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I feel sad that crypto is not accepted as a payment in many countries like India ,China ,Thailand and many other.I think the best way to get out of this is we crypto enthusiasts becoming marketers and reaching out to the appropriate persons such as marketing heads of all the places where we are expecting the crypto payment to be accepted through all the social media platforms like Linked In,Facebook,Instagram, because Social Media has the power of making and breaking something.

You sound sad that your shitcoin isn't mooning and want to hype people on crypto.... bitcoin sells itself.

People come to bitcoin and a few altcoins as they need them. Trying to market crypto just makes it look and sound like a scam.

Where did you get your information from? crypto bitcoin is been acceptable in those places you mention as a payment option but not as Fiat currency are used. the only way to increase the wide adoption of bitcoin as payment option is for Crypto enthusiasts who're merchants to start accepting bitcoin as payment option in the little businesses we do and other should patronized them. remember the saying "Christy starts at home". This will be the best marketing we can do.

you can't make these things happen. they happen on their own. specially when it comes to something new you can't force people to change their ways. if the alternative way introduces is good enough then they will come on their own.

in this case you can't force people to use altcoins because they don't want to. they will either stick to fiat or use bitcoin if they wanted a decentralized currency.

are yous seriously "serious" about the things you said in the post? how can you just happen to force others to go crypto or make those platforms to accept crypto all of a sudden?

I feel that you really want that badly, btw where are you from? with those countries that you mentioned, are living on one of it? Making these countries crypto-friendly isn't that easy as you think. Even the strongest marketers won't make it happen because all the decision depends on the government.

Everyone wants to contribute for each country to be crypto friendly but it requires a lot of things before it'll happen.

Perhaps you are right. But for the time being it is hard for me to believe that ordinary users of cryptocurrency will be able to change this. I think that until the government decides to take this step, nothing will change.

For example, I live in Ukraine. And it seems to me that for Ukraine it is much harder to implement. Although in my country many people already use cryptocurrency and they like it

I totally agree with your statements because social media is like a very huge influence platforms that could gain people interest in why they should be using Bitcoin.

Social media has the power of... what? Sure, marketing has its merits, it always has, especially in commerce and especially with something that requires consumers like crypto.

But you should take a page out of the Bitcoin story. Organic growth that lasts long beyond the hype. Interested users and contributive communities of volunteers that not only are attracted by the potential of X coin and Y coin, but who also believe in the promise of Bitcoin. You need users as much as advocates, people willing and desiring to contribute as much as they use it. Bitcoin achieved this with little or no marketing (anything remotely marketing related is often for a service or product rather than for Bitcoin itself). And that's the staying power you're seeing today.

To see Bitcoin and others as generally acceptable, we must first resolve some issues. First, energy consumption is unacceptable. Secondly, we need to improve processing speeds. I think we can't go on with POW anymore.

we can start by making things easy for the users so that adoption takes place smoother. for example when a merchant wants to accept bitcoin payments if there is a simple user friendly program to install and be able to start accepting bitcoin then it is going to be a lot easier for him compared to if there were only one wallet not capable of doing that for him and if he was forced to pay a programmer to set it up for him!

Marketing of criptos to people who have power on traditional markets individually may cause some side effects and it may cause to be seen bitcoin as repulsive instead of attractive. If something has to be done, it must be done professionally.

The power to accept bitcoin is not in the business owners as you mentioned, but in the politicians. And the politicians are not willing to easily give away the control of the power of purchase. It is a gradual thing.
Be sure that those people have got the message, are willing to accept bitcoin but are waiting for the right government pronouncements which is in the hands of politicians.

The benefit of bitcoin and other crypto is that you don't need permission from anyone, you can just accept it as a form of payment. Those countries haven't banned it, just not recognised it officially

Accepting Bitcoin or alts in those countries you made mention has nothing to do with Bitcoin or cryptocurrency growth , and for you to know that cryptocurrency is accepted all over the world and if it is not you won't buy from someone who you don't even know or see on exchange , so we can't correlate India and China as a must to accept cryptocurrency before we believe that people are not using it.

Okay for example, Ukraine isn't the only country that has a lot of crypto supporters but the government doesn't say any single word about their stand to it, if they are good and will support it or not but as long as there is no word found from them and remained neutral, crypto folks can proceed with their trades.

The government will notice it if there's a big community found on their jurisdiction for crypto's and after studying if its reliable then all of those things that you want to happen for the sake of crypto, will happen a little by little.

You cannot really impose it on individuals/nations to invest in cryptocurrency,and the bitcoin is more than popular in more countries of the world this days,and it actually doesn't need any marketing strategies or unnecessary publicity,it will only make it look like a failed currency,which it's not

I strongly disagree with this statement. First of all, Bitcoin is not a shitcoin and people saying this is ignorant. Secondly, Bitcoin must be marketed to people like game developers and financial institutions to give them an alternative payment option. Do you think for one moment that payment methods like PayPal and VISA and Mastercard would stop marketing their product in a competitive environment like this?

If marketing is a indicator of scams, then no advertisements would have been used on social media or any other platform for that matter.  ::)

Paypal, VISA,... are centralized companies that have an advertising team that does the marketing for them. bitcoin is decentralized and has no such thing and nobody is going to do it for you.
and i agree with BuyBuyBitcoin, bitcoin sells itself it really doesn't need any kind of marketing. we have a unique payment system that if people want to use it, they will and if they don't then no amount of advertising is going to change that. as it is evident with altcoins that kill themselves with advertising and then fail because nobody wants them.

We will reach that moment few years from now. With the volatility of crypto values its not safe to incorporate it with small businesses. As soon as the crypto market matures and its values will be stable then that's the time most of the businesses specially small companies will fully adopt with blockchain.

As of this moment, people only deemed crypto as an investment vehicle not as a currency or mode of payment.

China lifted the ban recently right?

Are you suggesting that we hire people such as marketing heads to advertise bitcoin? Who would be willing to pay that? I have no problem if you will do it voluntarily but I would never do that. Start up projects are the ones who needed paid advertising and not Bitcoin.

I agree. Legitimacy depends on the government therefore this is very difficult to predict today  because we can see how the government reacts to the current situation. Everyone who is crypto enthusiasts wanted  universal acceptance but then we need to do something too, aside from spreading nonsense thoughts.

It isn't hard to explain to people interested in crypto what bitcoin is and what a mess altcoins can be for newbies in this space.

Until the altcoin scammers go broke, we just have to tell people about the value their is in bitcoin and let the graph speak for itself over time.

Until the ICO's, that can't get venture capital funding (because their projects suck and won't make money), we have to just hodl and store value in bitcoin.

The longer the scammers try and market shitcoins and stupid ideas, the longer adoption of bitcoin and the few valuable altcoins will take.

Correct me if I am wrong but are you not in a way marketing bitcoin with that username?

I am all for not marketing bitcoin. I do agree that it is rather better to not be marketed. But maybe a trial method might help sort this out. I mean it would provide evidence.

Plus countries aren't exactly against cryptocurrencies they are just banning it for the purchase of goods or services. Trading in them is still legal. This means that even the government has realized the potential bitcoin holds but it still needs to safeguard the interests of the public.

I think crypto will grow organically. Nearly everyone here has told a family member,
relation or friend. The medua are helping also with good and bad news articles
piqueing peoples interest. As long as the price stays healthy like now people will
see potential. Time will help.

the shit projects are not going anywhere because it is easy to create them and also it is easy to copy a project since everything is open source. and that means making money here is easy.
people also know this so they continue investing in shitcoins. so when they get pumped they can increase their bitcions.

Yes, many countries have accepted and circulated, many countries are not banned but will catch if you are involved in cryptocurrencies. But because of the many benefits that bitcoin brings, this is probably the way to make bitcoin more acceptable and popular than many other currencies.  :)

Your plan is very brilliant and I really agree with that. but what is the best solution if there is a downtrend on bitcoin after they all invest

this is difficult before each country legalizes crypto as another option as transaction, of course its consideration will be increasingly difficult and will never happen in the near future. and the most difficult for in Asian countries

I think the only way tonmake crypto acceptance universal is to change our self. All we know that cryptocurrency acceptance needs an a huge innovation. And how it is happen when all of us is not motivated to have an progress. We need to start change and progress in ourselves first before anything else. Because I am sure that if most of us become successful it will be the start to innovation. And it will haooen more companies all over the world will start to accept bitcoin because most of people can afford their bitcoin services. So let us start the change to be a better man now to make it happen.

We all can contribute in our own way to push cryptocurrency to all the world. The effort we make in teaching bitcoin to our family members, friends, and our acquaintances. Recentely there is this news that China has lifted ban on cryptocurrency and that her citizen can buy and hold bitcoin in their wallets. This is an awesome news and  I know more countries like India will soon follow China to allow their citizen free association with cryptocurrency.

It is very difficult to force some people to use altcoin because we are always use our traditional money which is fiat. If you want to happen it will undergo in many procedure because we all know most government are against in cryptocurrency. I think it takes many years to accept bitcoin in all countries and I think it will happen in the coming future.

This can not be done. Only those who are interested in Bitcoin will find their own information and work with Bitcoin. Governments in some countries hate Bitcoins and forbid Bitcoin, in addition they communicate to the people that they are anxious and accept the government. You know, the laws and the influence of the government on the people are great, because social networking has some information not so authentic to believe it.

yes, I think, Bounty has the benefit of spreading crypto to the world with media, facebook campaigns, twitter campaigns, article campaigns, translate campaigns, linkedin, youtube, instagram, steemit, and others.

I agree with you, and we never stop spreading crypto until we get the legalization of the world.

I agree with your argument, it's not easy to make bitcoin accepted by the world, I have the same reason as you, but some solutions we can do by making a simple explanation of crypto, then, can be understood by the public.

the easy thing to make the public believe is about bitcoin investment.

Few chosen countries are very welcoming to crypto's and they give privilege to it and even considered to a create a law so crypto people would have a guidelines to follow while in their country.

Adoption is inevitable like we are in this world that's fully dependent to technologies now. Crypto's are digital money that everyone would love to use because of its very unique feature and solving a lot of problems that we are currently facing. We will be there, soon.

Actually it is depend on our habbit, if we only use bitcoin in exchanges site and/or illegal transactions then it will make people avoid bitcoin. If most of us only use bitcoin in exchanges site then it price will be ustable, people will think that bitcoin is only tool for speculative investors, if we keep us it for illegal transactions then it will create bad image for bitcoin,  most of people hate bad things and other thing that related in it. So we should change our habbit, we should use bitcoin 5o buy goods in online store so the circulation will be good and the price wilk be more stable.

It's hard to join in. Social media applications and ads can carry crypto money promotion up to a certain point. Legal arrangements are necessary to go further.

It is up to the public interest and if the bitcoin become universally trade then it will be accepted by every one and most of the young people are in crypto so it is a sign of prosperous future i would like to give my opinion if bitcoin is widely used then those who are not yet aware they will also come in to crypto use and the whole wold will be digital then.

I think a good way to start making crypto more accepted throughout the world should definitely start with business and organizations that sell goods and services at high prices, since the conversion of one coin i supposed to be equivalent to $6500. It just makes more sense to do business with something at such a high value when it's being exchanged for items of similar high value in the marketplace.

This day many countries have their own cryptocurrency which can be used in their country. However, the problem with that is they can only use it in their country but not in other countries. And, as the time goes by there will be one cryptocurrency that will accepted in all country and I think it is bitcoin.

I think you are right. But for the time being it is hard for me to believe that ordinary users of cryptocurrency will be able to change this. I think that until the government decides to take this step, nothing will change. A lot of things depend on goverments and theirs steps

Cryptocurrencies will automatically become increasingly popular with the development of technology miniaturization of electronic devices and the virtual sphere. This process is currently controlled by the media, but with the achievement of a critical mass of users, the further increase in the popularity of cryptocurrencies will become avalanche-like.

yes , social media have it, but cryptocurrency not about how become popular on social media when people know about bitcoin, crypto currncy about future payment how to conecting people to another people using payment of cryptocurrency