What are some interesting ways you've introduced bitcoin to your friends?

[Slow death]

to be honest I don't like to give investment advice to anyone, my friends know about bitcoin thanks to the awareness that I talked about bitcoin and trading, I wasn't telling them to trade and invest in bitcoin, I was commenting on how I made money for one day I need to withdraw money to my country and I had to ask my friend to withdraw it to his paypal account for me that's because when I exchanged bitcoin for paypal.
 I found that my bank card had expired so my only option was to ask mine friend to withdraw money from his paypal account to his BIM account, that's how all my friends and many people in my country will learn about bitcoin and invest in cryptocurrencies

[just_Alice]

I regret that this was the way of presenting cryptocurrencies, but years ago one of my friends had to do something..let's just say that wasn't exactly legal in our country and he was struggling to find a way to make the transaction for it so that it wouldn't be linked to his ID, and that's how I told him about Bitcoin.

Actually not the best suggestion with no mixers involved, now that we know Bitcoin can be traced, but back then that knowledge wasn't that spread, and it was still the best choice. Turned out fine.
Nowadays, I think I don't need to introduce Bitcoin to anyone anymore, everyone seems to already know about it.

[verita1]

Thanks OP for your post! It is nice and funny.
The strategies you have used to teach your friends about bitcoin have the characteristics of making it easy.
What better way to learn with someone who has experience.
I could also teach my friends and family about bitcoin with the tools I use and also tell them that there are a variety of alternatives for buying, selling and sending bitcoin.
I love the Binance app and P2P. It is an app suitable for beginners and advanced users.

[ChiBitCTy]

As someone who is very active in the collectibles section here, I introduced a lot of people to bitcoin by gifting "funded" or "loaded" coins and poker chips to friend.  For example there are poker chips called "Satoris" that were pretty cheap when they came out.  They have .001 bitcoin "funded" which is redeemed by peeling a security hologram which reveals the private key for those coins.  There are quite a few other low denomination coins out there that I gifted to a few people over the years.  I am so quite familiar with open dimes.  They are pretty cool hardware.

[ARTURVH]

Don’t discuss too much。 Bitcoin’s history of rapid growth is the best story to arouse their interest. Interest is the best teacher

[TOM Bb]

I  told them stories of BTC .how it started from zero to $30k, most of them will have intrest.Help them to set up their  Bitcoin wallet.And let them know the wallet how to work.

[Kakmakr]

I give Bitcoin "Paper Wallets" as gifts for Birthdays and Xmas with the other gifts I give to people. I tell them, if they do not shift those coins to another wallet within a year, then I will take it back and give them the equivalent value in Fiat currencies at the time I gifted it to them. (Many of the friends and family then make some extra effort to learn more about Bitcoin and even more so, if the price has gone up significantly ..since I gifted it to them)

One of my friends received Bitcoin from me and the price doubled within that year, so he shifted the coins to a wallet and then cashed out his gift to Fiat at an exchange for double the price I initially gifted it to him. (He was so impressed with that, that he re-invested 50% back into bitcoins and other Alt coins) 

[Obito]

I introduced some of them and me too at the time when I was watching enigmatic personalities in history and one person the list was Satoshi Nakamoto and one thing lead to another and we discovered bitcoin although we didn't care for it that much but we have learned something.

[Robinson66]

I will show my friend when I am trading, let him feel it, and we will share with each other when there is news. He said that he will give me a bitcoin necklace for my birthday this year (of course I know it is Fake production) But I am still very happy and looking forward to it, but he gave me this gift and I have to think of a wonderful gift for him.

[acener]

I've shown them my balance back when I was a newbie and told them I earned it online to get them curious about it.
And some of them got into it and earned some in crypto but stop due to some personal issue and some who ignored and laugh at me back then are now into crypto because of Axie (LOL).
They laugh at me when I was starting to earn little from my free time and think that it was a waste of time but now they are trying to get free spot on axie.

[Questat]

Telling our friends how Bitcoin changes our lives is a more interesting story rather than telling them the uses and market features of Bitcoin.
I remember my early days in the forum and tell one of my friends what I am doing, but as expected, they never believe in Bitcoin and he tells me, just show me first how it changes your life. And now that he saw huge changes in my life, then he gets back and tells me, I want to join...

It is too easy to introduce Bitcoin to our friends but it was too hard to convince them until they will found out. There is no interesting way to introduce Bitcoin to our friends aside from showing them what happen to us IRL.

[LogitechMouse]

I would be happy to introduce Bitcoin to my friends.
The problem is, all of the people around me aren't that interested when it comes to investing. I'm just lucky that I learned crypto thru my friend which is not around in my place either and further researched online.

Unfortunately, there are no way since I didn't introduced it yet to my friends but I would be happy to introduce it. As for my part though and since Bitcoin is becoming popular already, it would be better for these people or our friends to just learn it themselves instead of us teaching them. If they really are interested into it then they will do something just to learn it right? .

[zanezane]

Most of my friends are fairly new to cryptocurrency scene and they still fall for scams although I prevent the falling just in time, the way I introduced them is that I talked about it first and they are still having doubts about it but then I showed them what I got and then they start listening.

[goldade]

I think one of the most interesting way  I had managed to bring my friends to know and use bitcoin is when I told them of how much I've earned with bitcoin.
I realise that's one of the most effective means of evangelising bitcoin when they know how much you've earned with it.
I realise it is more easy to convince someone to use bitcoin when you have something to show for it. When you can prove to them how much they've missed not using bitcoin, they'd be more willing to accept it

[erep]

We don't have facilities like bitcoin atm to physically introduce bitcoin, but for each person in different countries have their own way of attracting someone's interest in cryptocurrency, traders and bounties are a great way to introduce crypto for the beginner community to increase financially in times of pandemic.

[Shasha80]

I think one of the most interesting way  I had managed to bring my friends to know and use bitcoin is when I told them of how much I've earned with bitcoin.
I realise that's one of the most effective means of evangelising bitcoin when they know how much you've earned with it.
I realise it is more easy to convince someone to use bitcoin when you have something to show for it. When you can prove to them how much they've missed not using bitcoin, they'd be more willing to accept it

Showing how much profit we managed to get from Bitcoin can be interesting for our friends. Because actually humans are very interested in money,
and if we can show Bitcoin can make a lot of money. That I think is the most interesting and effective way to get our friends interested in Bitcoin.
I showed several times the profit I made from Bitcoin, it made my friends curious and wanted to know more about Bitcoin. Another thing we can do
to introduce Bitcoin to our friends is by telling the advantages of Bitcoin compared to other assets.

[RokokGudangGaram]

I think one of the most interesting way  I had managed to bring my friends to know and use bitcoin is when I told them of how much I've earned with bitcoin.
I realise that's one of the most effective means of evangelising bitcoin when they know how much you've earned with it.
I realise it is more easy to convince someone to use bitcoin when you have something to show for it. When you can prove to them how much they've missed not using bitcoin, they'd be more willing to accept it

Showing how much profit we managed to get from Bitcoin can be interesting for our friends. Because actually humans are very interested in money,
and if we can show Bitcoin can make a lot of money. That I think is the most interesting and effective way to get our friends interested in Bitcoin.
I showed several times the profit I made from Bitcoin, it made my friends curious and wanted to know more about Bitcoin. Another thing we can do
to introduce Bitcoin to our friends is by telling the advantages of Bitcoin compared to other assets.

This is also my most proven way of introducing Bitcoin to anyone I know, which had resulted in getting their attention and interest as well. Especially during this pandemic where everyone is struggling financially, and many have lost their jobs. Upon showing them what opportunities there is with crypto, they saw the hope and excitement when I showed the benefits of it.

[perfect999]

ATMs would be really cool, but I’ve always read people who make use of it complain that the cost of making use of the ATM for exchanging Bitcoin is always very high and they prefer to just do it online than making use of the ATM. So making use of the ATM might be an issue in this case. Anyways, I haven’t gone that much far when I’m introducing Friends to Bitcoin. I just show them the Bitcoin wallets and the funds I have in it and also show them how easy it is to send money to anyone without the need for banks, and it just arrives in seconds or few minutes. But I have also tried sending it as a gift.

[randegibran]

it's.a shame I can't.introduce.bitcoin to friends around me because they still can't.accept well what the benefits.of bitcoin itself.are. even though they all know that bitcoin is a business.that can.benefit the owner to invest.because bitcoin is.the same.like we keep money somewhere safe and well

[DoublerHunter]

We don't have facilities like bitcoin atm to physically introduce bitcoin, but for each person in different countries have their own way of attracting someone's interest in cryptocurrency, traders and bounties are a great way to introduce crypto for the beginner community to increase financially in times of pandemic.

^ BTC is very well known because of generating profit through trading and investing and we are the same, I don't have a physical product to give them the only way is my knowledge on trading and tips upon investing on BTC. There are too many ways to introduce BTC to your friends and your loved ones, even though you are not giving something physical stuff just for them to believe, just explain to them how it will work and the negative and positive sides of BTC. Introducing someone will really helping the BTC to become more well known.