Are you really surprised though? Even though a lot of people(especially in countries like the US) have heard of Bitcoin, most of them still doesn't really know what it is and what it's for; probably besides the fact that it's totally digital.

Do I see it as a problem? Nah. In the first place, I just don't randomly talk about Bitcoin(because $5 wrench attacks[1]). But if it comes to topic when I'm talking to someone, I'll gladly answer questions. I just always make sure to tell them that I lost my coins in a boating accident.

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[1] https://cryptosec.info/wrench-attack/

Cryptocurrency is still fairly new concept among the majority of the people. I remember when I was talking about cryptocurrency with some of my friends (explaining how cheap and easy to transfer money), most of them had never heard about the word. Even though, some of them knew about bitcoin, their knowledge was very little in this space.

Well, that is not surprising, even though the community of bitcoin is now bigger than before, there are still some people who don't know things about crypto, first of all, cryptocurrency is not a part of the program in school, so there is no way to learn about it unless you explore the internet and find things about it. The second is that not all countries have a stable internet connection so it would be a big struggle for them to access the cryptocurrency. The third is they already contented on fiat currency.
The number of people who don't know things about crypto is greater than those who know it.

Having a look at the comment, it seems everyone is facing the same situation. If people don't know about BTC, who are these guys trading BTC causing deep and bounce? Lol! Anyway, I would rate my country lower than yours in bitcoin awareness matter.

Maybe that is due to the prohibition in your country, and probably there is. Bitcoin is having wide popularity at this moment because of the impression created from it wherein profit is assumed to be easily earned due to the increase in its market price. Little do they know that the market price is not consistently increasing and there are times of market price downfall resulting to partial profit loss. These assumptions are simply what making this technology popular so if it is not having influence in your country there might be factors affecting the spread of its popularity or influence, more likely prohibitions.

It is actually not a surprising scenario anymore for the fact that despite Bitcoin's outstanding popularity, still there are lots of people who do not certainly know or do not really have any idea to identify what Bitcoin really is. We cannot blame them though for there are many reasons why they do not know it. Maybe they are not up to date into the world news which you can encounter Bitcoin actually even at local news. There could also be a possibility that they do not have any close friends or relatives that know Bitcoin so they do not have any idea about it or they certainly do not care about it anymore. It is just fine though we cannot push them to identify Bitcoin because we do have our own reasons to get into or not. It is just up to the willingness and available resources for people to know and be able to make use of Bitcoin. Some or most are just not being able to have enough knowledge about it which makes them somewhat ignorant about Bitcoin's existence.

I think everywhere bitcoin is not really familiar to others. Even they heard it but still doesn't know what bitcoin really is and how to use it. Specially those people live in remote areas where the internet connection is poor and there is only few people using gadgets and computer. But time will come when they will probably know about it and use it because bitcoin adoption continues to grow.

Crypto market isnt still into its full adoption so its nor surprise that you will see these kind of reactions or questions from people who doesnt even know
that it did exist. 10 years time is still young and theres still lots of rooms for us to grow so dont get frustrated or got stressed when someone dont know about it.
So the best thing to do is to tell them even on the most basic information about Bitcoin and they might be get interested to it.
So far, i have explained bitcoin to my family and my relatives but it seems they arent that much of interested with it.

This is why I don't buy it when people say Bitcoin is like early days of the Internet. The Internet was rapidly growing in ts early days, people knew about it and wanted to use it, but it was so expensive at the beginning, that few could afford it. Bitcoin does not follow the same road, its adoption and recognition are much much slower, because fundamentally they are too different - the Internet allowed us to exchange information like never before, while Bitcoin is only interesting to people who distrust fiat currency, which is a minority.

It's not that most of the people don't know Bitcoin as most of us have heard the term Bitcoin but the understanding of bitcoin is limited to most of the people as some of them think it's illegal wherein few think it's like a gambling platform wherein a good number of tech geek and ordinary people understand what Bitcoin is really about. We cannot say people don't know Bitcoin especially after 2017 which made Bitcoin hot topic of the decade but it's rather people don't kniw it's functionality and features which they will gradually learn as we make further development.