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A friend of mine who is also a fashion designer like me has start accepting bitcoin payment yesterday, she is one of the very few that I thought about Bitcoin in 2021and she is also an investor in BTC and few other coins and after paying me a visit and saw that I have started accepting Bitcoin payment she decide to take the same route..

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She did very well because she added her wallet QR code which I scanned myself and I work, way better than mine but yeah I've decided to upgrade mine this weekend.

Some people are even showing more interest in Bitcoin in my City, I am thinking of hosting a seminar about Bitcoin but I want to make sure I invite the right people, have anyone hosted a BTC seminar before? Any good advice on this?

- focus on tech and use-cases
- don't focus too much on price, the investment side, and especially on the trading side
- at the end of the "seminar", give them some reading materials
- and best of all, make sure you're giving them accurate and legitimate information


Some good education materials in my opinion:

First of all I would like to congratulate you and your friend for making this bold move and accept bitcoin as payment for the business and want to ask are there sufficient customers who are happy to pay with it?

See I have not hosted any seminar before but you could find some threads on the forum and you can simply check out them like this one making google search which can help you to find some of the answers


But will say you should be having basic knowledge and technical part understanding also to explain it to the audience to make better understanding to them and target audience will be dependent on you and explaining the benefits of btc to them will help a lot.Rest host one and you will gain experience for the next one's.

You are a good ambassador of Bitcoin, you should keep it up but must do the follow-up as well which is more important to me than awarenesses like this. You have started the work, yet mentoring them on it is better since they would indeed be faced with some issues along the line, you need to learn more about the challenges and discouragement that people might have, particularly the business owners adopting it, and make sure you proffer possible solutions to them even before it arises.

before doing a full seminar(requires spending to rent space, and organising event) do a small "meet-up" such as a informal chat with locals at a cafe/bar
EG put up posters/spread the word/gossip with people that you will be at X drink establishment(or your own business/shop) between [time suitable] each day a certain week for anyone to pop in and have a chat.

where you can gauge the interest and discuss things they may want see, or may be of interest for them to hear if there was a bigger seminar.  ask questions, answer questions. gauge the interest and the mood. find out what they want to know and then formulate something that will meet their expectations to want to attend

hint at things informally about ticket prices (gauge the local economy acceptance of how much is acceptable) and figure out how many tickets to offer and thus what amount is needed to cover overall organisation costs..

find out who locally is "expert" in topics. or runs businesses and work out who is good enough to be spokes-people or who from your chats local people want to see as spoke-people

in short
meetups if popular, become seminars, which if popular become regional conferences, which if popular become national conferences

Thanks for the advice, this was why I opened a group chat on WhatsApp for us to discuss about Bitcoin and about any possible challenges they are facing, since ive been into Bitcoin since 2017 I have seen a lot and make some mistakes, I was able to stand on my feet and still keep supporting Bitcoin, not many people can do this that's why I stay in touch with everyone that I introduced to Bitcoin, so far it's fun and addictive, I can't wait to see what the future will bring.

Tech itself is sellable idea to show to the public because its use case is outstanding and they can use this on their daily transaction.

Very wrong to introduce this as investment especially to those people who doesn't know about this since it will just create wrong impression and instead they get positive result they might get scam by multiple platforms or even get a wrong move upon buying on wrong position. Worse he can be called MLM scammer for introducing this especially to those people who's been skeptical about this program.

You must provide a comprehensive understanding of bitcoin and the technology and processes that underlie it, and you must have a good knowledge of the basics of bitcoin and provide explanations that your members can easily understand and absorb.
and if they have interest, advise them not to invest more than they can afford to lose, and for starters, make small purchases gradually so they can learn it and understand it on their own once you give them good knowledge.
and the most important thing for me for them is, instill patience and also faith in them about bitcoin because both are very important that will continue to be faced along the way.
I wish you success and you have a good initiative and it is also important to introduce bitcoin to those who have their own interest, because what I mentioned above I did for my family and also some friends who have a passion for bitcoin, and succeeded. It depends on how we explain it properly and easily understood, and one more thing. Tell them about the profit you get, as well as what you get for the bitcoin yield while you are involved, it's all just to motivate them.

Agreed to @franky1.

I can speak from experience as both an artist and the administrator of our local art group when I say that organizing a full-fledged seminar is quite taxing as you have to consider the venue, find keynote speakers, the entrance fee as well as the bonding of the group itself.

The same is true when hosting a technical presentation on a topic like bitcoin. A base group of people who are genuinely interested in the technology, who get along well with one another, and who have the same goals is necessary for any seminar. You may easily find individuals who are incredibly knowledgeable about bitcoin, whether in the technical or financial aspect, after the group has grown to such a size through informal meetups where they can communicate with each other to grow as bitcoiners.

Additionally, you can estimate how much the event will be in demand.

Yeap, but the drawdowns should be clearly stated as well. Bitcoin is great and all that, but a lot of people can't financially handle all that volatility.

Now that a good friend of yours has adopted the acceptance of bitcoin for payment of her services it will be perfect if you go further in helping her understand the necessary steps needed to maintain this, she also need to understand the volatility in bitcoin, bitcoin wallets and how to secure her wallet keys from public, she also needed to ensure the confirmation of every transaction before acceptance of deal been made.

Definitely focus on the use case. It's a first time seminar (I'd even try calling it an event where you can give away free satoshis to try if they are willing to use Lightning, let's say) just treat it like a show-and-tell. Send your friend the BTC. Show them how it's done.

And answer this question as much as possible: Why should I accept Bitcoin when my local digital payment is faster, free, and more widely accepted?

(A good way to start answering that is to say, accepting Bitcoin doesn't mean abandoning everything else, it just means opening more doors for a merchant)

oh and dont try confusing lightning with bitcoin
they are 2 separate networks for separate niche/usages

bitcoin relies on a blockchain and bitcoins never leave the blockchain, bitcoin has no value limit bottleneck or middleman requirement to co-sign agree to operate as payment path(route)

lightning is a multi-currency token payment system(words with many currencies and works without any currency) with less security but is used for small amounts people dont care risking

silly people advertise lightning and people experience lightning . experience its multi channel locks needed to have multiple route to get most exposure to destinations. experience all the middle men possible bottlenecks. yes they experience payment event speeds of a few seconds for small amounts.. but then when it comes to using bitcoin they experience a whole different thing and then realise LN is not bitcoin and never was

be sure to define the differences

Applause to those who does but I don't see this as a requirement. At this point, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are still not on 'safe' state wherein new investors could fall at risks involved in this industry. Ofcourse seminars would help them to avoid unfortunate actions towarda this industry but risk will still be there regarding market price volatility. Given that not all people would be able to cope up with the downsides of this industry, I think inviting more people into this, is not yet advisable. Make them more knowledgeable indeed but it would be different to some people. Not all would cope up with the do's and don'ts therefore they'd still be at risk. The only time I'd advise this industry to non-crypto users is when price stabilizes.

If indeed you and some of your friends want to do a Bitcoin seminar it is a positive and good thing.
Having a Bitcoin seminar can provide more insight and knowledge to someone who previously did not know what Bitcoin is and how to use it.
We can also simultaneously provide knowledge of investing in crypto, especially in Bitcoin. It would be even better if the seminar was held in a place where there is very little knowledge about investing or cryptocurrencies.

Your friend has chosen the right part by following your footstep in accepting bitcoin as an alternative payment method in her business,this is quite encouraging. I hope you have enlightened your friend on how to secure her coin from hackers and not to use an exchange to store her bitcoin.

To have a successful bitcoin seminar you needs a lot of sacrifice from your side,you will need a good amount of funds for this and I hope you have put this into consideration, I was thinking of having a bitcoin seminar in my locality some time ago,but when I checked out expenses it takes to carry out this seminar, I saw that I don't have the resources to meet up.

It’s nice to see that you have been a good example to other people where you live. You must be doing well in your business if your colleague wants to join the bitcoin wagon. As for hosting a seminar, that’s a big thing. The cost of organizing a seminar is huge, you would have to cover the venue, sound equipment, snacks, drinks, other speakers (if you’re inviting any). I think you should plan on selling tickets, Africa is big on bitcoin and a bitcoin seminar would be packed pre-covid. That’s one way to do it or you could just do a webinar. Saves you the cost and all you need is a Wi-Fi.

More people believe in it, and are wanting to be the part of the change. It isn't an easy thing to understand and start accepting bitcoin into business when there is not much of people around using bitcoin. What is being done is the base and slowly this will make the vision of Satoshi come true.

The third party dependence will be reduced and educating the unbanked will create more space for the usage of cryptocurrencies. Looking the progress from the African people, it looks like Africa will turn to be a lead part in crypto development.

The steps that you and your friends are taking are good steps and should be appreciated. You have a passion to spread awareness about Bitcoin to the people around you. Making a seminar does look simple, but of course you have to have sufficient preparation. both in terms of material and in terms of delivery. Enticing people to attend your seminars is also an important step. More and more people attended the event. then believe me we will be more excited. but if only a few attendees sometimes it makes our spirits drop a little. But I hope you can keep your spirits up even if there aren't too many participants. I say this because that's the experience I've had.

Some tips that must be prepared so that the Seminar runs successfully are:

- Start making the concept and purpose of holding the seminar. And we have to focus on the concept and goals we have made.

- Prepare a relevant and interesting theme for the seminar later. Adjust to the needs and conditions of your environment. like the importance of knowing Bitcoin in this digital era.

- If you are the resource person, you must prepare the material carefully and completely. practice how to speak with interesting and not boring delivery. or you can bring in resource persons who are more expert in this field. But I think bringing in Special Resource Persons will require more money. So if you are confident with your insight. then there is nothing wrong if you and your friends become resource persons.

- Prepare seminar packages (kits) or seminar souvenirs. such as ballpoint pens, notebooks etc.

- the last step but also from the beginning is how to make a promotion to attract more people to the seminar that you will hold.

good luck guys.

Selling tickets? No, I don't plan on making it that big, I will start will max of 10 people for now, so there will be no need for sound equipment, snacks and drinks is affordable and yes my friend will be present on the day, I plan to use a very limited space for this so this shouldn't cost me a lot, thanks for your suggestion @CryptoPanda

Sorry with little doubt because many seminar promoting about Bitcoin they tried adopted with other thing like hype investment project and take advantage by using Bitcoin name. But if trues about your decision give hosting and seminar about Bitcoin I appreciated with your ideas during when people coming to your seminar not selling ticket.

You can be rule model for the other how advertising Bitcoin and actually need to talk true or fact about Bitcoin investment, there are have risk and all people should know more before active investing in Bitcoin. Don't publishing with positive side only from Bitcoin but also you need giving detail weakness from Bitcoin as investment assets.

I will like first of all  congratulate you and your friend for accepting Bitcoin as option of payment in you guys business. That is going to be a fantastic opportunity for those   are willing to be spending their Bitcoin. And again it will attract a lot of customers attentions by willing to have the knowledge and also start adopting Bitcoin. I wish you can continue with this your hard work by making people aware of existence of Bitcoin blockchain.


Seminar are always a good idea way of educating people. That will be a good idea, if truly you can organize it the seminar  as you stated. I believe anyone that attended it will also like to share the knowledge with his/her people and that is how more people will be aware and start adopting Bitcoin. But my advice to you before you fixed a date for the seminar make sure you get yourself prepared well, and again don't talk much on making profit with Bitcoin but emphasize on blockchain much and I believe that is what they need much as a newbie no the profit.

Just make sure they are not misleading people by exaggerating what bitcoin can do.
Because the audience may have high expectations afterwards, and will be disappointed if those expectations are not met.
Basic facts are more than enough as a start. Because most newbies have some dumb questions even if they can easily get answers over the net.
Maybe try actual installing a wallet like electrum and send some satoshis to them, either they can pay the organizer for few dollars or free, depending on the capability of the organizer.
Don't invite high profile personalities as they may ask compensation about their commitment, just look around the town who are bitcoin enthusiasts.

Well-done. This is a straightforward Bitcoin adaptation. I believe I commented on your previous post, but I can't recall. As I previously stated, more people will be interested in Bitcoin once it is accepted as a payment method in real life. And I'm glad to see it's happening. A seminar is a good idea. More people will become intimately familiar with Bitcoin. It's also beneficial to your business because you can brand your company while also promoting Bitcoin. Keep it up; we need more Bitcoin adaptation that is genuine adaptation. Lecture on the goal of Bitcoin and why Satoshi created it, including technical knowledge such as wallets and so on. As a result, people will learn more about Bitcoin.

It's important to explain the advantages and benefits when adopting Bitcoin, but also the risks and potential negative consequences for an investor. A seminar can be simple and educative at same time, if the proposal is focused on newbies and laymen people who will absord only the basic concepts and practical examples. It would be also interesting if this seminar talked about other seminars which have as proposal solely promoting ponzi and hyip crypto schemes to the public, inevitably ending in losses for most people, if not everyone present during the event. Therefore, a clear message must be shared that such seminars should be avoided.

You know what's more sellable to the public? That is its price. When people are aware that BTC value can rise by a lot of folds, they will easily get attracted to it. Unlike any other altcoins which in my opinion has a better and has a lot of technology, BTC's only technology is it can be used as a currency for sending and receiving money (BTC).

This can be easily identified so there is no need to sell it on them. As long as we will tell everything that they want to know, like BTC is volatile and its value can sometimes go down then we shouldn't worry. It's already their problem if they will still lose because they got greedy or too emotional.

Direct adoption is a very desirable endeavor for bitcoin, I really support them for this kind of thing. I'm honestly happy what some people are doing about the adoption of bitcoin in their business, it's amazing but I hope they don't just announce it here but don't move on to a better stage.

I don't know why someone adopts new payment system like bitcoin but they fail to grow their business for the better from a marketing point of view. Obviously that's a bad thing for their business and smoothness in terms of making money, but if they manage to grow the business after adopting bitcoin then surely that would be great.

This is a good initiative, what I can advice is that talk about pros and cons honestly, don’t just talk about the positive side, talk about the bad side as well.

Also, don’t feel bad if your explanation is still not ok for them, because that is already their own responsibility to explore more and to do their own research. Never force them to follow your advices, encourage them to search more about Bitcoin. I have my experience attending small seminar like this, and its a big help for the startup and beginners.

First of all congratulations on your good work in spreading the gospel about and helping its adoption as a means of payment in your business, its really something that will spread the news about in your locality.

Setting up a seminar is a very beautiful and brilliant idea but the one thing i would advise although am not an expert myself is that, the right messages about should be taught, its volatility and not only the good of bitcoin so that the people attending the seminar wouldn't just feel bitcoin is a kinda get rich scheme.  The wrong message about bitcoin can do alot of damage to new comers into the crypto business.

It has to start from somewhere, but from the time you started accepting crypto payments what's the general feedback you getting from the public... Are the people  actually using this tech or wondering what the QR codes are all about... And how are you protecting your money from bearish markets if those funds aren't converted into fiat immediately?



Great initiative but the problem with seminars that don't have a guaranteed number of participants is you will spend more of your pocket money to put this event together to cover venue, snacks expenses etc and if it becomes a paid event participation will also likely drop. But if you can partner up with other tech companies in your locality that can benefit greatly from Intergrating crypto payments it should help cut down on costs on your side.

All the best.

I like good questions like this @woodie

Some times I get good result from the public and most times they are bad, but honestly, I was expecting the bad side more, like people who said No that Bitcoin is a scam because a friend of theirs lost his or her money without understanding what they did wrong. They are not even ready to listen, like they've make up their mind already.

Few people show good interest in Bitcoin and it's the real source of my motivation, I like talking about crypto and Bitcoin, I can go on and on for a long talking about ideas and possible outcomes in coming years.

Whenever I get paid in Bitcoin I always swap to Fiat ( most times 80% ) and leave the extra gains in Bitcoin since I planned to keep holding for a long period, I gotta keep my business flourishing, so I order cloth materials to put back on the shelf for sale and sewing. I am also a fan of stable coin too, to avoid volatility.

Deciding to teach and lecture others about Bitcoin and crypto currency at large is a good move..
Alot of members have given you suggesting on how to follow and what to teach. About who to invite... Around Africa countries @Jackson C.Jerry (https://www.facebook.com/jackson.c.jerry)
He is one of the people I have attended their seminar when it's concern crypto invite him and he will honor your invitation, But outside his city he might charge you for transportation..

You are very good at this OP I watched your progress and I saw your step in this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5431859.msg61502281#msg61502281) it was amazing I think for a seminar it is a very big agenda and you definitely need a team and quite a lot of funds too to carry it out I think you you need to make a team first as an implementing committee, then you form a structural committee and budget funds for your activities and I suggest you look for sponsors to support your activities in terms of funding.
If you think it's very difficult to prepare, in my opinion, it's better for you to make ordinary gatherings for those closest to you that don't require difficult preparation and a lot of funds.

First and foremost, congrats on you and your friend's budding venture. Now on the topic of advices. I would highly suggest you don't sell bitcoin to your attendees as "the end-all-be-all" coin like most bitcoin seminars I have attended to. It paints the wrong impression and pulls in the wrong type of people into the industry. You must focus on how bitcoin could make everything better starting from technology, as well as other things, and ultimately, provide them with takeaways so the lessons they have learned through your seminar lingers. Offer them something like a reward or whatnot for learning cryptocurrencies, that way learning is incentivized and ensured.

A good topic is all about the technology that's attached to bitcoin. The price and speculation could have some space on your seminar and that's just to give an idea on how it goes but you're just going to give little time to it. I guess you've got no sponsor on this one and you can make a poll on which topics you may want to discuss if you still have got no idea on what you must discuss on that seminar that you're planning to make.
Or, it's always best to have these discussions with the most basic topics like starting to look at its whitepaper and discuss stuff about wallets and how to avoid getting scammed. Those are interesting starters and basic topics.

I definitely rock with this. I do agree that it's always important that there are many people spreading the love and information regarding crypto. This allows newbies to not fall for traps all around crypto, it gives them a chance to make sure that they are going to end up profiting from it as much as they could.

I am not saying that OP is the person with the most information and knowledge regarding crypto, but it is definitely something that would allow newbies to learn from because OP definitely could help them get a better start without a doubt. I do believe that it will take some time for them to enter even with help, but the help there would mean it would drop the chances of newbies lowering their losses.

It's the same as always (story)... I (you, we) can't analyze individual situations, country conditions, the place where you live, etc.

But! If you want to know seminar experiences, go back to 2017-2018, there were crypto seminars everywhere (perhaps exaggerated, but it is the feeling that remains with me).

And that must be the first thing, you have experience as a user in a crypto seminar, no! Yeah? ok it does not matter, do you have it in another type of seminar that you have attended...?

That is a priority, to know what we would leave behind, what we would improve, in short...

...the seminars that I have attended, which were generally in those years, they had bitcoin on their agenda but they were really very organized people, sometimes they were really entrepreneurs but other times they were representatives of Alts, they even had offices in several countries (event managers/Atls), with paid staff and established funds with managerial compliance, which included seminars as a stage to attract business and users (obviously).

With the above, I want to tell you not to take this seminar lightly, they require several individuals and the program that you structure is essential, a seminar generally requires guests or experts in the field who give credibility, but above all it must understand  that with one seminar you can't reach to achieve everything, that is, do not think of one, think of 15 seminars. Why not?

Recommendation:
Try to do something by Zoom before and there you can have future allies to get to have something face-to-face with excellence, as your community deserves and as Bitcoin should be represented or have an ambassador.

There's nothing wrong with doubting the OP, as I've also never seen any seminars that just instruct people to invest without any benefit. I've attended quite a few seminars, but most of them instruct people to invest in ponzi projects or try to collect people's money, or sell bitcoin audiobooks at exorbitant prices.

Mistakes that some people do when hosting a seminar is talking about altcoins instead of focusing on Bitcoin and Bitcoin only, the perfect crypto seminar should talk about how risky other assets apart from Bitcoin is, but because some altcoins like Shiba inu pumped so much they will want to shill altcoins without revealing how unsafe such projects are.

Some crypto seminar holders also fool people by confusing them to invest into crypto through them and they will end up running away with people's money, I am talking from experience.

I love the threads here that show local stories of how Bitcoin is becoming more known and accepted as payment by people. These stories are often from Nigeria (I don't know if this one is from there or from a different country), and that formed a very positive impression of the people of this country for me. I believe people are right that you shouldn't focus on the price side, and I'd also recommend browsing the forum for threads of previous similar events hosted by forum members. Some even had screenshots or lengthy descriptions of what they were talking about.

Seeing women in crypto always makes me happy, especially in this forum where there aren't many of them. I also appreciate how she has taken it upon herself to educate people about bitcoin by accepting it. You should be prepared to answer questions from people who don't know anything about bitcoin, and I wouldn't suggest that you or your friend invest in altcoins rather than bitcoin.