Who here gave Bitcoins as a present for Christmas?

[Voodah]

Oh wow, so few... I expected a bigger percentage.

I happily gave some away.

[oda.krell]

Oh wow, so few... I expected a bigger percentage.

I happily gave some away.

Why? Judging by the poll, more than 50% of Bitcoin holders gave them as presents directly. At least some of the others bought presents with them, via Bitpay. Sounds good to me.

[Code4Coinz]

Bitcoins aren't exactly mainstream yet. Giving the average person a paper wallet would net the same reaction as giving them Monopoly money.

[ensign_lee]

"Oh crap. I forgot my password"

Literally 5 minutes after I helped my sister set up a coinbase account, two factor authentication, and sent her a bitcoin. *facepalm* lol

[oda.krell]

Bitcoins aren't exactly mainstream yet. Giving the average person a paper wallet would net the same reaction as giving them Monopoly money.

Sure, keep telling yourself that.

I gave my sisters paper wallets, and their reactions ranged from very interested ("I'll have to read up on what this Bitcoin thing is") to amused (she: "I'm going to sell them later tonight". me: "sure, go ahead, but I'll laugh so hard if price is 10 times higher next christmas". she: "okay, I'll wait a bit before I sell them")

I would say it's a bit too deep into the tech pool to give as a present to the very young or elderly, but for anyone even remotely interested in tech-y stuff, it's a nice idea.

[ohiofarmer]

Most people treated it like a scrap of dried seaweed (uninteresting and useless), but the people who had heard of it loved it! I was surprised my father-in-law (who watches a lot of news) had never heard of it. My favorite response was from one of my nieces who said "thanks for the bit-thingy" when she was leaving

[pungopete468]

I wish somebody had given me BTC for Christmas... I'd be OK with that.

[Its About Sharing]

Well i belive bitcoin would be for the majority of recipients NOT a good gift, because they simply dont understand it... When it goes up in price they might be glad, but otherwise not a good idea according to me :-).

I remember being a kid and getting some US Bonds and not knowing what the heck they were, but being told "In ten years it will be 50 bucks." and thinking "cool." Perhaps that is often enough...

Do people really need to understand something when they are gifted it? I think most times not. It certainly is interesting to watch this unfold.

IAS

[exstasie]

I didn't give any BTC, but I wouldn't be opposed to receiving some from people!
I wish it was a little easier to purchase some BTC, but hopefully with more and more ATMs opening up it won't be as bad.  Too much online verification required to buy and sell.