Real Bitcoin.
here is the order in which things should happen if you want longterm success.
3﴿ INCOME:bitcoin jobs
4﴿ EDUCATION: good guide to newbies
5﴿ DATABASE:a bitcoin search engine
6﴿ GLOBAL ECONOMY: Global financial problems could boost bitcoin's growth
2﴿ PUBLIC OPINION:PR teams to improve bitcoin's public opinion
1﴿ MARKETING:organized promotion campaigns
7﴿ SOCIAL ASPECT:a more integrated & united community
8﴿ LEADERSHIP:social Idols promoting/endorsing/using their influence to help bitcoin
9﴿ CAPITAL EXPANSION: a stable lending system
10﴿ GENDER RELATIONS:women interested in Bitcoin
if anyone believes the order is incorrect and that an increase of users should come before usefulness/understanding.. then i guess your end goal is just a price speculated spike and not a bitcoin economic and infrastructural growth.
points (2) and (1) should not be community funded. but bitcoin business funded.
Nice way to put it, but I think Marketing and PO are the most important, because that is how you introduce people to BTC.
If there is a non-bitcoin person out there and you introduce him to BTC, but he heard about all crazy crap going on around bitcoin, he will be scared to join.
So, a positive PR is definitely needed. Some positive events that could show the world that bitcoin is GOOD (or atleast neutral, judge the wielder not the sword)
skipping to mass marketing/PR and shouting that bitcoin is a new utopian world, but not having any means for people to get onboard, is a futile effort.
so before even telling the world to get on board. we need to build the training facilities. we need to build the easy access ships.
that involves compiling all the learning material first. linking businesses who can offer people jobs. linking businesses who offer products and services to spend.
then... and only then would it be ready for mass adoption..
after all there is no point spending $30million on tv/youtube advertising.. if when people say yea bitcoin is great.. they then get lost, not finding the right information. not knowing if they should trust which exchange. not even finding an exchange to get their currency.. or not even finding a job that pays in bitcoins or not finding somewhere locally to buy toilet paper with it.
to be honest. racing to drag noobs into bitcoin right now sounds more like a pump&dump social experiment.. bitcoin needs to evolve a little more in regards to noob usefulness and noob training. before we invite said noobs.
thats all im saying