Topic: [ANN] Bitcoin Foundation (Read 127556 times)

hi guys,
 i would like to state a thought i have about future acceptance and use of bitcoin as a currency by  ALOT
of people.
My concerne is that bitcoin cannot continue to grow with current form and name
(since 21 milions is the hard limit).
People are used for decades to use as a currency "something" that has 3,4,5,...etc digit value.
For example we say i get 100 dollars or i pay a thousand euros for this and that.
You can understand now my thinking, you cannot convince someone to get or pay 0.000001 btc
even if this figure equals thousand of dollars!
Not even if you represent it as a fraction (mBTC), it just doesn't sounds right. I believe it is psychological.
That is why i believe that BTC should change form or name (like "satoshi") that some sites
are using to represent 0.00000001 btc
(i have 270000 satoshis in this site and i feel already rich :p )
I may be wrong about it but if i am right then BTC should continue to be promoted as "satoshi" or any other name,
exchanges and all the sites should accept and use "satoshi".
I hope it isn't too late and i hope i posted my thought in the right thread  

p.s. perhaps something for your spring meeting if not already discussed or it isn't in the agenta  

Have the wording on the site been looked into yet ? If not, I'll try to mail the foundation soon.

Indeed

Concur!

I posted it here to get critisism, and I appreciate that there were good input in that regard. More heads = brighter thinking.

Now, can we have anyone at the Foundation actually looking into this ? Wording is rather important in matters like these.

Helluva lot better! Doesn't come across as harsh. Thanks, Holliday.

~Bruno K~

On a similar note, I hit a brick wall when I read the word barrier. You've soften it up considerably, and that's appreciated, but 'barrier' still comes across as too harsh. Is there a way to smooth out that particular edge?

great idea

I would like to suggest that we change the wording of one of the paragraphs on this page:
https://bitcoinfoundation.org/about/why


Here's the paragraph in question:


I think words like botnets, hackers, ignorance and inaccurate should all be left out. These are negative words. I think many normal people could be put off by using these words. Those diving into Bitcoin will learn about it soon enough, for the rest, they don't need to know much to use Bitcoin, it's like driving a car, somebody explain to you how to start it, and you don't need to know what's under the hood. While geeks may be interested in it, most people just want to pay their stuff.

Perhaps something like this could work better:

Thus, you keep it much more positive and up to beat. I think many will avoid bitcoin simply because when they read to many negative words, they simply just jump to the next glossed up payment provider. While the original statement is not necessarily wrong, they may sound a little bit scary.

Rule number one of marketing is to make everything look nice and welcoming. We don't need to lie, but at the same time, we don't need to tell about the problems right away. There will always be assholes, but let's focus on the technology and what the Foundation can do.

Perhaps it would be good to go through the entire site by someone which profession is public PR. After all, we don't see many banks telling about their problems on their webpages, do we ?

I hope not. They couldn't disavow it in that case.

Did they PGP sign the press release at least 

thanks for the links.

good thing the foundation made a press release. Next time please leak it to the forum up front so that the local boards can translate it to the various languages. This should multiply it's impact by a factor of  3 at least.

They haven't put out a very good press release, but they did put one out there.

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=52


Press Release: http://www.prlog.org/12032578-bitcoin-community-celebrates-halving-day.html

nothing yet? the community could translate it into several languages but that takes time

Agreed!  

In my defense, it was kind of hard to dive into the 1 or 2 points I was trying to explain when every 3rd word I said was followed by another "HOLD UP, are you saying that...." from Bryan.

...and we digress..

Thanks 

Ditto! I'm the only one allowed here to fuck up the facts. Surely, Charlie, you don't people to refer to you as me. 

Kidding aside, I'm sure Charlie will take your suggestion to heart and do a better job next time. Valid point(s), BCB.

~Bruno K~

I'd be curious to know what the Bitcoin Foundation is up to these days.

Charlie Shrem (who I like and is obviously one of bitcoin's biggest supporters) was on Bryan Micon's Donked Down podcast recently quoting  inaccurate dates in US monetary history and claiming that the US Dollar will collapse in 3-10 years.

http://www.donkdown.com/donkdown-radio-charlie-shrem-from-bitcoin-foundation-bitinstant/


Charlie, I love the enthusiasm, but if the Bitcoin Foundation want's legitimacy and support in the community, I strongly suggest you developer some talking points or a position paper and try to stick to the facts when your members are representing the Foundation in a public forum.

I assume the bitcoin foundation will put up a press release for the halfing day?

This is why the smoke filled room was invented. Get with the program people! If you're going to subvert everything good about bitcoin, at least do it in absolute secrecy.