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In the last period I thought about how I can introduce friends, shopkeepers and small businesses to Bitcoin. Even when someone shows some curiosity, explaining Bitcoin can be a really difficult job; it has a lot of concepts and several facets, and since everyone has priorities and thoughts on certain topics, if you touch the wrong ones, you risk annoying and losing them quickly. In addition, spending time with someone that is not already sufficiently "hot" about the topic can be a waste of time and, worse, generate a repulsive effect. image So I designed a small brochure that is a really quick introduction to Bitcoin, with the goal to activate people and trigger some reaction and/or curiosity. The plan is simple: I ask if they know about Bitcoin, leave the brochure, and wait for an immediate reaction, or I have the option of following up next time and asking for feedback; so I can get some ideas on what topics to bring up to keep the conversation going. As you can see, I chose to give the "debunking FUD" section a primary visibility (is the first thing you see when you open the foldable), since people often learn about Bitcoin via negative and alarming news, so they are good points to activate a first doubt. Then there is a synthetic explanation of Bitcoin's money nature, why it is radically different from fiat currencies, and what impact it may have at a social and business level. On the back there is a section that points to a website where the user can learn more. Currently I'm using bitcoin.rocks, but I will evaluate other resources or I can also build something new, maybe with some specific information for businesses, that are critical for adoption. The idea is to release it open source, so anyone can personalize it (e.g. the learn more target), and maybe produce versions in different languages. The dimensions are 42x15cm open, 10.5x15cm closed, foldable in 3 points; so with a standard A3 print you can get two brochures. Does that make sense? How can I improve it?

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↩ replying to daniele
Bitcoin is by far the most vulnerable to quantum attack. If the government of a certain, ahem, state, were to crack Shor's before bitcoin can develop enough of an immune system—something more and more possible as bitcoin descends into childish arguments about monkey jpegs—then that's basically the end of bitcoin. You don't even need Grover's. All you need is Shor's to come fast enough and it's over. Right now there isn't even agreement about what the algo will be. What's going to replace Schnorr? Is it Crytals? Is it Sphincs? Is it Falcon? Nobody even knows. And from there it's many more years to propogate. The attack could come in a couple years. The lower bound is 1,700 logical qubits. That may not be out of reach. AI is supercharging error correction. Yeah. That's where we are.
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↩ replying to settoletto rigoletto
I'm using Affinity and I plan to release it as pdf/svg. An editable format would be better for sure; it's a lot of time that I don't use it, I will check it again asap! > On another note, your format is very suitable for this fold: Cool! But it's a bit complex if you have to produce a lot of copies. As soon the release is stable I will print it and share a picture of the final result.
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↩ replying to settoletto rigoletto
It seems a CORS problem, plus a weird redirect: Access to fetch at 'https://basspistol.com/.well-known/lnurlp/setto' from origin 'https://fevela.me' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled. GET https://basspistol.com/.well-known/lnurlp/setto net::ERR_FAILED 301 (Moved Permanently)
Couple of minor things: - maybe clarify what "FUD" means ("common concerns addressed" maybe) - somewhere mention that **no matter how much bitcoin someone has**, they can't change the rules nor get special treatment. all they can do is send some to someone else. (I often get the "but lots of sketchy people are going to control bitcoin by hoarding so much of it!" comment from progressive friends) - most people probably don't know what "low time preference" is - include Square in the "business" section as well as the "FUD" section where you mention how many merchants accept bitcoin now
Very nice! I also have plans to do something like this for a while. It makes sense to put this out so that people can grab it and print and distribute themselves (a simple web page on an easy-to-remember URL or github), and/or to license it with CCY. It also makes sense to have color and BW versions (some people don't have color printer and color version may look bad on BW). My plan is a 3-folded A4 format flyer, but this is also nice. I haven't checked the contents in detail, but I will.
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A4 printing would be easier for home production, but I want something that stands out the usual 3-folded that you can find everywhere, so people are hopefully curious to check it, and then keep it. Btw, the effective area is the same. Probably the format is still too small, but a larger one would be quite expensive. Currently I can get 2500 foldable printed on 170gr/mq matte paper for €320, it's about 13 cents each.
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I really don't want to trash open source projects, but. I'm trying to convert the Bitcoin foldable to Scribus, as suggested, to easily manage translations. I set up the canvas, drew a rectangle... and after of 10 minutes clicking around I was still unable to find how to change the color. I felt quite stupid. So I searched and:
Graphic Design Stack Exchange
How do I change a shape's color in Scribus?
I'm a long-time Adobe Creative Suite user who's exploring Scribus as an alternative to InDesign for creating a document. As is often the case when ...
 C'mon, guys! If we want open source to win, we should drastically improve the user experience with a stronger and more effective collaboration between developers and UI/UX designers. If you are a great open source developer, beg a good designer to join your project, please. This will probably make the difference between software that can leave its mark and evolve, becoming known and used by the general public, and a niche project used by a few tireless admirers of free software. If you are a designer and you are devoting all your energy to pushing sales for dubious companies, please consider sharing some of your skills/time for something that can be truly useful to humanity, and beg an open source developer to accept your support. Recognizing that we need to improve and cheerfully begging each other seems to be the solution.
daniele's avatar daniele
In the last period I thought about how I can introduce friends, shopkeepers and small businesses to Bitcoin. Even when someone shows some curiosity, explaining Bitcoin can be a really difficult job; it has a lot of concepts and several facets, and since everyone has priorities and thoughts on certain topics, if you touch the wrong ones, you risk annoying and losing them quickly. In addition, spending time with someone that is not already sufficiently "hot" about the topic can be a waste of time and, worse, generate a repulsive effect. image So I designed a small brochure that is a really quick introduction to Bitcoin, with the goal to activate people and trigger some reaction and/or curiosity. The plan is simple: I ask if they know about Bitcoin, leave the brochure, and wait for an immediate reaction, or I have the option of following up next time and asking for feedback; so I can get some ideas on what topics to bring up to keep the conversation going. As you can see, I chose to give the "debunking FUD" section a primary visibility (is the first thing you see when you open the foldable), since people often learn about Bitcoin via negative and alarming news, so they are good points to activate a first doubt. Then there is a synthetic explanation of Bitcoin's money nature, why it is radically different from fiat currencies, and what impact it may have at a social and business level. On the back there is a section that points to a website where the user can learn more. Currently I'm using bitcoin.rocks, but I will evaluate other resources or I can also build something new, maybe with some specific information for businesses, that are critical for adoption. The idea is to release it open source, so anyone can personalize it (e.g. the learn more target), and maybe produce versions in different languages. The dimensions are 42x15cm open, 10.5x15cm closed, foldable in 3 points; so with a standard A3 print you can get two brochures. Does that make sense? How can I improve it?
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As requested, Bitcoin Foldable is now available in Scribus format to facilitate translations:
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GitHub - dtonon/bitcoin-foldable
Contribute to dtonon/bitcoin-foldable development by creating an account on GitHub.
 A new Italian version is already available.
daniele's avatar daniele
In the last period I thought about how I can introduce friends, shopkeepers and small businesses to Bitcoin. Even when someone shows some curiosity, explaining Bitcoin can be a really difficult job; it has a lot of concepts and several facets, and since everyone has priorities and thoughts on certain topics, if you touch the wrong ones, you risk annoying and losing them quickly. In addition, spending time with someone that is not already sufficiently "hot" about the topic can be a waste of time and, worse, generate a repulsive effect. image So I designed a small brochure that is a really quick introduction to Bitcoin, with the goal to activate people and trigger some reaction and/or curiosity. The plan is simple: I ask if they know about Bitcoin, leave the brochure, and wait for an immediate reaction, or I have the option of following up next time and asking for feedback; so I can get some ideas on what topics to bring up to keep the conversation going. As you can see, I chose to give the "debunking FUD" section a primary visibility (is the first thing you see when you open the foldable), since people often learn about Bitcoin via negative and alarming news, so they are good points to activate a first doubt. Then there is a synthetic explanation of Bitcoin's money nature, why it is radically different from fiat currencies, and what impact it may have at a social and business level. On the back there is a section that points to a website where the user can learn more. Currently I'm using bitcoin.rocks, but I will evaluate other resources or I can also build something new, maybe with some specific information for businesses, that are critical for adoption. The idea is to release it open source, so anyone can personalize it (e.g. the learn more target), and maybe produce versions in different languages. The dimensions are 42x15cm open, 10.5x15cm closed, foldable in 3 points; so with a standard A3 print you can get two brochures. Does that make sense? How can I improve it?
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