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We live in a modern world, and it is the responsibility of those who are educated to educate those around them, because not everything in this life is learned in school. Aside from attending school, there are numerous ways to learn. We wake up each day and see new things, so learning is all around us.
In 2016, a friend of mine suggested that I come and invest in Bitcoin; I was shocked, and I told him that I would not. I thought it was all a scam, and I don't like online stuff because I don't believe in it, so I told my friend, "Okay, since you said it's not a scam, teach me about bitcoin." I did some folder research on it and discovered that it is true. My friend introduced me to bitcoin. I began learning how to trade it, and from there I began investing in Bitcoin. My investment gradually grew in my favor, and I began to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I was so surprised when my people transferred the thought I had for my friend before I joined to me. I started spreading the word about bitcoin, and while not everyone believes in it, it has made me less suspicious. Even now, most people believe it is a scam. I noticed that some of us here are raising awareness. No, charity starts at home.

None, to be honest.

I don't want anyone to know that I have Bitcoin, and only the people close to me who I would trust with my life know. Everyone else, when the subject comes up, I get interested in it and ask questions as if I don't know much. It's funny because there are more than one who goes as an expert because he has read two things and has no idea.

As far as I can remember there are threads recently of members teaching bitcoin in their community, so that is a good start. And then some members who had businesses online and offline accepting bitcoin as well to raise awareness.

So there is a lot of effort that we can do, we can even talk to our friends around or even have small talks. Not necessarily about the benefit and what not, but just introducing bitcoin to them and wake up their curiosity about it is enough, in my opinion.

Even if you're not a bitcoin expert, there are tons of opportunities to raise awareness about cryptocurrency in your community. From hosting an educational event to helping with a charitable bitcoin-related project, there's no shortage of ways for you to get involved. Here are a few ideas: Host a meetup, throw a party in your home, have bitcoin giveaways on social media or advertise locally. And who knows – perhaps you'll even help a few people discover the digital currency that could change their lives!

However, I don't really like to entice people to invest. I believe bitcoin is valuable and will continue to become more so. However, I don't like to try to coerce people into it, because ultimately they should choose their own investments.

For me I'm not doing any conscious enough to spread awareness about bitcoin. It's better if they will have to discover it themselves and see how they will benefit it from investing or trading BTC.

I mean how can you raise awareness if they are not into it? You can talk about if for hours but when you go home, these people might dismiss it and forget about what you have talk earlier about bitcoin.

That's a good point and is complex for the bitcoin users. In one hand we want everyone to know about bitcoin, but in the other hand we want to stay under a low profile.

I think the best way to promote bitcoin is telling about it to our close friends and family, and let the words spread from person to person. And with time, those who get interested will stay.

I don't have a community, only close friends, that's what I do to increase their awareness of Bitcoin, I think it's important because the more modern blockchain technology is, the more important it is for them to know about Bitcoin, so I just gave directions so they understand Bitcoin. has increased after I did some awareness of how important it is that they know what Bitcoin is.

Now they understand and have more basics that they have been looking for together to improve this but I prefer that we together invest in Bitcoin in the long term and I always remind him, the important thing is not to be influenced by useless altcoins That's it, so I'm just doing a little education for those who don't know but doing it together to get started slowly in Bitcoin.

I told them Bitcoin is a more valuable asset so start hoarding more Bitcoins while you can and try to do that you will definitely have hope for more price increases someday, but don't expect it to be faster because of profits, because investment takes longer process but we will get the result.

Community, may mean the people around you which may also include your childhood friends, co-workers, hangout friends, your neighbors and others.

OP, I didn't do much about raising awareness of people I know about bitcoin. I have no responsibility to tell them what bitcoin is, why I like bitcoin and how bitcoin works as an investment asset or currency. They are responsible for themselves and their knowledge unless they approach me and start asking questions.

My uncle knows that I have invested in bitcoin or crypto assets, he asked me to do it for him but until now I haven't told much about how this works. I haven't had enough time to explain to him about the risks, but I'm glad he's interested in investing even if not in the actual use case.

I don't think everyone in this forum has the responsibility to educate people around them. Especially, if crypto is still illegal in their countries.

I am always willing to share my experience and knowledge with anyone who is interested in the crypto world. I've done it several times. But I never invited anyone to join the crypto world, it's not our responsibility. My family and friends know that I am a part of crypto world, but I have no intention to invite them. I will let them have their own will, "no coercion and no excessive lure". I believe that everyone has their own interest, we only have the responsibility to help those who are interested in crypto. Since crypto investment or trading has a high risk, not each person wants to join it. For example my family members, they prefer to focus on a relatively safer investment such as gold, land, or property.

Is that all you know about bitcoin? Should we teach Bitcoin to our locality the way your friend thought you? What if we encounter inpatient people and they come for our necks when they don't see returns on investment from Bitcoin maybe due to Bitcoin?

Well I don't think you were thought about Bitcoin in the full picture. And I don't think you should spread bitcoin same way as your friend did. Bitcoin has background, purposes that does not only attach to investments or trading, tell those people you speaking to about bitcoin about the benefits they can get asides investment.

Let's go by parts OP.

your title dissociates from the OP enormously I don't see anything that relates it in your experience, that is, I understand that your help to the community is zero. Telling a friend use bitcoin is not community building.

We live in beautiful times of information, bitcoin is available to everyone, for its use and its corresponding training. Actually if more disclosure is needed, obviously it is not easy as everything requires common sense,on this board there are several examples of users join action in that sense.

One can get involved with their community and try to spread the idea, I repeat the idea, it is not necessary to use the adjective "teach" or set up a little school, that is in a certain way the best way, but there is not even one for Fiat money, speaking in simple neighborhood terms, from day to day.

It's a myth after 13 years to think and want to live in "I don't talk about bitcoin" it's dangerous, etc. It's not like you're going to wear a badge that says "I have bitcoin, ask me how I did it"...

The silent discourse grows day by day despite the fact that there are still people who think that talking about bitcoin is dangerous, shit! ... yeah of course it is like talking about fiat money or having a $500 iphone in your pocket, a rolex or having a nice car.

In our condo someone suggested pay with USDT, is not bitcoin!, but the jargon is beginning to spread, so it will be so common, that then we will understand the true utility  of the process to get involved and do something.

We have in our local board a thread that deals with neighborhood businesses that accept bitcoin and it is incredible to see communities where there are bars and people meet to talk about bitcoin and pay with bitcoin, there are not many but they exist, let's say that every time this grows and grow more.

Many users think why I have to do it, it does not matter, there is a part that does try and sometimes they are truly passionate about the premises of bitcoin.

Bitcoin is revolutionary but the truth is that it has few soldiers to divulge its premises, that is if it has many "five star generals".

No efforts have been made on my part because I believed that Bitcoin will have it's own way to spread awareness. Not necessarily for us enthusiast to have that kind of job to tell everyone about what Bitcoin is.

I appreciate though those individuals from this community who are doing their part and that is really good to know. But not everyone is interested on Bitcoin to be honest, so let them miss the boat or be late when the price goes up in the next 3-4 halvings, or when almost all Bitcoin have been mined.

Majority of the people here did not exert in sharing their knowledge about crypto and Bitcoin in their respective communities, including me. Why? Because these people in your neighborhood or your not so close office mates and acquaintances, 90% of them will not going to be interested in the first place. Most of us here only share our knowledge to our family and close friends and relatives, as they believe you more than those people outside your circle.
Bitcoin is bound to have global adoption and those people who needs education regarding Bitcoin will come at you on their own.

In my community?
No, I think I don't do anything to rise up or to attract more people to get into cryptocurrency directly in my area. For, crypto is still considered a debatable matter here. So, better to avoid the situation and only focus on what we are doing.

In another case, I only ever do it to my family only, it is also if they are asking me at first about cryptocurrency and they want to learn about it. SO, I will not tell them at first or get them into this crypto world if they don't ask me at first.

This is because not all people can accept cryptocurrency, not all people can accept the risks of crypto investment, and many people around me only focus on what they can hold and look to earn the money, so most of them will not risk their money into this kind of digital inevstment. This sis till hard here, but at least, if they are asking, we can tell and exlain them as possible aswe can without forcing them to invest.

from 2016 until now i will never give lessons about bitcoin to anyone other than my wife and children. the reason is because giving knowledge about bitcoin or other crypto to other people is very dangerous for myself. because people who don't know what bitcoin or crypto are, will certainly judge if they just want to scamming. and i've seen some people in my area who try to raise awareness about bitcoin, but those people get negative criticism because it looks like it promises profit but in the long term it looks like a slow scam.
maybe some people will be successful in raising awareness about bitcoin in the right way. but for me it is not the best.
but unless there is someone who really knows about bitcoin and comes to my house to ask more about bitcoin and that's when i will give awareness about long term investment in bitcoin

I have a very big concern, I have read what the Op said in his testimony on how he discovered bitcoin and cryptocurrency.  Far back 2016 that his friend introduced him to bitcoin which he initially never wanted to involve because he thought it was a scam, but he later started investing as far back as 2016 and later ran into profits. This is exactly the kind of testimonies I read all over the forum.

Are there no people that discovered bitcoin not because of the profit they will have in it maybe because of the privacy, because of your ability to control your money by yourself without a third party and because of trying out a new method of finance?  If bitcoin stop producing profits are we all going to leave the cryptocurrency market? I am just being unnecessarily curious here

Honestly, I'm very hesitant to encourage people to invest in Bitcoin. I literally got asked the question today by someone in the family. I basically said I wouldn't advise so. Since, I believe it requires a lot of knowledge to actually learn about Bitcoin, and by the time you've learned about Bitcoin, you don't need to be asking that question. So, my default is I wouldn't advise it. Ideally, I should be telling them only with the right knowledge, but the questions I get asked are usually off the cuff, and not a great deal of thought put into it.

I'd love to educate others on Bitcoin, but I don't think my base level of knowledge is good enough to do that. Bitcoin is complex, there's no way around it. Fiat is also complex, but at a consumer level it's relatively straight forward because we're introduced to it from a relatively young age, and there's a massive effort by companies to streamline it. Currently, Bitcoin doesn't have any of those things, and therefore it's a new concept to everyone, whereas fiat is basically second nature. So, yeah I definitely don't grasp a few concepts, and I wouldn't be comfortable teaching anyone about Bitcoin, when I don't fully understand it myself.

Don't get me wrong, I have a fairly good grasp. I've been here nearly 10 years now, should I should do. However, there's a few concepts which I might understand from a consumer point of view, but teaching that in a comprehensible way to someone else, I don't think I'd be very good at. Teaching is a skill, we aren't all teachers when it comes to the technical side of things.

As much as I want to advocate its use, I also don't want to be the person to advise someone wrongly. 

I don't believe I've ever done something similar, but I hope to start it sometime since I want many people, especially younger generations, to know about Bitcoin and think it would be very beneficial to them. Because I think that everyone will want to know about Bitcoin in the coming years, I am ready to start exposing it to my family, friends, and some members of the community.
I personally blame my friend, from whom I learned about Bitcoin, for not introducing me to it sooner. He once claimed to have known about it since 2015, but I only learned about it in 2020, despite having heard about it since 2012.

Many individuals want to learn about Bitcoin, but no one is teaching them anything about it around them, therefore they are looking for the best way to do so.
You can promote Bitcoin to your community after you realize that the locals are interested in learning about it, but my advise is to never reveal to anyone that you have a sizable investment in Bitcoin for security reasons.

Im done with sharing which i do have some bad experiences when i do tend to share up Bitcoin wayback in 2016 onwards and since those times which hyip investments are that rampant then lots of

them had ended up on getting scammed and they are pointing fingers at me on what i had shared up which i do basically explains on what is Bitcoin and not to those common hyip or scams around.

People are way too greedy which they do end up on messing their money just they do put all of their hard earned on something which they do believe that could make them rich
which ending up on a disaster.Now, i dont have the interest on explaining on others about it.

Investing in bitcoin is really risky because of its volatility, I think that's why many people are afraid to share it with others to invest. But I think there is no need to talk about investment when it comes to bitcoin apart from being an investment bitcoin can also be a currency. I don't want to brag or let people know I'm a bitcoin investor, but when anyone asks, I'm always ready to help. I can only share with them the basics of bitcoin like how bitcoin is different from fiat, how to create a wallet address, how to convert to fiat...As for investing, I can only say learning on youtube or on social networks, I don't think I have enough knowledge to teach them how to make money in this market.

I am once in this situation before and the problem is that 95% of all newbies are not ready to learn to understand the cryptocurrency system their impression is that Bitcoin is always about making money.
The only way I use to raise awareness of Bitcoin is through the merch I did with the logo of BTC and the words saying it is the future money.

This is what we are meant to keep doing, to enlighten people about Bitcoin and how one could invest in a long term basis. Crypto is one of the treasures we have in our time and many people that had taken it seriously are the big crypto traders and influencers we are seeing now. The market is huge with so many opportunities we can benefit from without having to bother ourselves much on some certain things.

We just need to tell people about the wonders of Bitcoin even now that the market is dip giving everyone the opportunity to buy as much as they can buy without having to ponder on when the market is going to be bullish.

Much efforts from my end had not been put together towards bitcoin adoption as at recent, why is probably because of the environment i found myself and i believe this is mostly the likely possibility for most people as well, what will the people say about you, this has been a common challenges especially with those living in a remote areas, how to convince them to digital network like bitcoin for an investment and currency is now a tideous task because of the past experience they had with bounties and ponzi scheme, if the environment looks uncondusive enough then it will be wise to exercise patience and apply wisdom.

Nope, for me privacy is the top main concern in Bitcoin and I wouldn't feel comfortable if I leak my identity to anyone if I own Bitcoin or a Bitcoin enthusiast.

Most people consider Bitcoin as an investment asset, this mean if they heard someone hold Bitcoin, that's person is an investor and rich. Many people will act good in order to get money from him or trying to know his way to get much money. This will increase a blackmail or terror on his social media, moreover he could be targeted by $5 wrench attack. Are you want to teach Bitcoin to your community, but you're risking your life at the same time? Not worth it.

10 years ago I spread about bitcoin and other crypto in my country, using social media and youtube channel I introduced it to them until today, always many people will say it's a scam but keep going as long as it's a good job for us do.

if there are people who say bitcoin is a scam, you need to know that bitcoin is only a means of payment online, sometimes we often see fraudulent sites such as fraudulent investment sites using bitcoin payments, when the site commits fraud then people who have invested in that site will saying bitcoin is a fraud even though that site is doing the fraud not bitcoin, that's the beginning people who don't understand bitcoin always think bitcoin is a fraud, it's clear bitcoin is just a means of payment online not a business let alone anything else, my advice is don't never give up to spread any news about bitcoin to everyone and don't hesitate to ask anything in this forum for you to learn more about bitcoin, good luck

I talk to people about bitcoin. They don't understand very well how it works and want to know who is behind it, as it had a supplier like the government or central bank. Then I tell them bitcoin is decentralized and has no authority behind it and that anyone can acquire bitcoin from the original source by mining it virtually with hardwares and that the total supply is limited to 21 million btcs.

But I think it is too hard to understand such things, so they end believing it doesn't make sense and that I'm probably being fooled by this bitcoin thing...

I don't think everyone educated has a responsibility to educate others. Sometimes people know things but are bad at sharing their knowledge with others. Sometimes people just want to chill and don't want to learn about some things. Also, the educator often becomes in an elevated position from those being educated, which can create discomfort and tensions. I think people should share knowledge when there's an opportunity for it, and also when those being taught show at least neutrality if not interest to the topic. I've worked as a school teacher for a couple of years, and I think I introduced cryptos briefly to most classes where I taught because it was something I saw an opportunity to mention and because kids actually were kind of familiar with it, at least vaguely. Of course, it wasn't about investing in cryptos, and it was a small thing that most would probably forget but some might be keen on exploring further.

This is so me. Maybe it's because of the nature of my locality here, but once you talk of having bitcoin people see you as an already made person. And this has actually reduced my urge to educate my guys in investing into bitcoin because they feel since its an online stuff- so it's a quick to- get rich scheme. Once you say its a not that way but more of store of virtue and when you try to tell them that it's decentralized they response by saying people behind it will run away some day and some even go to extent of giving you this recent bearish stats. So for me it's kinda of hard to educate people here now about bitcoin

It doesn't take any special time to teach him how to get involved in Bitcoin investing. Regardless of your busy life, when your interest in investing in Bitcoin has started to grow, we must cultivate that desire by providing the simplest possible explanation.

So far, I haven't done much to make people around me raise awareness about Bitcoin. What I have done and am still doing up to now is inserting a discussion about Bitcoin's good opportunities in the future when I am with colleagues at the office. Then I also plan to sponsor every local football sports tournament.

The plan of sponsoring football tournaments is really welcoming, because in every region small groups will have their local games and conducting tournaments often. Sponsoring those tournaments and having some posters will create awareness on cryptocurrency.

My plan is almost same, whenever I meet with my school friends we used to discuss on investment. By that time I used to give suggestions on cryptocurrency. Following my words few of my friends have got interest and started investing on cryptocurrency developing their own portfolio.

For me, I am asking some businesses or personal individuals if they are accepting Bitcoin as a mode of payment.
Because of this, if they are first time to hear about Bitcoin, for sure they became interested or curious, so even that very simple question, it is already a big help for Bitcoin community to gain new people.

I'm not really proactive in spreading Bitcoin awareness. I have to admit this. But I'm not like this because I am not a solid supporter of Bitcoin or I do not want other people to know Bitcoin. I am like this for the sake of security. I am very much aware how some Bitcoin owners are risking not only their Bitcoin but even their lives and well-being because of openly showing to the public that they have Bitcoin. So I am satisfied talking about Bitcoin only with family and relatives and some close friends.

On the bullishness of bitcoin on 2017, I've done a lot of talks to my friends about bitcoin but they've lost their enthusiasm and trust on me when 2018 came.
Well, I'm sure that others have been distrusted by their peers because  of how they're being told and got some good words about investing in bitcoin way back then.
We're not at fault on that because on my talks with them, I've told them that bitcoin is highly volatile and we don't know how long the bull run will stay.
Right now, I'm not doing anything in my community because it seems dangerous to talk about it. I don't wanna be targeted with a $5 wrench attack.

The community or environment around us is certainly the main target when it comes to introducing awareness of bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Not easy to do, but not impossible. The most good and correct way to raise awareness of bitcoin is to provide basic education to those who are curious about what bitcoin is and what cryptocurrencies are. they initially thought of it as a digital asset that would not last long and would soon die. But until now they have witnessed that crypto or bitcoin is able to survive and is increasingly recognized.
The spread of this information is faster because social media provides help to spread bitcoin knowledge. some people in the neighborhood or community who are getting interested will continue to ask questions and find out how to get involved in bitcoin. this is a great opportunity to step in and explain in detail what bitcoin and cryptocurrencies really are.

I have put it upon my self to talk about bitcoin in my community because people in my community people don’t really understand what bitcoin is they have pictured bitcoin to be Ponzi scheme so I try as much as possible to make awareness even to the extent of taking it on air to give a basic lectures for people to actually know a little about bitcoin and am still working to do more, to give bitcoin a good picture since is build on the foundation of trust.

You said the matter with the delay in spreading the information and like I read comments here many don't want people to know about their involving in it for many reasons.

1. The people living in country that have ban bitcoin will not expose themselves because government not to come after them when they hear that they have it.

2. Friends setting you up in a gun point to maybe get you to transfer your hodling to them because of envy.

3. You will be careful of your life if you live in insecured environment.

The burden of people losing money and looking upto you as someone who made them lose money. If I want to tell some people about Bitcoin, the keywords that will entice them are; invest, invest  rise, withdraw profits, make money and get rich. But these things doesn't go as planned, what of they come and invest and in the end market runs against them.

Apart from investment, what other thing will I tell them about Bitcoin that will interest them. It could be nothing, that is why I am not always motivated to teaching people about Bitcoin.

I’ve recently been involved in a lot of peer to peer teaching. Word of mouth has been my tool.

It’s useless to keep on talking things and spread about its good news to the people when in the first place, they always believe it’s not even legit and definitely a big scam. So i think I’m just tired of it hearing and just learn to keep it to myself. After all, when the government approves it, people will eventually start to see its positive sides and embrace bitcoin like they did to fiat. Although I am also sharing concepts of bitcoin to some of my close friends, but the intention is purely for investments discussion.

I have found that it heavily depends on the type of situation you find yourself in. If you bring up something about cryptocurrencies around a number of people who are familiar with them, you will get a range of opinions, and they will likely have their own opinions on the matter. This can lead to some heated discussions if you feel strongly about one side or another of an issue. This can have heavy implications when discussing bitcoin with friends who are not as well-versed in the subject. At the same time, if you attempt to talk about how much you love your bitcoin experience around family members who may not be as tech-savvy and who are unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies, it can lead to confusion and questions that will make you want to avoid talking about it all together.

Well, since I live in a inflationary country, I mostly recommend close people to get into Bitcoin and reliable stable coins as medium of exchange. For now, I have managed to get my family to embrace these kind of assets to make our economical situation a little bit easier, letting them know that Bitcoin is not a scam or a ponzi scheme whatsoever, but it is not a magical tool to make money so I encourage them to distrust any kind of business or scheme that offers them unrealistic passive incomes for their their satoshis or stable coins.

Good thing if all the people we come to talk about bitcoin will always have the same mindset as you, but in reality only 1 out of 10 will be able to do that. Most of the people are close pd minder about crypto and they always think it’s a big scam and against the government regulations. The reason why I never care letting some people aware about crypto, I’ll just wait to learn it from their own will.

At first I was telling those people who are close to me about Bitcoin or crypto then some of them got into it,
But now I just put on crypto in my social media profile and some of the people that would add me would ask me about it.
Even my new coworkers ask me about crypto and how it works or how to earn from it.

Now almost all the people know about the bitcoin and few trusted crypto currency.Educating the people towards the new technology is the important character and attitude of the government.So the government of many countries recruited people with good knowledge about the crypto currency to fulfill the idea of crypto currency.Their Will good and bad of technology.So the government should allow such people to clear doubts of people

The success of your efforts to raise bitcoin awareness in your community will likely depend on a number of factors. For example, how widespread is the use of bitcoin in your region? Even if people are already familiar with bitcoin, how well do they understand its potential applications? How many people in your community are already invested in cryptocurrency? How receptive are they to learning about new technologies?

In addition to these factors, you'll also want to consider your own motivations for raising awareness about bitcoin. If your goal is simply to spread awareness without any expectation of financial gain, then you can probably get by with a lower-key, grassroots approach. On the other hand, if you're looking to make money by selling bitcoin-related products and services, then it may be necessary for you to raise awareness in a more overt manner.

Ultimately, you may run into some resistance from people who see Bitcoin as a threat to their own business or livelihood. But open-mindedness is needed on all sides to educate everyone about Bitcoin and its benefits (and its drawbacks). If you're passionate about introducing Bitcoin to others, whether it's the first time or the thousandth time, go for it! It can only help the world of cryptocurrency.

I actually hope you do have quite a lot of knowledge about what you are teaching, it isn't easy to "teach" people about Bitcoin, at least not as easy as some people make it seem, it is almost impossible to give out knowledge that you the 'giver' do not possess in sufficient quantity, i guess that could be the reason why a lot of Bitcoin newcomers think the network is a get rich scheme, their teachers/people who talked to them about the network prolly told them that, or didn't quite tell them what the network is actually for.

Having said that, i for one have not raised any Bitcoin awareness in my community, i consider it too big a risk for me to undertake, for obvious reasons. I might have talked to very few friends about Bitcoin, but not at the level of it being called "teaching", i can't teach, so my friends appreciate it better that i can basically just provide them with quality materials so they could do their own research, and it worked/is working this way.

While others may have the mission to spread the awareness of BTC to their community, I do think that such responsibility does not fall within my hands as I am not the person best to explain what BTC is. I actually tried raising the awareness of BTC during my college days where I integrate BTC to my presentations. I had this speech class where we had to present a topic impromptu. I chose BTC and explained it to my class in chances of at least informing them about it.

Though that may be the case, there are certain people who are really called for this kind of mission. Lots of noble users have posted their journey in spreading the awareness of BTC and I do think that they are in the best position to do such.

At first, that was really my thinking that other people should never know that I’m into bitcoin, and I should always keep bitcoin as a secret. Until I realized that other people deserve to know so that they will also learn and gain profits from bitcoin, and then I start sharing it to some of my friends and relatives. Unfortunately, they were completely not convinced so I realized there’s no reason to spread awareness on that as they will always think that bitcoin is scam and same like others, it will end up vanishing like thin air. Right then, I never do anything that would convince others to trust bitcoin.

At least for now, I'm only spreading the word to my family. It's better to trust them than my friends and other people in our neighborhood. I'm telling them the basics about investing in bitcoin as well as how it's used as a payment.
I think that I'm doing a good thing on that part when you're almost paranoid because people are having hard time these days and could do something to you physically to attack you just like what I've read on the news when they've known someone who holds bitcoins.

Yes.  You are not the only one left out my friend, because one thing certain is that many persons till date still believe that Bitcoin is a scam, due to either they may had fallen into one bitcoin scam or the other,  or acting out of ignorance, (i.e judging by what they may have heard people say in the past), which at times may not always be right. But the truth of the matter is that there are lots of scam Bitcoin investment online who offers a reward way too good to be true, such as investing $100 to get $1000 in 24hrs and targeting newbies who may likely fall into such scam. Which is why as a person who is new into Bitcoin, I will advise you to first learn to understand how Bitcoin works before investing in it.

Not too many if speaking frankly but have told my friends and colleagues about it and we also have some open discussions about it whenever we get time.There were some efforts in the past to tell people about bitcoin in my locality at a very small level like saying 10-15 people but they showed little to no interest in it and after that don't get time for these sessions and now only those who around me have knowledge and interest about it have these discussions.

I have applied to upwork jobs that are related to crypto and I introduce them to bitcointalk forum where to promote their project. They were surprised to see a busy forum where their competitors are. I guess I spread the word about this community full of contributors, unlike the forex community which is full of takers. Though I didn't get the job position, I already saw one thread they've created.

It's important to find a balance between raising awareness and not putting a target on your back by saying 'look at me, I have so many bitcoins, you should to'. I don't advertise myself as being pro-Bitcoin to the general public. I don't need that kind of attention. I speak with friends and family about it, and there have been situations where I have gifted bitcoin to close friends for birthdays and special occasions and in that way tried to incentivize them to learn what it is and how to use it.

I don't feel comfortable advising someone to invest in bitcoin. It's their money and their choice. Wrong investment advice could deteriorate relationships. Instead of spending your hard-earned money to purchase BTC, I often talk about finding ways to work for it. Doing some gigs and freelance work for those who have the time and skills. That way if it goes sideways, you only lose the time you put in, but not your own money.

I have a community and only a few friends and we often meet and hang out together when we have free time and always talk about bitcoin or crypto although not always completely, but it really helps because we share ideas and give each other input even though the decision is in our own hands , but it's fun because we're in the same place and I'm also involved because of them.
and after a few years my friends and I tried to tell some of our family members and try to believe because the real evidence of our finances is very good and also reliable when they need it and it makes some of our family members interested and involved until now.
I don't think it's necessary to raise awareness for those who don't understand at all and also don't care because in the end they will regret it when they find out for themselves, and the best way of initiative in my opinion apart from friends is family members because they can also be useful for the family, and also close friends when we get together.

I myself personally have done a lot in teaching people. Not just people I have also taught my family members down to school friends then. I have been practicalistic not just theoritical. I have took part in many little gathering of Bitcoin class enlightenment. I took part in seminar and conference talking about Bitcoin. I have made reference for people to hook up programs, seminar, YouTube channels very educating and self explanatory to newbies coming onboard the blockchain industry. Most times when I unveil newbies, I do it practical for them to see how it works. I open wallet, I show them what it looks like and how it looks like, I do transfer from one wallet to another, I show them transaction harsh as the recorded ledger on the chain for them to know how it works. I do and try my possible best to making sure they understand how blockchain and Bitcoin works. I go as far as telling them about exchange being a third party and how they operate. I give them instances and also do a practical trading for them to see so as to know how to buy and sell, do withdrawal to their private wallet likewise transferring from their private wallet to exchange wallet too.

In as much I do get them onboard the Bitcoin and blockchain platform I do my best to teach them all they need to know about how it works but I do not give them investment advise as I am not an economist neither am I a financial expert  to do so. I have witnessed a situation where a newbie that was onboard the system accused the person who brought him onboard of giving him wrong financial and investment advise which led to his loss.

Cryptocurrency has been stigmatised by many persons in our world to be something that is for the rich. People seem to associate the price of 1 bitcoin to be at least a part of a cryptocurrency investors portfolio and the could mean trouble. In an instant, they see you to be this very rich guy and the next you know, your a target of criminals and as that, one needs to be very careful on who they open up unto.

I have played my role which revolves about speaking up where need be and introducing sine friends, even a brother to the forum and they continue to be doing well up to this date. It might be little but it's growth and that's significant  as they too would preach the word to those they choose to.

I don't have to do that...
I. Only teach the people who are close to me because when you're trying to teach other people they take it as another abnormal thing due to that I do not boarder my self to teach them..
Rather people that are close to me

For now, I'm more private about bitcoin, because I already know the thoughts of people around me about bitcoin/crypto, because many people think that crypto/bitcoin is illegal, even though bitcoin is not illegal.
where I live, it is very difficult to introduce new understandings, especially regarding investment.
because as far as I know the people around me often even the majority invest in land or farming land.
so I don't really have any intention of teaching them about bitcoin/crypto, let them find out for themselves.