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Title: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: Bimmerhead on January 03, 2011, 04:34:08 PM What do people think about exhibiting bitcoin at FreedomFest 2011 in Las Vegas in July? Would that be a good venue to raise the profile of bitcoin?
Exhibitor registration isn't cheap, but we could run a bounty to gauge support for this idea: http://www.freedomfest.com/exhibitorsinfo.htm Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: caveden on January 03, 2011, 04:44:15 PM Nice. Who would be the spokesman? :)
I find it quite expensive though.... $1000, is it worth that much? Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: kiba on January 03, 2011, 04:51:23 PM There are other things we can do with 1000 USD.
Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: Cryptoman on January 03, 2011, 04:58:08 PM Why not give a presentation instead? That seems like a better option since Bitcoin isn't really a vendor.
Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: S3052 on January 03, 2011, 05:39:31 PM It all depends on the target audience, the number of them, and the potential adoption rate we can get from that.
The rate of return (ROI) may be high or low, depending on those factors. 1000 $ can be worth it if the above factors will be promising enough. Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: nanotube on January 03, 2011, 07:00:14 PM hack the system - set up a mobile infobooth/stand outside the event for free! :)
Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: S3052 on January 03, 2011, 07:21:08 PM good idea.. and hand over to each of (or some of) the attandants 1 bitcoin in a wallet on a USB stick so that they can get started and will talk about it when they are inside the Fest
Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: nanotube on January 03, 2011, 09:40:21 PM good idea.. and hand over to each of (or some of) the attandants 1 bitcoin in a wallet on a USB stick so that they can get started and will talk about it when they are inside the Fest er... handing out thousands of usb sticks... that's gonna be even more expensive than an $1000 official booth. :| how about a printed pamphlet with some brief intro info pulled from the wiki... some links (including the bitcoin faucet), and call it a day on the distributed materials? Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: S3052 on January 03, 2011, 09:47:42 PM that's why I said "over to each of (or some of) the attendants", so that we could cap it.
Anyway, it was more of a brainstorming anyway. Still, we may want to do this in a limited fashion "the first 100 get the USB stick with bitcoins in a wallet "the USBitwallet", or we can create a raffle that a few of the attendants can win lets say 10 USB sticks with 50, 45, ... 5 bitcoins in it. My experience says that if you give people something real into their hads, they are more easily convinced. Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: nanotube on January 03, 2011, 10:06:37 PM mm, raffle could be a nice attention getter. :)
Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: nofuture on January 03, 2011, 10:11:19 PM Media attention from the blogosphere and msm is will get us farther attest cost. We can thank slashdot for being where we are today. I'm waiting for the day when zero hedge links to bitcoin.
Title: Re: exhibit at FreedomFest 2011 Post by: S3052 on January 03, 2011, 10:31:00 PM Agree on zero hedge.
Sorry if I missed this before in another thread, but: Did someone already try to get ZeroHedge accepting BTC donations? |