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Just today, I was on the bus and I was fiddling with my OTG cable to send a transaction on my phone with my Ledger wallet. I looked to my right, and what where the odds? The guy next to me was doing the same! We started talking, and we just kept talking!

What are the odds of you meeting a bitcoiner IRL?

P.s. I was not taking into the window.

I was also using my ledger hardware wallet(HW.1 model) on my samsung through OTG cable but people didn't noticed what I'm doing or simple they didn't care because they don't know about bitcoin or simple think that I'm a nerd or a hacker, so until know I haven't found any bitcoin IRL.

Ayyy HW.1 buddies! Besides the guy on the bus, ive never met another fellow bitcoiner besides the people I introduced bitcoin to. I can proudly say I've added a solid 5 people to the bitcoin network.

well, you never know but i'm willing to bet myself one bitcoin that i don't randomly bump into another user within the next 1-3 years. where i'm at color television's considered a pretty cool new thing.

if i ever did meet someone who was a fellow user i'd love to hear their story and how they got started. we'll really know things are on the up when it's not even worth mentioning any more.

In my country, BTC geeks never go out of their house and unless they play pokemon go, its very hard.
If I meet someone, I have a lot to learn.

You are lucky having 5 'referrals' that joined the bitcoin world, unfortunately until now I wasnt able to bring any new bitcoiner maybe because they are not interested to risk their money or they are not informed well about bitcoin(bitcoin is many times mentioned that is used only for criminal activities, which is not true)

Dude, that's so cool.  I've only met a couple of people who've even heard of bitcoin.  But then again I dislike talking to people.

Chances of me finding a fellow bitcoiner in my city is negligible.I dont think I would even find any fellow bitcoiner online from my city although it has more than 3 million population.I am in lots of local whatsapp and Facebook group and occasionally keep posting bitcoin news but nobody responded yet

I find it rare to find anybody in my church group let alone any one in public places as a fellow bitcoiner.
It is a strange occurrence to that happen to you on the bus.  :D

Amazing! That had never happened to me, but then I'm not very often in a bus, and I don't have a smartphone. And if I had one, I know I would never use it to make anything financial in a public place where some guy could look above my shoulder.

Thats a good point you've made. Why would you want someone seeing anything you are doing on your smartphone to do with money? Even using your cellular service to do anything financially is risky in it's self.

I work with computers, so every once in a while I run into someone at work who knows about Bitcoin.
Most people have heard about it, and every few months or so I talk to someone that actually owns some BTC or does a little bit of mining etc.

I met a guy a couple months ago that bought a bunch of coins when they were $1 each.
(Needless to say I'm pretty jealous of him!)

I personally do the same with my ledger wallet. People around me don't know what it is, so I am totally safe. But if bitcoin became more well known, my ledger will not leave my house.

Cool watta coincedence. Never meet any bitcoiner even once and Im not doing bitcoin thing outside of our house. But if ever I saw one doing bitcoin thing id love to have a convo with that one. That would be fun for sure.

I doubt those could happen here, but for sure its nice to meet another person that belongs to bitcoin community use and support it. I dont like bus, and i doubt i touch it with the afraid to loose it.

Recently had a conversation with a senior person of my company about the innovations that's trying to conquer more people. On this occasion he started talking about bitcoin, which I never expected. Also he have got good knowledge than me about bitcoin.

We have a team (my friends IRL) , and registered as referral on some sites.
For bigger earning and can make quick the withdrawal process , i think it's such a good idea.
But recently ,it's very rare to meet people who knows about bitcoin.

I just had a good laugh after reading your PS. only if you were talking to your self and still telling the story would have confirmed you as insane.

I found a fellow bitcoiner, or maybe more of a cryptocurrency enthusiast, from my town. But the funny thing is we have not met in real life. We just have common friends and I see him only here in the forum. I knew it was him because my friend told me his screen name here at BCT.

That's cool, until i seen the "p.s" i did think you may have seen your reflection in the window.
I have only ever meet other bitcoiners at meetups and hanging around bitcoin ATM's, both likely places to meet.

This only proves the popularity of Bitcoin has not reached its peak yet. I haven't met a person by accident that is also into Bitcoin or at least know something about Bitcoin. I met a guy in person because we ave a deal that needs to be done on face to face but other than that I haven't. I'm planning to put the Bitcoin logo on my car and motorcycle someday.

Yeah, that is my experience as well.  I have met ZERO people into BTC (while going about non-BTC business), and only one or two who even know anything about BTC or even its existence.

We still have a long way to go...

A few guys I work with are into bitcoin and etherum. They will never spend either, but invest in it as a forex.

For the past 1 year, I did meet one guy who talk about bitcoin. I was a bit cunning and pretend I know nothing about bitcoin- just to see how a bitcoiner explain bitcoin to a layman.

Turn out he actually was quite good of doing that and even ask me to install a bitcoin wallet app so that he can send me a tiny bit of bitcoin!

hmm... panhandling for satoshi..

I know a few officemates who are into bitcoin, mainly for gambling. Haven't really encountered another bitcoin user in public transport. I open my bitcoin wallet once in a while while I'm on commute but there seems to be no other one doing that aside from me.

this is wonderful, it had to feel good.
but sadly in my country i think the chance of that happening is nearly zero because so few people even know about bitcoin. let alone use bitcoin hardware wallet. and those few who know bitcoin, know it as an "account" on blockchain.info which is really wierd.

I met different people who invested in crowdfunding using bitcoins but those people are not really doing bitcoin transactions. They dont really understand how bitcoin works.

But as you said, did I met a person in a certain place whom I do not Know and is a bitcoin enthusiast. The answer is no since in our area I am the only one who is really a fanatic of bitcoin. It may be possible if i get out of town. I only met bitcoiners on facebook but not physically.

I haven't go through similar situation however i am constantly spreading contact to all bitcoiners here. Have meet several guys who are really intrested and some of them are also earning good with crypto trading. It is not an accidental meeting like you have but meeting guys with same intrest and hobby really make me happy. :)

I just have some online bitcoiner friends. and the first one is he who introduced and explained bitcoin to me. are they counted? or just people we meet in real life? if so, I think I don't have any IRL then.

I'm yet to find a fellow bitcoiner IRL. Bitcoin slowly spreading in my country, but meeting bitcoiners here would need a pre-arranged schedule. An example would be localbitcoins users that prefer face-to-face transactions.

I've met a lot online though.

I meet them every day, at the BTM's and the merchants accepting Bitcoin and at the meetups in my area. So this is not a big thing to me anymore. You just need to go to the places where Bitcoin is accepted and you will meet the people behind the coin. I buy some coins directly off some of these people too, so I do not have to use exchanges and bank accounts.

Bitcoin is great!

Not that often, but it also happened to me a while back.
I went to a meetup with Liberland (the new micronation) enthusiasts and met a few people who were also into Bitcoin.

that was good experience but i was never have those experience such as you and people doesn't care if i'm using my mobille phone for sending a transactions but i got a friend that he has bitcoin users too and we are always sharing new experience during be a bitcoin user but unfortunately he is the only one bitcoin user among me

I live in a big city with a few million citizens, so I guess the probability increase when there is good infrastructure and shared public transport. We have some people with taxi services that accepts

Bitcoin, but you have to ask.. it's not common. I have weekly or bi-weekly Bitcoin meetups, so I guess over time, I have met most of the people in my area, that are into Bitcoin. I do meet them in

some of the Coffee shops and also restaurants that accepts Bitcoin too.  ;D

in my country it will be very rare, most of the bitcoin user in my country keep on low radar, and they seldom put their wallet or any apps in their phone, although of the rare chances, i ever encounter one of my old friend in reunion, when i want to introduce him to bitcoin, he said he already knew it and after a few drinks and chat, it turns out he is more professional than me, he already earned more than i do

What happened to you is really rare. I was on a bus once and saw a guy checking out what Bitcoin price is. I was so gald to see a random person who is interested in Bitcoin. I didn't talk to him but it was nice to see anyway.

you mean you do some trading with cryptocurrencies? i think you should be careful about it because you might lose it really easily if the prices drop

If I don't start a conversation about Bitcoin the chances of me knowing that the person I am talking to is Bitcon-literate are very slim. Also I haven't seen anyone carrying around hardware wallets so this telltale sign is completely absent anyways  ;D I have seen people using Bitcoin mobile wallets though and that is usually a conversation starter for me but it's not always easy to figure out who is a Bitcoiner and who is not. However it's very easy to tell who is playing Pokemon Go and who is not  ;D

Depends on many factors, country, its rural area or city center etc.
You can't give universal value here.
I know one thing tho, this number will be bigger and bigger.

Well I think the odds of finding a fellow bitcoiner in real life is low. I think that way since there are a few people around the world who knows about bitcoin. That odd is lessened though in our country since we have a group chat on facebook dedicated to bitcoiners in our country where we can talk to each other and maybe set a date for us to meet if the other agree but even if we have that I haven't seen another bitcoiner in real life since those people in our group chat on facebook are lives somewhere far away from the province I live in.

That's interesting,  where was it held? Can you tell us what was discussed?

I doubt i will ever meet anyone else that's into bitcoin where i am. I've never even heard of anyone else mention anything to do with bitcoin never mind actually owning any.  The only people that know about bitcoin where i am are those that ive spoken about it to routinely and they still don't know what I'm talking about half the time.

that's so cool!  finding people that is into bitcoin like us is surely very rare.  But in my  kind of activities, i met several people who knows about bitcoin but sad thing is that, these people only knew bitcoin of this MLM company that is to exploit them and just get their money.  Though even at that situation, it feels so great that someone in your industry knows about bitcoin too.

The odds of finding a fellow bitcoiner is really low especially if bitcoin is not that famous yet in your country and there are no shops yet that accept bitcoin as payment or may be there are some shops that accept it as payment option but you did not know it yet. Unless someone will have an effort to meet up its fellow bitcoiners then agree that they will make a group and have some plans of making others aware of the existence of bitcoin then there is a chance that the odds will go up.

The odds is high since my mother is also a bitcoiner so we always met everday.

Other bitcoiners are groupmates on networking so we meet always and discuss about networking and sometimes bitcoin and other currency.

To some it may be low but in my case it's not a rare case but an occasional opportunity that happens monthly.

No, I have been involved with bitcoin since 2012ish. I fully understand the technology behind it and the hypothesis that it proves. I was strictly referencing my co-workers as the only others IRL that I know who use bitcoin. They trade it similar to a forex market strictly for profits.

I used to go to local Bitcoin meet ups. You can meet people into Bitcoin there all the time. Of course there are meet ups for people that like to bite the heads off chickens and bdsm too. I don't think all of the people that go to meet ups are really well balanced.

As much as I can remember, I see a physical shop accepting Bitcoin near my home and that is before the 2014 Bitcoin bubble. As for meeting Bitcoiners in real life, I don't really have the chance. I once overheard someone saying to another person "Buy Bitcoin" but do not know who said it. lol.

Haven't bumped into one so far, have successfully introduced 1 active person to bitcoin, I think the chances are pretty slim unless you hang around a bitcoin cash machine :)

Yeah, the odds of finding someone that is also into Bitcoin are pretty slim, but it does still happen. Of course, those people may never go outside and stare at their computer 24/7(which is unlikely), but at least in my area, it's almost the same - I know nobody who knows what Bitcoin is.

Yeah, in my city not found bitcoiner people. I see a lot of people are still using credit cards and the like to buy their necessities. This is probably the main problem for us, because we can't meet or share experiences against fellow bitcoiners.

My son pays Pokemon cards and we go every other week to play together.  Most of the time I just sit there and do nothing but play on the computer because there are mainly children who play the game around here.  So I wan setting up a bitcoin faucet rotator and one of the other dad walked behind me and seen what I was doing.  He then sat down in front of me and we started talking.  Bitcoin is getting to be more known out there and it soon will start making larger moves.

Although quite popular here,I have not yet find a fellow bitcoiner while on a bus but here in our town people who owns an internet cafe knows all about bitcoin and some of them are actually using their pc to mine altcoins

I have met people who are into bitcoin,  actually just recently i have received a call from fellow bitcoiner and inviting me to some meeting next week.  Well it is good to meet people that is also a bitcoiner like us but in my area, since most people are not very familiar with internet things, and some are actually computer illiterate, it is hard to talk to them and introduce bitcoin.

I would say it's extremely unlikely. I have never seen a person in real life that even knew what Bitcoin was, let alone someone actually holding Bitcoin, let alone someone into it enough to own hardware dedicated devices... nope.
In 10 years it will be common, but we are still the pioneers.

never happened with me i gurss you are very lucky one or i just say your locality is good but i will not get this type of chance bevause here the ratio is 5/1000 i hope people should understand technology they are just learning it just for to be able to do jobs but there are a lot we can do with these

Same here never meet any bitcoin here in my country but many people here are using bitcoin.. i think we are just few users but they are just using their cellphone for safeplaces.. because many snatchers here in my country..

Funny that, I live in London which is a very cosmopolitan, progressive city - also a big financial center - and I've never seen other people use the Bitcoin ATMs I use. Maybe I just go at weird times, but I read so much about bitcoin use and people who follow/use it in this city, but I've never seen anyone using it or buying it. Weird  ???

I've never met another person using Bitcoinw, in person, alive. Only in virtual world, here on.forum or some other platforms. Like Bitcoin users are some rare and endangered species.. :)  That is really odd.

To me i live in philippines but the problem there is no bitcoin near to me that i can see in my way every day life outside in my house.. because bitcoin still not so popular..

I was able to find a computer hardware shop that accepted Bitcoins, which got my surprised and excited. I began asking the shop owner several questions and one of which was -how had he gotten to know about Bitcoins? He replied that he used to freelance online and accept Paypal and Skrill but later had his account frozen, hence after scrounging online for alternative means of payments, he had stumbled upon Bitcoins. Ever since then he's been accepting it at his shop. Only thing I forgot to ask was was I his first Bitcoin customer or had he had anyone else pay in Bitcoins for computer hardware at his shop.

I have a hard time getting people to understand what bitcoin is, I don't think I will have the chance of speaking with a fellow bitcoiner for at least five years in my country :(

With services like Localbitcoins I thought it would easier to find a fellow bitcoiner in your designated area of where you live. So to do business and trade with. But are you talking about to just talk about it and pass the time with? You can just do that here.  :)

There is a bitcoin atm (two actually) in my city and when trying to use one of them, I met a fellow bitcoiner who was waiting to use the same bitcoin atm. It wasn't working and the two of us were trying to figure it out. The machine had a bug or something and we gave up on trying to use it, scared/paranoid we might lose our bitcoin somehow, but we did talk abit about bitcoin ans stuff. It was pretty cool to meet a (kind of) random fellow bitcoiner.

I've also eavesdropped on two people doing a ptp bitcoin transaction at a Starbuck's once. I didn't engage either of them in conversation though. But I did think to myself, "Ah, two people doing a btc transaction in person, that's cool."

Now that I have moved from South Carolina to the west side of the country, my odds should improve ;-)

So the bitcoin ATM's are buggy to use? I never seen one in person but I would imagine they would be more vulnerable than the ones cemented in the wall of a bank. They are standalone ones that just sit on the floor from what I have seen on google maps.
Reminds me of that episode of Breaking bad when those two stole a standalone atm and ended up having his head pancaked.

Well, it is not polite to look at other people's smartphone screens in the first place. Plus, in your situation someone would need to be really close to you to see what exactly you are doing.
Don't expect people standing like 15+ feet away to even remotely realize what you are doing. Op was in ideal situation, because he found fellow bitcoiner sitting right next to him...

I have uses bitcoin atm's a few times and never had any problems. The Lamassu brand work very well and don't require all that pesky ID verification that others do.
Sometimes there is disputes between the host and owners of the machines and that can cause problems.

I used to live in Tennessee. Big bitcoin market there.

Do you know the IOS app/game called Takara? It is like Pokemon Go but instead you look for bitcoins and counterparty tokens. It has a map and everything and it is like a treadure hunt. You can drop or pick up treasure boxes if you want. If your town has many dropped treasure boxes you will know that there are people in your town into bitcoin. I am still looking for treasures in my town. :)

All my acquaintances are online. Of my half a year or more on bitcoin, I never meet any person ;) Online, tehres a community dedicated to bitcoins, altcoins, crypto currency trading groups etc.I hope there will be a crypto currency conference in my country where all enthusiast,devs and traders meets.

haha, where i live if you take out your phone and start using it on a bus or on underground train there is at least a dozen eyes coming on your screen and start reading what you are reading :D

Oh how cute. In our country if you take out your phone and start using it on a bus or on the street or in anywhere public, at least a dozen eyes will look at your phone and will try to steal it.

I believe thats called identify theft but I may be wrong.

Where I live, it's very unlikely to find someone that invests in bitcoin. I'm sure there are peopl here that do, just not very many. I never hear anyone talking about bitcoin in person, only on the internet.

It may have even been me you were talking to! I was in the exact same scenario. I think was using a Trezor, though. The chances are very very slim to find a fellow bitcoiner.

Are you in Sydney!

It never happened to me before, but I wish it will happen. It's not just interesting to find another Bitcoiner IRL, it's also a good to way to share more information about Bitcoin.

I can`t find any bitcoiner in my town.I live in a small sity.

For me,the odds of finding another bitcoiner offline are 1:1000000000  ;D

Maybe that other guy is a Bitcointalk member too. ;D

the only fellow bitcoiner that i know is my friend and we have started using bitcoin nearly together and have been doing most things like our investments with each other too.

but other than that i don't really know anybody else, and i don't think i can meet anybody else either because in my country people aren't really interested in bitcoin which is sad.

I haven't found anyone except the online gambling players. So locally, none. I always have to explain everytime what BTC is. I guess it's just me spreading the news about Bitcoin. :D

Interesting. I think here on my country I got a really low chance, when I am on the bus I always open bitcointalk forum. The guy next to me always dont care. They think I am just reading some garbage.

I don't think it's very likely I will meet someone who actively uses Bitcoin but I think that most people understand what it is and have heard of it before. Most people I think don't have a reason to change, they are happy using normal currency so Bitcoin is of no use to them.

Very True.. However, adoption has been steadily increasing over the years. Like others have stated the majority of the reason for the slow adoption is the ease of use. It is quite difficult to someone without technical experience.

Rather than finding a fellow bitcoiner, now its possible as well much easy to have conversation with people who were aware of bitcoin as well other digital currencies. Recently on an conversation understood the reality that even manufacturing process developers too aware of it but due to some reasons have paused using bitcoin.

I think so too that there are others who are already aware of bitcoin but didn't get involved in bitcoin world because he's simply not interested in it.He doesn't want to get involved in something that his friends may not be aware of and will choose to mind other things that his friends can relate to. Bitcoin is new and maybe he just want to stick with fiat currency because its the one use by everybody and he choose to be with the majority.

I did find someone browsing bitcointalk at the mall and carrying what seems to be a hardware wallet. Since I'm not into talking other people, I didn't approach him and just peeped on what board is he into. It's kinda comforting to know that you're not alone on your place that knows how to use bitcoins.

And I am yet to talk to other bitcoiners around in my place. Hehe.

yeah if it happens i meet another who is a bitcoiner will want to get to know him and also learn from him, or we both can share ideas... but i guess it will be a happy mood on my part wanting to learn from the other bitcoiner...its really pretty cool....

I would say its impossible to find someone in real life that uses bitcoin, that is not a mega geek like everyone in here is. If you are not into computers and stuff, you probably don't even know what Bitcoin is. With Steam a lot of people has learned but they are still gamers. Hopefully Kim Dotcom is not lying and will deliver something good for mainstream soon.

Many people in ccollege use Bitcoin so it's a casual thing here.  :)

Totally agree with you, its so hard to find  a fellow bitcoin user in real life since you wont even know  if they uses it  unless if you saw them using a mobile phone  then you notice   hes doing bitcoin stuffs then it would be the time to  communicate to him but for now its impossible to know someone. Im also a Steam user and yes bitcoin is  already used there as a payment option but i guess  majority would probably ignore it  and just stick  to traditional ways on purchasing on store.

Yup, but it depends on the country or the place that we inhabit. My place, I get quite a lot of people use the bitcoin and we always communicate well. This is quite exciting, because we can exchange thoughts and ideas about the bitcoin and it was making a change is good enough

At least a basic computer knowledge and some internet knowledge also. Then the investing thing will just go with it when it is all ready. I ride public vehicles every day and I see no one that uses it or trying to earn bitcoin. I only see it at the office with my fellow workers.

I've constantly been inserting bitcoin in every conversation that I do with some people like when we're talking about games on Steam. I would say that I fund my account with bitcoins and such and then they would start wondering what it is. But so far, I haven't seen anyone who's an active bitcoin user.

i havent found anyone else to be honest too, i dont think that around me there are any people who are into bitcoins and it is sad that the adoption is that slow

In over a year that I am doing bitcoin I have never met a random individual also involve in bitcoin. I am doing faucet before while riding a bus but no one else seems to care what I am doing. It would be nice to meet someone on the road though. And I hope one day, meeting someone involve in bitcoin is not a special event anymore.

That is great thing to know :D  Younger people getting to know bitcoin will means that Bitcoin will have a more wide range of supportor in the next years.  While in my industry, there are lots of people who know about bitcoin because some network marketing company are very active in promoting their scheme.  I just hope it they won't give bad impression for bitcoin.