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Full MemberActivity: 126Merit: 100 Re: I posted some flyers in public downtown yesterday October 13, 2012, 04:40:32 PM #8 Assuming there is no law against defacing your money (there probably is for fly posting) just write "bitcoin.org" on all the debt notes that pass through your hands then everyone who uses the money will see it.



Honestly though bitcoin isn't ready from the prime time, it's still too nerdish. It needs to be a phone app that's both hacker proof and so simple your grandma could use it and transactions need to near instantaneous so you can use it in a store.

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Hero MemberActivity: 784Merit: 1000Annuit cptis humanae libertas Re: I posted some flyers in public downtown yesterday October 13, 2012, 05:20:54 PM #9 Quote from: Gatorhex on October 13, 2012, 04:40:32 PM Honestly though bitcoin isn't ready from the prime time, it's still too nerdish. It needs to be a phone app that's both hacker proof and so simple your grandma could use it and transactions need to near instantaneous so you can use it in a store.



That is true to an extent. Then again, I consider myself only very mildly nerdish (it's been decades since I've actually written a fully functioning computer program, honest Guv!) yet have not found it too daunting to get into using Bitcoin and grasping the major concepts. The whole notion of a cryptocurrency as a hard e-commodity might be the tricky bit to explain to the unwary.



Then again, it's already been recently said around here that most high-street shops don't deal in gold, yet that substance still trades at $1600/ozt or so. Bitcoin isn't yet widely accepted but it is increasingly widely accepted. That is true to an extent. Then again, I consider myself only very mildly nerdish (it's been decades since I've actually written a fully functioning computer program, honest Guv!) yet have not found it too daunting to get into using Bitcoin and grasping the major concepts. The whole notion of a cryptocurrency as a hard e-commodity might be the tricky bit to explain to the unwary.Then again, it's already been recently said around here that most high-street shops don't deal in gold, yet that substance still trades at $1600/ozt or so.Bitcoin isn't yet widely accepted but it iswidely accepted. Earn Free Bitcoins! Earn bitcoin via BitcoinGet

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DonatorFull MemberActivity: 213Merit: 100 Guerrilla marketing for Bitcoin on a 20 note October 14, 2012, 02:30:34 PM #11 Quote from: Gatorhex on October 13, 2012, 04:40:32 PM Assuming there is no law against defacing your money (there probably is for fly posting) just write "bitcoin.org" on all the debt notes that pass through your hands then everyone who uses the money will see it.



Thanks a bunch for the ingenious guerrilla marketing idea. I've just gone ahead and done this for all the euro notes currently in my wallet. Here's photographic evidence as a sample:







I experimented a bit with different writing instruments, and in the end would recommend using a pencil. It works and looks better (at least on euro notes) than a ballpoint pen, doesn't permeate to the other side of the note as a felt tip pen would, and is erasable in case the payee gives you any grief about your illicit graffiti Thanks a bunch for the ingenious guerrilla marketing idea. I've just gone ahead and done this for all the euro notes currently in my wallet. Here's photographic evidence as a sample:I experimented a bit with different writing instruments, and in the end would recommend using a pencil. It works and looks better (at least on euro notes) than a ballpoint pen, doesn't permeate to the other side of the note as a felt tip pen would, and is erasable in case the payee gives you any grief about your illicit graffiti #bitcoin-otc profile

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Hero MemberActivity: 924Merit: 1000 Re: Guerrilla marketing for Bitcoin on a 20 note October 14, 2012, 04:02:07 PM #13 Quote from: Arto on October 14, 2012, 02:30:34 PM Quote from: Gatorhex on October 13, 2012, 04:40:32 PM Assuming there is no law against defacing your money (there probably is for fly posting) just write "bitcoin.org" on all the debt notes that pass through your hands then everyone who uses the money will see it.



Thanks a bunch for the ingenious guerrilla marketing idea. I've just gone ahead and done this for all the euro notes currently in my wallet. Here's photographic evidence as a sample:







I experimented a bit with different writing instruments, and in the end would recommend using a pencil. It works and looks better (at least on euro notes) than a ballpoint pen, doesn't permeate to the other side of the note as a felt tip pen would, and is erasable in case the payee gives you any grief about your illicit graffiti

Thanks a bunch for the ingenious guerrilla marketing idea. I've just gone ahead and done this for all the euro notes currently in my wallet. Here's photographic evidence as a sample:I experimented a bit with different writing instruments, and in the end would recommend using a pencil. It works and looks better (at least on euro notes) than a ballpoint pen, doesn't permeate to the other side of the note as a felt tip pen would, and is erasable in case the payee gives you any grief about your illicit graffiti

Yeah, the erasability is important. While it's not illegal to write on Euro notes, notes that have been written on are no longer legal tender, so it's good idea to be able to erase that should someone not want to accept your notes. Yeah, the erasability is important. While it's not illegal to write on Euro notes, notes that have been written on are no longer legal tender, so it's good idea to be able to erase that should someone not want to accept your notes.

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Sr. MemberActivity: 360Merit: 250 Re: Guerrilla marketing for Bitcoin on a 20 note October 14, 2012, 06:14:47 PM #14 Quote from: greyhawk on October 14, 2012, 04:02:07 PM Quote from: Arto on October 14, 2012, 02:30:34 PM Quote from: Gatorhex on October 13, 2012, 04:40:32 PM Assuming there is no law against defacing your money (there probably is for fly posting) just write "bitcoin.org" on all the debt notes that pass through your hands then everyone who uses the money will see it.



Thanks a bunch for the ingenious guerrilla marketing idea. I've just gone ahead and done this for all the euro notes currently in my wallet. Here's photographic evidence as a sample:







I experimented a bit with different writing instruments, and in the end would recommend using a pencil. It works and looks better (at least on euro notes) than a ballpoint pen, doesn't permeate to the other side of the note as a felt tip pen would, and is erasable in case the payee gives you any grief about your illicit graffiti

Thanks a bunch for the ingenious guerrilla marketing idea. I've just gone ahead and done this for all the euro notes currently in my wallet. Here's photographic evidence as a sample:I experimented a bit with different writing instruments, and in the end would recommend using a pencil. It works and looks better (at least on euro notes) than a ballpoint pen, doesn't permeate to the other side of the note as a felt tip pen would, and is erasable in case the payee gives you any grief about your illicit graffiti

Yeah, the erasability is important. While it's not illegal to write on Euro notes, notes that have been written on are no longer legal tender, so it's good idea to be able to erase that should someone not want to accept your notes.

Yeah, the erasability is important. While it's not illegal to write on Euro notes, notes that have been written on are no longer legal tender, so it's good idea to be able to erase that should someone not want to accept your notes.

The Conspiracy wants you, children. Oh, it wants you bad.



After I first saw "They Live" in late 1990, I had a rubber stamp made reading "THIS IS YOUR GOD" in big block letters of a size suitable for US banknotes. I'd stamp every one of the things that came through my hands for a year or two after that.



Nowadays I walk into a Tesco in Slovakia and buy something upstairs with a 10 note, getting a fiver back plus some coins. Unbeknownst to me, the five-euro note has a small tear on one corner. Take that note downstairs in the same Tesco, right afterwards, and try to pay for something and they'll refuse to take it. Sorry, you'll have to go to the bank ---and show ID--- to get the bloody thing replaced. Useless fucks.



So, my thought for this little bit of guerrilla marketing: Get a *small* rubberstamp made reading "bitcoin.org". Get some blue ink and dilute it down to something approaching the background of the 5 note. Stamp in an area where the mark won't be obtrusive, and not near the major security features. Make piles of them. Plenty will pass with no scrutiny at merchants, and at the end of the day you can always get a banked friend to take the pile you got tired of to his/her bank and ask for replacements, complaining that they've been collecting in the shop till. The Conspiracy wants you, children. Oh, it wants you bad.After I first saw "They Live" in late 1990, I had a rubber stamp made reading "THIS IS YOUR GOD" in big block letters of a size suitable for US banknotes. I'd stamp every one of the things that came through my hands for a year or two after that.Nowadays I walk into a Tesco in Slovakia and buy something upstairs with a 10 note, getting a fiver back plus some coins. Unbeknownst to me, the five-euro note has a small tear on one corner. Take that note downstairs in the same Tesco, right afterwards, and try to pay for something and they'll refuse to take it. Sorry, you'll have to go to the bank ---and show ID--- to get the bloody thing replaced. Useless fucks.So, my thought for this little bit of guerrilla marketing: Get a *small* rubberstamp made reading "bitcoin.org". Get some blue ink and dilute it down to something approaching the background of the 5 note. Stamp in an area where the mark won't be obtrusive, and not near the major security features. Make piles of them. Plenty will pass with no scrutiny at merchants, and at the end of the day you can always get a banked friend to take the pile you got tired of to his/her bank and ask for replacements, complaining that they've been collecting in the shop till. FREE ROSS ULBRICHT , allegedly one of the Dread Pirates Roberts of the Silk Road

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DonatorFull MemberActivity: 213Merit: 100 Re: Guerrilla marketing for Bitcoin on a 20 note October 14, 2012, 06:50:41 PM #16 Quote from: mikegogulski on October 14, 2012, 06:14:47 PM The Conspiracy wants you, children. Oh, it wants you bad.



After I first saw "They Live" in late 1990, I had a rubber stamp made reading "THIS IS YOUR GOD" in big block letters of a size suitable for US banknotes. I'd stamp every one of the things that came through my hands for a year or two after that.



Nowadays I walk into a Tesco in Slovakia and buy something upstairs with a 10 note, getting a fiver back plus some coins. Unbeknownst to me, the five-euro note has a small tear on one corner. Take that note downstairs in the same Tesco, right afterwards, and try to pay for something and they'll refuse to take it. Sorry, you'll have to go to the bank ---and show ID--- to get the bloody thing replaced. Useless fucks.



So, my thought for this little bit of guerrilla marketing: Get a *small* rubberstamp made reading "bitcoin.org". Get some blue ink and dilute it down to something approaching the background of the 5 note. Stamp in an area where the mark won't be obtrusive, and not near the major security features. Make piles of them. Plenty will pass with no scrutiny at merchants, and at the end of the day you can always get a banked friend to take the pile you got tired of to his/her bank and ask for replacements, complaining that they've been collecting in the shop till.



Thanks, Mike. I will look into the rubberstamp suggestion. Might get a small batch of them and sell a few on Bitmit to spread the idea...



PS. I don't actually recall ever seeing Thanks, Mike. I will look into the rubberstamp suggestion. Might get a small batch of them and sell a few on Bitmit to spread the idea...PS. I don't actually recall ever seeing They Live , so now you've got me curious. TPB has it, of course. #bitcoin-otc profile