Topic: How can we spread Bitcoin effectively. - page 9. (Read 7469 times)

giving away $9 just so people can see it move from your wallet to their newly made wallet, alone is futile and expensive.
what you need to do is find local shops in your area to accept bitcoin. or encourage new ones. and then use maybe just a couple $ to let the person you gave that funds to, buy a coffee or a snack.

the reason is.

i can make an app that sends bullshit value from one phone to another.. in milliseconds.. but if that person cant do anything with bullshit coin.. you might as well threw a brown shirt button on the street (looks like a penny from a distance) and wait around to see if any passers by pick it up. and what they do with it once they realise they cant see it as a useable currency

yes, us bitcoiners know what it is and know its value. but if a stranger accepts it and cant even buy a coffee or toilet roll with it.. they will never think about using it again.

remember bitcoins ease of transfer, is not the same as:
ease of use (lack of retailers)
ease of obtaining (registering with exchanges and buying)
ease of understanding (converting 0.00x into common fiat)

so try not to throw $9 of bitcoin at random people without having a bigger plan

think about where people once they become fascinated with your demo can easily and legitimately buy bitcoin.
think about why each person would have a need for it.
think about where people can use bitcoin.

the 'need for it' is more about the demograph of people you are speaking to.
EG.
foreigners - talk about remittance to their home country/family
investors - talk about the asset holding(hoarding) or day trading on legitimate exchanges
consumers - talk about the shops in your area they can use it with

try to think of as many uses/solutions as you can, and then when asking people what they do in their daily lives you can tell them how bitcoin can help them

Give 0.02 BTC for free to people?

I only see them dumping it and people abusing it in all possible ways.

You can look at the history of the Aurora altcoin too.

I think we need more to spread Bitcoin with efficiency

There was a place to get small amounts, and there still is ; it's called bitcoin faucets, but the amounts that are being given away are quite small
to ensure the faucet can remain active and not generate loss to it's owner. There is no way someone could maintain give away of 0.02 for long.
On 1 person that would genuinely be interested in bitcoin , you would have 100 people that would just sell it right away.

Giving money away just for the sake of trying it out is insane, especially giving away 0.02, which is pretty costly as well.
I think it would be better to fund businesses that would accept bitcoin, or to encourage existing ones into accepting it, and therefore give a chance for
those customers to actually have more places to spend their coins.
You can't get global acceptance by force and all at once, taking baby steps is way safer and in the end result far more reliable thing to do.

I think the best way that Bitcoin can be spread is by doing public demonstrations, and giving free BTC small amounts around 0.02 to those who take an interest.

The only people who could do this is the ones who brought when the price was incredibly cheap and are now BTC rich, this will be a great way to give back to the community and intern help raise BTC popularity and usage and of course making it widespread.

This is demonstrated beautifully in this documentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zKuoqZLyKg

How do you feel we as a community should raise bitcoin awareness and how are you helping ?