Topic: Bitcoin - Magic Computer Money - page 4. (Read 10552 times)
Own it Eric. Maybe it was a not the greatest idea but at least you are thinking about it! That's the important part.
LOL people, again, I was joking 
Does one need to use [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags to convey sarcasm???
Yes, especially when you are starting a new post. Does one need to use [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags to convey sarcasm???
Ira (bearbones) and I were chatting today. We've come up with a new slogan which should be made the official slogan of Bitcoin:
So the new strategy is that whenever you're introducing Bitcoin to someone, don't try to explain how it works, or why it's so amazing. Just say, "it's magic computer money."
Also, when users open up the Satoshi desktop client software, there should be a new splash screen that flashes black and yellow real fast for about 5 seconds and it should say "MAGIC COMPUTER MONEY"
Thoughts?
Bitcoin
Magic Computer Money
Magic Computer Money
So the new strategy is that whenever you're introducing Bitcoin to someone, don't try to explain how it works, or why it's so amazing. Just say, "it's magic computer money."
Also, when users open up the Satoshi desktop client software, there should be a new splash screen that flashes black and yellow real fast for about 5 seconds and it should say "MAGIC COMPUTER MONEY"
Thoughts?
Meh.
Don't like it.
Sounds both cheap and scammy.
The kind of slogan you'd hear at a carnival.
LOL people, again, I was joking
Does one need to use [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags to convey sarcasm???Money is already magical. It's not real, doesn't exist, but people behave as if it does. Like any other religion really.
Money most certainly DOES exist. I have some in my wallet. And it is nothing like religion - valuation of monetary instruments comes from observations and facts of the real world.
I'm glad you are brainstorming, but... You expect people to have blind trust in something you introduce to them as "magic"? And it involves money? I certainly hope you forget about this idea for a while, then reconsider.
Ehi, apple called their thing MAGICAL and it worked very wellso we can do the same
and rename Bitcoin to iBitcoin, success guaranted
Oh dear... some of you thought I was being serious
Oh dear... some of you thought I was being serious
It sounds like a feasible addition to ones explanation arsenal. If a very young kid or a very senior citizen asks, then what?
Money is already magical. It's not real, doesn't exist, but people behave as if it does. Like any other religion really.
Only if Derren Brown designs it like the Inside Your Mind Waking Dead game.
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Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke. They are:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I'd say that Clarke's 3rd law applies here. Not sure if this would make sense as PR strategy, however. You can, perhaps, just say that it is "pure money". (only one component of "pure money" we are lacking: universal adoption).
Honey?! You sold the car in exchange for MAGIC COMPUTER MONEY???
Nah, I think I'll stick with pseudo-anonymous crypto-currency.
Nah, I think I'll stick with pseudo-anonymous crypto-currency.
i like this a lot.
it's common parlance to refer to cool stuff as "magic".
it works, and is even a good counter to the frequent criticism of what it is.
"well yeah it IS magic computer money."
it's common parlance to refer to cool stuff as "magic".
it works, and is even a good counter to the frequent criticism of what it is.
"well yeah it IS magic computer money."
Oh dear... some of you thought I was being serious
I thought you were seriously drunk. 
If it were Magic Computer Money, then wouldn't The Wizards just run the game?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvbMnFqM4wc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvbMnFqM4wc&feature=related
We're still in 'early adopter' phase and a high fraction of people who join now will be interested in the tech and details of bitcoin. But later on a vanishing fraction will be able or willing to understand that stuff. It will be known as magic internet money when it proliferates.
The Future of Money?
http://vimeo.com/16025167
http://vimeo.com/16025167
Oh dear... some of you thought I was being serious
LOL
Well, bitcoins are hard to explain. A shortcut is desirable
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