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This post is actually in reference to another post. It's really hard to take it serious for some reason. In theory it sounds rather meaningful but I don't really think it can be useful in any way. This person didn't actually suggest toys based on Bitcoin, but it actually made me go from their point to this one. Do you really think toys based on Bitcoin could be utilized to actually raise our children to be educated on the currency? Do you think they'd actually enjoy the toys? Do you think they can actually grasp what Bitcoin even is? I just feel like trying to teach small children anything huge and confusing is a bad idea because children naturally have undeveloped mindsets to not even be able to grasp what certain things mean. That's why you can't sue children, that's why children don't have jobs and that's why children can't drive.



Curious though, if you wanted to invent a Bitcoin toy, what would you make?

The kids in school are more likely to understand Bitcoin than most adults imho. Most adults don't even understand domain names, and that is virtual property.

Why would you say that though? What is your reasoning for that? I don't know of any children using this site. It's mostly adults.

Sorry, I thought you were talking about Bitcoin - the currency, not Bitcoin Talk - the forum.

I think bitcoin toys would help us introduce bitcoin to people. I mean people will notice the toy and find a information about what is bitcoin. And kids will ask they parents what is bitcoin.

Yeah but it'd have to educate the child alone without looking up Bitcoin. The toy on its own should really educate. There should be some kind of pamphlet explaining the nature of the currency, and so on.

BTCitcoin toys could have an impact on kids getting interested to BTCitcoin when they grew up and eventually be educated in some extent although not completely. Even though kids have undeveloped mindsets as you mentioned, it's our job to break it for them into simplest form so they would learn it piece from piece (the outcome could be better when they learn it like this all the way until their mature enough to understand the whole picture than when their grown up, you introduce them suddenly and surely their going to take more time before getting the idea completely as opposed to the first one).

If I wanted to invent a BTCitcoin toy, it has to have the full name of BTCitcoin in order to have some impact, so perhaps something along the super hero type with BTC letter as it's simple and name it BTCitcoin man or BTCitman. It's has to be a toy that kids would engage in order to have the most result.

Yes, If the toys come in the form of this, http://www.coindesk.com/kickstarter-launched-for-piggy-bank-that-lets-kids-save-in-bitcoin/ < I wonder how far they got with that project > I think the best educational material for smaller kids will be educational games, where kids get rewarded with actual Bitcoin and they can supplement their pocket money with that income. I would like to see some board games like Monopoly get in on the action too. < Giving micro payments for reaching different levels in a online player vs player scenario > ^smile^   

for me creating a coins satoshi like image and make a millionares game will helps bitcoin to be more recognized I use to remember that game before it was very popular way back, just like a casino game you would earn luxuries and it is so much fun playing it with your friends. and making it virtual would also help those kids to remember btc and got there interest.

i think it can be effective.
but it needs to be created with some thought and not just for the sole purpose of advertising bitcoin. i am not an expert on "children educational toy making" but i have seen toys that are more effective than a thousands words.

I think that the children who are probably wanting money more will probably understand bitcoin better than we adults do so it may be a good idea

No i dont think so its a good idea. Kids getting bitcoins in so early age and spend on the internet in some wrong things can be dangerous for children.

Also i think that children should focus on studies instead of earning.
So toys should not involve real money like bitcoins

Bitcoin toys? Funny idea. Not sure how clever this is, children shouldn't be focused only on material things and these days they mostly are from their early age.

Yes times are changing. These days kids are involved in monetry things for very early age which is maybe not so good for their
future  ???.

using bitcoin toys will give more exposure for bitcoin it is funny but if we can design well and attractive toy, just like minions for example that toys is not for kids but it gather popularity and adults delighted to, so creating a toys which design to focus to introduce bitcoin is not a bad idea for me.

The biggest problem would be finding a company that is willing to mass produce these types of toys. You still need to sell them somehow to people, and kids usually want "cool" toys, or toys that their friends also have.

Bitcoin is not cool to have as a toy yet, as hardly anybody knows it and hardly any kid will have toys of it. This can really take off once bitcoin grows more popular, but until then, the market is probably too small.

The piggybank on kickstarter is really cool though. Smart parents can still buy it for their kids as it is not a toy but rather a way to get them saving some cash (in a potentially very lucerative way!).

Dildo maybe? Just kidding, lol.

To be honest, why do you think a children will understand Bitcoin when they do not even understand the currency yet? It's like asking them to commit suicide by jumping off of a building without giving them a chance to learn the meaning of life. It's just my honest opinion, though.

Children do have jobs, IMO. Did you know the term child actor or child actress? Well, but not every child can be one.

Trust me. There is a lot of children on the Internet and so does on Bitcointalk because the Internet isn't only limited to adults.

Bitcoin toys can have impact to the children when they play with those but i don't think that the children are playing too much with toys nowadays, i think a better marketing would be creating computer and mobile games for children and so they will love bitcoin :)

I think it will be good for the future. Because it will be good if there will be more people that can have some Bitcoin and that will be nice.
It is also good if they will know what Bitcoin can do and that is really important for the future. So they will it use it too.

Involving Bitcoins in toys is a great idea from the investment point of view. Since kids needs toys and parents willing to spend money on the toys for their loving kids, whats better if they will be paid for using them. Better for kids and their parents also.

To be honest, I actually feel that it might help but not much. I do not think that kid will go to Google and search for "Bitcoin" just because they saw it on their toys. I say it might help because maybe one day when the kid grow up or just started using Google, they might search for "Bitcoin". Even then, we cannot be sure that they will use Bitcoin and support it.

If I were to create a toy for kid relating to Bitcoin, I would create a game similar to monopoly with "Bitcoin" as the money. :).

And maybe the "Jail" will be something like "Hacked". Buying a "property" will be like buying a "site". :p.

Their is both positive and negative feed back,

positive is that idea is not bad but what you are telling is like investing in long term profit, as when the kid grow then only it will be usefull, so their should be some more innovative more for this option.

For investing bitcoins in long term profit idea is like an insurance company but the since kids are kids, they will just sell them for more toys or sweets, Unless there is parental control over the profit from the toys.

It will be very good for the kids. They will know about Bitcoin, because Bitcoin will also have later a good future and that is good.
They can learn how to handle with Bitcoin and what you can do with Bitcoin and that is the best thing.

children pick up new things quickly. as long as the words used are simple.

EG if you say
"bitcoin is decentralized crypto currency ledger units"
they would have no clue

but if u say
"its limited supply money that is not stored in a bank but on a password that no one can access without that password"
they would understand.

then you can explain in more detail using simple words.

so it is possible to teach kids of any age as long as the language and examples are simplified into words that can be understood.

now then, as for a "toy". i dont think that in 2016 a kid is that interested in a teddybear that sings about bitcoin, they would see it as not entertaining or fun. but these days even 3 year olds can play games on an ipad or computer. so making an app that is a simple fun game can easily explain bitcoin without the kids even realizing it.

why bitcoin toys? i don't see any realation
if you want to teach kids about bitcoin you have to give them a wallet and charge it with their allowance then you have to find a place that they can purchase things like games, toys and stuff like that. this way they learn about bitcoin by using it.

But there's so many children toys involved money in it, just like an ATM machine, Monopoly, or even a money toy.
Bitcoin is the same as money, so do you honestly think that toys that involved "money" help our children?

As in future everything can be seen in the digital form. Introduction of bitcoin in toys would make kids understand the future currencies.

Yeah that's wonderful. What I am trying to add is that it's important that the toys alone can actually educate the child about Bitcoin. A super hero of sorts might be cute and fun but I just don't think it'd really help educate the child about what the currency actually is or how it even works. If you want to see a really effective bitcoin toy, how would you pursue that and make it a reality?

Haha, I like that. Very cute idea. That's the point that I'm trying to make. The toy, (or in this case a board game) within itself should be teaching that child about Bitcoin in its own unique way. This way, we don't even have to be hoping that the child will just find some type of honest interest to search what Bitcoin means and what it does. Little novelty toys like a super hero toy somebody just mentioned here earlier was seeming rather pointless. It cannot teach that child anything.

Some of these board games are pointless yes, but when I was a kid one of the local insurance companies made a financial based board game, which taught me a lot about

personal finance and budgets, and it made a difference in my life. I sold the board game to a friend, and cannot for the life of me, remember the name. I would welcome a

Bitcoin based online board game, like the one being sold by http://www.richdad.com/apps-games/cashflow-classic {Bitcoin version}

Oh wonderful!

Edit: I actually don't see the part where they're discussing Bitcoin. I saw that they were discussing the US dollar actually. I'm not saying they're not discussing Bitcoin. I'm just saying that I cannot see it. Direct me to it maybe? I love board games. :)

Bitcoin is money, but it's more complicated than a wallet with some cash. Somebody needs to explain the actual properties of the cash (how it's made, how it works, how it's distributed, when it was founded) etc. There's absolutely nothing special about the US dollar or the Canadian dollar. It's just paper with watermarks on them. There's nothing to it at all. At least with Bitcoin, there's more to learn and understand.

Just wondering, how would you design a Bitcoin toy? It has to be a way in which you actually get to educate the child with it. You can't just print a Bitcoin Symbol on a toy and then say it's an educational/informative toy. I for one actually don't know how I'd want to make a Bitcoin toy. It sounds complicated, but a good idea nonetheless!

The kids being born now will be using Bitcoin naturally, when they realize they are stuck without owning any money until they are 18 or 21 depending on some countries. They can't never reach financial freedom. A lot of kids nowaday make a lot of money off ad revenue with their content, and they will just get paid in BTC because it will be the quickest and cheapest way.

I agree with this.  More likely to find a younger person that knows about bitcoin than older. 

This is an overall interesting concept to have Bitcoin toys so that children get used to playing with them as money.  As children we all played with games with money so why not Bitcoin.  There could be game apps for children as well that reward them in fake bitcoin, this would give them an opportunity to understand the math.  The sooner you reach children the better, with anything.

we can see toy market is quite high so if bitcoin can enter this market than it will not only increase the use of bitcoin  but it will also promote about bitcoin to familes also even to those future guys.

How about a bitMONOPOLY? Bits instead of dollars, exchanges instead of banks. Quite a good way to spend family time with the kids don't you think?  ;D ;D

nice idea,but i think its will not effective for people who plays toys,like kids,we all now kids dont understand bitcoin,but if i were to create a toy for kid relating to Bitcoin,i would create bitccoin pillow or bitcoin dolls,they will start to interest and ask about that shape,and we just said to that kids,it was bitcoin,future currency ;D  

It does actually sound like a fun thing the create. Is there anyone in this thread or on this site with some kind of general game construction experience perhaps?

yeah but what exactly would you ever consider to be a "cool" toy? That would honestly be based on problems and beliefs in what is actually a cool toy and not. We're not even really focusing too much on that because we can actually walk up to children and ask them on their opinions on what kind of toys they'd actually play with. From there, we find a way to incorporate that with an education purpose behind BTC.

Children love toys and genuinely appreciate them and have learned from them so I don't know why you feel that way. Don't get me wrong. I actually wasn't warming up to this idea too much but if it seems like most of the people in this thread are on board, I say we find a way to make it happen. Anyway to educate the masses of this cryptocurrency is fine.

bitcoin toys could give good impact to kids interested to bitcoin of course will impact to they kids parents in before they not know about bitcoin. will see how it's goes bad impact or good impact for bitcoin.

Oh hi. Thanks for throwing shade at me. Going back to the topic you're actually referring to, I don't think there's anything wrong with toys if they have a purpose to teach children. Pointless Knick knack toys like furby or robo-pup is pointless and ridiculous. I'd never purchase my children video games unless they were educational in some way shape or form. If you are gonna talk about me, can you at least do it where I can see it...

thanks.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1408697.0

It could help us but the fact is what kind if toys you want to bring to the bitcoins, I think that is the first thing you should consider.
It could help us but I think its difficult to make this happen.

Well, If children are taught about BitCoin from the start, Its likely for them to master it at the age when they become adults.

Not necessarily. It was difficult to build playhouses modeled after actual homes but people did that too, so...

My thoughts exactly. The topic the OP is actually referring to is a topic that I made. Scroll a couple posts above and see the link I provided. It has photos of toys that are designed by adult appliances and actually work.

Its a very good idea to introduce bitcoins to the Kids. But before that kids should need proper guidance.
They should be taught of the uses of bitcoins and where to use them and not to invest them in gambling etc.
It is the responsibility of the Such toys companies that they should create awareness among parents and kids before being actually creating this.

I struggle to think of a (hands-on, physical) toy that would be cheap enough to be realistic, but somehow teach about bitcoin specifically. I think a better approach would be child-oriented software (Android, Windows, etc.) that teaches about cryptocurrency.

I think there is a lot of room for this kind of activity, for any creative programmers out there. I've been interested in Piggycoin and used it to pay my kids on occasion for the past year, but even Piggycoin with its explicit focus on children, has little to show so far in the way of child-centric aps and games. They have a decent website that helps introduce kids to crypto, but even there, a lot more could be done. Someone could create child-centric websites for bitcoin too, but I've never heard of one.

May I ask why you're paying your children? Do you make them work for you or something, or are you trying to say you give them an allowance?


Apart from that, yeah. Bitcoin child oriented software would be nice. There could be little online games as well to connect the children with other children online to cross-spread information they've gathered. Sounds great.

I wouldn't say it's the company's responsibility as much as it is the parents' responsibility. It's almost like attempting to blame graphic videos for the influence it has on your child because you as a parent accidentally left it out for your kid to see it, or you let them have a computer with free range internet access to look up content like that.

I think making coins satohi like image and make the game will make the millionares bitcoin is preferred and recognized, to remember that the previous games were also very popular, as casino games. We'll get that luxury and so much fun to play with your friends. and create virtual will also help children to remember and know of btc

i think bitcoin is much easier to understand then fiat
a toy for to help kids understand bitcoin would be a piggy bank with a bitcoin logo on it.
money in, money out
try explaining to a kid what happens when you deposit money in a bank....

bitcoin is probably closer to what people BELIEVE money is, then what fiat money actually is.

Yes, I think it would. We need all the ways possible to increase Bitcoin's brand value.
People didn't think physical coins had a role to play in a digital currency, but they did help.

I always found there to be similarities. Explain what Fiat is to you in your own words perhaps?

Well putting the logo of bitcoin at the toys should be one way as childs are the future,a toy well childs i believe they really dont care about it,my child has 4 years and she only wanna play games at cellphone,and almost all childs are at this situation.Soo a toy would be useless since childs  wanna the cellphone,soo make a game portatil(like gameboy) with the logo of bitcoins better .Or a game where you must use a person to mine and in the road being able to convert their balance to satoshis,upgrades and others things.

Fiat is money backed by debt, when you borrow money to buy a car or a house *POOF* that money is created out of nowhere, your promise to pay creates that money.

Remember after 9/11 when the bankers came out and said " we found 4 billion dollar to fund the war on terror " what actually happened there is 4billion dollars was created out of nowhere. *POOF*

when money is created and injected into the economy, the value of each dollar goes down, why do you think the price of food is always going up Up UP!!! the price of everything tends to go up yearly. its called inflation

infact the banks target a 1-2% inflation rate

what may look like a large sum of money today will not be a large sum of money tomorrow
so poeple try to invest in assets or otherwise which causes speculative bubbles and distorts the markets
remember the housing bubble?

the economy is subject to boom and bust cycles.

but the worst part, is that there's a limit on how much you can borrow, but there's no limit on how much the government can borrow.

the government can choose to put itself in a HUGE amount of debt and fund whatever projects it feels like ( WAR! )
and we all pay for it with inflation.

fiat is a system with arbitrary rules ( complex and numerous ) which favor the ruling class.

Yeah that's so true. As long as they've got trees, the government can make as much money as they like. When it comes to issues like inflation, yeah, the price of things always goes up. Still though, doesn't Bitcoin have that same property of holding things and having prices for things go up?

Yes, it help bitcoin effort globally. As we know children love toys and it will keep happen forever.
If many children being attract for the toy, they will fight for it. So parent will not bother for make them happy by purchasing with bitcoin

what kind of toys you meant?
a human toy of bitcoin, you just add hands and legs; or a coin toy.
well I think a toy without explanation or show how to use is useless, imho.

I actually wanna make a cute wind up robot toy that that alters fake Bitcoin addresses to show how BTC makes random wallets. I think that'd be really cute, right?

Bitcoin toys would surely help in the growth of bitcoin. I have played a game named business, in which we make profit and loss. In such games if bitcoin symbol is used in the place of dollar it would surely make few know about bitcoin.

not good ways,but good idea and should trying to make some good bitcoin toys,if you said "toys" it mean for childern,and its will not effective to introduce bitcoin to kids. i just think bitcoin "souvenir" its maybe better with so many shape and kinds.

Marketing Bitcoin toys would be kinda hard I think. The problem with that is Bitcoin doesn't have a mascot while Dogecoin could be very easily made popular if they manufacture plush Doge toys which represent a common dog figure. Of course they could try slapping the Bitcoin logo on generic toys but I don't think Bitcoin is popular enough to entice people to buy this kind of toys for their kids.

Of course not directly, I doubt a kid would be interested in "Satoshi the mysterious" toy or the silkroad guy toy, I think they might grow interested to it as they get older and it's like money, I doubt kids like money except for the things they could use it to buy, not because of a "captin dollar" toy.

nope I think the target for the growth of the user rather than on the child but to parents. toys only as an inducement for kids so that they would buy a toy that only support for Payments through bitcoin
so automatically parents will buy bitcoin to be used to buy toys

If they can have a pig with uᴉoɔʇᴉq simbol i believe would be enought for a toy to childs ,otherwise we would see only some childs using those as they dont wanna toys they wanna techonology already.

yeah I thought the little boy today has a different favorite things you know ?
small children antiquity like with toys but now small children prefer to use gadgets and electronics
i think bitcoin toys will not give effect

I think if the parents don't know what is bitcoin? of course they will pay with fiat right ?
I think before implementing it on store we must have the support of such an exchange offline or bitcoin atm and so on
so when parents don't have the bitcoin. they can buy bitcoin exchanged near shop

I think, it should first be introduced to the parents first. If Adults know about the currency it will be good for society and children may not use it properly. Every thing must be targeted to right people and i think Coins should be introduced to the Adults.

I do not think it is a good idea. Actually children have growing mind not fully developed one. Even if they will understand what bitcoin is,then also they will not realize the proper way of it's use. Once they will enter teenage, they will start mishandling it. This is the worst thing about this idea. It will give gov one big reason to ban bitcoin.

Bitcoin toys are actually good in my opinion, as it will advertise bitcoin as a whole.
As for education, parents need to be familiarized with bitcoin first before introducing these to children.

At what age kids are allowed to manage their own finances? I don't remember when I got my first debit card I think I was maybe 13-14 years old. Bitcoin itself is digital money so parents have to educate their kids how to be their own bank and maintain their own budget. What toys would appeal to older children though? I don't think plush toys or constructor sets would be ideal for them.

No,i said its not give any good impact to children and their parents,normally we are know that kids buy bitcoin with parent money,or their parent bought bitcoin toys for their kids,its must be known that parent know bitcoin,how we can introduce bitcoin if parents dont know what bitcoin toys is?
the only way is giveaway that bitcoin toys not just to kids,but also parents.

They don't know what Bitcoin toys are because they haven't been invented yet. Maybe if you invented some, they'd know about it. From there it'd be a great learning experience for both the parents and children to learn just a little bit more about the currency.

Yes I think it would be a great idea to introduce both kids and their parents to bitcoin if we have bitcoin toys,would be more interesting if they come with brief intro to btc on their packaging.These toys should be sold on discount if bought with bitcoin

Actually I think that children should be early educated on economic subjects as an essential part of their necessary education to face the future challenges to come in their future lives,  but in my opinion it seems a bit ridiculous to talk about bitcoin toys.  I think it's unnecessary such specialization in a single currency.

Bitcoin itself is already kind of a discount.

People have specialized in the US and have created US dollar related toys, clothing, and even candy.

I guess that could be a nice approach. However, I do believe that board games related to bitcoin would also be a great educational process.

I believe that's already been done.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

There are aspects that can be introduced to kids. E.g. we did play with ledger based play money as kids. Of course there was only one a single ledger maintained by the oldest kid and no cryptography or mining involved :)

Of course you can take just any old game with money in it and change the dollar signs to bitcoin symbols. But I'm guessing that's not the idea.

A toy based on bitcoin?

This makes no sense, simply because a toy needs to be interactive.
How can you make a bitcoin interactive?

You could make an adult toy based on bitcoin I guess.

She stops paying and the toy stops vibrating, 100% money maker.  :P

I don't think users could go for such toys. Already with lot specification those were available free of cost for the vibration. No one could pay for this vibration.

A plate-based society game could be a good idea. I'm currently working on one, and will present it in a few months. According to me, that's the best idea. Moreover, most of the pices are 3D printed, so you do two hits in an throw ;) !

No. It definitely has not. I just googled that and haven't found it. Either that, or you're speaking about a prototype that hasn't even been released yet.

Kids our curious anyway and i dont think they always need toys to be interested, its about how interesting you make anything for them.  My kids have heard me take about bitcoin for so long now it is just another everyday thing in our house.  i also set them up a wallet each on thier ipads and sent them a few bits which the loved sending back and forth to each other.   :D

Still. A toy would probably help them be more affiliated.

It could be an interesting thought, you'd have to make the toys fun though. No kid wants to play with a big BTC

I don't think its good idea and its going to work for bitcoin better do for some adult which is more attractive and good for this community

Actually, kids don't really mind what they're playing with. Kids have played with sticks, and novelty items for a while now. Shoes, jewelry, daddy's ties, etc. The point that should be established here is whether or not the toy is teaching the child anything.

it depends mostly on the age of the kid.
yes the very young kids don't mind playing with any object they can get their hands on but as they grow up they start to be more picky and also learn from their games if they are also educational games.

Children are an important market segment for uncensorable and highly decentralised central bank reserve settlement monies.

Well the pig image with bitcoin would be something that childs may keep using during the process they pass,the pig usually is open at the end of the year soo works like savings ,i believe its the best thing as a toy to childs learn that they can save money at the pig of bitcoin,blockchain.

I don't think Children are an important market. They still child and don't know about bitcoin, but bitcoin toys can make them remember about bitcoin, and when they grow up, they will find what is bitcoin.

You can try to teach bitcoin to children like how you teach money to children. we just need more imagination

I doubt childs would pay attentin to the lesson about money,they like games ,toys are for childs around 2 years then above they wanna techonology,my child started to use cellphone with around 2 years the toys she has keeps with her but she almost dont use them.

Well, what kind of educational toy/game for Bitcoin would you suggest? Somebody's already come up with the board game idea, and I've come up with a mini crankable robot that changes a screen on its belly where random characters pop up to demonstrate using multiple addresses.

Only a games bitcoin related will help to spread the bitcoin word ,and concept,a toy cant represent bitcoin and the child wont understand it .

Well of course. we're trying to work through that but how do we do it if we're not really getting any feedback/ideas here? You gotta contribute an idea.

i doubt that there are a lot of games that are connected with finances and economics therefore i dont think that there will be games connected with bitcoins to be honest

also we dont need anything like that as there are no games connected with regular money and young people dont need to know much about the bitcoins and how it works

Monopoly.

You don't need toys. The average kid isn't going to associate their toy with a global p2p currency system. Just give them some Bitcoin to spend on something.

Bitcoin toys may be helpful in the short run as kids will get easy money and wont have to depend on the pocket money  ;)

But in the long Run, it will be harmful for the kids education and studies as they will spent more time in earning coins rather than
focus on study.

Well i would create a mario version and instead they get coins they would get bitcoins symbol during the game,and when they finish the level they would be able to get some satoshis to spend,getting extra features in game.

Anything which promotes bitcoins is helpful. Even toys if they can be helpful as more kids involvement means their parents involvement also.
Bitcoin related toys can really add value, if advertise in the right way.

Well in fact it could make the bitcoin much more popular although that is still the question, these days there is getting less more toys sold because of the digital part.
I think its maybe better to make a game or something with the bitcoin itself.

I have many ideas. How about starting simple, like the Bitcoin logo on a sub-$10 Frisbee and then a key with $1 in bitcoin and wallet and bitcoin.org urls on the underside.

Bitcoin toys can be so nice for the kids, they will learn it from a low age and so they can handle it later in the future and that is good for Bitcoin and for themselves.
It is good to promote Bitcoin more around this time so more people will get to know about Bitcoin.

i love people posting thread with inspiration from other thread ;)
i think bitcoin toy good for kids,and this is help bitcoin to more have adopter,but i think this is not effective for introduce bitcoin to kids,they still not understand about what toy have played by them.

bitcoin is not a kid experiment, is much much more also a way of thing about money and society... is not a toy is much much more ;)

I think Bitcoin will have a bigger success among the children if it's implemented in computer games or mobile games rather than in toys. I don't know how one could meaningfully represent Bitcoin in a common toy while there are a lot more angles for it to be included in a game's plot like for example running a coffee shop where customers pay you in Bitcoins or something. It could be educational and entertaining at the same time.

Bitcoin toys would really help more adoption. The reason behind this is already people for several games using certain coins which are made for a particular use. In those coins if we display our bitcoin logo surely a little popularity will be gained.

Yep it will help us to know other people why we stay online always, to understand how we get money in the internet, to know that this is not illegal, to prove that there is money in internet,  :'(

Is there any bitcoin toy that i can see, i searched on google but no concrete result, maybe having a toy like puzzle and completing it like the big bitcoin logo probably will help kids thinking about bitcoin lol.

It's not a good way to introduce kids on bitcoin with let them spend a money to bought something, I think there are many ways like bitcoin game.

What would be cool if there was a bitcoin toy, but it was actually a miner, so it makes coins, and  it looks like a bitcoin with your balance on a little screen on the front. However it would use up electricity, and be less effective over time. I think it could help promote bitcoin.

Anything can be useful for bitcoins if it is related to bitcoins in some way or other. Getting Bitcoins in the toys and involving kids in it is a great from of marketing as Kids love toys and you can make toys which involves bitcoins.

Maybe a work out machine, produce electricity, with that electricity, mine Bitcoin, the more you work out, the more coins you make.
All you need is some forms of toys a kid can play and make coins. This sounds like a good idea.

There is no harm in trying as they say. Unless this bitcoin related toy would be horrible designed, offensive in some way, plain stupid or just boring - I don't see why not we can have something like this.
But from the other side I don't see many FIAT based toys to begin with. So I have little idea what that Bitcoin Toy would be.

There really are no ideas or concepts for a Bitcoin toy, and chances are none of them would sell.

I enjoy Bitcoin, and I can't think of anything Bitcoin-related that I would want to play with, or I would want my kids playing with.

i dont think toys can help

This will definitely have an impact on children. But the toy needs to have them engaged with it. They probably won't understand it now. But as they grow up they might start researching about it and end up getting into it.

Not sure about bitcoin toys,but i just wat to suggest you to invest on bitcoin souvenir,its better than toys,we know toys is for childern,and its make your market limited,but if souvenier,you will get many market chance,bitcoiner will love souvenir and ordinary people also will love it.

As you quoted toys were mostly used by the kids but it has a big market. But souvenir were less used and I believe bitcoin to reach normal people only way is through ads.

actually it would be a good idea for young children, but we can only put
certain thing about bitcoin for them to learn at a young age that way they
will have an idea what bitcoin is as they grow just like fiat money.

In Japan starting from 3 years old they give things and toys that parents wanted to be to there children. From those early ages they are exposed on what they want to be when they grow up. So they can call them Professional on what they finish. Putting on there mind that it will gonna make them rich someday. For sure they will not forgotten all the things that they see from there childhood.

What the hell is a toy based on bitcoin? I'm not trolling here people. A red ball with a BTC symbol?


Money based toys tend to be money. Like monopoly money for example. Or fake gold coins in a pirate chest. Essentially, the toys model behaviors for dealing with money, raising familiarity rather than teaching concepts. That being said, a testnet version of a coin for a value type game like monopoly would fill this, providing direct experience with the currency in the form of making transactions.

If anyone makes bitcoin monopoly, I want my cut dammit. I will sue.

Yes it is a good idea if bitcoin will make toys of bitcoin, it really helpful to introduce in public and also in other countries. because when children will play bitcoin's toy than most of the people have awareness and than which people who don't know about bitcoins than they will ask about bitcoins.    

Now spreading as well promotion is highly required, so at least to a small extend these bitcoin toys would help in increased adoption or people to know about the new technology.

i think it will help children to enlighten to the world of bitcoin. Bringing up while there are a child is a great idea just like playing along with other toys

and make some story of it. Like fairy tails where bitcoin came to reality. ;D

how can you say that bitcoin is a toy. bitcoin is a coin. i think it is one the best onlne currency it will certainly help us.

Bitcoin toys can help in promotion of bitcoin, like someone said kid's now are much smarter then before, and they have more knowledge about computers then their parents.
So yes btc toys are just one way of promotion, I see it like that. Will it help or not depends from many factor's: who will made it, quality of that toys, story behind toy's ( some cartoons or game's ), marketing.. and other things.

I see potential in this, but it's important how will someone approach to this problematic. If someone do things correctly I think he can expect nice prize from this.