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http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x53rk/bitcoin_warrior_new_survey_79_of_consumers_would/

really good sentiment.
also, we dont need 99% to use it for it to become an important money transfer tool. leave it to the firms.

79% still think bitcoin is some internet coupon used to buy drugs on silkroad

70% don't understand how the fiat system works

70% (including bitcoin users) still think bitcoin is completely "anonymous"



we have a long way to go

Sweet 21% of consumers would consider using Bitcoin.  

Also never is a long time.  I think in the 1970s at least as high of % would have claimed they would never use the internet and in the 1980s a similar percentage would have said they would never use online banking and in the 1990s a similar percentage would have said the same thing about digital downloads, smartphones, gps navigation, etc.

21% not bad, and yeah, what DeathandTaxes said.

And yes, the 79% are the 'tards who have all their eggs in one basket, the ones who get fucked when their government Weimar Republics or Zimbabwes their ass. Yes, I just used country names as verbs.

That's right, Argentinians and Venezuelans! You're learning a painful lesson not to believe everything your government tells you. And the funny thing is, Americans aren't even learning by example - their news doesn't even cover that shit.  8) 8) 8) Then again, the news here covered Cyprus (barely) and people still have tons of money in the bank.

Don't worry, I still have faith in humanity. After all - 21%.

You mean like how 90% make earned income and only 10% make their money from capital gains.


So 90% of workers would never make money using capital gains?

 

Well not many people considered using LTC earlier, but with gaining popularity, people started using LTC too.

So, just because one surveys suggests that people won't adopt other alt coins, doesn't mean they WILL NOT adopt any other coins ever.

This is because we're still not mainstream. First the visionaries invest in bitcoin. Then the tech-savvy people. Then the mainstream joes slowly take notice, and you get mainstream adoption. We're somewhere between 2 and 3.

21% of customers consider using it is still a great start.  That's a lot of people.


Right now bitcoin isn't practical for many consumers, nor is it easy for them to understand or use.  Ease of use should certainly increase over time,  it's yet to be seen if there will be more incentive for people to use bitcoin for shopping.

21% is a ridiculous coup.  If we can even get half of that to actually use Bitcoin over the next ten years, the world would change forever.

Ain't this good news? Bitcoin was at best considered a monopoly money to vast majority. So we got at least 5% of the population willing to use this as a serious currency?

Population of US alone is 320 million - 5% of that is 16 million people.

That's more than population of some countries. Possibly more people than those invested in certain stock markets.

Make no mistake. This is good news.

You could see similar percentages about credit cards when they started as well.
Bitcoin is not much practical today (hard to buy), but it gets better a bit every month

21% would consider using bitcoin?
Sweet :)

amazing!

All this means is the main stream media is doing their job of promoting the negative sides of bitcoin.  If they were to publish every time cash was used to launder money, buy drugs, etc they would have no room to print anything else.  Clearly they and other governments have an objective to keep peoples opinion against bitcoin.

21% is more than enough. The others are just ignorant.

Very well said!
 ;D

+1

I remember very well the end of the 90ies, when everybody was bashing on cellphones, saying that they would never have one. A couple of years later, everybody had one.

Wow i am surprised 21% of people in the world consider use bitcoins.

Wow, would've really thought that number would have been much higher.

Shouldn't that say, "79% of U.S. Consumers..." ?

yep. about 10-15 years ago, 80% said that they dont need the internet.

21% is actually a pretty decent percentage. Ask the same people again in a couple of years and I'm you'll get a much larger result.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!! People like this never cease to amuse me, using 1005 people in a poll to try and make it seem like there's a large number of people against something in the hopes that everybody will be focused on the percentages rather than looking at the actual numbers which always tell the whole story.

The world is pretty funny when you pay attention to basic mathematics :D these guys just want people to get scared of the big percentages like any other political poll, it's the oldest trick in the book.

75% landline exchanges... interesting... Also, who has the time to answer those interviews? on those... landlines?

You'll see this kind of trick used in all the polls, believe me, I think I pointed it out in an earlier post too but that was a long while ago, these polls aren't worth paying attention to at all, you'd get better results from a random internet survey or posting a poll here.

Well, I wouldn't go that far. As long as the methodology is clear they can provide insights and it's generally good that someone is paying for them and sharing even if the survey is limited in scope.

Interpretation and abusive extrapolation is were things usually get messy, the "make it seem" like you say.  :)  The headline here is definitely a bit unfortunate as it implies that those 79% gave careful consideration to something they never heard of or barely know... and the focusing on the 79% rather than on the complementary number which is quite surprising at this stage like so many people posted.

Do you feel that the bitcoin purchases on exchanges are mainly for speculation purposes and shorting or do people mainly acquire it for buying goods with it?

I think it is the first reason but could I be wrong?

It was asked in the poll; Would you rather own gold or bitcoin? - What was the purpose of this question? Of course almost anybody would answer gold when everyone knows what gold is and it is always an easier answer than bitcoin.

I suggest that this poll is irelevant in terms to comparing bitcoin to gold but more relevant to measure how well bitcoin is actually accepted as almost 20% of people answered they would rather own bitcoins!! that is truly amazing...

The Internet of 30 years ago was vastly different than it is today, maybe some of you are too young to realize that. Bitcoin, the currency, is a service that runs atop them bitcoin protocol. Perhaps in the future coins will be easier to obtain and easier to spend and protect, but what we've got now is basically the final product. Just like e-mail really hasnt changed radically since the days of AOL. So everyone arguing that people don't "get" bitcoin yet are making moot points.

If you want to talk about the protocol, then yes, I believe it could develop into something big and radically different from today. But since most of us are invested in the currency foremost and not the protocol itself, it's not particulary relevent to this discussion.

If BTC recieved more news coverage (actually explaining the technical details of BTC), then I'm sure that 21% would become 45-50%
If the price stabilizes, and bad exchanges go out of business, I'm sure they would

Hm... according to the infographic, it looks like they more or less put BTC in survey competition with gold...
That's no competition really.

On the positive side, the "critical mass" of at least ~10% seems to have been clearly crossed. That means BTC does have the potential to go viral and accelerate growing its userbase, which IMHO is the main result of the survey. Just a few years ago, these figures would have been quite different. Quite a development for a mere ~3 years.

Outcome still unknown but technically, it has the potential.

21% is a lot of people.


Opinions change.

This is why 80% of the wealth is held by 20% of the people. :)

This, not long ago it would have been 1%.