How are you spreading the word about bitcoins?

[alexout]

Hi all,

Im semi new to bitcoins. Been involved with it for a few months now, reading up on it and learning more and more every day.

Bitcoins seems like such a great concept but its value comes from popularity. The more people use it, the more valuable it becomes.

And the more people use it, the higher the price will become for those of us speculating here

So I think the most powerful thing anyone who IS speculating could do is to spread the word about bitcoins among their peers.

I personally have started posting about bitcoins on facebook and also do sometimes talk about it amongst friends.

I also recently invested in just-dice and plan to get all my friends who do get involved with bitcoins to invest in the site.

What other methods are people using to spread the word about bitcoins? Please share as Id like more inspiration on how I can go about affecting as many people as possible to buy into the concept of bitcoins.

Tshirts? car stickers? etc

Please share.

[David Rabahy]

giving gifts, e.g. 200 mBTC, especially to young people for high school graduation or birthdays

giving tips to service providers

creating emails describing my experiences and distributing it to interested followers

carry a physical Bitcoin coin in my wallet to bring out and show at social events

[realdos]

By writing some funny rap and get people laugh at it? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262470.0

[will1982]

Telling my friends...of which there is one.

[cbhelp]

I did a write up describing how to buy on coinbase, and my experience.  It is linked in my signature.

[hffule]

telling my friends

[justusranvier]

Meetup groups
Cross promotion

[paullinator]

giving gifts, e.g. 200 mBTC, especially to young people for high school graduation or birthdays

giving tips to service providers

creating emails describing my experiences and distributing it to interested followers

carry a physical Bitcoin coin in my wallet to bring out and show at social events

In what form are you giving away mBits as gifts? I haven't found a good method to print out a bitcoin gift card that I can give people.

It would be awesome if I could print a handful of biz card sized .05 bitcoin gift cards which have a URL to a wallet like blockchain.info as well as an awesome intro into bitcoin complete with links to where to purchase stuff with it.

[TitanBTC]

I wrote a book specifically meant to get people excited about bitcoins and I give away copies to people who are interested. 

The physical bitcoin is BY FAR the best way to get people interested though.  I recently showed one of my physical bitcoins to a 70+ year old woman, with very little computer/tech knowledge, and she said,

"I don't know what it is, exactly, but I'd like to buy one!"

Never underestimate the power of a shiny object to draw people in.  Bitcoins are a bit too complex for the average person to fully understand, but everyone knows instinctively that shiny golden object = good.

[doof]

I've started a meetup https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251547.0

And in my circle of friends, I pay people back in bitcoins.  Like when the group of friends goes out for lunch, there is always someone that wants to pay on their credit card and collect $ off everyone.

Little things like that I try pay back with bitcoins.

[David Rabahy]

giving gifts, e.g. 200 mBTC, especially to young people for high school graduation or birthdays

In what form are you giving away mBits as gifts? I haven't found a good method to print out a bitcoin gift card that I can give people.

I created the ones I gave away manually; not too tough.

I used this template http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/gift-certificates-bright-design-3-per-page-TC104029169.aspx but any will do and added an image, e.g. http://www.adafruit.com/adablog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bitcoin.jpg.  I created a wallet on https://blockchain.info/wallet/new, sent the 200 mBTC to it and copied the QR code onto the gift certificate too.  I entered, for example, "200 mBTC = $25.00 on May 19, 2013" on the line and filled in the To: and From: fields.  Print on nice card stock, cut and put inside a greetings card and envelope.  After I gave the envelop to the recipient I explained about Bitcoin and provided the access instructions to their wallet.  Voilà.

[dashingriddler]

See my idea here. You gonna love it.
It answers how i am spreading the word about bitcoins and how to gift people


WE did an expo about bitcoins as well and introduced bitcoin to 500+ people. Pics are here on this page http://www.coinmonk.com/coins.php

These are not yet for sale though. Still waiting for final packaging material. Each package would cost about 4-5 USD or so at the end and sold in packs of 10.

[No_2]

I've created these:

    • Accepting Bitcoin: A guide for organisations
    • Accepting Bitcoin: A guide for UK organisations
    • Accepting Bitcoin: A cheeky guide for Brighton organisations

Signed up about 10 organisation in the UK, mainly Brighton/Sussex area to take it and am working on about another 20 more at the moment.

[NewLiberty]

Making Bitcoin specie out of gold and silver, and distributing these.
With a hard money conversion tool linked to every fiat currency but defaulting to Bitcoin.

Where bitcoin is the hot virtual money, linking it to cold hard cash (the kind that jingles).
Tangible and valuable 1ozt quarter bitcoins for 2013

[LiteCoinGuy]

I personally have started posting about bitcoins on facebook and also do sometimes talk about it amongst friends.

I also recently invested in just-dice and plan to get all my friends who do get involved with bitcoins to invest in the site.

What other methods are people using to spread the word about bitcoins? Please share as Id like more inspiration on how I can go about affecting as many people as possible to buy into the concept of bitcoins.

Tshirts? car stickers? etc

Please share.

hello alexout,

of course i do. some weeks ago i noticed, that in several big forum in my country there was not a single topic about bitcoin. they talk about everything, but no word about bitcoin. also in a tech-forum  .
so i decided to do some "infotainment" and try to spread the word ;-)


@dashingriddler

nice

[faiza1990]

here spreading this word bitcoins is very difficult and need more time because we are trying to survive here for many things

[roflmao129]

See my idea here. You gonna love it.
It answers how i am spreading the word about bitcoins and how to gift people


WE did an expo about bitcoins as well and introduced bitcoin to 500+ people. Pics are here on this page http://www.coinmonk.com/coins.php

These are not yet for sale though. Still waiting for final packaging material. Each package would cost about 4-5 USD or so at the end and sold in packs of 10.

Thats just awesome to get people into bitcoins like that! And the coin also looks pretty damn good.

[NewLiberty]

here spreading this word bitcoins is very difficult and need more time because we are trying to survive here for many things

Survival is more important. What is the danger there?

[MAbtc]

I've given a few bitcoins out here and there in pre-loaded wallets. Talked about it to more than a handful of people. Most people scratch their heads, though...

[dragonkid]

I gave up spreading word about bitcoins. Every time I try to start, I know there will be 20 + questions to come or at least an hour of explaining to do.