My bank asked us about bitcoin, part 2
It's like they read my mind!
Yesterday, I told you about my bank asking us if we owned bitcoin in a poll.
Hardly anyone did and I was sad that they did not include an answer saying "I don't know what that is", because I was curious about how well known bitcoin was.
Today, they had a new poll!
It asks "Do you know what 'bitcoins' are?".
Exactly what I was missing yesterday! This poll shows that amongst the people online banking at my bank, 68% says they know what bitcoins are. honestly, I'm surprised the number is that high! Ofcourse, the respondants are only online bankers, so this excludes the less tech-savvy population, but it's still quite a lot.
What do you think? Are you surprised by this number?
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Interesting, I saw the Coindesk article 5 days ago "What's Blockchain? HSBC Survey Finds 59% of Consumers Don't Know".
It seems like more and more banks are waking up to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies - and their customers' awareness of them.
Yeah, I think projects like Steemit help getting the regular public into cryptocurrencies. It worked for me! I knew bitcoin existed, but I never really did anything with it until I found Steemit :-)
"STEEM: the cryptocurrency Gateway drug"
For me, it was LTB Coin (let's talk Bitcoin's coin). Which are worth around $0.0002 each, has a market cap of around £200k and a daily volume of $2 according to coinmarketcap.com: quite a different story to STEEM...
The question is do they really know what it is and the technology behind it? Or do they just think they know what it is?
I would guess that only know it's a new kind of digital currency.
I am not too surprised. The media was talking a lot about crypto lately. I have known about Bitcoin for a few years but I would have never bought any. I thought it was too complicated. Thanks to steemit that has changed.
Yes! That's exactly how it went for me aswell :-)
pretty sure in Germany the number is higher and pretty sure that font is ING :)
Hah good guess :D
I tested ING software for a few years ;). I did work for the company who made some of their software, so I never directly worked for ING, but I saw some of their documentation and customer reported bugs. At least their QA are really nice and smart people.
Sounds good! I've been thinking of becoming a software tester actually, but then I figure I want to be able to fix things too, so I again decide I want to stick to what I did before :-)
breaking things is fun as well :)
It depends on how people interpret the question. But even if they interpret it as, "do you know what they are on the most basic level?", then I'm still surprised it's that high.
Yes, exactly! I don't think they'll all know a lot about it, but such a high percentage actually knowing they exist at all is surprising to me.
I bet a lot of people said "Yes" without fully understanding what a bitcoin is. I'm sure they heard it in the news as drug money or black market internet cash but to think that over 60% of a population understands it is a little bloated in my opinion
Yeah, I don't think they know exactly what it is, but they atleast know of it. Though yeah, you're right, it's probably not in a very positive way for most.
Looks like the bankers are getting worried about bitcoin as a threat to normal banking or are excited about bitcoin and want to jump on the gravy train! LOL
Exciting news. Thanks for sharing. Upvoted.
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I am more surprised by the number of respondents ... 48.247 ..how does one get a 0.247 response?
That's 48 thousand. Now you know how annoying it is for me here on Steemit with the '.' and ',' switched. I'll translate it for you :-)
48,247.00
Haha , thanks @playfulfoodie ........ I guessed it might be but we have not used a decimal point as a separator for decades now.
Crazy people I tell you! ;-)
it's better than in our country, i think only 30-40% knows about bitcoins here in our country.. Lol they/we are just starting know it.
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