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June 08, 2013, 12:22:14 AM |
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Since no one person would really benefit from a massive marketing campaign for bitcoins, I believe the only way knowledge of it will spread is via urban, grassroots marketing. And considering BTC is decentralized, P2P, etc, it only makes sense that the way to advertise them is by relying on the enthusiasm of believers of bitcoin.
I mention universities because they are highly-concentrated areas of intellectual young-people-which is sort of the archetypal bitcoiner. However, advertising anywhere will attract attention.
I think the only "rule" that should be in place for advertising Bitcoins is that there is no defacing of anything (example: graffiti), or engaging in any sort of advertising that would cast a negative picture of bitcoins.
Other than that, anything goes. I have posted countless pages on bulletin boards of my university that contain nothing but a QR code (they were all printed on highlighter-green paper). I figured if people saw them enough times, they would become curious and scan the code with their phones. Some QRs led to bitcoin.org, to this forum, to casascius.com, to other Bitcoin-related sites, and even some Instawallet (when it existed) accounts with a small balance in them.
These are just examples. Be creative. Why advertise bitcoins? Its pretty simple-the more people that know of them, the larger the demand, increasing the value of our coins. Plus, I believe in bitcoin as more than just a currency-its a potential solution to economic issues that exist today and will persist in the future.
If every member of this forum told one new person about bitcoins every day, that would be pretty damn good.
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