How can we spread Bitcoin effectively.

[bjbear123]

I think the best way that Bitcoin can be spread is by doing public demonstrations, and giving free BTC small amounts around 0.02 to those who take an interest.

The only people who could do this is the ones who brought when the price was incredibly cheap and are now BTC rich, this will be a great way to give back to the community and intern help raise BTC popularity and usage and of course making it widespread.

This is demonstrated beautifully in this documentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zKuoqZLyKg

How do you feel we as a community should raise bitcoin awareness and how are you helping ?

[ajareselde]

Giving money away just for the sake of trying it out is insane, especially giving away 0.02, which is pretty costly as well.
I think it would be better to fund businesses that would accept bitcoin, or to encourage existing ones into accepting it, and therefore give a chance for
those customers to actually have more places to spend their coins.
You can't get global acceptance by force and all at once, taking baby steps is way safer and in the end result far more reliable thing to do.

[mirana12345]

I see where your coming from, however if someone gave you just a small amount of BTC many years ago then that would have surly got you into it and researching as you actually own part of it, straight away many people will look for a place to spend their 0.02 BTC and surly this is what we need ?

There was a place to get small amounts, and there still is ; it's called bitcoin faucets, but the amounts that are being given away are quite small
to ensure the faucet can remain active and not generate loss to it's owner. There is no way someone could maintain give away of 0.02 for long.
On 1 person that would genuinely be interested in bitcoin , you would have 100 people that would just sell it right away.

[Eric Cartman]

Give 0.02 BTC for free to people?

I only see them dumping it and people abusing it in all possible ways.

You can look at the history of the Aurora altcoin too.

I think we need more to spread Bitcoin with efficiency

[franky1]

I think the best way that Bitcoin can be spread is by doing public demonstrations, and giving free BTC small amounts around 0.02 to those who take an interest.

The only people who could do this is the ones who brought when the price was incredibly cheap and are now BTC rich, this will be a great way to give back to the community and intern help raise BTC popularity and usage and of course making it widespread.

This is demonstrated beautifully in this documentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zKuoqZLyKg

How do you feel we as a community should raise bitcoin awareness and how are you helping ?

giving away $9 just so people can see it move from your wallet to their newly made wallet, alone is futile and expensive.
what you need to do is find local shops in your area to accept bitcoin. or encourage new ones. and then use maybe just a couple $ to let the person you gave that funds to, buy a coffee or a snack.

the reason is.

i can make an app that sends bullshit value from one phone to another.. in milliseconds.. but if that person cant do anything with bullshit coin.. you might as well threw a brown shirt button on the street (looks like a penny from a distance) and wait around to see if any passers by pick it up. and what they do with it once they realise they cant see it as a useable currency

yes, us bitcoiners know what it is and know its value. but if a stranger accepts it and cant even buy a coffee or toilet roll with it.. they will never think about using it again.

remember bitcoins ease of transfer, is not the same as:
ease of use (lack of retailers)
ease of obtaining (registering with exchanges and buying)
ease of understanding (converting 0.00x into common fiat)

so try not to throw $9 of bitcoin at random people without having a bigger plan

think about where people once they become fascinated with your demo can easily and legitimately buy bitcoin.
think about why each person would have a need for it.
think about where people can use bitcoin.

the 'need for it' is more about the demograph of people you are speaking to.
EG.
foreigners - talk about remittance to their home country/family
investors - talk about the asset holding(hoarding) or day trading on legitimate exchanges
consumers - talk about the shops in your area they can use it with

try to think of as many uses/solutions as you can, and then when asking people what they do in their daily lives you can tell them how bitcoin can help them

[lolgato]

Giving away 0.02 is too much for anyone to giveaway the most I will likely give to people on normal circumstances is 0.001-0.005

[bubble83]

Ripple had giveaways here back when they were allowed. Early on there was a giant ripple giveaway, and it must have encouraged some of the people who got coins to get involved and buy more. Whatever your view on its centralization there are people who invested in it for years. Not everyone given free coins dumps, some buy more coins.

[NorrisK]

Ripple had giveaways here back when they were allowed. Early on there was a giant ripple giveaway, and it must have encouraged some of the people who got coins to get involved and buy more. Whatever your view on its centralization there are people who invested in it for years. Not everyone given free coins dumps, some buy more coins.

Most people will still dump and even worse, some people will find a way to abuse the system and start claiming tons of them.
If the payout is quite high, it is even worth the effort for people to create fake acounts and such. We should not help them in acquiring a stash of coins in this way.

[Amph]

there is only one effective way, big and well known merchants should adopt bitcoin previously regulated for that country, and add a discount if you buy in bitcoin

this will certainly encourage more the usage of bitcoin and increase vastly its demand, i think the killer appalication is the discount that some merchant may offer, in the case of bitcoin

[calkob]

Giving small amounts away was a great idea a few years ago.  i am unconvinced now tho as to how effective it is, most people i know would just forget about it if you gave it to them.  as has been said i think using in those stores who currently accept it and convincing others to do the same is the way forward.

[Mr. Forum]

It is good that we may provide a platform where bitcoin will be able to grow. people need to start seeing the importance of the bitcoin and its trading. Giving back to the community is a very good thing, However. we need not to lock this whole idea to the persons who are super rich only. If you know that bitcoin has changed your life more so in a positive way, then you need to be part of this great program. Let as spread bitcoin to the ends of the earth.

[bitbaby]

First of all it is too much to give away for free to anyone, with current price of bitcoin it would come to $4-$5 and secondly even if someone decided to do it, there is no way to differentiate between bitcoin newbies and veterans on-line and because of that it will get severely abused.

Also, anyone who is interested in bitcoin will ultimately find some giveaways on either this forum, social media sites such as twitter/fb/reddit, if they really have interest in Bitcoin.

Most important thing is education, if you really want to spread the word out, teach people around you about Bitcoin, make them understand the concept. If you bring in people by luring them with a giveaway, they won't stay in for long, they'll just look at it as easy money and will most probably leave when they see no other easy way of getting it.

[Rizky Aditya]

Telling your friends and family is definitely not a way to spread Bitcoin effectively. Advertising is a decent way, but other than that, there is really no good way to spread the word of Bitcoin.

[Yakamoto]

Good, people will think they got free, spend/sell it & forget it
It only works if you explain & give bitcoin to those who you really know well.

It's better if big companies accept bitcoin & give discount to anyone who pay with bitcoin, so people will try to buy bitcoin to get discount. Just make sure give explanation about & how to use bitcoin.

We were seeing large companies give discounts to people using Bitcoin not long ago; newegg was giving 5% discounts, if I remember correctly, Dell was giving a similar number in discounts, and a few bullion dealers I saw were also offering 1% discounts.

It has happened in the past, but I'm not sure if its had any impact.

[enhu]

There are already people spreading the word about bitcoin it just don't get much attention though. Headline like "Earn 2-10K through bitcoin" might just caught the eyes of newcomers especially on the webmasters forum.
Topics like these is going to make regular people read - maybe on the feed of large magazine sites, maybe even on porn sites

[RawDog]

If you want to spread Bitcoin effectively, find a way to integrate it with Herpes.  That shit spreads like wildfire. 

[quentincole32]

I think the best way that Bitcoin can be spread is by doing public demonstrations, and giving free BTC small amounts around 0.02 to those who take an interest.

The only people who could do this is the ones who brought when the price was incredibly cheap and are now BTC rich, this will be a great way to give back to the community and intern help raise BTC popularity and usage and of course making it widespread.

This is demonstrated beautifully in this documentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zKuoqZLyKg

How do you feel we as a community should raise bitcoin awareness and how are you helping ?

thats great,i agree with that,i also think about spread bitcoin to all my people,all my town..and i think the best way that bitcoin can be spread is not only doing public demonstration,but before that we must know what the main problem that happen on that place,the place who will be demostrate to spread bitcoin,not all people will aware about bitcoin,so we must know who and where the right place.

[LuckyYOU]

0.02 btc is a bit much to just give away. Maybe 10.000 satoshi would be okay if people were up to it and then they could start doing faucets and see where it goes from there. Faucets are easy to do and you may earn not that much but it could give people somewhat of an understanding how bitcoins work.

[nydiacaskey01]

Public awareness maybe is the key, I'm planning to come up of a sticker that I can put in my car like "eat, sleep, Bitcoin" something like that or a a bumper sticker. A gift can be a good idea like a physical coin loaded with a few Satoshis that will allow them to buy something online that accepts Bitcoin.

[WENGER]

Giving free BTC wouldn't be that ideal but giving BTC for the effort done in anyway would be the better picture in helping spreading Bitcoin right away. I started in someway and the effect that I've seen in the past week from the people around me is their really eager to understand how the system works and how great it is into easing money transfers while online.