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I live in the USA. Few people I deal with have even heard of it (before I brought the topic up). It has been harder than I would have thought to meet people to buy BTC from (in person).
I do not run with an "IT Crowd" though.
No one in my family knows or cares.
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I was just in Peru for a while. VERY different than Argentina (where BTC appears to be taking off nicely).
None of my in-laws know or care about BTC.
NONE of the four IT guys (kind of chosen at random in stores, etc). even knew about it.
As far as I know, no one in Peru accepts BTC as payment.
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1Referee
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May 12, 2015, 09:34:27 PM |
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I live in Western-Europe and in my area there is absolutely nothing you can do with Bitcoin unfortunately. I hope it will change in the near future.
The nearest place to spend Bitcoin in an actual store is probably 200KM away from here. Everything needs time to develop.
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May 12, 2015, 09:52:54 PM |
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I live in Western-Europe and in my area there is absolutely nothing you can do with Bitcoin unfortunately. I hope it will change in the near future.
The nearest place to spend Bitcoin in an actual store is probably 200KM away from here. Everything needs time to develop.
Maybe you should start a Bitcoin business then. You already know about Bitcoin and you have no competitors in your area so far. |
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May 12, 2015, 10:01:23 PM |
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I live in Houston and most of the people I interact with have heard of it but most are clueless beyond just having heard or read the name somewhere. I find that of those who have some knowledge, like most things, the older ones have a more negative feeling towards it and the younger people are more interested in its future.
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May 12, 2015, 10:05:32 PM |
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I live in Western-Europe and in my area there is absolutely nothing you can do with Bitcoin unfortunately. I hope it will change in the near future.
The nearest place to spend Bitcoin in an actual store is probably 200KM away from here. Everything needs time to develop.
Maybe you should start a Bitcoin business then. You already know about Bitcoin and you have no competitors in your area so far. The government here is like a vampire. The less you own on paper here, the less they can suck out of your wallet. Beside that, I really don't know what to start. |
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May 12, 2015, 10:21:09 PM |
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U.S. My friends and family know about it primarily because I made some money off Bitcoin 1.5 years ago and bought some really nice property upon which we are now building a house. Alas, the project has been a very effective way of solving my fiat problem and there has not been another selling opportunity so I'm back to being poor again, but the good news is that I find life is neither more nor less fun when one's fiat account is ballooned.
Other than that I find that most people have heard of Bitcoin but their understanding of it beyond that is utterly minimal. The mainstream types with a strong belief in one political party or another don't have much love lost for Bitcoin since it is a pretty blatant challenge to the state. One of them won 1/4 BTC at a family gathering (I'll let you guess by whom that was donated) and would not even take it. My more Libertarian friends don't seem to know much more about it but they hope it succeeds.
Judging by this thread (and my own observations) Bitcoin is an abject failure as an exchange currency for the masses which is exactly what I predicted. I thought going in that Bitcoin could and would only excel if it became a reserve AND a guerrilla currency which jealously retained an adversarial relationship with the State. Also, that it would only really shine in the dawn of state sponsored solutions which could occur some time between tomorrow and 100 years from now. I have no reason to change either of these positions since the 4 years that I first formulated them.
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May 12, 2015, 10:45:10 PM |
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Poland here EU
I only know myself.We have in Poland btc embassy,but thay are doing nothing to promote btc.The only one thing is one way ATM machine in his place.I kow there is many miners.Now something move.we have really good and secure btc exchange,,we have two two both way btc ATM installed in Warsaw and we will have more over all country,that people want also to start promote btc.I hope we will have btc to cash service
same like there is in Spain,withdraw ,exchange cash in bank atms
That what is kiling btc is taxation.btc here is property,pay tax when you own not when you sell and VATthat becouse of that you can buy nothing here with btc
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May 13, 2015, 09:00:14 AM |
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I lived in the PH, only like 7 % of the entire population that know bitcoin.
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May 13, 2015, 09:13:33 AM |
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I lived in the PH, only like 7 % of the entire population that know bitcoin.
I'm from the PH too, and I don't think that there are 7% of the entire population that really know bitcoin. There are some exchanges, services and people that promote the use of bitcoin but it seems that the general public is still iffy about the actual use of it. Also, it is surprising that even the smart minds in the IT industry aren't that familiar with the term "bitcoin" and what it really is. |
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May 13, 2015, 09:16:11 AM |
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I'm from the second smallest city/country in Asia. Yes a city and a country - Singapore. It is a first world country and.. I believe more than 50% of the people here know Bitcoin. I remember there was lot of "Bitcoin" in the news in the 2013/14 Bitcoin bubble. Slowly.. there is less and less news when the price keep on getting lower..
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So sad! This profile does not appear as the #1 result (on anonymous) Google searches anymore.
Time to be active on the crypto forums again? Proud to be one of the few Legendary members of the Sparkie Red Dot!
Gonna put this on my resume if I ever join a cryptocurrency/blockchain industry!
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May 13, 2015, 09:35:58 AM |
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I'm from the second smallest city/country in Asia. Yes a city and a country - Singapore. It is a first world country and.. I believe more than 50% of the people here know Bitcoin. I remember there was lot of "Bitcoin" in the news in the 2013/14 Bitcoin bubble. Slowly.. there is less and less news when the price keep on getting lower..
Question: is bitcoin still widely-known in your country as it was back then? Well I did a Google Trends analysis about bitcoin and it seems that the attention about it diminishes over time since the 2013 ATH of bitcoin's price. |
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There are bitcoiners in Romania, but I don't know personally. In my city I didn't see yet any "bitcoin accepted" shop. There was an exchange - btcxchange.ro - where you could trade, it died, nothing replaced it, afaik. At least you can buy BTC from payment terminals (ZebraPay). Most of my friends don't care or don't trust Bitcoin..  |
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May 13, 2015, 09:43:54 AM |
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I'm from the second smallest city/country in Asia. Yes a city and a country - Singapore. It is a first world country and.. I believe more than 50% of the people here know Bitcoin. I remember there was lot of "Bitcoin" in the news in the 2013/14 Bitcoin bubble. Slowly.. there is less and less news when the price keep on getting lower..
Question: is bitcoin still widely-known in your country as it was back then? Well I did a Google Trends analysis about bitcoin and it seems that the attention about it diminishes over time since the 2013 ATH of bitcoin's price. I'm not sure. I rarely talk with people about Bitcoin. I remember I saw one physical outlet with 'Bitcoin accept here' on their glass door. Well.. that was in the Bitcoin bubble prior. Yes, only once. Looking at my local thread, there is still people who use Bitcoin in Singapore. |
So sad! This profile does not appear as the #1 result (on anonymous) Google searches anymore.
Time to be active on the crypto forums again? Proud to be one of the few Legendary members of the Sparkie Red Dot!
Gonna put this on my resume if I ever join a cryptocurrency/blockchain industry!
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May 13, 2015, 09:46:53 AM |
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I'm from the second smallest city/country in Asia. Yes a city and a country - Singapore. It is a first world country and.. I believe more than 50% of the people here know Bitcoin. I remember there was lot of "Bitcoin" in the news in the 2013/14 Bitcoin bubble. Slowly.. there is less and less news when the price keep on getting lower..
Question: is bitcoin still widely-known in your country as it was back then? Well I did a Google Trends analysis about bitcoin and it seems that the attention about it diminishes over time since the 2013 ATH of bitcoin's price. I'm not sure. I rarely talk with people about Bitcoin. I remember I saw one physical outlet with 'Bitcoin accept here' on their glass door. Well.. that was in the Bitcoin bubble prior. Yes, only once. Looking at my local thread, there is still people who use Bitcoin in Singapore. Well that's still good.  Are there still any exchanges in there in SG wherein you can trade bitcoins to fiat and vice-versa? Here in the Philippines, there are many exchanges and most of them are still in service at the time of this writing. Also, there are different facebook groups here in our country wherein Filipino bitcoiners talk about the current situation of bitcoin, the economy and whatnot. |
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May 13, 2015, 09:52:18 AM |
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Due to the nature of my work, I travel all over the world. I have not found one country, apart from the UK, where people actively use Bitcoin. Sure they have heard about it, but they not using it. Most of the time, they only heard the bad news, so they scared to use it. The biggest concern - Hacking. ^sniff sniff
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May 13, 2015, 10:19:31 AM |
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here in the netherlands there are several places where you can spend your coins. you can buy pizza if you wish coffee clothes and so on.
i would also like to see a supermarket accept bitcoin. that would be epic.
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May 13, 2015, 11:31:39 AM |
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In my country Greece there are few people that knows about bitcoin and fewer that use bitcoin. We dont have here even an bitcoin BTM ori an embassy or something like that.
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May 13, 2015, 11:56:54 AM |
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In my country we just got first bitcoin ATM Some of my friends already know about BTC but most people don't know anything or don't trust it. I can't say how many people actually using BTC but i think that this number increasing by each day. |
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May 13, 2015, 04:39:12 PM |
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There is few bitcoin ATMs (2 or 3 AFAIK) but most people only heard of bitcoins via media. Most people don't use it.
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From which country I belong there already few Bitcoin's atm are running successfully.I can say a couple of year ago there was only 1 atm and the number is up.People around me they have heard about Bitcoin but very few of them really use it.In my country you can buy even electronics stuff with Bitcoin.
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