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I was roaming on the street behind my uncle's house and saw a shop with a board about bitcoin and I entered in that shop and surprised to meet someone (they were bitcoin users). They are kind of startup and willing to build awareness about bitcoin on the local level. They periodically conduct the seminars in a local language and help people to learn more about bitcoin. They have further plans for this activity.

PS : This is actual photograph of that shop


And a still photograph from bitcoin awareness seminar (free for all, local language)


They have helped to purchase 10 to 20 bitcoins to those who had no idea about bitcoin and shown interest in learning about this revolutionary technology.


This is their pamplet advertisement regarding bitcoin and its benefits in a local language (Marathi).


It talks about bitcoin and current facilities which are available to purchase using bitcoins. People would attract towards bitcoin on the topics which would positively affect them in the short term.

I believe we must give our contribution on the local level in order to grow bitcoin in terms of the user base (prices are temporary, users are permanent).

What do you do to build bitcoin or crypto awareness, do you have any ideas / feedback / suggestions?

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Wow this is great, but in my country Bitcoin awareness is almost zero, most people never heard of it ans few that do don't understand what it is or how it works.

Yes in most of the countries there is almost no efforts are being taken by bitcoin users to build bitcoin awareness. In my country almost less than 1% people heard of bitcoin, so we can see this as an opportunity. We should inform our friends and family members about this technology because they are going to use it in next 10 years so why not now? I see a very optimistic picture if everyone in this community informs at least 12 people in the year 2017.

People are gready. Whenever I talk about bitcoin to newbie, he/she directly questions me how to earn money with bitcoin? So definitely I can't give much better solution other then trading so they themself go for googling way to earn money and finally trap themself in scam sites.
So i think we should aware them from scam policies.

bitcoin is just code. it has no arms. no legs and no voice.

it is up to PEOPLE to get merchant acceptance, and used locally.

if bitcoin has near zero activity in YOUR area. then this is YOUR opportunity to raise awareness.
do not wait around for a bitcoin superman to fly in and become the hero for you.. YOU need to become the hero.

after all it is YOUR area, no one is going to fly halfway across the world for free to raise awareness in YOUR area. so YOU need to become that person in YOUR area.

how?
start small.. think of a popular meetup place. (cafe/bar) and then advertise a local meetup for people that are interested in bitcoin.
look at sections of this forum that are more dedicated to your local area and start finding out who else is nearby.

get together and discuss what you all would like to see happen.

find the most confident, and most bitcoin knowledgable person out of your locals and get them to be the main source of info.
brainstorm, create a thinktank. business networking groups and inspire each other to look after and grow bitcoin awareness and especilly utility in your area

Its a good start, but handling pamplet to public is hard selling and probably they will just accept and throw it around, word of mouth is still the best advertising on the local level.

not quite.
dont play the pyramid theorem game of informing X people and hope they inform X*X people .. purely in relation to buying bitcoin.

get a group together and think about bitcoin utility.

ask the group what shops they spend their fiat in most. what main car fuel stations they visit most.
get a list of popular destinations that would get frequent spending if that merchant accepted bitcoin.

once you have got merchant acceptance locally for people to buy toilet paper, foood and car fuel.. then start telling random people about the utility of bitcoin.

dont just advertise bitcoin in relation to investment profiting by using sketchy marketing strategies (pyramid theorems) think more about bitcoins UTILITY in your area

I think these is a better approach too. Do not influence people to use bitcoins because it will be useless. They can't use it in a practical manner, like buying groceries, gas, food, etc, like what franky has mentioned. If we can get more businesses to accept bitcoin as payment method, then that would be much better.

That's great to hear in my country only few people have knowledge about bitcoin, really the man behind is doing good to people because lack of knowledge many people are loosing their money when buying bitcoin and how to sell bitcoins. Really if things happens in every country soon there will be big bounce in bitcoin industry.

yep. the only issue in places like india. is that bitcoins transaction fee can be 6-30 rupee (9cents-40cents)
where just using bitcoin has the FEE cost alone equivalent to some of these (https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/country_result.jsp?country=India)
Milk (regular), (0.25 liter)    10.74 Rs
Loaf of  Bread (125.00 g)    6.74 Rs
Rice (white), (0.10 kg)       4.81 Rs
chicken Eggs (2.40)          11.57 Rs
Local Cheese (0.10 kg)       30.29 Rs
Chicken Breasts (0.15 kg)   30.67 Rs
Banana (0.25 kg)             11.25 Rs
Oranges (0.30 kg)          18.29 Rs
Tomato (0.20 kg)             6.24 Rs
Potato (0.20 kg)             4.80 Rs
Onion (0.10 kg)                2.78 Rs
Lettuce (0.20 head)          6.59 Rs

would you use bitcoin if it cost 1-5 lettuces or a breast of chicken?

local area's need to think less about just getting people to buy bitcoin but think about what people need and use it for.
EG may not be great for buying toilet paper but may be great for remittance. so set up a remittance exchange. rather than just asking people to buy bitcoin for no reason

the important thing is to be honest with those you talk to or they will drop bitcoin if they find it useless for them.
find out what your communities NEEDS are and look at how bitcoin can IN REALITY (not hope/speculation) help with

That's a good initiative from a country that has been getting more adoption compared to the past. Now its good to have more and more spreading for the growth to continue. I believe this seems the right time to spread bitcoin and digital currency usage as the country's economy is down due to demonetisation.

Isn't it a harder goal to achieve influencing merchants to accept bitcoin if there is almost zero bitcoin users in your area? That goal can be set later when there is already a considerable users in your area. For the mean time, you can start with the people around you. If you can't even influence the people around you, no doubt you can't influence merchants to accept bitcoin.

that is a chicken and egg question.

and thats why before approaching merchants. before approaching the non involved public. you get a metup of those that do use bitcoin already and ask where they would spend btc and/or what they would like to do with their coins

EG.
if you meet at a cafe once a week. get that cafe to accept bitcoin. then as the 'meetups' grow the cafe see's more use.
then when asking all that attend what other places they spend fiat but would prefer to spend btc.. you then seek out that merchant. and use the cafe as the 'example' to explain to other merchants.

if you live in an area where the bitcoin tx fee is a few lettuces, a chicken breast amount, where. then find what would be useful services instead of merchants. EG exchanges, remittance, etc. so set up a way to face-to-face exchange btc fit fiat

like i said start small, ORGANISE, then let the ball roll.

I think this one is made up for specific domestic language. Most of time people who are already in Bitcoin environment want to educate new user who are still not aware about Bitcoin. By increasing number of users with proper education board to Bitcoin can increase demand in market for Bitcoin.

But still awareness about Bitcoin is must as per my acknowledgement to local levels.

This is a great thing to do when you want the bitcoin community to growth you will need to advertised it so other people would what it is and the usefulness if they are using it and to pen up their eyes so they would have awareness in what is the use of bitcoin, but I think many people have already had an Idea on what is bitcoin and what good stuff awaits them if they would have their own bitcoin, it is almost 16 or 17 years from now when bitcoin was first introduce to us and I think there are a lot of people that have a knowledge regarding it.

just increasing number increases demand in market??
sounds like someone only cares about increasing the fiat price.. meaning they only care about having a higher exit price when they want to return to fiat.

the mindset should be on understanding bitcoins UTILITY within a local area and pushing the UTILITY. which would then bring more users

EG, field of dreams - 'if you build it, they will come'

That is really cool! I would like such seminars provided in my place. Here people have no idea about bitcoin and when I try to explain something they look at me very sceptical. Bitcoin is more interesed here as money, not as technology.

This is great. In our area  there are only a handful individuals including me who knows about bitcoin. There are no signages or even a word bitcoin can be found. The word bitcoin can be seen only if there are networking groups promoting their products which uses bitcoin. Only in social media that bitcoin is well known. I have wanted to put stalls accepting bitcoin but people in our local area are not so familiar about bitcoins, they dont even have android phones and are not well versed on how to use the internet.

My area for bitcoin awareness is very low, never saw any store or anything regarding to bitcoin and there are a lot of people that doesn't know what is bitcoin, but in the other city there are small community that actively introduce bitcoin, but not many people are interested to bitcoin

When I was at home at Christmas, I told my Dad about Bitcoin. 

He had heard of it, but didn't really know what it is, why it is good and he had no idea what the price is.
I explained a little, but really I think people have to find out for themselves, I am not going to go door to door to convert people tio Bitcoin, if they want to use it and it offers them some sort of advantage, then they should invest. If I was asked how you can buy/store your Bitcoins, I would be far keener to talk to someone about it!

This is a great initiative, I would like to see something like this on my local area, but unfortunately in my country there are still few companies and vary few people using Bitcoin.

I just hope this situation reverts along this year and that more and more people start to use bitcoin in my country.

In my area people do have an extremely vague idea of what Bitcoin is. Even my parents had heard of it before I explained it to them.
However if people aren't interested to find out by themselves what Bitcoin is and why they should use/accept it, then no amount of convincing will work on them. They need an incentive to use Bitcoin and right now they have an incentive not to: nobody uses it.
It's also not as easy as we may think. Setting up a wallet and making payments is a breeze for us, but for them to do that would be an achievement.

That's good awareness, look "future of money", people need to follow kind of awareness such shop in India.

People on my local is not really aware about bitcoin, although there are some company/merchant I know that accept bitcoin (only 1 or 2 I know).


That's right, I have same experience too, when o introduced bitcoin to my family and my friends, some of my friends already heard about it, but they not really get into bitcoin, so that's just their own awareness which can bring them into bitcoin.

this is great. it gives me a couple of ideas that i can run locally, i have been doing some similar stuff but in smaller scale and only with those who i know like the family and friends kind of thing. but with seeing this i am motivated to do more where i live to introduce bitcoin to more people.

I guess, this is everyones dream and wish to have in every country yet we have to follow things first, like approval of the government which I guess hard step on.

it is amazing. those people really want to introduce bitcoin to people around them. well I ever talked about bitcoin to some friends. their feedbacks were different. one friend was so confused, one knew bitcoin but did not know how to earn it well, and the other looked like did not trust bitcoin. I think it is because there are many liers on internet. I myself, wheN I first heard about bitcoin, did not trust bitcoin.

That is very interesting advertisement about bitcoin for your country. You did a great action for bitcoin community and it will help your local people under stand what the bitcoin is , how it looks like and how to use it. I think you are real bitcoiner.

Yeah I feel a little weird trying to convince people about bitcoin, I think from an outside perspective I would be looking like one of those cultists trying to get people into their sect or something like weird like that, so I don't bother much with it to be honest. Also im not very good at explaining things, or at least in a way that would make sense for the average joe. I think people will eventually find out about bitcoin and if they are bright enough they will buy and hold some.

Wow I didn't not expect that at all, which city is that ?
When I opened the topic i was expecting some European country or something I didn't expect it to my in my country, and too in my state itself Why don't I ever see these kind of things.

Wow. I didn't know that was the cost of goods there. That's amazing to know. Then maybe bitcoins is not a great option for these kinds of countries where the fees alone would hurt the consumers that would use them. Fees is a thing we have to live with, unless we have a fork somewhere that would lower or eliminate fees, then having bitcoins as a medium of exchange would really be impossible.

Its nice to see such attempt by small startup in local level and thanks for sharing this piece of info.

I also try to convince few of my relatives (if they get interested to know about bitcoin) to atleast hold few bitcoin just as experiment and you may experience how you could get great profit just for holding it. I have asked one of my uncle to buy 1 bitcoin when price was around $700 and he was quite happy when i sold those 1 bitcoin for 1100 USD recently and bought back at $850 again and shows him $250 in profit with still 1 bitcoin in hand. He got quite excited and asked to buy more at $850 region.  ;)

In this way many people will show their interest towards bitcoin. In my area i asked many people to join hands with me in learning about bitcoin but they are not showing any interest towards it,because bitcoin is completely digital currency and they don't believe in internet money.But for sure one day those people will come and ask me about bitcoin.

It's nice when someone is doing something, this is great way for this guy to make some profit and in same time to spread the views of community where he have his shop.
This can be great guide for shop owners across the world who use bitcoin and wish to help in spreading the word. Just please check laws in your country, somewhere this can be illegal thing, so contact lawyer's or check in closest government office about laws in your country.

Yes it sounds good. Print out ads on paper ,and get 20-30 people who will spread it out to people in your city.

Target younger people, 25-40, they will love it. Tell them they can earn money here, and they will jump immediately.

Cant believe people are not doing this.

This will be good for bitcoin adoption but there will be no incentive for people doing this. I don't think anyone would like to pay cost of this ads from their own pocket. However bitcoin related startups can get benefit from promoting bitcoin awareness rather than a individual bitcoin user.

Here is the solution:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1745335.0

I just wrote about it.

Start with small circles... I started with the family first, then I made the circle bigger to include relatives and then even bigger to include

friends and when that is all tapped out, you start with people at work and strangers you meet. Explain the risks and benefits and leave it up to

them. { Do not force it, they will get it eventually. } I buy gifts over Xmas with bitcoin and explain the process to them. Online shopping with

Bitcoin is so much easier and convenient.  ;D This way every individual makes a difference...  :D

WE do all hope for that to happen in every country since we are using it is our benefits to have this service.
But it is too hard to adopt this service in local area especially we are only few in every country, we need to wait for such time to have it in every local area I guess and let every government approve to use it.

I don't understand the language on the pamphlet, but it's a wonderful initiative the person make in the neighborhood of your uncle. In my town I have something similar, they promote the bitcoins to the local business, offer consultancy and give small workshops. The more people who will understand the technology, the more people will start using it ;)

Thanks for sharing OP. I'm from the UK & whilst some people, businesses etc use bitcoin it is still such a ting, tiny % of  the population here.

We need so much more mainstream adoption & I'm not quite sure what will achieve it.

Higher exits are always welcome and as people will get educate they will think to get share of Bitcoins as considering investment.  As. Popularity increase demand will also increase. And end results will be price increase of Bitcoin.

Spreading bitcoin is always mutual benefits kind of thing still we are not concentrating in doing that to local levels. I have checked some non technical people about internet and bitcoin, they mostly know about internet and except very few people, others do not aware of bitcoins. But I believe knowing internet must be a first step for knowing bitcoins, so we can expect soon they also will know about bitcoins.

more blind rhetoric from sig spammer that only cares about returning to fiat without understanding bitcoin. or the failures of fiat.

if you have not learned how fiat has failed people. and you want to return to fiat one day then i feel sorry for you when bitcoin reaches $10,000 (700,00INR) and you find out all you can buy with your fiat is a few loaves of bread. yet sticking with bitcoin could have bought you alot more and improved your life more without planning to return to fiat

Well practically local level awareness was still not working and yet they don't have any idea about bitcoin but there were just few I've shared the advantages of btc and some of them gains interest, others just listened. Hopefully I can help them to be fully oriented and give them the whole aspects about what bitcoin could do to their lives by showing proper visual aids that advertises like special seminars that will encourage them to use bitcoin.

That is a super idea to spread the news of bitcoin via pamphlets as it will not need to spend most of the time in teaching people about bitcoin we have to create some pamphlets which will explain everything about bitcoin and then provide some links which will have much more info about bitcoin then people after reading that will like to learn more on these websites and in our areas it will spread more. 

Any effort to promote bitcoin is always good, some can promote it in real world because mostly we do promote online only. At least when people with interest will ask you can discuss it to him one on one and that kind of discussion is more effective than directing him to research online. Awareness will lead to increase of adoption and I salute that idea, it simply shows you are helping the economy to grow.

Seeing stuff like that is awesome! It helps spread the message!

its a good promote that we can do in our local area and if there is many people that do like that, i think bitcoin user will more growth and this will make a good impact for bitcoin itself. but maybe some of us is too afraid to make learning like that and maybe they have a problem to start for giving a free lesson. but i agree with this local promotions and i think we can start from now on before the price is really higher.

Franky1 Kindly use appropriate words. If you are doing it for charity then wish you happy for charity. In world nothing is for free.

I think I am not only who expect ROI. Even I am not talking about myself I am talking about actual facts that happen around me. As many user leading with miss guide as bitcoin is super investment platform where user only can get higher returns. And most of user are doing it very badly with MLM. Encouraging people to invest in BTC.  But my suggestion to every newbie is give some sort of time for educating yourself to understand bitcoin in better way.

This might be the wrong approach. If people get into Bitcoin purely to make quick profits, it won't work. They will be disheartened if the price crashes and might shut their minds to the advantages of using bitcoins.

That's a good approach from them more people more the better but I have my reservations about this kind of thing. Who are this people, are they even genuine what is their modus operandi. Are they selling it through them or through online wallets. Is this by any chance a pyramid scheme, it could well be a ponzi. I would advise caution against all this techniques.

Good to see some progress in India about bitcoin. There is nothing like this happening around me at all, i don't even think that there is any other user in the entire city except me and one of my cousin, just we know about bitcoin or we use it, some other friends know about it too but they are never interested in it.

This is a great news, Maybe If I had some spare time and spare energy and of course a team . Maybe I can also do it here in my local cause I have never seen anyone who knows bitcoin they don't even say the word bitcoin .

Question, OP has said that they helped some people bought their bitcoins? Did they guide them on exchanges or they have sell their coins? Cause I think the seminar thing can also be profitable cause you can trade your coins to the willing persons for them to start in the bitcoin community .

I really think that is a very good combined effort and should be a good example for bitcoin enthusiasts in other countries. In my country last year there is a small but very active group who organizes meetups every 3-4 months. At first, tries to inform people from universities so as they can to inform and educate other social groups.

That is a good effort started by these people in local areas in order to inform people of that place about bitcoin. In this method all of people from there will start using bitcoin and then it will be convenient for you people to use bitcoin easily to any place for any purpose.

Just show them how are the benefits for using bitcoin. I don't need to say anymore.
There is not physical reason in bitcoin.
The bitcoin looks like the value of algorithm.
Just show them the advantages for use bitcoin and it will be going for naturally. But you don't need to tell them anything because the knowledgeable person will realize it.

That's quite a big leap.
You can't expect that just because you inform some people about bitcoin and the merits of using it, they'd just suddenly decide to actually buy one and actively use it. That's just naivete.

Let's say you give out 100 pamphlets, 50% of those will be thrown out, another 30% would keep it inteding to check it out but would eventually forget, 20% would check it out/do some research but you'd be lucky if even 1% would actually end up buying and be active with it.

i use to remember how i first knew btc if you guys remember MMM global i joined that ponzi way back 2015 without any knowledge i was recruited by my friend here in the Philippines and informed me about the potential earnings i was then surprise because of the payment method hahaha i don't have any idea regarding to bitcoin so i just let my friend to the work but suddenly when the site started not to pay i was alarmed and to my fate i was brought here by my research and learn more about bitcoin investment and the good potential of bitcoin so its really a good thing to do sharing knowledge and let people be aware with the great opportunity.

We all know that bitcoin will never truly accepted by the masses because most of the people are too lazy or think spending time on learning and understanding of what bitcoin is and how does it work is not worth their time and efforts, even I often have my doubts whether it was a good decision to trust others or not but when I think that I can get 500 miners and start mining bitcoin and have my own printing money factory if I had access to cheap or even free electricity every thing clears out.
Remember bitcoin is not asking us to use and adopt it as a currency or technology but simply it's there for any one to decide if they want it or not.

This is very exciting to see bitcoin is being promoted on local level in India.Where are you from in Maharashtra btw because if it is not from Mumbai,I would be more surprised!

It's cool seeing some members of different countries going out and making their own businesses and looking to do more with things like Bitcoin, and I hope to see more stuff like this on the forums in the future. It's a great business decision and I have to say, it's a good idea for a large majority of people in countries such as this to make something along the lines of this style of company.

If only I knew how to read that lol.

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The simple solution for educating everyone about BTC is to find a simple solution. This is not the right solution as far as my opinion goes. Thank you

Oh nice. People near my home don't even show interest in such kind of thing and think of them as a scam.
But it's nice to see someone trying to spread word about bitcoin around your area. Everyone should atleast try to tell others about Bitcoin. I tried but no one paid attention in my locality.

better to study more about bitcoinand then try sharing your experience with your evidence mate i was like you then most of my office mates are not believing with my bitcoin investment till the time they saw me earning good enough and enjoy some luxury now i have 5 of them that also start buying bitcoin and enjoy the some earnings.

It depends on the people of that area maybe in your area it will happen as you stated but in my area people do not remain without hearing any news any time they do not miss any pamphlet they go through in my area even uneducated people when see any banner or pamphlet they ask from another person to explain it to them. That is why I commented the above post.

Over here I have seen something like that and I was surprised to see it so obvious in front of the street because my idea  was that bitcoin awareness is still and such business might want to attract people so might think its illegal. It was doing fine but I am not sure they will be conducting seminars because to the nest of my knowledge they will be more about buying and selling of bitcoin for profit.

It's good there are some people who actually do such stuff. And if they do free seminars for people they must have good sponsors which also means that there are rich influential people who are interested in spreading the knowledge about btc. Maybe, they gain something from it. Maybe, they just think it is something people have to know (like culture or math). In my 3rd world country I studied at Technological lyceum and I believe right after my graduation some people came to the school and did some small introductory seminars for high school students about btc and it being profitable. That is nice, I guess.

learn enough about BTC and then you can become the lecturer.
you can make a nice income. but worth doing a few small seminars for free to get your name known locally first.. its how andreas antanopolis started off and now he is making a career out of it, fully funded by bitcoin.. paid for by conference ticket purchases (thus even organising events is no big cost to get lecturers in)

That's actually not a bad idea, now that you mention it. But I'd be a bit apprehensive, just because I'd feel like I'm not an expert, so I'd feel bad for taking money for something that someone could just learn online.

I know that providing the service is enough (morally speaking) to deserve some sort of compensation for it, but the fact that I'm not a professional makes me think that it's wrong for me to ask money (BTC) for a service like that.

I have explained about bitcoins on local area more specific to my friends
 that bitcoins was digital currency and revolution of currency in internet,
although they were didn't understood but i still talking about bitcoins
or related with bitcoin activity to them, I hope sometime my friends can understand or
There are awareness about bitcoins and beneficial of it.

Many people should do the same thing in their local level, there is no need to of any special implemention regarding bitcoin. If you want to train people who don't have any knowledge about bitcoin better it is the right time to tell about bitcoin technology, Even i am spreading the word bitcoin to each and every body of my friends because they need to understand that there is another currency it has some different feature which will be most admirable to addict that. Some are showing very interest towards it and some are not showing any interest.

Wow. Thats really great! Is that from India. Im happy to see that. Thats a good idea for promoting bitcoin. Im just sad because here in my country. Only few people here and are using bitcoin. I want to do that but my knowlege is not enough to give them some lecture. Im new to bitcoin and still many things to be learn. Hope someone visit my town and teach every people here how bitcoin is beneficial for them.

I too saw several bitcoin seminar when I was on a trip to Dubai. Got to meet several bitcoin enthusiasts. But when I searched for a trader in Dubai it's really hard to find one. On this basis I believe bitcoin is getting more popular through different programs but very few among them are adopting it.

Hope there is like that on my country it would be great if I can spend my small bitcoins on local purchases instead of just using it online for buying digital goods.  I dont think that there is someone who is rich behind those whos having free seminar it just they are good hearted people that want to share their knowledge to their fellow countrymen.

Word of mouth is indeed the best advertising. I heard this from my friend who knew bitcoin for almost one and a half year. He encouraged me to join this forum, he said that if I'm really interested in knowing the basic knowledge about bitcoin I should start reading here. And here I am, a newbie who wants to learn and understand everything about bitcoin. 

I wish we have that kind of seminar in our country.

The common mistake of every bitcoiner must be expecting others to initiate the awareness of bitcoin rather than we initiate them. If we keep on waiting for others to accept bitcoin payments and for conducting seminars, our waiting may last infinitely.

If we want to improve the awarenss of bitcoin in our local, we must take steps immediately to improve them.

We can also give awareness to children in school that this is great to know that bitcoin helps people with their studies, this will be a good feedback to bitcoin because there are many allegation of bad thing about it. So I hope  many people will make like this advice. We can earn extra with bitcoins and use that money on children education.

This is really a great news regarding on bitcoins adoption and we could really say that bitcoin is on the move and its awareness or existence already gaining attention all over the world but in my place theres still no store still accepting bitcoin but hopefully it would be available soon so that we could able to use our bitcoin directly.

Really its a great move by those merchants.From the language, i know its our india where its taking place. Its hard to believe that almost 95 % of indian population around 100 crores of people dont know about bitcoins.If they start using bitcoins, it will create a great increase in demand for bitcoin, increasing its price  and progress of bitcoin.

India from zero knowledge to big investors in cryptocurrency especially in bitcoin. In this forum many are criticizing India that they will not prosper nor be able to adopt bitcoin nor invest on it. But the pictures have prove them wrong, India has in turn been the reason why bitcoin continues to rise in value even though China continues to dump their coins. Hope other countries will also initiate and not only India.

about 95% of most countries don't know about bitcoin and in some cases they know but they are not interested or maybe even scared of investing in bitcoin.
in any case the if your estimate of 5% is true that means 62.5 million people in India are using bitcoin!!!

I'm impressed by that move. That's very nice, it really could spread the news about bitcoin locally. I hope here in where I live, there will be someone who will initiate to do the same way by giving a free seminar on bitcoin awareness.

With that picture on seminar, I noticed that they are mostly youngsters. So probably that's the clue there, we should invite first the youth who are interested in bitcoin so the next time they will be the one conducting a seminar to further spread the awareness about bitcoin.

On.local level bitcoin is still not recognized enough. Sometimes I have the feeling that only big comminties are aware of bitcoins existance and that only they are using it. So.any activity that could help to promote bitcoin localy is more then welcomed, especialy for small businesses and merchants.

Its a good way to go as I have equally seen something like this over here but I am sure they will be doing it with one mind and the fact that government is not even looking into that direction but because their own interest is there, I guess that why they are engaging in it. By buying at a low price and selling at a high price and promoting to people that bitcoin is only about increases in price and not the downside of it...

Usually bitcoin use cannot penetrate areas like mountains and places where there is no internet or if it does, the community can't afford to pay the service...

Usually that's the reason why many people in the locality don't know what bitcoin is, and if we want bitcoin to reach those places where internet is not yet present, we should start by broadcasting it on local radio stations or in local tv, so when internet reach the place or they could already afford it, they already have an idea about bitcoin...  :)

Wow!! Happy to see such development of Bitcoin in my country. I was unaware of any such awareness since in my city I never witnessed anything similar.
It is Gujrat, right?
Well we can't blame others for unawareness of Bitcoin at local level. Being the sensible members of BitcoinTalk community, we are ones who should take up this job. Ok! Impressed by this move, going to launch somthing similar in Punjab soon.  :D

It is not useless, merchant sometimes want to see people who are willing to use and spend bitcoin in order for them to build one.  Ever heard of a company doing survey for their feasibility study before they launched or plan for their services ? This way when a merchant setup a store there is already a customer willing to buy at his store. And so encouraging merchant would be easier.