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I don’t think this is true anymore. This poll claims 80% of Americans are aware of Bitcoin. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ccn.com/80-of-americans-are-aware-
by dontreact 8y ago
I don’t think this is true anymore. This poll claims 80% of Americans are aware of Bitcoin.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ccn.com/80-of-americans-are-aware-of-bitcoin-study-reveals/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ccn.com/80-of-americans-are...
- blunte 8y agoPeople may know the name bitcoin, but trust me - they know less than nothing about it (because the sum of what they know correctly and what they know incorrectly is on the negative side).
- blotter_paper 8y agoFrom what I can tell the general public thinks Bitcoin is internet money, a bubble, a Ponzi scheme, and something people buy drugs with, in that order of frequency. Outside of tech circles, I haven't met anyone who had the slightest clue about what's going on under the hood.
- dontreact 8y agoThis is always true for complicated technical things. How many people can really accurately explain what “The Cloud” is? Wouldn’t you say the mainstream public is aware of “the cloud”. I guess my original post doesn’t really discredit the main point being made which is that people aren’t aware of Butcoin’s scaling issues. I agree with that. I do think it’s interesting that the bubble crashed once Bitcoin as a general concept was no longer really new for anyone.
- vernie 8y agoHow many of them understand that Bitcoin refers to such a network?