You shouldn't be surprised that people in the rural areas know about Bitcoin. Bitcoin knowledge is limited or doesn't discriminate against religion, geographical location, gender, age, sexuality. As long as one has internet connection, a smart phone, can read and write and is curious to know Bitcoin, they'll find it and learn know as much as they desire. I won't be surprised that native tribes in the Amazon forest have heard or know about Bitcoin if they have the two qualities/characteristics already described.

Well, it's a bit contradictory if you said that bitcoin is known all over the world when you're a newbie, that's bound to happen that you know of things or not know of things when you're a newbie in something, you're supposed to not know anything about that so it's really something that's obviously going to happen to you. Now that you know of how widespread the renown that bitcoin has, I think that should tell you something about how good of an investment and currency bitcoin is, it's something that you should talk about your friends with, this is an opportunity of a lifetime and people will tell you that it's too pricey right now but in the near future, you will not be saying that because bitcoin is a long-term investment and a present full of doubts is going to be filled with a future of regrets that you didn't invest right now.

Remember to learn how to DCA with your investments though, it's always smart to invest but even smarter when you time and manage how you invest, DCA is pretty easy, at it's most basic, it's buy low, sell high but there's some carefulness and timing surrounding it.

A smartphone and an internet connection are only what anyone needs to learn anything in the world. It seems crypto awareness has increased this year in every corner of my locality people are either discussing crypto or tapping their phones to get some airdrop. However many of them don't have solid knowledge about Bitcoin because most of them see the sector as a get-rich-quick scheme. If you ask them simple questions about the industry, they don't know the answers. Most of these people in rural areas are cheap prey to scam projects.       

You don't need to be surprised op because you saw people from the rural area discussing about bitcoin, most people in the rural areas are well informed and are affected by the economic hardship which is all over the world right now and some of them are taking advantage of the information they have heard about bitcoin to invest while they keep working and making arrangements for the good omen that will come as a result of their investment.

Personally, I know some youth in my village (rural area who are old time investors I don't know when they got the information but having a discussion with some of them you will be convinced to know that they are well informed about bitcoin than some of us in the city.

We're living in a global era where Information spreads across the world much faster than most of us thinks. You could be surprised to know that someone in a remote African villages knows quite much about the US presidential election way more than the actual citizens and this is what the information age we're in has helped us to attain.

Anyone that has a mobile device and knows about financial system should have in one way or the other known about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. The issue is that although Bitcoin has spread around the world, it hasn't gotten to a stage where you can easily transact with it in local market for so many factors. Business people don't HODL there money but rather prefer it to be in liquid and flexible form such that they can use it for business purpose whenever they want to. For daily business transaction, fiat does better job compaired to Bitcoin so although it has gotten to all the part of the world, it's not yet gotten to the position where it can become a legal tender that's usable for most business activities.

Only a few people know about Bitcoin here in my area I know people know about Bitcoin and crypto but they experience losses that they thought Bitcoin would make them rich but the fact is they don't know much about Bitcoin. They know much about other altcoins like Ethereum it is one of the popular crypto here in my country during the pandemic because most of the P2E games are from Ethereum base compared to Bitcoin only 2 or 3 friends that I know knows about Bitcoin even they know bitcoin they are afraid to invest because of volatility.

I'm sure many people knows Bitcoin since it's always on the news and sometimes posted on facebook reels or in TikTok and Youtube but more people here in my country interested on P2E than Bitcoin.

The people in this village know bitcoins due to effort that some people put into trying to make sure that people around them know about bitcoins. If this people had not made the effort, maybe you would have been the only person in that village with the knowledge of bitcoins. We all have to keep making efforts to try make sure people get the right information about what bitcoin is because as much as you will like to think that bitcoin has spread all over the world, it has not, and there is still much to be done because there are still places in the world where people have never heard about bitcoins.

I have seen you post in the Nigerian local board so I believe you’re from Nigeria. With the level of enthusiasm Nigerians have shown for cryptocurrencies, it is not surprising that Bitcoin has reached even  the rural areas. I find it interesting that the farmers were open to accepting bitcoin as payment for their crops. To my knowledge, most of the farmers in the rural areas practice subsistence farming which makes me wonder if they make enough money from the business to invest in Bitcoin.

You are probably new in this industry which is the reason why you didn't know that Bitcoin is known almost everywhere these days. We call it global adoption, we used to talk about this a few years back and speculate about when Bitcoin will have global adoption where almost everyone or people from every country or city in the world would know or at least have heard about it from somewhere and we are in that era.

This is going to increase over time, Bitcoin isn't going to stop. I know that it is already pretty widespread but in the coming days, it's going to be crazy because even kids and young guys would be discussing about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and that time isn't far based on how quickly the world is getting engaged with cryptocurrencies.

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From your friends, local community members where you are living in or only from Internet, Google search.

Bitcoin nodes live map and Legality map can help you to see global adoption on Bitcoin.
https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/legality-map
https://bitnodes.io