lol. I think that helps explain why the "ignore" button is the color that it is.
Topic: Making bitcoins available to everyone? - page 2. (Read 2994 times)
This sounds ugly and calloused, but going after eighty-year-olds makes no sense. Unless you're pushing age-specific services, don't bother focusing on 44+ -- most marketers don't. Not only are the spending habits all wrong, but by the time 80-yr-olds adopt bitcoin, what will they buy? A casket, a grave plot or an all-expense trip to a crematorium?
Let's keep focused on realistic goals.
Let's keep focused on realistic goals.
Currently, anyone can use Paypal or Moneygram to convert their USD into BTC. But will these services take steps to prevent the purchase of Bitcoin?
You cannot (according to their terms of use) use PayPal to sell BTC.
If you do, and PayPal notices, they will reverse the transaction, and you will have neither BTC nor USD.
What am I a fortuneteller?
That's helpful 
What am I a fortuneteller?
Lately I've been thinking about the future of Bitcoin, and the possibility of it becoming mainstream. The only problem I can see is getting bitcoins into the hands of everyone who wants them. Once Bitcoin has many, many users (say ~100,000,000), banks, credit cards, services like Paypal, and even governments, are going to try to do something about it.
Currently, anyone can use Paypal or Moneygram to convert their USD into BTC. But will these services take steps to prevent the purchase of Bitcoin? If a decent number of current Bitcoin users are seemingly unable to download Bitcoin-qt or Electrum (and therefore use volatile and insecure online wallets), will an 80-year-old be able to jump through all the current hoops you need to jump through to get Bitcoin, plus a few more put in place by financial institutes?
Currently, anyone can use Paypal or Moneygram to convert their USD into BTC. But will these services take steps to prevent the purchase of Bitcoin? If a decent number of current Bitcoin users are seemingly unable to download Bitcoin-qt or Electrum (and therefore use volatile and insecure online wallets), will an 80-year-old be able to jump through all the current hoops you need to jump through to get Bitcoin, plus a few more put in place by financial institutes?
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