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Anywho, Bitcoin needs to press on .  I would like to know who else we can reach out to that we haven't yet that could give more influence to bitcoin. I know we have Max Kieser's of the world.. but lets start a list....

Random names popping into my head:

Ray Kurzweil
Jeff Bezos
Bill Maher
Kim Dotcom
University professors accross the world.

Couldn't agree more with these picks. I believe DotCom is aware of bitcoins?

He is, I'm just very surprised he hasn't said that it's awesome yet.

I wonder what is holding him back from fully endorsing it? any thoughts?

edit: maybe its because he's already in hot water he doesn't need to add more to the fire?

No idea. Best I can figure, he is stockpiling them. Maybe he's still reading up on them (took me forever!). But that might be wishful thinking. I just can't imagine why he wouldn't like bitcoins... I mean, come on. Of all people!

He would be the perfect poster child for bitcoins ( literally!) . Seems every project he is working on  will need someway for him/staff to get paid. I wonder if he has objections to it ...should be interesting.

I really want to hear his opinion on it. He may picture it as a "greater fool" pyramid, and understandably since his twitter was  bombarded by bitcoin "evangelists." It would certainly turn me off. That kind of stuff gets old to me.

Yes, I think you could be right. I see there is a whole thread dedicated to reaching out to him below lol....

Also, where are we with Ron Paul and bitcoins?

Bitcoins aren't shiny, they don't conduct electricity, you can't hold them in your hand, computers are confusing

He likes wrecking Ferraris and slurping caviar off the bottoms of bikini-clad girls. There's not a lot of BTC based offers for this.

thing is your probably right!!!!!!!!

I reached out to him (Kim DotCom),
We will see how it goes.

He has no choice but to use bitcoins... or cash by mail lol.

I LOL'd ...

Sounds like an untapped market.

=3  :D

We have Satoshi himself, AKA Jason Biggs...

we could re-introduce bitcoins to Tom Williams?

Maybe his coins are currently 'tied up'

100kk $ in cash in his mansion vs hundreds of bitcoins hmm

Im sure he has though about it ;D

Bleh. Maher can be funny but his actual opinions, typically, are awful. 

Maybe so, I really don't know much about his opinions. But I do know that he is very opinionated and vocal about a lot of controversial issues.

Thedailyreckoning.com (in some recent articles some of them was sympathetic toward BTC)
Thedollarvigilante.com
Sovereignman.com
Caseyresearch.com (Doug Casey criticized BTC in an article a few months ago)
Mises.org and any other sound money website

I just broke my 1000th post cherry! thanks for making it happen! ;D

EFF - https://www.eff.org/
FSF - http://www.fsf.org/

Would these guys support us? I've always admired them for standing firmly behind freedom.

No to EFF.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin

... and my response: http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/effs-own-chilling-breeze.html

Marc Faber
Jim Rogers

Lawrence Lessig
Niall Ferguson
Eric Schmidt
Elon Musk
Hugh Hendry
Nigel Farage
Steve Wozniak

I've been thinking about 4chan, more specifically /b/.
I know what you probably think, but don't be biased. It is a diverse, global, multi-million community with rather anarchic nature. Someone with good "evangelical" skills should make a Bitcoin thread on /b/ and /pol/ every few days.

can we also discuss about the one whose name we are not supposed to utter.....

Niall Ferguson is an establishment mouthpiece. Nigel Farage is far too busy being a media whore to spend any time understanding bitcoin.

The others are good. And I would add to that.
Mark Shuttleworth

Except they are all broke 13 year olds.....

Lawrence Lessig <- my vote.

Montel Williams.....  ::)

i think most of the people mentioned here are too entrenched to be of much use. bitcoin is really THAT threatening to one's reputation.

people are going to ignore bitcoin until they cannot afford to (whoa, that means we're in THAT stage of the ghandi pyramid). until then, they're (at best) going to try to figure out a way to take the idea and control it.

generational gaps, of a sort.

Hopefully at that point our coins will be worth much more.

No, they are not. They are of various social backgrounds and there is many of them. Even if you persuade a small fraction of them, it would be a good contribution to the bitcoin community.

I make one every day.

Also don't talk about it.

Really? To be honest, /b/ brought me to Bitcoin so .. thank you.

Also rules 1 & 2 only apply to raids. /b/ is notorious for its antics, so there's no point in not talking about it.