Topic: Next Thursday I will have 20 minutes to present bitcoin to 150 businessmen/women - page 3. (Read 5006 times)

It would be cool if you sell bitcoins in front of them via mtgox, to show how easy is to turn your bitcoins into local currency

I would not get into the technical aspects of bitcoin, I would really concentrate on keeping it it very simple, and speak to them from the viewpoint of how it can benefit them and their businesses.  I suppose you can also throw out that it is decentralized, non-governmental, etc.... But most people don't have a damn clue of fiat money policies propagated by world governments.

Sounds like you understand a good monetary technology when you see one.

Attempting to endow monetary information technologies with moralistic, subjective judgement hooks, triggers and data-mining functionality clauses merely serves to compromise them and create inferior products that the market will discount and ultimately reject outright.

Edit: i didnt read most of the posts, just seen the topic so feel free to take on any idea's i have or ignore any

Don't highlight about mining as a way of gaining wealth. due to ASICS(future tense) and FPGA's making it not worthy of people mining with their standard computer. They don't want to get excited about the thought of free money creation, to then have their first try of it as .. "2 pennies a day, what a scam"

treat it as the benefits of money transmission, without borders or ATM's or bank managers involvement. show them the map of how many locations of people nearby are happily buying and selling coins. and a list of merchants accepting bitcoin.

memory dealers(bitcoin store)
cupcakes
alpaca socks
wordpress
web hosting
(find only legit businesses to promote. steer away from mentioning SR)

i know many here see's SR as the niche market that brought life into bitcoin and made it the success of value it is. but merchants dont want to hear about that. the media does that all on its own, so no reason to keep highlighting SR.

just stick to a simple thing of "dollars are used by people on street corners, so is bitcoin. its ease of use, straight forward transactions makes it great for anyone, good or bad"


put about $36 of your own money to the conference (1.5BTC @ $24BTC spot)

print out 150 business cards all with a QR code relating to a private key containing a small amount of BTC on it. (0.01btc)

then during the talk you can either say "if u look under your seats you will find....." or "after the talk if you want to try it out with a small amount of free bitcoin, come take one of these cards".

spend a couple minutes on how they can 'upload' / 'import' the funds into a webclient to then send it to a friend or another person in the audience. or by playing the offline game below trading it in real life using the paper wallet (business cards).

tell them its worth 10c each and you wil happily buy it back off them for 10c each or they can sell it to a more interested person in the audience for 10c each.

and it might have a benefit to mention what do all of these:


have in common that bitcoin does not. they are all reliant on a bank

Oh yeah what a great point for a currency. Helps you avoid paying taxes! Hell why we're at it, we can avoid gambling regulation and buy drugs too!

It's a hard currency that is not controlled by politics or any specific organization.

go ahead, tell me that you have your's memorized.  i'd be impressed.

Bourne would've just memorized the whole private key (they're not that long, anyways).

You should start the show with this clip from <>:



Bourne need to hide his money in a swiss bank account, but you only need to hide your asset in a mini private key, and even better a brain wallet password  

Hey Mark, I'm the co-founder of a trading platform launching in a few weeks and live in Las Vegas too. We're going to base the company out of Los Angeles, but I'd love to get together while I'm in town.

Sweet - Off to the printer once I get a suitable portrait.

At any rate, if there are any more resources anyone of you would recommend to me to consult to see examples of bitcoin explained clearly, please let me know.

Mark

yes.

not exactly... goverment can prohibit gold... goverment can prohibit torrent tracker... goverment can try to prohibit p2p... but it is very difficult to prohibit p2p... conclusion - anti-fragility of bitcoin much greater than anti-fragility of gold (remember The Roosevelt Gold Confiscation Order Of April 3 1933)... this is the point why bitcoin better than gold... the goverment can collect gold... the govement can collect bitcoin... the goverment can regulate distribution of gold... the goverment can not regulate distribution of bitcoin...

I think that the first question that you should ask yourself is, what do I want them to understand?

-the libertarian "the gov. will never be able to touch my money again" mess
-the "bitcoin is worth at least 10 times its now (possibly untrue) you should invest" stuff
-the irreversible transactions advantages
-the amazingness of giving a currency to the people

Etc etc etc.

I think that first of all you should mark a list of points.

The analogy you're looking for is easy.

The word they all know that perfectly describes decentralized is, "Internet."

Ah wow - thanks for the factual correction on the Iran story.  I never bothered to verify it.  I will strike that.

The advice on including a payment processor such as bitpay.com is good, I will add that.

Also, I appreciate the advice on presenting bitcoin as a payment network.  That is good, as well as the identity components.  I may work that into my talk and integrate it into that article.

Don't forget walletbit.com