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I had two clients from America I want offer graphics designing jobs for, I demanded my payment would be in BitcoinBTC or Ethereum. To my greatest dismay, they were dumfounded on what Bitcoin or Ethereum is. I am still suprised up to this very moment. :D ::)

There is nothing to be surprised. Still there are a lot of people around the world even did not hear about Bitcoin and American people are no different of course. Even those who heard about bitcoin to them it's a scheme or something which will pop up soon.

We are sill in the early stage of bitcoins.

I am more surprised because as big as America is; they have some of the biggest channels which information is passed through across the world. A simple Google check up of what Bitcoin is wouldn't cost a thing.

We are still in the early stage of Bitcoin

I think I have to go with this.

Up until now, people who are into crypto is a very small percentage among global population. So yes, it's not really surprising even if we are already in the digital age. Maybe a lot of them have heard bitcoin, but I don't think ethereum will be familiar to them. The thing is, even if they heard about bitcoin, they don't even know where to start, or how to deal with it. But if big companies will start to accept bitcoin and other alts as payment method, maybe it will start the adoption stage to the masses or regular online shoppers.

They night have heard about Bitcoin bit Ethereum isn't very likely and certain.

I read here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/paybis.com/blog/companies-that-accept-bitcoin/amp/ some companies are accepting Bitcoin as a tool of payment.

It's understandable as many business men still not open or interested in new adaptions or scared to try new innovations as it may lead to scam, they probably knew it but not really interested to use it. Here in my country only see Bitcoin before as a form of scam as some people use it in negative way for their advantage like in pyramid schemes but since many companies and some banks were willing to accept or use crypto in banking then people mindset were changing mostly for millenials but not in some oldies whose already contented in using the traditional system.

Some of them might not read any financial news, subscribed to tech podcast, or interact with any crypto-related business so I'm not that surprised. It's not like crypto is a major payment tool either. Merchant are different of course because they need to interact with a lot of users and some of them might prefer crypto, while the other couldn't care less about it.

For example, I don't use any social media, and spend most of my time doing my job which does not involve any follow-up to the recent headline. If you talk to me about something trending on Twitter for example, I wouldn't now at all.

Even in any other countries there  are people who don have any idea of what is bitcoin is in how to use it, since you give them a choice to receive your payment as crypto I am sure they will also look and search about bitcoin since they will became confused how that things works after you mention it to them .

Not everyone knows bitcoin because of different work backgrounds, even people in international countries or maybe you don't deal with people from the crypto community or have a history of cryptocurrency users. To me, that is not surprising because they will easily adapt to cryptocurrency users if they want to.

A lot of Americans think that chocolate milk comes from Brown cows
If you find one who does not know what is Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies then I do think thats completely a safe bet , you can tell the person about it and explain how it works , if they own any small businesses they can might as well think about adding Bitcoins and etherum in their payment options.
It's not just America , not most people watch news nor are they active regarding what's going on in the world , therefore I do think you can try and make that a habit. Try asking people if you can pay in Bitcoins ?
This way they will at least search after you are gone that what the hell was that 😂. Maybe 30-40% not everyone. But still you will be indirectly able to help the community grow as a whole.

this is not only in America but in any part of the world.
I have seen a lot of people be "aware" of the terms bitcoin but they totally ignore how it works and why there is a big hype behind.
Due the media campaign related illicit shops and hidden payments a lot of people think that all cryptos are used only for illegal purposes.
Moreover no one is already understanding why there is so interest in this technology.
Because first of all, before talking about the value people should be focused in TECHNOLOGY! After this there is a value...

Actually, it's not that surprising. I don't expect that majority of them already know about Bitcoin. Even if Bitcoin is starting to gain attention in some Americans, it doesn't mean that most people you will encounter already have an idea of what it is. The percentage of the recognition of Bitcoin is still lesser compared to the whole population in America.

We should not expect much nor rush things when it comes to bitcoin and crypto adoption because we are still at the beginning of it. If that already surprised you, what more in other countries? But I think, asking them for crypto payments can be a contribution since they might consider looking about bitcoin and ethereum.

Check these out op:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/survey-nearly-80-of-americans-have-heard-of-bitcoin%3famp=1

https://www.google.com/amp/s/cointelegraph.com/news/93-of-brits-have-heard-of-bitcoin-but-only-4-have-bought-it-survey-shows/amp

These surveys are just a couple of examples to prove that most of the world has heard of BTC, but very few invested in it which is why adoption rates are low currently.

Or maybe they already heard about it but didn't try to look forward to it or they are not interested at all, coz even if we adopt bitcoin to a new level there would be more people that will use fiat and other payment method than cryptocurrency. The crypto community now is in its biggest since the beginning, but it does not mean that the world already has it. It is global, yes, but not everyone knows about it. However when you tell someone or said the word crypto they will mostly think of the bitcoin. If someone really wants to know it, they would not mind searching to it.

As far as I know there are already companies who are trying to adopt it, the most recent rumor is with Paypal and Venmo, I honestly think they could really help crypto to grow.

Even if you heard of it, it doesn't mean you understand it. A lot of people "buy BTC" on centralized platforms just for the profit, without having a single idea about the actual aspects of the coin.

I noticed a change in the circle of friends I hang around with - it was usually me talking about Bitcoin whenever we met; now, to my surprise, it's them starting the subject first. Friends that I haven't spoken with for a long time now even own some coins themselves. Although your customers might've not had a single clue, chances are a few months later they'll be BTC owners too! :)

Why would it be weird that most people no matter where they live don’t know what Bitcoin is? People have no idea about some of the most basic things, like who their current president is or where a very famous country is on the world map. And those optimistic surveys stretch the number of those who own and use Bitcoin to as much as 1% of the world's population, which is actually fewer people than the population of Germany or almost 5 times less than the population of the USA.

It's not just Americans, stop 100 people anywhere in the world and ask them to explain to you in layman's terms what Bitcoin is - at least 95% won't say anything or will give a completely meaningless answer. I would mostly blame the media for that, but most of them are just a tool of big capital that wants to shape the world according to their wishes. Today, the USA has 4 or 5 large media corporations that occupy 99% of the media market, and the media are a very powerful weapon.

People who are poorly educated, who are constantly exposed to misinformation and are constantly afraid of something are a very grateful audience that can be manipulated in all possible ways, as much as necessary.

I won't be surprised if an American or even any country citizen didn't know about bitcoin. I don't know the updated exact population of the bitcoin users on each country and the only thing I know is not everyone is well informed or it is the first time they hear the word 'bitcoin' from you.

as BitcoinGirl.Club said
I can agree with this, Knowing that some companies are still adopting bitcoin on their own and many bitcoin users are pushing bitcoin as their main currency for transactions.

It's not surprising if your client is old school guy since for sure he didn't know about it, bitcoin has not been advertise and no big adoption has coming up yet.

But it's a good opportunity to help bitcoin to widen the market and introduced it to your boss and make him understand on what is the use as well on how he can earn a benefits from it.

Don't get dismay is bitcoin still unknown since it's pretty normal.

I wouldn't suprised if someone don't know bitcoin or crypto-currency either from USA or from my own country. Perhaps still no one introduced bitcoin to them. I had watched a TV news report from my country where even educated students from university don't know about bitcoin even they hadn't heard this name. Reason is very simple as I said above. But when you asked your clients to pay with bitcoin then most likely they will research about it and we can say it's one kind of adoption. Wherever we worked we might share about bitcoin with our nearest friends and clients. So we will see more adoption into bitcoin. Rather than laugh to them better to explain briefly about bitcoin and that's how we could keep out role on bitcoin promotion.

They have some of the early crypto exchange which is the coinbase and America is known to be one of the country with quick explore of latest technologies. I wont believe many of them still don't know what bitcoin is. Maybe probably you have met one of the few people that knows about bitcoin

There's nothing to be surprised of because there are still many people out there who don't know what bitcoin is and there's a bigger population who knows what bitcoin is but have never used it before because of their reasons.
But at the same time there are also people who accepts BTC as payment for designing and development stuff.
There are both kinds of people around the world.
What you can do is try to convince them to pay in bitcoin while educating them on how to use it.

This happens when you believe all the so-called studies and polls made by companies that deal with crypto. Ever wondered how a poll on drinking coffee would look if it was made by Starbucks or by Dilmah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmah) ?
All those numbers with 10% 20% of the population owning crypto...don't they sound strange to you? Look close to you, to your family, to your friends, to your co-workers, do the figures stand up?

I've continuously said that a lot of you a biased view on the rest of the world perception and adoption of BTC, it's like a gamer that plays 18/7 WoW and suddenly when he is at a table with some different friends is amazed not everybody is playing that game and nobody at that table knows what the game is about.

You've found two Americans that don't know or don't want to deal with BTC, search better you're going to find a thousand, and it's not just Americans, Spanish, Polish, Italians, Russians, Thai or Brazilians there are millions who haven't heard of it out there. Ther are just 22m addresses with a balance over 1$ in the chain, 0.3% of the world if it would be one address per person..although I own 11 of those..
Make that 3 per person and it means only 1 in a thousand people own some dust.

Nothing to be surprised, it's reality!

The world is filled with ignorants who prefer to live in their own "cozy" worlds, but when something happens with the "system" it is never their fault.
This just shows how much more exposure can cryptocurrencies gain - the average joe doesn't know what Bitcoin is, not even talking about using it. Anyway - you can get that payment in FIAT and DUMP it like a boss for some precious crypto. ;)

People always listens to their government and whatever it says they think that it is right and only a few question the government. The same is with bitcoins, government is on its propaganda to stop the usage of bitcoins so it is campaigning against the acceptance of bitcoins and people are also believing the government but only a few like us knows the truth that how bitcoins is revolutionising the payment systems and also the currency as we know it.

It's kinda funny Bitcoin is over a decade old and yet not even half of the world has embraced it yet ;D

This is not isolated case in America, in many countries in the world there are many people who still haven't heard of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general. Any many of those who did don't want to use it or don't trust it.
We have global problem with awareness about Bitcoin, not only in America and it seems that problem is hard to be solved. If there is no awareness there will be no adoption too.

There are still many people who really do not know bitcoin, even in America the largest number of bitcoin ATM machines in the world, still exists
people who don't know bitcoin. But this is a natural thing to happen, because bitcoin users around the world still have a small percentage. It is
also possible that the two clients from America are not active on social media, and have never entered the world of investment. So the two people
it still doesn't know about bitcoin.

This is quite surprising that lot of Americans yet do know about it. Because its fine if people do not invest or trade with crypto out there. But not knowing itself is a very big thing for me to know. Because now even smaller countries which are under developed know about it though may not be all of them but still its more than a decade old bitcoin being existing.

I am not surprised with that story, even though the bitcoin community is really big, there are still so many people who don't even use this kind of cryptocurrency because their government didn't allow it on their country or some people do not even explore things about cryptocurrency, there are still so many countries that do not accept the bitcoin in their country, just like in my country, our president does not allow bitcoin because of some reasons but there are still some people like me who are still using it for some online transactions, investing and trading purposes.

This is sad reality, for those who are dreaming of btc taken over fiat should get ready for along dream, this just goes to show that we are very far from the dream of getting btc use by the majority, the government of each country are not helping in this situation, their constant threat to ban btc is part of the reason why many people don't embrace it, all the bad publicity surrounding btc also scare people away, this is for those who hear about it and don't want to use it because of the obvious mentioned,

The worst is for those who haven't heard of it at all even with several years of existence, it is very surprising to hear though, at least they must have come across adverts online about btc or other crypto to make them wonder. This is 21st century people.

Yeah who would think as big as America and as technologically advance as they are very few people in that country knows about btc, I would think they have the largest number of people who are aware of btc but surprisingly that's not the case here, maybe they don't need btc since they are rich folks there and the government takes care of the citizens.

There is nothing to be surprised about it we all have different interest and some would just ignore what other find interesting so there isn't something to be surprised when someone doesn't know about something that is in trend or popular.
Just because it is in trend or popular doesn't mean that everyone would know it , This would also apply on some great hit songs but others wouldn't know the title of the music or some great movies or series.

How did you conclude that most Americans do not know Bitcoin? Is it because two customers do not know about it.
Recent reports talk about the knowledge of more than 60% of Americans with bitcoin, and confirmed that about 5% of them are ready to invest.
Adoption is created by the movement of capital heads. a single wealthy can buy what millions of investors cannot buy.
if you had three of those we will make price rise to 100000

The OP have every right to be surprised when his two customers which is from the US seems not to be aware of bitcoin because 60% of all people in the US have heard about bitcoin while 14% own bitcoin and i dont know where you get your own statistic information.

I agreed with you on this one and the wealthy accumulator you mentioned are called whales and they are the major player in this current market.

This might be a year old but numbers wont really be that far off into the current numbers that americans being aware on bitcoins existence.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/11-of-americans-own-bitcoin-major-awareness-increased-since-2017 When it comes to those numbers then it wont be surprising that you would really encounter those people
that who doesnt even know on what bitcoin is and considering the entire population then it isnt really that a shocking thing even here on my place with lesser entire population
but still lots doesnt even know on whats btc but somehow adoption is still on the move.

You are likely to people who never heard of bitcoin before in America but that shouldnt cause worry, America still have high number of bitcoin holders in the world, is a country with wide variation of exposure, culture and information dissemination, it also has one of the largest in land area and disperse of people. American Government is conservative with bitcoin in the news and this could have negative effect in the spread.

It's the same in Europe.

I was asked a few times what I do as a hobby or do I have any part time jobs and my answer was Bitcoin. Most people reacted like I was working in a ponzi scheme, some thought of me as a victim, that poor person who is being scammed and the rest had no idea what I'm talking about.

Don't be discouraged by it. Many people think stock market is a scam, but then maybe it is. :D

The knowledge of bitcoin isn't based on race or maybe gender; even in my country, a lot of people don't have any clue while some haven't even heard the name before. However, we must do our best to inform them.

If this is in our country, you might not be surprised by it. My countrymen are not that familiar to technologies, even crypto currencies. The Internet is the newest thing for them and if they can access their mobile phones on the internet and surf their Facebook account, they are good. We are a third world country and I am also living in a province, I am used to it.

Just Americans ? I would say that more than 80% of global people don't really know what Bitcoin is or how it works , where it comes from and what are it's goals because if someone comes to them and tries to teach them about Bitcoin, more than 70% will say that you want to scam them of money ( without even saying the investing word ) as this is what TV's , newspaper's were saying about Bitcoin in the beginning : It's used for black markets, it's the bubble of the century where you will lose money and so on, so don't judge them, just give them time and make them curious to discover the Blockchain by themselves.

Personally the youths are reacting so well to Bitcoin and no wonder why because most of them are coders, devs or even working in IT or doing financial or economy studies or simply are not afraid of new currencies/assets.

It is true that majority of the bitcoiners are from the finance or IT sector and then the young generation who are trying to find resources to make money online are there in the market especially in the social media and the advertisement sector to promote projects in this space and moreover it is a new market space and it is not that strange.

Okay I understand why you have specified "Americans", first because he's your client and second because that statistics in the internet shows the large number of people in America that are into cryptocurrency. The question is, does this surveys done unbiasedly? I mean, you'd be more surprised If you'd talk about Bitcoin to someone you bumped into every single day.
10+ years ain't enough for Bitcoin to be widely known/accepted globally, some have heard once but never interested.

Anyway, that's still a good thing you have mentioned Bitcoin or Ethereum to your client, that atleast made them aware that paying and receiving this kind of currency is possible.

Accounting fields or in finance fields also.
Let's don't hate OP because of this, he/she just sharing experience about these.
It's also good because he/she mentioned about Bitcoin or Ethereum in other people, so those people will start becoming curious about Bitcoin or Ethereum, they will start to research about Bitcoin/Ethereum for sure because of this.

There are many Americans who don't know what Bitcoin is. This is completely normal because not everyone is involved in bitcoin. Not only Americans, but also many people in other countries are completely ignorant of bitcoin such as Vietnam, Laos ... Bitcoin is not widely available because this field requires a lot of capital to invest. Least developed countries have very few people who know bitcoin.

American still not good country for bitcoin and altcoin because many developer try to bring new currency there always got problem by SEC or government security of financial system, I remember with CENTRA coin become scam and delist from binance exchange after SEC pause and get trouble with CENTRA coin owner, maybe need new government how to accept cryptocurrency as legal payment there.

I am surprised that you're surprised. It's not like Bitcoin was taught in school books, nor is it posted on every wall outside or every ad on the internet. It's like you're asking someone, "Why don't you know this game?" when they aren't even a gamer. If they were along the lines of developer/businessman, you can be half surprised since both have the chance of actually chancing upon Bitcoin. Besides, even the majority of the people who know about Bitcoin only know the word, they don't even know what it is.

Agree. Most Surveys are done in groups and a few that I found had only close to 1000-2000 citizens in each survey, which imo, is not enough considering how big and diverse the US can be. Sure, they can use it as basis but really, not everyone is literate when it comes to tech things, and some just even enjoy playing around with games and the like.

The people,that have a PC/laptop/smartphone and browse the internet everyday have seen the term "Bitcoin" at least once for the last 10 years.They might have forgotten about it,but I doubt that they have never seen any article,news,social media post,forum post or video about Bitcoin at least once.
People,who aren't geeky and nerdy don't know anything about cryptocurrencies,but I'm pretty sure that they don't know almost anything about technology and internet in general,except the absolute basic stuff,like using Google and Facebook,visiting websites,clicking links and sending an email. ;D

Nothing is surprising with that, even though America is one of the countries that have the biggest number of crypto user, there are still so many people who still don't know what it is, even though in another country, there are still many people who don't know things about the crypto world because of some reasons. Maybe their government is now allowing cryptocurrency in their land because they don't still know the benefits of using it, they will waste the opportunity if that is the case because right now there are already many countries that are preparing for the bitcoin for the citizen.
Well said, just like me, I only learned bitcoin because of my personal research, I was confused once my friend told me about it then I did research about it and found out that it is really helpful.

The absence of knowledge can be well explained by the fact that bitcoin is hard to understand for people that have never been interested in new technologies. Most people accept innovations only if they already adopted widely, if technology is being taken for granted. But there is another reason why bitcoin is still wild west. Bitcoin is not just innovation like electronic devices, for instance, bitcoin is financial innovation. We have never seen how money can evolve, now we can reconsider our views on how money should work. This is really interesting to observe innovations in financial fields, the most conservative field, where things move very slow, where innovations are rare.

Though there are already lots of exposures coming from mainstreams medias not all Americans are
taking time reading or following everything.
Most of them are busy working and doing other things which they've found more important than reading
the news, they are more concern with everyday life.

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And it's true that not every places knows what bitcoin / crypto is all about, some thinks that it's scam and
just waste of time while others are not interested
following the developments of this industries, they are busy doing other things which related to how they do
for a living.

Its not unusual. Cryptocurrencies gained popularity online but we cant expect everyone is aware of its existence.

Even some people heard about crypto they are not interested to know further what blockchain is or how does it works.

So its not surprising, though I understand the disappointment of op because US is one of the country that has many users.

So that already means "Lot of American?"

So if one some people don't know how to use Google meaning "Lot of People around the world" don't know about google?

Not because your client know nothing about Crypto means many of their countrymen don't also Know this.

and Besides Bitcoin and ethereum and the whole cryptocurrencies are still in progress of spreading,10 years was not enough to let the whole world know about this and also there are many people denies this because of scam issue from the past and small still happening now.

The sums it up pretty nicely. The global acceptance rate is still very low. Reasons are manifold, like lack of interest, lack of education or bad press from mass media. People tend to avoid what they don´t understand. It´s unfortunate on one end, because it needs us to hone our patience skills, but good one the other end, since we are earyl and can adjust to a changing environment to make access easier.

Old people are not that technologically inclined, they are not used to the use of technology in their surroundings and they are ignorant about it. There are still people around the world who are not that knowledgeable or informed about the existence of cryptocurrency in the market. Maybe some of them thinks that bitcoin is a scam and fraud investment, they are ignorant until we inform them and we support the promotion of cryptocurrency in our country. We need to engage to this kind of new transactions that includes digital currency, people should not waste the opportunity to learn bitcoin and get profits from them due to its volatility in the market.

I don't live in the USA so I don't know what degree of publicity bitcoin has there, and I don't know if the surveys I read are true or not but according to the surveys in 2019 they asked 5000 Americans and 64.8% of the respondents said they did not have bitcoin and did not plan to buy Bitcoin... Knowing that in the USA there are millions of people so we can imagine that there must still be millions of people in the USA who do not know about bitcoin, especially people over 50 years of age

Don't be dumfounded mate, there thousands of millions who have not hear about Bitcoin nor ethereum till now because they are too lazy to read some few pages of the news papers or even online news sites. Americans are also like any other country around the world, in my country, there are individuals who haven't still understand the Bitcoin of a thing. But with time, they will have full knowledge about this technology(Bitcoin and Ethereum).

It's not surprising at all. Not just in America but also in different countries. High percent of the population still not aware about bitcoin and they are not that interested on how it can be use as payment options and/or an investment.
 
 As long as it is not fully welcomed and accepted by the government and banks, people are hesitant to use bitcoin as well. Maybe some know about bitcoin but they prefer fiat money for transactions.

He has every right to be surprised despite the fact that bitcoin was posted on every wall ads but bitcoin/blockchain are already among the brochure of some school in the US and it also easy for someone that gives graphic designer, dev, etc job online to know every mode of payment used online, so it normal for them to be surprised when his customers from the US said they are not an award of bitcoin.

Some prefer fiat because of government regulations, if they accept some crypto they can have problems. It shouldn't be a surprise that some people don't know anything about crypto, but when it comes to graphic designers it's a bit strange they did not encounter any crypto in last 10 years, on crypto adds...
There's no doubt we are still in early stages, many more people will have to join crypto, and even more important we need more companies and institutions to join. No need to rush it, we have a good direction, we need to be patient and to continue promoting crypto to people around.

     Haha, you shouldn't be surprised man, it is only natural that a lot of people from a lot of countries specially people from the us don't know about crypto currencies. Main reason would be because it isn't mainstream yet which makes it not something that people will most likely talk about or recommend thus the information are limited so as the people who have heard of it. The only thing surprising about this is that the people you are talking about should be very familiar with computers and all. I wonder of they really haven't heard about it or are just acting ng dumb coz they do not like and trust enough crypto currencies. Just saying.

Such is life, this might have shocked you about the US numbers of participation but remember this; there are billions of ignorant individuals on the planet earth, they don't believe in things from the Internet but words from their government. Some are loyal addicts, they can't or won't follow anything aside their government pronouncements. This might be a scenario of what's happening in the US.

not, be surprised if in the United States there are still many who do not know Bitcoin, in my country the same fate, especially in remote areas.

America still has a very remote area that is hidden a lot of people do not know the village, namely: Supai Village, this is a Native American.
Not half-hearted if you go to the village of Supai, you must use transportation such as donkey or horse riding.

In the village of Supai the people there have not been touched by crypto currencies such as Bitcoin, maybe friends you know the native people of Supai who have just come to the city of the United States, so naturally he doesn't know Bitcoin yet, I think he needs someone who knows Bitcoin, for him to learn.

Your clients does not represent the whole America so how come that you conclude about this by just your clients does not know about Bitcoin or ethereum?

But i think there are many americans already Knew about Bitcoin but of course like the whole world there are smaller amount compared to those who have ideas.

But lets see couple years from now,Maybe your client will already have idea what this is and how convenient using crypto as payment.

I think it's pretty common among folks who don't have a touch with Technology. Moreover thing is the number of people knowing BTC in states would be much higher than that of other countries which are developing so you can easily realize how less number of people know about cryptos. But this is for any other Technological Concept. Some girls I know don't even know what a RAM is and why should they look for higher RAM while buying a Mobile Phone or any other gadget. Cryptos similarly is a technological invention and not financial.
The sample space might be low as per the OP but if you look at various surveys conducted by many different websites you would realize that most of the people don't know about it. I would be quite astonished if even 50% of the folks in the state know about Bitcoin.

Not only America but also all over the world. About 700 crore people live in the world, there are a very few people who know about cryptocurrency. another thing is there are many people who know about crypto but they do not believe on it. You know the use of cryptocurrencies is much higher in developed countries like USA/China. Most freelancing or outsourcing payments are made through Digital currency or Crypto, so those who do outsourcing are usually familiar with all types of online currencies. It is really surprising that the guy does not know about BTC.  :-\

Agreed. I actually think that Russians are the highest percentage if we compare the population divided by the number of crypto users because almost all the ICOs are russian mostly and it gives me a feeling like Russians are way ahead of others in terms of blockchain technology and crypto adoption.


And at the end of the day a daily wages guy wants to get paid by a payment processor such that he can easily cash his money and feed their family so yes unless it is just smooth to transact bitcoins for fiat and vice-versa there would always be obstacles with complete BTC adoption and that is where the government knows they just need to reject bitcoins and never appreciate dealings in bitcoins.

Ain't surprised at all. Bitcoin is more than a decade old, so it's still very young. Just like barter turned to precious metals, then to physical coins and paper bills, it took a long while for the world to adopt them. 

Less than 1% of the entire Mother Earth are adopting Bitcoin, altcoins and blockchain technology. Same here in the Philippines, where I think less than 0.1% of the entire population are advocating and using Bitcoin. We were just fortunate to be the early adopters of Bitcoin, so we'll just keep spreading the word about the real and positive use cases of Bitcoin in our respective areas.

In this case, you have a great opportunity to create a more interesting relationship with your employers and to become a teacher for them yourself.
Introduce them to Bitcoin, maybe this will interest them, and they will be grateful to you, because you will expand their boundaries, which means that this can be the beginning of a good long-term cooperation between you. Even if not, you will serve for the benefit of mass adaptation of Bitcoin.

Also, don't forget about volatility. That's their salary, and they want to spend it on life not caring about storage, price fluctuations, exchanges and all that stuff

Though we have the online adds but can't deny that many we're still ignorant for Bitcoin or for crypto. I believe they heard it or they even read it online but that it gives no interest for them either as their government never allows it and their establishment ain't to accept this as a mode of payment. What makes sense for them to know about it since it is still useless for them?

We need more time, years, or another decade to fully develop crypto and being spread globally. This time, we are at a few percentages who know about it and even use it for payment.

Not just Americans many people still don’t know what bitcoin is or what cryptocurrency are. We are still young mate and we can’t force anyone to use or to study bitcoin let’s the time tell them what to do. If they don’t know cryptocurrency yet, then you can introduce it to them or just simply accept fiat money for your services.

Bitcoin is still growing, it takes time and I know your clients will surely start wondering what bitcoin is and I hope that attract them to adopt bitcoin as well. We are not yet their but we are slowly aiming for it.

10 years time is indeed still young and we do need more years to give space in talks of adoption.We shouldnt rush yet everything would really come in line but we shouldnt really expect

that  we would able to see a full-scale adoption since we know that we do have different governments worldwide. Some might or might not accept crypto or totally ban them.

So there are really people who wont really have the chance on knowing on whats crypto is all about.

Honestly I think it's kind of odd that you demanded payment in bitcoin, as if there is anywhere in the world that accepts bitcoin as primary payment.  I think at this point the majority of people have heard of bitcoin, but most still have no idea how it actually works.

It's true that there are people in this world who still don't know anything about the crypto world (or they just pretend to be unknown / prefer not to use crypto over fiat). It's an opportunity for you though to make them understand about BTC because that will bring in more people adopt crypto faster as it's word of mouth advertising that can change anything in this world.

Although most Bitcoin ATMs are in America (https://coinatmradar.com/countries/), it doesn't mean all people there know Bitcoin and use the ATMs. It also doesn't represent that Bitcoin is something already familiar for all people there and each person knows it well. Moreover, not all people are following updated information related to digital assets or investment. So, it is not impossible if some people in America don't know about Bitcoins. In this matter, we shouldn't be so surprised if there are Americans who didn't know anything about Bitcoin.

Well just because they are first world country and most BTC ATM are located in America doesn't mean everyone will know what Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin is. It is still an unknown technology for most people and needs more people to advertise and introduce it to the masses.

Not only in America, it's everywhere. Not everyone have the luxury to learn about bitcoin as majority of people dosen't even believe in the idea of using digital currency due to the risk involve in it. Only a little percentage of the world's population knows about bitcoin very well and the fact that most governments are portraying bitcoin to be some bad form of digital currency being used for illegal transactions do make people lose interest to even know what it is

I will be more surprised if all of the Americans know what is Bitcoin than this.

My point is that not all the people really know what Bitcoin is. For us supporters, we are expecting that every person knows it but the reality is it isn't work like that. There are some who knows and supports Bitcoin. There are some who knows Bitcoin but isn't using or supporting it and there are people who doesn't know Bitcoin at all which is quite normal already.

The reality is like that, there are some people who don't know about bitcoin. Some even know that bitcoin is based negative stories
from bitcoin haters. Therefore no wonder a country as big as America, there are still citizens who do not know about bitcoin. It takes
a lot of promotion and education to make bitcoin more recognized by people around the world.

That's not impossible to happened, because not every people knows about bitcoin or cryptocurrency many are believing in the rumor that bitcoin is a scam that's why even though they already heard about it they just ignore it. I think that's your time to introduce or explain how bitcoin or cryptocurrency works.

You know what OP, the action you've just done is what will drive their curiosity to engage in bitcoin and cryptocurrency. The problem arises when we, bitcoin users became passive as if we are contented that we use it without thinking of helping bitcoin to grow, but through asking questions, they might search for it and see what it's capabilities.

IMO, it is also better than convincing people to try out bitcoin once in their lives, since asking them to directly receive payment from bitcoin will already prove its legitimacy.

Clearly 2 Clients too small number.
Foul because you don't have to demand instead just ask them if they can do the payment in Crypto.
Know what?you must be thankful because at this chance you can let them Know what Bitcoin and ethereum is so they may invest or either use the crypto as mode of payment.

I think you should consider this everytime that Crypto is just spreading and not totally known like PayPal did.

The number of people in this forum combined together with the number of people who know a thing about bitcoin compared to the entire population is not that much, the community is still a mote in comparison, so be forgiving and understanding to the people who do not know about. OP sounded condescending just because they do not know about it, do not be like that. If there is no way that they know about it then adjust because they are your clients and you are offering your services to them not the other way around.

It is not surprising at all for a reason that not only Americans doesn't aware of bitcoin or other cryptocurrency but mostly of the people all over the world. Cryptocurrency doesn't discuss normaly as what other concept can that is why numerous of people remain ignorant about it. No need to be dismayed at them. Instead, try to explain it to them. You also experienced not knowing it.

According to statista.com, only 70-80% (https://www.statista.com/statistics/756054/united-states-adults-desktop-laptop-ownership/) of United States adults have a pc a laptop. Not all of them are even connected to the Internet, and some just use them simply for minesweeper or to do basic work with documents. No wonder that with population close to 330 billions, there are people who dont know what Bitcoin is.

 

Not only in America you will easily find a lot of people in other countries who don't know about bitcoin and its potentiality. I have similar experiences with some of my clients who have limited knowledge about bitcoin but good news is that after knowing about it from my side they start to use bitcoin and now they always give it priority as their payment option. Even some of them have already purchased a good amount of bitcoin for their future purpose. Worldwide crypto community is getting bigger day by day which is definitely a good sign for bitcoin and its overall growth.

There was a time people thought that bitcoin have no future and investing in bitcoin is too much risky but after seeing its growth and stability people have enough trust on its power and bright future. Maybe that day isn't too far when it will be the most popular payment option for modern civilization.  

You know it is very common and I was introduced to bitcoins by someone similar a few years ago when I was working and I usually used to accept payment in Libertty Reserve (it was a prominent payment method during those times and very popular just like Perfectmoney is today) so I was working for a client and they offered me $200 for the complete project (I'll keep the project private cause of NDA) so they offered me Paypal and I refused and what they said next was bitcoins which was completely new to me and that is how I first got to know about bitcoins and then slowly I rolled into it and now hardly ever I accept payment in any other method unless there is no option left.

Hence, word of mouth is a great promotion for bitcoins and I believe the biggest power of decentralization since no one controls them you always know that someone is not promoting you for referral commissions.

So you made a conclusion that a lot of americans don't know about bitcoin based on your experience?
If that so, then I think you are right, though bitcoin is already considered as popular in USA but we can't say that a lot of people are already using it, that would result to massive adoption if a lot of people are already using bitcoin.

maybe we can help measure its popularity by the number of ATMs

As per this article - https://www.coindesk.com/5-popular-us-states-bitcoin, it made a conclusion that " One bitcoin ATM for every 1.67 million people".. so with that data, we can already tell the status of cryptocurrency in the USA.

This is due to the numerous scams and in the ransomware attacks which asked for bitcoins as a payment method. Moreover the news channels also describe bitcoin as a currency that is used on the dark web for illegal purposes, after watching this do you believe a person can try to buy bitcoins. Also there should be media campaigns that should advertise bitcoin as a currency and as a method to send money across borders without any significant fees and also we need to change the people's mindset towards digital currencies so as to increase the awareness and acceptance world wide.

I agree with you and I also say that there are many people who do not know about it. I do not speak of any other country. I only know that there are many such people in my country.  There are people in my own community who don't know anything about bitcoin and Ethereum.

From my point of view, there is nothing to be surprised off because there are still a lot of people who don't know about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Also, not only in the US because I think about 20% of people only know about bitcoin and 80% still don't know about bitcoin all over the world. It is the reason why other people advertise cryptocurrencies for more people will buy crypto and bitcoin.

While I am not much into statistics, I assume that those numbers you are referring to are not very small whatsoever, they seem very decent in my opinion. However, it doesn't even matter for average user who wants to use bitcoin. Bitcoin is essentially a protocol that can be accessed through any device connected to the Internet. Be it desktop, laptop, cell phone or fridge, almost any device connected can hypothetically be used to run an app on bitcoin network. The only problem here is that the potential of bitcoin is not obvious for those who live in countries with flourish economics, where an access to financial products isn't restrained.

thats not surprised me, why ?
i have 2 reason about this...
1. Almost bounty project, they do not allow for US people to following the project.
2. Maybe, lack of promotion about bitcoin at US country.

I think there are only 2 reasons above that cause this to happen

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Just like the whole world does.

Almost majority of people around the world does not have any idea about bitcoin,or even crypto currencies.

So i think you should have let them learn what this is and for when they need to use.

it is your call to lure them inside crypto.

That is why bitcoin needs longer to be known by the people, so they can use bitcoin as what we did.
We can still introduce bitcoin to people who don't know about bitcoin, but we don't need to force them to learn more or use bitcoin if they don't want it because that will make them hate bitcoin.
Even if people connect to the internet, if they don't search for more information about bitcoin, they will not know, and they will skip the information that they found on many websites.
We can invite them to learn about bitcoin, and maybe we need to use another approach that can make them have an interest in bitcoin.

That sounds hilarious but saying Americans is just an understatement, as a bigger part of the global have never heard of Bitcoin, let alone knowing its functions and benefits to the global economy.
 Awareness needs to be created for the global recognition of Bitcoin to take place.

Not early surprising here in our neighbor 9 out of ten people do not have an idea what Bitcoin is 4 out of 10 have read or heard about it but do not know what it's all about, this technology is still young and our generation has a huge task to promote and introduce this technology, we are lucky that we are already here and benefiting from this technology.

there are loads of interiors where people still get limited informations. Even though it is america, there is also some areas there where people have access to incomplete information and therefore they prioritize the informations that concerns their sustenance alone and careless about the global occurences. this is one of the reasons why we need people that will go about sensitising them on the latest technological innovations and blockchain technology to be particular

Probably, their country does lack of promotion that's why they are ignorant about the existence of cryptocurrency, it is just easy as that. If the government promotes the use of cryptocurrency freely and inform the people how it works then Americans could achieve mass adoption in Bitcoin easily. I know that it is not that easy to do that, but it takes a lot of process before the people to understand how bitcoin works.

It should've all start with the government. Not only Americans or US citizens who are not that knowledgeable about bitcoin. In some other rural areas in every country, they are not the introduced in the use of digital currency due to the lack of knowledge about advancement of technology. Once the bitcoin achieve mass adoption, transactions will become faster and more secured, just like what the OP wants to be paid.

seriously? what about those guys that we saw holding btc sign boards on the streets  . so many of those pics caught on different streets . there are also crypto that are televised on tv such as on bloomberg and other more . i dont think they lack of promotion  .

its not easy because i dont think a government will do that . why will they promote btc anyway  . its not thier job to do that . they can only allow or disallow it and thats it .  btc/crypto arent hard to learn , if people know how to use a paypal before , why not they cant use a crypto now

There is nothing to be surprised about, just because you know about cryptocurrency doesn’t mean that everyone is going to know about it. Most of my clients that I worked, I wasn’t even the one that suggested the Bitcoin to them, they are the ones who ask me whether I accept Bitcoin as payment and then I would say yes. I always let them use any payment method I feel they are going to be okay with, and it’s mostly PayPal that a lot of people make use of, only very few have talked about Bitcoin. And as for Ethereum, I don’t see any single person that uses that lol.

Unlike most other people do imagine, not all Americans are leading a luxurious life style to get know and to adopt all the latest technologies and innovations. As of June 2020, there are 21 million American are jobless and applying for government benefits. So, there should not be any mandatory for all Americans to be aware of bitcoin nor cryptos.

I have a certain assumption why this is exactly what happens in America. maybe my opinion is wrong, because this is only an assumption. The fact is that in most cases, those who are looking for extra money on the Internet know about cryptocurrency, and therefore always face investments in cryptocurrency, trading cryptocurrency and airdrops to earn cryptocurrency. and as a rule, these are people who have very low annual incomes to live comfortably. For the most part, these are the poor. In addition, large investors know about cryptocurrency, who are always looking for alternative types of investments, where there are opportunities to make good profits. the same situation with professional traders. By the way, crypto enthusiasts are generally a special category. Residents of America in most cases have not only social guarantees, but also adequate financial support, if they have a good job. In addition, America is very different from the countries of central Europe in Eastern Europe and Asia, where most of the population lives below the poverty line and themselves are looking for any opportunity to make a profit. That is why people are looking for and finding cryptocurrency. And the Americans do not have enough information.

Let the title take the prize for being the result of a survey of only two people.

The fact that your perception leads you to that title, does not mean that it really is so, it is quite possible that it is the opposite, rare, but it is more likely that people do not know that it is a cryptocurrency but they do know what bitcoin is. .

2017-; specifically December was the year of free advertising for bitcoin. Even a program like that of Ellen Degeneres (feb, 2018) not only commented on the news but gave it more than a minute, do you know how much that time can cost for any company? bitcoin got it for free.

Not to mention that 2018 in its first third continued to be world news.

Yep, it's not that big of a surprise really. Most probably, since it's America, they have heard about it once or twice but they didn't really paid attention to it that's why it didn't stick to their mind and don't have knowledge about crypto.

Other countries around the world have citizens that do not know about bitcoin yet, or maybe they really choose not to know about it. But still, let's hope that more people will be encouraged to know and be part of crypto, and eventually, mass adoption.

You are surprised that they don't know what Bitcoin is? And do you think it every there that deals with the internet , work or get updates on currencies. Haven't you seen people who work nature or schedule do not even permit to know what going on around. Some might have even heard about Bitcoin but not pay attention to it. While some already concluded it's for internet fraud stars so they have nothing to do with it.

You should know that less than 1 % of the entire population in the world knows about Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency in general. You shouldn't be surprised when you see a lot of Americans have no knowledge about Bitcoin. In my country, less than 0.5% of the entire population have sufficient knowledge about Bitcoin and less than half of these people actually have enough idea about the entire crypto space.  Entire world is yet to know Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem.

It is no surprise that a very big chunk of the global population did not heard about cryptocurrencies and possibly heard about Bitcoin but that's it. No one heard of Ethereum or waves or Tron or wallets or Binance etc etc. So small that we have a forum and all of us are here talking about many things about blockchain and bitcoin. I bet maybe the whole number of members here on this forum would not exceed a hundred thousand user accounts. So it might still small and already it is making waves around the world. So wait a decade or two before this balloons to the moon.

There still many people out there who don't know about bitcoin or ethereum or another coin because they still use fiat money to transact and they use fiat to buy they want.
Maybe we still need to introduce crypto among them so they can know that now, another payment option is available and they can try to use crypto as the payment or for the investment.
That will be different if that person has a big curiosity about the new thing. They will search for more info about that, and sometimes, they will spend their time exploring how to get involved in that thing.

I never doubt it.

The fact that a lot of people are not accepting it means that only a few of them use it. If a lot of people are using it obviously people will consider to accept it. It will just be a ripple effect and time will pass we will not be noticing it that Bitcoin is a mainstream way of paying things online or maybe, I hope, offline. It takes time, good things comes for those who wait.

I was just trying to say, that modern technologies are not used widely on the whole territory of US. People dont know about Bitcoin not only because they dont have a proper device to run an app on it, but alto due to low interest in Bitcoin as such.

There are still people who prefer to use cash over credit cards (even if this dont improve or affect their credit score), they wont even bother using  Bitcoin, even if this makes their payments quicker or easier. It is like soviet grandpas and grandmas, who prefer to immediately withdraw pension from debit card or wait for a postman to bring pension money in cash.

Some just attach to a mobile with NFC to terminal, most prefer cash. Everything is in "head". It is more preferable to hold money in hands, than have something virtual on account.

yeah and that is an insult to tell about all american when he only handled 2 clients that has no knowledge of Bitcoin and ethereum.
Maybe there is a need about proofs first before He posted that,at least some researches or survey to prove this concern.
I have not watched this episode of Ellen but if does?considering that this is the most famous talk show in the world now because Oprah has already leave the scene.

So ? She must be woman in age or not interested in cryptocurrency. Working in bank doesnt mean person must know everything about the services bank provide, banking system and etc. Bank employee must know everything about his duties and area he works in, and know overall information about the bank superficially.

You know, there are janitors or taxi drivers who knows everything about anything, and still they are not on highly paid position.

Well, that is just normal because not everybody is interested or open-minded to the fact that there are other ways to pay for services or items being bought. It must be rewarding for some to be taught about the Cryptocurrency Industry because as we all know, Bitcoin is really used and really profitable once learnt about. We just need to be open-minded and don't be boastful about the knowledge that he have.

I don't think that they are ignoring it, they are not just aware that crypto currencies exist. If you go to our place, where people are mostly farmers, you can't say that they are not interested or open-minded to it, they not just aware of the technologies that exist these days. They are not updated on what is new and what will be the new thing in the near future, they can't even use a computer nor use their phones to its full capabilities. All they know is that they can call and text through it.

They are having very strong regulations for buying so they are not having so much Bitcoin ATMs. But on CNBC - American market TV is now recognizing Bitcoin somehow legit and they are not saying how invaluable it is. But still, crypto-adoption is in this country very slow and they are rather using Paypal.

Right, many people through out the world still don't know what is cryptocurrency or what is Bitcoin. This is not surprising matter at all. Bitcoin is becoming popular currency gradually. They may not know about Bitcoin as it is illegal in USA and their regulations are hard enough. Lack of discussion in social media about Bitcoin may be another reason.

I do not know the age of your clients but the awareness factor seems to be most present among those that are relatively young, so if your clients were outside that demographic group it makes sense they have never heard of bitcoin, this is why I have always thought that the adoption of bitcoin will take a long time as older generations are simply not interested in bitcoin, so we will need some time for that generation to be replaced and for those that are young now to take their place before bitcoin becomes as popular as we believe it deserves.

There is a fun fact, American government knows almost every activities happening around the world but an average common man from US doesn't know much things about the rest of the world so they are not interested in learning, they just live with what they taught about. :D

About bitcoin, not much people knows about it even many economists from different countries saying that bitcoin availability can be increased with a single computer click. ::)

It is highly unlikely that anyone living in a middle class family in any country have not heard about bitcoin from social media or from the news channels but hearing about bitcoin and understanding about bitcoin are different things altogether and i can bet that many of the users here in the forum might not know everything about bitcoin. The market is just ten years old and it will take sometime for the entire world to have interest in understanding bitcoin.

Bitcoin has only been around for the past 10 years and is really famous since 2017 so very few people can know about bitcoin. In addition, governments don't like bitcoin and cryptocurrencies so they restrict the media coverage of bitcoin.
But in the future bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market will have tremendous growth and I believe that cryptocurrencies will be a part of world finance.

All the lies and misconceptions had something to do with this for sure.

If people weren't told on each step that it's used by scammers hackers and other criminals they would want to know more.

If you're looking for someone to blame for this situation blame the media.

Media is always giving bad light to crypto whenever they highlight those hackers or scammers being caught owed to crypto. But if a user is really curious what is crypto or bitcoin, he will do further study and he will understand more about its true nature. However, people are still hesitant because of these crypto exchanges being hacked and people who were screwed by these blockchain projects. Give it a time and people will be smarter when dealing with these crypto news.

Because it requires research and grasping how the current monetary system works, as well as either some basing understanding of certain subjects from fields like economics, computer science and game theory.

I don't think its that complicated.

Bitcoin is made so everyone can use it. You don't really need to research Bitcoin so you can use it or transact it. It is the same with other payment methods but it just has different ways of sending it. Maybe if you want to enrich, to develop your knowledge about cryptocurrencies, the things you had said would be necessary.

Cash is always preferable over credit card transaction and bitcoin when it comes to private local deals, because in that case your transactions are completely anonymous. The problem here is that transactions must be completed very fast before cash is debased, inflated, hyperinflated, seized by government. If you live in prosperous society with stable economics, you often don't care of such things, your currency is not debasing throughout a day. Someone said once that the US will be the last country to widely adopt bitcoin, because they don't actually need opportunities it offers.

I wonder why they don't tell the truth about crypto because that can help people to learn from them.
People will come back to their website and read other news, and their site will become famous and popular.
I think if they spread bad news to crypto, people will not come to their website, but people will search for other news that can give them the real news.
People prefer to spend more time finding real news than to spend their time to read fake news.
But for sure, people will blacklist the site because the site is not honest to them.

Your request to be payed in btc was so random. I would understand if you already know your client as a btc user, but straight up ask him to pay you in btc is kind of really odd. I think its best if you asked him first if he uses btc as payment, nothing to be surprised honestly, it is known that btc isn't used as well as fiat, we have to accept not all are using btc. Some may heard about it a few times but don't expect its so widely used. Maybe one of your client knows about it but not really use it.  And would you want your client learn btc just to pay you? Some client wouldn't go that far just to pay someone. Client will still choose the efficient way for them.

Yes I agree, there is nothing surprising about this one.Many people still do not know about bitcoin. Here in the Philippines only few people know more about bitcoin. Because of the fake news many people do not believe in bitcoin because they think that bitcoin is totally a hack or a scam. And same as American people Filipinos are also hesitant when it comes to bitcoin. There are people who are blinded about the real thing about bitcoin. These may also affect the success path of bitcoin. Few are not supporting because of the fake news.

If that's the case in your country then what more in the 3rd world countries? Only a few of us know what bitcoin and its capabilities.
Yeah, There's a recent issue here in our country that involves bitcoin, and people thought it's a scam. Also, many of us are not aware of technological advancement so they don't really care about Bitcoin at all. They buy smartphones just for communications, that's all. Traditional minds always thought that they should stick to fiat and have a mindset that it's very dangerous.

You sure they said they don't what bitcoin is or did they say they can't pay in bitcoin? Probably you came across a small percentage of the people who didn't hear about bitcoin, or did but didn't give much heed to it. But, just based on two people you met who didn't know about bitcoin, you came to a conclusion that "whole lot of Americans" don't know what bitcoin is? Look at the survey one of the user posted above.

People who often work in the online world or work in a graphic media like your friends may not necessarily understand about bitcoin.
Bitcoin for some people is just a virtual coin that they don't think will develop.
Some Americans do not understand about bitcoin and what bitcoin was created for. But with some of the adoptions being carried out like in starbuck it will certainly make people know about bitcoin and its uses.

I have several friends who are experts in the IT field but he doesn't understand how to use bitcoin and how to get it.

And 10 years of its existence isn't enough by then. The continuous promotion online will help to spread but that also will matter of how the people give interest on it and how they think about crypto. The case that happens to the US is also happening globally for the reason that they don't appreciate crypto and that also for they are hearing scams and fraud incidents. Of course, age may matter for ages '50s and above won't certainly giving a hint on it but rather to keep of what they are doing today and in the past days.

If and only if, most of the people that use bitcoin will help it to grow and develop. Imagine, if we could invite even just one friend or relative to join and use bitcoin, and they'll do the same thing, there's no doubt that its popularity will boom. Though, the main hindrance I can see when introducing bitcoin to people is its reputation, some times I have some friends that when I asked them about bitcoin, their initial perspective is that, bitcoin is a tool to scam.

In an e-commerce site, even a single poor rating could impact the product as a whole, so helping to maintain bitcoin to a good state would be the best thing we should do. If we can't promote bitcoin, please use it responsibly.

Not all people in the whole world are already aware about bitcoin because some of them doesn't have gadgets ,computers or modern technology where they can find the word Bitcoin. So,don't be surprised because even here in my area ,a lot of people doesn't know what is bitcoin and where to find it.

Unfortunately, this is not a phenomenon only people from the US suffer from. Across the globe, there are millions of people who despite them living in a developed country don't know about BTC or cryptocurrency at all.

Ignorance for some is the norm, so there's the extra battle regarding adoption we as a community need to consider also. Simply having access to the internet isn't going to have people accept this new wave, and the matter is more complicated by people being either ignorant or not having access to the infrastructure - it's complicated!

I'm hoping that you are aware about the use of BTC since 2016, we are really having a hard time promoting bitcoin in social media platforms. It is very hard for us that time to address the government about the benefits and advantages of bitcoin as an asset to investment. We are trying so hard because we know that bitcoin is full of potential.

Maybe, until now there are a lot of people who are still not that knowledgeable about how bitcoin works as a cryptocurrency in the market, especially US citizens. Some governments really treat bitcoin as a scam or fraud that's why they stick to the use of fiat in many transaction in their territory


You should contribute too in the promotion and advertising of bitcoin in many platforms. Just by using it in some transactions is a simple but big help towards reaching mass adoption. Especially during this pandemic, digital currencies like crypto are very useful nowadays and becoming more popular.

From the very beginning, the US government was very suspicious of bitcoin and other decentralized cryptocurrencies. High risk propaganda was launched when investing in cryptocurrency. On this basis, citizens were prohibited from participating as investors in ICO projects. So partly it worked. People are very weakly interested in cryptocurrency in the United States.
On the other hand, in relatively wealthy countries, where the high income of citizens is relatively less interested in cryptocurrency, than in poor countries.

Bitcoin does not necessarily have to be used by everyone around the world, but if only 3% of them know and 1% use it and make profits, we can easily know the rest about it.
Innovations in the early days do not achieve much turnout, but in short periods they succeed in winning thousands and perhaps millions of followers.
I believe in less than 10 years more than 20% of Americans will know about bitcoin

Or maybe he's too old to adopt changes in our modern technology and finds it very complex so he/she doesn't know how or don't want to use it. According to a report, the average age group of cryptocurrency investors is 37-44 but I've noticed that there is plenty on the younger generation too that are using cryptocurrency.

While in the other study, it shows that 18-34 years old use cryptocurrency.

Here's the study where I learned about the ages of the crypto investors; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3501549##
https://cryptobriefing.com/surging-interest-bitcoin-vs-gold/

Bitcoin is a complicated phenomenon. People hold different views on what it is. I did a survey on this forum. I found people hold different views of Bitcoin. We don't really agree on what Bitcoin is. It's confusing for new learners.

There's a problem with the Bitcoin educational material. People are afraid of being wrong. So they stick with the "safe" approach. They present Bitcoin as a technology. Then it's up to viewers to interpret what Bitcoin is.

Well, I'm not entirely suprised because not even in America but across virtually everywhere, not everyone really knows about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. The fact that the government and regulators are trying so hard to paint bitcoin to be a digital currency being used for illegal deals always turn off people to really learn about it but i think that's about to change as even merchants and vendors are beginning to adopt API and plugins that will enable them receive payments in bitcoin. I'm sure everyone starts "seeing we accept bitcoin" in grocery stores, they'll know bitcoin the more

I'm also surprised because America is a developed country and maybe not all developed countries know about Bitcoin. Hmm, Bitcoin have is launch a long time ago and there are still many people who don't know, but you don't need to be disappointed because you can explain to your clients what is that Bitcoin or Ethereum and what it does.

Well you should be the one to adjust because they are your clients and they are the reason for your living. Being dismay in your part is a natural reaction since you do like cryptocureency transaction. However, if they pay using cryptocurrency then that would be lot better and you can make any deposit and to use it anytime. Now, if you think of their payments will be gone directly to your investment like bitcoin or ethereum then you can also convert your deposit into cryptocurrency thought you will have to pay a small amount of transaction fee.

Nevertheless, if one will make more demand from clients that will be resulting to negative impression on you will be a disgrace for your business. Keep in mind that clients should always satisfy your service with corresponding payment either crypto or fiat currency.

I don't think there's anything surprising here There are many countries in the world not just America who still know nothing about Bitcoin and Ethereum They have heard the name but have no idea how to use it. However Fiat currency is in circulation almost everywhere Since they cannot pay in Bitcoin and Ethereum you can take your payment in Fiat currency However if the introduction of Bitcoin then their country will be more developed.

Not only Americans, but there are still many other people who do not know Bitcoin. Even many entrepreneurs know Bitcoin, but they don't want to use Bitcoin as a media transfer. Many people think Bitcoin is a very confusing thing, let alone Bitcoin prices are easy to change. So they are too risky to accept Bitcoin as a media transfer. In my country, there are also many people who do not know Bitcoin. That makes them not knowing about Bitcoin because there is not much news about Bitcoin information, probably in America like that.

Like what they've said, 1. You just bumped into 2 clients and not the rest of the population so it's not so easy to conclude that most Americans are not familiar with bitcoin, and 2. You also got a point somehow, it's not quite shocking if most of the people you encountered don't know bitcoin. I mean, it was a new technology after all so it was understandable if only geeks like us knew it for now. Actually, even a bank staff which I talk with here in my country don't know about it. What more for a simple person :D. 

I can't agree with you. In last year I've read an article about American crypto user. In that article I've read that about 36.5 million Americans own crypto.

Link: https://cointelegraph.com/news/number-of-americans-owning-crypto-doubled-in-2019-finder/amp

There are a lot of crypto user in America. it's really surprising to me that an American freelancer doesn't know about BTC. many freelancers get payment in BTC. and as a freelancer I think, all freelancers know about all major online currency, if they use it or don't.

Like you said, "we are still in the early stage of Bitcoin". Not just Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency in general.
You won't believe that some countries in some continents doesn't no clue about what a Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is, Even USA. And shows how far back we are in pushing crypto to get adopted by people.

Only proving that bitcoin / crypto is not yet popular to all side of the world, not even around in a well developed country like US.

Not everyone have time to read and understand how this currency works, most only think that it's just scam due to bad publicity

that are spreading around their communities.