Topic: How to make Bitcoin Mainstream Right Now! (Read 1665 times)
While a lot of this isn't a bad idea, the thing is it is simply not easy to put something like that together (even if you're working with some considerable amount like $700k) and for a lot of people, they simply don't care whether or not someone gets something like this, it'll be something cool you might get a few hundred to a few thousand users with, but a lot will likely just use it for cash and then leave the Bitcoin economy. Getting them to join isn't as simple as this, although a lot of the marketing ideas might be worth something.
It is very simple to make Bitcoin mainstream, and it can be done with just a few months of work, from dedicated groups of people advertising it globally. I cant believe people didnt thought of this before,but let me give you the big one:
1) Get together a donation fund held in multisig escrow , of different trusted people, and then ask people to donate, probably 100 BTC will be enough.
2) Hire a master marketer, who can put together a simple photo ad, a facebook community page/group, for bitcoin. The image ad should tell some basic description about bitcoin,show an url to Bitcoin.org, and to a youtube video (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4), and a link to the facebook group, where people can join.
3) Distribute the funds to different pockets of people around the globe, who will use it to buy a lot of ink and paper.
4) Create tens of thousands of pamphlets, and distribute them all over the world, these dedicated people will spend all their time giving it out to people on the street.
5) Target 20-40 year old people, especially guys, and if they ask questions, tell them about bitcoin.
6) Profit, now bitcoin will have many more millions of users!
I don't think this would work out in the way you think. If you think about it one would need much more than 100 BTC to launch a global campaign. However, if more money is donated we can organise things to get attention from the media. We could also advertise on buses and television. However, I don't think pamphlets are enough for such a campaign. 1) Get together a donation fund held in multisig escrow , of different trusted people, and then ask people to donate, probably 100 BTC will be enough.
2) Hire a master marketer, who can put together a simple photo ad, a facebook community page/group, for bitcoin. The image ad should tell some basic description about bitcoin,show an url to Bitcoin.org, and to a youtube video (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4), and a link to the facebook group, where people can join.
3) Distribute the funds to different pockets of people around the globe, who will use it to buy a lot of ink and paper.
4) Create tens of thousands of pamphlets, and distribute them all over the world, these dedicated people will spend all their time giving it out to people on the street.
5) Target 20-40 year old people, especially guys, and if they ask questions, tell them about bitcoin.
6) Profit, now bitcoin will have many more millions of users!
Fuck that, the media has always portrayed bitcoin as something negative only used by criminals.
Better leave them out of this, or they will portray Bitcoin as something ridiculous used by extremists.
We need to show that bitcoin is used by normal people, because people are idiots and you have to tell them like they are 5 year olds.
to all those writing that grabbing random people, to get them interested in buying bitcoin as the goal.. then you are all just looking for a bigger fiat price to exit bitcoin.
meaning you are failing yourself, failing bitcoin and failing the people you are introducing while secretly planning your own farewell.
you need to talk about/think about bitcoins UTILITY not the damn price rise.
lets put it another way your fiat greed and fiat retirement dream can understand.
invite 2 people spend weeks telling them about bitcoins as a fiat investment, trying to tempt them into buying in big. hoping other people around the world are doing the same to cumilatively push up the price.
or
invite two people and spend weeks telling them about the business opportunities and what they can do locally(naturally they buy bitcoin, but thats not the main/end discussion). helping each other get bitcoin accepted by popular shops/stores in your location. where each store displays a "bitcoin accepted here" logo in the window. people start coming naturally to the meetups in increasing amounts. naturally growing the local bitcoin utility far beyond just 2 small inverters..
now you dont need to return to fiat because you can buy your beers, meals and toilet paper and because you are involved in lots of projects locally you can have your own income stream coming in from different places.
wasting hundreds of thousands on mainstream advertising purely for the hopes of getting a few naive 'buyers' is short sighted.. compared to getting organised and making your location "bitcoin accepted" which is beneficial for all and more long term.
and all it costs is a couple cups of coffee/beers
This is the most important thing to do, if there are more people who use Bitcoin because of certain features it has, it automatically pushes the price up, as opposed to more people investing out of pure speculative interest.meaning you are failing yourself, failing bitcoin and failing the people you are introducing while secretly planning your own farewell.
you need to talk about/think about bitcoins UTILITY not the damn price rise.
lets put it another way your fiat greed and fiat retirement dream can understand.
invite 2 people spend weeks telling them about bitcoins as a fiat investment, trying to tempt them into buying in big. hoping other people around the world are doing the same to cumilatively push up the price.
or
invite two people and spend weeks telling them about the business opportunities and what they can do locally(naturally they buy bitcoin, but thats not the main/end discussion). helping each other get bitcoin accepted by popular shops/stores in your location. where each store displays a "bitcoin accepted here" logo in the window. people start coming naturally to the meetups in increasing amounts. naturally growing the local bitcoin utility far beyond just 2 small inverters..
now you dont need to return to fiat because you can buy your beers, meals and toilet paper and because you are involved in lots of projects locally you can have your own income stream coming in from different places.
wasting hundreds of thousands on mainstream advertising purely for the hopes of getting a few naive 'buyers' is short sighted.. compared to getting organised and making your location "bitcoin accepted" which is beneficial for all and more long term.
and all it costs is a couple cups of coffee/beers
What I'm saying is that by attracting more people who actually make use of Bitcoin has a more stable influence on the price and it's far better to promote use case scenarios as opposed to only talking about the value.
1) SOLVE THE BLOCK SIZE ISSUE.
It's true, big community will make more problem.
ok lets seriousy evaluate this point as this is the point involving the kickstarter/fundraising reason
imagine getting an american to stand in the street for 8 hours a day. ($7.50minwage/h = $60/day) ink and paper for say 500 pamphlets ($40)
so $100 to hand out 500 pamphlets(20cents each)* to totally random people.
imagine you want a 30second tv advert, in the simplicity style of showing someone buying something like they would with applepay.. but bitcoin instead.. would cost you $350k to feature it during prime shows like 'the big bang theory' which is for techno-geeks. viewer numbers make it cost 2 cents per viewer.
imagine though. how many people actually take notice of adverts if that advert is only shown once..
usually an advert needs to be shown several times to actually get people to take note.. so again expect 20cents* for someone actually receive it in their conscious mind.
*this 20cents a person is not the cost to get people interested. but just the cost to get to a point someone has properly read/viewed it. the uptake of demand for more info beyond this is usually only 1% or less..
meaning the costs are $20+ for an interested party to seek out info
knowing it can cost $20 to get someone moderately/significantly interested
be creative.
go to forex, stocks, commodities, investments and money business forums/chatrooms. (free) and TARGET the real demography that would be interested..
hang around coffee shops next to finance businesses, credit unions, retailers around lunchtimes when you know the finance employee's have their lunchbreak
dont waste $20 so easily per person.
3) Distribute the funds to different pockets of people around the globe, who will use it to buy a lot of ink and paper.
imagine getting an american to stand in the street for 8 hours a day. ($7.50minwage/h = $60/day) ink and paper for say 500 pamphlets ($40)
so $100 to hand out 500 pamphlets(20cents each)* to totally random people.
imagine you want a 30second tv advert, in the simplicity style of showing someone buying something like they would with applepay.. but bitcoin instead.. would cost you $350k to feature it during prime shows like 'the big bang theory' which is for techno-geeks. viewer numbers make it cost 2 cents per viewer.
imagine though. how many people actually take notice of adverts if that advert is only shown once..
usually an advert needs to be shown several times to actually get people to take note.. so again expect 20cents* for someone actually receive it in their conscious mind.
*this 20cents a person is not the cost to get people interested. but just the cost to get to a point someone has properly read/viewed it. the uptake of demand for more info beyond this is usually only 1% or less..
meaning the costs are $20+ for an interested party to seek out info
knowing it can cost $20 to get someone moderately/significantly interested
be creative.
go to forex, stocks, commodities, investments and money business forums/chatrooms. (free) and TARGET the real demography that would be interested..
hang around coffee shops next to finance businesses, credit unions, retailers around lunchtimes when you know the finance employee's have their lunchbreak
dont waste $20 so easily per person.
Just 100 bitcoins helping it to go mainstream is not at all possible. Compared to the paper money that's in circulation, 100 bitcoin doesn't make even a small change. As Op quoted the creation of separate URL, groups, communities will help in getting more popularity but it won't help to mainstream.
instead of all this and wasting money start a business with a lot less than what you are suggesting.
for example starting a website like Amazon or ebay is not going to const 100BTC but the effect of it can be bigger than any advertisement you can do.
for example starting a website like Amazon or ebay is not going to const 100BTC but the effect of it can be bigger than any advertisement you can do.
The proposal was nice but considering the huge amount of bitcoins involved and the money to be used for such information campaign is just very big. If I am going to implement bitcoin mainstreaming let us start by meeting small merchants in the community like your friends who have a small store, a barbershop, a small coffee shop. Start with a small group like 10 to 20 people then start by posting posters accepting bitcoin on the stalls. Its a small move with small capital to begin but if you can invite and orient at least 1 additional merchant weekly it will be big in the future.
to all those writing that grabbing random people, to get them interested in buying bitcoin as the goal.. then you are all just looking for a bigger fiat price to exit bitcoin.
meaning you are failing yourself, failing bitcoin and failing the people you are introducing while secretly planning your own farewell.
you need to talk about/think about bitcoins UTILITY not the damn price rise.
lets put it another way your fiat greed and fiat retirement dream can understand.
invite 2 people spend weeks telling them about bitcoins as a fiat investment, trying to tempt them into buying in big. hoping other people around the world are doing the same to cumilatively push up the price.
or
invite two people and spend weeks telling them about the business opportunities and what they can do locally(naturally they buy bitcoin, but thats not the main/end discussion). helping each other get bitcoin accepted by popular shops/stores in your location. where each store displays a "bitcoin accepted here" logo in the window. people start coming naturally to the meetups in increasing amounts. naturally growing the local bitcoin utility far beyond just 2 small inverters..
now you dont need to return to fiat because you can buy your beers, meals and toilet paper and because you are involved in lots of projects locally you can have your own income stream coming in from different places.
wasting hundreds of thousands on mainstream advertising purely for the hopes of getting a few naive 'buyers' is short sighted.. compared to getting organised and making your location "bitcoin accepted" which is beneficial for all and more long term.
and all it costs is a couple cups of coffee/beers
meaning you are failing yourself, failing bitcoin and failing the people you are introducing while secretly planning your own farewell.
you need to talk about/think about bitcoins UTILITY not the damn price rise.
lets put it another way your fiat greed and fiat retirement dream can understand.
invite 2 people spend weeks telling them about bitcoins as a fiat investment, trying to tempt them into buying in big. hoping other people around the world are doing the same to cumilatively push up the price.
or
invite two people and spend weeks telling them about the business opportunities and what they can do locally(naturally they buy bitcoin, but thats not the main/end discussion). helping each other get bitcoin accepted by popular shops/stores in your location. where each store displays a "bitcoin accepted here" logo in the window. people start coming naturally to the meetups in increasing amounts. naturally growing the local bitcoin utility far beyond just 2 small inverters..
now you dont need to return to fiat because you can buy your beers, meals and toilet paper and because you are involved in lots of projects locally you can have your own income stream coming in from different places.
wasting hundreds of thousands on mainstream advertising purely for the hopes of getting a few naive 'buyers' is short sighted.. compared to getting organised and making your location "bitcoin accepted" which is beneficial for all and more long term.
and all it costs is a couple cups of coffee/beers
just addition. I think we need some semInars because in a seminar, people can ask more and listen the explanation of bitcoin because I think not every people like to read. and sometimes a few people will throw pamphlets. I sometimes see that. so it will be effective to tell them eather than ask them to read.
yep meetups, start as a gathering of a dozen
seminars are for groups of dozen-100
conferences are for 100-more
this is the way to get the word out locally. by discussing it in your area and learning and starting projects locally.
these things dont need large funds upfront. they can be self funded.
EG price of a coffee, then as things get professional, price of a entry fee to cover the location hire for the day/weekend.
where the ticket sale or coffee sale covers the costs.
it also does more than just a pamphlet. it inspires idea's gets people forming projects, businesses, plans.
start small and free. as a meetup, once a week/month what ever you choose, advertise it for free meetup.com and local sections of forums you think are best suited.
use a free location like a cafe/bar for a small group..
then as things expand then self fund via the group you have
I strongly agree with franky1's opinion. In my country there is a very active team of people working in this direction. Every 3-4 months they organize meetup to educate and inform people about bitcoin. Furthermore, every month small teams of bitcoiners regardless of their age meet each other in order to exchange views about bitcoin. On the other side is very difficult funding events and donations are not always sufficient.
It is very simple to make Bitcoin mainstream, and it can be done with just a few months of work, from dedicated groups of people advertising it globally. I cant believe people didnt thought of this before,but let me give you the big one:
1) Get together a donation fund held in multisig escrow , of different trusted people, and then ask people to donate, probably 100 BTC will be enough.
2) Hire a master marketer, who can put together a simple photo ad, a facebook community page/group, for bitcoin. The image ad should tell some basic description about bitcoin,show an url to Bitcoin.org, and to a youtube video (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4), and a link to the facebook group, where people can join.
3) Distribute the funds to different pockets of people around the globe, who will use it to buy a lot of ink and paper.
4) Create tens of thousands of pamphlets, and distribute them all over the world, these dedicated people will spend all their time giving it out to people on the street.
5) Target 20-40 year old people, especially guys, and if they ask questions, tell them about bitcoin.
6) Profit, now bitcoin will have many more millions of users!
1) Get together a donation fund held in multisig escrow , of different trusted people, and then ask people to donate, probably 100 BTC will be enough.
2) Hire a master marketer, who can put together a simple photo ad, a facebook community page/group, for bitcoin. The image ad should tell some basic description about bitcoin,show an url to Bitcoin.org, and to a youtube video (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4), and a link to the facebook group, where people can join.
3) Distribute the funds to different pockets of people around the globe, who will use it to buy a lot of ink and paper.
4) Create tens of thousands of pamphlets, and distribute them all over the world, these dedicated people will spend all their time giving it out to people on the street.
5) Target 20-40 year old people, especially guys, and if they ask questions, tell them about bitcoin.
6) Profit, now bitcoin will have many more millions of users!
Nice idea but too complicated too achieve imo, all we need is bitcoin on every local news such as when Pokemon booming world wide.
Too many bitcoin news on Facebook, YouTube, or online platform. We need to convince more big stores to accept bitcoin payment.
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To bitcoin become a mainstream just need to Apple start to use bitcoins in their apps 
Unfortunately, the chances for bitcoin to be used by Apple and added to their app store is really little because they already have Apple pay that's now advertised everywhere and it seem that they're really serious about this one and going to make this as popular as paypal and getting used for worldwide. They're just not going to throw their own services into trash can for the sake of another thing which they don't really get into. To bitcoin become a mainstream just need to Apple start to use bitcoins in their apps
They already have AplePay, however i agree with this idea big company must start accept bitcoin in order to bitcoin become a mainstream, but i'm not sure those companies such aple or google will accept bitcoin they might create their own payment gateway rather than accept bitcoin. Well people are just want to hold their bitcoin and dumped it when the price is increase,is it just me who thinks that bitcoin is only a tool for people to get profit rather than using them as payment method.anyway i agree with op's idea we need to advertise bitcoin to show people that bitcoin isn't a bad like media always told.
In addition to this list of way to make bitcoin mainstream in the media and most acceptable, is radio or television program show how bitcoin work. I have seen Educated people who did not know what bitcoin is, other seen bitcoin and other crypto currency as a payment processors and not as a currencies. Individually, we should also try to advertise bitcoin and other crytocurrencies in our areas, explaining it to people around us and teaches them how bitcoin work, the idea behind it and how bitcoin will resolve most of the financial issued the world is facing currently.
To bitcoin become a mainstream just need to Apple start to use bitcoins in their apps
the biggest question that I see you forgetting is what kind of people do you want to bring in using bitcoin?
there is only two ways:
1) more speculators who come in, invest, price goes up, they dump as fast as possible to get their fiat out, rinse and repeat. we do not need that and it only makes things worse when they lose money because of being inexperienced.
2) more real users, and try to advertise bitcoin as a currency ?
this is not going to work either just by "spreading the word". people need to want to spend bitcoin and right now they do not want to do it. they want to hodl until they get rich and dump.
the questions you need to ask yourself are these:
how many bitcoin users are there now?
how many of them are willing to spend bitcoin not just hodl it as an investment?
how man of them have lifted a finger to be able to spend bitcoin? for example have you, yourself ever send an Email to any services out there requesting them to add bitcoin payment option? 90% of the users have not.
p.s. and there is issue of block size too.
there is only two ways:
1) more speculators who come in, invest, price goes up, they dump as fast as possible to get their fiat out, rinse and repeat. we do not need that and it only makes things worse when they lose money because of being inexperienced.
2) more real users, and try to advertise bitcoin as a currency ?
this is not going to work either just by "spreading the word". people need to want to spend bitcoin and right now they do not want to do it. they want to hodl until they get rich and dump.
the questions you need to ask yourself are these:
how many bitcoin users are there now?
how many of them are willing to spend bitcoin not just hodl it as an investment?
how man of them have lifted a finger to be able to spend bitcoin? for example have you, yourself ever send an Email to any services out there requesting them to add bitcoin payment option? 90% of the users have not.
p.s. and there is issue of block size too.
We have a "buddy" system at our local weekly meetup. You invite a new person to the meetup every week and you buy some beers and have a informal discussion about Bitcoin. The 1on1 approach usually fail, because people think it is a scam, when people approach you 1on1.
So we keep it informal, and we speak about every day things and then someone start the discussion on Bitcoin. We only take people who shows interest, after you talked to them about Bitcoin before. It cost you 1 or 2 beers to invite someone new into the circle. The network grows bigger every week. If you skip a week or two, nobody blames you, shit happens.
Any donations for our "Buddy Beer fund", is welcomed. ^smile^
So we keep it informal, and we speak about every day things and then someone start the discussion on Bitcoin. We only take people who shows interest, after you talked to them about Bitcoin before. It cost you 1 or 2 beers to invite someone new into the circle. The network grows bigger every week. If you skip a week or two, nobody blames you, shit happens.
Any donations for our "Buddy Beer fund", is welcomed. ^smile^
Why do you need to spend real money just to promote a currency (Bitcoin)? When we can have a free promotion just by people or owners of companies willing to accept it into their businesses. Also this is not a fool proof plan. Donating Btc with that amount is really hard for people not to steal it even if you are the most trusted person alive. The idea is not feasible actually.
no , im not done accumalating yet, im sure alot of people arent either. we gotta collect as much as we can before these dumbmother fukers turn into smart motherfukers. thats when im done. seriously tho , at some pt within a decade the masses will figure this shit out. one big sheep will lead them into crypto land. stop talking about bitcoins to outsiders , bitcoin sells itself. u gotta treat this like fight club.
It is very simple to make Bitcoin mainstream, and it can be done with just a few months of work, from dedicated groups of people advertising it globally. I cant believe people didnt thought of this before,but let me give you the big one:
1) Get together a donation fund held in multisig escrow , of different trusted people, and then ask people to donate, probably 100 BTC will be enough.
2) Hire a master marketer, who can put together a simple photo ad, a facebook community page/group, for bitcoin. The image ad should tell some basic description about bitcoin,show an url to Bitcoin.org, and to a youtube video (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4), and a link to the facebook group, where people can join.
3) Distribute the funds to different pockets of people around the globe, who will use it to buy a lot of ink and paper.
4) Create tens of thousands of pamphlets, and distribute them all over the world, these dedicated people will spend all their time giving it out to people on the street.
5) Target 20-40 year old people, especially guys, and if they ask questions, tell them about bitcoin.
6) Profit, now bitcoin will have many more millions of users!
I don't think this would work out in the way you think. If you think about it one would need much more than 100 BTC to launch a global campaign. However, if more money is donated we can organise things to get attention from the media. We could also advertise on buses and television. However, I don't think pamphlets are enough for such a campaign. 1) Get together a donation fund held in multisig escrow , of different trusted people, and then ask people to donate, probably 100 BTC will be enough.
2) Hire a master marketer, who can put together a simple photo ad, a facebook community page/group, for bitcoin. The image ad should tell some basic description about bitcoin,show an url to Bitcoin.org, and to a youtube video (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4), and a link to the facebook group, where people can join.
3) Distribute the funds to different pockets of people around the globe, who will use it to buy a lot of ink and paper.
4) Create tens of thousands of pamphlets, and distribute them all over the world, these dedicated people will spend all their time giving it out to people on the street.
5) Target 20-40 year old people, especially guys, and if they ask questions, tell them about bitcoin.
6) Profit, now bitcoin will have many more millions of users!
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