Hello fellow steemians,
I would like to share with you my experience of how I see bitcoin increased awareness from the circle of my close friends and co-workers. I started buying bitcoin at around 300USD level sometimes in November 2015. It was a pain since it really took me around two months to figure out how to credit my account since the majority of the banks would not transfer my funds to the exchanges. I gave up for a bit and then finally found the bank that did my transfer. During that time I was researching more information and learning more about blockchain, bitcoin and the potential it has for the future. Not long afterwards I started talking to my close friends telling them about my investment and the potential it has. Some people found it fascinating and were considering to invest but never did. With many of them I was joking that they will start buying when in hits 1000 USD or higher. Now, monhts later and 3000 USD higher the same people are contacting me interested in getting in since they probably heard it somewhere in the news that BTC is going through the roof. What are they going to do? I know what, nothing, they will wait until BTC hits 10000 USD and then maybe buy 1 BTC or its fraction. Overall I can tell you that the BTC and crypto awareness is still minimum since 99% of people I talk to about cryptocurrencies or bitcoin in particular have no idea what it is all about. What is the bottom line here? We are very early in the space with a huge upside potential. The estimate is that only 0.3 percent of the population is somehow involved in crypto. What a bright days ahead of us. Have fun and steem on!
Tomas
CEO & Founder of CGH