Topic: I'm planning on hosting a BTC seminar and a friend also followed my path (Read 414 times)

Seeing women in crypto always makes me happy, especially in this forum where there aren't many of them. I also appreciate how she has taken it upon herself to educate people about bitcoin by accepting it. You should be prepared to answer questions from people who don't know anything about bitcoin, and I wouldn't suggest that you or your friend invest in altcoins rather than bitcoin.

I love the threads here that show local stories of how Bitcoin is becoming more known and accepted as payment by people. These stories are often from Nigeria (I don't know if this one is from there or from a different country), and that formed a very positive impression of the people of this country for me. I believe people are right that you shouldn't focus on the price side, and I'd also recommend browsing the forum for threads of previous similar events hosted by forum members. Some even had screenshots or lengthy descriptions of what they were talking about.

Mistakes that some people do when hosting a seminar is talking about altcoins instead of focusing on Bitcoin and Bitcoin only, the perfect crypto seminar should talk about how risky other assets apart from Bitcoin is, but because some altcoins like Shiba inu pumped so much they will want to shill altcoins without revealing how unsafe such projects are.

Some crypto seminar holders also fool people by confusing them to invest into crypto through them and they will end up running away with people's money, I am talking from experience.

There's nothing wrong with doubting the OP, as I've also never seen any seminars that just instruct people to invest without any benefit. I've attended quite a few seminars, but most of them instruct people to invest in ponzi projects or try to collect people's money, or sell bitcoin audiobooks at exorbitant prices.

It's the same as always (story)... I (you, we) can't analyze individual situations, country conditions, the place where you live, etc.

But! If you want to know seminar experiences, go back to 2017-2018, there were crypto seminars everywhere (perhaps exaggerated, but it is the feeling that remains with me).

And that must be the first thing, you have experience as a user in a crypto seminar, no! Yeah? ok it does not matter, do you have it in another type of seminar that you have attended...?

That is a priority, to know what we would leave behind, what we would improve, in short...

...the seminars that I have attended, which were generally in those years, they had bitcoin on their agenda but they were really very organized people, sometimes they were really entrepreneurs but other times they were representatives of Alts, they even had offices in several countries (event managers/Atls), with paid staff and established funds with managerial compliance, which included seminars as a stage to attract business and users (obviously).

With the above, I want to tell you not to take this seminar lightly, they require several individuals and the program that you structure is essential, a seminar generally requires guests or experts in the field who give credibility, but above all it must understand  that with one seminar you can't reach to achieve everything, that is, do not think of one, think of 15 seminars. Why not?

Recommendation:
Try to do something by Zoom before and there you can have future allies to get to have something face-to-face with excellence, as your community deserves and as Bitcoin should be represented or have an ambassador.

I definitely rock with this. I do agree that it's always important that there are many people spreading the love and information regarding crypto. This allows newbies to not fall for traps all around crypto, it gives them a chance to make sure that they are going to end up profiting from it as much as they could.

I am not saying that OP is the person with the most information and knowledge regarding crypto, but it is definitely something that would allow newbies to learn from because OP definitely could help them get a better start without a doubt. I do believe that it will take some time for them to enter even with help, but the help there would mean it would drop the chances of newbies lowering their losses.

A good topic is all about the technology that's attached to bitcoin. The price and speculation could have some space on your seminar and that's just to give an idea on how it goes but you're just going to give little time to it. I guess you've got no sponsor on this one and you can make a poll on which topics you may want to discuss if you still have got no idea on what you must discuss on that seminar that you're planning to make.
Or, it's always best to have these discussions with the most basic topics like starting to look at its whitepaper and discuss stuff about wallets and how to avoid getting scammed. Those are interesting starters and basic topics.

First and foremost, congrats on you and your friend's budding venture. Now on the topic of advices. I would highly suggest you don't sell bitcoin to your attendees as "the end-all-be-all" coin like most bitcoin seminars I have attended to. It paints the wrong impression and pulls in the wrong type of people into the industry. You must focus on how bitcoin could make everything better starting from technology, as well as other things, and ultimately, provide them with takeaways so the lessons they have learned through your seminar lingers. Offer them something like a reward or whatnot for learning cryptocurrencies, that way learning is incentivized and ensured.

You are very good at this OP I watched your progress and I saw your step in this thread it was amazing I think for a seminar it is a very big agenda and you definitely need a team and quite a lot of funds too to carry it out I think you you need to make a team first as an implementing committee, then you form a structural committee and budget funds for your activities and I suggest you look for sponsors to support your activities in terms of funding.
If you think it's very difficult to prepare, in my opinion, it's better for you to make ordinary gatherings for those closest to you that don't require difficult preparation and a lot of funds.

Deciding to teach and lecture others about Bitcoin and crypto currency at large is a good move..
Alot of members have given you suggesting on how to follow and what to teach. About who to invite... Around Africa countries @Jackson C.Jerry
He is one of the people I have attended their seminar when it's concern crypto invite him and he will honor your invitation, But outside his city he might charge you for transportation..

I like good questions like this @woodie

Some times I get good result from the public and most times they are bad, but honestly, I was expecting the bad side more, like people who said No that Bitcoin is a scam because a friend of theirs lost his or her money without understanding what they did wrong. They are not even ready to listen, like they've make up their mind already.

Few people show good interest in Bitcoin and it's the real source of my motivation, I like talking about crypto and Bitcoin, I can go on and on for a long talking about ideas and possible outcomes in coming years.

Whenever I get paid in Bitcoin I always swap to Fiat ( most times 80% ) and leave the extra gains in Bitcoin since I planned to keep holding for a long period, I gotta keep my business flourishing, so I order cloth materials to put back on the shelf for sale and sewing. I am also a fan of stable coin too, to avoid volatility.

It has to start from somewhere, but from the time you started accepting crypto payments what's the general feedback you getting from the public... Are the people  actually using this tech or wondering what the QR codes are all about... And how are you protecting your money from bearish markets if those funds aren't converted into fiat immediately?



Great initiative but the problem with seminars that don't have a guaranteed number of participants is you will spend more of your pocket money to put this event together to cover venue, snacks expenses etc and if it becomes a paid event participation will also likely drop. But if you can partner up with other tech companies in your locality that can benefit greatly from Intergrating crypto payments it should help cut down on costs on your side.

All the best.

First of all congratulations on your good work in spreading the gospel about and helping its adoption as a means of payment in your business, its really something that will spread the news about in your locality.

Setting up a seminar is a very beautiful and brilliant idea but the one thing i would advise although am not an expert myself is that, the right messages about should be taught, its volatility and not only the good of bitcoin so that the people attending the seminar wouldn't just feel bitcoin is a kinda get rich scheme.  The wrong message about bitcoin can do alot of damage to new comers into the crypto business.

This is a good initiative, what I can advice is that talk about pros and cons honestly, don’t just talk about the positive side, talk about the bad side as well.

Also, don’t feel bad if your explanation is still not ok for them, because that is already their own responsibility to explore more and to do their own research. Never force them to follow your advices, encourage them to search more about Bitcoin. I have my experience attending small seminar like this, and its a big help for the startup and beginners.

Direct adoption is a very desirable endeavor for bitcoin, I really support them for this kind of thing. I'm honestly happy what some people are doing about the adoption of bitcoin in their business, it's amazing but I hope they don't just announce it here but don't move on to a better stage.

I don't know why someone adopts new payment system like bitcoin but they fail to grow their business for the better from a marketing point of view. Obviously that's a bad thing for their business and smoothness in terms of making money, but if they manage to grow the business after adopting bitcoin then surely that would be great.

You know what's more sellable to the public? That is its price. When people are aware that BTC value can rise by a lot of folds, they will easily get attracted to it. Unlike any other altcoins which in my opinion has a better and has a lot of technology, BTC's only technology is it can be used as a currency for sending and receiving money (BTC).

This can be easily identified so there is no need to sell it on them. As long as we will tell everything that they want to know, like BTC is volatile and its value can sometimes go down then we shouldn't worry. It's already their problem if they will still lose because they got greedy or too emotional.

It's important to explain the advantages and benefits when adopting Bitcoin, but also the risks and potential negative consequences for an investor. A seminar can be simple and educative at same time, if the proposal is focused on newbies and laymen people who will absord only the basic concepts and practical examples. It would be also interesting if this seminar talked about other seminars which have as proposal solely promoting ponzi and hyip crypto schemes to the public, inevitably ending in losses for most people, if not everyone present during the event. Therefore, a clear message must be shared that such seminars should be avoided.

Well-done. This is a straightforward Bitcoin adaptation. I believe I commented on your previous post, but I can't recall. As I previously stated, more people will be interested in Bitcoin once it is accepted as a payment method in real life. And I'm glad to see it's happening. A seminar is a good idea. More people will become intimately familiar with Bitcoin. It's also beneficial to your business because you can brand your company while also promoting Bitcoin. Keep it up; we need more Bitcoin adaptation that is genuine adaptation. Lecture on the goal of Bitcoin and why Satoshi created it, including technical knowledge such as wallets and so on. As a result, people will learn more about Bitcoin.

Just make sure they are not misleading people by exaggerating what bitcoin can do.
Because the audience may have high expectations afterwards, and will be disappointed if those expectations are not met.
Basic facts are more than enough as a start. Because most newbies have some dumb questions even if they can easily get answers over the net.
Maybe try actual installing a wallet like electrum and send some satoshis to them, either they can pay the organizer for few dollars or free, depending on the capability of the organizer.
Don't invite high profile personalities as they may ask compensation about their commitment, just look around the town who are bitcoin enthusiasts.

I will like first of all  congratulate you and your friend for accepting Bitcoin as option of payment in you guys business. That is going to be a fantastic opportunity for those   are willing to be spending their Bitcoin. And again it will attract a lot of customers attentions by willing to have the knowledge and also start adopting Bitcoin. I wish you can continue with this your hard work by making people aware of existence of Bitcoin blockchain.


Seminar are always a good idea way of educating people. That will be a good idea, if truly you can organize it the seminar  as you stated. I believe anyone that attended it will also like to share the knowledge with his/her people and that is how more people will be aware and start adopting Bitcoin. But my advice to you before you fixed a date for the seminar make sure you get yourself prepared well, and again don't talk much on making profit with Bitcoin but emphasize on blockchain much and I believe that is what they need much as a newbie no the profit.