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Which country has most number of bitcoin users, miners and vendors? And in which country bitcoin is accepted the most? Like in at institutes or super malls or stores etc.
Has such data been calculated and available on the world wide web?

Here the listed bitcoin legal by country:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country
Search bitcoin business here: https://coinmap.org/

10 bitcoin friendly countries: https://news.bitcoin.com/worlds-top-10-bitcoin-friendly-countries/

I can't say much about vendors but when It comes to miners and number of users , I'm pretty sure china defeats them all and the trading volumes on their exchanges is a proof of that : https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/all/ (OKCoin , Huobi & BTCC)

Singapore is one of the most Bitcoin-friendly countries. Switzerland is another one. The government tolerates the use of Bitcoins. On the other hand, a guy was detained in France after a policeman heard him uttering the word "Bitcoin".

i secondly agree with you...sure!!!

I can't exactly say that the Philippines is bitcoin-friendly but if we base the transaction volume coming from there, which I think ranks in the top 5, you can say that the Philippines is ahead of most other countries. We know that the Filipinos are very fond of social media and are very much almost always online, so the digital currency is something that they are already using.

Do you have link to the news regarding policeman detaining guy who utter the word "bitcoin" ? I don't think this was the real situation there.

Surprised not to see china in this list however government doesn't seem to care much about bitcoin mining farms situated in china and you can see majority of buying volume coming from china which suggest china being one of the bitcoin blooming country.

This post actually sums it up it has a good break up of all Bitcoin using countries accept it's just a old link. Currently usa, India and other countries are using Bitcoins more, for atms and school for gas also. Recently swizz and dubai allowed it for transport. So my point is now lieterally all are using it. Mining if you want, I keep reading it's China who's in the lead. Sooner or later Bitcoin shall be used by all big or small countries

I am happy to learn that my country is on the 10 countries who develop and use the blockchain technology. Also, I can sleep without any concern that I am not illegal ;)

I could even create a bitcoin business if I want.

Yes, I agree! I think one of this country was Philippines. Although Philippines are not on the top 10 list, many bitcoin users may find in this country. if you will enter on the group pages you will see how people of the Philippines really patronising bitcoins. Also in this country many are already using bitcoins in buying merchants and paying bills.Another country that i believe Bitcoin Friendly was sweden.

I will just base my answer on my though, that the country that has the most miners are found in China and I think that is not a secret anymore. And for the country that has a lot of vendors I guess Brazil : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1102662.0 and it is not updated anymore.


So most of the countries that are in the list are mostly found in first world countries and it is not a surprise for me.

For miners China is definitely at the top, now since China has most miners then it most likely dominates in number of users also, but I think BTC are kinda distributed in US and UK and other countries also there's no way to exactly say that. For vendors I think its the UK because i have seen alot of BTC related services which are based in UK.

I read it in Reddit. Not sure whether it was a real incident or a fake one. The incident occurred at the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. Most of the users in Reddit believe that it was a real incident.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21cp72/french_customs_arrested_me_for_saying_the_word/

Guys go to Google trends and do a search using 'Bitcoin' as the search term for the past 7 days. You will see the interest over time and the interest by region which are represented by a graph and a map. The most bizarre thing is that Nigeria has a search interest of 100 which is the highest possible lol. If you are interested to check it out here you go:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=Bitcoin

Seems like China government is not really care about bitcoin, so the regulation is just in grey. I think just some group at China which doing a bitcoin activity, mostly mining farm activity, we know electronic equipment there is have a low cost and the electric bills is categorized cheaper.

After reading this question Immediately 3 Names appeared on my Mind.

1: China
2: Brazil
3: USA

China have the largest bitcoin mining and miner's equipments..
Brazil have the most shops, hotels and restaurant accepting bitcoin.
and USA is also a large amount of bitcoin accepted country.

I think every country is a bitcoin friendly country .well in the future it might happen that bitcoins maybe illegal in the near future .but dont loose hope rather u should sell those bitcoins and enjoy ur life .kudoos :)

USA has the largest number of bitcoin users for sure.

I`m not sure that USA is very bitcoin friendly. :(

China dominates btc mining off course...

it's one hell of a lot friendlier than most places. there are tons of exchanges, tons of places to spend it, regulators have clarified a few things about it. that's all positive.

You can get a lot of the countries are bitcoin friendly at the South America, there are a lot of bitcoiners in there. And it's already supported by their environment. A lot of store which accepts bitcoin for his payment.
I may think if in some countries outside of the South America the bitcoin will be becoming friendly for all while Russian are pull his statement for ban bitcoin in his country.

This (http://map.bitlegal.io/) is a good place to start reading about Bitcoin legality in the world. CoinMap is a good place to start reading about where Bitcoin is accepted, but it has been posted already. I don't think that there are much more resources beyond this.

Bitcoin has users from all around the world, but it is used more in eastern Asia countries and South America countries if I am not wrong, especially China which has great impact on Bitcoin price as the biggest Bitcoin mining companies work in China.
 

As far as I know, China has most numbers of miners and they have around 51% hashing power. Then, there is large number of bitcoin in United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Canada etc. I see some countries like India, Russia, China will have comparatively large number of bitcoin users compared with rest of the world (China has largest mining pool power but I am not sure about common bitcoin users).

China and Russia sometime ago were clamping down on bitcoin whereas the U.S. kept sanctioning and promoting it. The turn around in acceptance and increased volume of trade in recent times cannot be discounted from the U.S. position in global financial markets and interest in technology, which is what has brought bitcoin thus far. Imagine what would have been the fact of bitcoin if the U.S. joined the bandwagon to abort it - thank goodness they did not!

From the european point of view Netherlands is Bitcoin friendly country. They were among first countries who had Bitcoin ATMs, shops that were accepting Bitcoins and regulated Bitcoin in positive way.
Many people there have very positive attitude towards Bitcoin and some companies are even paying part of paycheks in Bitcoin.

Most of the reports I've read claim the USA and Canada to be the most friendly large countries with a bunch of smaller no population (who cares) countries mixed in.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that places like Sweden and Denmark love Bitcoin but, let's face it, those countries combined have a total population less than the greater Los Angeles area. The population of Denmark is just under 6 million. The population of the San Francisco Bay Area is 7 million.

I already considered Philippines to be a Bitcoin-friendly country because so far there is no government move to restrict the use and spread of Bitcoin and I hope there would be none in the future once Bitcoin would really be popular. I do hope the government would see Bitcoin as just another Paypal thing.

Well I don't come from the country where bitcoin is widely accepted and used but I've read some news that claimed that France just had 25 of their stores and malls accepted bitcoin as payment just now and I see that France has quite a lot of places use bitcoin. So I would say that France is one of the bitcoin friendly countries  ;D

I think the Netherlands is using Bitcoin a lot. There is a valley on which there are only Bitcoin shops, as far as I remember. The Dutch always liked freedom and anonymity. I've been there this summer and it's a great country and yes, it is friendly with Bitcoin.

I have a friend there an I agree that Netherlands has an active bitcoin community. Thy are well aware abot bitcboin. Also, I consider Philippines is a bitcoin Friendly country since it has a local exchanges where you can exchange your bitcoin to local currency and you can transfer to your bank account or through remitances.

This is totally unbelievable story. But it wasn't a policeman, it was customs official. We can read original story here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21cp72/french_customs_arrested_me_for_saying_the_word/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21cp72/french_customs_arrested_me_for_saying_the_word/)
It was 2 years ago, since that time fame of silk road dimmed a little. Also people's general awareness of what Bitcoin is raised a little. I can't imagine something like this happening today.

i don't know the actual number because bitcoin is not traceable, but i think majority bitcoin users in american, european and asian country

China.

so far, which I know might USA.

Bitcoin friendly country i think in USA, I have not been there, but I think there people better known bitcoin than my country and also country that legalized bitcoin *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country

I wanted to reply to a comment on that last article you posted (10 bitcoin friendly countries):


Totally disagree with the commenter that Belgium is a Bitcoin friendly country, there are almost no merchants in real life that accept Bitcoin.
Also almost no Bitcoin ATM's, so compared to our neighbor, The Netherlands, it's really slim pickings here for Bitcoin people.

I do hope that changes soon.

I agree with you, I can say also that Philippines is one of the Bitcoin
friendly countries. Because their is bitcoin freedom, government does
not have anyt strict rules about it. Also, bitcoin is spreading anywhere
in the Philippines because of its easy use, and hassle free.!

for me i guess most is in the first world countries. the first tjat come up with my mind is united states of america and China. china is one of the leading countries if we talk about bitcoin mining. just my opinion.

regards. :)

Netherlands are very open minded this is true.
I had been in Arnhem where you can pay with Bitcoin in many stores, shops, cafes and markets.
If you ever should be go to the netherlands Arnhem is a must for a Bitcoiner!
Check out this website: http://www.arnhembitcoinstad.nl/ (http://www.arnhembitcoinstad.nl/)

yes that is a fact that the number of bitcoin users are more in China but i think you can also find the users of bitcoin in all over the world, like India, Russina, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Dubai, American Japan, Canada, USA etc.

A lot of people are saying USA, but in my opinion the USA regard Bitcoin as a commodity and not a currency. I would say, if someone consider

that Bitcoin should be seen as a currency for a country to be truly "Bitcoin friendly" then based on that, I would go for Japan. Japan officially

recognizes bitcoin and digital currencies as money.  ;)  .... The Australian federal government is also changing their stance on Cryptocurrency,

so we might see some good vibes coming from down under too.  ;D

I think philippines is a bitcoin friendly country.
Many filipino is using bitcoin and some are creatinf altcoin that is affiliated in philippines like pesobit.
Banks in the philippines is slowly accepting bitcoins by letteting them withdraw it in their banks

here in the philippines i think only seven eleven has accepting bitcoin and i haven't search yet but still i am very afraid that some of the owners will ban  me for the bitcoin paying thing because they will thought that i am a joke  to pay money in the internet and i can't cash it out because i don't have any valid I.D yet i only spent my bitcoin on the internet some lame games and some movies but still i haven't really got my money in the real world hopefully in my country they accept bitcoin for all i know that american has taken over bitcoin there you can spend bitcoin i really wish i have moved to  america and spend my bitcoin >.< its 6.0 btc :D hehehehe..

It's not the "banks" accepting bitcoin.
It's just the local exchange having an agreement/deal with the bank wherein when you cash-out, the coins are converted by the exchange(sold to the exchange) to fiat.

They then buy eGivecash from Security Bank(a single-use virtual gift card) with the amount you sold.
They send you the codes and you get to withdraw it from the bank's ATM machines.
It's just a convenient service the exchange offers.

Besides, I haven't even seen a single physical shop where you could buy directly with Bitcoin. (Have you?Please share.)

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I would also go for the U.S. , Australia, the Netherlands, and France as being top bitcoin-friendly countries as they do have plenty of merchants accepting bitcoin.

Mining is China.  

   Rich countries like as countries of scandinavian peninsula, Canada, UK and US is expected to be friendly with bitcoin. On the other side small Estonia is bitcoin friendly too because is internet friendly too. So, is not strange  that is called the European country miracle because does not owe anywhere.

I haven't heard of a lot of Bitcoin users coming out of South America, but if it does have a fair amount of users down there then that's some very good news. If you don't mind me asking, to your knowledge, do they primarily come out of Brazil or are they spread out more?

I know that there are some European countries that are incredibly friendly to Bitcoin, but I can't name them off of the top of my head.

Well Switzerland is going hard when it comes to being friendly to Bitcoin, which is kind of fascinating in its own right. Considering that they weren't really specifying their interest in bitcoin prior to the last few weeks, I would say that they're very open to the idea.

Norway or Denmark was also supposed to be relatively comfortable with the idea of Bitcoin too, if I remember correctly.

My personal list that I consider that are bitcoin friendly countries are China, U.S, and center europe.

There may be also other countries but those that I read in the news are mostly these including Switzerland, Norway etc.

And this is a good news because bitcoin is getting popular in rich countries which can indirectly invest in bitcoin.

I live in Lithuania and I can say that my country is bitcoin friendly. We have some bitcoin startups which already become popular worldwide like Spectrocoin or Coingate. There are some shops and business which accepts bitcoin, we can pay for taxi with bitcoin.
But there are some negative things: our central banks gave warning to use bitcoin only at our own risk. Also, media creates negative opinion about bitcoin.

same in here Indonesia, bitcoin is not illegal and already popular in some people. but Central Bank still not accept it as legal thing ( but it not means it is illegal in here ) because the risk too. but i think it is only about time when people use and government can accept bitcoin like the other countries that already did it

You don't have to go to America just to spend your bitcoins. It's pretty easy to get a valid ID. It only take you one day to get one. Maybe more than that, but it's worth the wait. Moving into another country just to be able to use bitcoins in real life just doesn't sound wise to me.

Since you're able to buy things online using your bitcoins, then maybe you can sell those items into fiat in the real world. It's also not that hard to find another bitcoin-curious guy in your area. Just sell your coins into another guy in real life.

I would think Brazil would be extremely bitcoin friendly now. But that was during the Summer time for the Olympics but don't know if they kept that enthusiasm going after all the tourists left.

for the users, miners and vendors, i think it will be china because we all know that china is one of the biggest country that have many mining farm and we can most of them is big mining farm.

but for the country that accepted bitcoin, i really not sure as i am not follow any news about this and maybe i will search later when i have time to search.

China doesn't care about using Bitcoin. As soon as the profit from mining dries up China will abandon bitcoin.

That is not true. Bitcoin is not in the law in most of them and is illegal in some. There aren't many countries which accept Bitcoin, especially among developed countries. It is prohibited in Iceland, in Norway they have some additional taxes, EU doesn't say it's illegal, but isn't very excited about it either.

Yeah! I live in Philippines and I think it's bitcoin friendly. In fact, we can even buy loads, game credits, vouchers, bills, tuition, etc,. But it can only be done via internet transaction and not on real payment unlike on other country. And another negative thing is our new law made by our President Duterte which is making online gambling illegal so I think bitcoin is affected to it on our country. But all in all, it's great and good way on earning some extra money.

You got a point there, country by country comparison won't ever bring out the right picture of things as 40% of some country with a population of say, 60 million is no match with a country of 6 million and being 100% bitcoin friendly. In that regard, I think our focus would now point to U.S. and China.

Probably such information is not available on internet because bitcoin is anonymous system and no one can track it. And also no one have that much time out of busy life so better lets us stay happy with what we have. But 1 minute China have more bitcoin user i know.

We are anonymous but our transaction can be trace, so we still have to be very careful only. But in general it's popular because it's anonymous and it provides confidentiality when transacting online. We have to promote bitcoin as it's our only way to have freedom and will bridge easy transaction from country to country.

Well I have friend in Australia who lived over there, He often said to me how bitcoin is very popular to their country, because there are many business companies who already accepted bitcoin and it always in the news according to him even in the newspaper. So I think the people out there mostly are bitcoin enthusiast.

I once heard and saw that Brazil has a really large number of shops accepting bitcoin in physical world, so i guess that can be called a BitCoin Friendly country for that, because if the government would not allow the use of it then there would have been no places accepting it inside the country.

 people running full nodes is a good indicator that a country is
Into bitcoin

https://bitnodes.21.co

Japan, Switzerland and Ireland have a lot for their size

Yeah, I also often hear that Brazil has its place in the bitcoin users to perform any transaction in the store. But it's all I think due to deliver promotions and Government may indeed allow it but I think the Government also will not provide security for the users of the bitcoin in any errors that occur because of it.Just wait until when bitcoin experience growth that is bad and then feel a tremendous pleasure because of the victory of the bitcoin already achieved

It's amazing that a lot of countries are really into Bitcoin like US, UK, Canada, etc. It's also saddening that countries do not take it as an advantage to improve the economy and the lives of the people. I don't really understand why? Are they scared of what can happen? Or do they not see what the possibilities are with Bitcoin? They could improve the economy with Bitcoin.

From my country, the Philippines, it's starting to grow. The Bitcoin community here is growing and getting stronger. I just hope that majority that happens with the transactions here are legal.

Yes, i also believe that the philippine could be one of the top bitcoin friendly countries. I've been online for many years mostly in social media and i saw the steady rise of online filipinos that uses bitcoin in their digital transactions. If we want the philippines to be on the top rankings, it must first address its slow internet speed and improve its present digital infrastructure.

I can tell you that the United States sucks ass as far as bitcoin vendors and general acceptance goes.  There is nothing within comfortable driving distance where to spend my bitcoin.  Absolutely nothing, nowhere, nohow.  It all gets bought, sold, traded, and spent online.  Physical brick-and-mortar places in the states are severely lagging.

How's Asia and down under?

The US is relatively good toward bitcoin. The only thing is sending bitcoin overseas through mail, like cash is banned too. This is why i'm pretty sure you can't transfer loaded coins across their border.

Only the time will reveal the true friendly countries of bitcoin...

Now bitcoin is just a child, none cares about it, they make some short law about it(aproving or not) and that it.

So bitcoin is grow and after this a lot of countries will ban because of fear.

What exactly are loaded coins?  ???

Many of countries here in the bitcoin but in my opinion US is the main country of the bitcoin who accept .
China is also a big country who is using bitcoin in very high scale . China is popular for bitcoin mining also because the cost of electricity is very low so mining is here more profitable .

US, philipines and nigeria almost those country have most number of bitcoin users. They use it and any inventment site and paying bills and buying goods using bitcoin.

Definitely. Philippines is also a bitcoin friendly country for many Filipinos are now using bitcoin and many entities here accept bitcoin payments. But the only thing is the internet connection speed, as you said, is being the issue for the rise of bitcoin transactions here in our country. Only if there would be a fast connection and a free wifi in every streets of the Philippines, I guess bitcoin usage would be popular to many Filipinos since we are easily adopting the current trends in technology.

Actually, most of those that accept bitcoin are processed thru a exchange, that means they are not really accepting bitcoin, but the exchange process it so they will receive fiat. Except for those individuals who are making their online business like selling VPNs are the ones really accept bitcoin as it is.  Internet connection nowadays is not a problem, speed, it is a bit attainable now compared to before, that means we are atleast improving. The only downside to that is the price, and of course the Fair usage policy. But, that's true, bitcoin is not illegal here and I think not yet legal, as there is no law against it or in favor of its existence in the country.

We are going to that direction, in the future there's an improvement as everything can be done in the internet including our business so the government will certainly made laws to improve our infrastructures and that includes free internet for everyone.

i think china is became bitcoin legal for transaction in mall or store etc.. and most user
i hope in indonesian legal too , not only to income

Unfortunately on my country (Indonesia) the bitcoins is not too popular and the usage of bitcoins is just for investing are like trading bitcoin to fiat, trading altcoins and saving the assets. But i am sure by the time there are many people use bitcoin on their life. Indonesian government can be called bitcoin friendly because of there are no banning usage of bitcoins.

EY Switzerland will become the first company in the world to accept Bitcoin.

Formerly known as Ernst & Young, announced the professional services firm through a press release on Friday that it would integrate Bitcoin as part of a broader digitization process. All EY Switzerland employees will be issued Bitcoin Portfolio through a customized portfolio application. It will also be a two-way public access Bitcoin ATM at its headquarters in Zurich.

As pointed out by CEO EY Switzerland Marcel Stalder, the pro-Bitcoin push is necessary for its activities and its employees are familiar with block chain technology, which is likely to dominate to control the future of the financial sector, We are not only talking about digitization, but actively pursuing this process in collaboration with our employees and customers. It is important for us that everyone is on board and is preparing to leave the game up to take the business through block chains, intelligent contracts and digital currencies Blocks chains develop a very fast technology that can alter The revolution of many sectors. In the role of Switzerland as an important financial and industrial center and its development and promote as a digital hub, it is essential that it is a pioneer in this field.
EY is the third of the four largest accounting firms in the world, also known as the "Big Four", which also has Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG.
Switzerland is becoming a hub of digital innovation

This latest integration by a large company serves to strengthen Switzerland's reputation as a chain-friendly Block nation. At CFF ticket dispensers station across the country, customers can buy Bitcoin to complete their portfolios. The city of Zug, in the famous "Crypto Valley", home to the startups-based chain-several blocks, Bitcoin will be payments to the city to accept the service through the rest of this year as part of a Trial to test digital currency. "Earlier this year, the Swiss Parliament moved to block the deregulation startups chain from exempting them from strict financial disclosure laws and stimulating innovation.

Switzerland long maintained a reputation as the global center of financial privacy due to legendary bank secrecy. With Bitcoin to adopt in order to maintain a competitive advantage in the industry, the next wave of financial privacy after Swiss bank accounts, give meaning to Switzerland's financial services to advanced technology.
The races of the financial world towards digitization, motivated by Bitcoin

The success of Bitcoin, the great pioneer of the Block chain technology, has a great push towards digitizing the global financial impulse. Several countries, including Ukraine, South Korea and Tunisia, have all started plans to introduce digital money. Senegal has joined the ranks of sporting nations a digital currency, and could soon be followed by many other African countries. The IMF predicts that probably start using digital currency within five years, banks around the world.

you gotta admit that they have too much restriction there, this is not what i calla  friednly country, and also their transaction are to heavy controlled and taxed, european are more friendly because they exempted bitcoin from vat at least

Good news come from African countries, several of them will consider bitcoin regulation like Uganda. In the middle east Dubai government will regulate bitcoin. Bitcoin spreads all over the world.

apart from the law that doesn't negate the use of bitcoin most of the factors are from technology improved environment

currently very much accept bitcoin very well. US, China, Brazil, and many other countries that accept bitcoin well. Well, they actually use bitcoin well. they can develop a number of bitcoin they have with the investment, trading and another interesting way. Well, I think that one day all nations will accept bitcoin well either as a means of transaction or as an investment tool

I am happy because my country is bitcoin friendly and our government carrying out research on blockchain technology and may be government would adopt such system in banking system also because it's highly secure.

It's weird how if you live in a country that is bitcoin friendly already you have this notion that most if not all other countries are that way too. :-\

Well same here that bitcoins here are friendly because we have also company locally that actually a building that we can found it live here and some Bitcoin ATM.. and i think more adoption will come with bitcoin that we can use also in some stores to spend bitcoin..

I think the reason why this government is not taking advantage of bitcoin to improve their economy because it is against their centralized ideology.  Government want to have control on everything and they will be having a problem to control bitcoin.

Well I think bitcoin in the Philippines is still in its infancy stage.  There are only few sites that accept bitcoin.  If it is booming in the Philippines maybe because of some MLM company that taken advantage of bitcoin popularity / trend  to bait their members.  

Well I belong to bitcoin loving country i am really fortunate to have such understanding government but still I shouldn't hope much otherwise all my money would go in water.

I see no. It's just that bitcoin is not in their priority list but of course it's already on hand by the PH BSP.

Much better if we remove those "think" since it might mislead the others. The post is general.


Few sites since it's not direct payment bur rather with the use of third party. Local exchangers in the PH have many services offered so that people can use their bitcoin in various ways. That is one of the reason why people at least got an idea about bitcoin. Also some local exchangers doesn't focusing much on bitcoin services that's why people has another reason to use that exchanger resulting for bitcoin introduction then eventually an adaption.

You know the stats of those PH people joined MLM companies? If yes then you should realized that it isn't the one why bitcoin is blooming in the PH.

i agree with you that USA is the largest amount of bitcoin accepting because everyone know about bitcoin and bitcoin is very popular in USA and they sure that bitcoin will be future currency.

Japan was regulated bitcoin by financial service agency. DMM, this big business in japan was accept bitcoin to be payment system for all their product and service. A city in Swiss called Zug was adopt bitcoin as payment system too. Other city like new york is did it to by create bitlisence. Microsoft, rakuten, overstock and time inc was  accpet bitcoin. Those is a few bitcoin friendly country.

thank you for sharing this sir, i was a bit surprise that japan was not on the list of bitcoin friendly countries.
 :)

China might be bitcoin-friendly now, but policies can change very quickly. At the last bubble, the Chinese government cut off bank transfers to bitcoin exchanges, while trying to rein in the price. Countries like USA have more consistent policies.

These 3 countries are big countries, it should give rise to bitcoin in the future. More countries will adopt as people are adopting with bitcoin and by seeing this especially in the eyes of the businesses, there's a great market in bitcoin and if they will integrate bitcoin as a payment system they will surely be more profitable.

I won't say China overall is a bitcoin-friendly country. Its people might utilize it and might be the largest miners in the industry but that doesn't mean that they are in themselves bitcoin-friendly to start with. Remember when the Chinese government banned bitcoin for a while? That could happen anytime again.

Singapore is a small country and city, and it has risen through the ranks to become a top modern asian city, also it has been Southeast Asia's most modern city that's why bitcoin is very welcome out there. Here is one of the video about bitcoin activity out there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqyuit570A80 However, The Bank central of singapore has proposed a new regulatory that would require applicable companies to obtain a license from the MAS or Monetary Authority of Singapore.

yeah i think so, but the truth very rare singaporean people use that ATMs, I saw only the tourists who use it.

Yes Philippines has the most number of bitcoin users but they have less owned bitcoin and less miners. China on the other hand has also many users, with big-time miners and huge bitcoin stocks so possibly China will be the number one in the list. But regardless of ranking Philippines will surpass other countries with regard to bitcoin users, even children in the Philippines are doing bitcoin and are earning thousands. They can also automatically convert bitcoin to peso and vice versa

Although Argentina is still doubt in bitcoin but it is learning about bitcoins and i think Argentina will become next country that be friendly with bitcoins, although will need much time until it is happen. It is the source.
http://www.coindesk.com/argentinas-central-bank-warming-blockchain/

   
Yes and there is country on africa will adopt digital currency as we know Senegal is the first country to release a crypto-currency on the basis of the national currency.

Earlier this month, Senegal ECFA, a digital currency is currently being developed in collaboration with the Regional Bank of Marches (BRM) and eCurrency Mint Limited. BRM sofa, a Senegal-based financial institution specializing in capital markets and the implementation of tailor-made banking solutions, which leads to the development and integration of digital money, which Senegalese government Legal tender.

As with the vision of the biggest bank in Norway DNB, Senegal is attempting a share of Africa's seriously underserved and under-served populations, who have difficulty accessing platforms and reliable and profitable financial networks to settle transactions Cross-border market in the secure market.

Interestingly, the development and launch of ECFA under the auspices of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), which suggests that once ready for the ECFA commercial deployment will be made available to others African countries, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Togo and much more.
Criticism and Future Plans

At the first announcement of plans to develop the ECFA, BRM Bank and the Senegalese government was criticized by experts in cryptography and analysts because of ECFA's dependence on a central banking system. It was said that if the ECFA is based on the national currency but defeated the purpose of implementing a digital currency.

Despite these criticisms, CEO of Bank BRM Alioune Camara, said earlier this month that this will help the Senegalese government to create a system that interoperates between all financial applications, platforms and networks Within an ECFA region supporting our banking system and facilitating the central bank is the safest and safest way to enable the digital economy. We can now facilitate full interoperability between all electronic money payment systems. This is a major leap forward for Africa.

Of course that is good step, hopefully my country and government has also approved the use of bitcoin. I hope there is no longer a ban of the use bitcoin.

Governments and other institutions researching the possibilities of the blockchain as technology isn't really something that has to do with Bitcoin since they are looking to create private blockchains. That being said, we may however experience the benefits of this technology in the way that we can now transact instantly worldwide with zero fees involved. But I personally think they will use it to lower their own costs with a significant percentage, and don't actually allow us to enjoy much lower costs for transactions and services. It's all about working efficiently while the customers don't get to experience the benefit of lower fees. Greedy bastards that they are.

This is only China who has billions number of Bitcoin user because here in this country the cost of electricity spent is very low so it is very easy to mine Bitcoin through hardware Bitcoin miner .

Is it surprising to see no China there? With all the talk and theories saying China actually controls it and all.

It was nice knowing that South Korea is embracing Bitcoin in their country I really want to go there Soon, ill be ther soon when I already alot in investing bitcoin.

There is good news from Russia bitcoin growing slowly on there and i think it is mean Russia will become next country that be friendly with bitcoins, although there is no official statement from Russia government, but the people on there started adopt bitcoin.
http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/11/27/bitcoin-demand-russia-continues-grow-slowly/

First i doubt that bitcoin users around the world reach billions how much more in china? LOL. In some ways since you were talking about billions and china yes apparently now they were gaining billions and i guess that it was only for their mining portion in the whole bitcoin transaction.

Adoption of Bitcoin by the general population of a country can not be equated to a Bitcoin friendly environment in that country. Quite the contrary - Russia tends to be restrictive regarding Bitcoin use. The main motivation for people in countries like Russia, Venezuela, China, India and various African states is seeking protection from inflationary fiat currencies. None of the governments in the countries mentioned have a positive attitude towards Bitcoin, which is quite understandable from the control freakish officialdom's point of view: Bitcoin enables capital flight and makes it hard to execute expropriation measures (taxation) to maintain the power structure.

Luckily, Bitcoin is not dependent on a country being Bitcoin friendly or not. Bitcoin doesn't care. It's just a far better and more sound solution than any fiat currency out there. People will adopt, no matter what governments are trying to do. It will be steep learning process for the pampered officials...

ya.ya.yo!

To find the answer to your question, just go to some search engine and find there some top lists of users who use Bitcoin.

So what are kinds of countries that be friendly with bitcoins? Useless the countries without their people and useless bitcoins without be adopted by people on the countries and i just said  i think Russia will become next country that be friendly with bitcoins   it is mean my opinion ;D

Where I love there are many many online local shops that are willing to accept bitcoin. We have two main markets similar to amazon that both take bitcoin there is an electronics shop I bought from using bitcoin then fetched my purchase from them face to face. There over 1000 websites that support bitcoin here. Noone is going to say no to more money. Only an idiot would say no to bitcoin customers. Money is money no matter the form.

Based on bitcoin news, surprisingly they didn't include brazil or Russia in the list of top ten bitcoin friendly countries.
There are some countries in Europe that already have many support for bitcoin user become more easier buy and sell/spend their coins which is a good information for us if we go travel to there, happy shopping using bitcoin ;D

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This might be possibly useless anecdotal evidence (also an observation JUST as a spender of BTC), but we have been in Nuremburg and Regensburg (Germany) the past few days, and I have seen NO signs at shops for Bitcoin nor any other evidence that BTC is used in everyday commerce.

But, I have only been to one coffee shop so far.  We go to Vienna in a couple of days, maybe there will be more use of Bitcoin there.

Bitcoin use is more rare than this forum makes it out to be. If you go to a metro area with 2-3 hundred thousand businesses you might find a few that accept Bitcoin. I think the actual use of Bitcoin in even the most Bitcoin friendly city is .003% to .005%.

I think Brazil is one of those BitCoin Friendly Countries if we talk about stores and shops accepting bitcoins in a country, because before sometime i have seen a post where it was shown that Brazil has quite a lot of places accepting bitcoin, and if there are places accepting bitcoins then there would probably be users as well.

in my opinion china is most bitcoin users , i don't know about reason but my friend tell me about it

this percentage is maybe little higher i take from my home town for example there are much more that are heard and use bitcoin as secondary income (roughly around 10% we have around 450000 people)
still think that this percentage is from town to town and country to country but if could combine all this to one table think that your result would be closer to reality rather then mine

It is true, because if we see in the history of Commerce. A transaction is always active in trade and china is bitcoin mostly affecting prices is china. But it all is not something a big problem, because now it is indeed in control or largest bitcoin is china, so it is something that is natural and will definitely be tergantingkan with other countries who already know the benefits and advantages bitcoin better than other currencies

There are a couple of cities in the world with a slightly higher number of businesses but worldwide it averages out to less than .003%. I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area. The greater BA is Bitcoin ground zero. Roger Ver (Bitcoin Jesus) is from here. More Bitcoin conferences and meetups have happened here than anywhere else in the world. Hal Finney (a founder of Bitcoin) was from Coalinga, Ca. The original cypherpunk mailing list are almost all from the BA with the exception of Adam Back who is from London. You would expect Bitcoin use to be highest in this part of California. But what I've found for the BA's 7+ million people and more than half a million businesses there are less than 200 Bitcoin businesses. That works out to be .004% which is inbetween the .003%-.005% I stated earlier. 

Most African countries are left out of the bitcoin friendly countries. However, one out of two kenya were learnt to use bitcoin as exchange within the country and international. It is used as exchange for services and with very fast deal. Cases exist of scarcity and cheaper price of service for exchange.

I dont think theres a precise answer regarding into this question since theres no survey do happen and also we cant really count off total users on each country.We could actually say theres a lot of user on a country on which there are already merchants do accepts bitcoin their place so that means bitcoins users is rampant on that place but seeing actual statistics is impossible for now.

thanks, i will check..

Be careful trusting google trends too much. As an example, one of the related searches for Bitcoin is "chia seeds". LOL

in terms of mining and using bitcoin i believe china is the first , it has more than half of the bitcoin mining power plus there are lots of restaurants and shops that accept bitcoin as a payment, but recently a lot of European countrys has started adopting bitcoin as a way of payment countrys like Switzerland and Denmark have lots of places that accept bitcoin.

I thought my country is one of the top 10 because a lot of crypto currency groups are my country man and we have a site where we can exchange bitcoin to our local currency I guess we are still a long way to go to become a bitcoin friendly country .

i think presently most of the countries are bitcoin friendly countries as most of the countries has not yet given any statement about bitcoin, they yet not consider bitcoin as illegal currency therefore they can be consider as bitcoin friendly countries.

how about this this one is interesting if this is correct then we have lot of friendly countries cuz besides list here we can see how many are mining it
this is very interesting cuz very little mining power comes from china for example on this map

https://blockchain.info/nodes-globe (https://blockchain.info/nodes-globe)

and i found this potential updated list of friendly countries (full article https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/how-legal-is-bitcoin-and-crypto-currencies/ (https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/how-legal-is-bitcoin-and-crypto-currencies/))

list of countries:
Holland, Norway, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Luxembourg, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, China, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Russia, Taiwan

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Today we have been in Budapest, Hungary.  On our nearly one week river cruise (Bavaria, Austria and Budapest), I have seen ZERO Bitcoin signs or ads (course I do not see many in the USA either).

Also, I have been with my family doing tourism, not BTC stuff...

I have been able to find gold and even platinum (latter in Vienna) in central Europe with no problem.

Tomorrow we are off to Prague, a much more friendly BTC place I read (Slush).  I'll poke around and see what I can find.

good to see there are many bitcoin freindly countries but in my country that is Tunisia or the surrounding countries like the other north africain countries the goverments prohibited the use at bitcoin and that makes them way behind other countrys specialy when even just few master cards offer their sevices to those countrys so bitcoin is the best way to use money internationaly and they are banning it that sucks a lot

Maybe this list is no real, i dont know for some countries but seem  like most of big one or big one china seems  little of the book on that globe cuz if we say they control it they dont mine it or they mine outside of china

Best bitcoin friendly countries are countries like my Croatia :P and eastern Europe because we are using bitcoin in so big % and we best know how to earn bitcoin online and we do that really fast because we are from Balcan pro pupils :P.I think that we are even better than china and america with bitocoin business because we have shart ideads which bring to us really good profit and growing in every local market and we are still here and we will never lose because Balcan pupils have bes strategies to earn money and best earnings strategies to earn a lot of money and to bring customers in our shops.

I just found this https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/top-10-countries-bitcoin-banned/
And i think some in the list are not in their because some of the countries bitcoin are banned. so we can not say that it is bitcoin friendly.
but according to the time of cryptcoinsnews i think it is old news.. and i think some of the country are really unban.. how about the others.

This is worth reading for. Bitcoin has been globally popular
in many countries. I think one of the friendly countries
is Philippines. Pinoy has been easily adopt the use of
bitcoin. One of the country has its fond to use it,
because of its easy use, easy to understand the process
of bitcoin.

It's not ban in the Philippines and there's no law yet about bitcoin so that would make your statement correct. We are here because the competition is fair and the outcome of our venture would always depend on our effort. Bitcoin will surely give us benefits if we stay with it and live with it.

Honestly, it's my new world now.

Huh in Canada it's just looked at as intangible. I'm reading up on it more now. I never really thought of the different legality for different countries. I'm curious to see what I'm doing right or wrong.

Agree with your point of view.For miners China is definitely at the top, now since China has most miners then it most likely dominates in number of users also。USA has the largest number of bitcoin users for sure.

For those who are jobless then its really a new world since we could able to get income on bitcoin world.Same as yours i do live on Philippines and i could really say bitcoin is really helpful especially on some expenses on my daily living.You really need to do hard work before you could able to earn same as having a day job but bitcoin earnings is much better. I dont think government on our country would ban bitcoin.

I agree to those people who said that Singapore is the most friendly countries when it comes to bitcoin, because Asians people are the people who is grabbing the opportunities that will give benefits to them, they are open-minded in short. Bitcoin is very popular around the world so for me, the most friendly countries when we are talking about bitcoin is those big countries like America, and so on.

Indian interest in Bitcoin has skyrocketed following sudden rupee reforms, revealing serious potential to challenge major markets including China.
On India bitcoins be considered as new gold the government ban import gold from other countries, it mean bitcoins replace gold.

you dont say that America belongs to bitcoin friendly country ,IRS gave statement last time that they legally want to pursue tax collection to people from America using Coinbase platform they want all information about them and to track their transaction how come you said that they are one of the friendliest bitcoin country so your comment is invalid.

Indeed because i heard about that new on which they impose taxes and thats really a bad news for those bitcoins users who are in america and i could really say that they are not bitcoin friendly but still we could able to hide our transaction by using another wallet there are lots of choices.

I would think that the most amount of users and miners would be a split between the United States and China. I feel that the US has more users but China has far more miners than the US. There are many Bitcoin friendly countries in the world, most countries have rules and regulations about it and others don't have any regulations on the use of Bitcoin. There are even some very unfriendly countries that will put you in jail if you are caught transacting Bitcoin.

For example?  I think swiss is the most bitcoin friendly Country in the world imho.  Another friendly country is Netherlands, Great Britain, Japan. Unfriendly Countries are Russia, Bangladesh, Jordon and so on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country
Bangladesh, In September 2014, Bangladesh Bank said that "anybody caught using the virtual currency could be jailed under the country's strict anti-money laundering laws".
Jordan,The government of Jordan has issued a warning discouraging the use of bitcoin and other similar systems.

I guess, well, it has to be China. Its the one with the biggest user base of bitcoins. No use arguing otherwise. Then there is USA, and I've heard that Switzerland is also pretty tolerant to bitcoins. Japan is also one the the friendly countries.

China wins the trophy due to the largest mining industry and usage.

I think it would be china or singapore.Because china adopt bitcoins already on marketting and transaction online and singapore with great numver of users living in there

Now this was a lot of use bitcoin. especially in some large countries such as Europe, America and China. and the use of bitcoin nominal amount used is very orderly and well almost all their citizens have already known. bitcoin very rapid development of all.

   Most of the countries are bitcoin friendly. There is two ATM's in my little country. China, USA, India, Brazil, Russia and other big countries have most users, they have more bitcoins. But there is bunch of other little countries that give a little contribution to bitcoin. Some little country like mine have more chances to adopt bitcoins and change all government structure then some big one.

Here in our country, bitcoin is not yet recognized as an exchange though a lot of people now are using and trading bitcoin here, hope than in the coming 2017 bitcoin will recognized as one way to market money so that a lot of people can help too and can be part of our society.

Here's list of all of the laws of bitcoin in each country :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country

And by skimming quickly through that list I think Japan is the one that recognizes bitcoin as digital currency :)
You can even pay your utility bills using bitcoin ;)

https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/09/26/2015256/japanese-to-pay-utility-bills-using-bitcoin

I have no Idea on how many and What countries has the most users and most establishments such as Malls, Restaurants etc. that accepts bitcoin but I guess it could be China, Singapore and some countries from Europe and in America. and I think, my country has the least users and establishment that actually accepts bitcoin for some transactions.

well i can say that i have been in all these countries i been in some and i must say that i heard in coffee they talk about mining and crypto stuff i was excited when i first heard that still this list was taken from cryptocompare site they sure did some background check but i dont see some other friendly countries there and i dont know what was criteria for this list

Bitcoin as such has nothing to do with that

The US has always been known for its severe penalties including imprisonment if you get caught with tax evasion. It doesn't matter whether it is Bitcoin, gold, or something else that you aim at tax evasion with. None other than Al Capone, the famous Chicago gangster from the roaring 1920s and early 1930s, ended up convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison for income tax evasion in the amount of $388,000...

http://s017.radikal.ru/i402/1612/f9/3033b5c668c7.jpg

So, if you are a US citizen and don't want to end up like him, you'd better not mess with the IRS

I think is the Philippines is one also Bitcoin friendly country I think is on the top 10 . because Philippines have more people that using Bitcoin. Philippines have many exchanging site to buy Bitcoin like coins.ph its easy to buy Bitcoin and cashout it. My country also have Bitcoin ATM but its 2-3 machine only but in the past few days more people in my province use Bitcoin to buy a gadget or buying load. I don't think who is the no.1 Bitcoin friendly country can I know it guyz who knows?

I think China, USA are the most BTC friendly countries. There is a lot of Bitcoin's users from this countries and that's easily noticed, but in the other hand Bitcoin is really worldwide currency and its used even in Africa and in the 3rd world countries, because its more easy to people there to use Bitcoin than using Paypal -for example- which don't support the most of the 3rd world countries.

CHOYNA!
to all your questions.

but thankfully bitcoins is getting more accepted each day. Not only because of bitcoin adoption, but third party services too(payment gateways).
today i can buy anything using my bitcoin debit card even if the vendor doesnt know what bitcoin is.

Actually, if bitcoin is adopted by some companies as their alternate payment method, the one who is going to get the benefits is the companies themselves. but unfortunately they just don't have the balls to take this step, I honestly don't know why but it's such a problem on bitcoin adoption
they're not going to lose anything by the way

Yes, as Chines are hard workers, they really get benefit from every thing, their products are famous in all over the world for having low prices.

As miners of bitcoin will be more in China than any other country, we can assume more bitcoin users there so large bitcoin community too. That also can be one of the measurement for being bitcoin friendly country.

You would think that most country would tolerate and even be more accepting of bitcoins within their borders but after reading some of the comments on this thread I am beginning to think otherwise. :-\

Maybe philippines is a bitcoin friendly because many people use it and and many can used bitcoin in different transaction. Filipino now in online investment and online store they use bitcoin and accept bitcoin as a payment. So maybe Philippines is one of the most bitcoin friendly country.

Global Trade Need A Global Currency ! A virtual currency like Bitcoin could open up an array of new markets

I do not agree with you. I live in the country which accepts bitcoin as a type of payment so currently I can use my Bitcoin whenever I want. However, most of the countries around the world criticize bitcoin and do not accept Bitcoin at all. People in these countries still think that Bitcoin is something which is not reliable, trustful and able to steal their money. Luckily, we are not living in those countries but we must have to figure out the way to globalize bitcoin in order to use it worldwide, not only in some developed countries

I will go for these African countries, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. I don't think there is any legislation on Bitcoin use there and also the price is striving

I think no need to rush now itself, as bitcoin is really going to be legal in all over the world because the adoption rate of bitcoin is continuously increasing and this will really put pressure on government to consider their stands on bitcoin as friendly as possible. So these African countries will not be an exceptions.

Its ok if there are doing this i know that US tax is something that you dont mess up, im from Europe and if they are doing that just to see how many US citizens are in this ok then but if they want to use this data to see how many people are using it then its something else i must say.

The potential users of Bitcoin to win the most are those in countries whose financial institutions have been destroyed or damaged and whose currencies are highly volatile. This includes almost all of Latin America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe such as Ukraine, Russia and Greece.
Despite the increased awareness of crypto-currency in 2016, it is much further in regards to the formal approval and recognition of Bitcoin.
The government must respond in the same way as seen with the rise in interest around private block chains in financial institutions.

 i am really fortunate that  I belong to bitcoin loving country , but still I shouldn't hope much otherwise all my money would go in water.

It will be the country of its creator of  course, Non other than Japan cause it officially recognizes bitcoin as a form of money .  Also other countries that don't care and allowing its citizens to use it freely (in a good way of course ) are considered friendly too 

I know that China is number one by bitcoin users. Ten India and The United States of America. And I heard that India is going to become number one by the number of users. That's logically that in such poor country as India interest to bitcoin is only grows. Bitcoin can become good underworking and even work there for people who are wise and have internet and computer.

I recently read that Vietnam is gonna accept bitcoin as payment value will this influence on price to change or it will stay like this.

Canada is one of the few countries in the whole world that actually has bitcoin atm's in major cities. That makes Canada pretty bitcoin friendly, but I don't know if that is a good thing or not. Because, that will only mean more laws regarding bitcoin.

I believe that Vancouver had the very first Bitcoin ATM, at a coffee house (I happened to visit there).  One wonderful thing about that machine (I do not know if it is true for the rest of Canada) is that it did not require ID nor a cell-phone text 2FA.  Put your money in, get BTC.  What a great concept!

Canadians!  Please advise if you need ID for BTC ATMs in your other cities.  If not, I will be up there again!  THAT alone would make Canada "Bitcoin Friendly".

:)  

it seems like those countries have been listed on the bitcoin friendly country lists because those countries appears to be has a large population of bitcoin users and bitcoin has widely adopted to the certain country . i have my country only listed on the countries made bitcoin legal i hope that in the future my country will also seen on the list bitcoin friendly countries .

You have atm machines in most major cities, I didn't know the first one was in a Vancouver coffee shop, that is pretty neat. You can find a couple in downtown of large cities, I am not sure if they ask for ID as I have not used them.

From what I've read from this article, it's very interesting to see how countries have accepted the future. I would like to know how Estonia become a digital society. They have applied the blockchain technology to real life applications, and that's amazing. Digital community, that's what they are to me.

Denmark is also a fascinating country to live in, from the article, it is stated that they are the most developed countries regarding living standards and technology. I'm envious of people who live there and who are exposed at an early age of a technological environment.

These are the countries I think that are friendly with Bitcoin.

I also would like to know this to be honest, never even knew it if I really think about it, I hope also a lot more countries will step in soon or later.

Actually almost all countries are now contributing and more countries right now are aware about bitcoin because i notice right now that more stores online are accepting bitcoin as payment. they are using gocoin to ask a payment.. and some contribute to add stores locally that accept bitcoin as payment..  like in paris.. here in my country bitcoin is useful and friendly that we can use in our business..

Probably it is still in your hand. Yes, if you find your responsibility with the respect to bitcoins like if you find time to spread bitcoin awareness to the people you do meet in your daily life then you will find your country in bitcoin friendly list.

Adoption will do all the required things and if we are helping bitcoin to get adopted rapidly then we can see all our dreams coming in front of us, yes I mean price levels too.

I read that Russia want to accept more and to bring it to more use, didn't they ba n it and now they want it back.
What are they doing now?

Over here, I would say we are neither friendly nor hostile to Bitcoin because until when government enacts a law to ban it then we will be hostile to Bitcoin which is not the case here. On the otherhand, we will be friendly if we have stores accepting Bitcoin and I wont have to convert to FIAT in other to buy things which is definitely not the case here as well but in few years, I am sure we will pick a side.

Many Asian countries hoard cryptocurrcies in great volume in inflated amounts, to be specific countries eat market share as it opens up throughout... As more and more come in the diversification splits amongst the people that vacate within.

Most Eastern countries have mixed circulation, although many developed western countries combine excess reserve because of early adoption digitally.

yes it's really good we can already use bitcoin for loading and maybe we can accept bitcoin for some of our business as payment just like Mini Grocery for example . I am hoping that it will be also used to some other business like in restaurants or coffee shops and even convenience store and more so we can be able to use it directly .

most of the european countries like sweden, denmark, netherlands are bitCoin friendly.

This service is already available on my local wallet provider on which you could able to load your mobile phone and even pay bills on it either water and electricity and also you could able to pay off your tuition fees with it which is really a good thing for us bitcoin users.

While most of the Asian and African countries does not. There are too many third world countries and they are still under developed. They are too obsolete to accept new technologies and gadgets. The government believe that Bitcoin can destroy the whole politic system so they decide to ban it without any reasons.

same with the web wallet services that we are using here in my country, aside from mobile prepaid load we can also pay various bills including the electricity and water bills, telecom, internet bills, credit card, cable channel provider,insurance, social security systems distribution and even tuition fees . you are right it's really great to have this services on our wallet provider by the way good to know that we have similarities on our wallet .

there is currently a lot of countries can be friends with bitcoin. perhaps some East Asian countries are already implementing the next bitcoin in everyday life. in the country as well, I've heard that local authorities support the wider use of bitcoin.

They are doing basically nothing

And that's good for us, ordinary bitcoiners. And may be good for the government as well. As long as Bitcoin remains in the gray zone of sorts, no one has to do anything. At first, the Russian government had been threatening to outlaw the use of bitcoins and promised to make bitcoiners into criminals, but they did nothing to turn these threats into something more substantive. After Bitcoin got some traction across the world, they changed their stance toward more friendly attitude unofficially declaring it as a foreign currency, but nothing has been done in that direction so far

I don't think that third world countries have anything fundamental against new technologies or gadgets. It is more to do with losing control. These countries like to control everything, especially monetary policy. Bitcoin would hit at the fundamentals of that.

If you go by the amount of mining then I guess China will be on the top. Canada has shops and atms that use bitcoins also startups that use bitcoins.

Read about top 10 Bitcoin friendly countries here: https://news.bitcoin.com/worlds-top-10-bitcoin-friendly-countries/

What you are saying is correct to some extent but i dont think that is fully right, in India their is no law on bitcoin as if you are using bitcoin and showing it in tax with correct info their is no problem, they are giving problem to the persons who are not using bitcoin in legal way.

It is true that by mining you are telling about china but the investor and the owner of that mining setup are outside of china , who have given contract to china to mine as the expenses are cheap their. Apart from that mainly european country are more friendly country for bitcoin as they dont have any other source of income apart from their tourist income.

Last thing that i read was that India want for Bitcoin to be alternative value. This is major step for them and for us in bitcoin community hope this event will be good for all of us in order to at least keep price at this current level.

all countries are technically bitcoin friendly as long as you have internet




more countries need BTC ATMs tho, would help immensely

Some of country were already banned bitcoin. Although they cannot give any impact to bitcoin by banning bitcoin, becouse the user still can use various vpn. I think bitcoin friendly country is usa and japan.

And when you mentioned Japan here now news that i read they want to drop out tax of 8% for any purchase online with bitcoin, cuz they seen that sales in that side drop drastically in this year.

Hope this will be good example and for other countries to accept this method.

Ya it is very nice to hear that Japan is giving bitcoin some importance apart from this country some European country are also made bitcoin legal and the users of this country are now able to use bitcoin in so many shops like fiat currency.

As long as the country doesn't ban bitcoin or state it's illegal which could lead you to the jail if you used it, I think the country still friendly to cryptocurrency due to many countries the state does not regulate or had no plans to regulate bitcoin, so the citizens is free to transact in some other currency in a shop if they wanted to. We know that China and US are the countries with the largest bitcoin transactions (miners and trading).

these are countries that have accepted bitcoin as a means of payment  and  also over 60 percent of the populist most have know of bitcoin and  also know it monetary value and as such many of them must have trad it for good and the government of the day must  have also given right to it  as a model of payment.

Over here, I wont say we are friendly neither are we not because the only means I can spend my Bitcoin is to find a way to first convert it to FIAT before spending which is hostile by my own definition on the other hand, I can trade free without the fear of breaking any law of the land then I can say that is also friendly. So we kind of in-between the two and I am sure as time goes on and the popularity if Bitcoin increases, we will definitely pick a side because in this new crypto-world, we cannot afford to sit on the fence...

If the countries which are going to ban or were already banned bitcoin is not so much into bitcoin and having such a low bitcoin users then it's indeed they won't giving such a big impact to bitcoin. But, if the countries which are going to ban bitcoin are like china where most of the majority mining power come from then bitcoin will be really affected. And it's right that you can easily bypass the banned by using VPN but if there's some regulation regarding this thing and may have the chance to be sentenced or punished. I would consider not to bypass

Well,In this digital world we all are passing our daily life most on internet.In BitCoin Friendly Countries case we are connected each other with internet technology although some of countries govt. didn't permission to use bitcoin,there are restriction or other issue but in my experience i can say that it's not a problem at all cos i'm still using it without any bad experience while my country already banned it.

As Bitcoin is the digital currency of the Internet which distributed worldwide so ultimately it doesn't a matter in some countries Bitcoin is banned, while in others it is legalised.

BitCoin is a really great alternative to all other currencies and regulated markeds. It has been a pleasure to get started to accept BitCoins and find out all the wonderful benefits.

Even China may be the leading miners they will not dominate in the long lasting battle of the bitcoin marked.

It's difficult to answer such question but I can share situation in Croatia.
We just got first 2 bitcoin ATM in our country.
Some offline merchants already accept Bitcoin as payment method and many more merchants online.
We have local Bitcoin exchange, regular meet ups etc.
In media we can already find some good articles about Bitcoin.
It's not much but it's the beginning :)

There are so many bitcoin friendly countries. USA, austria, belgia, holand, bulgaria, kanada, colombia, swiss, argentina, denmark, liberland, france and so many more. But all those countries were only regulated the transaction which use bitcoin, they still use their national fiat as payment option beside allow the people to use bitcoin. Atleast it is proof that bitcoin is getting more popular and stronger.

Many countries will not want to be friendly with bitcoin but they know that they will be blamed by the technologically developed countries around the world. They also fear their own citizens because they will use their coins in stores outside of their borders. Generally many times in the past if a country tried to stop technology and development they did not succeed in doing anything

Bitcoin more user's is the philippines, Im sure about it ,using bitcoin you can pay electric,water,internet bill from it , here in the philippines , you can start your own business using bitcoin

Nice link information dude. This post make no questions like this in the forum post someone anymore.

The fastest way to get someone to do something is to tell him not to do it. :D  ;)

Bitcoin isn't wanted as it allows people to enjoy financial freedom, but that's however not the case for the technology that powers Bitcoin. If you look at how much money is being invested in researching and development of their own version of the blockchain, then it's fairly safe to assume that they like it a lot. Some countries are more paranoid than others, but in general, no country likes to see money flowing from their country to another. As soon as they notice that serious amounts of money are flowing out of the country through Bitcoin, then they will surely put a stop to it at some point.

This seemingly doesn't make sense

What you say basically comes down to claiming that while governments may not quite like Bitcoin and don't want to accept it as a legitimate means of payment, they still don't love the situation when bitcoins are flowing out of their countries? If they were really hostile toward Bitcoin, they should be just happy in the case there were no more bitcoins left in the country. How come?

yes all regulatory issues. when there is a rule governing bitcoin it will be very easy to develop bitcoin. bitcoin still not gain the trust of a state government. they are still frightened by the various impacts that can be generated by bitcoin.

i think the main thing is the trust of the users, if bitcoin gain the trust of the users hope that people will put pressures on governments to regulate bitcoin solving all issues related to it. hope very soon we are going to hear that bitcoin is now a legal currency in most of the countries and governments are supporting it.

i think most of countries  accept btc , like china , Philippine, , soon its spread whole word

i think china , i have read that in china bitcoin accepted as legal currency and used a payment

yes i agree for you opinion , china is accepted bitcoin as legal their currency
i hope more countries again like china

China hadn't accepted bitcoin as their legal currency, just yet. As far as I know, China is considering bitcoin as a virtual commodity, not a currency and it's a little bit different. It's like a digital thing but having value  to fiat. Though, China are seem to having interest on considering bitcoin as an official alternate currency in their country but it's just too far away to happen because RMB is enough for them i guess

Yeah there definitely are a lot of Bitcoin friendly countries. Most of them allow people to use Bitcoin, but they are still regulated and it is not like you can do whatever you want. Even with those regulations, people do illegal activities with them and therefore, some countries might not be so Bitcoin friendly in the future.

Surprised also. Are this legitimate news or are they just hiding the truth? I guess it is because some of their industries are banned in the use of bitcoin.

Not only in China but Singapore also got bitcoin ATMs and one can exchange their fiat money to buy bitcoins either for investment or for buying something. I didn't understand the meaning of legal currency? If country allowed having an ATM means they have accepted bitcoins right?

you are right. very many countries that have received the bitcoin, even those developing technologies related to bitcoin. maybe it will bring them closer to the current progress, and I feel it would be a better country than before. Well, I hope that my country could accept bitcoin well.

It looks like situation in Croatia is very similar that we have in Lithuania. Few weeks ago first bitcoin ATM started to work. We have few exchanges and some startups, which are already popular worldwide. Some online shops accepts bitcoin. One network of physical shops of electronics and home appliances started to accept bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a great currency but that does not mean we can do whatever we want with it, even if bitcoin is not regulated in your country, I’m sure you are not allowed to commit crimes because of it, for example if gambling is illegal in your country using bitcoin instead of fiat does not change anything it is still a crime.

Right it will always defends on the users conscience and beliefs. Bitcoin should not be the one to ban ,the users must know that its their crime they just. However because bitcoin is really beneficial to everyone who uses it we can earn,transfer and transact anywhere some where using it illegally.

Bitcoin gives us freedom to transact online without limitation and that benefits it's users, banning bitcoin will not help us and would not help a country, people are earning online with different ventures and such earning will still be spent to buy basis needs so the government will still benefit on the tax of what we buy.

All transactions has tax. Although we don't pay tax when we transact online but when we encashed it the remittance or bank where we get money has tax that is including in the transaction fee.

Philippines have the most users of bitcoin .

Or Chinese, read that lot of Philippines are using it. Some guy here wanted to open exchange there think that i read about it and that he was asking for advice.
But no matter we have many new bitcoin friendly countries every day and hope trend continues in new year

In all countries people are using bitcoin, we have exchange companies in all country but the only thing it's all illegal companies. In my country also we have some bitcoin exchange companies I don't know those are legal companies or illegal but they are working fine. My government officially announced 2 years back that they will not accept bitcoin as legal. 

Yes I am sure that the trend will continues in new year. Even some countries are not really hate bitcoin, there is still a chance for bitcoin to being legal. Big country such USA and Japan will make other countries follow them to regulate bitcoin.

Here is the topic-related rating, rather funny  :)
https://bitcoin-friendly.com/ (https://bitcoin-friendly.com/)

We know that the usage of Cryptocurrency around the whole world is known and pinpointing which country has the most number of users might be hard but we can at least get too know in which country is Cryptocurrency most used. Bitcoin is widely used in many countries, we heard the news of the guy buying Pizza with Bitcoin's also in other countries. We know Cryptocurrency helped those in need and they are still learning on how it can still help them. I do not think such data would be calculated because most of the users wants to remain anonymous.