What are good ideas to help promote Bitcoin? Even though I'm a person that is usually informed about anything related to new technologies in any area, I can't believe how I didn't know about Bitcoin until a few months ago.

Then I thought, people that don't even care about this kind of stuff will never know about Bitcoin.

Even worse, I live in a developing country and when I comment about this they think it is like a game. It is really hard to explain to somebody without enough knowledge that the system really works and could be daily used in a near future.

So my question is, how can I evangelize the Bitcoin usage between the majority of people?

So far, my ideas are:


Try to sell BTC at market price (not making profit).
Encourage stores (mostly online) to use it.
Have a local store with discounts for paying in BTC.
I carry around with me a Casascius physical bitcoin (and another one that has been peeled).  This gives a great visual aid in explaining it in terms another person is already familiar with.   

You can encourage people to visit the faucet, and then do a trial run spending it, as described here:


http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/25967017874


You could print up some Bitcoin notes with a trivial amount of bitcoins (e.g., twenty cents worth) and hand them out to people.  Put an expiration on it and if the funds aren't redeemed within that time (e.g. a month) then you reclaim the funds and give them out again.  But at least every one that does get redeemed, you know that person (or whomever they gave the note to) now knows what a bitcoin is and how it can be transferred.

But the point to get across is that this is not just neat technology or some type of marketing of a new product.  This is how we defang the financial system that repeatedly harms us (or at least lessens our reliance on it). 

Every time a bitcoin transaction replaces a PayPal transaction it is like placing a pea on "our" side of scale versus the bricks holding their side down.  The scale has a big plate though, and eventually all of our peas together will cause it to tip.

But that's how decentralizioin works -- one pea at a time.