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Topic: What will popularize Bitcoin? (Read 1674 times)

legendary
Activity: 1918
Merit: 1570
Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
January 18, 2012, 12:02:34 PM
#7
There are so many things.

Greed, longterm and ripples.
Its here to stay.

Thats what will make Bitcoin huge.

Grass roots
Small online business
Speculators
Middle size business
Inflation vs Bitcoins
Black market
Money transfering


More and more people and small business start having an adress.


Tee-Shirt idea:

                                1QBDLYTDFHHZAABYSKGKPWKLSXZWCCJQBX

                                                      What's Your Address?

(that's a real address I C&P from another thread)

Note, I didn't ask "what's you Bitcoin address" thereby leaving enough to the imagination, but a Bitcoin logo on the back of the shirt would work. Or do it reversed: logo front; message back.
hero member
Activity: 523
Merit: 500
January 18, 2012, 09:15:58 AM
#6
There are so many things.

Greed, longterm and ripples.
Its here to stay.

Thats what will make Bitcoin huge.

Grass roots
Small online business
Speculators
Middle size business
Inflation vs Bitcoins
Black market
Money transfering


More and more people and small business start having an adress.
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1105
WalletScrutiny.com
January 18, 2012, 09:02:45 AM
#5
I kind of gave up on brick and mortar business. Maybe some internet business. Most likely ever growing mass of speculators supporting a long time bull market hitting critical distribution at some point so amazon and co. accept it and it becomes a currency.
we don't have a hen egg problem as bitcoin already works good for speculation. with growing volume, the rest can and will follow.
mav
full member
Activity: 169
Merit: 107
January 18, 2012, 06:21:05 AM
#4
NFC + iPhone5 + iPhone wallet app. To me, this is the combo that will result in retailers saying 'yeah we can feasibly do bitcoin now' and then it snowballs from there.

When the hipsters can do it, everyone will realise it's a real thing.
hero member
Activity: 812
Merit: 1006
January 18, 2012, 04:34:28 AM
#3
It will be REALLY lite-weight bitcoin client app for mobile devices,
that will not need to download entire blockchain.

Lighter than Bitcoin Spinner?

Bitcoin Spinner is good, but I like the Electrum model more. And we need a lightweight client for iPhones, because iPhone suers are usually the early adopters.

And currency conversion built-in would be nice feature for those apps, so that people can easily send money back and forth.
newbie
Activity: 38
Merit: 0
January 17, 2012, 11:46:19 PM
#2
Major crime-syndicate adoption  Tongue

A celebrity endorsement would be nice...  Kanye rapped about euros as a "safe-haven" currency.  If he rapped about bitcoin it would spike interest.  Nerds are "in" right now they're "super cool."
donator
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1006
Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
January 17, 2012, 10:57:24 PM
#1
It's gotta blow up sometime.
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