A friend had a strange idea - page 4.

kenot21

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Quote from: Greenenergy on March 28, 2016, 10:59:11 AM

That's a nice idea, but not the right way to do it. A better idea is to stick some posters in the streets or to hang a kind of banner in your house's walls.

you're right. It's better to hang a banner than write it on a banknote, It's illegal in my country. Stores won't accept a banknote if it has some ink on it or holes on it.

OROBTC

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Defacing paper currency is usually illegal in most countries.

Yet, I have seen "END THE FED" stamped on US money.

Not to mention telephone numbers and other small notations.

I see no harm in putting a public & private key on a US$20 or a €20. Just don't get caught!

Greenenergy

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That's a nice idea, but not the right way to do it. A better idea is to stick some posters in the streets or to hang a kind of banner in your house's walls.

NorrisK

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People have been going around handing free bitcoin paper wallets for a while now. It is a nice idea to get people interested, but the way you are proposing has a risk attached to it.

Imagine receiving a banknote with 0.0005 btc written on it. People that don't know about bitcoin trade those banknotes around like it is fiat banknotes, without realizing the private key is on the same banknote. Also, they probably didn't check the public key to see if the bitcoins are still on that address.. They risk losing out this way.

Think of it this way: I could write down the private key, hand the note to someone else and immediately import the private key and send the coins to a different address.

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Yes, I'm an asshole

So the idea included giving away something like 0.0005 to a random people to spark their interest on btc, right? I thought it'll be better to give it away to someone you know that hadn't know bitcoin yet. And please no banknotes, I know thst in some countries it is illegal to writes and doodling on banknotes

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hee-ho.

isn't that illegal is some countries? also that would create a legit reason for banks to go against bitcoin (IMO).
better not do that.

RobFre

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I was hanging out with some friends and one of them had a very strange idea: writing on 5€ banknotes the public and private keys of a bitcoin address with something like 0.0005 BTC on and the link to the official bitcoin website to make more people know about the Bitcoin.

In your opinion would it work?

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