Topic: #OccupyWallStreet Idea - Massive promotion - page 2. (Read 9323 times)

This could be an issue. Im getting back from lots of people, "is that feedtheprotest trustworthy?   i.e., how do we know it isn't feedthescammer?"  Is there some way they could verify what they are doing?

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a little offtopic, but check this out: http://www.observer.com


it will be awesome if some of those occupywallstreet stories start including a line or two about bitcoin.

(perhaps someone more organised can leave something in the comments section linking back to this bitcoin promo).

Helping the organization become aware of how to use bitcoin will be vital imo for the movements success more than they realize.
If they stop the flow of donations, it can certainly have a tremendous effect to the growth and survival of the movement.

It's only a matter of time before Paypal and the banks freeze all their funds no different than Wikileaks if they haven't tried already.
This is nothing new and I'm sure many already expect it and even welcome it to fuel the movement even further.

Excellent idea, can't wait to see it launched.

Agreed. This kind of stuff used to happen all the time here.  Now most people wast their effort making bold, unqualified statements.

When's this project going live?

We need way more community marketing projects like this one! This is the one thing we've been missing that could make Bitcoin much bigger. I hope this one succeeds and starts a new trend of community marketing projects.

reddit up http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ktz1b/the_occupywallstreet_bitcoin_promotion_people_on/

#ObsoleteWallStreet

I think it will last for a long time. It's been a long time coming for OccupyWallStreet imo and it's only going to spread to other cities.

This is a golden opportunity for bitcoin. People need to learn that bitcoin is a way to peacefully protest against Wall St. and gradually give the power back to the people.

Not necessarily.  Keep a list of all addresses that are funded.  Give the card an expiration.  If the Instawallet funds aren't spent by a certain date and time, they get recirculated to a new Instawallet address.

How long do you think this protest will last?

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Okay this idea is moving forward quickly. 

We are likely not going to do a "preloaded" card with money on it... it is more elegant but time and cost issues are a problem (mostly sequential printing, lost donations, etc.)

OperationBitcoin.com or .org will be the landing page where we send people via QR code on a printed business card. Business card will be short and sweet, landing page will be more descriptive, indicating how to claim free btc, get wallet, and other resources.

I encourage any of the interested donors to join our chat. Several of us are in the IRC room #operationbitcoin

that's great!

(slight typo at the bitcoin.org link, where the preceding space is caught up in the href)

also, i took the liberty of creating this link which anyone can verify as correct.

I've changed the exchange pointer to bitcoin.org, and the announcement is now online http://feedtheprotest.com/node/223

a) instead of writing some external script to generate and fund all the instawallet urls, why not just ask the owners of instawallet to generate them in-house and give you the list? it would be far more efficient.

b) i was also thinking a way to get more people to redeem their links would be to have *some* of them contain 1 or 5 or maybe 10 btc.... (while most contain 0.01 btc, they could be like those instant scratch lottery tickets where you win 'up to' a certain amount... a top prize).

I think that this project would be better served by trying to avoid any tie-in with any established or upcoming for-profit organization, bitcoin related or otherwise.  If/when they reference any such organization, I would be more comfortable if the label lived amongst a list of all such organization, or better yet, was simply a pointer to such a list at bitcoin.org.  (I mention this due to the specific pointer to Mt Gox in the proposed letter.  By the same token, I would prefer that instawallet be encouraged to supply links to more than just Tradehill if that service is to be leveraged for this project.)

I would like it if whoever purchases the domain name to promise that it not be sold and to put up a 'closed' static page if/when it is retired.  It is more important to me that the domain name be in escrow than any funding.

I think that any person or organization making donations (either financial or technical) should be listed if they wish to be, but that the project should not show any sign of giving preferential treatment to such an organization due to such a contribution.

These are just my suggestions.  I've no interest in or ability to make demands.  I will, of course, be more likely to contribute to the project if I feel that my contribution will not be abused at some point and will end up promoting a more healthy ecosystem.  And I do NOT feel the domination by a small number of large players contributes to this.  I'll be pissed if I contribute to this thing, it goes well, then gets gobbled up by Tradehill or Mt Gox.

I think you should promote exchangebitcions.com instead of Mt. Gox.  Not because I work for them or anything but because they are by far the easiest way to get money in and out (deposits via BOA and withdraws by ACH or Check. .  Plus they are US based.   Dealing with Mt. Gox to get money in there can be a turnoff to some.