I had my close relatives and friends bought Bitcoin. But my counting says that they are still a handful. I guess they cannot reach ten all in all. But more than five definitely. Even if I want to, I cannot simply discuss Bitcoin to any stranger. A lot of the people here think that Bitcoin is an illegal scheme or something that is used by illegal scammers. But I know, little by little, they will be enlightened about it. Bitcoin is all over the internet, a much accessible way for them to learn more.
When regular people think this way I'm not surprised because media coverage, except for some crypto oriented news outlets, is mostly negative for Bitcoin, and thus they think it's a ponzi scheme with some sophisticated way of explanation of its effectiveness(like any other ponzi scheme actually). What surprises me is that even educated people, people who know physics and math, higher mathematics even, many of these educated people too think of Bitcoin like those uneducated do. If they spent several hours learning about Bitcoin and blockchain technology they would understand it, and, I'm sure, they would like it, but they usually don't have those several hours of spare time. I never try to convince such people to buy Bitcoin, but I do try to convince them to learn more about it.
