Topic: My ideals on how to promote Bitcoin in my locality (Read 507 times)

Mate, I know you have good intentions of promoting bitcoin but this I do not think is advisable. You see religion and business,  do not mix the both of them up as they are not in the same line. Yes your religious leaders have influence on their subjects but do you think they have control over their business and finance? They can advise them and pray for them to make their choice but can not compell them to invest their money in a business they have not really have clue about. Investment is not all about influence to over your subject to do so but it the already existing speak for itself convincing other to join.

First of all, having faith in Bitcoin always depends on each individual who wants to know what Bitcoin is. Why is it preferred by investors in different countries? In short, for me, there is nothing in religion to accelerate the spread of the number of Bitcoin enthusiasts.

     But, I agree with what you say that it is better to save bitcoins than in the bank, as long as you make sure that the wallet you use to save bitcoins is safe in case you don't have to buy a hardware wallet.

Do the churches or any other religious places allow the discussion of money related things or any other matters related to the worldly discussions ?
Most of the religious places only speak about the religion and people do not come to those places to see advices about the matters related to this physical world. So I think it is not possible to preach the usage of bitcoin in the religious churches

I'm not sure why you come to this ideas mate, because Churches are far from marketing and no wonder if there are churches that will let them be used for bitcoin or other altcoins ads when the truth is? let us accept the fact that till this moment ? there are only minority that trust bitcoin(as many still find this scam or other negative things inside)
but if your church or the next will allow? then yes this is a big step favoring us crypto users.

Radio is one of the most straightforward methods. Yes, a while back, one of the forum's users posted on a bitcoin radio show. You can use the fact that radio is still widely listened to in our area to advertise bitcoin there. Additionally, you can live stream the radio program so that viewers can also watch it live.
People can listen to it while at home, in their cars on the way to work, etc. It has a broad impact and you can also let listeners call in to ask questions, obtain answers, etc.

The risk involves in bitcoin investment is not something to go about preaching to people to invest without properly educating them. The worst idea is to promote bitcoin in the church or mosque. Promoting bitcoin in a religious organization will be like a death trap to many. Many won't understand what you lecture them on bitcoin no matter how hard you try. They will see it as get rich scheme to invest their whole money for short-term goals and when it doesn't happen as they planned, you have a big cause to answer for that.

Religion Bodies should focus on their teaching and not interfere with anything like crypto investment

I appreciate your passion to promote bitcoin to more people in your area. but I think promoting through religious leaders is not wise. because not even all religious leaders will agree with you on the privileges of bitcoin. I hope you can promote other ideas without involving religious leaders or places of worship of a religion. unless you want to help build a place of religious worship and you can help by providing an alternative that donations can be made via bitcoin.

Maybe what they need is an explanation from you about what bitcoin is and how to use it to make money. It might be difficult at first because they never imagined this would happen but at least we can try to teach them about bitcoin so they can understand. But indeed, there are still many people who do not believe in bitcoin and say that it is a fraud but they have also seen real evidence from people who have succeeded in getting money from bitcoin. It's a bit difficult to open their minds to accept new things that weren't there in their previous era. And it's up to them to accept or reject it because we can't force that on them.

Exactly,publicising Bitcoin in our different localities especially in villages looks like something else.I told my old dad about my involvement in Bitcoin,and my dad told me I was into scam.He asked me how I was making money without g tooing to any office,or place of work,and I told him I work with my phone.It looked like a magic to him how phone can produce money.He asked me who was paying me the money I recieve from it,and I told him its Bitcoin. He never understood what I was saying untill he fell asleep.Using mouth to tell people in the rural area is just like a waste of time,except for those who are civilised and educated.

We have different tactics we can promote bitcoin in our geographical environment, the simple way to canvas people into bitcoin in a rural areas and especially in Africa countries is to get items mostly food items and gather people and dispense it to them, and inform them that you got the funds through Bitcoin investment, many people who dislike Bitcoin will like Bitcoin and also began to campaign or say more positive things concerning Bitcoin. So we have different dimensions we can promote the technology of Bitcoin in different localities.

They do not support bitcoin as legal tender because it is not physical, speculative, and also has no government legal force. While the majority of users believe it is legal as long as both parties agree to payment even though the price fluctuates a lot. I also don't believe religious leaders are the right people to promote bitcoin, while I support that users, exchanges, and government regulations have supported a more positive movement on bitcoin and its adoption.

Just like other investment assets, losses and gains are risk even though bitcoin is known to be a highly volatile asset compared to others.

Of course, if religious leaders make positive statements about Bitcoin, society will be easy to accept Bitcoin. However, we cannot force them to make positive statements or obviously support Bitcoin, they have their own perception of Bitcoin. As far as I know, there are many religious leaders who don't support Bitcoin because they assume Bitcoin potentially loses people's money. We cannot deny that Bitcoin is very volatile and unpredictable, so people who invest in Bitcoin with a lack of knowledge will have a big chance to lose money. Well, it is a bit complicated when we are talking about the opportunity to lose or win with Bitcoin investment, it purely depends on the individual (the investor/ the person).

In a way, religious leaders can influence someone's interest in something good, but somehow I'm not sure they would be a positive bitcoin influencer in any given place. Regardless of their religion, I don't think it's a good idea to expect them to become bitcoin influencers. In fact I can say that I rarely get our religious leaders to talk about bitcoin, but that doesn't mean they hate bitcoin even though I also caught them discussing the legal issues of its use.

I also tend to think that it is ineffective, but much better when the government backs it up with legality where big influence can be expected. In Nigeria or elsewhere I think it will be the same, and I really think that even small amount of support will have an impact on bitcoin and people's trust in it.

That could be true, as they always look up to their leaders and easily influenced by them. But believing in such things that they don’t even know will only lead to failure and losses in the end. So I don’t think it will be an effective strategy to promote bitcoin, aside from churches should never be involved in any people’s own desires to promote something that is not related to the church. Yes, it could be helpful but in a wrong way.

Trust me, promoting Bitcoin with an approach through religion in my opinion is not a good idea bro.
Because I think it will cause a lot of confusion and debate for sure.
Because religion is more sacred and involves belief in God.
Maybe it's not even introducing Bitcoin well but actually worsening the image of Bitcoin itself and your personal name.

Because it is not certain that religious leaders can accept views on Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is a newly discovered digital financial innovation.
Because basically religion is a role model for someone to live based on a holy book of each religion.
In any religious scripture, Bitcoin will definitely not be included in the discussion in the book.
Religious leaders certainly want to focus more on teaching real goodness based on their scriptures, rather than introducing a risky financial advice.

I think you better make your second view as a way of promoting Bitcoin.
Because it is clear that one of the other ways is in line with economic financial advice.
Introducing financial independence that is not bound and dependent on politics and government which sometimes harms us.

Your ideals or hopes for introducing Bitcoin are indeed good.
But I think before introducing or promoting Bitcoin to your area.
It's better to try to introduce him to your friends or people closest to you first.
If it works maybe little by little the people in your area will pay attention to you.
You should have a lot of knowledge and material provision, good and clear.
And really want to set up your time to assist those who are interested.

I saw several threads about some people introducing Bitcoin in your country.
Maybe you can ask them for advice on how and what to prepare.

^For people who did not understand, it could be criticized.
They will think that this is a form of gambling though it is an investment form for a proper explanation. Religious groups always hate gambling because it is a sin in their eyes and probably the reason this was not unlikely heard by religious leaders.
There are too many ways to promote BTC but I think it is not ideal for the church or any religious group. However, mentioning BTC could be fine and it is up to them if they will have further research on it, at least you spread awareness to them.

Before going any further, I want to ask whether the religious leaders in that country welcome Bitcoin and support it. because in my country it is not, in fact some even consider that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are haram for various reasons. What's more, religious activities in certain places may only focus on matters related to religion, or maybe social, but if you deliberately spread and influence people to be aware of and use Bitcoin, I don't think it's unethical and inappropriate. Maybe conditions are different in your country?

We really understand that we want to make many more people know and use Bitcoin, but we also need to understand how we can tell them. Because I think that it is too risky for the leaders to explain and influence people to join Bitcoin, moreover if they actually don't really understand but they are only following their leaders, it will be too risky. Sometimes, they may feel that they have spent the money but their assets are decreased because the price is volatile. This will lead them to some issues. This will be too risky also to lead many people to certain businesses by religious leaders.

Religious leaders are still human and have a need for financial sustenance and most of them can find Bitcoin as one of the aids on this need.  Preachers, priests, pastors and other religious groups can find Bitcoin interesting especially if a person explained Bitcoin well making them understand its potential.  I find it not wrong to involved religious group in propagating Bitcoin.  Even though they are dealing with the spiritual side, they are still human and have human followers that have needs for material stuff in order to maintain their living and operation of the religion.


Discussing and explaining the potential of Bitcoin is not forcing anyone to join the crypto economy.  It is only giving them information about the opportunities, potential, and current technology trend that can help them and their followers alleviate their standard of living whether on the currency transaction area or in the possible financing area because of the stated opportunities that come with adopting Bitcoin.

The world has mixed with the religious setting and the religious setting has mixed with the world. Hatred, hostility, and division in the world have affected the attitude of the religious leader that's why it's hard to see religious leaders who are very loyal. However, Bitcoin is the only common thing is bridge the gap in religion, race, etc.
If the religious leader could embrace Bitcoin it will be good maybe we could see Bitcoin bridging the same gap in the religious setting.

It would be good if religious leaders support Bitcoin. But why will they do it is the bigger question. I don't think that would be easy. Since bitcoin is a very volatile cryptocurrency, investors could lose money. So who will bear the blame for such a loss? Religious leaders endorsing Bitcoin may also bring up moral and legal issues, such as whether they should be involved in promoting financial investments and the possibility of conflicts of interest. As a result, I don't think this is a good idea and it won't happen.

I don't think with religious leader as great role model for promoting about Bitcoin but also many kinds or person have potential promoting Bitcoin and get enthusiast respond from your citizen. No doubt with religious person or leader because they have many follower and will allow what his recommended for investing in Bitcoin or not.

Honestly, your country Nigerian have good respond and many people excited with investing in Bitcoin, actually I got information about your money withdrawal in the bank has limit. Adopting Bitcoin and keep promote it will give freedom about your assets or your money controlling by your self without having any third party like the Bank.

I've seen examples of Bitcoin events being held at churches, kind of like an educational thing. I've also seen someone clear out the matter of Bitcoin being okay in Islam. I know many people here aren't religious, and I don't consider myself religious either, but a huge part of the world is covered by major religions like Islam and Christianity, so pro-Bitcoin positions of religious leaders and Bitcoin education in churches and mosques could actually make a big difference in terms of adoption. As long as it's not preached to be a gift of God (because this way many will be disappointed when Bitcoin loses value and many might be outraged by such radical claims), I think it's a good thought.

According to the OP, the church or any religious leaders are not going to persuade their congregation to invest in Bitcoin or any other crypto; rather, the religious leaders are creating awareness of the crypto, allowing their followers to have the knowledge if possible, teaching them the fundamentals, the risks involved, and what they stand to gain, and at the same time making everyone know that the risk is higher than what they can achieve, but the existence of the currency is real. So it's left for the members to make their own decisions on what step to take. If they are to engage and make massive incomes, they will be excited, but if it falls to their disadvantage, most of them will blame the person who gave them the information. That's just human nature.
 

The video you referred to does not emphasis on bitcoin instead it's a general cryptocurrency and especially Metaverse. The caption is also mentioning another coin besides bitcoin.

Pretty much it is preaching, which is not an ideal goal. If you truly want to promote bitcoin, then simply talk about the direct utilization or benefit of Bitcoin within your communities. Contrasted to the video example which has a hidden narrative of persuading crypto investment, guiding people to discover learning resources or materials of bitcoin are way more beneficial compared to that kind of method as in the video.

It's not enough just to promote bitcoin, you need to teach them the basics of bitcoin, if you just want to tell people that bitcoin exists on earth and that's it, there are better ways to promote it. What I'm thinking is, if churches spread bitcoin and people invest in bitcoin and lose, what will they think of that religion. I would oppose this idea.

If it was about providing information about the whereabouts of bitcoin, religious leaders could do it to people who come to church or mosque. After all, the religious leaders don't insist that their congregations follow what they are doing and invite them to learn more about bitcoin.

That's what people who know about bitcoin and want to introduce bitcoin to others should do. They can explain what bitcoin is and how to use it, but for other things, like when people can start investing, it's up to each person.

You are absolutely right. Promoting investment in any trade-able asset including Bitcoin can be problematic for the people who are not well-informed & don't understand the risk involved with it due to its volatile nature which can lead to loss of their life time savings. It is important for anyone promoting investment in crypto currencies to provide them comprehensive information so that they can make informed decisions.

Yeah, I agree with you there mate, it's hard to get people in local areas to understand bitcoin, especially the illiterate, because many of the people who leave the locality area are illiterate and have no real knowledge of technology or things like investing, and religious leaders of the mosque or church, they can't force people or advise them to invest in bitcoin because when they need financial assistance and the market crashes, it can cause a lot of problems between the area and the religious leaders.

I read through your lines and sincerely your ideas are really good on how you wish to promote Bitcoin in your locality,
Considering through the religious ways you mentioned,it will be of help to members of the religion that will have a thorough understanding of your teaching concerning Bitcoin.
 but my question is,

Are the people willing to learn about Bitcoin,

If they incure losses hope you won't be blamed for it,
(Because we all know how Bitcoin is, rising and falling of it rate)

Is Bitcoin accepted in the religious practice

Please ask yourself this question before engaging yourself in the teaching..

It will not work optimally if promotion is done through religious channels. I understand the point of your good thinking that is trying to share thoughts on how to promote Bitcoin widely, but there are many other paths we can take to do so.

Maybe in your country Bitcoin is acceptable and can be easily promoted, but there are countries that still limit crypto activities and there may even be countries that prohibit any type of activity.
Things like this must also be included in our minds when we try to think about the right method of promoting Bitcoin.

Religious leaders are better off focusing on activities that lead to human self-change for the better for themselves and for their country.
This is just my thinking too.

I have read through each members thoughts, and suggestions regarding this ideas, I really appreciate, the religious leaders which am specifically referring to are those which are already aware of the currency Bitcoin, and they are not to advice there members on when to invest and when not to invest in Bitcoin but they are just letting them know of Bitcoin existence both advantages and disadvantages putting into consideration.  it's now left for the followers/members to decide wither or not the risk is worth taken
have seen a similar video on YouTube video
were Christian Religious leader was emphasizing about Bitcoin.

As much as I do understand how effective it is when a religious leader speaks, I find it odd when I hear from them that they're talking about bitcoin.
In the church where I am part of, I've heard two of the preachers speak about it and one is near the high authority and disagrees with bitcoin and really spoke about it as a scam. I was very sad upon hearing that because it's obvious that he needs more knowledge about bitcoin.
While the other one spoke about it as a sort of online payment method and didn't hear something negative about it. That's why if someone thinks of this idea, it's better to remain as an idea.

I just have a question for you; does Bitcoin in anyway contradict the teaching or doctrine of a church or mosque?
I don't see anything bad teaching the followers of a certain  religion about Bitcoin. And I have seen so many programs being organized in Churches and mosques that are not even related to what they were supposed to learn at churches or mosques.

You could organise a seminar at the end of every service so that those that are interested can attend and learn what is to be taught and I don't see this strategy affecting the church or mosque in any way.

I would disagree, I would vehemently oppose this idea. Church is a sacred place of worship where we find peace, we should not bring work and money into it to spread the word. After all, bitcoin is just money, a form of investment like forex or stock, there will be many people who need it but also many people who don't need it. If this spreads in the church, it will only cause controversy, division, not good for the church and religion.

Addin to this, publishing of Bitcoin to others you need to organise a seminar for them and enlighten them, educated them about bitcoin and how it been processed.
We all know try to educate others to invest in bitcoin you need to explain everything to anyone you are passing the information so as them to understand what you are try to inculcate into them.

While telling them about how it's profitable and how appreciative it can be of a help to them,you also need to make them know the advantage and disadvantage and risk that follows not only the profitable aspect of it,you and I know that in life anything that has advantage also has a disadvantage too.

I don't know if it is a good idea to spread bitcoins in churches or mosques because maybe there are some people who reject this idea on the grounds that churches or mosques are places of worship. Maybe it will be okay after they worship because they don't do other things. But if @OP thinks it's a good idea, he might as well try it while thinking of other ways to spread bitcoin in his neighborhood.

Providing an understanding that bitcoin is a type of investment that they can use to make a profit is a way that they can use to enlighten people who don't understand bitcoin so they don't think that bitcoin is a scam. But don't rush them to start investing and saving their money in bitcoin because bitcoin might be something new for them.

Religion is such a sensitive issue that the use of religious leaders in promoting or creating awareness about volatile assets should be given a rethink. This stance, echoes that of the users on this platform. As someone who wants to promote bitcoin in your community, you should consider collaborating with local businesses to accept bitcoin as a form of payment. In the long run, it will help spread the word about the use of bitcoin in your community, thereby creating awareness about it. To add, you can organize events and workshops in your community that will educate people about Bitcoin. During this event, experts can be  invited to speak about the topic, and room can be given to the locals to ask questions and share their thoughts freely.

It is mostly easy to spread the word if a pastor or someone in the religious organization or church talks about bitcoin, but make sure that the risk is also mentioned because the way you treat bitcoin is like an investment with no risk involved. It doesn't mean that if you hold it, you will earn profit easily as it increases over time, but the truth is that there are a lot of ups and downs. Also, the purpose of spreading awareness of Bitcoin shouldn't only be about investment but also about transacting on it, like sending and receiving.

If you talk about the price, yes the bitcoin in theory can depreciate especially when it comes to Bear Market and long crypto winter like this. But in fact, if we look at the bigger picture Bitcoin price is against Inflation meaning is still good for the store of value.

But still they need to tell the Risk by using bitcoin or other crypto form since if we deposit to the bank the value remain same but when in form of bitcoin the value can be high or low.

The OP need to tell all the risk before ask other people join but the intention is good

To some, actually we don't need to promote this industry. Many people are already aware of its existince and advantages over other currencies and same goes with the disadvantages. Let people decide whether they'd dive into this industry. Share only the idea of how this industry works and how you are making use of this technology. One reason of not persuading them is to save them from risk especially if they are not into it. It will just be a drama if you'd push them to invest and once they are seeing losses, you'd be the one to blame. Sharing the knowledge would be a good idea but never be biased when introducing this industry to people.

I’m afraid the cons outweigh the pros in this case, because in Nigeria there are lots of “fake men of God” that extort their members by different means. Even the innocents ones can be exploited, I remember in 2019/2020 when forex trading become so popular in a city, churches were used as an outlet for forex trading companies to promote their business, all they had to do was convince the head pastor that they were legit and the pastor most times give them their platform to speak to church members. Later when the scam company disappeared with all the funds, the churches suffer loss of their flock because the trust between the church and its members was lost.

Religions should not be connected to any currency, their practice is not to teach about currency but its more on their religious belief and in my country, they will not go down into this level especially we are a catholic country where we focus in God’s word. Their influence to other people should not be take advantage by any currency, this is not a good way to spread awareness about Bitcoin.

The best way to promote is to spread knowledge about it without forcing anyone to adopt or participate, you can conduct a seminar or live streaming but again, don’t force anyone and just share your thoughts about Bitcoin.

Spreading the word of bitcoin through the religious leaders will surely help with effective reach among the common people. As you've mentioned the core purpose of the religious leaders were not to spread the word of bitcoin. Even without such spread it is possible to see good level of cryptocurrency usage and acceptance within Nigeria. These days it is not possible to see religious leaders who are very loyal.

I agree it is quite a good move to involve religious leaders in propagating Bitcoin but I warn you that it is devastating if these religious leaders become greedy and mislead their followers into investing in some Ponzi scheme that exploits Bitcoin as their means to defraud people.  I have seen this kind of situation where a pastor who has huge followers was blinded by greed and invited all his followers to invest in a company pretending to be a Bitcoin trader but actually a Ponzi schemer.  That resulted in lots of people getting scammed.


It is given with the trend of Bitcoin that anyone buying and keeping it during a bear market will eventually get a profit when Bitcoin started to become bullish.  But those who invested during the peak may not see it that way especially when they are not patient enough to wait for another cycle that can record a new ATH.

The idea of the religious leader enlightening their followers about Bitcoin will make some of their followers trust and believe in Bitcoin. However, religion was not about enlightening people about BTC and I also believe most religious leaders cant be aware of the concept of Bitcoin until some of their followers introduce them to it. Meanwhile, I have once seen a church that accepts offerings and tithes in BTC I don't remember where I watch the video.

Convincing someone and explaining the facts beyond the local thoughts is very difficult still i think i can also start a simple campaign in my department in regular classes. As my fellow can pick the point easily and it can be a progressive step anyway. Social Campaigns are a bit difficult reason the typical thinking and point of view but we can change that with our success stories as they know us better then ourselves as we have spent our maximum of time between them.

Introduce this idea to the person who have little knowledge about cryptocurrency but don't know where to go to learn more of it since they are the one will provably got interested about physical promotions you do. And for sure if they can learn those people will also spread the word about good benefits they can get about crypto since if you randomly grab people out of nowhere then provably you will get a rejection since maybe they think that this is irrelevant and you will get rejected by people who don't know anything about bitcoin.

It is not about religious leaders telling their members/followers about bitcoin,  but my question is that how are they going to go about it. Is it that they will just tell members to invest bitcoin because it is profitable and never give proper understanding about bitcoin.  Promoting bitcoin is not just telling  people about bitcoin to invest in it but to give  good understanding about bitcoin why one needs to invest in it and it is not an investment to make one to be rich. Telling people about bitcoin is not only telling them the profit in it but to let them know bitcoin is also about understanding,  preparation not to be frightened by the dip in the market. Making people understanding it will keep them while investing but telling them only the profit story will make them to give up when profit have not been made as they expected.

This is exactly what we should do when recommending bitcoin to someone, I see a lot of people comparing bank savings and holding bitcoins. It seems that those people are partial towards bitcoin when only talking about the benefits of bitcoin, like the huge profits it brings, and full control of the property...and they have ignored its volatility, to assert that holding bitcoin is better than saving. I am also a bitcoin investor, and I invest a lot in bitcoin, but I don't want to lie that saving is entirely useless and bitcoin is perfect. Both have pros and cons.

TBH, I can't think of a reason why somebody must connect religions, churches into Bitcoin.
I can't find any churches that are promoting any crypto project at all. I don't know if religions promoting Bitcoin will be good or bad, but I don't think that they will promote it at all. I mean if they can't benefit from it then they will not do it and besides, not all of the churches know or has been engaged into Bitcoin or crypto in general.

Well, you are thinking of telling to these savers to just invest their money into Bitcoin instead of saving it to banks right?
I can't blame those who wants to save their money into banks because maybe they are lacking of financial literacy thus, they grow up with a mindset of "Save all of the money into our banks".

Another one is there are some savers who can't take the risk of investing into Bitcoin. Do you expect that all of these savers can take the risk of holding an asset that goes up massively, but goes down massively? Do you expect that they will just be ok when they see their investment or in this case savings' account going down because of volatility? I don't think so. After all, there are some factors whether you will invest your money into Bitcoin, or to just let it save in banks. Those elders who are saving money into a bank can't take the risk of taking out their money from banks and put it into Bitcoin.

Hey mate you have spoken fine but I would remind you this that religious organizations are government recognized institutions, they are approved entities to operate as religious body not financial institution or financial advisors so therefore will not want to risk their license in going against the government as they are not certified financial experts. Although religious organizations have large followership, committed and devoted members but that does not mean that they would start telling about finance which I believe not all would accept. As we all know, this is a very sensitive matter as it has to do with financial investment and one needs to be careful when when it gets to this level of getting involved in religious activities. Your religious leaders would only advise you to seek the face of God before going into anything be it business etc but can not tell you where to invest because they too know how sensitive it is and are very careful about it so that you do not put your loss blame on them. Come to talk of it they are not financial experts so why going to them for such? Although they have influence over their members but that does not guarantee that members too would listen to them when it gets to that level as they too are very careful about their investment.

I think if you will use religion for that, it will give bitcoin kinda bad reputation cos it just sounds like manipulation. I think the best way to promote bitcoin is just to show its cons to people. There are still a lot of unbanked people in Africa who might need bitcoin or some people can use bitcoin or stables as a hedge against inflation or just an asset to invest in. Probably the best way to promote it is to just educate people about bitcoin and they will naturally start using it.

I don’t see any relevance bitcoin should be taught in a church just for the goal of promotion. Maybe outside the church it can be possibly done but never when the mass is still going on. Especially that bitcoin is not yet legalized in most countries so it might create a form of opposition on the people around knowing illegal things should never be introduced or promoted particularly from the mouth of religious leaders. So I think I have to disagree to OP that bitcoin should be promoted by religious leaders.

Your thoughts are correct mate because religion plays a pivotal role in the lives of almost every Nigerian. Religious leaders have so much followership that their followers sometimes obey them more than the government. I am sure that immediately after these churches announce that they can receive offerings and other donations in bitcoin, millions of their members might become aware of the currency. And it is possible that some of them might become interested in bitcoin. The only problem this suggestion will face is that banks are restricted from dealing with bitcoin. Most of them might be discouraged because of the Nigerian government's unfriendly attitude towards bitcoin.

Bitcoin is already a religion for a lot of people but i don't think that we should involve churches in it

For things to promote bitcoin by religious leaders in my opinion it is a strange thing and is not an effective step, basically they teach the meaning of life and matters of obligation and prohibition from God, of course they do not have any interest in spreading and explaining bitcoin to their people and more bitcoin is still said to be a new discovery, unlike their centuries-old understanding of religion, of course there will be contradictions if promotions are carried out by any religious leaders and there will be chaos with their adherents. As for religious leaders who are asked about bitcoin, they will definitely answer not on the substance of bitcoin but more on how useful bitcoin is for the people and whether it will be detrimental or not. I think they will only act whether or not bitcoin is used in a religious sect without carrying out any promotion.

There are many ways that we can do to promote bitcoin and introduce it to other people and usually, we only need to tell other people about what we have got through bitcoin. And usually, other people will be interested so they want to know more about bitcoin and some of them end up joining bitcoin.

And if you think your way of promoting bitcoin will work, you can do it anyway. And other people will surely find their own way of promoting bitcoin. What's important is that we don't force them to invest or use bitcoin and we only introduce them to what bitcoin is and how bitcoin can help them because we already get the benefits. Let them decide by themselves.

Bitcoin appreciates as you said, it also depreciates too, if you are going to promote bitcoin through religion I believe this is very wrong, financial investments must not be brought into the house of God, that's so wrong bro.

Also, what makes you think that all those people in the church or mosque will fully understand Bitcoin? Or even agree to invest in Bitcoin? It looks like forcing them to me, churches and mosques consist of older people too, they can't get involved because they don't and won't understand what bitcoin is all about.

This move can easily get you in a big mess if someone does something wrong, either when transacting with BTC or a massive dump happens after they invest in bitcoin, do you know how fast people condemn bitcoin and call it a scam?

I believe church should never be involved in any promotion regardless if it’s legal or illegal, because this may sound like manipulation of the minds of the people to do such things even when they aren’t supposed to do it. Most particularly for bitcoin since it’s a very risky investment, so if one should decide to invest in it, he should be knowledgeable enough and knows exactly the risks involved when investing in bitcoin. Otherwise, he’ll end up losing his hard earned money because of relying his decision from other people.

So you believe that the church, chastised for questionable financial practices such as using donations for personal gain or not being transparent about their finances, can contribute more to raising awareness about bitcoin? Anyone intelligent enough to understand the distinction between religion and finance will find this irritating.

Imagine hearing bitcoin referred to as the "coin chosen by God Almighty" — I'm sure I'd never want to talk about bitcoin ever again if that happens. Religion's only job is to spread gospel not some technical shit that they know nothing about.

This is not right, majority of Nigerian citizens are Muslims, Bitcoin is haram for Muslims due to high risk and there are a lot articles discuss about this matter. I know there's will be an user will disagree with this and give a source if there a Muslim's master saying Bitcoin is legal etc, but it still doesn't change Bitcoin is high risk.

If the banks are debit your funds without cause and reducing your money, it's mean your banks are corrupted. But I think they have a rule which you're not understand why the reason it's happen.

Software wallet is prone of getting hacked, it's not secure to hold for long term.

It doesn't sound so great to me that religious leaders will preach Bitcoin to the believers with the presumption that whatever these leaders say, their followers will blindly comply. In itself, it doesn't sound nice already. It seems the way they get into Bitcoin is antithetic to Bitcoin's philosophy.

Not to mention that these leaders are basically spiritual authorities, probably not well-equipped to make sure the believers know and understand all the implications, especially security matters, regarding Bitcoin.

Regarding religious leaders in both churches and mosques who can tell or teach about Bitcoin, I think this is not a good suggestions, there are so many people who really believe what is conveyed by religious leaders as the true truth, if they teaches about Bitcoin even though theirs doesn't have the appropriate knowledge then it will be like a disaster because you shouldn't let people who don't know Bitcoin properly teach it to many people because this can make them wrong in making decisions and will only make them think that Bitcoin is a way to get rich where this is already a big mistake.

Doesn't promoting Bitcoin through a church sound wrong to you lol? Knowing the fact that people can lose their life savings if they went in without knowing what they're doing.

Spreading bitcoin is not an easy thing, especially for people who don't really understand technology.
we have to slowly teach it, so that people understand and understand about bitcoin.
and teaching bitcoin through religion is not a bad thing, especially the leaders who teach it.
but keep in mind that teaching bitcoin through religious channels must be more significant.

I don't want to cooperate with religious leaders to promote Bitcoin. Let they do their religious jobs.

With religions, people are so fanatic and they can be misled by religious leaders that we can not exclude if you want to use religious leaders to advertise Bitcoin. I see more adverse effects than good effects from this.

Bitcoin itself is already a kind of religion and the Bitcoin religious communities are becoming bigger world wide. If you want to contribute for Bitcoin adoption, let's build your community but please don't mix it with religious communities and religious leaders.

Passing through the religious section might be effective a little bit, not only did I hear but I have seen so many people doing unthinkable things just because their religion leader instructed them to do so.
But before something like this can work it means those head of the religion has to be aware of what Bitcoin is and also know a little bit of how the process works, that way it will be more easier to convince the congregation to adopt Bitcoin.


Don't forget that Bitcoin is volatile meaning it can also depreciate. If you intend to go one with this initiative of yours then you probably should prepare the mind of those you want to enlighten about Bitcoin. If you decides to tell them only about how Bitcoin value can appreciate what then will happen when it starts depreciating and you and I know that those you have spoken with concerning Bitcoin are definitely going to tag you and Bitcoin as a scam.

All I'm trying to say Op is that what ever you do don't just tell people about the advantages /benefits of that thing alone try to also add the disadvantages/risk-involved to it, if they decide that they're cool with it then that's fine rather than them discovering it the hard way.

There are so many ways Bitcoin can be promoted especially here in Nigeria and wold wide.
Firstly religious leaders play a very interesting roles in the life of people and are seen as role models and mentors some see them as a father figure, so what ever this set of people tell there followers that is what exactly they will all do.
With the numbers of churches and mosques that we have I know if Bitcoins is been enlightened to us through this regions then people will trust and believe in BTC, Bitcoin will surely go more far and spread wide with this ideas.
Secondly Bitcoin is better than saving in a bank because it appreciate while it is been saved in our wallets and it is also an investment, so many people complain from there day to day activities with the local banks of been debited without cause and reducing the expected savings this is not a good reputation and Bitcoin has solve this aspect of issues, with the security of wallets, hard ware and software wallets fraud is been reduced making both the old and the young to believe that they are saved from been scammed through BTC.

#Just my thoughts.