Spread the Bitcoin

[lemipawa]

I think merchants play a bigger role then consumers.
Why?
Well simply if consumers find a lot of merchants accepting bitcon it will create awareness and people will be intrigued.
Visiting the bitcoin.org website they will find so many advantages that they eventually will try it.

I agree with this. More merchants who accepts Bitcoin as a payment option, more people will be curious and will test use of Bitcoin. Much better if there will be a popular online store who will come up with a Bitcoin only day payments to increase awareness of Bitcoins.

[Supercrypt]

I think merchants play a bigger role then consumers.
Why?
Well simply if consumers find a lot of merchants accepting bitcon it will create awareness and people will be intrigued.
Visiting the bitcoin.org website they will find so many advantages that they eventually will try it.

I agree with this. More merchants who accepts Bitcoin as a payment option, more people will be curious and will test use of Bitcoin. Much better if there will be a popular online store who will come up with a Bitcoin only day payments to increase awareness of Bitcoins.

Yes, if the online market giants direct start accepting bitcoins means, there are more chances for bitcoin to get spread out to reach non technical people also. It would make bitcoin to become main stream adoption. The price raise of bitcoin will make many merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment.

[maokoto]

My sad experience is that when you spread the word about Bitcoin (or other coins), people get a sense that you are responsible for explaining them how to make it work and make money of it. At least for me, that means lots of questions and enquiries as if I was the owner of the thing: "Hey this thing you told me about does not work!", "I have done that and that and no money yet!!" etc.

So I am a little afraid of doing such a thing.

[lahm-44]

the worst thing about spreading the bitcoin knowledge to the world is we dont actually know what it will result in future many people take it in bad sence , many people face loss , many people use it for bad things but what about us. we used it in good ways why dont they remember us.any way i dont think spreading bitcoin knowledge is bad its completly good so keep doing it everyone

[subcypher]

My sad experience is that when you spread the word about Bitcoin (or other coins), people get a sense that you are responsible for explaining them how to make it work and make money of it.

How is this sad? I love helping people!

[mesimpleme]

My sad experience is that when you spread the word about Bitcoin (or other coins), people get a sense that you are responsible for explaining them how to make it work and make money of it.

How is this sad? I love helping people!

Many people is ignorant and this people think: "all it than not know, all it bad!"
Before, we need that many sellers, boutique etc, begin to accept as valid method payment btc

[James100t]

Plan for the New Year.

How to spread Bitcoin in 2016. 

1. Download the zip or rar for a Desktop Bitcoin Wallet or zip one up yourself.

2. Email 100 people with a message about Bitcoin and the Wallet files.

3.  In the email give links to information about Bitcoin, some for the absolute newbie and some more technical.

4. Explain how they can get started.  Rather than talk about mining or faucets or whatever, tell them how you have used and gotten Bitcoins.

5.  Tell them that whether they use the system or not to pass the email on to another 100 people.

There are a few issues with this simple "chain letter" based network, but it should get a good chunk of new users.  Many times virus programs might target the new wallet if you zipped it yourself, but this will be rare.

Like most chain letters it will not expand as much as you think, but it only takes a minute and is great for the system.  You can even offer to send a Satoshi or two once they have gotten set up. 

Thanks for your advice.

[avw1982]

the worst thing about spreading the bitcoin knowledge to the world is we dont actually know what it will result in future many people take it in bad sence , many people face loss , many people use it for bad things but what about us. we used it in good ways why dont they remember us.any way i dont think spreading bitcoin knowledge is bad its completly good so keep doing it everyone

Yes dude even many people near to my place. They don't even existence of digital currencies. They only about to know fiat currencies only. I think first people to get aware of it.

[lahm-44]

i think spreading news among the paypal users and among those who uses other alternatives will be a much better idea as more active users will be using btc instaed of paypal and other alternatives
We should teach them why bitcoin is better than those stuff and how they can save much more time and get more profit

[SmartIphone]

Plan for the New Year.

How to spread Bitcoin in 2016. 

1. Download the zip or rar for a Desktop Bitcoin Wallet or zip one up yourself.

2. Email 100 people with a message about Bitcoin and the Wallet files.

3.  In the email give links to information about Bitcoin, some for the absolute newbie and some more technical.

4. Explain how they can get started.  Rather than talk about mining or faucets or whatever, tell them how you have used and gotten Bitcoins.

5.  Tell them that whether they use the system or not to pass the email on to another 100 people.

There are a few issues with this simple "chain letter" based network, but it should get a good chunk of new users.  Many times virus programs might target the new wallet if you zipped it yourself, but this will be rare.

Like most chain letters it will not expand as much as you think, but it only takes a minute and is great for the system.  You can even offer to send a Satoshi or two once they have gotten set up. 

Most of people do not download things from the 'spam emails' so i doubt anyone will open the zip, for newbies introducing to them a web wallet would be easier for them to join the bitcoin world.

[HarHarHar9965]

I think better way to increase user base or better to say involve more friends and family into bitcoin is offering them some bitcoin as gift if they open bitcoin wallet. This amount will be like tip but ask them to find out how and where they can spend those funds. Than after that they will better know about purchasing power bitcoin have.

We can do in online communities, debate actually attracts a lots of attention among the people. At this stage all publicity is good publicity, and you'll have your opponents creating publicity for you. It has the advantage of not looking proselytizing but still exposing everyone to the arguments, the price growth, off-site links, etc.

[foggyb]

Bitcoin isn't ready for the majority of people to use seriously as money or store of wealth. That will take 10 years or more to happen through building infrastructure and getting people used to the idea of a purely digital money that is sort of like email.

[richardsNY]

Bitcoin isn't ready for the majority of people to use seriously as money or store of wealth. That will take 10 years or more to happen through building infrastructure and getting people used to the idea of a purely digital money that is sort of like email.

Realistically, I don't think any one right now is expecting Bitcoin to function as major currency. For that to happen we must come to an agreement about the blocksize issue first. This can happen within a few months, but can also take probably longer than a year. People are nowadays paying with their smartphones more and more. No physical money is involved in this process. That will make people get used to the fact that the world economy is becomming more digital year after year.

[zimmorto]

Increasing awareness of bitcoin might not be like spamming with email. If you send 100 emails, email service providers will clearly list the email into spam folders. That will degrade the bitcoin growth. However, one to one meets, local meetups, group gatherings, and groupon like bulk buy promotions are highly encouraged.

[romero121]

i think spreading news among the paypal users and among those who uses other alternatives will be a much better idea as more active users will be using btc instaed of paypal and other alternatives
We should teach them why bitcoin is better than those stuff and how they can save much more time and get more profit

better we can spread about bitcoins in social networks like facebook and twitter. and we can spread the bitcoins to our friends and neighbours first. because many of the people not aware of it. we should make them understand what is it.

[adicted]

i think spreading news among the paypal users and among those who uses other alternatives will be a much better idea as more active users will be using btc instaed of paypal and other alternatives
We should teach them why bitcoin is better than those stuff and how they can save much more time and get more profit

better we can spread about bitcoins in social networks like facebook and twitter. and we can spread the bitcoins to our friends and neighbours first. because many of the people not aware of it. we should make them understand what is it.

Yeah, actually I am doing that right now on Facebook and I can really see their interest on bitcoin especially in terms of earning online (they were amazed when I told them we can earn online with bitcoins easily) I am currently an admin of a Facebook group dedicated to bitcoin newbies locally with 7000+ unique members (I filter and kick out dummies) and still growing.

[Technosafe]

i think spreading news among the paypal users and among those who uses other alternatives will be a much better idea as more active users will be using btc instaed of paypal and other alternatives
We should teach them why bitcoin is better than those stuff and how they can save much more time and get more profit

better we can spread about bitcoins in social networks like facebook and twitter. and we can spread the bitcoins to our friends and neighbours first. because many of the people not aware of it. we should make them understand what is it.

I promote the bitcoin to my friends. But they are not interested. Maybe it is not reported enough by main media.

[romero121]

i think spreading news among the paypal users and among those who uses other alternatives will be a much better idea as more active users will be using btc instaed of paypal and other alternatives
We should teach them why bitcoin is better than those stuff and how they can save much more time and get more profit

better we can spread about bitcoins in social networks like facebook and twitter. and we can spread the bitcoins to our friends and neighbours first. because many of the people not aware of it. we should make them understand what is it.

I promote the bitcoin to my friends. But they are not interested. Maybe it is not reported enough by main media.

What you do is good mate, but media is not required for give hype of this evolving technology.

[Technosafe]

i think spreading news among the paypal users and among those who uses other alternatives will be a much better idea as more active users will be using btc instaed of paypal and other alternatives
We should teach them why bitcoin is better than those stuff and how they can save much more time and get more profit

better we can spread about bitcoins in social networks like facebook and twitter. and we can spread the bitcoins to our friends and neighbours first. because many of the people not aware of it. we should make them understand what is it.

I promote the bitcoin to my friends. But they are not interested. Maybe it is not reported enough by main media.

What you do is good mate, but media is not required for give hype of this evolving technology.

Media is very important for the promotion of bitcoin. I heard about bitcoin through main stream media first.

[Herbert2020]

1. Download the zip or rar for a Desktop Bitcoin Wallet or zip one up yourself.
2. Email 100 people with a message about Bitcoin and the Wallet files.
3.  In the email give links to information about Bitcoin, some for the absolute newbie and some more technical.
4. Explain how they can get started.  Rather than talk about mining or faucets or whatever, tell them how you have used and gotten Bitcoins.
5.  Tell them that whether they use the system or not to pass the email on to another 100 people.

this is not a good idea, and most probably not gonna work.
1,2. if you mean an empty wallet installer then what is the point of me downloading it and not simply giving the direct link. and sending 100 people a zip file, i am gonna be in 100 different blocklist.
3,4. they are not going to read the rest if they see the attachment and even they do they think i am planning on scamming them.
5. this is the worst one, nobody likes these chain emails. they are for like 15 years ago and not even favorable back then.

p.s. you should do this for people who you know and you should introduce them to something like coinbase where they can buy/sell/store and do all other good stuff in one place then tell them about a wallet.