Title: Cliff notes explanation, installation use & backup instructions? Post by: miragecash on July 12, 2015, 12:16:56 PM I am looking for a short & sweet explanation, installation, Use & backup instructions I can link to for my customers who do not know what Bitcoin is. I am offering a 10 percent discount for my Bitcoin customers. PayPal charges close to 10 percent for international transactions. I've googled till my face is blue but everything online is too wordy, too complex, & the explanations are too nerdy for the general public. Remember, they let kids use calculators for sat tests now, so for 95 percent of the population, they see a big word like crypto currency and their brains just shut down. Thanks in advance for the link :)
Title: Re: Cliff notes explanation, installation use & backup instructions? Post by: ikydesu on July 13, 2015, 02:00:49 PM If you want to educate your customers about bitcoin, this links is easy to understanding:
https://bitcoin.org/en/faq https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ Title: Re: Cliff notes explanation, installation use & backup instructions? Post by: jambola2 on July 13, 2015, 03:04:56 PM If you want to educate your customers about bitcoin, this links is easy to understanding: https://bitcoin.org/en/faq https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ Bitcoin.org is definitely too wordy From their "What is Bitcoin?" Quote Bitcoin is a consensus network that enables a new payment system and a completely digital money. It is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network that is powered by its users with no central authority or middlemen. From a user perspective, Bitcoin is pretty much like cash for the Internet. Bitcoin can also be seen as the most prominent triple entry bookkeeping system in existence. On-topic, what I'd say is look out for infographics. I googled "What is Bitcoin infographic" under "Images" and found lots of results. This seems pretty good: https://s3.amazonaws.com/promotionalcodes.ae/what-is-bitcoin.jpg despite being old (has listed price of BTC at 6$) but might not be suitable for you as it advertises other things and might be too outdated. Good luck Title: Re: Cliff notes explanation, installation use & backup instructions? Post by: ikydesu on July 13, 2015, 03:25:17 PM If you want to educate your customers about bitcoin, this links is easy to understanding: https://bitcoin.org/en/faq https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ Bitcoin.org is definitely too wordy From their "What is Bitcoin?" -snip- On-topic, what I'd say is look out for infographics. I googled "What is Bitcoin infographic" under "Images" and found lots of results. This seems pretty good: https://s3.amazonaws.com/promotionalcodes.ae/what-is-bitcoin.jpg despite being old (has listed price of BTC at 6$) but might not be suitable for you as it advertises other things and might be too outdated. Good luck Nice infographic, but they source come from bitcoin.org and bitcoin wiki and shortened the point by them. Although it's explain to the point, nice old stuff. to OP, maybe you can try to make an infographic about bitcoin with your own explanation. Title: Re: Cliff notes explanation, installation use & backup instructions? Post by: miragecash on July 15, 2015, 04:51:37 PM to OP, maybe you can try to make an infographic about bitcoin with your own explanation. Yup. I wrote my own 3 paragraph explanation of bitcoin for customers. It has no explanation of what bitcoin mining is nor anything else about bitcoins that a customer doesn't need to know. Bitcoin.org or any other website I know of for that matter is way too wordy. Just their definition of bitcoin took 4 sentences! My definition of bitcoin is "Bitcoin is new and improved money for the 21st century." The infographic doesn't explain enough. For example, it doesn't explain how to get bitcoins so that they could pay me in bitcoins nor does it explain how to install a bitcoin wallet and use it. I just made a short webpage that explains what bitcoin is, its advantages and disadvantages, how to install and use a wallet (mycleium for android and hive for iOS), and how to get bitcoins (Coinbase). The following explanation of bitcoin is oversimplified for ease of understanding to the point of being slightly wrong. However, it is correct enough to allow newbies to gain a working knowledge of bitcoins and allow them to use them and spend them. What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is new and improved money for the 21st century. Bitcoin Advantages & Disadvantages Over Conventional Money Handling Methods
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Title: Re: Cliff notes explanation, installation use & backup instructions? Post by: ikydesu on July 15, 2015, 05:29:04 PM Pretty good explanation, but what i see is your explanation for Bitcoin advantages is too long to explain about the security, you need add how fast the transaction than other payment processor and other advantages of bitcoin.
For you reference: https://99bitcoins.com/the-future-of-money-bitcoinized/ And this is tutorial how to use Mycelium (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1117087.0). Title: Re: Cliff notes explanation, installation use & backup instructions? Post by: Rmcdermott927 on July 15, 2015, 05:41:06 PM I am looking for a short & sweet explanation, installation, Use & backup instructions I can link to for my customers who do not know what Bitcoin is. I am offering a 10 percent discount for my Bitcoin customers. PayPal charges close to 10 percent for international transactions. I've googled till my face is blue but everything online is too wordy, too complex, & the explanations are too nerdy for the general public. Remember, they let kids use calculators for sat tests now, so for 95 percent of the population, they see a big word like crypto currency and their brains just shut down. Thanks in advance for the link :) Here, this video might help give you some ideas. I find that it is easier to explain things in terms that people can understand by comparing to something they already know. This video explains Bitcoin and the technology behind it pretty well. http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/computing/networks/video-the-bitcoin-blockchain-explained |