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I must agree with this, certain people may be great at one thing, but in every field you'll have someone who is more qualified to present it to the public, basically a spokesperson. The quality of said spokesperson quite drastically influences the view the viewers get on whatever subject he/she is presenting.
Bad spokesman - bad reputation.
Imo.

BTC represents a currency and then some, ALL of it is based on faith, as such you must believe in the system.  Humans are hard wired to not be attracted to things they feel go against their senses, for example things that smell bad, taste bad, feel bad, sound bad, or look bad.   

Put it this way, stick to radio.

Yes, I thought the BBC interview was really good. It didn't pander to the bleeding obvious but rather tempted what is to come..

I think that was aimed at me, for criticising a presentation Taaki gave in 2012. Even though my point was that he was bad at it then and he is still bad at it now.

Wasn't the BBC video this year? The five or so speeches I've seen him given have all been the same. Rambling and very poor.

I also have more respect for people who don't wear suits or go dressed like something they're not. A person could turn up in flip-flops, shorts and a Hawaiian shirt to give a presentation for all I care, but as long as they articulate their point across coherently and concisely. If I had no idea about Bitcoin, I still wouldn't after watching his presentations, except for maybe Bitcoin seems like it's used almost exclusively for avoiding tax and other such nefarious activity.

You're not kidding me !  How would such a thing happen

Why? He appears no different to then. Is it for some reason okay to give a terrible presentation that turns off more people than it inspired, as long as it was 2 years ago? If something about presentation style had been learned than that would at least be something, but no.

Agreed that most people wouldn't do it better, that's why public speaking is a useful skill.

Juding him on a performance in 2012, is a bit rough. Those critiquing him likely wouldn't do it better.


Appearance isn't everything - judge on the content. Do you really want him to look like a bankster!? He looked like one of us; one among many, rather than representing a vested interest perpetuating exisiting power and wealth. Good luck to him I say.

Also, I swaer this thread is going in circles now. Repeat FUD and read again.

I agree that he was not a great spokesperson for Btc, however he did speak intelligently on it.

I'd like to know why it is that people willingly choose not to dress appropriately for a TV interview in which appearance is clearly a vital part of the presentation?

Oggcamp, August 2012, Liverpool

Here are some other reviews of that presentation:

http://joind.in/talk/view/6918

It was a car crash that was painful to watch, but I did because I already had an interest in Bitcoin. I would have otherwise walked out also.

This was a family event and one of his prime examples of the use of bitcoin was to display a web site where women sell sexual services. It does not matter if your politics happen to agree that industry should exist and that bitcoin can enable it (I do), it just isn't an example you use at a family event. You find a better example.

Never seen anyone misjudge something so badly or do so little preparation.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being anti-establishment, so long as he doesn’t come across as a incoherent rambling fool.


Where was the presentation at?

I saw him speak publicly and it was one of the worst presentations I have ever witnessed. There were many walk-outs. This is not someone who should be a spokesman for anything.

It seemed both rambling and incoherent to me, and I'm sure it sounded a lot worse to outsiders.

he's a real talent and Passionate, a tiny bit more PR skills and he'd be a perfect BTC spokesman too.
Keep up the Great work Amir.

I can't stand the guy. He majorly contributed to losing me 50 bitcoins when he leaked the bitcoinica source code and it was hacked (another time) after he did so. And no, you didn't hurt my feelings. But whatever you wrote up there seems to be not even a reliable or proven scientific method. No hard feelings that I don't care about what either Amir says or what psychological theories you have on the guy.

Oh... did i hurt your ideals by saying they are stupid and dont have any place in bitcoin? (which they dont if you want to bring BTC mainstream), and yes, whole mbti thing is much more interesting than what Amir said, you obviously dont know anything about it, and just feeling hurt :-(. Dont get me anybody wrong, i dont have anything against Amir, i find him quite interesting he is just talking nonsense for the "folk" people.

INTP?

OMG, who even cares for MBTI??? It's even less interesting than what Amir has to say. Such nonsense.

Well yeah i dont mind the way he dresses altough he probably could have dressed better but also i dont like the way he speaks ideologically about BTC, BTC is stupid money and investment, thts all!! MAJORITY of people simply OMG (!!!) doesnt care about some stupid ideals, freedoms, "banksters" blah blah blah... and it is the majority of people you will HAVE to target if you want a bigger adoption of bitcoin, so get used to, get over it, and think of better strategy to target your group (majority of people, for example he should simply said that BTC advantages):

- No inflation
- "Safe heaven" in case of huge price inflation of national currencies (see Argentina)
- Good investment (so far)
- Good way to send currency worldwide, from USA to europe or from Kenya to Arctica...
- Fucking quick, instead of day or even DAYS (!!) waiting to get your money, you have it in a matter of minutes (worldwide).
- Low transaction fees (sent milions worldwide for a fraction of a penny).
- Liberalitionalize entrepreneurship
- Makes sending small ammounts of money possible (charity (if interested anyways)).


These are the points (!!!). OMG not some stupid promoting of freedom, or bashing the banksters (omg what a stupid term anyway) (!!!) or rumbluning about some stupid abstract stuff, if he likes that he should go to some philosophical or social, psychological college and give a presentation there on the subject.

BTW im really curious, for those of you familiar with MBTI tests (google it). What type of personality do you think he is? I would say INTP, might be also INTJ or INFP but i really think hes INTP (google MBTI+INTP).

what do you think is he really INTP?

Nothing's changed.

I liked he's talk.
Of all the suits talking about bubbles and Ponzies, this guy walks and talks like someone who actually need bitcoin for more than just a short term investment.

That said, my guess is that BBC is trying to give bitcoin a bad name with this interview.
Nobody ever said that bitcoin was immune to speciffic goods, whether it be drugs or unhealthy Coca Cola.