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So, I'm going to share what I know on how to do this, and I will accept any new advice in the comments, so PLEASE add to what I have here.

1. Join and make Facebook groups, ex:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BitCoinNews/

2. Make YouTube videos and hare them with your friends, ex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4-0tJrGnw

3. Start accepting BitCoins in exchange for things yourself. (Just give people your wallet ID)

4. Give a BitCoin (and make them a wallet also, or show them how) as a gift.

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Questions:
How would you encourage local shops to use BitCoin?
How to you get a BitCoin ATM in your area? (They exist, how do you get one?)
How do you make a faucet?
How would you go about trying to get friends to mine with you?

Use all the money you made from Bitcoin to buy up all the billboard advertisements and put up advertisements for Bitcoin businesses :P

aight

Maybe it could help having a friend or more with a shop, or better, a childhood friend, and convince him/her. Like I have done here, in italy. Not sure it will work, but we need to start somewhere.

I don't know what that is.

I have a project in the works to introduce people in the local area about Bitcoin though.

I wish I had money from BitCoins. I didn't have any money to invest when they were cheap.

You don't know what what is?

If you are Generation X, like I am, then you'll be aware that an alternative social infrastructure already exists for alternative currencies!

A little history for those who weren't emerging into the adult world in the Days of Grunge: There was a severe recession in the early 90's, and there was a kind of anti-consumerist anti-government anti-fiat thing going on. But this was pre-internet, so all the alternative structures were built in local communities.

There was the LETS movement (http://www.letslinkuk.net/home/theory.htm), which was a sort of Time Bank. Here's what it says on their site:


There are LETs groups still going throughout the world. The Generation X Grunge crowd has stopped using them (though there are still some hardcore elements), but the Occupy crowd now uses it instead.

There's absolutely no reason why the "Mutual Credit" unit in these LETS orgs can't be switched to BitCoins. Or BitCoin simply being added as part of the services in the LETs - so people can convert their local mutual credit into BitCoins and back. LETs are not taxed in the UK or Australia - see the following FAQ (http://www.gdrc.org/icm/lets-faq.html) which says:


I understand that the Libertarian crowd drawn to BitCoins may recoil a bit from getting into bed with the Grunge/Occupy crowd - but BitCoins will only really take off if people use them to do ordinary stuff - buy food, pay for plumbing. As long as it is in the hands of the speculators who see it simply as another gold, then it's in danger of the big investment houses piling in and controlling it, which is the opposite of what the original Bitcoin movement was about.

So the short answer to your question is: Find out if your local town already has a LETs set up, join it and persuade them to add switches into Bitcoins as part of their services.

Working on Starting a Bitcoin town here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=216139.0

Put bitcoin paper wallets with directions in geocaches.  I think I am going to do this myself.  It would definitely get some more people into bitcoin.

Geocahes are awesome. That is the "Treasure Hunting" hobby right? Where people leave codes/trails for each other to follow/solve.

I introduced it to a local Linux user group.  It became a regular mention and the group membership started bringing friends,  family abd co workers to the meetings. For awhile it was the primary buzz.  Still is but it's more sneaky now.  The coffee shop that the meetings are held accept coin and about 8 of the members use abd promote it among the brick abd mortars they own or are apart of

Run naked through the streets with bitcoin slogans painted on your body.

So your method is go to jail to spread the word?

Lol

So you think it's stupid to talk about bitcoin on Facebook or Google or Twitter?

It sounds like you don't want anyone to hear about Bitcoin, and I'm pretty sure YOU might actually be co-ops, trying to keep cryptocurrency silent.

If they labeled it a threat we need MORE voices. We need people to see that cryptocoins ARE normal things and that NORMAL people use them. If we can get that message out we can make sure no one is getting arrested for Bitcoin behind closed doors.

Jeez , you are going around spreading this FUD while at the same time saying that we have to get the "real world" businesses into bitcoin. How do you propose to do it and have no connection to facebook,youtube,google and the rest? this IS the real world today ( as much as I hate it).

I don't use social networks anymore due to the amount of drama that follows them.  However sad but true fact is some people would be unaware of the world around them if they didn't see it on sites such as FB.  But I will also ssy with that logic being known a face book presence would be wasted effort.  Bitcoin isn't pretty. It's peer to peer but isn't social. This is the social side of it.  A good number of the trend whores on FB wouldn't even take the time to use this forum for research or question and answer.  I'm not saying everyone who uses FB is an idiot mind you.  I am saying if they can't plug and play most won't buy into it. 

Yeah. Even real world business is having to look to facebook to get an audience. How can you expect to merge with business if you won't even connect with them?

The age old question.... What was life before The Facebook?  Lol

This is getting out of hand. Bitcoins are still not ready for "my friends"

Lol. I don't even remember, I was in like 8th, 9th or 10th grade when it became popular. So it's been here about 1/3 of my life.

I'm confused.

How is it out of hand? And what do you mean coins are not ready? Don't you mean they are not ready?

Just because we live in a fucked up part of the world, doesn't make Facebook any less useful.
It started the rebellion in Egypt :) Remember?

SPREAD THE WORD LIKE THIS! (https://i.imgur.com/FskDfKA.jpg)

_{(found here (http://de.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1f3a1r/gime_all_ur_bitcoins/))}

Ok,   now I see where you're are coming from.  An Alex Jones type of guy. Although I'm not a main stream media user, I do watch Fox sometimes for the comedy.( actually I watch Alex Jones also for the comedy...)   

Yes , there is a possibility that the rebellion in Egypt was sparked by "powers" from the  outside . But the will of the people to participate was there 1st and the "evil" facebook/twitter was part of it as well. Especially in getting the word out of Egypt .

Lol, no I don't watch Fox. And I'm glad you can make such a generalized opinion about me from talking about Facebook. You're a real open minded guy.

I am speaking to local business and pointing them in the direction of bitpay. this cost them nothing brings publicity and helps bitcoin become excepted. I tell them they may not even get any bitcoin transaction happening yet but they will be noticed. small business seem to be very receptive to the idea.

If you search the forums there is a link somewhere to a couple PDF copies of trifold pamphlets that you might find useful.

Yeah thanks

Yeah..I'd def go in search of some bitcoins :p

I have tried to try out that hobby a couple times but never actually followed through.


Great...make sure to have a QR code on your back so people can scan it as you run by and send you donations.

Couldn't agree with this more.

While at the conference I tried making my first non-online, person to person purchase. It was a nightmare. I couldn't setup the blockchain client on my iphone with using a computer (which we didn't have with us).

The website for blockchain won't let you scan a qr code because it says you must use a supported browser.

During the poker game I hosted, there came a point where we actually ended up typing in someone's entire address manually (it may have happened more than once).

The transactions are slow and confusing.

If i can't get it to work without being quite frustrated, there's not much hope for many of my friends.

Is Bitpay how to start accepting Bitcoins on a website?

Bitpay abd Coinbase are pretty easy for quick injection.  You do have many devs who have taken the time to build scripts for some of the popular commerce software.