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I am giving away 5 bitcoins as a reward in return for getting 13 real-world businesses to start accepting bitcoin payments.

In order to receive the reward, you must prove that you have convinced and helped a real business with a physical presence (not online-only businesses) start accepting bitcoin payments for in-person transactions. Its bitcoin acceptance policy must then be advertised at the physical location and on the internet.

This may not be a business that previously accepted bitcoins. The minimum business size is approximately 3,000 USD monthly revenue or 4 employees (possible exceptions).

Proof should be provided in this thread so that members of the bitcoin community can judge the validity of claims.

5 bitcoins will be distributed at the end of October as follows: the reward for the largest business will be 1 bitcoin, 0.5 bitcoins for the next 4 largest, and 0.25 bitcoins for the next 8.

Great. All the best. :)

Very nice!!!

You are helping the community with your contribution!

I only hope my reward will be claimed.

This is a long time friend who has been wanting to starting taking BTC for awhile. He will now get a kick in the ass from us.

http://www.sdsoundsolutions.com/

Hey can it include a radio station that accepts bitcoin as ads payment or donation? It has both physical studio and internet radio.

Well, it's not exactly what I had in mind, but I suppose it would be valid, so long as you meet the proof criteria. Ad payments count, but donations do not.

Just ship the 5BTC to Tuxavant: http://bitcoinsinvegas.com/category/bitcoin-accepted-here/

Awesome! (in for follow)

you are doing one of best thing for the community my all best wishes with you good luck ;D

I'd like to see where this goes. I probably won't be able to do it before others do, but I'd like to see this unfold.

Love this idea its why ive gotten so into bit coin and this forum because the people here are really looking out for everyone in the end. so if i can get my local well established fruit and veg shop into bit coin i could win a bit coin. and spend my bit coin buying good healthy food . I like a challenge

I've been listening to NPR and I've been thinking they could use bitcoins.
Given that they're always doing fund drives and all.

That's very generous of you and thank you for doing this.

I'm in the midst of convincing a couple of brick and mortar businesses to accept Bitcoins. However, they are about half the requirements (around USD$1500 revenue + 1-2 employees). Would you consider to reduce the requirements (and rightfully with lower reward)?

Good intentions but the number 13 is unlucky. 12 is lucky.

OP: You should post an address for donation. Either to offset your cost, increase the reward to the 13 winners, or to increase the number of prizes available. You pick, but I think you'll see a lot of us support this effort.

Where do you live? Even corner grocery stores make more than $3k a month in revenue in my country. Revenue is not the same as profit you know!

Let them know that we can add them in the local section of our next edition for free  :)

OP what's stopping people from sharing the bounty with the business owner in exchange for a photo of his shop with the bitcoin logo in the window and a page on his website? This bounty won't achieve what you want to achieve.

These gimmick promotions pop up all the time with no one ever receiving the bounty.  Could you you possible put the reserve funds in escrow with a reputable 3rd party?  It would bring some legitimacy to your great idea.

Our website is down right now, so I can't show you the list of merchants, but I Think we got your challenge. Observe this news article: http://globalnews.ca/news/775078/vancouver-businesses-jump-on-the-the-bitcoin-bandwagon/

or ask John K to set up an escrow wallet we can donate to for this.

Website is up: http://bitcoincoop.org/merchants

The overwhelming majority are merchants we approached and convinced to accept Bitcoin. We're about to add some more

If it is one the the top 13 businesses, then you will get the reward. Besides, a business choosing to accept bitcoins is its own reward.

I am delighted to see the positive response. One thing to keep in mind, though, is try to provide some evidence that your submission is a business that did not previously accept bitcoins.

I'll just give you the contact info of the business owners. You can see how they got signed up over time on our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bitcoincoop

Very nice!

I will do that after I pay the rewards at the end of this competition. I do not want anyone to think that I will take the donations and run without paying. If anyone decides to donate at that time, I would use those proceeds for another bitcoin promotional effort.

Good luck and good idea!

http://p2pbucks.com/?p=8026 put up your giveaway plan on my site ,hope more ppl will coming  ;D

+1

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Just sent an email to www.hyattguns.com, the largest gun store in the U.S.A.  Hopefully they will make bitcoin available to pay with.

I agree though, would be nice if the btc was in escrow to legitimize the offer.


Be prepared for a commercial at the beginning.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2701600286001/credit-card-firm-cuts-off-gun-store-for-selling-guns/

I do not have anything to gain personally from this, so I don't see what the problem is. In any case, I am not opposed to the idea of putting the funds in escrow, but I really don't want to put in the time and effort to figure out how to do that. If someone can set this up and convince me that the escrow service is legitimate, I will do as you suggest. Although I was kind of looking forward to sending the funds to the winners myself...

I am not a big fan of guns. Being opposed to government coercion by threat of violence, as most bitcoin supporters are, and loving instruments of death seems hypocritical to me. But I suppose my personal opinion on this issue should not govern this contest.

Is there a credible member of the bitcoin community who would like to serve as the judge for this contest?

Very nice!!!

I'll do it for 0.1 BTC.

give me 1Jv2mFKyiBoKMdCu225ksB7enr6KrBLLbf :P

I will do it
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OK, you are the leading candidate to be the judge at this moment. Hopefully some submissions will start coming in soon, so you can help verify that they are legitimate according to the rules set forth in the original post.

im going to get my business to except here is a link to the current website and I will post again once I get everything set up.

www.rosevillepartyplace.com

we do aprox 90k

Very nice initiative, OP. Sadly, I'm not in a powerful enough position to change a business's mind.

1. Will you be servicing then these businesses as a payment processor?

2. If yes, are those BTC 5 a remuneration for bringing you the clients?

I am absolutely doing this solely in my own self-interest. The more ways bitcoins can be exchanged for real-world goods and services, the more the valuable my bitcoins will become. The 5 BTC are remuneration for helping the value of my bitcoins increase. But I am not in the payment processing business. Payment processors are very important in making it easier and more appealing for businesses to accept bitcoins, so I hope that they will innovate and expand, and that more of them will enter the arena.

Still, a word to a local business you frequent or to a friend or family with a small business would help. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

You and I ;) can do, too.  ;)
No matter 5 or 50BTC or only 50mBTC.
We all can and should do it :)
That's our job! Make bitcoins to be accepted everywhere.
That's one of my bitcoin_projects I am working on and wanna promote in December  ;D

Submitting my resume for consideration...

BitcoinsInVegas.com

If I win, the booty will go to my bitcoin briefcase fund and pay out 4:1. I.E. Someone drops a quarter in the bitcoin briefcase, they get a dollar in bitcoins.

https://i.imgur.com/pxheqsz.jpg

That is a cool website, but what exactly is your business? It seems like that is just a listing of local bitcoin businesses and events.

My business is promoting Bitcoin to local merchants. The website directory is just one of the incentives to get them to be interested. All the businesses listed accept bitcoin in some manner. Either directly for goods and services, or they are experimenting with receiving bitcoin tips only. If they are agreeable to try bitcoin, then they get listed. If I list them and they stop accepting Bitcoin, then they are delisted. There are two guys actively pursuing new merchants for BIV, myself and "Brett".

The events are called Bitcoin Lunch Mobs and happen every Wednesday. About 60 of us communicate through a distro list to find more local merchants that might be interested, discuss latest news and trends, and coordinate where the next lunch mob will be. Between 8 and 12 show up each week to support the businesses that are toying with the idea.

Now that my briefcase is operational, I'll be spending weekend mornings at the local bagel shop letting people know they can use their pocket change to buy my bitcoins and spend them right there on their bagels.

I've also done several podcasts promoting Bitcoins to the tech community in Las Vegas.

https://twitter.com/DowntownPodcast/status/385154829464911873 (Bitcoin fun starts at two minutes)

Last week, I offered $100 of my own money to be divided up equally to anyone that shows up next week that has a bitcoin wallet installed on their phone. This happens tomorrow night.

Brilliant.

Looking forward to it.

Nice idea! Let's spread the word :)
I will comeback for my bitcoins ;)

I have to sign up some more restaurants now that CoinFest is over. I will send you a list of contacts for business owners we made take Bitcoin, soon, once that's done. Is there some kind of deadline or format?