Best explanation of BTC and FTC
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Pay Google in FTC to promote our cause :) 1-3 FTC per click.
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I first heard this allegory here: [url=http://letstalkbitcoin.com/the-island-of-stone-bitcoins/#.UrjPTNJDt8E]http://letstalkbitcoin.com/the-island-of-stone-bitcoins/#.UrjPTNJDt8E[/url]
Personally I thought it was INCREDIBLY well reasoned. The ah-ha moment happened for me when he said, (I’m paraphrasing, not quoting) ‘All our Bitcoins are effectively sunk at the bottom of the ocean, and we use cryptography to keep a record of who owns what instead of relying on the villagers memory.’
It’s also written in a much less formal voice, which I enjoy. “Take all this insufferable jargon and add the fact that any given person you’re explaining it to has used fiat currency notes their whole life and you have a recipe for… for nothing. Probably, nothing. There is a slightest sliver of possibility they will understand and take interest, and the much greater likelihood they will become exasperated and simply hate the stuff out of frustration and I’m getting angry just thinking about it actually. You’re more likely to create a frothing madman who calls Bitcoin a pyramid scheme (showing equally poor understanding of Bitcoin AND pyramid schemes) than an excited new adopter.”
There’s an audio version on the page as well.
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Kevlar, I love that link. That is the exact thing I was talking about. That story + a flash video of a cartoon, about 5 minutes long = mucho mucho help.
Would there be a way to make the video (lets say a community thing) and then every time I play it (or each hour, day, week, etc I would want to) I could pay X FTC. That way, its props to the O.G. and I get a tool to help explain this to my “friends.”
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Facebook. Campaign. :o
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I really like this chart for those uses:
[url=http://i.imgur.com/Q8MMhcC.jpg]http://i.imgur.com/Q8MMhcC.jpg[/url]
peace
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It shouldn’t be a ‘crypto’ currency, it should be rebranded a ‘community currency’.
rewording is key.
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[quote name=“goodheads” post=“47474” timestamp=“1387965847”]
It shouldn’t be a ‘crypto’ currency, it should be rebranded a ‘community currency’.rewording is key.
[/quote]Like the same way they re-branded “Anthropogenic Climate Change” to just strait out “Global Warming”.
I was been sarcastic as well. But yes. Wording can have a very strong impact on people who don’t understand the topic.
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I like the idea of community currency. Some towns in the UK have already got their own currencies, so that residents can spend local.
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My thoughts exactly, but not just “older” people. The general public needs educating on what this actually is. It’s so new we don’t really know what to do with it. (I could write a lengthy post of my personal thoughts about how we’re doing it wrong, but I’ll leave that for another time)
It’s feels similar to the ca.1996 era of the internet. People knew about, heard about it, but weren’t aware of the potential.
One of the things I’ve been working on this past month is registering a organization/firm/company. In my country any kind of firm or even charity needs an official number etc. There’s a site were anybody can search for any given company, find the description and registered number.
The description for what I’ve set up states: “PR and marketing, with a focus on education and enlightening about future innovations.”
This isn’t much per se, however it brings a little more trust to whoever I’m getting in touch with that I’m not a random dude trying to scam them or whatever they might believe. I’ve had to stop myself a few times, 'cos I thought to myself that I must sound like a crazy person to somebody that has barely heard of Bitcoin (except the fact that they heard it was worth quite a lot a month back).
Another thing, with any new tech or innovation, it’s the up and coming generation that takes to it. Children are taught about the concept and value of money, when adults themselves don’t really understand what money actually is.
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Do you think people need to know about the blockchain?
Perhaps it’s only important that they know about the aspects that are relevant to them specifically, like:
1. it’s a new place to store your money
2. you avoid paying bank fees completely
3. there’s the possibility that you might earn a return as an early adopter (but that isn’t the point of it)
4. Feathercoin is the ‘community currency’, because it’s backed up by a huge community of real people.I feel like all the other technical information should be available for those who want to learn more, but initially to get people on the hook, I don’t think you need to go into that much detail.
If banks told you all the technical aspects of how they stored your money, you’d be confused right away.
This is from a marketing perspective.
Thoughts?
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[quote name=“goodheads” post=“47570” timestamp=“1388013686”]
Do you think people need to know about the blockchain?If banks told you all the technical aspects of how they stored your money, you’d be confused right away.
This is from a marketing perspective.
Thoughts?
[/quote]The problem is they think that bitcoin is like paper money or gold with no intrinsic value,
Paper and gold have one determining factor of value:
What you spend it on.Bitcoin has an additional factor of value:
Bitcoin is a protection system, a security guard for transactions.If people don’t understand this they will ask for unnecessary regulations coming from friends of bankers who want to kill Bitcoin. They must be informed of this or we will all lose.
I remember when geeks had to beg til blueface that technology writers explain to people that viruses and trojans are not the same thing. The result of their “marketing opinion”: More vulnerabilities and more unsafe behavior by computer users.
So yes they need to understand the blockchain.
The blockchain is like a built-in Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Yes, you can lose money if you get hacked. No, you cannot lose money if someone tries to mess with the network itself.
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Surely everyone is aware of the video on weusecoins.com?
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo#ws]What is Bitcoin?[/url]
It’s pretty good for explaining in layman’s terms.
Perhaps an adaptation of this video with something tacked onto the end touting Feathercoin as the best of the bunch, as it has a community backing.
