Where are the innovation to promote Bitcoin?

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Quote from: justspare on October 04, 2016, 01:12:30 AM

Quote from: davis196 on October 04, 2016, 01:08:39 AM

Quote from: Kprawn on October 03, 2016, 11:36:03 AM

A few years ago, this forum was as busy as a Bee, with people trying to promote Bitcoin. The price was close to $1000 and people were

dishing out give-aways and doing treasure hunts and Puzzles.. and everyone had loads of fun. Lately, we only see Ponzi schemes and

cloud mining and people trying to take money from other people. Let's see some tipping on forums and Bitcoin Air drops and some active

Bitcoin promotion again, to increase adoption. Let's bring back the good ole days! Roll Eyes

There`s no point of promoting bitcoin here,because this is a bitcoin forum. Grin

We should promote bitcoin on social media,youtube and blogs.

Promotion requires investing money and efforts.

That is definitely true, but the point that there were a lot more people on this forum a couple of years ago still stands. That then poses the question of why did so many people leave the forum if Bitcoin was booming at that time.

I was not here at that time, but I have two guesses:
Maybe the old members just evolved.
They became something like the founding generation of bitcoin. Running businsses earning massive money. Maybe they still have connections amongst each other, but they do not need this forum anymore.
My second thought is that they eventually got bored.
Perhaps even because of too many signature campaigns. It is hard to find good posts here when they are hidden in tons of half liners and quotes.

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I don't think this forum is the best way to promote...
We need to accept bitcoin "offline", in any places, stores, etc, so all people can see it like REAL money, not just giveaways to bump the price..

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I would much rather see all this money going into discounts at big merchants to encourage new users to rather buy the cheaper goods and services with the Bitcoin discount, than the more expensive alternative with fiat and other payment options.

How much effort would it take to implement Bitcoin into your PoS systems and/or online eCommerce sites and then to offer huge discounts on specific items, if customers pay with Bitcoin? If people see these discounts, they would investigate further, and possibly become Bitcoin users.

The Freebies and Giveaways was nice, but people misused these opportunities for monetary gain. ^hmmmmm^

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i am satisfied with your post , earlier daily best service launching , new plan (true ) launched , Always a better thinking and discussion was about Bitcoin . but at the current time only few services for Bitcoin are honestful .

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Quote from: davis196 on October 04, 2016, 01:08:39 AM

Quote from: Kprawn on October 03, 2016, 11:36:03 AM

A few years ago, this forum was as busy as a Bee, with people trying to promote Bitcoin. The price was close to $1000 and people were

dishing out give-aways and doing treasure hunts and Puzzles.. and everyone had loads of fun. Lately, we only see Ponzi schemes and

cloud mining and people trying to take money from other people. Let's see some tipping on forums and Bitcoin Air drops and some active

Bitcoin promotion again, to increase adoption. Let's bring back the good ole days! Roll Eyes

There`s no point of promoting bitcoin here,because this is a bitcoin forum. Grin

We should promote bitcoin on social media,youtube and blogs.

Promotion requires investing money and efforts.

That is definitely true, but the point that there were a lot more people on this forum a couple of years ago still stands. That then poses the question of why did so many people leave the forum if Bitcoin was booming at that time.

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Quote from: Kprawn on October 03, 2016, 11:36:03 AM

A few years ago, this forum was as busy as a Bee, with people trying to promote Bitcoin. The price was close to $1000 and people were

dishing out give-aways and doing treasure hunts and Puzzles.. and everyone had loads of fun. Lately, we only see Ponzi schemes and

cloud mining and people trying to take money from other people. Let's see some tipping on forums and Bitcoin Air drops and some active

Bitcoin promotion again, to increase adoption. Let's bring back the good ole days! Roll Eyes

There`s no point of promoting bitcoin here,because this is a bitcoin forum. Grin

We should promote bitcoin on social media,youtube and blogs.

Promotion requires investing money and efforts.

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I've been trying to promote Bitcoin by including it as a payment option on my sites, but so far I haven't had any people use it. But, I'm still a small player, so I'm optimistic for the future. Ifmore people included Bitcoin as a payment option, then obviously it would expand the market.

Bitcoin is a great payment option, it's time we used it.

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I don't know why this has happened though. You would think that more people would join the forum with the amount of advertising going on, but the opposite happened.

Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on October 03, 2016, 12:20:28 PM

Mainstream adoption & media interest in bitcoin seems to have died down recently. It's all a bit disappointing at the moment. We HODL on though.

Edit - Just to add that yeah I agree with the OP, the forum is so quiet now compared to how it used to be.

I wasn't around at the start of the forum but I had a few friends that were and they said it was much more popular a couple of years ago.

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Quote from: OROBTC on October 03, 2016, 01:19:57 PM

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1) More merchants of all kinds accept Bitcoin. Ask those with whom you do business if they would accept BTC!

Bitcoin is not matching for be implementing in a real merchant...

Quote from: OROBTC on October 03, 2016, 01:19:57 PM

2) More people start buying and using it. Tell your friends and family.

I agree with this just starting from your close friend and not directly for aiming a big deal before.

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Why not ask the Dogecoin community for help in organizing a promotion. I am certain that they have really nice ideas in mind. Also it will be easier for the Bitcoin community to promote Bitcoins because it is already proven as the most valuable cryptocurrency.

Maybe also a twin promotion will do the trick. Have the Dogecoiners promote Dogecoin and Bitcoin side by side like a friendly alliance.

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Quote from: Kprawn on October 03, 2016, 02:26:10 PM

Well these promotions was not done on this forum only, it was done on campus and public areas and people came here to brag and to

share. It was fun seeing all these things happening in the scene. Yes, it might not be the ideal method to promote Bitcoin, but it was a

load of fun. Let's just bring back that feeling.. of excitement and forward thinking. It's all business these days... boring! Wink

i have been involved in alot of promoting. and it seemed that alot of the givaways just meandered and ended up as just circlejerking between people already involved with bitcoin trying to grab some free income. such as bitcoin prizes at bitcoin meetups. giveaways on this forum. and bitcoin things within bitcoin conventions.

we need to go outside of bitcoin conferences. we need to not offer airdrops only available if you have a ticket to a bitcoin centric seminar at a bitcoin friendly college.

things like
normal retailers selling normal products for fiat. giving away bitcoins as a free bonus.
every city having a bitcoin meetup to organise the next day of promote bitcoin in their city.. rather then just sit and talk about the glory of core.
use meetups to set up face to face exchanging or form idea's that help your city expand

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Quote from: RodeoX on October 03, 2016, 01:28:42 PM

It is disappointing to see the all the energy about economic freedom turn to greed. First the grass roots projects began to dry up, then infighting ruined whatever organized attempts by groups like the bitcoin foundation were tried. Now it's just a lot of "Wut computer buttons do I push to get rich?". Few even seem to want bitcoin, they are just using it to get fiat.

Well brothers, bitcoin will grow because of what YOU DO. For example: Message Amazon today and demand to pay with bitcoin. It would take 5 mins. and if a tiny fraction of us did this it would happen tomorrow and bitcoin would soar. So ask not what bitcoin can do for you, but what you can do for bitcoin.

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Well these promotions was not done on this forum only, it was done on campus and public areas and people came here to brag and to

share. It was fun seeing all these things happening in the scene. Yes, it might not be the ideal method to promote Bitcoin, but it was a

load of fun. Let's just bring back that feeling.. of excitement and forward thinking. It's all business these days... boring! Wink

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Quote from: Kprawn on October 03, 2016, 11:36:03 AM

A few years ago, this forum was as busy as a Bee, with people trying to promote Bitcoin. The price was close to $1000 and people were

dishing out give-aways and doing treasure hunts and Puzzles.. and everyone had loads of fun. Lately, we only see Ponzi schemes and

cloud mining and people trying to take money from other people. Let's see some tipping on forums and Bitcoin Air drops and some active

Bitcoin promotion again, to increase adoption. Let's bring back the good ole days! Roll Eyes

Im still going to meetings on Capital City Helsinki Finland

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Yes i am too bored with the stable piece of bitcoin neither the rate is rising nor dropping. I can't decide whether to bit or sell bitcoin. So introducing new innovation in bitcoin would be hugely welcomed.I am just working a site where user can discuss about various works related to computing and in exchange they can pay tips. Paying tips will increase their rank and respect and having more respect will have them opportunity to earn more money from campaign of my site.

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Quote from: xdrpx on October 03, 2016, 01:40:26 PM

I used to remember the time when there were a lot of airdrops and giveaways on /r/bitcoin and people swarmed to collect these and lots of fake accounts were created just for the sake of abusing such giveaways. Also in the long run, promoting Bitcoin by means of having airdrops or giveaways isn't healthy cause it limits others from realizing the core value of Bitcoin. Lets treat Bitcoin like any other form of currency, and it's good for people to earn it than to receive it for free.

a giveaway might be a good way to bring in some new folks, but this forum or r/bitcoin is not a good place for it. go on the streets and give it away there. but who would pay for it?

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I used to remember the time when there were a lot of airdrops and giveaways on /r/bitcoin and people swarmed to collect these and lots of fake accounts were created just for the sake of abusing such giveaways. Also in the long run, promoting Bitcoin by means of having airdrops or giveaways isn't healthy cause it limits others from realizing the core value of Bitcoin. Lets treat Bitcoin like any other form of currency, and it's good for people to earn it than to receive it for free.

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Quote from: beerlover on October 03, 2016, 01:15:14 PM

Achieving big price levels would be most effective self explanatory way of promoting bitcoins. Higher prices of bitcoin will turn each and every one's head toward bitcoin.

basic but true. excitement's pretty low these days despite the fact that you could've made some very good gains if you'd bought at the right time. the way the world works is that the dumb only get excited when a bubble's about to peak. then we have another few years of bitter newbies to enjoy.

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seems like people want to hold their bitcoin and at the same time get some free promotion. yeah you go and promote bitcoin, so the price raises and i hold on to it and make a profit.
i guess people then where more driven by the idea to create a better wold and not only score some profit.

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It is disappointing to see the all the energy about economic freedom turn to greed. First the grass roots projects began to dry up, then infighting ruined whatever organized attempts by groups like the bitcoin foundation were tried. Now it's just a lot of "Wut computer buttons do I push to get rich?". Few even seem to want bitcoin, they are just using it to get fiat.

Well brothers, bitcoin will grow because of what YOU DO. For example: Message Amazon today and demand to pay with bitcoin. It would take 5 mins. and if a tiny fraction of us did this it would happen tomorrow and bitcoin would soar. So ask not what bitcoin can do for you, but what you can do for bitcoin.

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