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Title: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: Bruce Wagner on December 04, 2010, 08:03:01 PM
Ok.  I did it.   Go here and post this comment.... and LIKE it...

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Who still uses PayPal!?!? Everyone hates PayPal. I thought the whole world was already using the free (as in both cost & freedom) open source decentralized p2p PayPal replacement... Bitcoin ( http://bitcoinme.com/ )

http://www.facebook.com/wikileaks/posts/111943152208802 (http://www.facebook.com/wikileaks/posts/111943152208802)

:)


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: S3052 on December 05, 2010, 10:00:29 AM
Idea:

We can use the current scepticism about PayPal to direct people to BITCOIN. With ten thousands of people closing their paypal account over the past hours, there is big potential for a great alternative: Bitcoin (and the good thing is that we do not necessarily link this directly to wikileaks, we can just piggyback on the rejection of paypal).

WHAT to communicate:
 " STOP using PAYPAL, START using BITCOIN"

  or simpler " STOP PAYPAL, START BITCOIN"

HOW?
1. Create a new facebook page " STOP PAYPAL, START BITCOIN"

2. Promote this from various other sites, pages, forums, i.e. building on what Bruce commented on yesterday.
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If we use this huge momentum, we can create massive awareness with very low investment.. just a bit of time of each of us..

What think?

Bruce, can you create this facebook site, since you have already stared on this idea? " STOP PAYPAL, START BITCOIN"


N.B> perhaps we can go even further as a second step and say " STOP EBAY, START BIDDINGPOND", but we should wait until BITCOIN awareness and adoption is bigger, because currently biddingpond is too small.



Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: BioMike on December 05, 2010, 04:44:12 PM
With ten thousands of people closing their paypal account over the past hours.

Do you have any reference for that?


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: S3052 on December 05, 2010, 04:50:21 PM
Yes, go to the facebook link Bruce posted above


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: Bruce Wagner on December 05, 2010, 05:23:07 PM
Yes!
Great Idea.
I will create that Facebook fan page later today when I get home.

Stop PayPal, Use Bitcoin

Coming soon.  Check back here in a couple of hours.  :-)


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: S3052 on December 05, 2010, 06:00:01 PM
fantastic!


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: FreeMoney on December 05, 2010, 09:33:50 PM
Calling it a PP replacement makes it sound pretty narrow. It's a dollar and really all fiat replacement.

You can probably find people who hate PP so much that they'll leave the dollar too though. But you should make it clear that bitcoins aren't dollars like PP is dollars. Or else Jenny is going to send 40BTC for grandma to buy catfood with and it's going to be 18 cents short because of a tiny market move.


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: Bimmerhead on December 05, 2010, 09:36:47 PM
Someone could message everybody who has posted a comment (currently 3000+) making them aware of bitcoin.
O.k, who wants to risk losing their Facebook account because of spamming?  ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: genjix on December 06, 2010, 03:23:30 AM
Someone could message everybody who has posted a comment (currently 3000+) making them aware of bitcoin.
O.k, who wants to risk losing their Facebook account because of spamming?  ;)


they will insta-ban you as the software will pick it up.

PS. Don't use shit-book. Boycott that crap.


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: The Madhatter on December 06, 2010, 08:28:10 AM
PS. Don't use shit-book. Boycott that crap.

+1

I call it Face Crook. Whenever someone posts my photo to that site I see red.


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: SmokeTooMuch on December 06, 2010, 09:48:42 AM
Sometimes I call it Feces Book.


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: davout on December 06, 2010, 11:54:09 AM
+1 and kudos to brucewagner for doing PR work!


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: SmokeTooMuch on December 06, 2010, 03:52:18 PM
Yes!
Great Idea.
I will create that Facebook fan page later today when I get home.

Stop PayPal, Use Bitcoin

Coming soon.  Check back here in a couple of hours.  :-)


So, are you finished already ?


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: kiba on December 06, 2010, 03:53:32 PM
Even my political system teacher said that statistically, votes don't matter.


Title: Re: Bitcoin is the PayPal Replacement
Post by: Bruce Wagner on December 07, 2010, 05:28:04 AM
Here is the new Facebook Fan page...

Stop PayPal, Use Bitcoin   http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-PayPal-Use-Bitcoin/128290980563530 (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-PayPal-Use-Bitcoin/128290980563530)