I think it is a bad idea. "you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink". a few may pick up on btc and follow through but my experience in life is that people excel or are interested when it comes from within and not imposed from outside. there are sufficient faucets already for btc. how many on that island are using those?

I always wanted to move to the Caribbean!

This really is an interesting project! Could you summarize the most important facts in this thread maybe? It would also be interesting to have some kind of bet going how many people are going to accept their BTC and actually use them! I expect that Bitcoin is still too cumbersome for day to day use, though...

For as many intelligent developers and wealthy people we have in the  cryptocurrency industry I am amazed daily at how utterly stupid they are at the same time. This continued persistence of devaluing bitcoins has got to stop. Industries like Dell, Expedia, Amazon or any other retailers and manufacturers are not helping bitcoin in any way, dumping coins on an area is not going to raise the value of the coins at all, you want to raise awareness do so without devaluing bitcoins, Ask yourself what would happen if you gave a 13 year old a wallet with 5 bitcoins. his awareness is now raised for the 10 minutes its going to take him to trade them bitches in for FIAT so he can get something he wants. Whenever new technology is dropped on people they have the mind of a 13 year old, and they will do the same thing.

If you want to secure our future in cryptocurrency and at the same time eliminate all these new pump and dump coins, we as a community MUST start looking for ways to increase its demand. Because right now the only demand it has is to find ways tog get some so they can dump them for Fiat. Retailers who accept bitcoin dumps their coins every month and when they make a dump the price goes down. The more they dump the lower it goes. Why do you think the price is stuck right now, because we have a lot of people accepting them, and everyone of them are dumping them as fast as they are bringing them in. These places are not interested in holding them, securing them, is all about FIAT to them and nothing more.

I also like to add that this really is en par with the experimental nature of Bitcoin. Not just try and simulate stuff and theorize, but rather implement it and try it out in the wild. We'll learn what works and what isn't. It's a good thing to try this out on a "small" scale first. Proving ground, really :d

This is pretty smart. Make publicity that 10 times during the next year, 5 BTC will be awarded to random wallets that have a minimum balance of 5 BTC. Then announce as each person is awarded.

If you do just one, it won't catch on as much. People will think that they wouldn't get a chance. And if you announce the first winners then people will get more excited.

This will do a lot more good than a drop. But a drop is good if what you're going for is mass adoption.

If that is the case, then you want to provide them with ample opportunity to use the BTC, and easy ways to get more BTC. For example some stores where only BTC is accepted, and where BTC can be obtained through a kiosk or something.

I'd love to go there. 

50%. wow.

Probably a lot. In the past, people who received coins via air drops have more or less sold them as quickly as they can. Your friend could likely offer less then 50% as many people would likely not go through the hassle of setting up an account on an exchange just for $10