Bitcoin Forum

How long do you think it will be before Oprah interviews a Bitcoin miner and brings Bitcoin into the mainstream? What effect will it have on the price if she starts talking about it? Has anyone tried to contact her people to get her to research it?

Currencies and economics are not her forte. Perhaps if Bitcoin can involve something emotional that housewives can easily connect to, then it might get a mention on her show.

Housewife discovers way to make money online with this crazy old trick the central banks don't want you to know.

All it needs is that someone make here to invest in it, she'll have it then, you can bet on it.

Definitely phrase it that way.  It'd be funny because I could also imagine those annoying types ads that say things like that too.  That'd bring a ton of hilarious buzz.

So you are saying we should give her some bitcoins to play with?

Rofl.

E) NEVER

sorry keep watching it though you pansy

These fantasy threads

She'll only ever mention it in her discussion of "Chic Coin". Not to be confused with "Sikh Coin" btw.

After some more considerations I think that there are chances that it'll happen - when she finds a housewife that lost her house speculating on MtGox.

She'll talk about it when they become accessible, liquid and easily kept safe. The Bitcoin community has failed to achieve any of these goals in significant measure, because there is money to be made by exploiting these weaknesses.

mention bitcoin and "food" in the same sentence to her and she will come a runnin.

Didn't Oprah leave whatever show she was on and move to a still-obscure channel she created for herself?

Can you please add an option for "OprahCoin?"


I think she'll try to dominate the digital coin space with OprahCoin.

oprah only plans to legitimize BBQcoin.

"Tricky IPO for GeoCities
Craig Bicknell  Email 08.06.98


Boost From Oprah

...GeoCities was born in late 1994 when founder David Bohnett, a former marketing executive at software company Legent, started looking to cash in on Internet fever. He built a Web site with links to other Web sites grouped by topical interest -- sport, hobbies, finance -- and called them neighborhoods.
In January 1995, Bohnett posted live camera shots of a bus stop in Beverly Hills. Oprah Winfrey got wind of it and interviewed him for a show about online snooping. A gush of traffic followed, and GeoCities was off..."
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1998/08/14266

By the time Oprah puts Bitcoin on her show, it will be so commonplace and such a hot topic that her exposure of it will have little effect.

Only when Bitcoin is accepted by the lowest common denominator will it be featured on a show like Oprah's.

Don't forget the word weird. It's got to be a "weird trick." lol

just make oprah coin or "O" coin, ala coinye, you will soon be Onprah (portmandu for being on Oprah) and letters of demand from lawyers....job done

Until she can find a way to use bitcoin on her show to push an agenda to bored housewives or put a racial spin on it, then uhh... never?

Bingo, we have a winner

Great, now we only need a "But Wait! There's More!" line

I doubt Oprah has much use for bitcoins, you can't eat them last I checked.

great idea guys, if bitcoin isnt ubermainstream/expensive and all of us that bought in over 1000 arent early adopters by 2015-16 we'll make one celeb coin minimum a month to go mainstream! Disclaimer: joke

I think we should get a Bitcoin blimp and have it fly around the world, esp. during sports games.

good idea !

At least 2 years. Oprah would have little effect on the price because by then many people would already own bitcoins and those who buy then would be dealing in millibits.  8)

really?

Opera is still relevant?

The super bowl is right around the corner.  ;)