Bitcoin Awareness on Local Level

[Qunenin]

Hope there is like that on my country it would be great if I can spend my small bitcoins on local purchases instead of just using it online for buying digital goods.  I dont think that there is someone who is rich behind those whos having free seminar it just they are good hearted people that want to share their knowledge to their fellow countrymen.

The common mistake of every bitcoiner must be expecting others to initiate the awareness of bitcoin rather than we initiate them. If we keep on waiting for others to accept bitcoin payments and for conducting seminars, our waiting may last infinitely.

If we want to improve the awarenss of bitcoin in our local, we must take steps immediately to improve them.

We can also give awareness to children in school that this is great to know that bitcoin helps people with their studies, this will be a good feedback to bitcoin because there are many allegation of bad thing about it. So I hope  many people will make like this advice. We can earn extra with bitcoins and use that money on children education.

[Zadicar]

This is really a great news regarding on bitcoins adoption and we could really say that bitcoin is on the move and its awareness or existence already gaining attention all over the world but in my place theres still no store still accepting bitcoin but hopefully it would be available soon so that we could able to use our bitcoin directly.

[marcoman22]

Really its a great move by those merchants.From the language, i know its our india where its taking place. Its hard to believe that almost 95 % of indian population around 100 crores of people dont know about bitcoins.If they start using bitcoins, it will create a great increase in demand for bitcoin, increasing its price  and progress of bitcoin.

[Xester]

Really its a great move by those merchants.From the language, i know its our india where its taking place. Its hard to believe that almost 95 % of indian population around 100 crores of people dont know about bitcoins.If they start using bitcoins, it will create a great increase in demand for bitcoin, increasing its price  and progress of bitcoin.

India from zero knowledge to big investors in cryptocurrency especially in bitcoin. In this forum many are criticizing India that they will not prosper nor be able to adopt bitcoin nor invest on it. But the pictures have prove them wrong, India has in turn been the reason why bitcoin continues to rise in value even though China continues to dump their coins. Hope other countries will also initiate and not only India.

[Red-Apple]

Really its a great move by those merchants.From the language, i know its our india where its taking place. Its hard to believe that almost 95 % of indian population around 100 crores of people dont know about bitcoins.If they start using bitcoins, it will create a great increase in demand for bitcoin, increasing its price  and progress of bitcoin.

about 95% of most countries don't know about bitcoin and in some cases they know but they are not interested or maybe even scared of investing in bitcoin.
in any case the if your estimate of 5% is true that means 62.5 million people in India are using bitcoin!!!

[diegz]

I'm impressed by that move. That's very nice, it really could spread the news about bitcoin locally. I hope here in where I live, there will be someone who will initiate to do the same way by giving a free seminar on bitcoin awareness.

With that picture on seminar, I noticed that they are mostly youngsters. So probably that's the clue there, we should invite first the youth who are interested in bitcoin so the next time they will be the one conducting a seminar to further spread the awareness about bitcoin.

[BingoDog]

On.local level bitcoin is still not recognized enough. Sometimes I have the feeling that only big comminties are aware of bitcoins existance and that only they are using it. So.any activity that could help to promote bitcoin localy is more then welcomed, especialy for small businesses and merchants.

[olubams]

Its a good way to go as I have equally seen something like this over here but I am sure they will be doing it with one mind and the fact that government is not even looking into that direction but because their own interest is there, I guess that why they are engaging in it. By buying at a low price and selling at a high price and promoting to people that bitcoin is only about increases in price and not the downside of it...

[Mr. Big]

On.local level bitcoin is still not recognized enough. Sometimes I have the feeling that only big comminties are aware of bitcoins existance and that only they are using it. So.any activity that could help to promote bitcoin localy is more then welcomed, especialy for small businesses and merchants.

Usually bitcoin use cannot penetrate areas like mountains and places where there is no internet or if it does, the community can't afford to pay the service...

Usually that's the reason why many people in the locality don't know what bitcoin is, and if we want bitcoin to reach those places where internet is not yet present, we should start by broadcasting it on local radio stations or in local tv, so when internet reach the place or they could already afford it, they already have an idea about bitcoin...  

[webtricks]

Wow!! Happy to see such development of Bitcoin in my country. I was unaware of any such awareness since in my city I never witnessed anything similar.
It is Gujrat, right?
Well we can't blame others for unawareness of Bitcoin at local level. Being the sensible members of BitcoinTalk community, we are ones who should take up this job. Ok! Impressed by this move, going to launch somthing similar in Punjab soon.  

[bettercrypto]

Yes in most of the countries there is almost no efforts are being taken by bitcoin users to build bitcoin awareness. In my country almost less than 1% people heard of bitcoin, so we can see this as an opportunity. We should inform our friends and family members about this technology because they are going to use it in next 10 years so why not now? I see a very optimistic picture if everyone in this community informs at least 12 people in the year 2017.

not quite.
dont play the pyramid theorem game of informing X people and hope they inform X*X people .. purely in relation to buying bitcoin.

get a group together and think about bitcoin utility.

ask the group what shops they spend their fiat in most. what main car fuel stations they visit most.
get a list of popular destinations that would get frequent spending if that merchant accepted bitcoin.

once you have got merchant acceptance locally for people to buy toilet paper, foood and car fuel.. then start telling random people about the utility of bitcoin.

dont just advertise bitcoin in relation to investment profiting by using sketchy marketing strategies (pyramid theorems) think more about bitcoins UTILITY in your area

I think these is a better approach too. Do not influence people to use bitcoins because it will be useless. They can't use it in a practical manner, like buying groceries, gas, food, etc, like what franky has mentioned. If we can get more businesses to accept bitcoin as payment method, then that would be much better.

It is not useless, merchant sometimes want to see people who are willing to use and spend bitcoin in order for them to build one.  Ever heard of a company doing survey for their feasibility study before they launched or plan for their services ? This way when a merchant setup a store there is already a customer willing to buy at his store. And so encouraging merchant would be easier.