88% of Japanese have heard of bitcoin -- how about your country? --

[redsun114]

Most people in New Zealand have heard of bitcoin but i find most of the people i talk to have no idea what it really is.

This is the reason why bitcoin is so much popular amongst the people who are living in Japan as most of them know very well about this concept and there is a huge population living over there investing their money into it. There are not so many people who are aware of bitcoin in my country for now but I am very much sure that soon, this number will significantly increase and will lift the economy of the country too.

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[AllOfArt]

The Japanese government legalized bitcoin, which I think makes it more popular in that country. More and more people from different countries are interested on investing on cryptocurrencies

[altercreed]

I think only 1/4 of our country's population have already heard about cryptocurrencies. Though it's a pro crypto country, there is still a need to disseminate information about cryptos across the country. I also hope that the number of people know about crypto will double this year.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

In my country today bitcoin pretty much in the know in the investment and hyip money game. in Indonesia there are still many who think bitcoin is ponzi. they do not really know what blockchain is. mining. post. pow and others. they know bitcoin is a digital coin that has value usd. and the Indonesian government also has not provided clear regulation for the use of bitcoin. hopefully there is a visible and useful inovation in the future to make a state government review what is bitcoin.

[jiop111]

I don’t know how many people in my country know that Bitcoin is more easily accepted by young people as an investment commodity. If most people still prefer to invest gold in the world compared to gold, most people in Japan know that Bitcoin is because Bitcoin is legal in Japan, and I hope that more and more countries will be legal in Bitcoin, then the price of Bitcoin will fly to the moon

[ScroodjMoney]

Japan is one of the first countries that accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, so this is logical. In my country many people know about Bitcoin, but not many of them using it and understand how it works.

[kpcian]

Like other developing countries, My country's people also getting familiar with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency days by day. if you compare Japan with my country then it's too far to compare between these two countries. At present, people are taking this blockchain system but the rate of involvement people is too narrow in comparison with the total population.

That's why I think our country requires a lot of time for adapting to this blockchain system until our government will accept and let people suggest to do trade and investment in this platform.

[mcconah]

In my country, I think I've been a lot of people who heard about bitcoin. may be less than 50% serious to learn it. I do not know what percentage of users have bitcoin assets and is already using it for transactions because bitcoin in my country has not been legalized yet.

[Arsenyo]

I think even 20% of people in my country(I am from Ukraine) do not have full awareness about what bitcoin and cryprocurrency are.

[bitkaboom2]

I am from Pakistan which is still under development.So maybe 15% to 30% know about Bitcoin.

[kwakufavour]

Over here in Ghana, less than 5% know about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
It recently seems to have caught the attention of the government and their first move was to try to regulate bitcoin which seems so dumb to me.
I believe we are still developing as a country and by next 1-4years, 90% will know about bitcoin.

[Spanopohlo]

If we are talking of percentage, in our country we have an estimated 106Million. of that million of people Id say there are only a million whove heard of what is BTC, cause even my neighbor or classmates only heard it first from me. Thats only the part where we've heard it, the one who've used it must have been at the 1/4 of the million, and are increasing, so that's a hope. We are in a country where technoly is not that at large so we cant cope up with the things that are happening at the 1st world countries.

[SeniorRalap]

I'd be curious if Bitcoin Forum members can chime in on what the estimated awareness might be for their region or country:

  https://news.bitcoin.com/survey-japanese-bitcoin/

a quote:
 "A recent survey of 10,000 men and women across Japan shows that 88% of them have heard of bitcoin. Among those that have bitcoin, 47% said that they have used it in retail stores but long-term investment is most respondents’ main reason for purchasing bitcoin."

Yes, I think Japan is the most popular country for cryptocurrency. My country has not publicly accepted bitcoin, so there is not a lot of people who know it, and I think maybe only 5 percent know it. In the future I think my country will accept bitcoin.

[Washball]

In most third world countries it is obvious that bitcoin is not much heard of. The population in these countries is struggling for life and a computer, internet and even a cell phone is much too expensive. In the US and Europe Bitcoin is more popular and almost everyone has heard of bitcoin. In Asia bitcoin is also popular, but there are asian countries, where bitcoin is not so well known.

[daarul50]

In my country bitcoin is still a problem in the economy so the government has not received the full bitcoin even suggested to the public not to use bitcoin in investing or transact so that there are still many people who are doubtful about bitcoin. Even so, maybe I think bitcoin users are still around 5% in my country but I am sure as many events or seminars about blockchain technology will be more and more people who know bitcoin.

[fireblond]

I'd be curious if Bitcoin Forum members can chime in on what the estimated awareness might be for their region or country:

  https://news.bitcoin.com/survey-japanese-bitcoin/

a quote:
 "A recent survey of 10,000 men and women across Japan shows that 88% of them have heard of bitcoin. Among those that have bitcoin, 47% said that they have used it in retail stores but long-term investment is most respondents’ main reason for purchasing bitcoin."

Your post was written in 2017, I wonder if the number is around 90% , as for the country I'm currently staying in I definitely noticed more and more people showing interest in bitcoin in the past few months. I'm certain by the end of this year even more people will get into the field of crypto as the blockchain technology is quite remarkable!

[Doge dealer]

my country is a developing country where we arnt able to buy bitcoins directly on coin base . The government has legalized the use of bitcoins however we don't have a proper infrastructure in place quite a few of people know about it and are even traders but they are looked on as the geeks of our society.This however is quite OK as we plan to lead by example , we plan to "wear our wealth on our sleeves" so pretty soon everyone will be interested once they see the financial benefits involved .

[raidarksword]

Here in our country we are not that digital people because where in third world country but there are some people  knew bitcoin and uses it. It is just a matter of adapting it and spreading about bitcoin with the help of our government so that we could be like japan in the future.

[coinstalker23]

My country encounter bitcoin because of its negativity and being used to fraud and scam our people and it is mainly being focused in the Local media because of its dangers and risk of being scammed. But many people are using cryptocurrency facing the danger of being scam and the risk of losing investment. I don't know how many of my fellow country men are using it but I think we are morethan 100k people who are using it.

[bryant.coleman]

Here in our country we are not that digital people because where in third world country but there are some people  knew bitcoin and uses it. It is just a matter of adapting it and spreading about bitcoin with the help of our government so that we could be like japan in the future.

Even in the third world nations, a lot of people are having access to internet. Almost everyone owns a smartphone and a decent one can be purchased for as little as $50. If the transaction fee gets lower, then Bitcoin payments can become very popular among the mobile users.