Bringing Bitcoin to the mainstream

[gjgjg]

Not sure if you know about quickcoin but it lets facebook users send btc to each other via their fb friends lists.
https://www.facebook.com/qcoin
If fb is in fashion in Argentina it could be utilized if you had some btc to spare on an awareness campaign (just to get people using it and at the same time start a kind of viral theme):

1. get someone (or many ppl) to donate 1.5 btc for this 'awareness' campaign.

2. of the 1.5b, divide 1btc into 500 or 0.002btc ie ~50c (or whatever multiple you want).

3. get word 'out' via posters around town or through facebook or whatever works, that the 'next 500 people who like your fb page who live in Argentina will get some free btc' via facebook (ie quickcoin)

4. distribute that 0.002btc to the subsequent 500 'likes' received and at the same time:

5. tell them when they get that 0.002btc that if they send that to someone, and that person sends it to another person and that person to another person etc (like a pass the parcel game), that the first one to prove they have sent it through 20 people, that the originator will receive a prize of 0.5btc (which is the remainder of the original 1.5btc investment). This part can be changed to whatever way you want, like the prize can be shared among the 20 people for eg, but its important to get people to convince their friends to receive the btc and then they send it to someone who has to convince the next person etc.

6 repeat every time you can get 1.5btc investment.

This way you get people actively/aggressively spreading the word out and at the same time getting people to use btc (sending and receiving).
Once they dip their feet in, it opens the flood gates and they are way more likely to re-dip on their own later.

Next, once they then become aware of where they can spend btc (which is what you can do via fb posts) now that they know how to use it, it should be easier to get people to go buy btc on their own afterwards and hopefully get some more believers.  


Whatever you do id always skip ideology and economics and technology when converting the average joe. keep it light, simple get them to have fun using it and just show them how fast it is and that its cool cos you can do it over facebook or apps etc. the average joe doesnt care about the things 90% of us here signed up for, so keep it simple and fun and centered around gadgets they already use: phones apps and facebook.

interesting...

I shared your comment in our facebook group (Bitcoin-Argentina) for new points of view

one problem is that 1.5btc in argentina is more than an average person earn in a month, so the amount for share it would be a bit smaller... maybe 100 satoshis, for new ones it would be interesting

other idea for meetups in bars:

when people come they pay you $X for enter, so you give them the same amount in btc in a paper wallet for buy inside drinks or whatever they want. Doing this they learn how to receive and send bitcoins in a few minutes



btw, your last paragraph it's excellent!

Thats understood about the 1.5Btc; it could be any amount really, i just did 1.5 so it would be easier to calculate in my poor brain ;p
If you try to contact a few btc rich guys to sponsor you from the usa or eu you could get lucky. there are plenty of people that want to see further adoption that might be willing to sponsor it. even try a kickstarter?

ps i just got free 0.02btc from signing up to @changetip. its just as good as quickcoin would be a great way to start a viral campaign

[iluvpie60]

One of the biggest problem getting people into Bitcoin is that we are: young, geeks, nerds, liberals, anarcho-capitalist, etc... (choose what you want) and we choose bitcoin only for its potential and its benefits, but in the real world we are only a minority

Most people are employees that buy the brand new and expensive smartphones, fashion clothes, listen new commercial music, etc just to follow the trend, and probably live their entire life apart from risk and investments... so, how we can reach them?


maybe one method is making bitcoin a new fashion, with merchandising and concentrating in how easy is to be used instead of how its works, mining, volatility of price, blockchain, etc




In Argentina we started a "evangelizing" movement doing travels around the country doing meetups, you can follow news on facebook https://www.facebook.com/girasbitcoiners

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very interesting. i am digging how u are leaving things everywhere and then writing down the converted rate. i shall do that righ tnow on my USD rofl. im going to convert all USD i have and write it out on each bill. thanks for the great idea heheh

[arbitrage001]

What if people are paid their salaries in bitcoins? Not the entire value but a %.

There are many people receiving their salaries on Paypal already.

Some already doing this. For instance, you can hire coders and pay them using btc. And many bitcoin business are paying posters using btc.

[Fundmanager23]

We have been promoting bitcoin on televised MMA shows in the US. We have a fighter on the UFC tomorrow night which will be seen across the country on Fox Sports.

[evanito]

Come on Bitcoin! It will only take some time for the masses to see the viability of bitcoin. Once we get more adoption it will only get better from there.

[TETOCONPOLERA]

We have been promoting bitcoin on televised MMA shows in the US. We have a fighter on the UFC tomorrow night which will be seen across the country on Fox Sports.

this is amazing.... here we have a lots of interviews on television and radio, but nothing like publicity for sales, they are more informative interviews...




Other good idea that we are using is give a paperwallet with some mBtc and instructions for use to waiters in restaurants as tip, you can learn more in http://www.coindesk.com/propinabitcoin-promotes-bitcoin-latin-america-restaurant-tipping-service

[DDuckworth]

I dont feel like we need to push it onto the mainstream.  It's just bound to happen - the world has been waiting for a solution to the current form of money, even if it didn't know it.  The world generally adapts better solutions for everything on the whole, we chose cars over horses for a reason; convenience.

If you absolutely HAVE to push the coin, find ways to prove it's more convenient than money.

[Bitbirdhunt]

If the rich sheikhs decide to do transactions in bitcoin when selling mineral oil, just see how much popular btc gets

[CreamyPie]

We can make lots of twitter tweets and FB pages about bitcoins and people will know easily.

Social networking indeed rocks.

[MoonRise]

If someone takes initiative to pay for advertisment, makes a wallet and accepts donations from every btc user, then all of ad space of internet will be flooded with bitcoin

[Wealthy]

Bitcoin will easily get into mainstream without much effort. So don't worry..its spreading like wildfire.

[SpongeBTCants]

It cannot be stopped. It doesnt matter much what we do.

[BtcGains]

It'll be a heck of a job making Bitcoin a mainstream topic.
My doubts are high, but best of luck to you and the community who participates!

[MÖGUL™]

Great work... As more companies start to recognize it and Venture Capitalists start to invest in bitcoin startups, it will become more mainstream. The sky is the limit.

BTC The Future!

[gjgjg]

If the rich sheikhs decide to do transactions in bitcoin when selling mineral oil, just see how much popular btc gets

interesting idea, im sure they wouldnt mind getting away from the $, but the last time Saddam Heussain said he'd do his oil transactions in Euros the USA upgraded him from ally to terrorist dictator... (among other reasons apparently). think a ground up effort is easier for the moment lol

[clovex]

We need a viral plan, some of these viral videos get thousands of millions of views, we need that shit with BTC involved.

[frankh13]

One of the biggest problem getting people into Bitcoin is that we are: young, geeks, nerds, liberals, anarcho-capitalist, etc... (choose what you want) and we choose bitcoin only for its potential and its benefits, but in the real world we are only a minority

Most people are employees that buy the brand new and expensive smartphones, fashion clothes, listen new commercial music, etc just to follow the trend, and probably live their entire life apart from risk and investments... so, how we can reach them?


maybe one method is making bitcoin a new fashion, with merchandising and concentrating in how easy is to be used instead of how its works, mining, volatility of price, blockchain, etc




In Argentina we started a "evangelizing" movement doing travels around the country doing meetups, you can follow news on facebook https://www.facebook.com/girasbitcoiners

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May be people will chose that after some time. Also people add same auto, and mobile phones, and smartphones, and airplanes, and social nettworks, and emoney. After time they will add crypto currency in their lifes.

[mannedmssn2M]

I posted this already as a new topic  but  thought bitcoin stickers on gas pumps was a good one. or i mean i posted bitcoin geocaching no reply tho

[TETOCONPOLERA]

other useful method can be helping people for collecting funds for charity, animals care, community dining rooms, sick people, etc

in this way bitcoin is used like a tool for help people who needs 



in our facebook group last month we help a father whose child have leukemia to open a bitcoin account for receiving payments around the world, and in a few days he received 1 bitcoin, which in Argentina it's a lot of money... (almost one month salary)

[Hasher99]

No serious efforts will be required to bring btc to mainstream, according to the current scenario..

Its already spreading fast.