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The limited resource of proselytising
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Presently, the bitcoin economy would appear to be mainly those interested in making margin profits in trading, with attendant financial services springing up to service those that deal mainly in currency trading - escrow, etc.

Without _local_ currency markets, bitcoin would appear to be a trader's game - more or less (to a layman) an online game that they may not understand all the rules of.  Why bother when they could invest their money in a "real" market that is so widely trusted the risk is seen as nonexistant (legitimate belief or not).

Take the time to educate that person on hidden taxations such as inflation, etc, and there is a possibility that they will begin to consider putting a portion of their savings into bitcoin - as just another way to spread risk in their portfolio.


Premise
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I have a small pool of investors that would like to bootstrap our local economy in bitcoins.

We have a reasonable amount of initial capital to inject into the system (perhaps a couple K USD between us) and accept that we may take a total loss as these bitcoins flee the local geographic area.

Although we have a wide range of services / goods that we can offer to each other - necessarily we will need to do (at least at first) a majority of our trades with the local community.  Obviously, we need to take our limited resources - our time and energy spent educating others about Bitcoin - and establish beachheads in the community that promote the greatest uptake.


Request For Comment
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What (in your opinion) are the key places to establish adoption of Bitcoin outside of our initial pool?

* Businesses dealing primarily in cash?
* College students?
* Persons that might like to have nonreputable "cash" that can't be stolen by a malefactor at point-of-trade?
* Employers of below-minimum-wage or undocumented workers?


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Proposal
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I will buy anything on Amazon.com (up to $50 at first) and reship it to you free of shipping charges, in exchange for the current (as of the request) MtGox bitcoin::dollar trade ratio.

I am amenable to using further proxies, cutouts, escrow, etc.  The idea is to set up a web of trust, and to exchange some of my capital for bitcoin.

If you are interested in doing local dead-dropping with me, my area of operations is US ZIP 97502 - I will gladly move packages from one GPS location to another within certain time constraints for bitcoin.


Goal
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I wish to set up a network of trusted agents in various areas of operations for a physical mixmaster network.  The eventual plan is to charge postage in bitcoins, use dead-drops (geohashing?), and GPG to build a reputation between agents for honest dealings.  I would think a meta-market of auditors could also be set up at some point by sending false packets through the network.



I welcome (hopefully constructive) criticism of these goals, as well as expansion on them.



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