Bitcoin Awareness on Local Level

[Yakamoto]

It's cool seeing some members of different countries going out and making their own businesses and looking to do more with things like Bitcoin, and I hope to see more stuff like this on the forums in the future. It's a great business decision and I have to say, it's a good idea for a large majority of people in countries such as this to make something along the lines of this style of company.

If only I knew how to read that lol.

[bendani]

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[cryptoanalyzer]

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

Well yeah I agree. A full scape Education always helps with the society. But frankly it is very difficult isn't it?

[BADecker]

Quantum Computing Is Real, and D-Wave Just Open-Sourced It

Now D-Wave, the Canadian company behind the quantum computer that Google and NASA have been testing since 2013, wants to make quantum computing a bit easier through the power of open source software.

Traditional computers store information in "bits," which can represent either a "1" or a "0." Quantum computing takes advantage of quantum particles in a strange state called "superposition," meaning that the particle is spinning in two directions at once. Researchers have learned to take advantage of these particles to create what they call "qubits," which can represent both a 1 and a 0 at the same time. By stringing qubits together, companies like D-Wave hope to create computers that are exponentially faster than today's machines.

IBM demonstrated a working quantum computer in 2000 and continues to improve on its technology. Google is working on its own quantum computer and also teamed up with NASA to test D-Wave's system in 2013. Lockheed Martin and the Los Alamos National Laboratory are also working with D-Wave machines.

Read more and click the links at https://www.wired.com/2017/01/d-wave-turns-open-source-democratize-quantum-computing/.

[YuginKadoya]

Quantum Computing Is Real, and D-Wave Just Open-Sourced It

Now D-Wave, the Canadian company behind the quantum computer that Google and NASA have been testing since 2013, wants to make quantum computing a bit easier through the power of open source software.

Traditional computers store information in "bits," which can represent either a "1" or a "0." Quantum computing takes advantage of quantum particles in a strange state called "superposition," meaning that the particle is spinning in two directions at once. Researchers have learned to take advantage of these particles to create what they call "qubits," which can represent both a 1 and a 0 at the same time. By stringing qubits together, companies like D-Wave hope to create computers that are exponentially faster than today's machines.

IBM demonstrated a working quantum computer in 2000 and continues to improve on its technology. Google is working on its own quantum computer and also teamed up with NASA to test D-Wave's system in 2013. Lockheed Martin and the Los Alamos National Laboratory are also working with D-Wave machines.

Read more and click the links at https://www.wired.com/2017/01/d-wave-turns-open-source-democratize-quantum-computing/.

This could be an innovation a step ahead for the future because A quantum computer with a given number of qubits is fundamentally different from a classical computer composed of the same number of classical bits. well it is very complicated to explain all of it but if a computer processor and the transistor that has been used in a CPU has becoming more smaller every time it upgrade and transistors for Quantum computers was 5x more smaller than the red blood cells

well this is the future now and what it quantum computers would be use in mining Bitcoin?

[4Y078]

The simple solution for educating everyone about BTC is to find a simple solution. This is not the right solution as far as my opinion goes. Thank you

[Mystic Saiyan]

Oh nice. People near my home don't even show interest in such kind of thing and think of them as a scam.
But it's nice to see someone trying to spread word about bitcoin around your area. Everyone should atleast try to tell others about Bitcoin. I tried but no one paid attention in my locality.

[shintosai]

Oh nice. People near my home don't even show interest in such kind of thing and think of them as a scam.
But it's nice to see someone trying to spread word about bitcoin around your area. Everyone should atleast try to tell others about Bitcoin. I tried but no one paid attention in my locality.

better to study more about bitcoinand then try sharing your experience with your evidence mate i was like you then most of my office mates are not believing with my bitcoin investment till the time they saw me earning good enough and enjoy some luxury now i have 5 of them that also start buying bitcoin and enjoy the some earnings.

[Bitcotalk]

That is a good effort started by these people in local areas in order to inform people of that place about bitcoin.
In this method all of people from there will start using bitcoin and then it will be convenient for you people to use bitcoin easily to any place for any purpose.

That's quite a big leap.
You can't expect that just because you inform some people about bitcoin and the merits of using it, they'd just suddenly decide to actually buy one and actively use it. That's just naivete.

Let's say you give out 100 pamphlets, 50% of those will be thrown out, another 30% would keep it inteding to check it out but would eventually forget, 20% would check it out/do some research but you'd be lucky if even 1% would actually end up buying and be active with it.

It depends on the people of that area maybe in your area it will happen as you stated but in my area people do not remain without hearing any news any time they do not miss any pamphlet they go through in my area even uneducated people when see any banner or pamphlet they ask from another person to explain it to them. That is why I commented the above post.

[audaciousbeing]

Over here I have seen something like that and I was surprised to see it so obvious in front of the street because my idea  was that bitcoin awareness is still and such business might want to attract people so might think its illegal. It was doing fine but I am not sure they will be conducting seminars because to the nest of my knowledge they will be more about buying and selling of bitcoin for profit.

[kryptqnick]

It's good there are some people who actually do such stuff. And if they do free seminars for people they must have good sponsors which also means that there are rich influential people who are interested in spreading the knowledge about btc. Maybe, they gain something from it. Maybe, they just think it is something people have to know (like culture or math). In my 3rd world country I studied at Technological lyceum and I believe right after my graduation some people came to the school and did some small introductory seminars for high school students about btc and it being profitable. That is nice, I guess.

[franky1]

It's good there are some people who actually do such stuff. And if they do free seminars for people they must have good sponsors which also means that there are rich influential people who are interested in spreading the knowledge about btc. Maybe, they gain something from it. Maybe, they just think it is something people have to know (like culture or math). In my 3rd world country I studied at Technological lyceum and I believe right after my graduation some people came to the school and did some small introductory seminars for high school students about btc and it being profitable. That is nice, I guess.

learn enough about BTC and then you can become the lecturer.
you can make a nice income. but worth doing a few small seminars for free to get your name known locally first.. its how andreas antanopolis started off and now he is making a career out of it, fully funded by bitcoin.. paid for by conference ticket purchases (thus even organising events is no big cost to get lecturers in)

[eternalgloom]

It's good there are some people who actually do such stuff. And if they do free seminars for people they must have good sponsors which also means that there are rich influential people who are interested in spreading the knowledge about btc. Maybe, they gain something from it. Maybe, they just think it is something people have to know (like culture or math). In my 3rd world country I studied at Technological lyceum and I believe right after my graduation some people came to the school and did some small introductory seminars for high school students about btc and it being profitable. That is nice, I guess.

learn enough about BTC and then you can become the lecturer.
you can make a nice income. but worth doing a few small seminars for free to get your name known locally first.. its how andreas antanopolis started off and now he is making a career out of it, fully funded by bitcoin.. paid for by conference ticket purchases (thus even organising events is no big cost to get lecturers in)

That's actually not a bad idea, now that you mention it. But I'd be a bit apprehensive, just because I'd feel like I'm not an expert, so I'd feel bad for taking money for something that someone could just learn online.

I know that providing the service is enough (morally speaking) to deserve some sort of compensation for it, but the fact that I'm not a professional makes me think that it's wrong for me to ask money (BTC) for a service like that.

[CraigWrightBTC]

I have explained about bitcoins on local area more specific to my friends
 that bitcoins was digital currency and revolution of currency in internet,
although they were didn't understood but i still talking about bitcoins
or related with bitcoin activity to them, I hope sometime my friends can understand or
There are awareness about bitcoins and beneficial of it.

[marketone]

Many people should do the same thing in their local level, there is no need to of any special implemention regarding bitcoin. If you want to train people who don't have any knowledge about bitcoin better it is the right time to tell about bitcoin technology, Even i am spreading the word bitcoin to each and every body of my friends because they need to understand that there is another currency it has some different feature which will be most admirable to addict that. Some are showing very interest towards it and some are not showing any interest.

[Immakillya]

Wow. Thats really great! Is that from India. Im happy to see that. Thats a good idea for promoting bitcoin. Im just sad because here in my country. Only few people here and are using bitcoin. I want to do that but my knowlege is not enough to give them some lecture. Im new to bitcoin and still many things to be learn. Hope someone visit my town and teach every people here how bitcoin is beneficial for them.

[ASHLIUSZ]

I also saw few bitcoin seminars in my country, but some of them empathize bitcoin as investment
Also, many people still afraid to use something that isn't legalized by government or become victom of bitcoin's negative stereotype so people isn't interested with bitcoin seminars or talks.

I too saw several bitcoin seminar when I was on a trip to Dubai. Got to meet several bitcoin enthusiasts. But when I searched for a trader in Dubai it's really hard to find one. On this basis I believe bitcoin is getting more popular through different programs but very few among them are adopting it.

[boybugs18]

Hope there is like that on my country it would be great if I can spend my small bitcoins on local purchases instead of just using it online for buying digital goods.  I dont think that there is someone who is rich behind those whos having free seminar it just they are good hearted people that want to share their knowledge to their fellow countrymen.

[mjardin]

Its a good start, but handling pamplet to public is hard selling and probably they will just accept and throw it around, word of mouth is still the best advertising on the local level.

Word of mouth is indeed the best advertising. I heard this from my friend who knew bitcoin for almost one and a half year. He encouraged me to join this forum, he said that if I'm really interested in knowing the basic knowledge about bitcoin I should start reading here. And here I am, a newbie who wants to learn and understand everything about bitcoin. 

I wish we have that kind of seminar in our country.

[justdimin]

Hope there is like that on my country it would be great if I can spend my small bitcoins on local purchases instead of just using it online for buying digital goods.  I dont think that there is someone who is rich behind those whos having free seminar it just they are good hearted people that want to share their knowledge to their fellow countrymen.

The common mistake of every bitcoiner must be expecting others to initiate the awareness of bitcoin rather than we initiate them. If we keep on waiting for others to accept bitcoin payments and for conducting seminars, our waiting may last infinitely.

If we want to improve the awarenss of bitcoin in our local, we must take steps immediately to improve them.