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Title: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: LakeBTC on August 28, 2014, 01:32:10 AM Don’t go burning your cash or cutting up your credit cards anytime soon. While awareness of bitcoin and other virtual currencies is on the rise, Americans don’t seem in any hury to actually use them. The WSJ reports (https://www.lakebtc.com/p/6782?locale=en) that a new survey, from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the Massachusetts Division of Banks, found that just over half of those surveyed knew of bitcoin and other currencies, yet just 3% had said they used it.
The CSBS survey was taken in May (http://www.csbs.org/regulatory/ep/Documents/Final%20Report-VirtualCurrencySurvey2014.pdf), and questioned 1,000 online consumers. The WSJ offers up these survey findings: Quote …the findings aren’t surprising; men, for instance, were more likely (64%) than women (38%) to be aware of virtual currencies. Only a limited number said they’d buy or use them – 65% of the overall respondents said they were “unlikely” to ever use them. Younger respondents were more likely to have purchased bitcoins or other currencies, and Hispanics (30%) and African Americans (24%) were also more likely than whites (14%) to be willing to purchase virtual currencies. While people in households where the income is over $100,000 were more likely to have heard of bitcoin (70%) than those in lower-income households (43%), they were less likely to say they’d purchase bitcoins (11%) than those in households with incomes of less than $100,000 (19%). ... http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2014/08/27/psst-have-you-heard-of-this-bitcoin-thing/ Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: Candystripes on August 28, 2014, 01:52:13 AM You can use em to do a ton of things, gamble, buy illegal stuff, all the fun things you can do with USD easily over the Internet :)
Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: franky1 on August 28, 2014, 02:07:19 AM Don’t go burning your cash or cutting up your credit cards anytime soon. While awareness of bitcoin and other virtual currencies is on the rise, Americans don’t seem in any hury to actually use them. The WSJ reports (https://www.lakebtc.com/p/6782?locale=en) that a new survey, from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the Massachusetts Division of Banks, found that just over half of those surveyed knew of bitcoin and other currencies, yet just 3% had said they used it. The CSBS survey was taken in May (http://www.csbs.org/regulatory/ep/Documents/Final%20Report-VirtualCurrencySurvey2014.pdf), and questioned 1,000 online consumers. The WSJ offers up these survey findings: Quote …the findings aren’t surprising; men, for instance, were more likely (64%) than women (38%) to be aware of virtual currencies. Only a limited number said they’d buy or use them – 65% of the overall respondents said they were “unlikely” to ever use them. Younger respondents were more likely to have purchased bitcoins or other currencies, and Hispanics (30%) and African Americans (24%) were also more likely than whites (14%) to be willing to purchase virtual currencies. While people in households where the income is over $100,000 were more likely to have heard of bitcoin (70%) than those in lower-income households (43%), they were less likely to say they’d purchase bitcoins (11%) than those in households with incomes of less than $100,000 (19%). i love statistics 1000 consumers. lets say 500 male 500 females so 650 people would not use bitcoin 500 males = 320 males knew of bitcoin 180 did not 500 females = 190 females knew of bitcoin 310 did not meaning 510 total people did know of about bitcoin meaning 490 total people did not know about bitcoin what so ever so out of the 510 that did know about it 140 still would not use bitcoin. and 370 would use bitcoin summary 37% of todays population will in "FUTURE POSSIBLY" adopt bitcoin.. sounds good to me now if everyone atleast knew about it rather than just half the population.. then the possible adoption would be over 70% Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: NotAtOld on August 29, 2014, 06:12:29 AM I heard bitcoins give you herpes.
Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: AllYouCanDo on August 29, 2014, 07:24:21 AM I heard bitcoins give you herpes. It must give you a boner first. Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 29, 2014, 08:04:42 AM I heard bitcoins give you herpes. It must give you a boner first. I have been seeing a lot of cats lately. ::) Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: RappingSniper on August 29, 2014, 08:36:09 AM I heard bitcoins give you herpes. It must give you a boner first. Oh, totally! A good one :) Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: montello on August 29, 2014, 09:11:30 AM Don’t go burning your cash or cutting up your credit cards anytime soon. While awareness of bitcoin and other virtual currencies is on the rise, Americans don’t seem in any hury to actually use them. The WSJ reports (https://www.lakebtc.com/p/6782?locale=en) that a new survey, from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the Massachusetts Division of Banks, found that just over half of those surveyed knew of bitcoin and other currencies, yet just 3% had said they used it. The CSBS survey was taken in May (http://www.csbs.org/regulatory/ep/Documents/Final%20Report-VirtualCurrencySurvey2014.pdf), and questioned 1,000 online consumers. The WSJ offers up these survey findings: Quote …the findings aren’t surprising; men, for instance, were more likely (64%) than women (38%) to be aware of virtual currencies. Only a limited number said they’d buy or use them – 65% of the overall respondents said they were “unlikely” to ever use them. Younger respondents were more likely to have purchased bitcoins or other currencies, and Hispanics (30%) and African Americans (24%) were also more likely than whites (14%) to be willing to purchase virtual currencies. While people in households where the income is over $100,000 were more likely to have heard of bitcoin (70%) than those in lower-income households (43%), they were less likely to say they’d purchase bitcoins (11%) than those in households with incomes of less than $100,000 (19%). i love statistics 1000 consumers. lets say 500 male 500 females so 650 people would not use bitcoin 500 males = 320 males knew of bitcoin 180 did not 500 females = 190 females knew of bitcoin 310 did not meaning 510 total people did know of about bitcoin meaning 490 total people did not know about bitcoin what so ever so out of the 510 that did know about it 140 still would not use bitcoin. and 370 would use bitcoin summary 37% of todays population will in "FUTURE POSSIBLY" adopt bitcoin.. sounds good to me now if everyone atleast knew about it rather than just half the population.. then the possible adoption would be over 70% A very interesting analysis but lets just keep our fingers crossed. Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: Drendas on August 29, 2014, 09:20:45 AM Patience, grasshopper.
Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: philiveyjr on October 07, 2014, 09:13:00 PM BTC Popularity is on the rise..!! AS the prices r down..i guess more ppl will be intereste in buying them...once its stabilizes.!
Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: susan234 on October 08, 2014, 01:01:47 AM but in China ,there is less peopel know it ,
some people know a little about the BTC, and only know the bad side of the BTC. that the biggest problem i think now that must be solved is that let people understand BTC correctly! Title: Re: Have You Heard of This Bitcoin Thing? Post by: johncarpe64 on October 08, 2014, 01:56:07 AM People dont understand how to use it less people have heard of it and get the advantage people believe the normal money system is fine so for some there is no reason to use it for them
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