Quote from: klm bitcoin on February 05, 2016, 03:25:57 AM

Hello there,

Each day I become more and more passionate about the potential of bitcoin technology.

Crypto culture has dominated my researches for months now. It's almost all I talk about with friends and family.

I really believe we're on the verge of a big revolution. Killing the intermediary is not just making our transactions cheaper. It's giving people power. It's giving people freedom. From the State, from the corporations. From all those who, above all, CONTROL humankind.

I don't have technical skills. I don't know how to program and I have a hard time catching up with in-depth discussions. But I'm a business bachelor and I have a masters degree in administration. How I wish I could put that to use and be a part of all this change!

But, how to do that? How can non-technical people help increase bitcoin adoption and acceptance? Any ideas?

I'm talking about making money with bitcoins here. I'm talking about social change. It's way beyond "profit", way beyond business.

Please share your thoughts!

The best way to encourage mainstream adoption is not necessarily with skills or elaborate schemes, but simply introducing people to bitcoin. Give BTC as gifts/presents and show the recipient how to use a wallet, or exchange it to cash if needed. Ask small local stores if they accept bitcoin, if they seem interested volunteer to show them how to setup a wallet or to visit Bitpay or other processor to accept BTC and convert it into Fiat. Until people are actually exposed to it, most will seem put-off and not trust it. Once they are exposed, they may embrace it and spread the word further, so if you expose 10 people to BTC and even if only 2 of them go on to expose others to BTC, its adoption will grow.

The problem is most people simply want it to magically succeed with no time or financial investments of their own. By investments, I am not talking about buying 100 BTC and hope it grows, but the investment of giving BTC away to introduce others to it, or donating your time to help people get to know and use it better. That's the kind of investments we are in most need of right now.