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I snatched the above quote from some website to drive the point I'm about to make, home.

What if Justin Bieber donned a small Bitcoin symbol somewhere on his apparel? All he has to do is wear it, not be a spokesperson for Bitcoin. In fact, it's best he not even talk about it. Just wear it wherever he goes. The conversation of him doing such would go viral.

Now, you may wonder why he would do this if there's nothing in it for him doing it. I'll address that concern with a question: What if he, or his manager, purchased X amount of Bitcoin prior to his start of donning the Bitcoin symbol for the sole purpose of cashing out once their position reaches a predetermined point?

And it doesn't have to be JB, for this idea to work. Any well known personality could do this, thereby increasing the awareness for Bitcoin, and everybody wins.

Then again, perhaps I'm overloading the cart for the donkey, again. (from the idiom: the cart before the horse)


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Yes, I can see it now. Tweens trading Zhu Zhu pets with each other for bitcoins. It's genius! :D

You'll be surprised how much money tweens enjoy spending. For them, it's all disposable income. Another fact is my 10th grade nephew knows more about TOR then I do. I asked him how many students at his school know about and use TOR. His reply--Every one of them. Bitcoin is somewhat of an adjunct of that.

Remember, JB is just an example. Can you think of another known personality this would work for? Maybe some upcoming star?

+1 you're right & and you have a really good point. Wasn't making fun of your post :D Most of the current generation already understands virtual currency in the form of game credits and points cards so I think bitcoin having stuff like that wouldn't be far off and would definitely be a boost to merchants and the bitcoin economy. Digital natives who already get technology could start using Bitcoin right away. And JB already endorses Google Chrome.

It would be considered a silent endorsement. No words or comments needed. The person(s) who does this has nothing to lose, and a lot to gain. Unless, of course the negative media disses the persons for quasi-attaching themselves to Bitcoin

Good idea. I'd recommend lady gaga. Seems like an enterprising businesswoman :P

But then, these people are probably so rich already why would they speculate on BTC? Unless they particularly like BTC.

Who wants to pay the million plus cost of such an endorsement?

Bieber is making so much money. The Bitcoin logo with capital B ('B'ieber) that looks like a dollar sign fits him like a glove.

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I realize there's a shortage of girls on this forum, but this is just a terrible idea.

Bitcoin is here to revolutionize the world so it would be best if we kept the likes of Justin Bieber and anything/anyone to do with him out. Besides, it's easier using daddy's cash and credit cards.

I addressed this. There is no endorsement cost involved.

This has nothing to do with getting more women on the site. JB was just an example. The idea is to get more people involve, thus creating more commerce to fee the demand.

People who are so rich, don't put their money in mason jars and bury it in the woods. They invest, to earn more money. They are always seeking new ways to increase their position. Bitcoin could be one of those avenues. Remember, it would only take one to propel this movement. http://blog.ted.com/2010/04/01/how_to_start_a/

If b-ber got involved, I might have to dump bitcoin.

See the beauty of this thread? One has to know who Justin Bieber is to hate him. Say JB starting doing this, and because of that YOU saw an article about Bitcoin you wouldn't have found otherwise. Try to remember where you first read about Bitcoin. It possibly didn't stem from an article taking about little Susie and her lemonade stand.

 I knew beforehand that there would be JB haters, hence using other examples, but titling this thread using his name. JB may well be a terrible example, but is the idea sound?

Comments?

You'd better hope he doesn't start his own biebercoin... People on these boards will jump ship to anything in order to be early adopters...

The fact that you chose justin bieber as your prime example has made me lose respect for you.

My first thought was: Bitcoin is not ready for JB fans.

Your idea isn't completely ridiculous; there might be another celebrity that would do this, but probably not quite yet. I reckon it should be someone that has a relatively intelligent following; not a bunch of teen girls who will just go "WTF" and forget about it. Maybe someone like Jon Stewart or Colbert.

lol - our respective points are proven

I guess b-ber will do b-ber-coin on his apple i-thingy

Well, in his first posts in the cryptography list, Satoshi gave the example that public figures, like Justin Bieber, could use Bitcoin in the following way:
The original posting can be found here http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10162.html

Sooooooooo... Let's convince someone famous to make money with their fan mail and we'll have all the publicity bitcoin needs to be mainstream ;)

Charlie Sheen?


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I like your sense of humor. Meet me over at Meze Grill and we'll do lunch. I'll buy.

I saved replying to this post for last.

Have you truly lost respect for me or are you kidding? The last thing I want is for anybody to lose respect for me. I try hard to do my part to help the Bitcoin community, and the last thing I want is for someone to lose respect for me. I worked hard to gained respect on this board, and I don't want you to lose respect for me. What can I do so that you won't lose respect for me? Please give me another example, and I will change all my post to grain your respect.

Thank you kindly for your input. I respect you for that. Any other poster would go on a diatribe, outlining how hard they worked to earn, have, and maintain respect. But not me! I'm different. As different as Bitcoin. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to hunt Google for an image to end this post before I lose anymore respect from you or others.


http://gumbumper.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Justin-Bieber-shot.bmp


Don't ask what key words I used to find this image.

Holy Shmoly dude... 4 posts in a row? I know some forums where you'd be banned for 1 week after doing something like that. Double posting would be just a warning, but 4 :o
FFS, when you are replying you have the reply list below the text field and you just have to press the link that says Insert Quote and do it all in 1 post.
No wonder you have almost 600 posts lol

I was joking  :D. I like the image, too.

I would be willing to pay BTC for Justin to have a permenant accident...   ;)

I read somewhere that all you get for doing such on this forum is 500 lashes with a wet noodle. Since I'm into pain, I'm hoping the noodle is el dente. I just tried what you suggested, and I think I clicked the wrong button. But since I was on a newly created page, I reported you to the moderator for picking on me.

Seriously, thank you kindly, psy,for the advice, although now my post count won't climb as fast. I truly missed that option, although I've seen post where they've quoted several other posts, but I thought they did it the hard way--copy and paste. mY bAd!

I'm going to try it now, to see how it feels.


WOW! That felt good!

Thank you kindly, SmokeAndMirrors, for that clarification. (BTW, the WoW! That felt good! comment was not part of this reply to the quoted post).

Guys, wake up. This is a great idea. Maybe Justin Bieber wasn't the best example, but this could very well work, done to the right person.

You are all blundering idiots for turning this thread into a bunch of misreadings, jokes, and going completely off topic.

Where do you get off defending me, Reacon (LOL). Thank you kindly for your comments. As you know, we (or anyone here) can just go up to some celebrity or notable and say "hey. take a look at this! and blah blah blah". It would have to come from within their organization. It's not like Bitcoin is like Nike where they would wear our shoes and get paid handsomely for doing such. But like I outlined earlier in this thread, all they would have to do is wear a small sized logo, but before they do that, stake a claim on X amount of Bitcoin. When the price is right, cash a few out and/or buy something with it. Think about where Willie Nelson would spend his Bitcoin. That thought alone has the potential of  spiderwebbing (damn spell checker--that has to be a word!--I ain't changing it cause it drives the smoke point home). But hell with that aspect of Bitcoin.

There are good ideas, as well as bad ideas on this board. The good ideas should be embraced and made better. The bad ideas should be shown WHY they're bad ideas, but offer up WHAT IFS. Image then, what could be hashed (that word needs to be changed, for starters) from this forum, to spring Bitcoin forward. I'm pretty sure my Bitcoin haiku won't do it, but when you think about it, Bitcoin is poetic.

More Comments? (I do agree with most of you about JB--EFF him!!!--unless he embraces Bitcoin for the betterment of all of us, then God Bless JB [no, not Jesus of Bitcoin--but that does have a funny ring to it])

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Sorry: Image of Justin Bieber's Jesus tattoo not included in this post. Don't believe there is one? Google it! Sic!!!

Is that a serious question?

LMAO! No! The humor was in reference to this line in your post: You'd better hope he doesn't start his own biebercoin...

My humorous post was meant this way: How did you know that I registered biebercoin.com on Godaddy--Did you gain...?

Hmmm, the thread is getting better (especially with the blood/body)

It might not need to be someone famous, but could be a team.  I follow the F1 motor racing (with a better JB participating) and they are great at spending money.  Some drivers seek sponsorship, at least one driver listed himself on the sharemarket a few years back.  If you contacted one of the "poorer" teams and said let your fans donate to your team in bitcoin, then that would make some interesting news.  Probably better examples, but that's one.

Interesting points!

Don't ask me how, but after reading your post, my mind came up with the following comment. Upon reading it, you'll agree that no way I should of thought of this, but I did--nonetheless.

What if time:

What if some high school teachers introduced Bitcoin to their Economics 101 class? What if somebody started a Bitcoin Club in school? The club's main role could be to help the other clubs, in their school, raise funds for their special projects. Juniors always raise the capital needed to make the prom a success for themselves and the Seniors (who did the same the year prior). The beauty of this idea--it's these kids that will have the first opportunity to use Bitcoin on a daily basis once their out of school. They'll always know that their the ones who helped fledge it and gave it wings to soar.

Allow me to do the math on this. I think you'll find it interesting.

There are approximately 63,000 public schools in America. Say only 1/3 of them start a Bitcoin Club. That equals 21,000 schools. Now let's say that each club has, on average, 10 members. That equals 210,000 students. (if you see where this is going, please don't tell the rest of the class). Now imagine if each student spends, on average, $100 worth of Bitcoin during the course of a school year. That would equal $21,000,000. Does this number look familiar?

Justice Beaver?

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Paris Hilton could take Plato's idea of a bitcoin roadtrip.  

:D

Hah! I would love to see that! Somehow I don't think he'll be interested ;D

I just noticed the logo on his lapel.. well done Sir.

Well, we can convince him to use Bitcoin in the way Satoshi described, to receive paid fan mail.
I'm sure Charlie would find something on Silk Road to spend the Bitcoin  :P

Charlie Sheen: The Only Customer Silk Road ever Declined to Sell To  (they didn't want their products abused)

It makes me feel good to be at the forefront the Bitcoin community.


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Unless the conspiracy theorist want me to believe this was done with photoshop.

Using Bieber is terrible idea. His audience is worst possible fit for bitcoin and it is too big. It may boost bitcoin user base, but too fast and will bring concentrated amount of targets for hackers and scammers.
More damage than good.
If you want celebrity endorsement you need to choose very carefully and start smaller.
I would propose Stephen Fry. He is a tech-savvy guy and has good enough following not to overwhelm. He is more of intellectual type of celebrity... And he supports open source.

I used JB as an example and for shock purposes. This post is not meant as trying to endorse a celebrity--JB or otherwise. For it to work correctly, as I've outlined, it would have to happen organically and with stealth. If possibly done in that fashion, the growth rate should not be that overwhelming. You're suggestion of Stephen Fry, Gladiator, is a fine example.

Nice job! Real nice! But I was not thinking of Bieber's Bitcoin B Being so small. Remember that since he's a letter man--The B, don't you think the symbol B should be on the back of his jacket in the largest font as possible.


Or, because Bitcoin is so cool:


http://media.80stees.com/images/products/The-Fonz-Jacket.jpg


What if The Fonz got on board?

ROFLMAO...This is...still ROFLMAO...so frickin'...and still ROFLMAO...funny!!!!!

I can't leave this board for a few hours to check on the progress of the barns I'm having deconstructed, then to come back here and see this. What love! And to think I just sent Mjbmonetarymetals a "Your Welcome" note via PM. I truly enjoyed it. Thanks, again.

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I was thinking of asking the queen to get a bitcoin tattoo (not in person - I'd have to send lots of letter until the police came and politely asked me to stop) - there is no grander sight in life than seeing a woman in her 80s donning a tattoo.

Everyone chill, I got this.   8)

I'm working on some bitcoin hat designs for my upcoming bitcoin hats (http://bitcoinhats.com) store, including some cool ones the youngsters might like.  I'll send one to Bieber but won't mention anything about bitcoin, I'll just say I'm a huge fan and made this hat for him.  ;D Maybe he'll wear it and be seen wearing it.  Feel free to suggest a design, I'll send you a free one if I have it made.

http://bitcoinhats.com/test5.png (http://bitcoinhats.com)

Great idea! Sending The B a Bitcoin hat and stating you're his biggest fan without mentioning Bitcoin what-so-ever. Do It!

Who do you think you are kidding? - she's mid 70s at most. I spend a lot of time on the internet looking at pictures of older ladies so I consider myself very much an expert in these matters. Let me know if you have anything older - I can pay in bitcoins.

Just goes to prove one could be an expert in anything. I also knew darn well she wasn't 80ish. That's not the reason I opted to show this image. I wan going to title it Hunt the Bitcoin. Did you find it? Hint: On here right... I dare anyone here to tell me it ain't so. I'm here to tell you that years decades ago, she got the first Bitcoin tattoo before Bitcoin was cool.

BTW, I'm an expert on German speaking young blond ducks. Maybe we could meet up sometime and discuss our fetishes. Bring a shoe if you come.


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I was too overwhelmed with lust to waste my time looking for some time travelers tattoo - I'm a red blooded heterosexual, so forgive me.

Here's an image of a 103 year old women getting a tattoo after reading this thread.


http://www.needlesandsins.com/2009/04/02/103%20year%20old%20woman%20gets%20a%20tattoo.jpg

Who is Justin Beiber? Does he mine?  :)

He was just an average kid until he attached himself to Bitcoin: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Justin+Bieber%22+bitcoin&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=685


http://www.justinbieberzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Justin-Bieber-funny-Christmas-Card.jpg

This thread sure does bring back memories.

In the news today: Justin Bieber Greeting Cards Now Available (http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/4/10/justin_bieber_greeting_cards_now_available.htm)


Now, imagine if those same cards had bitcents in them, like gifts from "The Bieb".

~Bruno~

It's a great idea but you forgot to consider competing sponsors/interests. There's the possibility that the Biebs is already sponsored by the government (via whatever proxy/ies) to keep society entertained.

These guys sound much more likely to be interested in a bitcoin payment system: http://streetlightmanifesto.com/streetlight-manifesto-proudly-boycotts-itself/ (http://streetlightmanifesto.com/streetlight-manifesto-proudly-boycotts-itself/)

this would be mighty great wouldn't it ^^ ;D

Ashton Kutcher just invested into Dwolla. if someone like charlie sheen mentioned he buys his drugs from silk road it would have some effect  :D


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bitcoin = WINNING !

I don't think you guy's need to force it, bitcoin is already becoming the #1 digital currency if it isn't already.
Maybe I'm just a throwback to the slow assed dev of OpenBSD, but slow sustainable development has worked for them it will work for bitcoin too. LR, WMZ, all those currencies are getting harder to buy while bitcoin is expanding exponentially with cash based traders popping up all the time

Kenye West meets Justin Bieber.

http://www.disneydreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Justin-Bieber-Kanye-West.jpg
TMIBTCITW is da man!

SHIT JUST GOT REAL! http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/02/kanye-west-now-has-his-own-cryptocurrency-and-its-called-coinye-west/