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Back in the days when there was Bitcoin and just Satoshi testing it, how did other early adopters of bitcoins came to know about it? Did he advertise about btc somewhere to attract people's attention to this new technology? How did bitcoin users initially rose from zero to millions ?

I don't really remember seeing any adds, all I remember is that he had tested it as a payment gateway, soon more people heard, I believe through oral publicity or references, and then he was here to on this very forum, so maybe he put up threads to make people aware, that's the only way I see that he would have done it, cause how would he be annomoys if he openly advertised it, cause the whole purpose of Bitcoin was not to know who hold it, and I guess this feature also brought many people to use it.

http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/1/

Great innovations do not need advertisements. Google, Tesla or Facebook never needed one.

All I can think about on what had Satoshi done to make bitcoin reach the Status right now he is not alone in this, many of his friends share it to other people no advertisement was made so other people will have a knowledge about bitcoin because I think he don't want so much attention and fame about bitcoin, it just reach to a certain level of miners to mine so much bitcoin and then this forum was created for the purpose of leading people that are interested with bitcoin get knowledge and a series of discussion occur in this thread and as you can see a lot has happened right now and the price is at $2000 up.

He asked advice and testers on message boards and eventually bitcointalk sprung up out of that. I think when it really hit off was when mtgox started trading bitcoin, and more when a pizza got traded for 10000 bitcoins.

From everything I've read just talking to a few people at conferences and message boards/ email groups/ IRC channels.
There were not really any established forums just a few small groups of people talking on chat and email groups.
Eventually the first whitepaper was published and sent to members of these groups.

Satoshi didn't want a significant amount of publicity as Bitcoin was still in the early stages and it needed healthy, slow growth.

Actually, some of his last posts were on that topic, and IMHO it could have been one reason for him leaving:


And at this level, Bitcoin basically can't be advertised as it isn't a company.  Individual companies related to Bitcoin advertise Bitcoin as a whole to match their own agenda, but since Bitcoin is decentralised the idea of advertising Bitcoin as a whole would be too costly to whichever group who did it.

When someone creates a great new technology, people find it.  Sometimes too fast.

Some groups and websites started accepting bitcoin at the start, like wikileaks which started accepting bitcoin as donations, there is also the infamous silk road deepweb site that sold all kinds of drugs and started accepting bitcoins. A lot of other criminals and criminal organizations started using it until today, a big part of bitcoin success is definitely thanks to criminals and even terrorists.

It was mostly through cryptography mailing lists and also some other online forums.
I've found one of his original posts on the p2pfoundation forum, you can check it out here:

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source

I think this is the first time satoshi have published anything about bitcoin in internet (dated back to 2008) http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html

Couldn't find what else he have done to promote bitcoin but I think this forum was also created by him along with bitcoin.org domain.

You can check brief history of bitcoin here http://historyofbitcoin.org/

I think it was just thorough a mailing list. So it looks like he didn't make any effort to at least advertise what he had investment. It was just pick up from then on by the "masses" who became interested on his work and find it to be valuable. That's how the early adopters embrace bitcoin. And now the rest is history.

Why bitcoin need any type of advertisement at all in starting days? Satoshi and few other who have joined in development were happy to mine as much bitcoin as possible during early days and constantly testing blockchain network. I don't think even satoshi have thought that his creation will be adopted by huge amount of people worldwide. I think he have developed bitcoin for an experiment only.

Aside from the ideas suggested above, I read somewhere that Satoshi Nakamoto also introduce Bitcoin and its technicalities to a certain mailing list though I am sure if he own that list or somebody else's. I am also sure that he has a closed group at that time and Bitcoin was also explained to them before it caught fire in the outside world. Of course, all of these things can be speculations.

There was a time when Bitcoin and WikiLeaks helped each other to survive. WikiLeaks started accepting bitcoin in June 2011.
Satoshi personally ask Julian Assange to wait a bit to allow bitcoin more time to mature and establish itself as an alternative method of payment.
Bitcoin is the reason WikiLeaks is still alive today, as BTC allowed donations even despite global banking blockade.

I have no idea because I found out about Bitcoin only back in 2013 so I'm not sure if he did a very good job promoting it :) And I'm a more than an average Internet user... well I wasn't lucky surfing the right sites I guess.

If I remember correctly, and don't quote me because I wasn't here back in the day when Satoshi would post on this forum, it basically spread through word of mouth after Nakamoto started the blockchain up, and he waited for enough people to start using Bitcoin so that they could maintain the network before he disappeared.
So essentially just a large, exponential growth for what I would assume.

I'm pretty sure that was after the bitcoin pizza and after mtgox started up though.

Nobody knows it just appear from nowhere, Satoshi is not alone he had a lot of connections and investor friends i guess. They made bitcoin just like a music that hits billboard worldwide.

I remember seeing a topic on stackoverflow wayyy back in bitcoin that had some relevance also must be been done during the development of bitcoin.

He wasn't a popular guy, he obviously had a great idea but it was luck that made it hit off. There are thousands of amazing ideas that never took off just because of random factors that kept them buried. Bitcoin obviously got lucky, I mean the concept would have continued after all bitcoin wasn't the first attempt at a crypto currency but we still would have had something in the same form if bitcoin didn't become a hit.

I guess the most powerful contact is this forum itself. I think the satoshi himself posted his concept here and the users present at that time are the reason that Bitcoin is spread throughout the world today. As I believe that the most important advertisement and effective will be the forum posting because a lot of people discuss about a lot of topics here so they visit the forums regularly.

Nice question well i don't know what was the first time he announced his new technology to be honest, but after reading this thread i just knew that it was by email like people said above, it makes sense of course he didn't send email to the random guy it must be those who only interested on cryptography. Actually I was wondering about what he said to those early adopters about bitcoin i mean whether he told bitcoin is payment gateway or as an investment or both of them? I mean there must be something that attract those people.

I don't think Satoshi Nakamoto apply advertising for bitcoins until many users who use bitcoins, actually bitcoins is just ideas about new currency in internet that decentralize, independent and send the value to other users without third party like Banks, corporations and government, and the ideas could be received by comunity until right now in my opinions.

I didn't know that Bitcoin and Wikileaks has a intertwined history back in the days. So both have really revolutionized the internet and gives more power to the common man. Thank you for the history. I really don't have a idea to be honest how Satoshi advertised if ever he did about bitcoin. I guess the path of bitcoin can't really be changed, because even he Satoshi didn't promote it, it gained wide acceptance from the masses until today.

I guess it is not an issue today but I guess bitcoin advertise was not really a thing in that day because I don't heard of bitcoin in the pass years and I just discover it in 2016 so I don't think they are advertising bitcoin in the pass years but still a good thing for them and I guess bitcoin is really successful today.

From what I saw from his older posts, he didn't do any advertising beyond posting on forums. I know he had user names on other forums too besides here. I think generally interested people kept an eye on it and just kept talking about it.

The whole silkroad and drugs thing obviously had something to do with it, but I would have no idea how much.

Obviously initially he started to advertise on online, Just think, how do we know about bitcoin?
Because of advertisement on internet. I remember i was searching something than suddenly i saw a add of bitcoin inside, then i want to know What is this? and start to search about it,
However, i am sure Satoshi use the online advertisement for online currency of bitcoin.

Looking back in time,Satoshi didnt use the avertisments for bitcoin I think he was helped by his friends to spread it orally.He was just using those bitcoin as a payment.No ads were shown about bitcoin in television.It was spread through social media and different sites.

Back again to the bitcoin that has relevance as well as to do during bitcoin development takes place, it's a pretty good way to add accuracy inside the bitcoin.

Looking back, there really was not an advertisement on tv about bitcoin by the year 2009-2010 but there are some advertisements via news about bitcoin way back 2012-2013 so I guess satoshi really never advertised it, but the early adopters are the one who advertised bitcoin but not in it's early years. Google, social media sites, and computer related forum other than this had a huge significance on attracting people to use bitcoin which used claims of other people who have used bitcoin to advertise it.

Whoever is on that list and decided to bite and take the risk of using and investing Bitcoin is super rich right now. Imagine one of the lucky persons who was emailed by Satoshi who introduce to you first about Bitcoin, I know it will be sketchy at first like something of a spam contains but if someone believe in it they actually experienced the first ICO of any cryptocurrency. And I couldn't imagine how a simple mailing list started to grow in what it is now. Truly a success story.

He didn't - no ICO or anything like that and imo thats what makes bitcoin special. The founder didn't create it for money, but rather he legitimately created it because he had a purpose in life. Sure he mined a lot of coins afterwards but there is nothing like a premine/ico that goes on.

Later though there were a few people that started spreading the bitcoin "gospel". Like Roger Ver.

These days alts are too saturated, everyone is in it for the money.

This is something that actually I have been thinking about on how the whole situation started up to the point we have it today and even still growing to a level in which we all cannot phantom but my conclusion has come to the fact that when you have a good idea, people will buy into it without limitation and after it has been tested to be full proof and same thing goes with other successful project that have happened in the cryptospace from the idea of one person to the creation of a thread down to the several pages of the thread among other improvements.

I trade Bitcoin for like 2 years now and didnt know who Satoshi Nakamoto is yet. Pretty sad. And I wondered why everyone is pricing coins with XXXk Satoshis