Everyone who's going to hear about bitcoin has heard about it

[Stifler]

Less than half of the world will have even heard about bitcoin never mind use it so we've still got a long way to go, but it's use will be growing daily. Give it a couple of years and I'm sure its use will have doubled and in five years maybe doubled multiple times.

[shulio]

define many people, because you guys are always talking about your acquaintances, that it is only an inner circle of people, they don't represent many at all

and do not confuse "didn't hear" with didn't knowing how it work, because this is what i get from the "first a lot explanation is needed."

because there are many out there that did hear about bitcoin, but they do not have the faintest idea what it is

You live in a country where everyone else aware at bitcoin. You dont leave in the country where the majority of people dont know about this thing. You cant ask many people about bitcoin just to make sure if the entire country know it but you can take a sample of some people and asked them and that is what I am doing and most people dont know/never heard about it.

[SureLockLoans]

There will always be people leaving Bitcoin and people entering its sort of like a life cycle.

[Gleb Gamow]

You're not going to find a middle class guy who is remotely tuned in to CNBC or Yahoo/Google Finance who hasn't heard of bitcoin by now.

In the past, bitcoin expanded into new demographics. It started with the Slashdot crowd in 2009. Then the Wired/Silk Road article crowd in 2011. Then expanding more towards the VICE/Reddit/CNBC crowd in early 2013. By late 2013, it was on major network television in places like China, Russia, India, etc. You can't be a Wall Street Journal reader or a Google Finance reader without having read about bitcoin. It's been on the front page multiple times.

The next push won't be expanding into a new demographic. It will have to be on the strength of the technology itself.

Spot on!

The next push WILL be expanding into a new demographic.

[pr472]

The problem, as I see it, is that you have to give people a reason to take time to understand or show interest Bitcoin. I hear all the time, "I like using my credit card" or "I like using my debit card". They like the convenience. You have to move them out of that convenience, if that is possible.

For example, I have a PMA package with Wells Fargo. My credit and debit cards cost my nothing each year. If someone ever uses my card numbers, I get reimbursed completely. Convenience. This is what Bitcoin is up against, and Bitcoin needs many more people to use it if it is to grow.