Topic: The single biggest thing that will bring Bitcoin to the mainstream in 2015 - page 2. (Read 3889 times)

I hope the companies like newegg and overstock allow their employees to be paid in btc. They could be the leaders in that sort of "cycling" of btc. I've been a wage slave. The banks bleed you over and over. It would probably be very cost efficient over at payroll dept once it's all restructured.
I'd sign up! Put the btc in the hands that will use it!
As for big events? Don't world events tend to not influence btc? Like, user unaffected?

I work in an office full of people who are prime candidates for using Bitcoin. We all work in Europe using euros but get paid in dollars. The bank my co-workers use gouges them on the exchange rate.

I haven't been pushy about it but I just mention Bitcoin as my solution whenever people bring up the horrible exchange rate they are getting.

There are 10 people in my office making 6 figure incomes. A few of them have started to show interest so I pointed them to the exchanges I use and will let them do their research. I am sure by the end of 2015 most of them will get a portion of their checks in bitcoin for their local expenses. And we're just one office in a building of hundreds.

Then we would have to wait for the 5th or 6th movie to find out what happens.

What if Stephen Spielberg decides to make a movie about it?

imo I think were a couple of years away from people getting paid in BTC (at least on a scale enough to make a difference to the general momentum)...

In 2015 I think the big thing will be a 'killer app' that gets the public's attention and gets the facebook~tweeter~instagrammers to start actually using it. 2014 is company adoption milestones, 2015 will be public adoption milestones.

Once we get some actual positive feeling behind BTC from joe-random-public-nontech-community types of people and seeing actual large uptake in casual usage from new comers, then companies might start looking into wages.
I know many people around here think there is plenty of positive momentum in the public, but from what Ive seen talking to people, looking at nonBTC website comment sections when they run a story on BTC, all the media reports etc. etc. the majority feeling from everyone I see is 1. confusion and 2.'isnt that the online currency to buy drugs'? As long as there isnt public knowledge, there wont be enough demand on companies to switch around their salary workflow (which is not so easy actually, so there will need to be a lot of demand for it!).

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OR, in 2015 a country adopts BTC as its legal tender - this then in turn triggering large scale public attention, which converts into public uptake and usage and then companies in that country pay people in BTC....

 

Many other company will accept Bitcoin in 2015. This year and maybe half of the next year will be a sort of catapult for the big company which has decided to accept bitcoin in this 1 and half year. But, I think that, if there will be a solution to increase the number of transaction, market capitalization will be able to reach 100-200 billion of dollar !

I could get my dollars into my bank account and then go to my bank account, find out how much my income was for that paycheck, then go to Coinbase then buy the bitcoins for the amount in my bank account.

Or, skip the bank, have my paycheck go straight to bitcoins and not need a bank account. My plan by 2016 is to no longer have any bank accounts. A few bill pay sites are starting to crop up so this will be very possible. It will be like the day I cancelled my land line telephone, it was risky at the time (everyone had a home phone their whole lives, minutes per month were limited on cell phones, signal was not guaranteed, etc.).

why not just convert your salary to bitcoin yourself?

Yes, I agree with you but this will not happen by chance.
We, all ''happy'' bitcoin users should help and introduce benefits of BTC to people around us, specially to local businesses and merchants.
If we do nothing, and expect that someone else will promote btc instead of us, and do ''our'' job'', we will see very slow progress of BTC in coming years.

That's true. The more I watch the growth of Bitcoin the more I realize that I won't be alive to see it's use become commonplace.

You already get paid in bitcoin for signature campaigns.

wow, it is really curious
could this be use as a payment method in,for example,signature campaigns?

They used to once upon a time before the economic crisis 

I think bitcoin will be the future of the all currency. As many people will be introduced to this. They will absolutely love this cryptocurrency for its benefits. And i am happy to be part of this great things.

That is the Bitcoin world...just like the early days of the Internet. How did the contractors, retail workers first start shopping online or using the Internet? They came to it later, some still preferring to shop in stores.

Interesting, I almost wish I wasn't retired so I could set it up. Almost 

But you're a techie guy, how do you get the contractors, retail workers and everyone else to do it?

I am much better with just a portion being paid in btc. I would be scared to scramble to convert btc to USD in order to pay the mortgage. Again that goes to what your saying cause if bank of america accepted btc for my mortgage payment that would solve that problem.

Looks like they only do ACH.

can Europeans get paid?

They can. I work for a US defense contractor, do you think they would ever start paying in bitcoins? Not likely.

But with a company like bitwage.co I can get paid in bitcoins without my company needing to know anything about Bitcoin.