Bitcoin Awareness on Local Level

[Blawpaw]

This is a great initiative, I would like to see something like this on my local area, but unfortunately in my country there are still few companies and vary few people using Bitcoin.

I just hope this situation reverts along this year and that more and more people start to use bitcoin in my country.

[Emoclaw]

In my area people do have an extremely vague idea of what Bitcoin is. Even my parents had heard of it before I explained it to them.
However if people aren't interested to find out by themselves what Bitcoin is and why they should use/accept it, then no amount of convincing will work on them. They need an incentive to use Bitcoin and right now they have an incentive not to: nobody uses it.
It's also not as easy as we may think. Setting up a wallet and making payments is a breeze for us, but for them to do that would be an achievement.

[avatar_kiyoshi]

That's good awareness, look "future of money", people need to follow kind of awareness such shop in India.

People on my local is not really aware about bitcoin, although there are some company/merchant I know that accept bitcoin (only 1 or 2 I know).

When I was at home at Christmas, I told my Dad about Bitcoin. 

He had heard of it, but didn't really know what it is, why it is good and he had no idea what the price is.
I explained a little, but really I think people have to find out for themselves, I am not going to go door to door to convert people tio Bitcoin, if they want to use it and it offers them some sort of advantage, then they should invest. If I was asked how you can buy/store your Bitcoins, I would be far keener to talk to someone about it!

That's right, I have same experience too, when o introduced bitcoin to my family and my friends, some of my friends already heard about it, but they not really get into bitcoin, so that's just their own awareness which can bring them into bitcoin.

[BTCLovingDude]

this is great. it gives me a couple of ideas that i can run locally, i have been doing some similar stuff but in smaller scale and only with those who i know like the family and friends kind of thing. but with seeing this i am motivated to do more where i live to introduce bitcoin to more people.

[LovelyPrey]

I guess, this is everyones dream and wish to have in every country yet we have to follow things first, like approval of the government which I guess hard step on.

[nara1892]

it is amazing. those people really want to introduce bitcoin to people around them. well I ever talked about bitcoin to some friends. their feedbacks were different. one friend was so confused, one knew bitcoin but did not know how to earn it well, and the other looked like did not trust bitcoin. I think it is because there are many liers on internet. I myself, wheN I first heard about bitcoin, did not trust bitcoin.

[Mugamer]

I was roaming on the street behind my uncle's house and saw a shop with a board about bitcoin and I entered in that shop and surprised to meet someone (they were bitcoin users). They are kind of startup and willing to build awareness about bitcoin on the local level. They periodically conduct the seminars in a local language and help people to learn more about bitcoin. They have further plans for this activity.

They have helped to purchase 10 to 20 bitcoins to those who had no idea about bitcoin and shown interest in learning about this revolutionary technology.


This is their pamplet advertisement regarding bitcoin and its benefits in a local language (Marathi).

https://i.imgur.com/eIYTA8x.jpg

It talks about bitcoin and current facilities which are available to purchase using bitcoins. People would attract towards bitcoin on the topics which would positively affect them in the short term.

I believe we must give our contribution on the local level in order to grow bitcoin in terms of the user base (prices are temporary, users are permanent).

What do you do to build bitcoin or crypto awareness, do you have any ideas / feedback / suggestions?

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Dudeperfect

That is very interesting advertisement about bitcoin for your country. You did a great action for bitcoin community and it will help your local people under stand what the bitcoin is , how it looks like and how to use it. I think you are real bitcoiner.

[BillyBobZorton]

When I was at home at Christmas, I told my Dad about Bitcoin.  

He had heard of it, but didn't really know what it is, why it is good and he had no idea what the price is.
I explained a little, but really I think people have to find out for themselves, I am not going to go door to door to convert people tio Bitcoin, if they want to use it and it offers them some sort of advantage, then they should invest. If I was asked how you can buy/store your Bitcoins, I would be far keener to talk to someone about it!

Yeah I feel a little weird trying to convince people about bitcoin, I think from an outside perspective I would be looking like one of those cultists trying to get people into their sect or something like weird like that, so I don't bother much with it to be honest. Also im not very good at explaining things, or at least in a way that would make sense for the average joe. I think people will eventually find out about bitcoin and if they are bright enough they will buy and hold some.

[jtipt]

Wow I didn't not expect that at all, which city is that ?
When I opened the topic i was expecting some European country or something I didn't expect it to my in my country, and too in my state itself Why don't I ever see these kind of things.

[Factmine]

Yes in most of the countries there is almost no efforts are being taken by bitcoin users to build bitcoin awareness. In my country almost less than 1% people heard of bitcoin, so we can see this as an opportunity. We should inform our friends and family members about this technology because they are going to use it in next 10 years so why not now? I see a very optimistic picture if everyone in this community informs at least 12 people in the year 2017.

not quite.
dont play the pyramid theorem game of informing X people and hope they inform X*X people .. purely in relation to buying bitcoin.

get a group together and think about bitcoin utility.

ask the group what shops they spend their fiat in most. what main car fuel stations they visit most.
get a list of popular destinations that would get frequent spending if that merchant accepted bitcoin.

once you have got merchant acceptance locally for people to buy toilet paper, foood and car fuel.. then start telling random people about the utility of bitcoin.

dont just advertise bitcoin in relation to investment profiting by using sketchy marketing strategies (pyramid theorems) think more about bitcoins UTILITY in your area

I think these is a better approach too. Do not influence people to use bitcoins because it will be useless. They can't use it in a practical manner, like buying groceries, gas, food, etc, like what franky has mentioned. If we can get more businesses to accept bitcoin as payment method, then that would be much better.

yep. the only issue in places like india. is that bitcoins transaction fee can be 6-30 rupee (9cents-40cents)
where just using bitcoin has the FEE cost alone equivalent to some of these
Milk (regular), (0.25 liter)    10.74 Rs
Loaf of  Bread (125.00 g)    6.74 Rs
Rice (white), (0.10 kg)       4.81 Rs
chicken Eggs (2.40)          11.57 Rs
Local Cheese (0.10 kg)       30.29 Rs
Chicken Breasts (0.15 kg)   30.67 Rs
Banana (0.25 kg)             11.25 Rs
Oranges (0.30 kg)          18.29 Rs
Tomato (0.20 kg)             6.24 Rs
Potato (0.20 kg)             4.80 Rs
Onion (0.10 kg)                2.78 Rs
Lettuce (0.20 head)          6.59 Rs

would you use bitcoin if it cost 1-5 lettuces or a breast of chicken?

local area's need to think less about just getting people to buy bitcoin but think about what people need and use it for.
EG may not be great for buying toilet paper but may be great for remittance. so set up a remittance exchange. rather than just asking people to buy bitcoin for no reason

the important thing is to be honest with those you talk to or they will drop bitcoin if they find it useless for them.
find out what your communities NEEDS are and look at how bitcoin can IN REALITY (not hope/speculation) help with

Wow. I didn't know that was the cost of goods there. That's amazing to know. Then maybe bitcoins is not a great option for these kinds of countries where the fees alone would hurt the consumers that would use them. Fees is a thing we have to live with, unless we have a fork somewhere that would lower or eliminate fees, then having bitcoins as a medium of exchange would really be impossible.

[mobnepal]

Its nice to see such attempt by small startup in local level and thanks for sharing this piece of info.

I also try to convince few of my relatives (if they get interested to know about bitcoin) to atleast hold few bitcoin just as experiment and you may experience how you could get great profit just for holding it. I have asked one of my uncle to buy 1 bitcoin when price was around $700 and he was quite happy when i sold those 1 bitcoin for 1100 USD recently and bought back at $850 again and shows him $250 in profit with still 1 bitcoin in hand. He got quite excited and asked to buy more at $850 region. 

[legendbtc]

In this way many people will show their interest towards bitcoin. In my area i asked many people to join hands with me in learning about bitcoin but they are not showing any interest towards it,because bitcoin is completely digital currency and they don't believe in internet money.But for sure one day those people will come and ask me about bitcoin.

[Barbut]

It's nice when someone is doing something, this is great way for this guy to make some profit and in same time to spread the views of community where he have his shop.
This can be great guide for shop owners across the world who use bitcoin and wish to help in spreading the word. Just please check laws in your country, somewhere this can be illegal thing, so contact lawyer's or check in closest government office about laws in your country.

[RealBitcoin]

Yes it sounds good. Print out ads on paper ,and get 20-30 people who will spread it out to people in your city.

Target younger people, 25-40, they will love it. Tell them they can earn money here, and they will jump immediately.

Cant believe people are not doing this.

[SONG GEET]

Yes it sounds good. Print out ads on paper ,and get 20-30 people who will spread it out to people in your city.

Target younger people, 25-40, they will love it. Tell them they can earn money here, and they will jump immediately.

Cant believe people are not doing this.

This will be good for bitcoin adoption but there will be no incentive for people doing this. I don't think anyone would like to pay cost of this ads from their own pocket. However bitcoin related startups can get benefit from promoting bitcoin awareness rather than a individual bitcoin user.

[RealBitcoin]

Yes it sounds good. Print out ads on paper ,and get 20-30 people who will spread it out to people in your city.

Target younger people, 25-40, they will love it. Tell them they can earn money here, and they will jump immediately.

Cant believe people are not doing this.

This will be good for bitcoin adoption but there will be no incentive for people doing this. I don't think anyone would like to pay cost of this ads from their own pocket. However bitcoin related startups can get benefit from promoting bitcoin awareness rather than a individual bitcoin user.

Here is the solution:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1745335.0

I just wrote about it.

[Kprawn]

Start with small circles... I started with the family first, then I made the circle bigger to include relatives and then even bigger to include

friends and when that is all tapped out, you start with people at work and strangers you meet. Explain the risks and benefits and leave it up to

them. { Do not force it, they will get it eventually. } I buy gifts over Xmas with bitcoin and explain the process to them. Online shopping with

Bitcoin is so much easier and convenient.  This way every individual makes a difference... 

[virasog]

This is a great initiative, I would like to see something like this on my local area, but unfortunately in my country there are still few companies and vary few people using Bitcoin.
 
I just hope this situation reverts along this year and that more and more people start to use bitcoin in my country.

WE do all hope for that to happen in every country since we are using it is our benefits to have this service.
But it is too hard to adopt this service in local area especially we are only few in every country, we need to wait for such time to have it in every local area I guess and let every government approve to use it.

[chesatochi]

I don't understand the language on the pamphlet, but it's a wonderful initiative the person make in the neighborhood of your uncle. In my town I have something similar, they promote the bitcoins to the local business, offer consultancy and give small workshops. The more people who will understand the technology, the more people will start using it

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Thanks for sharing OP. I'm from the UK & whilst some people, businesses etc use bitcoin it is still such a ting, tiny % of  the population here.

We need so much more mainstream adoption & I'm not quite sure what will achieve it.