Topic: organising crypto currency mainstreaming (Read 1655 times)

Good idea to start a thread and get some ideas generated.

Firstly,

Comments on yours :-

1) great merchant to adopt bitcoin just-eat.com - Really agree with this one, I've thought the same myself
3) to list all the PR video's/ professional tutorials - We need more material, googling bitcoin isn't helpful (lets be honest - bitcoin is going to be very hard for some people to get there head around, more videos etc need to be produced - anyone working on anything?
5) no mention of silk road/propaganda - keep it professional and legitimate to gain bitcoin credibility - completely, I'm getting sick of bitcoin being touted as the drug currency, its giving it a bad name, one that people dismiss straight away because of this link, I've also seen Anonymous and hackers mentioned to many times when dealing with the "general public", as you say people need to be professional when dealing with other professionals.

I'd add into the mix,

1) TV Adverts - crowd fund a bitcoin advert on TV (I'm in the UK so am thinking the UK market, but why not anywhere?) once some of the other stuff is sorted out, this would really be one of the more final things perhaps.

2) Arrange local meetups with local merchants, demo's etc - the material that im sure will be created can act as the glue that holds all the demo's together so people all get the same view of bitcoin.

3) Perhaps we (I saw "we" lol) could put together business cases for the larger merchants, ie if we can show them there are savings to be had and little setup cost = win!

4) Judging by how well square have been doing of late with small merchants, I'd say  do this - go for the market traders etc, organize meetings with entire markets.

5) I think people need to start telling people to sit down before they tell them about bitcoin - might come as a shock to some

What's wrong with appointing yourself and who hasn't appointed himself in BTC? Libertarian = appointing yourself, it's not Pasivitarian you know. Just, the idea is to appoint yourself to something that you can actually do and that makes sense to be done, which is where the trouble starts.

I don't trust the foundation people because in my head, those guysself-appointed themselves.  Be libertarian about it, let people come to bitcoin on their own, the more you force it, the less they'll like it.

I for one think it's a great idea to tell people about using bitcoin to go on the Silk Road, I've had many people ask about it, none that would actually buy bitcoins, but hey, at least they are a bit more informed about the coins and their inner workings, evenif for a fix or something.

Let people turn to biutcoins when the need to launder money or evade taxes arises.

I mean, look at Greece and what their people are coming to, they have shunned money and gone back to barter, as they should have a while ago, because you can't do a damn thing in Greece without getting taxed out your eye balls.

Money laundering for the Greeks, is a basic friggin' necessity.

They could REALLY use bitcoin, and should really get into it before the Euro collapses if it ever does.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/02/euro-greece-barter-poverty-crisis

Isn't this great idea what the great idea of the foundation was all about and going rapidly nowhere at that?

ok ill start off the thread with some idea's brought to my attention
1) great merchant to adopt bitcoin just-eat.com
2) a place for merchants to get access to all the UPTO-DATE info and verified links to source material to get started
3) to list all the PR video's/ professional tutorials
4) opt-in-opt-out business directory which also updates and removes listing found to be scams.
5) no mention of silk road/propaganda - keep it professional and legitimate to gain bitcoin credibility
6) once established 'vet the business' offering them a seal of approval once deemed credible.
7) guide for local face to face trading etiquette

any more great idea's?

a few people are collectively developing a website to organise the mainstreaming of crypto currencies for merchants.

the idea so far is this:
* a single place for everyone to submit idea's of real world merchants they want to see accepting crypto currency.
* the whole community voting on the best merchants to concentrate on first, and work down the list as things progress
* gather idea's for PR and other activities to successfully get merchants to adopt crypto currency.
* include activities like interested parties/ established customers of the merchant to email the merchant simple questions "do you accept bitcoin? will you consider accepting it in the future?" to spark the merchants interest, due to customer demand.
* use all gathered information for a respected representative to then have meetings with the merchant. (no person is a candidate yet but imagine established PSP guys like bitinstant or bitpay or other great PR guys to be doing the meetings)

other idea's is to get lists of the 2000 merchants bitpay already has, and other crypto currency accepting business listing all in one place.
to list any special offers these businesses have for crypto currency customers.

now for your input. please reply with other idea's of what you would like to have on this website that will aid the mainstreaming plans.

pre-empting some replys
why dont we just use this forum?
we want it to be a separate space for a more organised and structured way to gauge the communities idea's, thoughts and plans of main-streaming our beloved currencies, away from the other topics of scams, silkroad chatter and other things. there have been attempts to highlight potential businesses on these forums in the past, but the single voices get drowned out amongst the other members, with their thoughts and opinions who side line the topic (in other words trolls).

please do not reply, with negative thoughts. we want idea's please.