Topic: Are you helping mass adoption ? - page 4. (Read 2894 times)

This poll lacks the best response: Explain to people the advantages of bitcoin as a consumer or merchant (or both), depending on whom you are speaking to, over fiat alternatives.

I voted "give people some coins" - people love getting free money.

As to how this helps - if a lot of people have bitcoin, then businesses will automatically start accepting it, in order to part people from their coins (this is the nature of business). The reason that most businesses don't bother is because most people don't have coins.

For a while when businesses like Overstock announced they were accepting BTC, lots of other businesses followed suit because it was terrific publicity for them. They'd get voted to the top of the bitcoin subreddit just for saying they were taking bitcoin. What killed that movement was Overstock announcing a year later that not many people had used bitcoin to buy stuff from them. If the usage was high, everyone else would have piled in.

They dont know what bitcoins are because nobody has told them, so this is your chance to explain or at least make them aware of bitcoin,
how on earth do you think you will look dumb ?
even if you did look dumb for a minute, at least your community will be talking about the dumb kid that was ranting on about bitcoins, some money you cannot touch
a week later you will look like the local tech wiz ahead of the rest


Thats because most people explain bitcoin as an investment, which most people do not care about as investment means risk, and if they dont understand it must just be a scam, people just needs show others the ways to use bitcoin first.

When you were little and were given your first money,
did you save it or did you go to the sweet/candy shop and use it for what it was good for ?

Everyone wants to go to the sweet shop, we only learn about saving and investing money after we bought a lot of sweets.

Actually, I'm proud to say that I'm already helping in the adoption of bitcoins in the littlest way. I go around some known shops and whenever I pay at the counter, I usually talk to them about bitcoin like how it can help their business ease up transaction and stuff like that.

I'll look dumb i I ask every single store here in my local if they accept bitcoin. They don't even know there is this thing called online currencies.

You're absolutely right,a lot of people just hear about bitcoin and not sustain any further interest or look for bitcoin and find some not so positive information and quit.It's our mission to continue spreading the positivity for bitcoin.

I'm a bit guilty of not making use of BTC for what it's supposed to be used for. I'm holding on to some (not even 1BTC), but I'm really planning on spending some, if there are more merchants who'll accept it as payment. I also try to open conversations about BTC to my friends while we're heading home from work. They don't seem too interested as I am, but atleast it's being part of our conversations.

You're not alone bro. Most even think that it's being for scamming purposes.

I'm helping with the publicity of bitcoins actually. If I'm bored, I usually go on some chat sites and talk to strangers about bitcoins. It's a little saddening that nearly everyone that I've chatted with does not have any idea about bitcoins. Some have heard of it, some knows of it, but they don't still see the point or the potential of bitcoins.

I'll for sure participate and help adoption,actually I'm trying to do this all the time,but this day on particular I'll be even more active.Let's hope we'll actually make an impact.Believe!

i believe bitcoin mass adoption very depend on where bitcoin introduced,and in my country this 3 step might the best way to make bitcoin mass adopted.
- Give them some bitcoin (and then tell them how to create wallet and use that bitcon)
- Take them somewhere you can pay the bill in BTC
- Tell them they will earn money just holding BTC

lets not forget peeps, Pizza day just marks the first real world transaction, which just happened to be pizza's

but anytime you are out it would always be good to ask if can pay in bitcoin, especially if two of you together,
then one can ask if a store accepts bitcoin, they say no, so you offer your friend to pay and you give him the bitcoin,
your friend accepts and pays in fiat, you both stand there in view of everyone, and then send the friend bitcoin for his fiat.
If done in front of business owners they will take note, it would also create conversation in that outlet among staff,
stuff like this we need to be doing daily, making a constant effort to put btc in public view.

I do hope everyone plans an all out BTC awareness day for the 22nd May.

I strongly feel most of the BTC community at present is very short sighted and really only concerned with their own future and not bitcoins future as a whole, which would in turn may make their future a lot brighter.



More people like you are whats needed, ready to spend their btc instead of holding hoping for a return (in fiat) on their investment.

we do need to try to live purely on btc whenever possible.
When you say food, do you mean eating out or supermarket ?

we all need to let businesses (small and large) know there is a demand for businesses accepting bitcoin, and we should support any business that already accepts bitcoin, so other business' nearby can see the benefit of accepting btc.


I strongly agree with you 100%, if you start showing small businesses the benefits, especially tax wise, this will help BTC a lot. Small businesses struggle as it is so they will accept every bit of help they can get. We should also strongly support any small business that accepts bitcoin.

mmmm.... your comments is what i usually discourage people from saying when explaining bitcoin,
what you are doing is not showing them how to use bitcoin, which in turn helps mass adoption, but instead you are showing people bitcoin as an investment, which does not help as investment means risk, and people do not want to risk money on something they know nothing about and cannot touch.

what would you say or show someone, after you have explained bitcoin as an investment, that asked you:
but what can i or others do with it ?

I have done and still do most of the things in the list to spread the word for Bitcoin.
And I will also try to buy a pizza with Bitcoin again, but not sure if I will find a service who will accept it.
If not I will do it like Laszlo did. Let someone else pay the pizza with cc or paypal and pay him back with Bitcoin.

i'm trying to do the first point, which i think is the most important one for increase the adoption for bitcoin, buying only with bitcoin mean also less dumping, thus you help the market grow

but for now it's not feasible at 100%, at least for me, i'm trying my best to minimize the expenditure in fiat, for now only food is mandatory in fiat for me

i think the best way of teaching anybody about anything (not only bitcoin) is walking them through it.
in case of bitcoin this can be done by giving them some amount, teaching them how to set up a wallet or even introduce them to coinbase so they can do all in one place and also buy/sell there.
then introduce services that accept bitcoin purse.io is one of the best to save up a lot of money in the long run.

Yes, I tell friends about being traded on the stock exchange cryptocurrency. Constantly I am talking and bragging. And gradually their interest the this and they start to become interested. And then I start to talk about the whole system. I acquaint with faucets, exchange offices and the stock exchange.

Time to time i am telling to my friends about this innovation how it can change their life if they just now start make savings into bitcoin, some of them are really happy to be part of bitcoin as price is almost doubled at the moment when we make it compare with last year, on this day i would like to tell some other people how they can make secure their future with this.

people do pizza take outs or eat ins all the time. if more pizza places can accept it it will spread like wildfire. we need to convince the pizza shop owners of bitcoin's beauty.

Show a business owner how they can accept BTC = what I said


if people did that bitcoin would grow through small business and
really take off.