Quote from: vesperwillow on October 29, 2013, 05:45:10 PM

Quote from: ANiceJewishBoy on October 29, 2013, 05:09:48 PM

Another thing.

No one is going to show the bitcoin community love as long as greedy hoarders are the face of it. That needs to change, and everyone will make an episode about bitcoin.

No one wants to tell everyone watching TV to go talk to a bunch of assholes (the current bitcoin community).

What would help get around this, like I said above, is if it were simply easier to pay with--because the coins will then go to merchants and get in their hands that way. It will spread slowly.

Get some sort of simple interface going, especially for multiple coins, which a merchant can adopt, and you'll see the embers start to pop up.

What would be even more amazing is if a central online merchant or retailer, Amazon comes to mind, were to allow cryptcoin payments.. oh my gosh, could you imagine how awesome that would be? Overnight there would be a surge.

And a huge jump in the value of BTC. This is what I hope for, because if the value skyrockets much quicker than difficulty, then the "no ROI ever" troll will be put into a box, at least for a short while.

I mean, how much easier can payment be than copying and pasting a wallet address?

Everyone is focusing on the wrong things. The problem is NOT that people are having trouble spending their coins. The problem is THEY DO NOT HAVE COINS. We need to appeal to everyone from a 60 year old gold hoarder, to a 13 year old Justin Beiber fan. And we just have soo much left to do before that is possible. Why can't a kid that is not old enough to get a job, hop on a computer and earn coins? Devtome is the only way I see that people can earn an amount of coins that could be considered a job.

We need to look at how valuable alt coins can be, and how stupid they are right now. Altcoins get made for NO REASON, people literally make them for fun (but I hardly consider coding and mining fun) and mining then get mad at anyone that isn't techy enough to mine.

We need at least TEN coins that are like devcoin. Coins that are x% mining x% art or development.

Ex:
Devcoin is a coin where 90% of the coins that come out of a block, get generated to writers instead of miners. And it is merge mined with bitcoin, so that miners are not getting the short end of the stick.

This allows for an entirely new coin base. Now there is not just techs, but writers that have extensive knowledge about coins... Imagine if we had a coin that promoted the creation of videos, or the taking of pictures? We would see not only a flood of bitcoin recognition due to the media being produced by coiners, but we would see a spike in bitcoin purchases because struggling artists will be getting coins that they can spend on bitcoins.

Everyone knows about bitcoin (or has at least heard the word), now we just need to make it available to everyone.