BTC in your country

[hunnaryb]

Hi! 
How BTC bitcoin developed in your country? Are there many people in your real life that you know that use BTC ?

At my country, only a small portion of population that know bitcoin as internet currency. Just like my case, I ask all my school classmate, no one ever know bitcoin even my teacher. May bitcoin only get known on fully develop country rather than growing one

Even in developed countries people are not aware about the bitcoins so it will definitely take time in developing countries. And knowing it and using it is totally different things. And we want that people should start using bitcoins rather then just knowing it.

Yes and it can be only profitable when it gets into a mainstream and that is only possible when there is a mass adoption at the all levels and even big corporations starts accepting bitcoins as a mode of payment then only the prices would be stable.

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[harizen]

I am from the Netherlands. I guess most people here have at least heard about Bitcoin, including old people like my grandmother. Might have to do with the tech savvy population and one of the highest Internet adoptions around the world (almost 100%). Even my 87 year old grandmother has a tablet with Internet. In addition the level of English is high, which helps as most information about Bitcoin is in English.

Nevertheless I am not satisfied at the speed it is being adopted. I notice it is especially difficult to convince the older generations like my parents as the fiat system has always played out rather beneficial for them.

Among young people almost everyone knows what is Bitcoin and most of my friends also own a bit of Bitcoin. This also has to do with the fact that when I owe them some money (e.g. from taking drinks or a bbq) I always transfer this in Bitcoin. That is my rule. Some of my closer friends also deeply invested in Bitcoin however unfortunately some of them lost big sums of money with the Mt God fiasco.

In term of merchant adoption we are doing great. We have some big webshops accepting Bitcoin and several Dutch cities are growing quickly in terms of merchant adoption such as Arnhem or Amsterdam. Together with a few friends we are now working on increasing the merchant adoption in Rotterdam.

The community here is also strong, with some cool start ups like Blocktrail and a nice mix of Dutch and international people. So in the end it is not so bad, compared to other countries, but we could still do so much better. There is enormous space left for improvement and more adoption

Nice bitcoin development in your country and I see in the future that it will developed much more like bitcoin development here in my country Philippines. Hope my country can reached the status of your bitcoin development and Im positive it will happen. There are many merchants and services here too that we can use with our bitcoin.

[n2004al]

I don't have data about the knowledge of bitcoin in my country but I think that it is known very little. I don't know people who own bitcoins and when I talk with various people about bitcoin they don't know it. Even there were (rarely) news about bitcoin at the principal televisions. I haven't read any newspaper which treat problems or story about bitcoin.

[pitham1]

Even in developed countries people are not aware about the bitcoins so it will definitely take time in developing countries. And knowing it and using it is totally different things. And we want that people should start using bitcoins rather then just knowing it.

Developing countries can actually leap-frog existing technologies and move to Bitcoin.
That is actually an advantage for them.

[freeyourmind]

Even in developed countries people are not aware about the bitcoins so it will definitely take time in developing countries. And knowing it and using it is totally different things. And we want that people should start using bitcoins rather then just knowing it.

Developing countries can actually leap-frog existing technologies and move to Bitcoin.
That is actually an advantage for them.

Yeah I agree and I think it's developing countries that will have the opportunity for large-scale adoption.  It'll be much tougher in developed countries due to the amount of regulation that exists in any financial matter.

[knowhow]

Unfortunately Brazil this time the Petrobras , managed by  government was faced with a gigantic scheme of bribes the only preoccupation of political is  raise taxes to cover the shortfall for them given, and in order to maintain the standard of living of the same , bitcoin only a few are aware and already it is possible to carry out exchanges and pay for some services with bitcoins but even reach all Brazilians will take because isnt a knowhow about bitcoin and its potencial and government cant play with it as does with fiat.

[ajun96]

in my country Indonesia,
many are using bitcoin, many bitcoin group in Indonesia, possibly up to tens of thousands of members,
there is even an ATM bitcoin in bali, amazing is not it?

[gogxmagog]

I am a Canadian. Canada is the second largest BTC user base in the world. Also our Government is progressively easing regulation, opening the doors to development. Canadians like innovation and development in emerging industries. The government knows this and works with that. BTC is looking good in Canada.

[ajun96]

I am a Canadian. Canada is the second largest BTC user base in the world. Also our Government is progressively easing regulation, opening the doors to development. Canadians like innovation and development in emerging industries. The government knows this and works with that. BTC is looking good in Canada.

how you know, if canada the second largest btc user in thee world ?
and who is the first ?

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I am a Canadian. Canada is the second largest BTC user base in the world. Also our Government is progressively easing regulation, opening the doors to development. Canadians like innovation and development in emerging industries. The government knows this and works with that. BTC is looking good in Canada.

how you know, if canada the second largest btc user in thee world ?
and who is the first ?

I believe USA is the first. Bitcoin gets mentioned in their news very often, raising people's awareness of bitcoin.

I don't think Canada is the second, tho. that award should go to the Chinese.

[tyz]

It would be nice if someone states something about his/her country, to the name the country, too, in order to get an imagination what's going on about Bitcoin and crypto currencies in the particular countries

[bitcoinmar]

It would be nice if someone states something about his/her country, to the name the country, too, in order to get an imagination what's going on about Bitcoin and crypto currencies in the particular countries

Its good idea but most of members don't like to talk about their own country just few from American and European continent like to talk but mostly want to be here as anonymous

[grandFX]

in my country Indonesia,
many are using bitcoin, many bitcoin group in Indonesia, possibly up to tens of thousands of members,
there is even an ATM bitcoin in bali, amazing is not it?

amazing. of course.
because, exchange bitcoins in indonesia (vip.bitcoin.co.id) has more than 64295 members
with daily trading around 100-200 btc

[Dotakels]

in my country Indonesia,
many are using bitcoin, many bitcoin group in Indonesia, possibly up to tens of thousands of members,
there is even an ATM bitcoin in bali, amazing is not it?

amazing. of course.
because, exchange bitcoins in indonesia (vip.bitcoin.co.id) has more than 64295 members
with daily trading around 100-200 btc

Yes its amazing because your country support bitcoin because they know that bitcoin can help greatly the economy of the indonesia, and its a great to hear that your country have an ATM bitcoin, from having that you won't need an internet connection or to sell your coins so that you can exchange it into fiat money.

[operrajunk74]

It would be nice if someone states something about his/her country, to the name the country, too, in order to get an imagination what's going on about Bitcoin and crypto currencies in the particular countries

Its good idea but most of members don't like to talk about their own country just few from American and European continent like to talk but mostly want to be here as anonymous

Yeah no one wants to disclose their identity here and I think that's much better. So it is better not to disclose the name of the country where you belong to and yes talking about my country people have started to know about the bitcoins but still it will take a long time for the adoption.

[Falconer]

in my country Indonesia,
many are using bitcoin, many bitcoin group in Indonesia, possibly up to tens of thousands of members,
there is even an ATM bitcoin in bali, amazing is not it?

amazing. of course.
because, exchange bitcoins in indonesia (vip.bitcoin.co.id) has more than 64295 members
with daily trading around 100-200 btc

Yes its amazing because your country support bitcoin because they know that bitcoin can help greatly the economy of the indonesia, and its a great to hear that your country have an ATM bitcoin, from having that you won't need an internet connection or to sell your coins so that you can exchange it into fiat money.

Yeah its great, there are 3 bitcoin ATMs in Indonesia, 2 in Bali and 1 in Jakarta http://coinatmradar.com/country/100/bitcoin-atm-indonesia/
I hope with that ATM, will attract other people in Indonesia to get information about bitcoin and be interested to try using it.

[misterycoins]

here 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 good

[harrymmmm]

i just hope the government support legalizing bitcoin

what country do you live?, because in some bitcoin is already vastly legalized, in a few countries is banned, like india thailand/taiwan ecc...

It is NOT, and never was, banned in Thailand.
All that happened was a risk-averse exchange here that closed up after a negative comment from a functionary in a government bank.

[jt byte]

I think most of the countries the bitcoin is so popular.
But i think in some countries i forgot the source i have read it is not popular.
Even though it is marked as ilegal.

[Amph]

i just hope the government support legalizing bitcoin

what country do you live?, because in some bitcoin is already vastly legalized, in a few countries is banned, like india thailand/taiwan ecc...

It is NOT, and never was, banned in Thailand.
All that happened was a risk-averse exchange here that closed up after a negative comment from a functionary in a government bank.

well you're wrong, or wiki is wrong, or they changed the rule since you quoted one of my very old msg on purpose for sig campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country#Thailand