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legendary
Activity: 4410
Merit: 4766
July 06, 2014, 03:14:35 PM
#9
I've only discovered Bitcoin a few days ago.  I was shocked to learn that it's been around for more than two years without me hearing about it.  I'm your typical LAMP programmer who spends all his free time in cyberspace reading about currency, the federal reserve, anarchism, technology and stateless societies.  How it took me this long to learn about Bitcoins is really perplexing.

Once I heard of Bitcoin, I spent a while to understand how it works.  I had to read and re-read explanations to really figure it all out.  Since popularity is one of the major hurdles to get over for Bitcoin, and because it can be hella confusing for the layman, ya'll need a easily consumable video explanation for the masses.

I don't know if this topic has been pursued before, but "1/29 Explainers" could help immensely.  They basically take really difficult concepts and turn them into simple videos to share with the public.  This page shows a lot of their work:

http://www.129films.com/explainers/

Just a thought.

EDIT:  Maybe you could pay them with a pooling of some of your BTCs :-)

i have never needed a video to learn how the national mint puts the cotton into a banknote, or needed to know the chemical formulae for the inks they use. average joe does not need a technical long winded explanation, they need fast laymens explanation.

they need simple english. EG
not: "bitcoin is a peer-to-peer decentralized public ledger using multiple cryptography standards to ensure a trustless system of exchange"

but:"bitcoin is a ledger stored on thousands of PC's. no single person can change it as its all checked and verified using encryption"

just like going to the hospital
people hate hearing "you have a certificated deposit on the aortic valve causing a Myocardial infarction"
but understand: "small lump of calcium in your heart gave you a heart attack"
newbie
Activity: 342
Merit: 0
July 06, 2014, 02:08:56 PM
#8
I've only discovered Bitcoin a few days ago.  I was shocked to learn that it's been around for more than two years without me hearing about it.

So you are welcomed Wink
legendary
Activity: 1806
Merit: 1090
Learning the troll avoidance button :)
July 06, 2014, 01:11:34 AM
#7
Welcome to the forum meefozio.  What you describe is a good idea and there's a 13,000 BTC bounty for the person who makes the video.  Feel free to contribute to the bounty, if you'd like.

O_O a thread I have not seen on this forum
Those were the days anyways seen a few videos here and there but there's always room for improvement also a few online learning sites have starter videos if your curious as well like the Khan Academy.
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-overview

@ Welcome to the forum and Bitcoin meefozio always nice to see new members.
Edit and Fuu got necroed lol.
Vod
legendary
Activity: 3668
Merit: 3010
Licking my boob since 1970
July 06, 2014, 01:07:20 AM
#6
still offering 13,000 BTC?  Shocked

Use your brain to figure that one out...
sr. member
Activity: 252
Merit: 250
July 06, 2014, 12:36:20 AM
#5
I've only discovered Bitcoin a few days ago.  I was shocked to learn that it's been around for more than two years without me hearing about it.  I'm your typical LAMP programmer who spends all his free time in cyberspace reading about currency, the federal reserve, anarchism, technology and stateless societies.  How it took me this long to learn about Bitcoins is really perplexing.

Once I heard of Bitcoin, I spent a while to understand how it works.  I had to read and re-read explanations to really figure it all out.  Since popularity is one of the major hurdles to get over for Bitcoin, and because it can be hella confusing for the layman, ya'll need a easily consumable video explanation for the masses.

I don't know if this topic has been pursued before, but "1/29 Explainers" could help immensely.  They basically take really difficult concepts and turn them into simple videos to share with the public.  This page shows a lot of their work:

http://www.129films.com/explainers/

Just a thought.

EDIT:  Maybe you could pay them with a pooling of some of your BTCs :-)

"typical" LAMP progrmamer.

i tried to get into that stuff a long time ago, but i kept clining to VB.NET for no reason.  that stuff seems harder than before, but it is more invinting than ASP.NET.  i mean PHP
hero member
Activity: 854
Merit: 500
Nope..
July 06, 2014, 12:28:33 AM
#4
Fo real!   Shocked
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
July 06, 2014, 12:19:37 AM
#3
still offering 13,000 BTC?  Shocked
vip
Activity: 447
Merit: 258
March 03, 2011, 09:53:30 PM
#2
Welcome to the forum meefozio.  What you describe is a good idea and there's a 13,000 BTC bounty for the person who makes the video.  Feel free to contribute to the bounty, if you'd like.
newbie
Activity: 19
Merit: 0
March 03, 2011, 07:49:13 PM
#1
I've only discovered Bitcoin a few days ago.  I was shocked to learn that it's been around for more than two years without me hearing about it.  I'm your typical LAMP programmer who spends all his free time in cyberspace reading about currency, the federal reserve, anarchism, technology and stateless societies.  How it took me this long to learn about Bitcoins is really perplexing.

Once I heard of Bitcoin, I spent a while to understand how it works.  I had to read and re-read explanations to really figure it all out.  Since popularity is one of the major hurdles to get over for Bitcoin, and because it can be hella confusing for the layman, ya'll need a easily consumable video explanation for the masses.

I don't know if this topic has been pursued before, but "1/29 Explainers" could help immensely.  They basically take really difficult concepts and turn them into simple videos to share with the public.  This page shows a lot of their work:

http://www.129films.com/explainers/

Just a thought.

EDIT:  Maybe you could pay them with a pooling of some of your BTCs :-)
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