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Someone can run campaign to promote it. Then we'll see the price going up due to its increased adoption!

They are already doing it but instead of bitcoin they are promoting they are promoting gambling site like in some adnetwork like a-ads.. almost bitcoin related.. also the other are social sharing and advertise in facebook.. not directly as bitcoin..
The affective way to increase the value right now more adoption and more site are accepting bitcoin as payment..

Who is this "someone" that would agree on spending money to simply spread bitcoin ? There are commercial ads related to bitcoin but they are most of the time related to a specific bitcoin service like Blockchain.info ad : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_W-7hd4T2I but once again , It promotes the service instead of bitcoin as a currency.
If you ask me , advertising is kinda something hard to do when the project is decentralized/P2P (OpenBazaar , BitSquare are projects that are having this issue too)

promote commercially?
bitcoin is not a slice of cheese or a toy car.. its a currency.
im all for companies that sell products advertise they accept bitcoin. and that will be great

but advertising bitcoin purely for bitcoin.. sounds more like someone is desperate for a speculative FIAT price rise so he can jump out back to fiat land. and doesnt understand bitcoin.

yes there is the exaggerated 'hope' you can advertise. but if you were to make a realistic real world advertisement of bitcoin based on the reality of the state of bitcoin right now. there is not much to get excited about.

even goldsmiths dont really advertise gold as just gold. they have to gloss it up a bit by turning it into a shiny bit of jewellery or a carefully designed circular disc.

bitcoins infrastructure and utility need to grow. first
anyone wanting to advertise bitcoin for bitcoin right now ultimately only cares about getting FIAT rich, and has either no clue about bitcoin or what bitcoin really needs right now

How about you doing it?  No one will stop you. You can!
That's the problem and at the same time, BTC's best asset: there's no large organization behind it for promotion, nor to update it to make it scalable.

Got your point! There should be some good way to represent it via some services!

   Who would have of promoting just bitcoin? Instead of that they do it trough they businesses that accept bitcoin as payment. I think you mean about commercials on tv, I dont think that bitcoin is ready for that, for now best advertisement for companies that work with btc is here on bitcoin talk, and on other places on internet.
   We who wear some signature are doing that promotion and receive money for that.

Excuse me if I'm confusing you with someone else

Though this is hardly the case since it must have been you after all who had been proposing recently an idea of free competition between currencies for their users. But where there is competition, there should necessarily be aggressive marketing and intrusive promoting, right? Otherwise, how people would learn about a deisik coin and a franky coin? Oh, wait, you may not want to advertise your coin at all since it is so good and shiny that it doesn't even need users altogether!

no. you have it backwards.
i am 100% bitcoin. i hate altcoins. but i can atleast see the bigger picture.

advertising bitcoin to billions now will bottleneck it. people will scream blue murder at the headaches of trying to get it. and when they finally do, they realise the bottleneck is causing them issues when trying to use bitcoin.
EG fee war
EG transaction limit
EG lack of diverse places to buy bitcoin without life history needed
EG no real advertising of where bitcoin can be spent.

bitcoin is great. but so disorganised and not ready for mainstream, meaning that any mainstream advert of bitcoin as just a currency/asset will actually cause negative experiences and just end up becoming a dramatic event to play around with the fiat price..

we need to grow bitcoins infrastructure first to show the world bitcoin is a better CHOICE than fiat.
rather then advertise purely for some speculation that results in people getting more fiat rich

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here is my mindset when i see someone trying to sell gold.

if gold is so great why are you wasting money trying to give gold away?

.. think about it

Oh, really? How about this then:

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These are minor, technical issues. And I know about them, and, in fact, I felt them with my own skin. It is pitiful and pathetic that Bitcoin has such problems at all when it already went through hell. It is beyond my understanding how people which are supposed to be way above average in their reasoning (I refer to developers) are fighting like little school-girls about block size and similar issues when there are thousands of transactions being jammed. Though I tend to agree with you that until these bottlenecks are removed, further Bitcoin adoption doesn't make much sense since it will only cause utter frustration and disappointment...

But that doesn't take anything from the "bigger picture"

Not in this way at least, we can't expect someone to pay from their pocket to advertise bitcoin. I highly believe that services that run in bitcoin, offer/accept bitcoin payments or any other field related with bitcoin then these are who advertise for their services.

Sure, that would be cool and great, but sadly, no one will pay for advertising Bitcoins. There are no organizations that are willing to invest in Bitcoin and pay for advertising it. It would be cool to see a tv advertisement or internet ads about Bitcoin, but not something related to it, only Bitcoin and ads should invite people to use it, not some gambling site or something.

Lol, I agree marketing and advertisement is the best way to promote anything.  But who will do it?  No one will unless they benefit from it.  Companies that are using Bitcoin already promoting the currency since they are encouraging users to try Bitcoin to buy or pay for their service or goods.


How about aditya6997 starts to promote bitcoin, since it is his idea to run a campaign to promote Bitcoin.  But I bet he wouldn't because he does not have any company or service that will benefit from that advertisement.

me, myself loves bitcoin. but i can atleast think beyond my personal love and see the reality of both the positive and negatives when thinking of bitcoin in context of the real world

if bitcoin become a one world currency. it would become no better then the corrupt IMF managed world monetary system.
we can already see the corruption starting now with blockstream trying to get IMF top of the foodchain status.

thats why we need diversity

Yeah, there are a lot of bitcoin ads but related to gambling sites, mixer or exchanges. It's better to have more merchants, business or services such as Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, PayPal, Hotels that accepted bitcoin payment so people would trigger to find out about bitcoin and now there are plenty of news and information regarding bitcoin on the network, wiki and documentaries, so no need to worry.

ok guys.. lets do it this way.

without overhyping features like bitcoins speed while unconfirmed.. talk about bitcoin in the REAL usecase scenario of reality.

lets see some real advertising pitches of what you would want to see on tv.
remember it has to give an example of a real customer use

also how to obtain it.
and its advantages...

but all stated using normal laymen (old granny/hill billy understanding words).

try to not over hype/exaggerate/lie.

lets see peoples best sales pitch

It is promoted, but the problem is that it's promoted just as an investment or as a business (like gambling or trading). We need to promote Bitcoin as a currency, but that might get us into trouble later because some government will seek control over it one day. That's a big problem for all of us right now.

I guess they are not promoting bitcoin itself.
There promoting of their goods and services
using bitcoin. Likely, the gambling site that anyone
can have the interests to play, and other businesses
that use bitcoin.

Usually people do not make big advertisement without any profit or any advantages of their business so I doubt someone with advertise in this way, if you have a third party service and it related with bitcoin then it make sense.

It sounds like the OP is wondering why Bitcoin.org does not advertise? This is a good question. They should advertise, especially considering PayPal has a new TV campaign. If Bitcoin.org asked for donations to go towards a commercial they would likely reach the goal. The community is responsive and would support it. 

Every one should spread the words about bitcoin, we need to know the pros and cons of both fiat and bitcoin so that we could explain to others why they should turn to crypto(bitcoin) currency.
Just tell people if you have access to cheap electricity and provide an example like how much per KWH and just buy miners and start virtually print money and that is accepted in (any online services you know they really accept bitcoin).
That way is better and nothing is more effective than the words of the mouth.

I think it will not good to promote because there are some people , I mean Bitcoiner who want buy some Bitcoin but price is stable from long time , .
Well I am thinking that if new services are promoting their sites and services than with this promotion there is ndirect advertisement of Bitcoin .

first of all why that someone isn't you? you can't always expect others to do everything, bitcoin is decentralized so it is up to all of the users.

second of all promote and say what? invest in bitcoin and go to the moon? NEVER, that is not good at all. we don't need more speculators. the only promotion bitcoin needs is new merchants, new services and businesses to start adopting bitcoin. when you see Amazon accepting bitcoin you will start using it.

This should be the message of the advertisement.

Yes that is the pros of having promotions in bitcoin we will able to learn more on how it uses and we will be informed in anything related to it . But as they say there might also a consequence on promoting bitcoin socially or via multimedia that can lead business mens ruined bitcoins value. Well let's just see what will happen soon.

It was going for naturally. Like this place maybe. But honestly all of the cryptocurrency was linking into bitcoin and if the someone was wanna joining in there and It will always try for advertising it. It won't a company or something like that but just let it growth.

The bitcoin already has a lot of the advertised source.    8)

I am surprised that nobody mentioned the best bitcoin-related ad ever created:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_h9ZZwhwBg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_h9ZZwhwBg)

In my opinion the Bitcoin foundation was supposed to promote Bitcoin, with the funding provided by the community. It seems as though the foundation was created to create job opportunities for people to earn a salary and not to promote Bitcoin. If we have to tolerate a centralized organization for Bitcoin, then they have to add value to the community. Lately the only promotion being done, seems to be 3rd grade videos on Youtube by individuals.  ::)

Everyone seem to wait for the Bitcoin price to go up, and they are not joining efforts to promote it. ^hmmmm^

i and people i know have spent/done alot to promote bitcoin and go around the world talking about it over the last few years. brushing away all the hype and glossy stuff.. and seeing how public opinion has changed over the years. in the end..

bitcoin is not ready

it has nothing to do with the market price. its about bitcoin utility and how bitcoin is not meeting the original vision set out in 2008-2013.

issues:
developing countries: tx fee has the cost of an hours minimum wage
developing countries: lack of easy gateways to buy bitcoin
developing countries: lack of places to spend/sell bitcoin
developing countries: mpesa is more user friendly

developed countries: waiting 10 minutes+ for confirms is not good in a grocery store
developed countries: not good for spending on daily real life needs (baked beans and toilet roll)
developed countries: applepay or NFC visa cards are more user friendly

yes bitcoin has many many advantages compared to the native fiat system, but when you wipe away the overglossing of benefits and talk to real people that want to USE it for real reasons (not hoarders) bitcoin lacks what mainstream wants.

but hey lets just see all the sig spammers ignore bitcoins lackings, and just talk about hyping bitcoin while showing the $$ signs in their eyes. talking of their hope to overgloss issues purely for speculating a $$ rise for a $$ payday when they exit.

Yeah you're right, how can we promote bitcoin for people when bitcoin itself is still not accepted in many places and hasn't been used by many merchants. And so promoting bitcoin will somehow have the opposite results. When people hear fancy things about bitcoin on ads, they will start to find out more about it and want to use it, but when they realise that even their local market doesn't know what it is then bitcoin will frustrate them and to some points, they will give up on it.

Yes naturally and in some of my posts, its effective if its a word of the mouth or group community effort, like what we are doing now. Also, by encouraging our friends to used bitcoin,educating them and even giving them gifts in bitcoin :)

I totally agree bitcoin need more ads to become more popular and there will be more user, but the problem is who want to promote this and how is the way to promote, as i know there are a lot of blogger that keep on spreading the bitcoin existence and bitcoin also need some infrastructure improvement

I don't think it is a good idea overall

What about the situation when you persuade someone to invest his money into Bitcoin and he spends all his savings while the price collapses after that? You would render a very bad service both to yourself and Bitcoin. On the other hand, people who are inclined to risky investments most likely not only heard about it already but also tried it and maybe even profited for it, though they chose not to tell you for the reasons I just outlined


This is even worse

You could run a campaign yourself to do so? I agree with previous posts that the best way to promote bitcoin is to promote services and goods in exchange for btc.

I believe it is the desire of many bitcoiners to see bitcoin in the mainstream news, but I'm not sure if the Bitcoin network is ready for such traffic. First, problems related to scalability need to be worked out, but this is probably not going to take long.

We can run a commercial or an add, but I don't think it will ne successful like what any other brand of soap or shampoo these days. Most of the time, people will only take this as a grain of salt and throw in their skepticism and douts on the project, but I think that it is worth the shot.

It doesn't come as surprise that Bitcoin is not ready given all your doublespeak and doublethink. With such "friends" Bitcoin doesn't need any enemies altogether. Reading your posts, I have a strong inclination to doubt if you are really "100% bitcoin" and "hate altcoins" as you claim to be or to do (seeing all your previous tongue-slips), and not actually for $$ as you blame others in, though not necessarily through Bitcoin unlike all those sig spammers...

Are you a paid shill, and what is your agenda?

Our local airline carrier recently started accept bitcoins as payment. And many other sites accept it.

I disagree with your idea as bitcoin is not a commodity. So bitcoin promotion can't be done through commercial advertising. This way, people will know the name of the bitcoin but they will not go to the internet to search for this. So the purpose of bitcoin will be defeated.

Secondly, bitcoin is not owned by anyone, so who will create the advertisement and pay to channels to play it? That's a big question. Only a bitcoin related business can do that. But they will again promote their business only without actually promoting the bitcoin. I think it is better to run poster campaign through search engine and at the related websites.

some people or site just promote services paid by bitcoin rather than promote bitcoin as money, but I think it is not bad. because bitcoin is currency, so people need to see how it works. however, it would be better if people promote both the services and bitcoin as currency.

You can't promote bitcoin directly, I mean no one will do that with their own money spending. Rather than that the website owners should start using Bitcoin as their payment gateway. Then new people will try to use it and understand it and start loving it.  ;D

Well there are ads that are there just to get the message across. I've seen a lot of them, and these are ads that are meant to spread a cause. So it really is plausible.

It should have been one of the projects of the Bitcoin Foundation, but seeing it now, I'd say it's not gonna happen in the near future.

I think that if bitcoin would have some commercial it would attract new users and make the price to go higher. Look at Forex, it has commercial and more people know about it than about bitcoin. I think bitcoin beds something similar. Hope we will see some new commercial soon.

I think it is necessary, to promote good, it may be very many people who started to study and look for bitcoin, and of course it would make a very good improvement. it might affect the price of bitcoin, and also the development of technology. but, I feel, it's been a lot of people who do it., and it has begun to take effect.

If more people know about Bitcoin, that would eventually lead to its wider adoption. It is a big assumption (a really BIG assumption) that more people learning about Bitcoin won't make at least part of them interested in Bitcoin. On the other hand, I certainly agree with folks saying here that companies advertising their Bitcoin services are in fact advertising Bitcoin as well. When in 2013 Conibase had been running a huge advertisement campaign in Internet about their Bitcoin web wallet services many people got attracted to Bitcoin, me included (which eventually brought me here)...

And probably not just me alone

what you need to realise is that i have been around longer then you and understand alot more then you think.

i dont use this forum to overhype bitcoin because of this mindblowing thought..
all people on this forum already know/heard of bitcoin so they dont need to be sold on bitcoin using any hype. they are already here..


they dont need the "ice sales pitch to an Eskimo".
if you think that trying to overhype bitcoin to people already knowing about bitcoin is good... then you have already missed your own point

this forum needs the reality check. the cold hard truth. not the utopian dream.

i am frank with what i say, if i see some devs taking bitcoin in the wrong direction or trying to stall bitcoins growth, im gonna talk about it.. i am not going to stay quiet and pretend everything is perfect.

im not here to stroke the cheeks of sheep to lull them back to sleep, im here to wake people up and try making bitcoin stronger

thats the point of bitcoin WE are bitcoin. devs should not have control, so sitting back and letting them take you up the rear-end is not something anyone should let happen

the thing about smart people is that with morals we see passed the bull crap and speak the truth. thats why i gave up advertising bitcoin because its simply not ready for mainstream. and real people in the real world who really want to use bitcoin understand its not ready.

anyone saying otherwise is just a fiat salesman looking for a future fiat payday and cares nothing for bitcoin

im not gonna advertise it just for the hope of a fiat pay day for the simple fact that i dont want or need fiat.

yes a while back i did promote it. i done more then most to spread the word. i overcame every objection and got many to be interested in bitcoin, i done give aways and many things, i helped set up businesses, but reality gave me a reality check. some say it made me cynical. some say it gave me a honest opinion of bitcoin. but in short bitcoin is not ready for mainstream and we need to fix the infrastructure before wasting time speaking to the masses.. otherwise the masses will see the limitations and move on

The only reason why bitcoin is not that popular and not being used in every country as a mean of payment , is because of the lack of promoting and advertisement that bitcoin is getting , nowadays people are becoming more and more lazy and more and reling on Internet so if you tell thell that they can pay without leaving their chair they will do it

If it's about "you tell that they can pay without leaving their chair they will do it" then credit card or debit card already there to make it happen for you. You must offer another bitcoin's features to make it advantageous than the other kind of things like a credit card. And I think that bitcoin is lack of promoting or advertisement because it's a currency which the whole system didn't owned by anyone. And I think a currency doesn't need advertisement. Does another currency like dollar, yuan or Euro had ever done an advertisement? I guess no

No one would bother to spend money just to promote bitcoin itself infact they will just hold off their bitcoin rather than on spending on it. In my own view i would just let the adoption would spread since there are already lots of businesses or services that do accept bitcoin.There are advertisements but it doesnt direct on bitcoin but to the services who make use of it.

I think the promoting we are doing is already enough than a paid good commercial, what we are saying to the world is base on the real experience so we are more convincing that a paid commercial.

Did you know gary vaynerchuk a very famous youtube personality and multi millionaire says( I THINK ) that advertising on television is a waste of money. He says that the best advertising will be done through facebook in the future. So if new companies that entered the bitcoin game think that they will benefit by more customers, they should make some facebook advertisements in my opinion.

yes it is the responsibility of every one who use bitcoin and getting benefit from it to introduce bitcoin in their area, so that other people can also get benefit from it, if the number of bitcoin users are increasing it will really make bitcoin more reliable and stable.

What do you think that they are not promoting bitcoin in their circle as per my knowledge each and everyone are giving information on bitcoin and its benefit to all their friends and near one but they are not accepting it. So it will take time and one more until bitcoin dont get legal status we cannot see the increase of users and bitcoin getting used due to most of them are scared of the legal problems of using bitcoins

only a few will understand because bitcoin is the digital era, need bitcoin class or hold a seminar about bitcoin

Well,I also think that the best advertisement of BTC is from the people who have actually already adopted it and are using it everyday because they are the people who can explain it the best and that's really important.Yeah,it will be cool to have some ads here and there,but the bigger effect would be from spreading the word and giving presentations and encouraging people to get involved with BTC.

I would much rather see all that funding being dumped into $1 000 000 projects to create that killer APP or GAME that would spark mainstream adoption. The commercial mainstream adverticement channels is too expensive and a waste of time and money. We only need 1 <one> killer/super App to stimulate the mainstream adoption, but I am worried about the scaling and the capacity to handle those kinds of transactions. The huge volumes of transactions needed, would bring the whole network down. ^hmmmmm^

Commercial ads were not necessary for bitcoin to reach lot users. In my view prompting through ads makes it similar to other payment processors. We have to make it grow and reach users through the usage and teaching to people who have interest in learning about advancing technologies.