Quoted from a thread in the Bitcoin discussion section:There is one step that is known to make it more "likely" that a U.S. consumer will purchase and use Bitcoins.
- Motivate them to download a Bitcoin wallet.
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I don't want to download anything to my PC, it could have a virus". Surprisingly this is the number one objection we get from new users.
So in the building the user community, we have created a simple two step process to get them started:
1. Sign up for the online wallet (less scary for them)
2. Go to our faucet for some coins to get started.
Once they do that, they are curious, so on our forum they can find places to spend their coins, we can teach them that a downloaded wallet is more secure, etc.