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Update: within 3 days of posting bitcoin as a topic, it has already gotten 955 votes and is currently ranked 19th!  Yes!  Come on, we surely can beat the topic ranked 18th ("9/12 candidates")! :)

Update: we are now at 961 votes and ranked 18th!  Thank you to that bitcoiner who viewed voted in the past 5 minutes...you put bitcoin just ahead of "9/12 candidates"!  :D

Update: Now at 1,036 votes and ranked 17th!

Update: Now at 1,357 votes and ranked 15th!

Update: Now at 3,304 votes and ranked 7th!

Update: Now at 4,284 votes and ranked 5th!

Please no voting bots.  Humans only.  I don't want bitcoin to be disqualified for violation of voting rules...

Tell your friends on other social networks.  This thing is going viral, and we need to get in the top 3 rank (currently with 7,500 votes).

You're welcome :D

I just put in my 3 votes. Good luck!

How many BTC's of bounty to put the thread on #1?

Hehe...very sinister.  I'm thinking of something that goes even further: modify the topic description to say something along the lines of, "Put 3 votes in, leave a comment with your bitcoin address, and you will receive .3 bitcoins."  Of course that would likely violate the ToS and get the topic removed for cheating.

Update: we are now at 1018 votes and ranked 17th!  Time to beat "Redress of Grievances Lawsuit & Continental Congress 2009", ranked 16th, since there's no need to petition the government if you can instead trade in bitcoins! j/k ;)

Just wait a couple hrs...

Oh dear...I don't like the sound of that...  :-\

Please no voting bots.  Humans only.  I don't want bitcoin to be disqualified for violation of voting rules...

I just want to tell you, good luck.  We're all counting on you.

Who's you?  I'm counting on the voters...

Update: We now have 1,357 votes and are ranked 15th (skipped a rank since last update)!  Already 3 comments on the topic!  It's going viral!  Next target: "The War on Fathers, Marriage & the Family" holding rank 14th.  But who cares about internal family feuds when you can trade bitcoin with anyone in the world!  :D

I just left my vote.

Seriously guys, it's super simple.

Just visit the link in the OP, sign in through your google account, and click on "3 votes". Done!

there is no need to sign in... Just vote.

I voted.  Now it's 10th.  Keep it up guys!

Voted.  Man if this gets on the Judge's show I'm selling everything I own and buying BTC, even at a price of $3.50 because this might push it to critical mass.  Come on everyone, VOTE!!

P.S. Thanks to EmergentOrder for getting the ball rolling on this, I think it's a great idea.  +1 ratings to the Bitcoin Jazz Guy

voted.

I voted but I don't know that show. Is it popular? Why is bitcoin a good idea for that show?

voted a few times through tor  ;)

Voted several times

Wow, I voted less than one hour ago and it was still on 10th position, now it's on 8th position!

Please, if someone's using a bot, stop. As the OP says, it wouldn't be nice to be banned due to this.

Done.

the host is libertarian, critical of fed policy, etc.  so his audience will be interested.

Voted, did not need to login. Up to #7 !

Voted.

How many do they pick from this list? Top 3 will be difficult to catch.

The GOOOH thing has 13,335 votes.

Good showing anyway, bitcoin!

And is it popular? Is it broadcasted in the whole country? (I assume that this is a US television show)

not sure if it is popular in terms of ratings, but it is broadcast on fox news channel which is available to the vast majority of cable tv viewers across america

Folks, we are at 3,152 votes, ranked 7th, almost half way to what's ranked 3rd at 7,500 votes.  So keep it up and tell your friends on other social networking sites.  This is going viral.

BTW, if this gets ranked 3rd and if I do get contacted, would anyone strongly object to me forwarding them gavin's email address in case they want to do an interview?  He seems to be the unofficial bitcoin media representative.  We could also set up a poll to decide.


Thanks!  I just gave you a +1 too!


It airs on Fox Business Network 8pm and 11pm http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/freedom-watch/index.html (http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/freedom-watch/index.html) so I guess you could say it is relatively popular, and yes it is broadcast in the whole country.  You can find a lot of clips on youtube.

Then again, do we really want bitcoins on FOX for the first national TV attention? :P

;)  Don't worry.  Bitcoin crosses all sortofs of political beliefs, cultures, countries, languages, age groups, races.  It is a truly universal currency.  Also, Freedom Watch is not your typical pro-Republican Fox show.


Yes.  Napolitano actually served on New Jersey Superior Court 1987-1995, before getting into writing and media.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Napolitano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Napolitano)

I looked at the list of other ideas and I think talking about the seizure of poker money is a good idea too... although I'm glad I voted for bitcoin.

Hopefully if it gets air time I'll be able to download the video somewhere off the net.

My worry isn't that bitcoin would upset conservatives (it might for some of them), but that it would be reported inaccurately.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6wKEfVNK61c/Tb4hv-gVgzI/AAAAAAAAIvE/k1oyAWJ9RX0/s1600/fox+landen.jpg

According to bitcoin.org (http://bitcoin.org), the email address you should forward is that for the "Press mailing list for presentation and interview requests", which is bitcoin-press at lists dot sourceforge.net

Judge Napolitano is the only spot of sanity at Fox News, IMO.

Stossel?

(hell, I'd argue Red Eye is decent (though I only watched the youtube videos from when eye candy from Reason (http://youtu.be/UqusdsR9Nac) guests)

Voted.

Ranked 6th place with 3,792 votes!  Keep it up!


thanks...will do.


Stossel and Napolitano, that's it I think.  I suspect that's its a deliberate and wise business move by Fox...I don't follow the conspiracy theorists that believe that the only purpose of Fox is so Murdoch can elect Republicans.

What's the latest threat to freedom in America?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22971844/bitcoin_fox.png

I don't think Fox News is the latest threat to freedom in America. They've been around a while.

:D

5th place already. At this pace we can reach 1st position in a few days. At least the 3rd one shouldn't be that difficult, keep voting! :)

I think it's definitely a conscious decision that Fox Business is much more libertarian than conservative Fox News.

getting there, 4th place now

Let's make sure we all get on foxnews.com to help out their advertisers for the sake of...what exactly?  More press? an internet pissing contest?

IMO, internet polls are insubstantial, opaque and only serve as data-mining treasure troves.

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In 8hrs top Bitcoin will be 3rd  :-X

For the sake of bringing more public exposure to bitcoin.  Is there a problem with that?

As long as our only exchange of note is under attack and unable to fend it off for significant portions of the day there just might be. That said, voted and bumped.

This was an issue that I myself even was concerned about when the whole Wikileaks/PayPal tirade broke out.  I was afraid that bitcoin would get attacked by the government and other powerful enteties since the wikileaks release had sparked so much negative attention from politicians, the white house, the state department, news commentators, etc.  But this is different.  Freedom Watch is a show promoting many libertarians ideas, so as long as the interviewie doesn't diss gold, ir should be a relatively supportive audience.

Plus the cat is already out of the hat since lead developer Gavin accepted invitation to speak at the CIA, and news sources Time, CNN, etc.

Third place! :D

I made two of the guys in my office vote.  "Remember me talking about bitcoins?  You need to vote for it to be on Fox's Freedom Watch!"   8)

At this rate we can definitely take the top spot, given another week or so.  When does voting end?


Edit: Annnnnnd my mom.  She voted then said "I still think SOMEONE needs to control it."  Lol 

More importantly, when does it air? :D

Hey third spot!  :D

I hope along with positive media attention on bitcoin paypal cops a caning for reneging on the agreement they had with coinpal and for targeting other bitcoin users and exchangers.

That was brought up on the last episode of free talk live.

Cool!  I found that episode: http://traffic.libsyn.com/ftl/FTL2011-05-03.mp3 (http://traffic.libsyn.com/ftl/FTL2011-05-03.mp3) and I'm listening it to right now.... talk on bitcoin start time 1:13:00

Edit: OMG I just listened to it and Ian has no clue how bitcoin addresses and wallets work...I was cringing since I knew how many people listen to his show and follow him...

There aren't very many comments, compared to the suggestions that are in first and second position.

As the show's writers will probably read the comments to get their initial orientation to bitcoin, it would be a good idea if people post short comments containing a positive fact about Bitcoin. For example "Bitcoin is great because I can make payments anywhere in the world, usually for free."

Just got to 2nd place (with a conspicuously low comment count).

#5 has even less comments - 19 only, so far, so what's the problem?

And it's good that the comments are in low number and they are sane comments.
Imagine all the paranoid people that hang around here went there and posted the same type of stuff they sometimes post in this forum?
Do we really expect the TV show producers/whatever to read 2k comments in a topic? I don't think they will give themslves the trouble.
They will be better off by just researching the matter with their own means, i guess!  ;)

EDIT: Taking a look at the topics with the most comments i realized that it happens when the subject is one that as a lot of opposing points of view.
Bitcoin doesn't seem to be the case. I guess Bitcoin will have to deal more with disbelief than opposition.
Unless it's OCN, where disbelief went hand by hand with very sound opposition!  :)

Voted!
Less than 3000 votes between #1 and #2!
However, if this is as bad as Fox News with Glenn Beck... I don't know.
Anyhow, I suppose the important thing is that we popularise bitcoin.

So when is the deadline for voting?

Probably there is no deadline.
I see they have 3 topics already completed and they have one Accepted tab also that is empty for the time being. It's some kind of ongoing voting, i suspect.

Yeah...that's what I suspect as well.  Im thinking that we are probably high enough already that we most likely will be on the show sometimes, since after #1 gets on, we will be the new# 1.

And again...Napolitano is not Glenn Beck.

It's not.  I understand why you would be suspicious of Fox News, but Napolitano is actually a very sane, freedom loving individual.  I would encourage you to check out some the clips of him on Fox Business on YouTube.  I think you'll agree that this would be very good publicity for BitCoin and that he would give it a fair hearing.  I would be terrified if Glenn Beck was going to be talking about BitCoin because all he'd have to do is explain how the letters of BitCoin, when rearranged, turn out to be 666 and half the US would believe him and start denouncing BitCoin.


Edit:  Yesterday I did some informal measuring and we were getting somewhere on the order of 5 - 10 votes per minute.  At that rate another day or two and we'll be first place. 

Bi Tonic
Bit Icon
Cob in it
Cob I Nit
Bi Tic On
Bi Tic No
Bi Con It
Bi Cot In
Bit Con I

!!  The DEVIL has been incarnated and it is BitCoin. 

This is effing funny:  http://youtu.be/nNOku6QP4UM.  I don't even agree with a lot of Stewart's politics, but this is brilliant. 

I'm a little confused about the website.  Is it an official website that the judge or his producers regularly look to for stories?  Or, is it just somebody's blog where, every once in a while, something on the blog happens to get reported on (not because it was on the blog, but because it was newsworthy, or whatever)?

It slowed down to 1-2 votes per minute now ;)

I'm still not convinced that website has any direct affect, or any affect at all, on the content that appears, or may appear, on Freedom Watch.

link to the suggestions page is on freedom watch's website.

No...this is real.

of all the networks, does it have to be FOX?

Fox Business with Napolitano != Fox News

But I understand your sentiment.  Perhaps you can find a similar voting site for one of the other major networks?  This might be a great way to promote bitcoins, if we can get it on a couple major networks to discuss it, it is sure to spark some interest.  It will also let major companies like eBay and Amazon know that it is out there. 

Just gave my three votes! Bump!!!

Alright!  Spread the word, get your friends and family to vote too!  We're going to make #1!  :)

Just posted on my facebook! :3

Voted!

Only 1000 votes from 1st!

Somehow I think that no matter how many votes we get... we will NEVER get free air time on fox.

Hey, it looks like the voting resets after a certain period of time.  I have been able to vote again from both my computer and my iPad.  You all should go back to the site and see if you are back up to 10 votes.  Then throw another 3 at bitcoin.  :)

Less than 1,000 from 1st place, gogogo.

You only need to clear cookies and cache from your browser between votes  ;) You don't even need to change the IP.
How do you think all those votes got there? Magic?  ::)

Won't be that magical once they go through the logs...

Yes. I thought it was a bitcoin Christmas Miracle. You're saying it's not?   :D

Ofcourse it wasn't a Christmas Miracle! It was The Easter Bunny!  :D

Every time a Bitcoin is mined, a banker loses his Christmas bonus.

 :D :D :D

+50.00 (matures in 116 more blocks)  :D :D :D :D

Is voting over?  I haven't seen the count move for a few hours.

voted.

It's not over but has definitely slowed down.

We're resting, gathering our strength for the final push to first place.  :P

or maybe tor network ran out of IPs  ;D

just figured it couldnt hurt to bring this back up to the front for those who dont know and havn't voted

And here's the link for people who come directly to page 5 of this thread:

http://freedomwatch.uservoice.com/forums/16625-freedom-watch-show-ideas/suggestions/1778101-bitcoin

Add some REAL COMMENTS! with every vote...

Our vote count doesnt match the number of comments... make them good and UNIQUE!

growling me!

It had such a rapid ascent but can't seem to make it to #1.

i voted.

and as far as comments, please keep in mind gavin's PR suggestions. all this talk about overthrowing governments is both a little far-fetched, an unproductive as far as attracting 'regular people'.
see http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8940.0

it's my imagination or we are in 2nd ranked right now with 12,887 votes :O??

It's been in 2nd place for weeks now.

Why are there so many more comments on other ideas?

Anyways, keep gathering people to vote! Media attention is our main field right now, let's get Bitcoin into people's heads!

oh good lord.

right next to the encyclopedia entry for "Bread and Circuses" is a picture of Roger Ailes.

can anybody seriously believe that the channel of the republican party is going to boost - in any way - something like Bitcoin?

...a direct competitor to the USD, which is rather favored by their listenership - and basically controlled by their owners and friends?

c'mon...

if you do not try you'll never know <--- one of my thousand of golds rules! :D

Because they're older. The one in the first position has been there for over an year, according to the age of some comments.

Have you ever watched at least parts of Judge Napolitano show? Or John Stossel?

Despite their strong conservative bias, Fox does seem to have a tiny space for libertarian ideas. I guess that's mainly because they make good opponents for leftists, but still.

Napolitano's show is fantastic - I've never heard the word "libertarian" used so frequently on tv, and he doesn't water down the message. However you feel about Fox, give them credit for airing this show at prime time on FBN. It's sure to piss off just as many republicans as democrats. Everything from full-scale drug legalization to abolishing the Federal Reserve is covered on a daily basis. Best news commentary on TV currently IMO. Would be awesome for Bitcoin.

wow, almost number one!  keep voting!!!

yep, <200 votes remaining to overtake #1 spot!
go go go! :)

Only 90 points left, that's only 30 voters! We can reach it tonight. :-)

I put my vote in, we can do it guys!

bumps only 300 or so away from being ranked 1

Link again for convenience:

http://freedomwatch.uservoice.com/forums/16625-freedom-watch-show-ideas

3 votes :D

Sorry, I still don't get the site.  That GOOOH thing has been on the site for at least a year and has been number one for a while now, but I don't think it's been done on the show.  Of the 3 under 'completed' the one with the most votes had some 600 votes.  So, I don't see what the number of votes has to do with getting on the show.  Rather, it just looks to me like people vote on topics and when they happen to appear on the show, they get moved into 'completed'.  But, it looks like they're not put on the show because they were on the list.

FIRST PLACE BABY!!1  ;D ;D ;D

*HIGH FIVES VOTERS*

Are you suggesting that there is a television show where producers instead of viewers determine the content? Mark me shocked.

I'm suggesting exactly that.

For those who still doubt a Fox show can be truly libertarian, maybe these two short videos can convince you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af5KJ2aD8F0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFoNcxp3okM

when is the next show?  we ARE in first place.  I expect a show on bitcoin now.

Get ready for a segment on 'Get Out of My House': another mainstream political bullshit scheme.