A friend had a strange idea

[ctlaltdefeat]

I was hanging out with some friends and one of them had a very strange idea: writing on 5€ banknotes the public and private keys of a bitcoin address with something like 0.0005 BTC on and the link to the official bitcoin website to make more people know about the Bitcoin.

In your opinion would it work?

so,the matter will come where you will spread that 5€ banknotes?its will effective if that amount raise,and then you must trace that money,if you dont do that,i'm sure some bitcoiners will take over every public and private keys of a bitcoin address.

[Ardenyham]

That would be an interesting idea and I saw multiple new bitcoin startups in Shanghai did so already giving away physical bitcoin vouchers, Circle also did it soon after it's launch and at another occassion, The only difficulty is making it encouraging enough "probably giving few cents won't be enough IMO".

[ronaldinho_07]

Well printed money circulates for some short period then banks start to collect them and make anothers,soo design at notes arent new at all ,people left their numbers at some notes.Would be better to you make a bracelet with bitcoin on it,instead try to give money to people that doesnt know bitcoin.

[BitTyro]

0.0005 btc is too low to spark interest of any would-be claimer. You should make it at least to the equivalent of 1€ or don't do it at all.

[spendabit]

If you want to avoid defacing the currency I suppose you could use a stickie note on it. For a more professional look, I'd just use Powerpoint or something to create a printed card with the free BTC. Leave it along with a regular tip at restaurants, or in other situations where you can be confident it won't be discarded without a look. (Many will be discarded anyway, so it's best to retain the ability to retrieve the funds from any such addresses after a suitable time period.)

How about just a nice looking simple business card with some catchy teaser info and a link to Bitcoin.org or another educational Btc site? You could leave them behind everywhere like skin cells.

[vrm86]

0.0005 btc is too low to spark interest of any would-be claimer. You should make it at least to the equivalent of 1€ or don't do it at all.

50000 satoshi looks definitely better But yes, 0,2$ could be too less for attract anybody. Maybe there could be a program, that would allow people to get some decent portion of BTC under some conditions, like making some amount of transactions or something.   

[Blackmet]

It's really strange idea. People will not understand what he mean cause they don't even know what bitcoin is. Better to use different ways to promote bitcoin.