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It's Laissez-Fair

Good slogan?  Sorry couldn't help myself ;)

No. Bad slogan.

Bitcoin
It's Laissez-Faire

Much better.

I was about to post the same thing, and ask, if by chance, it was a play on word(s) that went over my head, hence knowing Evoorhees' handle on the English language.

~Bruno~

I like that slogan. As a French guy the good spelling is Faire

I don't think Bitcoin needs a slogan any more than a technology like SATA needs a slogan.

If a company needs to promote Bitcoin to get customers instead of promoting what they can do which their non Bitcoin-using competators can't that actually doesn't reflect well on the premise that Bitcoin is a disruptive technology which enables new business opportunities.

The majority of people don't care about the underlying technology as an end to itself - they care about what the technology can do for them. So a payment processor should advertise that it offers risk-free, instant payments from customers located anywhere in the world because that's what people who are selling things online care about. A gambling site can advertise based on its payout ratios, provable fairness, and the ability for people anywhere in the world to participate regardless of exclusionary rules set up by local cartels, because that's what gamblers care about.

Bitcoin itself hardly needs to be mentioned at all.

Bitcoin...


I dun did it...

LOL yes I know the proper spelling. This was a play on words. Geez.

I figured as much when I read it, but still at bay, for the play eludes me. Guess you now have to let us, or at least me, in on the lolz.

~Bruno~

I like it!

My own personal bitcoin slogon is: Bitcoin - Decentralizing World Domination  8)

the term "laissez-faire" is connotated too negatively already due to today's corporotocracy. Such a slogan will polarize too much.

+1 

As will poking political hornet's nests. 

If I understand the play on words correctly, then...

BS&T: Carte BlankÖ

I prefer 'lezzy fare'.  It's just about as meaningless as 'laissez-faire', and more attention grabbing to normal folk.

It's much better with the pun that Erik intended.
"Laissez-fair" is a great libertarian slogan.

For Paymium, my associates and I went for a more politically neutral slogan: "money over IP"

Second that

Bitcoin. The currency of the internet

As you probably know any marketing effort has to be tailored specifically for the target audience. "Its laissez-fair" would work at a libertarian economists conference, but it would be worse than useless for a more general audience.

What happened to "magical internet money"?  ;)

Bitcoin -- stolen with impunity since 2010...

I just call Bitcoin the Future of Money. It works in my opinion. Calling it Internet money or something like that makes it sound like Monopoly money in some peoples' ears. The OP's suggestion is definitely very crowd specific, as a general definition that is horrible but in some circles it might be very good.

+1

But bitcoin is not laissez-faire... it is a Free Market currency.

Laissez-faire is classical liberalism which still had central authority via a central State. Bitcoin is P2P so it is a Free Market currency.

There is no one definition of the term.  It comes from the French for allow to act.  

A common definition of it is: the practice or doctrine of noninterference in the affairs of others, especially with reference to individual conduct or freedom of action.

Whether one wants to see that as some kind of centralized State control is a separate matter which does not change the actual meaning of the term.
Anarchists use the term all the time and most of them most definitely are not in favor of any kind of State control of anything.

MOIP is to VOIP

Money Internet is a more accurate name.