Quote from: BittBurger on October 01, 2014, 12:46:44 AM

Quote from: hector3115 on September 30, 2014, 10:18:09 AM

Bitcoin should be capitalizing BIG TIME on all these corporate hacks that you read about each and every day. Target, Home Depot, and the list goes on and on and grows everyday. Each time I hear about a hack I write an email to the company suggesting they accept bitcoin.

No doubt. And if Bitcoin were centralized, it would have a PR company that methodically approaches public education and awareness like this. But its not. So all these opportunities will continue to be learned only through passive osmosis. Would be great if there were some organizations that had money to run TV ads and other public awareness campaigns. But there aren't.

-B-

bitinstant use to do ALOT of work to help promote bitcoin. then with the whole shift over to bitcoin foundation. people hoped that the foundation would continue to push publicity, to lobby for legal rights issues surrounding bitcoin, yet... bitcoin foundation is doing nothing.

if thre were any community PR project. the foundation should be heading it up. or businesses such as coinbase/bitpay where any lobbying or advertising can help them out.

but with all that said. bitcoin is still in innovation stage, its like advertising and getting people to want a BFL miner months before its a usable product for average joe.

so stop hyping on about advertising bitcoin to average joe, especially if your only sales pitch is to affect the bitcoin price. bitcoin is not about the bitcoin price. just like many people using euros dont care about the dollar conversion rate. they just want to use euro to buy bread. same as americans dont care about the euro rate, they just want to use dollar to buy bread.,

bitcoin is not about the conversion rate, its about the ability to live off of bitcoin.

i personally live off bitcoin, wages, rent, bills, food, car, fuel, utilities.. all from bitcoin. so thos that just want to tell people to buy bitcoin simply to sell bitcoin for profit.. LEARN the true poit of what bitcoin is, then YOU will be properly prepared to advertise bitcoin when the time is right with true reasons.

sooo many noobs in the last 6 months have joined purely on the premiss of quick profits. whomever you learnt about bitcoin from, needs a slap across the face as they have told you little to nothing about bitcoin and most probably just said that you should join to help the price rise.

change your mindsets away from your fiat loving quick profits and know what bitcoin is. THEN go ahead advertise as much as you like.

i truly hate repeating myself but soo many of you noobs are switched off and not thinking of the big picture.

rant over