Topic: Crypto currency Awareness Campaign - page 2. (Read 828 times)

As more countries wake up to the potential of blockchain and cryptocurrency, businesses and entrepreneurs are beginning to find cryptocurrency solutions that can make them more competitive. Now is a good time to educate and engage in a new and upcoming area of the tech industry. These campaigns focus on teaching people to understand cryptocurrency and how it works as well as provide educational resources that can give people a better understanding of the potential of these new technologies. This is critical because many people don't understand what cryptocurrency is, how it works, or what the differences are between them, and this is preventing them from taking full advantage of the opportunities that this technology holds.

If you haven't already, the time to educate yourself and become better-informed about blockchain and cryptocurrency is now. This forum has some useful information for you. Start educating yourself.

I talk about bitcoin to people  who initiate the discussion first, to me I don't really feel alright to start preaching bitcoin  to people,  especially to people who don't have any idea about bitcoin.  This set of people always have a mind set as if they are been forced to put money in something that will be under probability to get it back.  If they buy to the idea at the end to invest and ig anything happen I will be responsible for it.

Yes, these things could bring out awareness to everyone but for you to be fully aware on crypto, you should have to DYOR it on your self, develop knowledge and skills, get engaged with crypto and experience its failures and success. That way, you will never be misled. However, the best channel or agent that i think is the most relevant by now is through social media. You can have there both the positive and negative views about crypto,  so it's up to you how to weigh things based from your own research and experience.

For sure, some sources of information are better than other sources of information.. even on this forum, some threads are better than others - including that fuzzy logic can become contagious in a thread, and then if no one is there to help to get some of the talking points back in some kind of coherence, participants in the thread can deviate into nonsense.

With any media source, there are ways to develop curated feeds, so that might help from being bombarded by too much noisy information.  Developing and employing critical thinking skills can be another tool, and some folks have developed better critical thinking skills than others, but also on a personal level we might even ask ourselves whether we are sufficiently learning with the passage of time, and if sometimes we are not reaching our own proper balances in regards to how much we may or may not need to research further into a topic or even if the solution might be to think through a topic ourselves in order to attempt to figure out how much plausibility to assign to the logic, facts and or conclusions of some kind of claims or presentations that are being made.

How many people is here using bitcoin. Camping is for people who is bitcointalk user. Out side from here is what we are looking for. If you go out there no body know about signature campaign and even in the twitter were many people talks of cryptocurrency still they are not aware of signature campaign in question. The thing that my can make bitcoin to know from far way or country that hates the adoption of bitcoin, is the profit some people make and be help will make look into bitcoin and adopt it. Like so many of us did not like bitcoin before but the profit people make monthly brought so many people here

The social media such as the Facebook, Twitter  etc, that the OP mentioned above no doubt has been helpful in promoting Bitcoin awareness but with the rate of deception and fraudulent activities by some handlers I'll not advise newbie's to take advantage of social media as a platform for a starting point to learn about Bitcoin as they could easily by convinced, deceived and duped by unsuspecting individuals or groups.

I just discovered one of the reasons people feel reluctant of discussing bitcoin with friends.
When I didn't know about crypto, I fell for so many scams in my quest to obeying the rule of invest instead of save. In one of the scams, I lost $2,000. Then, I talked to my friend about the investment who also lost about $200 and previously I made him lose some monies. So, there was an unsaid aggrement that I won't be introducing investments to him.
Surprisingly I discovered genuine bitcoin and later this forum, but now I'm reluctant to go talk to him about Bitcoin again. Well, maybe because I saw that he is doing well in his business. Assuming he was broke, I wouldn't mind going once again to him.

But it's different when people hear bitcoin in my neighborhood. The first thing they think about Bitcoin is a coin, chip or something useless, some say Bitcoin is gambling and such.
Those who say so do not understand what bitcoin is and how it works. sometimes I give an easy to understand explanation to describe what bitcoin is, so there is no negative stigma about bitcoin.

and directing people to this forum is also better, because they will learn on their own and read some of the discussions in this forum. This forum is the first place that needs to be known as early education.

People who don't know much about bitcoin whenever they hear about bitcoin the first thing that drops in their mind is money,  they know bitcoin is about investing. It important when introducing people to bitcoin we should let them know bitcoin it not only about investing,  but blockchains  and the reason why countries are adopting bitcoin as currency.

One of the most difficult things about spreading cryptocurrency to the world is getting started. It may be easy to say we can educate people on buses, schools, bars, and others. But, how do we get started to talk about cryptocurrency? We cannot talk about this suddenly.
I personally will talk about other things at first and see how their mind (open-minded or closed-minded) and see their personality probably. Telling about the very common knowledge of cryptocurrency about the new of Bitcoin and what they know about crypto. But of course, I will not teach about how to invest and what to get because if we are telling too much at first, they may not believe in them. If they want to invest in crypto they will only put the money without learning at first. One that we must remember is that don't tell them to invest in crypto because it is too risky. If the price keeps dropping, they will blame us and say that we are scammers.
That is why before teaching about cryptocurrency, we must consider some things:
- Place to talk about
- With whom we are talking
- Personality and opinion about the people on crypto
- Explanation on general at first, not specific
- Don't suggest investing, suggest them learn at first about crypto, and if they are interested and understood what they must do based on the risks, go on

The more reason am clamouring for crypto to be introduced and implemented in schools curriculum relating to subject like business ,commerce ,marketing ,computer ,adninstrative from secondary level to tertiary institutions to help make crypto industry a future proffesional choice and having an understanding on how it works before the practical experience.
To educate them on the need to see crypto as a future proffesion.

Yes, I agree with you. But as far as I know now all the people who are new to botcointalk.org come just for income. In the pursuit of income without knowing anything, I think they need to know more and more about Bitcointalk. We need to know first what is cryptocurrency? What's in it? Without knowing this, we keep running after income. And we're limited to the Bounty Forum. If we were to stay in this bounty forum all our lives, we would know nothing about crypto.I am not saying that you will not make income, but you have an idea about cryptocurrency. You make money from cryptocurrency but you don't know what it is. And that's why we said that first of all we need to know about cryptocurrency.


Thanks

Until now, I have never ever giving investment or financial advice to my family, cousins, relatives, etc., ever since I began my journey in the world of cryptocurrency. Only my sister approached me and invested some of her money into Ethereum and doesn’t care if the price goes up or down as she knows the risks, so I just assisted her on how to buy that’s all. Until now she never touched her ETH and it’s still in her wallet.

And one of my 1st cousins who decided on his own to go in to Bitcoin and knows the risks. He even has his own small set of BTC mining rigs. Well they chose not to go in on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies because they are afraid to take risks and just remained in their comfort zone.  

I don’t discuss about Bitcoin to them unless they wanna talk more about it, then I can just educate them and not forcing them to buy because it is them who will be making the final decision whether to go in or not.

Telling people about crypto is one sure way of boasting the crypto community and which inturn gives more value to projects but what if price fails after the campaign, what if a project you recommended crashes after you promoted the coin. If one must campaign for crypto al ays state it clear that doing personal research is part of the investment. At least that way the campaigner won't fall a victim of been held responsible for promoting a fake project

Coca cola can never be Pepsi
Mercedes can never be Toyota
Football can never be Swimming
Satoshi Nakamoto can never be Vitalik Buterin ( and co.)
Ethereum can never be like Bitcoin.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60151550
 

I will first say that I really do not like the title of this thread because it starts out with a bad and likely misleading framework since normies (and maybe even more sophisticated people) are likely hardly going to learn shit about "crypto" or "cryptocurrency" or make any kind of progress of actually knowing what the hell is going on if they do not either get presented with a proper framework that focuses on attempting to understand bitcoin and thereafter maybe see how the rest of the space (that relates to bitcoin and is sometimes labelled as "crypto" relates to king daddy).

So part of our own discussion of bitcoin should stop fucking using those kinds of dumbass and vague terms, unless we are attempting to putting the terms into some kind of a proper context.. which emphases bitcoin first and then maybe talk about the phenomena that there are a variety of other projects out there that are all over the place in term of their potential scamminess, misleadingness, that may or may not have any direct connection with bitcoin.. including the fact that so many people try to proclaim that bitcoin and ethereum or some kind of similars in terms of both of them being top coins.. .. fuck ethereum.. ..it is misleading to be suggesting that it is somehow equivalent to bitcoin, even though surely there can be some value in attempting to address some of the issues that come up in relation to various projects that have been built on ethereum or around ethereum.. but still put within a bitcoin framework.. and surely there are going to be people who do not want to learn or they come to believe that they are smarter because they start to buy into the various bullshit ethereum and the other scam and smoke and mirror project talking points.

Of course even smart people and relatively big financial institutions get distracted into ethereum trying to put itself out there as some kind of similar to bitcoin but different bullshit.. that mislead people into believing that ethereum might have some kind of solid investment thesis that is similar to bitcoin.. which is baloney.. and yeah.. let it play itself out.. fine.. it could take 10 to 20 or more years for that crap (and the scams around it to play out.. but still does not really mean that it is bringing any kind of meaningful value to the table except perhaps figuring out the various ways to either scam people or for founders to print money for new or continued self-enrichment purposes).

Back to bitcoin.

Regarding your own assertion Imran232 that bitcoin should be understood prior to getting into attempts to teach investment ideas, and that seems to be a wee bit misplaced in my consideration of the matter.   Investing is a basic thing that people need to learn - and even to figure out if they have their shit together in their life sufficiently to even consider investing and/or how to invest. 

For sure, I would not be proclaiming that investing is any kind of elitist matter, and every single person should be able to figure out and maintain some kind of investing strategy.. and for sure, bitcoin can also serve as one of those vehicles in which way more people have access to meaningful and reasonable ways to invest than they would have had in prior times... So many investments are much more difficult to get into as compared with bitcoin, so in that regard, there is a lot of investment potential with bitcoin that could well be taught simultaneously to learning about bitcoin too.

For example, even if someone comes from a pretty impoverished situation, they may well be able to get into a situation in which they are able to set aside something like $10 per week to invest into BTC in a kind of dollar cost averaging way, and as they are investing into bitcoin, they can also be learning about bitcoin.. and also making sure that they get their shit together in terms of the amount that they are investing into bitcoin.. so attempting to learn about bitcoin and investing at the same time, and hopefully even learning about bitcoin becomes a much more concrete idea when they are figuring some kind of an amount to regularly put into it and also to consider if they might need to modify their investment approach as they also learn about their own personal and psychological circumstances.

I guess my main point is.. . "why not both?"  at least in respect to the idea of learning about bitcoin and learning about investing.



Case in point... above regarding your own mindset and desire to educate.. cheezcarls..

fuck ethereum.. and stop trying to discuss it as if it were to have some kind of equal or similar investment thesis to bitcoin.. because you are ONLY misleading people when you make those kinds of juxtapositions.. and lumping of ethereum as if it were in the same category as bitcoin when it is not... it is not even close, but so many folks believe that bitcoin and ethereum are somewhat close.. similar but different.. blah blah blah.. baloney-talk and a baloney way of framing and/or discussing matters related to either bitcoin or "crypto".


For sure, another matter is that if you lack in focus in your presentation.. meaning that you are not able to figure out some ways to attempt to focus on bitcoin first.. then it is likely going to be a lot more difficult and confusing and even difficult to relate to..

I am not going to deny that if you approach the matter as a way to get rich quick, then you might get some people's attention.. but that is a stupid-ass framework that relates to crypto overall and not a way to attempt to focus on bitcoin.. ..

So surely, part of the challenge will still be to get the attention of people, and largely people come to bitcoin at their own pace.. so it could take several sessions (several touch points) with them in order for the idea of bitcoin to start to sink in, and for sure, none of us should expect that we are going to be the first or even the ONLY touch point that they might end up having, so in that regard, there can be some challenges in terms of attempting to figure out from where they are forming their various thoughts about bitcoin and attempt to work from where they are rather than where we might expect that they should go, even though there probably nothing wrong with giving a framework in terms of prioritizing the discussion of bitcoin.. and surely the perspective of the other person(s) will likely vary - and perhaps have a decent number of  themes in common at the same time.

I have some people with whom I have been talking about bitcoin for years, and some of them have become more receptive to the idea of bitcoin, and others have become more stubborn in their various views that seem to end up being (from my perspective) that they do not really sufficiently understand bitcoin.. and so they have to come to bitcoin at their own pace.. and perhaps they will die being a no coiner.. but whatever, I can ONLY lead them so much to the various ideas and/or my own learnings in connection to the matter.. and even with my own learnings, I am likely ONLY going to spend so much time attempting to help them, unless they are already receptive..  which would at least mean that they are ready and willing to learn even if they might not be able to learn... people vary for sure.


I doubt that people need to necessarily be as resourceful as you are suggesting that they need to be, Dunamisx.  In other words, why let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

For sure, some people might want to put together materials and be more active in their bitcoin evangelism efforts, but each of us will come to the matter from a different perspective, while at the same time, I am not going to doubt that some resources seem to be much better than others.

I had recently seen a link to Michael Saylor's bitcoin information and even a free course, which I am even tempted to take.. or at least to point out that course in order that others can take it and tell me about it.

https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=468


Hopefully, you can shake that vague-ass, ambiguous and misleading term "crypto"/"Cryptocurrency" and get focused on figuring out bitcoin first.  Once you spend a decent amount of time on learning about bitcoin, and you have a bit of a grasp on what is bitcoin, then you will be in a much better position to both talk about bitcoin and maybe to venture out to the various shitcoins (aka some of the crypto matters)...

If you do not sufficiently and adequately focus, then it is going to be more difficult for either you to understand the information that you are learning along the way (and to put such information within a proper context) and also to present such information to other people who may well be even less informed regarding the bitcoin/crypto topic than you.

By the way, some people seem to believe that they are being more academic and open by attempting to use a broader term, such as crypto to describe the whole space and NOT to get caught up on bitcoin.. and sure in theory that seems all fine and dandy not to have a closed mind and to have a broader perspective; however, what seems to end up happening is when people attempt to focus more broadly on such a concept like bitcoin, they tend to lose some of their abilities to understand the basic framework - which is bitcoin.. and in that regard, it still is way better to figure out bitcoin first in order that you understand the framework and that you know how to properly use the terms crypto and cryptocurrencies if you end up choosing to use those words from time to time.. and most of the time it seems much better to minimize their use, especially if you are talking about bitcoin. .then better to use the term bitcoin rather than substituting the word bitcoin with crypto in order to feel that you are being more smart when such substitution likely causes you to devolve into a confusing, ambiguous and/or misleading presentation of the very topic that you are attempting to teach about.

You can start by sharing crypto related posts, tweets, threads, vlogs, etc. Share that using your social media accounts. It is a little thing, it's not that effective like the other ways but it will help in terms of crypto awareness of those people that knows you. We do not need to push ourselves to much just to make other people aware of the existence of cryptocurrencies. They will know it eventually. As more and more adoption that will take place as we step forward.

Yes, that is the fact. The individuals have the major role to play in the bitcoin orientation. All the 7 out listed numbers, the number 1 is the most effective one in the bitcoin or crypto currency orientation campaign. All the rest one, which is from number one to number 7 are under the control of the number 1. Just like as I am planning to carry out a personal bitcoin campaign in Secondary school in my location, so that students will be well equipped with cryptocurrency. I am also on the learning process so I just suspend the project till I have equipped myself very then I can impact the knowledge to other people. And my targeted audience are Junior Secondary school three to Senior Secondary one to three. Many people still see bitcoin as a bad. That is, it is only bad people use bitcoin or crypto currency. So my personal orientation will start soon.

Crypto currency campaign is a very good awareness for the people. But the fact that after all this people can’t be persuaded fully to join the cryptocurrency market, especially bitcoin (the most reliable and trusted coin). Many people see it that it has an hidden agenda that is not known to the public. You can only tell people how the whole cryptocurrency market  works, but never force or persuade them to join, it should be at their own will. So that you don’t have to bear the consequences if all don’t go well for them as market fluctuates from time to time.

There is no way the crypto awareness campaign should be carried out than it is actually been done  today. Because despite what, it's still not everyone who will love to use it because of reasons best known to such individual as a result of past experiences.