When I talk to NON-BitcoinTalkers they don't know..

[xuan87]

Bitcoin is not as popular as we think and also most of the people I met don't want to involve in bitcoin because it is a currency for criminal and bad people, so when they already got a negative mindset, it will be difficult to change it
And it will be more difficult to explain segwit and bu to newbie, even some of the user not really understand that things​, the most important for the user is the price

[Kprawn]

Bitcoin is not as popular as we think and also most of the people I met don't want to involve in bitcoin because it is a currency for criminal and bad people, so when they already got a negative mindset, it will be difficult to change it
And it will be more difficult to explain segwit and bu to newbie, even some of the user not really understand that things​, the most important for the user is the price

OK, ask these idiots to go to a drug dealer on the street and ask him if they could buy drugs with bitcoin from him and see what happens. On

second thought... DO NOT do this, because these idiots might just get shot. Most drugs and economic crime are still being done with cash in

hand and people conveniently forget about that. Silkroad gave Bitcoin a bad reputation and now everyone are smack talking Bitcoin because of

that. There a millions of people who are using Bitcoin for MANY legal transactions. 

[bitbob82]

Bitcoin is not as popular as we think and also most of the people I met don't want to involve in bitcoin because it is a currency for criminal and bad people, so when they already got a negative mindset, it will be difficult to change it
And it will be more difficult to explain segwit and bu to newbie, even some of the user not really understand that things​, the most important for the user is the price

but i think bitcoin is now becoming more and more popular, as we can see that the number of bitcoin users are increasing continuously and the user of bitcoin are now available everywhere in the world.

[sportis]

My brother's wife is also into bitcoin but not into trading. She is into hypes in facebook and doublers and so when I asked her about what her side on BU whether she is a pro or not and I got no respond to it. I was amaze how they were crazily investing to bitcoin when I told her the price is going down and o show her the graph from coinmarketcap and the price. But what she just said is that, it will be back to 1200.

They have so much trust to bitcoin that they never know what ETH and Monero.  I figured I;m not the right person to talk to her about it. I guess I just have to let her realize on her own.

This is in general truth all over the world. Recently I have wrote in some posts where people claimed that the dominance of bitcoin as the leader of cryptocurrencies will vanish and another altcoin will take this position etc., that bitcoin has value because people want it and do not want anything other than this. Moreover I believe if bitcoin crashes many alts, if not all of them, will be disappeared because people will go to the next big thing. 

[Silberman]

Well it is kind of obvious that since we are immersed in the world of bitcoin we will be the ones most interested about it and if you add the fact that some have huge amounts of money in bitcoin then it makes sense some care a lot more than those that don’t have a single cent invested in bitcoin.

[btccashacc]

I also noticed that mostly people who are not members of bitcointalk haven't heard anything about SegWit, BitcoinUnlimited and etc. And it's very hard to explain it them, because mostly people are not familiar with bitcoin technical details.
But honestly, I'm not that guy who can explain it properly, because I know only few main things about BU, SegWit and etc.

Exactly even for those who already know bitcoin and using it, they still don't understand about those subjects. Not all of the bitcoiners are tech savvy who familiar with this technology, However it's very important for those who use bitcoin as an investment to know BU and Core technically, so they could predict whether the price would be up or down. But if you ask those who use bitcoin only as a payment option or for gambling, i am afraid that they're familiar with it, so if you ask NON-bitcointalkers the answer is a big no.

[Yakamoto]

Bitcoin is not as popular as we think and also most of the people I met don't want to involve in bitcoin because it is a currency for criminal and bad people, so when they already got a negative mindset, it will be difficult to change it
And it will be more difficult to explain segwit and bu to newbie, even some of the user not really understand that things, the most important for the user is the price

but i think bitcoin is now becoming more and more popular, as we can see that the number of bitcoin users are increasing continuously and the user of bitcoin are now available everywhere in the world.

Bitcoin is becoming more and more popular within a very specific and relatively niche group of people, for most communities outside of those that you could expect to have some sort of interest in Bitcoin you'd be hard-pressed to find that much interest coming out of the members there. They simply have no need for Bitcoin.

There's a high chance Bitcoin will continue to grow in the way it has as long as the same communities continue to grow, but there will be fewer people to get interested in the future if the marketing for Bitcoin does not diversify.

[neochiny]

Used to run the other way whenever I see those 'debates' in Bitcoin Discussion.
In the end, had to succumb and lurk and watch what it was all about.

I admit I'm often left with my head reeling with the technicalities, who's who and all those links!!! A single post could contain 10's of links.   (Careful or you'd unknowingly lose hours reading all the drama.)

(Anyway, I gotta buckle up and read on, else when a certain someone talks about it, I'd have no idea what they were saying.   ) 

[el kaka22]

Bitcoin is not as popular as we think and also most of the people I met don't want to involve in bitcoin because it is a currency for criminal and bad people, so when they already got a negative mindset, it will be difficult to change it
And it will be more difficult to explain segwit and bu to newbie, even some of the user not really understand that things​, the most important for the user is the price

Does linguistic students will understand updates in computer science department or they will follow them, similarly I do not expect people to follow what is going with the crypto world unless otherwise they have invested /are using crypto currencies. Bitcoin is famous enough what youtube had some 10 years back. Famous among technical background and frequent Internet users.

I have a friend who is having few bitcoins in cold storage but he is not active here, but he never bothered about bitcoin etf nor sociability debates. I am sure there are bitcointalkers who are just busy with altcoins trading and gambling and never bothered about latest updates on cypto world.

[Xester]

All this panic and vitriol really isn't necessary..

BU vs CORE, big blocks vs SegWit blah blah blah.. .. ALL the people who live outside of the little bubble most of us live in, here, have NEVER heard of any of this.

lol.. they sort of look at me blankly and say : Whhhaattt ? .. er..  So there are 2 Bitcoins ?

I then say - no, not yet...

And then we start talking about something else.

They HAVE heard of Bitcoin though. (And they haven't heard of any other coins I might add.. too much information for them)

..

Honestly - I think we get a bit toooo wrapped up in it. Stroking our 'precious' Bitcoin..

We need to get out more. 'BitBoy' will still be here when we get back.

..

..I'm off to the park.

(ps. Just sent some mBTC.. they received it instantly on their phone (as always - just not confirmed).. an hour later I had 3 confirms.. Mempool down to 2MB.. meh.. all systems seem to be back to normal.. really not sure what all the fuss is about.. hehe)

Majority of bitcoin holders doesnt have an idea regarding the internal problems on bitcoin and we dont need to explain to them those technical details. They enjoy bitcoin and supported it more than the technical ones. The reason why bitcoins price has recovered fast after the deflation was due to non technical bitcoin holders who thought it is a great opportunity to buy bitcoin when it is low.

[naidray]

Bitcoin is not as popular as we think and also most of the people I met don't want to involve in bitcoin because it is a currency for criminal and bad people, so when they already got a negative mindset, it will be difficult to change it
And it will be more difficult to explain segwit and bu to newbie, even some of the user not really understand that things​, the most important for the user is the price

OK, ask these idiots to go to a drug dealer on the street and ask him if they could buy drugs with bitcoin from him and see what happens. On

second thought... DO NOT do this, because these idiots might just get shot. Most drugs and economic crime are still being done with cash in

hand and people conveniently forget about that. Silkroad gave Bitcoin a bad reputation and now everyone are smack talking Bitcoin because of

that. There a millions of people who are using Bitcoin for MANY legal transactions. 

That is true, the amount of transaction made in bitcoin on the drake net for drugs and other illegal stuff is way larger than the amount of bitcoin transferred and used for good things, and that left a big wide scar on the bitcoin so when people asked about it they say it is used by drug dealers, and honestly the only solution I can think of is by making bitcoin trackable and that may lead to some riots, but hey if you are not using it for bad things than you have nothing to worry about.

[Kemarit]

All this panic and vitriol really isn't necessary..

BU vs CORE, big blocks vs SegWit blah blah blah.. .. ALL the people who live outside of the little bubble most of us live in, here, have NEVER heard of any of this.

lol.. they sort of look at me blankly and say : Whhhaattt ? .. er..  So there are 2 Bitcoins ?

I then say - no, not yet...

And then we start talking about something else.

They HAVE heard of Bitcoin though. (And they haven't heard of any other coins I might add.. too much information for them)

..

Honestly - I think we get a bit toooo wrapped up in it. Stroking our 'precious' Bitcoin..

We need to get out more. 'BitBoy' will still be here when we get back.

..

..I'm off to the park.

(ps. Just sent some mBTC.. they received it instantly on their phone (as always - just not confirmed).. an hour later I had 3 confirms.. Mempool down to 2MB.. meh.. all systems seem to be back to normal.. really not sure what all the fuss is about.. hehe)

Majority of bitcoin holders doesnt have an idea regarding the internal problems on bitcoin and we dont need to explain to them those technical details. They enjoy bitcoin and supported it more than the technical ones. The reason why bitcoins price has recovered fast after the deflation was due to non technical bitcoin holders who thought it is a great opportunity to buy bitcoin when it is low.

Actually this is true for big investors behind bitcoin. They don't care what's going on behind bitcoin ecosystem. They just want to invest and buy and profit in the end. And if I remember it correct, this is also the pitching point of the Winklevoss ETF, it will allow investors with brokerage account to invest in bitcoin wihout having to worry about the technical details (storing and safekeeping in a wallet). But the interesting thing is eventhough is has been rejected, investors are still buying bitcoin and taking advantage to profit from it.

[Yanisumin]

I always feel the eerie feeling when I talk to someone about Bitcoin.
Am I getting wierd?
There's always a first time for everything. I can't blame them to digest all of the information quickly. I'm explaining things as easy as possible. Some are paying attention and some are not. Some are intrigue and curious and some don't care. The lack of foundamentals and knowledge to a thing, thought or principle is a great disadvantage and may cause misunderstanding and conflicts of ideas. Of course they won't know Bitcoin is, the thing is you will fully understand if you pay more attention to details, work hard, earn and feel what is the fruit of your hard work.

Some are negatives and some has crabmentality traits. Non-bitcoiners are not that dangerous because they are just not opened yet to these kind of technology and don't know much about it. The real problems are the one who knows a lot about Bitcoin but choose to oppose it and destroy it's principles. Anti- Bitcoin talkers I think.

[logicgate]

Most people I talk to may have heard of bitcoin but have no idea how to get any. In fact, most of them don't know what bitcoin is.

I've had talks like these for quite a few times. Tho after a dozen of talks about bitcoin and how to earn it, only one friend remained active here.

I tend to keep all the deeper tech stuff out of the conversation since it only leads to confusion, keep it simple when talking to someone who's not into bitcoin.

only talking about bitcoin to your friends or other people will not easy for them to understand, infact few of them could hardly understand that what is bitcoin. you need to explain them practically by showing them how to do this.then after that they could understand easily. you need to explain all the features of bitcoin for attracting them.

[pinkpanther03]

Most people I talk to may have heard of bitcoin but have no idea how to get any. In fact, most of them don't know what bitcoin is.

It is still nowadays there are many people all around the world are not really familiar with Bitcoin, or if there some know it they ignored. Which means majority of them are not yet ready to  accept what bitcoin can do for all us in each country.

[staceyoh]

Yeah I think there is also a lot of people who
do not know about bitcoin. So I think to enlighten
them about bitcoin you must explain it to them, on
how bitcoin works.

[agatha818]

lots of people dont know about bitcoin, besides majority in my place dont know about bitcoin, when i speak to them about crypto currencies and how i earned and use bitcoin for buying and paying some stuff they're clueless and think how is that possible.

[Silberman]

Most people I talk to may have heard of bitcoin but have no idea how to get any. In fact, most of them don't know what bitcoin is.

I've had talks like these for quite a few times. Tho after a dozen of talks about bitcoin and how to earn it, only one friend remained active here.

I tend to keep all the deeper tech stuff out of the conversation since it only leads to confusion, keep it simple when talking to someone who's not into bitcoin.

only talking about bitcoin to your friends or other people will not easy for them to understand, infact few of them could hardly understand that what is bitcoin. you need to explain them practically by showing them how to do this.then after that they could understand easily. you need to explain all the features of bitcoin for attracting them.

I think the easiest way is to start with something practical rather than with theory since the theory behind bitcoin is really complicated but how the technology is used is very simple sending bitcoin or receiving bitcoin, creating a wallet and creating different addressees is really easy.

[Machine Funk]

Bitcoin is not as popular as we think and also most of the people I met don't want to involve in bitcoin because it is a currency for criminal and bad people, so when they already got a negative mindset, it will be difficult to change it
And it will be more difficult to explain segwit and bu to newbie, even some of the user not really understand that things​, the most important for the user is the price

It is popular enough. We can all be rich if we hold on till more people adopt bitcoin . look how big it is now and it will only grow more.

[GreenBits]

Bitcoin is not as popular as we think and also most of the people I met don't want to involve in bitcoin because it is a currency for criminal and bad people, so when they already got a negative mindset, it will be difficult to change it
And it will be more difficult to explain segwit and bu to newbie, even some of the user not really understand that things​, the most important for the user is the price

OK, ask these idiots to go to a drug dealer on the street and ask him if they could buy drugs with bitcoin from him and see what happens. On

second thought... DO NOT do this, because these idiots might just get shot. Most drugs and economic crime are still being done with cash in

hand and people conveniently forget about that. Silkroad gave Bitcoin a bad reputation and now everyone are smack talking Bitcoin because of

that. There a millions of people who are using Bitcoin for MANY legal transactions. 

This. The blackarks stand out more.to.people than the technology. Bitcoin isoney, unless you dig money and value in an academic way, bitcoin is pretty damned boring. Most lay people I talk to could give a damn about scaling, or fees, or decentralization; they hear about it on Family Guy, or see the price when it surges on the news.