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Random people in the streets are asked about Bitcoin.
Interesting to see the reactions.

https://www.clevercoin.com/content/files/what-is-bitcoin-streets-video.PNG (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFgol7d2Q4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFgol7d2Q4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFgol7d2Q4)

all in all not so bad. most people heard of it and know that it is a currency.

"Doesn't really exist", should have explained fractional reserve lending to him (would have blown his tiny little mind).

Pretty nice video
now I 'am wondering about you guys of what you think about the old guy who said "people sitting and manipulating the price" :o 

Nice video, and I think it's amazing finding so many people on the streets who even had heard about bitcoin.

I know there are also this kind of video's about mobile phones and email.
But I can't find them.

lmfao have to agree with that one, people who haven't bothered to understand Bitcoin most likely don't understand their own banking system either.

Yeah, that's what I thought but I bet they just picked the best of the bunch. Surely there were more people who had never heard of it or had but had negative, misinformed opinions about it.

The overall positive is that they know what it is

However peoples general consensus of technology is that it breaks and unfortunately that's tied heavily with Bitcoin (to the uneducated user).

And those who do understand the system sit by helpless anyway. Ignorance is truly a bliss.

I would really like to know what % of people knew about it, because this clip just shows people who knew about it, obviously the people who didn't knew about it are not a part of clip but that understood , but even 20% of the people that are asked knew about it than we are heading in right direction.

Prove that the world is not ready to accept btc. Nor will it ever be.

I resent the implication that being involved in bitcoin makes me an irregular person. That's like saying only average IQ people are "regular", fuck that. I'm the normal one, it's the clueless plebeian masses that are borderline-retarded slaves!

The only solution is to burn them all. Yes, burn all the fiat using heathens, it's the will of god (satoshi)!

Do you want to be regular or normal?

I liked that old dude the most. He has some basic understanding, but later he says, he is just to old to look further into it.
But he is right about manipulation. Everything on free markets is manipulated these days.

Not us ;)

It shows in the description that it was about 50/50

The price was manipulated with fake trades on exchanges, but that's largely irrelevant as most things can be manipluated. The banks manipulate currencies and traders manipulate stocks and shares.

If they can manipulate it , why not just rise  the price and sell their coins ? :o don't really get it

1. because they make more money with volatility.
2. There are limits how much they can manipulate it. They can not just make 1 BTC=1 Million USD in one day.

Manipulation isn't as easy as you might think. Also, I think it was the exchanges doing the manipulating with bots buying and selling coins to each other that they never had. This is why some sort of decentralized exchange is needed to try stop this.

There is a big difference between "It is not easy" and "it is not possible".
A lot of people here, don't seem to understand that.
It's like saying: "When we can send people to the moon, why don't we just send people to Mars?"

Hmm , I guess I understand much better how those exchange & trading website works. :p thanks mate

These aren't regular people, they are Dutch.

In USA 95% or more would say what is it?

I may use my iphone to show how in the USA no one knows what it is for the most part.

Haha. What is that meant to mean? Is it good or bad?

Please lets see this done in a range of countries...

It means Dutch aren't regular.  'Good' or 'bad' that is left up to you. 

Dutch are good :D

I quite like being a couple of sigma off all round.

Last week a client approached me for writing Bitcoin news for his site. When I tried to hire a writer, I asked him if he knew bitcoin. He said and I am quoting "Is it the new app from Apple?"  :o

Anyway, have a good start :)

Shoulda said it's exactly that, a clone of flappy bird, where you have to keep pushing peoples buttons to make it stay up and not crash. :D

I liked this older man a lot, especially the way he says he's too old for following the advance in technology, but at the same time provides some of the most adequate responses (which just shows that he follows the news, after all).

Yup, but at the end of the day, most people will think that something exist given his impact on his daily life. When people go out and everyone accepts dollar and they can buy/sell anything for dollars, it's very real and it's very hard to argue with them how "bitcoins are more real" so to speak.

Agreed (well €), however under that criteria does Gold exist? It is unlikely he has ever owned or traded Gold either. People fail to understand that they are creditors of the bank and therefore subject to counter-party risk. As for the FDIC protecting all deposits, well that's just laughable (why the need to implement Global bank bail-in procedures).