Bitcoin book as surprising gift

[bounceback]

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This is what I think the best approach to send a message that they should learn about it. Share your opinion/experience with such activities.

The way you introduce cryptocurrency to beginners is a very simple way and maybe they will quickly understand it, but it would be better if after introducing them to crypto you also have to guide them directly so that they don't choose the wrong path when they want to invest because usually beginners when make investments seeing that crypto is an investment tool that can give them wealth easily.

[Reatim]

Not all people are ready to read books.
Not all people are open-minded to adopt new concept, new technology.
Not all people are easily to accept Bitcoin as a game changer in this world.

Great points here mate , as we knew that there are only few who is interested in reading books than accepting other gifts we might bring them.

and also adoption takes time and wont happen just overnight so yes this is different thing to be accepted.

Sooner or later, they will accept it and use Bitcoin very often. If they won't accept Bitcoin, they will be killed by inflated fiat currencies.

also agreed on this, but they will learn this the hard ways and not because we wanted them to understand.

Purchasing power of the US. dollar over time. Send them this article and enlighten them about fiat currencies as well as how easily they can be printed more.

Nice article , i think this takes my interest and i am the one who needs to read this clearly .

[bakasabo]

If you want to give Bitcoin book as a gift, there must be a connection between a person and cryptocurrency. Otherwise a person might think that this is just a random gift you have chosen, and you havent spend much time thinking what to give. That might offend a person. If they are completely new to cryptocurrency, wouldnt it be good first to give them some basics, or at least introduce to crypto. Maybe they wont be interested in it at all. In worse case, they might think that you are trying to impose your interest to them.

Here is my little experience. I always liked Apple products. I was iPod nano user for years. Then I got an iPhone, and later bought an iPhone for my girlfriend. When iPad was introduced, I have bought it during first year after release, and I was simply in love with my first macbook pro. It was my first experience with macbook. One day my girlfriend bought me a gift - Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography in hardcover. And guess what, besides few chapters, I never read it.

[Dunamisx]

Recently, I have taken a step to create awareness about cryptocurrency among the people I know (Friends, cousin etc.). There are few books on cryptocurrency in Bengali language. I haven’t read all as the title was stupid. I have read one by Mostafa Tanim, "Bitcoin: Blockchain and Other cryptocurrency". I have gifted two times so far, one to my cousin and another one to my friend. What I'm doing is ordering the book online directly to their address though rokomari.
This is what I think the best approach to send a message that they should learn about it. Share your opinion/experience with such activities.

This is a great idea and worth encouraging pls keep it up, in addition to this one can also make bitcoin branded surveineirs as such on gifts, branded shirts, wallpapers, stickers and billboards, while in so doing creates more awareness to bitcoin, also the use of short video clips, jingles, or movies with bitcoin as the story line, in so doing this create more awareness to the puplic to the extent of giving it a try as what you see often can tempt you to giving it a trial. Another means is individuals person project such as seminar on bitcoin in the nearest community.

[Obito]

I think giving the bitcoin book is already a good approach, especially for book fans who might prefer to find information through books instead of electronic media, and hopefully with this book there will be a desire to learn more about btc.

That's actually rare for someone to prefer books rather than electronic media and yeah, I think that books would be a good one because you know that the information there won't change which means that you won't worry getting confused because even with new information, you will still be able to easily differ and learn the new information.

[ethereumhunter]

I do not know if that is a good idea or not good because we do not know if your relatives like reading a book. Before you buy any books and give them to them, you should discuss cryptocurrency and see how they react. If they are welcome to crypto, you can tell them that you can give them a book about crypto to start learning. So it is not like you give them a book and let them read and ask you what crypto is. No, it is not like that. We need to know their interest in a new thing and how they will react. After all, if they like to read a book and have a big curiosity about a new thing, they find out what it is.

[bitterguy28]

I am still looking for a Best book to Give my best friend as he is now showing interest about crypto specially bitcoin.

so i wanna look for a best book to give him but In our native language written, things that really hard to find now.

Maybe i will try to find a light english version because my best friend is not that good in other languages .

[Henrobakkara]

Recently, I have taken a step to create awareness about cryptocurrency among the people I know (Friends, cousin etc.). There are few books on cryptocurrency in Bengali language. I haven’t read all as the title was stupid. I have read one by Mostafa Tanim, "Bitcoin: Blockchain and Other cryptocurrency". I have gifted two times so far, one to my cousin and another one to my friend. What I'm doing is ordering the book online directly to their address though rokomari.
This is what I think the best approach to send a message that they should learn about it. Share your opinion/experience with such activities.

That sounds like a good thing and hopefully your friend and cousin you gifted these books are the type that will actually read them to understand or gain knowledge from the gift they have recieved. Some people would learn faster if you coach them on things yourself and I think for the ones closest to you, you might want to teach them by showing them how you do it.

[joeperry]

That's actually a good idea gifting books about cryptocurrency to others but the problem with that is if the person is really interested or not. Usually, people only will have interest on reading something like that if they are eager to learn about it or curious about it but most people do not. For me what I do is I give them an address, private key and tell them it's a money and I give it to you, here's some materials to read... study it and you'll get that money and it works.

[Emitdama]

Recently, I have taken a step to create awareness about cryptocurrency among the people I know (Friends, cousin etc.). There are few books on cryptocurrency in Bengali language. I haven’t read all as the title was stupid. I have read one by Mostafa Tanim, "Bitcoin: Blockchain and Other cryptocurrency". I have gifted two times so far, one to my cousin and another one to my friend. What I'm doing is ordering the book online directly to their address though rokomari.
This is what I think the best approach to send a message that they should learn about it. Share your opinion/experience with such activities.

You should not pick a book based on their title because you wouldn't know what if the contents of that book are amazing. Sometimes you cant judge the book by its cover but I guess that's okay if the book has a spoiler. Some crypto books are just stories and doesn't describes the origin of cryptos and blockchain.

Your choice is right and that is better for the people that does not have a complete knowledge in crypto. They should start first in the beginning before moving on other non important topics. The idea of delivering books straight to their address is genius. In that way, they wont have a reason to ignore it than if you handed the book personally with them.

[ChiBitCTy]

I think this is pretty cool that you are trying to get your family involved in bitcoin / cryptocurrency, and more specifically learning about them. I would of course be careful that you never pressure people too much in this regard but I think this is a great way to increase awareness and knowledge.

[Zanab247]

Congratulation to your good step to impact your family what decentralized is all about in the community. Your family will never forget this gift you have offered to them by giving them all the keys and strategies of cryptocurrency which will really help them to know the rules and regulations that guide bitcoin in the community.
Many people are now looking for where to learn cryptocurrency and to know what crypto is all about to humanity. Those that understood bitcoin are really happy with what they are achieving from bitcoin.

[Little Mouse]

maybe look into local merchants/retailers that accept bitcoin in their local town. and along with the book send them invitation to make a btc address and you will send them enough for a coffee, pizza, doughnut or cake at the local store to buy.

That would be a great approach but you possibly don't know (I didn't share here) that cryptocurrency is illegal here. So, no chance. I would be more than happy to have them such a gift.

Most important question is, do they have an interest in bitcoin the same as you? If yes, there is nothing wrong with whatever approach you will do and besides, they are your relatives and they understand you more than anyone if they witnessed your success using this bitcoin. But if they are not into bitcoin, I doubt if they appreciate that idea.

If they had an interest in bitcoin, they would learn it through the internet. I'm trying to create awareness or make them known with cryptocurrency. They are a lot of people who don't know what cryptocurrency is or they don't have a good impression of bitcoin. I want to make them known, I want to change their perspective.

[fiulpro]

What I do understand is most of my friends and family would rarely go ahead and read a whole book on bitcoins, they would rather watch a 5 minute YouTube video on it or Google it elsewhere therefore I do think the best approach might be to give them some amount of money in Bitcoins that they can use or they will get a bit excited about it and the book might cost a 5 or 10 and as an initiative I would just give them money in a wallet, a paper wallet or something that would allow them to take thing in their own hands. I generally find that people and kids find it more interesting and worthwhile if they do it themselves. Practical knowledge sticks with them for a really long time but normal one doesn't. Therefore I do think that it might be the beginning or something better. I always encourage my friends to join the Bitcointalk.org, tell them about the community and other things as well and recently I got 3 of my friends to join and they are exploring by themselves.

[The Cryptovator]

Good initiative. Make sure they like to read and they have faith in you. It's because usually, we do not read books by random writers or unknown writers who aren't famous. Here is the main challenge. Sending books isn't a big deal at all since you can explain them in real life to motivate them. If they are interested then you may send a book to study more about Bitcoin technology. Otherwise, it would be quite hard to understand and trust as well. If you can inspire them somehow then definitely they will read the book from curiosity. However, thanks for adopting Bitcoin.

[blockman]

That's actually a good start that you've been doing. Someone who cares for his friends and family about being knowledgeable in bitcoin and blockchain has a good heart.
I haven't seen others did this before or if there are those type of people that have been doing it, they might not prefer to share it with the others. Just keep on doing it and you may ask them some questions on what's their impression and what are the the basic information that they've gained upon reading a few pages of the book that you sent them.

[GeorgeJohn]

Actually it's a development because you giving them a preferential kind of bitcoin education, what i want to know from you is that what is your obligation and your objectives to make such sacrifice of given Bitcoin text book to them as surprised. From my perception it's good to educate someone who is curious and eager to know about bitcoin, because giving him book that expatiate the necessary things of cryptocurrency when it's not willing to learn... from advantages side of it, any article of bitcoin you read has create impact in Bitcoin. Using this medium to recapitulate, book of bitcoin is good to read and understand the conception of cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular.

[adzino]

I don't think a "book" would be  good surprising gift for someone to learn about bitcoin. Instead of making them read about crypto currencies from a book which might be biased and filled with wrong information, it's better to provide them different valid sources where they can do their own research and learn about crypto currencies. And since crypto currencies are rapidly developing, the books might have all outdated information which would just confuse the reader.
Just reading books won't help them. Send them some coins. Let them use it while learning about it.

[sheenshane]

Introducing Bitcoin to everyone is a great method to raise knowledge about the cryptocurrency, and you're offering them a Bitcoin book is a great idea. However, readers may possibly take the wrong idea while reading it, especially they have no interest and have doubted Bitcoin very much.  
IMO, I have never done such a thing in my life, but whenever I talk to someone about Bitcoin, one of the most common things that I've noticed is that they believe their own view rather than listening and show no interest, which is why I believe that giving them Bitcoin books is pointless and wasteful.

It is not a terrible move of yours, but books are becoming less effective because the majority of us do not enjoy reading books and may find them uninteresting.  I believe that Bitcoin films or documentaries with high-quality audiovisual content are more effective in introducing bitcoin to people in general.

[Viscore]

Recently, I have taken a step to create awareness about cryptocurrency among the people I know (Friends, cousin etc.). There are few books on cryptocurrency in Bengali language. I haven’t read all as the title was stupid. I have read one by Mostafa Tanim, "Bitcoin: Blockchain and Other cryptocurrency". I have gifted two times so far, one to my cousin and another one to my friend. What I'm doing is ordering the book online directly to their address though rokomari.
This is what I think the best approach to send a message that they should learn about it. Share your opinion/experience with such activities.

Maybe its a good idea but let us also consider that not everyone has an interest of reading books because of some many reasons. Some people dont read books, simply because they find it boring. They rather do explore on social media or internet.Another reason would be the lack of time.This applies for those people who are busy doing their job and when they come back home they are just to tired to read.

The best way you can do is to show them how it works rather than simply giving them a book..And if you show and you can do that as a part of gifting a small amount as part of demonstration,i think thats going to be stick and  actually be taken seriously. Simply just giving a bitcoin book is not worthy. Its better to show them rather than giving a book.