illegal stuff. But since the media has been reporting more about Bitcoin lately, that might change.

Is not easy to learn but is easy to use just doing some signature campaign and faucets and having some wallet I think is just enough with it you can learn and learn more about bitcoin specially with faucets and later with altcoins.

they think that bitcoin that stuff very unique , intangible but extremely valuable.

Now everybody want to buy bitcoins , but if you from eastern Europe-not EU it's really difficult,
and dangerous if you talking about bigger money.
there is no SEPA here only wire transfer..

Some people around me know about bitcoin but they find it too expensive to buy. I told them that they don't need to spend a penny to earn some bitcoins, they just don't feel the need to spend any time on bitcoin. They simply don't want to waste their time and money on something they don't believe in.

I am surpsied how many people in Netherlands know what bitcoin is (I am not talking about correct definition but general idea). They of course messed some facts and have biased view on economy.
The problem I see is access to bitcoin, it is somewhat problematic and hard to buy bitcoin if you are cryptocurrency newbie.

People in Africa and other remote country like & adapt bitcoin more than other in the first world because it is better than the current banking system but people in the first world might have an alternative way.

Yeah, whenever he did not find an easy way to cash the bitcoin for some goods or fiats he will not accept it. We have to tell and describe the detail method of at least its earning and cashing out to them. Then i think it will be fruitful to involve them in bitcoin.

Once l was regular guy when l heard about coin..
First i saw opportunity of making money, but soo after that i realize that this is good for business, but is hard to integrate this in legal business in third world countries!

Majority of us are facing the same problem that people around us are not aware about the bitcoins and if we introduce them to bitcoins then they simply reject the offer, they don't want to invest into digital currency and have fear of loosing their money, they don't look at it as a opportunity to make money.

My family thinks it's something illegal and always tell me be careful when dealing with it since government is very strict (the problem is they don't know anything about it and are more of a traditional thinkers therefor when I earn money thru online, they assume it may be some sort of illegal stuff). My friends think it's too complicated for them to get on board, no matter how many times I tried to break it down for them into small pieces. 

Most people think of it as something excessively technical and very complicated and only a thing for tech savvy, but it started to get some base among other populations group too.

i find it funny that most people say its to expensive asked my friends, and i tell them you dont need to buy one whole bitcoin at the time you can buy parts of a bitcoin. then they all seemed pretty mind blown. i dont understand how they could not think of that on their own lol. but then they just say its to complicated getting into. so i guess its just all excuses.

Sure bud your so convincing,

its like your entire life for how many years now

and your stupid enuff to think they really have not heard about it ?

Family will always scared of online stuff as they are not used to it, and they haven't into the technology as we did, as when internet took birth they were scared of it too, and they have only one feeling that internet involves bad activities, so it is very difficult for us to convince them, but we need to show them the positive part of bitcoins and change their mentality.

But there is nothing positive about bitcoins that an average person would find useful. What are you going to tell them? That it's anonymous? That the transactions are somewhat fast? Guess what, when you are paying with paypal or visa transactions are instant. Are you going to tell them about the volatility of the price or that it's impossible to buy a lot of things directly with bitcoins?

We have to face it, bitcoin is not for the average person, at least not yet.

Bitcoin is for everyone but if you are willing to learn few simple steps how to use it.
Only if you are coming from third world countries where internet is rare,
then its sad  to talk about usage.

usually people think bitcoin is a coin that is used for gambling. I say that because the people who are around me who do not know say that bitcoin

In my town i know only 2 people know about bitcoin  ;D so basically many regluar people out there think nothing about it because they are still not aware of a thing called bitcoin.

Traditional thinker would assuming things online are fraud and scam , they always hard to accept and admit it.
Especially bitcoin, it's too complicated to mention and make them understand.

this just shows that bitcoin has soo much room for seeing its userbase grow. if we manage to double the amount of bitcoin users in the comming years, then these people will also try to spread the word about bitcoin like we are doing it right now. here where i live bitcoin is quite known as they have heard about it in the media (mostly not good news), and i try to explain them why the media is wrong and why bitcoin is much better as currency compared to the fiat we are using here. if you explain what bitcoin is and how it works in easy language, then they will understand it and even might get interested in it.

In my area nobody knows about Bitcoins and although there are financial restriction and no creditcard providers "Visa, MasterCard", BTC would seem a very good alternative but nobody even knows rather than use it.

What people think about bitcoin is based on what they read and heard. Some people had luck to hear about it from people who can explain it good and interesting for the listener. So we can't generalize about the entire population, eveyone had different introduction with BTC.
In my case, I mean around me, regular people are sceptic. Some more and some less, but I think some of them starting to change their opinion about it. I even have some friends playing poker for bitcoins now. And I think they like the fact they can earn something like that.

You're right. In coming time bitcoin is going to takeover on everyone's mind (i wish not in a negative way) and if they understand its worth they will surely get interested in it like we are.

Most people are clueless about Bitcoin, but then again... most people are clueless about a lot of things. They are lazy too, and if it sounds too complicated, they will push it

away or dismiss it as being something that it's not. I have to deal with this a lot... They read something negative in the news papers and they are too lazy too investigate.

There are a lot of misconceptions about Bitcoin out there and this video, even if it's a little old, still shows how much work we still have to educate people.   

Most of the regular people think bitcoin to be a business. It is very difficult to learn and only rich people can get involved in it. They too does't have the idea that there are various alternative coins in regular use over various parts of the world

People always react similar to all new things but when they become popular and famous then they attracted towards them and this is the similar story of bitcoins. When it is new people do not want to buy BTC But now daily many people thinking is changing due to growth of bitcoins. Soon, people thinking towards bitcoins completely changed.

Many people don't know yet about Bitcoin or even if they know something they don't understand yet how it works. But I'm sure this will change with time and it will become more and more popular.

Actually this is the time for its growth. Most people involved are youngsters who along with their earning spreading it. Now recently lot of users have been added and benefited. So soon regular people too will come to know about this varied technology and gets committed to it.

Yes but I'm sure big companies have investigated about bitcoin and yet almost no one is accepting bitcoins as a form of payment, do you think it's because they don't know how it works or is it because they know how it works but it's simply not good for them?

I always get the "What is that?" kind of question and "Is that the same as stocks?" People nowadays are contented with what they see in the media, always afraid of trying out something new.

What do you mean by regular people? Do you consider yourself as a special person?

People around me don't care much about bitcoin simply because they don't believe in it and I think that's okay to have an opinion like that.

Yeah, even we are regular people who are busy in earning small amount of bitcoins, but the people who are not using bitcoins or not earning bitcoins do not share positive feelings towards bitcoins, they feel it is waste of time and money to invest into crypto, unless they are not shown the advantages of bitcoins, they would hesitate to get into bitcoins.

To truly have a decent grasp about why Bitcoin is worth your attention, you also need to think about the nature of all money. It's quite amazing how few people have taken the time to consider that.

while there is an open process and the public how the sentence will be the sentence of a motive, but another tool on the existing background , we talk about the interest more as hearsay or something that is not yet available, although that familiarity may be one, and that the beta test for the daredevils and innovators, although among them opinions differ, and that the exact wording and though but certainly can't be because like it or not for simple not creative people, rather a question of personal plan of some relationships, affecting the deep and so on, although certainly, bringing shape to the mind , at least we can speak openly about the convenience and versatility, though

Being a regular user of Bitcoins, i always wonder for a reason why NOT to use bitcoins?

You're completely correct. That's really what's necessary to appreciate Bitcoin.

But people can't do that any more than they can calculate their cars mpg without the help of a built in trip computer. Most people really aren't very bright and they're lazy.

We want these same idiots to understand oppressive economics when they don't understand the value of researching the issues before they vote for a politician. They want their understanding of everything in life to be canned in 90 second sound bites like they want their dinner to be canned and microwaveable in 90 seconds.

Good luck canning Bitcoin for general consumption. The only way to do it is to make Bitcoin operate behind the scenes like the ACH/EFT system operates. If you ever get disappointed when you ask someone if they know what Bitcoin is and they give you the wrong answer, then ask them what ACH/EFT is and wait to be equally unimpressed with the answer.

In my country, almost everyone doesn't even know what bitcoin is.

But, i think sooner or later, everyone will know it.

The first said my friend was "not possible to trade without money and bitcoin is a delusion".

Exactly my thought! I loved the reaction of the guy in that video when he claimed that bitcoin was virtual and then was asked 'if he thinks euro is real'.
It is easy to see that people are immersed so deep in our current economic system based on FIAT that are not thinking straight anymore.

There is many people around us just like your friend, having really wrong and bad ideas about Bitcoin and about crypto currencies generally
That's why i believe Bitcoin still need more advertising and support from the community

Well we live in a world where everyone assumes everything they see to be real, and everything else that is not main stream, or is a niche thing, is fake or something that is to be shunned. Everything that is common now is "real" and it always has been, no questions asked.

This is one of the fundamental issues with today's society, no-one wants to investigate anything and rush to every single conclusion possible.

From my experience they either think:

-It is dangerous and disruptive. May affect markets etc.

-It is illegal/related to illegal activities

-It is not real money

Or all those things at the same time. It is quite hard to make many people consider using Bitcoin.

Most of the people in the world don't know anything about bitcoin. Some of them heard about BTC but don't have any clue for what exactly it is...

But I am very optimistic about BTC popularity 'cuz there are many teenagers who eager to learn about cryptocurrencies.

the people i know think that it is illegal, and that its used only to do the illegal things such as buy drugs or something like that, i tell them that they are wrong but no one listens

And if you ask people what is a difference between hiv and aids..
They heard but they are not quite sure what it is.

Most people don't understand it. Which is normal.
Being able to make your own money/bitcoin by mining seems like monopoly money.

After 2/3 weeks i started to believe it is real.

Most people don't know about it and the few that know are not interested in it.
it's just another way for payments, not THE way.

I do not see why it's a necessity for a lot of people to understand it anyway. Most of us do not know too how wire transfers work. All we know is that it's a way to send money.

My friends don't like bitcoin.
Some know of them but think it's something shady.
Others thing it is just 1 big ponzi. Not very positive right.

First off...LOL to "normal" and "regular" people ;-).
That was an enjoyable video and would actually not be too bad for people
to watch when asking about bitcoin.
Wonder how much editing had to go into it in order to get those [fairly] informed responses?

I brought it up to a few people getting coffee after yoga and was surprised that a couple of them knew what it was and
once even had a decent grasp of what it was (she knew it was currency etc)

Yes bitcoin became known many people little by little and that includes girls Not only do men. People have started to understand very well about it and probably know by word of mouth or from friends. But also many who think otherwise, maybe because they do not know.

start form my family,they think bitcoin alternate payment,i paid for work with bitcoin,and my friend have some argument,they think bitcoin is money from internet,just like paypal. and some of them think bitcoin something really hard to get,its different every regular people to think of bitcoin.

I was suprised to see some of my friends who don't deal with online payment method also know word bitcoin and they find it intresting. Bitcoin is still a curious thing to common people like a completely new thing from the other world.

Yes i noticed around me too that people start interesting about this new crypto currency : the Bitcoin , and start to learn more about it and use it sometimes to make deals and trades online, that's why i think that Bitcoin still needing more support from the community

I talked about bitcoin today to my friend and he thought it was virtual money used to buy online prostitutes lol :P
He's not fully wrong as Bitcoin for porn exists, but bitcoin is not just for porn as it can be used for something else
Though, in the end i explained to him that bitcoin is more than porn :P
Maybe we need to erase Bitcoin for porn image first before spread it around the people ::)

except for my tech savvy friends, a lot of the "regular people" that i know have shown interest in bitcoin back when the solo mining was possible and the price was going up to $1200. they were all mining and selling/trading bitcoin
but now only my tech savvy friends show interest in bitcoin. and the rest are scared of the price.

many people still not knowing anything about Bitcoin
That's why around me i found difficulties sometimes to convince them to use Bitcoin in their trades online

Yes maybe the advice I show directly how you get bitcoin and systems that run like. I'm sure will be many who are interested in it because bitcoin is very easy in his system. Make him understand more deeply their new bitcoin will be interested.

I also keep on trying for getting the new people into bitcoin ecosystem. But it seems not as easy as earning bitcoin. Sometimes it works when we are showing them any free giveaways or faucet earning kind of things.

My friend told me Bitcoin is virtual, only some digital number in the computers! It has no value at all! The price will collapse any times soon!

This is not related to the topic. Normal people can't understand Bitcoin, that's why they use fiat.

As you said people doesn't aware of bitcoin near to my place and everywhere.  Bitcoin community people should pass the positive things about bitcoin to social networks and we have to conduct some speech and debate on this in public places.

which is strange seeing how on the web info should propagate very fast, i believe that soem country are interntionally blocking some webpage about bitcoin, to decrease the possible awareness of bitcoin

this is an example in russia and some other country where bitcoin is not seen well, like bangladesh, vietnam etc..

What arguments do you use to convince ppl to use Bitcoin for online shopping?

They use fiat, because they are being payed in fiat, they get loans and mortgages in fiat, they pay for groceries in fiat, etc. Subsequently, using fiat is just convenient. You dont need to learn anything new to use fiat, you dont need to go to exchanges to change your salaries into fiat (if ppl were paid in gold for example), can use fiat without internet (big advantage for me personally), dont need to wait 10 minutes for transactions confirmations, etc.

the best that i use is: "do you have to buy something on amazon?", use purse and buy it whit bitcoin whit a good discount! :D

Hahaha you made me laugh with "how many fucking degenerate gamblers"

that is good argument, assuming ppl already have bitcoins. If not, than need to explain using exchanges, getting id verified with them, paying exchange fees, learning how to use bitcoin etc. If they can get btc from you without any exchanges, this could also help.

Ordinary people may think it strange bitcoin and dispose waste of time, because of the way to get bitcoin is a way rarely used in reality and few people know crypto.
But I believe that people will definitely know the greatness and ease of bitcoin if notified slowly, people who do not know bitcoin will feel strange with things that exist in bitcoin, they just need an explanation.

If you tell about bitcoin they wont understand it as for 1 btc earning you have to collect 10,000,000 bitcoins so they will be thinking that to collect this much it is waste of time , when they only know about faucet to earn free, but when you tell them about signature campaign and pay per  post earning method they will join surely, when i use to earn free through faucets i told one of my friend about bitcoin but he told waste of time, but now when i am started to earn bitcoins through signature campaign and earning good and now when i told about this he is also getting interested in bitcoin and now he is also doing more work to earn bitcoins.

How can they be interested in what they can not see nor touch.

The truth is this - people are so skeptical about the use of internet, convincing same people to believe the existence of virtual currency is like asking a blind person to help find your suit in dark  :'(.

Thanks

Normal people think bitcoin to be some technology based business in which people get involved and within a short period they end up saying that the technology busted or the market went down making a great loss for users

Any business can be done by bitcoin. lay people think that they do not believe what can be done by bitcoin. and they were wrong.

different people,different thought about bitcoin,its what i relize so far. regular people afraid with money from internet,they just think its too risky for long term investement or daily used.

that's mostly due to the fact that the media is wrong about bitcoin. the average joe is the kind of people who nearly believe anything that come from the media. it's sad but the hard reality.

in my area where i live i try to introduce bitcoin to my friends but all of them have the same response, ITS A SCAM!!! i tried to explain what is bitcoin
but they dont just trust bitcoin, they dont trust bitcoin because in my country a lot of people are getting scammed in thr internet they just dont want to risk it, i even told them that they dont need spend a dime to earn it, but theyre response is, they dont have time.

To explain to the people in your area should preferably be with verification directly. Tell and show them that bitcoin is not fraud and prove that you really get the money in bitcoin. It takes hard work to convince people like that.

You use Bitcoin as well. What are your arguments for when people ask you about Bitcoin? Please tell me.

when I informed some of the my friends and colleagues about the bitcoins uses and its benefits. They are just watching my face and thinking what i am talking about it but when I showed them that this much bitcoins I earned and got the local money from it for my expenses they found it trust worthy and started using the bitcoins in trading too.

I would say bitcoin is digital money that is being used by many people crowded around the globe and easier to use for online shopping than others :)

Most of the regular people in my area thinking bitcoin to be a scam because they so caution with online currency. i've try to explain to people in my area but they still not believe to bitcoin.

people who are thinking it is a scam are so few, they are practically none existent. that way of thinking was for a couple of years ago when bitcoin was just introduced. at least this is my experience.

nowadays when i talk to people about bitcoin they are not interested in it because they don't see it practical like fiat. and those who does, only use it as an investment.

i suppose you, i also will explain that bitcoin is save from any scam if we becomes smart bitcoin user. But if they can't trust what I said , i perforce ignore them. :/ .

I think some people think wrong about Bitcoin. Because they dont know much about it.
But if they understand what Bitcoin is then they will use it I think.
So we must introduce Bitcoin more.

If you tried to convince them with that shitty English no wonder they didn't trust you. Bitcoin is not safe from any scam, it's in fact quite easy to scam using bitcoins, easier than fiat right now because most companies/business using bitcoin have no credentials or give you any security and because bitcoins transactions are not reversible you have pretty big chances of getting scammed.

Actually secretive personal information in bitcoin aims to secure transactions, but there are some people who use it to deceive and it works very wrong. Bitcoin party may have to think of a system that is better and more accurate so that security is awake and avoid fraud.