DON'T quote the entire message when responding.

Of course, this is not about which of the forum members own bitcoin, as I supposed you all should hodl some coin, even if only a few satoshis.

The idea for the survey comes from the never-ending news that 10-20% of the people in a country are holding coins.
As I truly believe those numbers are at least overhypermega inflated, I tried to picture a survey that would shed some light on a larger base, even if it is a little biased since the starting point is obvious a holder.
Dunno if it will be effective if this topic will even get some traction in the first place, but hey, worth a shot.

So, what I look, simply post what you know of crypto ownership in the friends and relatives circle and if it's not a secret the region you live.

Example:
2 our of my friends hold some bitcoin or altcoin or 6 out of 12 relatives also hold some coins, I live in Bartovia
But put a bit more spirit in it.

I thought about doing it on google sheets but I really can't stop that from getting abused by somebody bored so..this is it.
I'm seriously curious about those numbers and if the mentioned percentage is reached even when centered around a bitcoin community.

Oh, and please be honest about it.

Only one of my relatives holds cryptocurrency and that only because I have introduced him to this revolution a few years ago. Most of the people here don't even know what Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies are... I won't specify my region, but I think most people are too "busy" with their mundane lives and too lazy to even research about a worldwide shift in how we send and receive payments. The right word for this would be ignorance. However I know local communities that do have a decent number of crypto enthusiasts. So in conclusion if you ask the man on the street about cryptocurrencies he is not able to tell you a thing about them. You need to go very specific to find someone who knows, maybe luckily someone who actually owns Bitcoin.

Can you please quantify this? 3 out of?
And please don't quote my entire post.


Pure curiosity, how did you met this guy/girl or how did this encounter happen? Of course, if it's not something way to personal.
I never encountered somebody who has cryptos by chance and to be honest I would pretty much keep it a secret from a stranger. I also avoid those so-called bitcoin conferences, I don't really feel comfortable going to one.

It won't reflect any reality, because you ask people directly interested with collecting crypto.
The idea of making google sheets, seems a lot better, but it would have to be slightly convoluted.
Make it about financial system consciousness and spread it as a economy science project on places like redit, facbook etc.
This way, your sample group could be much broader and the study itself could get recognised, even scientifically.

Italian Bob looks like a DOGE guy to me.
You just gave yourself a good example how pointless such survey is in this place.
We can invent whatever data we like, that will only hide the real picture...
However If it somehow helps you, central EU here, I personally know only one person that hodls.

Of about 50 co-workers in my office, just four of us hold any significant amount of bitcoin. A dozen of young people know about blockchain and how bitcoin works.
Due to bitcoin in news, almost all of them know it as a cryptocurrency.
People here mostly look at bitcoin as an investment opportunity and as it's debate of legality makes people hesitant on holding it. It's illegal to trade crypto here but nothing said about holding.

there are two big problems here. the first one is that you are asking people on a bitcoin forum. so you will get a better percentages because in most cases people in bitcoin tell others about it and others may get in it. so we usually have more friends owning bitcoin than others. but you can't make any conclusion based on that because your selection process was flawed.
and second one is already mentioned, people are usually reluctant to reveal that much about themselves (where they live, if they have bitcoin,...) in public like this.

I live in EU, and I must say that I have met so far only one person who owned some crypto, but today I know a few of them who invest in crypto just because they learn about crypto from me. I can't generally talk about my country, but I've noticed that in larger cities where crypto ATMs exist there is a much greater interest of people for crypto than in rural areas. The availability of crypto-accepting stores also plays a huge role, so all this should be taken into account when doing a survey or research.

I suppose if someone does a survey in my town, there will be maybe 1-2% people who will say they own some crypto, but that percentage would very likely increase if the survey were made in the capital city.

In my opinion, the percentage of people who own crypto in any EU country is a maximum of 10%, but on average it is probably about 5% or less. Some studies say that at the global level, the percentage of those who are involved in any way with cryptocurrency is between 0.5-1%. If we take that as relevant information, we come to very modest numbers worldwide.

I live in Philippines and I can or actually gauge the number of bitcoin holder but so would say I know a lot of young people who are crypto enthusiasts in our country. I would also say only a little of our population is aware of crypto, but still the number of it is growing as time goes by.

I live in Italy, but I do not see a strong public interest in Bitcoin. I have been trading for a year, but I do not find like-minded people among my family and friends, unfortunately

just like the survey, your own tally is going to reveal flawed results

first of all you are asking in a crypto group. thus always going to get a result of every respondant saying they have coin

next those respondants more then likely gave coin to friends and family. even if the family dont know/understand crypto. EG future inheritance, free givaways, and such

next many 'geeks' 'nerds' dont have a massive diverse social group. so the variety of friends is limited. for instance if you asked warren buffet how many friends/family have stocks/shares. he would say all of them. because he is not the type of guy that makes friends with the homeless or waitresses on minimum wage.

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as for other surveys
i have seen people on the street with a sign saying 'please answer a survey about charities'.. the results are that a high majority of respondants do donate. not because high population donates. but because those who do not are going to avoid entering into the survey to avoid embarrassment/shame of being seen as heartless

in my town whenever people see someone with a charity asking for donations, the common thing to say just to walk passed them is 'we already donated'. not only does it avoid having to put our hands in our pockets, but also avoids the guy stalking us trying to convince us, and avoids them shouting out bout how we have not donated but should.

the other surveys are based on like 2000 people out of ~327million.
these surveys usually would be mail bombed to known people in a certain industry, and also exclude certain population groups.

take for instance americas 327mill population ~60m are below the age of 15years and 50mill are above 65..
usually surveys exclude these age brackets meaning a third of the population is excluded

so if say 33mill say yes on a survey of such the actual % is not 10% but actually more like 6.6% if it was a true population survey no matter the question

then we get back to further shrinking down the survey by respondants. not everyone is interestd in filing out a survey about their finances. so this could cut the pool of respondants in more than half whereby the poor/uninterested in investments
wont respond. thus even AT BEST it would bring results of 3.3% true population.. though a survey site would still try to presume 10% said yes

its much like going to a trump rally and doing a popularity poll. ofcourse results would be majority fangirling over trump