Bitcoin Forum

I've been in and out of the Bitcoin scene since it's start. More and more, over the years, I've been overwhelmingly convinced that it is worthwhile. I believe there is a need to get more people to accept Bitcoin as something very real and useful. It will help with the growth of the community and help to insure the future use and growth of Bitcoin in general if we show people that they can be a part of it. I do not have the money to do something like this alone, but what I do have is passion, tenacity, and of course time. Personally, I see a huge opportunity here and hope others do to.

general public right now no..

and here is the reasons.
to advertise to 7 billion people will cost millions
the average person wants to be able to buy toilet roll, cigarettes, alcohol, baked beans, electric, gas, rent. all of which bitcoin is not ready for
the average person would get too confused. not sure where to buy it and then not sure who to trust to use it with or what to spend it on.

bitcoin is still at the innovation stage and as such there should only be campaigns directed at businesses.. not the public(yet).
bitcoin will only be 'average joe' ready when its truly easier to use than fiat and just as usable as fiat for daily life stuff.. which you'll see if you put the bitcoins utopian concept aside and think about the reality of real life bitcoin use..

I've tried convincing many people to join btc but so far no one has taken me on.

the general view of average joe is that bitcoin is a 'buy and hold' asset.
as you cant trust exchanges really, you cant buy baked beans with it.. thus only the business savvi people would be interested in it right now in its current form

In China, many people use online payment now, Alipay, Wechat wallet, but Bitcoins are little known

I am surprised it hasn't replaced western union tbh.  Maybe just need more time to stabilise.

because they want them for free, no one watn to pay for something so unstable, with his/her money

it's understandable, maybe it's better to direct them on some activity that can give they a small amount o begin with, first

Bitcoin couldn't function on the scale that western union does, at some point, the business would get fucked over by the large swings in price.

So hopefully with larger adoption and thinning of the number of btc that whales and early adopters have then the price will become more stable and then would be a perfect replacement.

For the people who already have internet access on their homes, this might be possible. The real deal is how are you going to pitch it big time and how are you going to explain it clearly to the public.

You do realise that every market has players that have far more of the asset than the rest of the market. They are called market makers. These could be institutions or governments. The guys that control BTC price, will always have more BTC than everyone, they aren't looking to make money by selling all their btc off, they make money by playing a continuous game of redistribution of wealth.

Of course but the more new people that buy into btc,  the less of an impact these market makers can make. 

Some very interesting points made here so far. I wasn't expecting much of a response to be honest but I'm glad to be wrong. I do agree that at this stage, encouragement generally needs to be directed at businesses. I would say that supermarkets might be a great place to start with that, considering what franky1 said.

In terms of explaining it to people, I have a few ideas on that. One of them is to give people paper wallets with $5-$20 worth on them. Then sit with them and walk them through several processes like making a purchase with bitcoin and how to transfer btc between accounts. Also explaining to them how everything works as they themselves are actually doing it. People like to have their hand held through new experiences. This method also takes away the risk people would see with using their own money, at least to start with.

Another way to educate people is to sit down with them and walk them through ways of acquiring bitcoin. Starting with faucets, which may be obvious to many, but most likely not newcomers. Then move on to other possibilities such as local trading (with advice on security of course) or buying through sites. I have a few in mind but don't want to name them for multiple reasons.

My idea of pitching it big is basically the fact that I, or someone else, would personally sit down with a person and take them through the various processes. The hands-on aspect is what makes it work.

As a side note, I, or someone else, could also walk them through how to tip with bitcoin. A learning experience that benefits both parties. Not a necessary part, but a possibility.

So bitcoin price is controlled? Possible to trade it?


Sounds like a pretty good idea. Reminds me of those lessons to teach older people on how to use computers etc. But takes alot of time and effort to have a large impact

And you do realize that fiat is controlled by the governments and we wholly support that. ::) Surely we know that much of the price movements in btc are controlled and cannot always be accounted to some sort of natural growth. And you say continuous wealth distribution right? That opens up a larger frame wherein people could get involved. I don't see anything wrong with the wealth redistribution, actually.

I don't mind the time and effort at all. When I believe in doing something, I stop at nothing to accomplish it.

It's the same concept as those lessons, yes. This is only part of my big picture though. I aim to develop an organization that can do this on a larger scale than just one person, eventually having promoted events and such. I aim big, and I don't expect results overnight.

Without delving in to politics too much, I wholeheartedly agree with this. If people understand the similarities between bitcoin and dollar(or any currency for that matter), that will make them more comfortable in getting involved with it.

right now bitcoin is just an opportunity for some people out there ,it creates some jobs around it
like miners, some people paid to talk about it, some people may run imposible barely-legal activities with it,
we here have some perhaps good time or fun to talk about it BUT there is nothing more

for people who work and earn decent money already bitcoin is just "a high-tech thing"
as i am reading from many random sources all mainstream merchants are keeping distance from it
too complicated , far away from being a everyday currency and the funny thing is
when serious players start to adopt bitcoin it will propably end as everything else >>

we ask for easier transactions, we ask for safer wallets,exchanges etc etc
in reality we ask to make bitcoin like any other normal currency but that is nonsense

What remains is the promise of bitcoin price run very high so any bitcoin owner can get
flat money profit ,like a lottery ticket with better maths supporting it "Thing"

promotion can go like this :

did u want gambling in non-regulated online casinos? did u want to try ponzies and other scams ?
did u want to buy collectibles like physical BTC coins and such ?
did u want to risk some real money into something you cant really understand ?
==============BUY BITCOIN NOW================================:)

I wold suggest that you must give more detailed data about such important thing. Even if you will wanted some nuts everyone will thought twice before giving those. Not because of their cost but because don't see valid reason and argumentation to give those. And not when it is talked about money. You tell that have a long experience with bitcoin. Since its first day. And you are entered in its forum only two weeks ago. How is possible this? A first bitcoiner who join its forum after 6 years. Then at your third post in its forum you ask money. Another question-mark in the mind of everyone: without telling any word about bitcoin and giving any kind of data except the above three-four rows, ask money using the name of bitcoin?

If I would be a normal person, my thoughts about you (and this doesn't mean that can be true; would be only mine) would be that you are an impostor. Someone which make as its third post a post with four-five rows in which request to have money for something "big" which can be read in other tens of posts make before its enter in bitcointalk, cannot have other name.

But I am not normal. I am a strange person. So I don't think that you are an impostor. As a strange person I would advice you that, to ask money, needed more than your rows. Much, much more. Give a good detailed project and a very good plan about what you want to achieve and in which way (exactly and step by step) think to realize that. Then put all here in this thread or in a new one and then try to ask money. After reading those things all the strange people (because the normal ones wouldn't believe again you having this kind of experience before) can read what you have invented and, if will like it, maybe will give you the needed money. Or that they can.

A lot of this is what I want to change. You've summed up a huge portion of what motivates me. I'm not looking to promote a get rich quick scheme, or even necessarily a way to make money at all. I don't promote illegal activity or dodgy practices. Mainly I'm looking to make people more comfortable with bitcoin.


I understand you completely and no offense taken. As I said, I've been in and out. I'm a very private person in general. I don't typically come to forums and voice my opinions, and this is the only forum I'm even part of. I'm not asking for money. I'm gauging interest in this and seeing what peoples' opinions are. As for a detailed plan, this is part of the process for building it. Everything has to start somewhere.

Today i have withdrawn around 55$ in my bank to show my father and family that bitcoin is like money. I am waiting my father to come and see my bank account. He have sayed he will give me equal amount of money if i can show him. Yes in this way i am also encouraging my family and other people to adopt bitcoin.

You say it is about the Bitcoin?

In your poll you ask if you would have support for that you want to do and in your post you tell to not have money to do alone that you want to do. As I wrote in my previous post EVERY normal people would understand this as a request for money. Only the strange people like me don't.  ;) As such I have no doubts in your good intentions. But you most know (if you really don't know this) that what you want to do, is the most normal and common thing that needed to do regarding bitcoin. Known by everyone which is involved with it even within few days. And learn from the beginners as a first thing about it. So nothing special or new in your words or in your idea for which you want support (and according to normal people even money). If I would borrow the words of a very big writer I would tell: nothing new under our "bitcoin" sky.

Anyhow to many speaks and only few acts. The number of those who achieve that they want to realize with their projects is irrelevant. Maybe you are irrelevant. So go ahead, show to everyone that you are such kind of people and forget my posts.  ;)

That's pretty cool of him.


I wouldn't call you strange for your thinking or opinions. From my point of view, I think I'm mostly talking to people like you here. The fact that it is such a normal concept and talked about constantly only shows the further need for it. I'm not good at talking in general. You can look at that from many different angles. Most of my life I have had to accomplish everything alone, but ruminating on this for so long and seeing how big of an issue it is has made me realize that I need to ask for help to be able to be successful. I won't forget your posts either. Feel free to post more if you wish. You state valid points and give me insight. Thank you.

Bitcoin is a currency western union is a service to transfer money worldwide. Those are two different things.

I believe just talking about bitcoin to the people around you helps a lot already, you don't need millions to let people know about it.

not only talking about bitcoin to the people but i think you have to knowledge the shopkeepers about the benefit of using bitcoins and how their business can grow if they start accepting bitcoins. for that first we have to ask whether they accept bitcoin as their payment option.like this shopkeeper will come to know about bitcoin and its benefits.

Is it really important for bitcoin to be available in physical shops? Why not a digital currency for the digital world. Rather than pushing it into real world, let bitcoin thrive in the digital world. I.e used for digital transactions

Well I don't think the shopkeepers around me are ready to start accepting bitcoins or any other payment method for that matter right now because for the simple fact they prefer taking cash but I am encouraging the people I know, be it my friends, family, colleagues to start buying Bitcoin and the recent surge in the price really helped to get their attention. And I know it's probably not a good idea to portray Bitcoin to them just as an investment but this way atleast I am able to get them interested and then I can tell them the other advantages of it.

For merchant, it is easy. Only a tablet is required for using the POS- Bitpay, Coinbase etc. Bitpay allows merchants to convert to fiat in a instance, no risk for volatility to affect the earnings. However, it isn't easy to do and there is not a huge adoption rate ATM. The general public are skeptical of Bitcoin and would avoid using it since it is too volatile. Merchants would be more reluctant to accept it after Bitpay started to charge.

Well, I think first you should educate people about bitcoin and its benefits.
To start some kind of advertising campaign about bitcoin before you educate people about it, introduce well in public, it's waste of time and energy in my opinion.
Also, we will need more support from bitcoin users and merchants than we have now in order to have successful bitcoin campaign.
It's just my opinion.

70% discount ! How could that be possible? The site and merchants need to make some profits! But I know you could try purse.io to shop on Amazon with discounts paying in Bitcoin!

Probably a lot. But I think we should start by letting them get to know bitcoin first and what exactly the concept of it is.

It starts by talking and if they're interested they will seek more information.

It's important to get more and more people to start hoarding so that price rises and we get profits.

when bitcoin is getting accepted and wall street level traders step into it, then there won't be much volatility left. instead of now we see the price go up and down some times 10-20% per day, we will see 10-20% price swings, per year.

Bitcoin could be applied in digital world, even in real world! It belongs to the whole world! It still needs time to get ppl be comfortable with it!

i think you need big guys prior, the global acceptance of bitcoin, you need to increase its value, or the "average joe" will not enter the market massively

or you need to do it via acceptance of bitcoin, like amazon or akin services, that incentivate those "joe" with a discount at the beginning

I am planning to encourage my friends on social media to learn about bitcoins starting on creating a bitcoin wallet and faucets but I don't have much time to create visuals. It's much easier if you have pictures or videos on how to do it step by step since am not that good at words.

the impact of amazon, alibaba and ebay when they accept bitcoin will be huge. this will most definitely help convince the average joe to step in. only..... large companies such as amazon won't step in as long as nothing happens to the block size. imagine what would happen if they do accept bitcoin. each block will be filled instantly at 1mb.

I believe it's the Bitcoin's supporters responsibility to advertise Bitcoin everywhere and support it as well by making deals with this crypto currency. Bitcoin still need advertising because many people still don't know about it till now

Exactly, which starts out by talking, informing them.

We can all do some advertisement for bitcoin by just talking about it and introducing people to what we believe is the future.

I would support this but of course, change starts with yourself.

The only way the whole world will adapt to bitcoin is when bitcoin users are informing other people.

i would, but the adoption of bitcoin will be
a long process, and many people will have
a second thought of using it.

Easier said than done. With scams and wallet robberies occurring at such alarming frequencies, I find it increasingly difficult to convince ordinary people to use Bitcoins. When I started collecting the coins in 2012, it was not this difficult. But now it is getting a lot harder, especially with scandals such as the Mt Gox robbery and the Silk Road arrests.

Bitcoin world is different, because everyone is master and commander here. You are in charge of your money, and no one is gonna help you when you fail.
That is the problem for the most people, as masses are used to having banks, financial institutions, payment processor which manage their money for customers.

If everyone is tech savvy, then this wouldn't be a problem. But less than 1% or 2% of the world population possess sufficient technical knowledge to trade bitcoins and to hold them safely. In the near future, this percentage might rise to 3% or 4%, but even then they will constitute a small minority of the world population.

The tech aspect is something that frightens many people to use it. they find the process of owning/spending bitcoins complicated. So yes in a way we should make it more simple. F.e. make it possible to sent to an e-mailadress or username.

just giving someone $5-$10.. thats too much. make it $1 so they can buy a pepsi at the 7eleven (once you sort out retailer adoption first). also think about how you can make it easy for noobs to start using bitcoin without hand holding them for an hour, step by step..
after all 99% of apple users dont need hand holding to set up applepay

as for showing people how to earn it.. forget faucets.. thats like 5% of minimum wage.. plus telling the world about faucet giveaways actually ruins the perception of bitcoin.

imagine it.. you want to advertise dollars to europeans.. so you throw out a few american pennies on the roadside you see someone pick one up and then you tell them every 10 minutes you will throw another penny down, hoping they come back.. most will just walk on by others will pick it up, but not suddenly want to buy $400, or hang around 24/7 to make $1 mainly because they cant use the $ bank notes in european supermarkets, so its not worth their time.

instead look at all the businesses using bitcoin, everything from coinbase to overstock, etc.. look into the jobs those places are offering and get people real jobs earning bitcoin. along with helping new businesses accept bitcoin

otherwise you are just spending an hour of your own time handing out $10, to someone that will ultimately feel its like facebook credits that can be used on limited things.

This whole forum is made to spread and discuss about bitcoin. Of course we'll all work toward a mass-adoption of bitcoin, it'll help us personally, too!

If there's anything you want us to help you with, maybe spread bitcoin to our friends, don't be afraid to ask us for help!

Good. I see that you have taken the good and the right meaning of my words. And this make me feel satisfaction. Even the fact that you have the courage to accept such kind of words and have reflections about those. This make me double happy because at least my words (that are only words and as such don't need to much or at all fatigue to  be made) had some value. Reading your answer and seeing that you in your life have made everything yourself, make me to be interesting in participating in your initiative. But the problem is that I have very few to offer. Mainly my words. I have not other important resources. Me too have build everything myself. I don't know about your results but mine can be considered sufficient only to maintain my family. My situation is another fact who justify my above posts about the need of a concrete project if you want really to have support. If you will present a good or, at least, a real project everyone can see when and where can help. And offer real support. If are offered only words by you (as it is) may be to many them who want to help and will offer their help but when the project will be ready and will be presented, many of those may not find themselves on it. In other words may see that the kind of help they can offer may not be necessary or may be not at all needed. Anyhow these are only (again) my words. You have yours. See and act as you will think is better according to you. You are the "owner", you will be even its implementator.  :D

That's why when I mention bitcoin to people around me, I also link them to some helpful sites where they can read it later in their own time if they are interested. Most do and some have joined this site as well but are just reading for now. There's some really helpful things you can find here if you know where to look and of course ignore the trolls.

It doesn't have to cost millons to advertise, you could start with simple flyers, spreading it around with the official bitcoin site on it. I do a bit of my own advetising by talking about it to people around me. Whenever they ask me how I make money and such, I mention bitcoin.

yes of course i would ecourage people to adopt bitcoin,or at least i introduce bitcoin to new people i know.
everywhere i go,i always ask to new people about bitcoin,and almost all of them dont know what is bitcoin,and there i start to explain about bitcoin.

I think it's too early to talk to ordinary people about Bitcoin. The whole things to become more user friendly, and safe devices to store coins need to be developed (a computer with Windows 10 which is what most people use out there is definitely not safe for Bitcoin and not viable long term).

It all begins with me and you. If at all we want to have this bitcoin thing get rooted among the people around us, then we should take each opportunity we get to share the benefits of the coins and how people can easily trade. Just offering to help the new users through a few frist steps is the best thing you can do. have your friends, family and even workmates get to know about the bitcoins and  try to explain to them what they have been missing. People find it easy to here from the people around them to believe.

no i don't think so . why ? let me explain there are too man cowboys in the crypto world that can and do cause serious damage to the trust and value of crypto. too many negatives outweigh the positive to many untrustworthy people running  exchanges and think they can do what ever they like with other peoples money. i see no future in crypto has it stands looking like a cowboy show . so why should involve the general public get involved with this ? so they can loose their hard earned money to some junky hiding behind a computer screen claiming to be a exchange. so if you ask me what i think would happen based on this the banks will copy the technology to suit themselves and business will carry on has usual. when that time comes you should all look back and think to yourselves what really killed bitcoin/crypto. you had your chance and you are blowing it big time. so i don't think you want to get the general public involved in this fiasco just yet unless you want them to consider it has a joke. 

Right now there is no need for the general population to use Bitcoin, especially as it's not easier and in some cases costlier to use. I can't even recommend others to save it as investment as the value may change quickly in the wrong direction.

Bitcoin came about as a result of the banking crisis. When the next one comes we will see true adoption.

I tried to promote bitcoin with my friends. I told them that I would send them 0.01 bitcoin each. Nobody was interested.

Yes of course (like 95% others), why not promoting a coin which i believe that will be very successful in the near future.

Bitcoin adoption is going just fine and as it's supposed to if you are asking me. Spending all bunch of money on advertising isn't an answer either especially since this money can be spent elsewhere on development, etc.

People don't realize how hard and difficult process is to change people's habits when it comes to money and to do what we are doing at the moment, introducing a first trustless truly decentralized money.


Patience people, patience!

Bitcoin must be showed as the revolution to earn an income online ,before bitcoin we were able to make something like 0.20dollars daily with ptc and some surfs websites,meaning something around 10 or 20 dollars montly revenue,doing solo.Bitcoin offers to those who has no skills a easy way to get a bigger income,nowadays im making those money weekly ,bitcoin open several doors and allowed all to earn something that can pay the internet cost and have fun at computer.
Besides this i understand faucets shows a bad way about bitcoin,dropping some pennies ,but well there are people who dont speak english or dont know there is a free way to earn bitcoin without skills,i were introduced to bitcoin with faucets i were very happy when i got 50k satoshis into my blockhain.I hade then done my own research to know more about it and what it were,i found this forum and well since then im making an extra income as the most here.

Now that all the sports gambling offshore books like 5
dimes is taking bitcoin I have been telling all my buddies
that I know gamble to make their deposit and withdrawal
using bitcoin. Its much better than waiting 3 weeks for some
check in the mail or paying $60 western union fee.  I am all for
encouraging people to adopt when it makes sense.

There are some cautions that we need to take into consideration before we think of spreading the word about bitcoins to the people around us. The entire algorithm behind the working of bitcoins is always complex and am imagining how it will be taken into consideration by the people who have no clue with the IT. We need to find the most user friendly user interface that will enable other people know how to mine the coins and just generate enough revenue then let the whole world know.

i will suppport the adoption of bitcoin, introducing bitcoin to your
family i the first step, next is explaining to other people how it works,
how to use it, what is the pros and cons of it, and last is what is the
possibilities of bitcoin, but when it is done, new generation of bitcoiners
will come to continue what possibilities bitcoin can make.

Well bitcoin will achieve mainstream on the next years can be 10 or more years but bitcoin will be the landscape of financial problems.

Even when bitcoin becomes main stream, there will still be financial problems in the system. Bitcoin is not to solve all the problems.

Stop trying to encourage other's to use bitcoins.
Just keep using it
Keep learning more about it

they will surely wake-up one day to search for bitcoins
.. but, i hope it will not be too late

tryed to get alot of people to join but i dont know what it is , even people that think it sounds awsome with btc never buy , i think to process in some cases , like sending money to a bank exchange via bank wire takes for ever and is a hassle for what people are used to. so in short people are so f*cking lazy that u pretty much have to do it for them for them to accept bitcoins.

Yeah same with you. Nowdays people in my country hard to believe that we have online money like bitcoin. people don't trust online thing, they scare for being scammed.

Encouraging people to adopt Bitcoin is kinda hard activity for me. Well, I will just show them what bitcoin is, and how I can earn money from crypto world.

I would say that in order to reach large numbers, you might have to advertise via social media like yahoo, twitter, Facebook and the likes. You might need to do this continuously for at least two years before seeing a significant change.

As the saying goes, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."

Though I do believe the idea idea of giving away free bitcoin via a faucet is more effective than just trying to talk people into adopting it alone. Without owning bitcoin, a person who otherwise wouldn't have bought any btc anyways wouldn't feel "invested" and thus wouldn't really care about bitcoin either way, even if they were to listen to someone else eloquently extol all the great virtues of bitcoin.

However, if that same person were to be gifted some bitcoin, even just a tiny amount, they might then feel "invested" in the sense that they are now owners of this new bitcoin thing and part of the whole bitcoin phenomenon. And thus, they would feel more compelled to learn more about it than just all the negative things said about it in the mainstream media or from other misinformed sources. When they do that, there is a better chance of them adopting bitcoin.

I think that encouraging people to adopt Bitcoin and use it is helpful idea and could advertise this powerful crypto currency a lot. Indeed there is many people still don't know anything about Bitcoin till now

best option would be to tailor the explanation to the preference of the single individual you're advertising btc to.
for example, explaining how btc could be a good investment to a person interested in the concept of investing and what does btc offer that fiats or other forms of investments don't.
but spending so much effort on every individual would be incredibly tedious!
which is not necessarily a bad thing just requires a strong will and some serious tenacity!

there are so many aspects and advantages to cryptos, btc in particular, to peak the interest of different people with different views and preferences.

i personally believe in showing through example!
do what you do stay involved in btc and be vocal about what you do.
if you're manage to gain some success eventually others start asking you about your methods.
once they show interest then you can spend the time and effort explaining to them how things work in btc world.
if they pay heed good for them, like many others they'll be a part a whole world of freedom and opportunity,
if not well you're already killing' it and enjoying yourself, sooo dat!

You can gauge if people are open to bitcoin by seeing how active they are online. You can drop it into conversation and see if it sticks or interest perks up. Would pass on most people over 35 due to the ones interested are mostly here or not going to take it up with out mass adoption from the hip kids.

Never heard of that saying, but it's a nice one. I'll keep it in mind. There are already plenty of faucets where beginners can get their first Satoshi's. Some beginners even know how to farm plenty of faucets to get a "decent" amount of Satoshi's every day. Eventually all the small amounts will form a bigger amount if they save them up. People will come, it just takes some time.

Talk to your family, friends and co-workers. Explain it with simple words, maybe show them a video.
Tell them why they should start using Bitcoin.

Most likely it won't get them to actually use it, but there is a really big chance they will change their view of Bitcoin to a more positive one.
Which will actually help Bitcoin very much in the future.

Think the best way to get people on board is advertising through magazines and t.v ads,otherwise its just not going to push people towards adapting to a unknown. Think you build from what we all ready have established,meaning gambling would be a easy target.
You find the magazines that push gambling and you get a spot where people might notice it.
We should have a donation towards pushing this otherwise as individuals its not going to get the word out to the amount of people we would like it to.

I always encourage my friends and co workers to join bitcoin... but they always make fun on me... I just tell them you can earn money through bitcoin.. but they used to tell one day you will be cheated by bitcoin... definitely one day they will realize the benefits of bitcoin..

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I think ads are just waste of money. You can give your friends some small amount of Bitcoins to their smartphone instead and show them how to spend it. At least you show them Bitcoin works, so in future they wont be so sceptical about Bitcoin if there is better way to get Bitcoin than just Buying.

But you reach maybe one or two friends that may take a shining to it. If you target the gambling aspect you can attract a pretty steady amount of people. The whole poker scene is strangled due to Country limitations,sports gambling faces the same issues. You show these people that there is still a option through advertisment in select gambling magazines you could get a pretty serious bump in people.
Often see people going after markets that are not tapped into,here is one that can grow and then we can sprout off in different directions with a bigger amount of people. Would argue advertising works better than word of mouth.

i think if bitcoin goes mainstream worldwide the stabilite of their prices won't change but it won't make big diffenrence whn bitcoin worth 10k couple dollars up or down won't have a big affect on the stabilite

We are still in a very early stage of altcoins, and it is needed more time to develop an economic system around the bitcoin to support a massive adoption of this currency. So I think we need to be patient in our attempts to popularize it.

Encouraging people to adopt Bitcoin is a must to help and support this powerful crypto currency, because indeed Bitcoin still needing the advertisement anf the support from the community and many people still ignoring it

actually I'm not encouraging people around me to use bitcoin because I don't know where to start explaining bitcoin. I did explain bitcoin a little and they didn't see the point.

if there's a community that will do some campaigns, I'll support.

Frankly speaking, people in my country rarely hear nor used Bitcoin, simply because they don't see such a need. We might host more cryptocurrency campaigns to increase the Bitcoin awareness locally.

Start a petition online so more people can save bitcoin
we need something really unique and quite new so people will
get more with bitcoin . its like a youtube video gone viral thats what we need i dont see anybody talking about bitcoin on youtube either

To get people interest, usually they want to earn bitcoin with free so faucet will be a good choice for it. Once they attracted to bitcoin, we can tell them more about bitcoin and participating on forum to able to learn more advance about how good bitcoin are.

If more people got interest on bitcoin, ofcourse it will bring bitcoin's value increased !

Well to be honest I think a faucet would not attract many these days. Probably a lotto, wherein one can win like 1 btc.  :)

But for newbies, faucets is the new things for him/her and you can earning bitcoin by do faucets and it's free. When i new about bitcoin, faucets make me want to use bitcoin and it's really encourage me.

In my experience, I can only convince people if I show them some money. For now, I do not have any to show so no one believes me yet. But I do really want to help the community grow by convincing others to use bitcoin.

agree with that,since i'm start use and adopt bitcoin,i feel have some duty to ecourage and introduce bitcoin to people i know,i start make people interest with some proof that bitcoin is more than investement and currency,i often upload some photo of bitcoin work on social media,and also share some activity to make people interest on bitcoin.

To be true its everyone's responsibility to encourage more people to adopt bitcoin as it is gonna evolve as a currency of the future.

Yes you are right, the only way to convince people to use bitcoin is show them our money that we get from bitcoin, and they will start asking us about bitcoin and we introduce to them.

It happens. Basically if you show the price of a single bitcoin itself they would start exploring and find some information regarding the bitcoin and its technology.

It is about giving knowledge to people and engaging them in activities which involve reward in Bitcoins. When people will get small rewards or tips in bitcoins they will become to know about it and it will help them to tell to other people in their society.  It the responsibility of every bitcoins user to train his/her surroundings about bitcoins, if we want bitcoin to grow fast. 

As of now , I did not encourage anyone to  adopt bitcoin  because  Im a newbie  and I dont know how it works and  if it really works. Most of my friends  ask me how to invest online  , I always told them  that I dont know how because I want to try it on my own first  to assure that  if it is a good investment or not. But well as of now its and good investment  for me Im just waiting for a right time to introduce it to my friends  ,  after all I dont want to  ruined my image  because just because of bitcoins.But in other hand im willing to advertise and promote bitcoins :D

well, i have been doing this on my own, not in a big scale or anything but i have been introducing bitcoin to the people around me. but to support a campaign to encourage the public to use bitcoin i guess i would support if the campaign is being run by people i can trust and see their work first not anybody random who is just asking for funding.

Me i'm trying to encourage my friends and family to try bitcoin but they think bitcoin is time wasting, cause here in our country bitcoin is not popular like on other country here they think bitcoin is a trash and i wish that bitcoin is introduce here as a currency that you can use to buy a coffee on cafe and other things so i can proof to my family and friend that i wouldn't wasting my time and they're wrong that bitcoin is trash cause bitcoin is real money

i cannot say that Bitcoins is not encouraging,..though in some other people Bitcoin is not true or scams,
but still majority are still believing for what bitcoins can do to us..  we must teach them properly about Bitcoins how good it is
once we apply this in our lives. lets show to them the benifits of it. :)

Teaching to people around us is our duty and after that it depends on an individual whether to start using it or not, as majority of people around me are not interested in bitcoin.

I am already encouraging friends or family members to start using it even though the results are not the best cause bitcoin is still something new to them and they are afraid to use it,at least there are a few of them that are open minded and see the potential this coin has and grab the chance  ;D

I made a forum thread about bitcoin in a internet marketing related forum for people in my country.

All of them said:

"This is a speculation bubble.Don`t use this shit.You will lose money."

This is what people think about bitcoin. :-\

yes i am encouraging my friends to adopt bitcoin. some of my friends trade bitcoin because of my advising and thanks Allah that they are very happy with their decision.