How to make Bitcoin Mainstream Right Now!

[eternalgloom]

to all those writing that grabbing random people, to get them interested in buying bitcoin as the goal.. then you are all just looking for a bigger fiat price to exit bitcoin.
meaning you are failing yourself, failing bitcoin and failing the people you are introducing while secretly planning your own farewell.
you need to talk about/think about bitcoins UTILITY not the damn price rise.

lets put it another way your fiat greed and fiat retirement dream can understand.

invite 2 people spend weeks telling them about bitcoins as a fiat investment, trying to tempt them into buying in big. hoping other people around the world are doing the same to cumilatively push up the price.

or

invite two people and spend weeks telling them about the business opportunities and what they can do locally(naturally they buy bitcoin, but thats not the main/end discussion). helping each other get bitcoin accepted by popular shops/stores in your location. where each store displays a "bitcoin accepted here" logo in the window. people start coming naturally to the meetups in increasing amounts. naturally growing the local bitcoin utility far beyond just 2 small inverters..

now you dont need to return to fiat because you can buy your beers, meals and toilet paper and because you are involved in lots of projects locally you can have your own income stream coming in from different places.

wasting hundreds of thousands on mainstream advertising purely for the hopes of getting a few naive 'buyers' is short sighted.. compared to getting organised and making your location "bitcoin accepted" which is beneficial for all and more long term.

and all it costs is a couple cups of coffee/beers

This is the most important thing to do, if there are more people who use Bitcoin because of certain features it has, it automatically pushes the price up, as opposed to more people investing out of pure speculative interest.

What I'm saying is that by attracting more people who actually make use of Bitcoin has a more stable influence on the price and it's far better to promote use case scenarios as opposed to only talking about the value.

[RealBitcoin]

It is very simple to make Bitcoin mainstream, and it can be done with just a few months of work, from dedicated groups of people advertising it globally. I cant believe people didnt thought of this before,but let me give you the big one:

1) Get together a donation fund held in multisig escrow , of different trusted people, and then ask people to donate, probably 100 BTC will be enough.

2) Hire a master marketer, who can put together a simple photo ad, a facebook community page/group,  for bitcoin. The image ad should tell some basic description about bitcoin,show an url to Bitcoin.org, and to a youtube video (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4), and a link to the facebook group, where people can join.

3) Distribute the funds to different pockets of people around the globe, who will use it to buy a lot of ink and paper.

4) Create tens of thousands of pamphlets, and distribute them all over the world, these dedicated people will spend all their time giving it out to people on the street.


5) Target 20-40 year old people, especially guys, and if they ask questions, tell them about bitcoin.

6) Profit, now bitcoin will have many more millions of users!

I don't think this would work out in the way you think. If you think about it one would need much more than 100 BTC to launch a global campaign. However, if more money is donated we can organise things to get attention from the media. We could also advertise on buses and television. However, I don't think pamphlets are enough for such a campaign.

Fuck that, the media has always portrayed bitcoin as something negative only used by criminals.

Better leave them out of this, or they will portray Bitcoin as something ridiculous used by extremists.

We need to show that bitcoin is used by normal people, because people are idiots and you have to tell them like they are 5 year olds.

[Yakamoto]

While a lot of this isn't a bad idea, the thing is it is simply not easy to put something like that together (even if you're working with some considerable amount like $700k) and for a lot of people, they simply don't care whether or not someone gets something like this, it'll be something cool you might get a few hundred to a few thousand users with, but a lot will likely just use it for cash and then leave the Bitcoin economy. Getting them to join isn't as simple as this, although a lot of the marketing ideas might be worth something.