Topic: We need an incentive to make first world population use Bitcoin - page 2. (Read 3751 times)

I think getting our hard earned money out of the hands of the greedy bastard banks is the best idea to best honest.
For liberation reasons I would say. Also its just cool using magic internet money ^^

The incentives to use bitcoin are already there and are the characteristics that make bitcoin such a great currency, awareness will rise as governments of the world step up in their nonsense of trying to know everything you do, including what you do with your money.

Im not including third/second world because I think eventually people that don't have access to banks will naturally see Bitcoin as the solution, but as of right now, the average person in a first world country in a regular situation, if they learn about Bitcoin they will threat it as something that is worth holding long term, like gold, but not something that's worth paying groceries for with, or anything ordinary. I mean, why would anyone pay something you can buy with fiat already, without having to change your fiat to BTC, losing money in the conversion?

This is why we need an incentive, such as cheaper prices. Purse.io is the only reason I know of why I would want to pay with BTC. Other than that, I see no reason and I value my BTC too much to spend on "stuff".

Therefore it is established that we need to incentive people to use it.

If we can't find any ways to do so, Bitcoin will remain as a new form of electronic gold with special features, maybe until "Government Coin" is launched and millions of people start looking for alternatives (since with "Government Coin" it will mean physical cash, that is paper and metal coins, will be removed from circulation, this may be the point where Bitcoin goes to 100k+ per coin, since the entire underground economy will not simply stop existing, but it will find its way for alternatives, and Bitcoin will be the best alternative)

But until then, like I said before, I don't see real reasons of why the average joe is going to pay with BTC, specially when they don't get paid in BTC, because if you get paid directly in BTC you are more prone to spend it, since you don't need to do the stupid fiat->BTC->buy conversion.

Exactly. So many threads about the same thing. Until somebody spends some casn nothing is going to ahppen.

An incentive? Let's think first about who will provide it. Who will pay for it? Who will organize it? The BTC foundation? Coinbase? Your family? All the users of this forum?

Looking back at my post, I think it's clear that we are not going to see a mainstream adoption of the first world until the governments get rid of cash because until then the average person is not going to miss its use. The average person uses cash constantly, so once you take cash away from them we will see what's obvious: they will look for an alternative and here is when bitcoin gill get massively adopted as the substitute for the underground economy.

Absolutely right, the right way before that can happen is the way we provide an understanding of what is bitcoin? and what are the advantages of using bitcoin. With that I think we can make it above. Because I believe bitcoin users are still only a few percent of the population of the earth.

First of all to make it possible u have to make more and more people educated about it then only u can expect that to happen .and there should be more and more bitcoin cards and atm cards and there should be erasion of dark markets .

the main objection people have against bitcoin is simple
"what can i do with bitcoin once i have it"

so the obvious solution is to make bitcoin spendable. eg if you can buy toilet paper, car gasoline and baked beans. (travel, food, toiletries) then everyone will see bitcoin is not just speculative but actually real and useful.

I don't know about debit/credit cards, people will have to buy bitcoins to deposit on a card, don't look pratical... They can skip the bitcoin and save money.

ATM for me are a little bit useless right now.

The real point here is make the people accept bitcoin in the commerce, I think we can start by online stores and things like that since the block timer isn't pratical to local stores.

About the cars... Who have 50+ bitcoin to buy a car? I don't see much people buying.

A few things that would help spread awareness and expand adoption are:
1) More bitcoin debit and credit cards
2) More bitcoin ATMs
3) More retailers and service providers that accept bitcoin. I know that Tesla accepts bitcoin, but imagine if General Motors or Mercedes accepted it? Both manufacturers have vast, international user bases. I think there are some synergies that could be cross marketed with one of their hybrid or electric vehicles. And even if you could not purchase a new vehicle with bitcoin, a step in the right direction would be to accept car note or lease payments in bitcoin.