Bitcoin Forum

Hi all,

Im semi new to bitcoins. Been involved with it for a few months now, reading up on it and learning more and more every day.

Bitcoins seems like such a great concept but its value comes from popularity. The more people use it, the more valuable it becomes.

And the more people use it, the higher the price will become for those of us speculating here :)

So I think the most powerful thing anyone who IS speculating could do is to spread the word about bitcoins among their peers.

I personally have started posting about bitcoins on facebook and also do sometimes talk about it amongst friends.

I also recently invested in just-dice and plan to get all my friends who do get involved with bitcoins to invest in the site.

What other methods are people using to spread the word about bitcoins? Please share as Id like more inspiration on how I can go about affecting as many people as possible to buy into the concept of bitcoins.

Tshirts? car stickers? etc

Please share.

giving gifts, e.g. 200 mBTC, especially to young people for high school graduation or birthdays

giving tips to service providers

creating emails describing my experiences and distributing it to interested followers

carry a physical Bitcoin coin in my wallet to bring out and show at social events

By writing some funny rap and get people laugh at it? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262470.0

Telling my friends...of which there is one.

I did a write up describing how to buy on coinbase, and my experience.  It is linked in my signature.

telling my friends

Meetup groups (http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Bitcoin-User-Meetup/)
Cross (https://localbitcoins.com/ad/29647/buy-bitcoins-with-cash-bedford-tx-76021-usa?ch=105) promotion (https://localbitcoins.com/ad/29649/buy-bitcoins-with-cash-dallas-tx-75226-usa?ch=105)

In what form are you giving away mBits as gifts? I haven't found a good method to print out a bitcoin gift card that I can give people.

It would be awesome if I could print a handful of biz card sized .05 bitcoin gift cards which have a URL to a wallet like blockchain.info as well as an awesome intro into bitcoin complete with links to where to purchase stuff with it.

I wrote a book specifically meant to get people excited about bitcoins and I give away copies to people who are interested. 

The physical bitcoin is BY FAR the best way to get people interested though.  I recently showed one of my physical bitcoins to a 70+ year old woman, with very little computer/tech knowledge, and she said,

"I don't know what it is, exactly, but I'd like to buy one!"

Never underestimate the power of a shiny object to draw people in.  Bitcoins are a bit too complex for the average person to fully understand, but everyone knows instinctively that shiny golden object = good.

I've started a meetup https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251547.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251547.0)

And in my circle of friends, I pay people back in bitcoins.  Like when the group of friends goes out for lunch, there is always someone that wants to pay on their credit card and collect $ off everyone.

Little things like that I try pay back with bitcoins.

I created the ones I gave away manually; not too tough.

I used this template http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/gift-certificates-bright-design-3-per-page-TC104029169.aspx (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/gift-certificates-bright-design-3-per-page-TC104029169.aspx) but any will do and added an image, e.g. http://www.adafruit.com/adablog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bitcoin.jpg.  I created a wallet on https://blockchain.info/wallet/new (https://blockchain.info/wallet/new), sent the 200 mBTC to it and copied the QR code onto the gift certificate too.  I entered, for example, "200 mBTC = $25.00 on May 19, 2013" on the line and filled in the To: and From: fields.  Print on nice card stock, cut and put inside a greetings card and envelope.  After I gave the envelop to the recipient I explained about Bitcoin and provided the access instructions to their wallet.  Voilà.

See my idea here. You gonna love it.
It answers how i am spreading the word about bitcoins and how to gift people :)
http://www.coinmonk.com/images/package-contents.jpg

WE did an expo about bitcoins as well and introduced bitcoin to 500+ people. Pics are here on this page http://www.coinmonk.com/coins.php

These are not yet for sale though. Still waiting for final packaging material. Each package would cost about 4-5 USD or so at the end and sold in packs of 10.

I've created these:

    • Accepting Bitcoin: A guide for organisations (http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/shareID11173153/fileID1507515166/Bitcoin%20for%20Organisations%20v12a%20(Global%20Guide)%2006.08.13.pdf)
    • Accepting Bitcoin: A guide for UK organisations (http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/shareID11173153/fileID1507515257/Bitcoin%20for%20Organisations%20v12b%20(UK%20Guide)%2006.08.13.pdf)
    • Accepting Bitcoin: A cheeky guide for Brighton organisations (http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/shareID11173153/fileID1507515395/Bitcoin%20for%20Organisations%20v12c%20(Brighton)%2006.08.13.pdf)

Signed up about 10 organisation in the UK, mainly Brighton/Sussex area to take it and am working on about another 20 more at the moment.

Making Bitcoin specie out of gold and silver, and distributing these.
With a hard money conversion tool linked to every fiat currency but defaulting to Bitcoin.

Where bitcoin is the hot virtual money, linking it to cold hard cash (the kind that jingles).
Tangible and valuable 1ozt quarter bitcoins for 2013

https://www.prolific.com/files.cgi/2013%20Silver%20Quarter%20Bitcoin-01.jpg?projectid=12886&actions=get&fileviewid=412332&filename=2013%20Silver%20Quarter%20Bitcoin-01.jpg

hello alexout,

of course i do. some weeks ago i noticed, that in several big forum in my country there was not a single topic about bitcoin. they talk about everything, but no word about bitcoin. also in a tech-forum  ???.
so i decided to do some "infotainment" and try to spread the word ;-)


@dashingriddler

nice :)

here spreading this word bitcoins is very difficult and need more time because we are trying to survive here for many things

Thats just awesome to get people into bitcoins like that! And the coin also looks pretty damn good.

Survival is more important. What is the danger there?

I've given a few bitcoins out here and there in pre-loaded wallets. Talked about it to more than a handful of people. Most people scratch their heads, though...

I gave up spreading word about bitcoins. Every time I try to start, I know there will be 20 + questions to come or at least an hour of explaining to do.

I made a Facebook group, if you are on Facebook please join and add friends :)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BitCoinNews/

I share the price of Bitcoin there every once in a while, I used to do it 1 or more times a day. I should start keeping up again.

many danger terrorism no electricity no water for all no job even for daily food and someone like me if working here many questions rising some saying scam and cheat now trying to understand first what is this all then can do this spreading for bitcoins 

I'm not in fear about this, Bitcoin is inevitable.

Yeah, I thought about that. Highschools are probably the biggest breeding ground for bitcoin. Trading for stuff, talking about mining, etc.

I stand on the side of the highway and scream angrily at the cars as they drive by.

I don't think it's the screaming so much as my soiled tighty whitey underwear that has been holding me back

 :D I don't think you are helping anything, lol

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1620878/BTC_evangelism.jpg

They will come around eventually.  Thank you for getting out there and spreading the..."word".

This has become one of my favourite pastimes.

Every restaurant/bar/cafe I go in to I always ask if I can pay in Bitcoins, sometimes I get my phone out as if I am expecting to be able to already. Usually the staff member has no idea what it is and then I pounce:

"Bitcoin is a global internet currency not backed by any central bank or government"

This is the hook! They like it and want to hear more.

• No chargebacks (Bars and Restaurants love this)
• Bitcoin is like digital gold (this is not a perfect analogy I know, so I stress that it's an analogy)
• Did you know your fiat is worth x% less than n years ago? Your Bitcoins cannot be inflated away by the government or central bank
  
• Imagine if sending money was like sending an email
• Well Bitcoin will do to the banks what email did to the post office
• There's a business just like yours who already take it (then give them the details)
• Bitcoin is rapidly rising in popularity with more interest, I feel very lucky to be an early adopter

The trick is not to go in to any technical detail on the first pass, definitely do NOT try and describe mining, that is for veterans only! Only talk about benefits that are relevant to them.

It's important that you tailor the pitch depending on the person and do not try and sell it to someone who is clearly not interested. If you sense the person doesn't care simply end the conversation by saying:

"Anyway just Google it later if you get time, ask your friends what they think."

Then I give them my card if I have one and tell them they can email me if they have any questions. It's vital that you plant this seed quickly, it should be a short sharp shock that leaves them wanting to know more. Be the first one to end the conversation and try to leave a sense of mystery.

Me and friends are trying to do this if anybody wants to help?  ???

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=297749


That is exactly what we wont just more in a paragraph. Might use that.  ;)

I asked the bank manager at my local branch today what he was doing to hedge his dollars. :)

I do talk about other coins too, for brevity I just used Bitcoin. But thanks for the ad to your own coin, I have seen the videos.

Lol. The only difference between bitcoin and goldcoin is the name. That's not even my words, that's your own. You are a joke.

+1

Instead of selling to exchanges and wesites I like and prefer to sell to individuals who I can meet face to face and I prefer if they were very new to Bitcoin so I  could answer as many of their questions as I can.

One friend wanted to invest in Bitcoin and security markets such as BTCT.co/ Havelock investments and Bitfunder (Yeah no one likes MPEX). So I sold him a few coins and spent several hours with him on skype for weeks to explain everything regarding markets and Bitcoin.

I did give some Bitcoins to people to peak their interest. But I don't have much so I won't do it much in the future.

If you think you can get rich quick by buying and then promoting a particular altcoin, you're going to have a bad time.

Lightning doesn't strike twice at the same spot...

This is purely speculative, there is 0 market to support that. We can only expect that it will pop and hard.
99.9999% of altcoins have no future because they have no real usage. No usage = no value.
Plus, explaining bitcoin is already a hard time so speaking about altcoins is useless and only confusing.

When someone asks how much my bike cost, I say "less than 200 bitcoins". Usually they ask "what is it?", so I give them advice to google "Bitcoin".

That's really good, I will try that one myself.

I am currently trying to get http://cuckoochaos.com - one of San Diego's biggest bands - to announce on their website they are accepting BTC for their mercy, for example. I also wrote http://goldsilverbitcoin.com/bitcoinomics-the-book. For everyone young, BTC is an easy sale. Especially when you're buying weed.*

*jk

By promoting our own website ;D https://playt.in (https://playt.in)

Donate to a worthy cause:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=295211.msg3211321#msg3211321

Im spreading the word about bitcoins when i talk to my friends about it. They get most interested when i tell them how much bitcoin has increased in value over the last year.

Telling my friends and family.