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We all want bitcoin to be globally adopted right, you want to be able to use your bitcoin as a currency to buy foodstuffs, goods or service in your local community then what are you doing to encourage that? No one here can tell me that he/she hasn't sold anything before, so you have no excuse of not accepting bitcoin in exchange for what you sold be it your books, gadget or anything salable expect you never knew of bitcoin then.
I walked into my barbers shop yesterday then notice something was different (i took a closer look at what was printed on the A4 paper pasted on the notice board and it reads "We now accept Bitcoin & ETH as payment options" it went on to explain that ETH will be accepted for the $2 and below fees and bitcoin accepted for fees above that. It gave me joy because I was the one who introduced him to bitcoin few years back. As an act of encouragement I have promise to promote his business both online and in popular blockchain related gathering I attend.
Few of my previously sold gadget monetary value were received in cryptocurrency and i have come to realize if we want the world to take us seriously we have to act ourselves so I'm encouraging the service providers and others we have on forum to start accepting bitcoin, charity begins at home.  

I am agree with your opinion. We are just small community who has no any power over big governments which have all resources for accepting new laws. Few years back everything was different and enjoyable. Everyone want to take profit from markets so no need to force this community.

I would love to encourage people to accept cryptos as a payment option, but if I try to do it, I will be arrested by Police because bitcoin or any other cryptos are notified illegal tender in my country. Can you do something about it? No!

Don't just blame the community! Try to know why they are not able to help in the adoption process! Majority of them are legally bound like me!


That's really great when you see the growth of the seeds that you sow. I am sure the government of your country is not bothered about cryptos and hence they haven't yet passed any law which prohibits cryptocurrencies to be accepted in stores. That's the opportunity area for enthusiastic people like you to promote cryptos to the masses! Wish you all the best and I would love to look at the notice from your local barber shop. Would you mind posting a picture of it?

First of all its a true wonders that a barber shop which has not much banner for advertising them (since they have printed in a paper only) accepting bitcoin and ethereum,for now the fee is not a concern for small payments so we can encourage the retailers to make bitcoin as payment atleast in very few scale.

The community gets bigger and stronger not today but surely for someday.

It's good to see that one of the business that you encouraged to accept crypto's are now accepting. We don't have same experience, most of the business that I talked to, they weren't aware what bitcoin was or does it exists. Every time I buy my favorite DQ blizzard and other small stalls, I used to ask the cashier if they are accepting bitcoin but they have the same answers. At least, I've tried right? Not every business has the same point and belief to the tech, others are just scared of using a new tech and payment method.

anybody who is accepting ETH as payment shows that they have no idea what cryptocurrencies are for! of course ETH has value but it is not meant to be used as a currency so receiving it as payment is foolish! it is a token that its whole purpose is to be used as a fuel for smart contracts.

there are hundreds of cryptocurrencies that are designed to work as a currency, if you want to use an altcoin then go use them instead.

It is like you invest without a fee and commissions.  ;D
Charging payments can be possible in my country with cryptocurrency, but most people are uninformed about digital currencies. Especially the old generation. They say "I can not make a deposit if I can not see what I bought."

I think you're wrong, not all people are willing to spend their Bitcoin because most people are just using it to make profits, instead of using it as what it should be (payment system). I know someone that owns an internet shop and a coffee shop, and both of his business accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash with a help of local payment processor and also an exchange available here in my country. But he said that there are only few people that really wants to pay using cryptocurrency. If we really want to see more shops to accept cryptocurrencies then people should be willing to spend them. But of course most people will still choose to just hold it and sell when the price went up.

he can not do anything about it, but you can do something about it, only vote for candidates who are want to legalize bitcoin and not corrupt, dictators, and outdated ideas from Stone Age times.

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We need the richest countries in the world to legalize bitcoin and if that happens the small countries will do the same thing, only then we can use bitcoin as a means of payments around the world without problems

interesting discussion, and I strongly agree and appreciate all of your actions that have supported the use of bitcoin. in my opinion for some bitcoin users who don't have such large assets, it will be very difficult to contribute directly, especially in this context of building a business with the acceptance feature of using bitcoin. maybe, the best alternative now is to participate in using bitcoin directly as a payment tool somewhere (available) both online and offline, so the bitcoin that we have is not only limited to trading tools, profit and exchanging it into fiat currency

Your right about that man
If we all want bitcoin to become massively adopted we have to start to use it to buy things in real world not just phones but in food sector as well and more so tell people about Crypto at any given opportunity we have.

"In order for cryptocurrencies to be accepted by the mainstream, they must be spent and used as traditional monies: spending is, after all, the core function of any money." - Bitcoin

My friend, I beg to disagree. You know, Bitcoin is not really designed as if it is like our fiat currency, or an imitation of it. Yes, it is a currency but it is meant to be used as a peer-to-peer currency. You are not asked to make use of your Bitcoin in a registered or government-sanctioned business. Expect your government to intervene. But if you use Bitcoin the way it is designed, then I see no problem of success. The mere fact that you are into Bitcoin even if your country is considering it illegal means that you are free to sell or accept payment or render services in exchange of crypto on a peer-to-peer bases.

Having said that it means adoption is possible with the community we have we can do about it to spread good things about bitcoin technology on how it could change our live on daily basis. The necessity of involving social media we can provide greater spread over it and encourage everyone to take a good look on crypto currency.

Why would people throw negative comments against this act in promoting cryptocurrency to the masses. It’s hard to please everyone and doing the right thing for them only triggered they’re jealousy and ego. If I have the chance to spend bitcoin minimally in this kind of service within my country then I would love to.

    

Small act of accepting cryptocurrency will be a big thing in the future. Here in my place, you can transfer bitcoin to any wallet with the same system will not require you to pay any fees and you can transfer without any limit. We should really keep on doing this, so the market will grow and the price will increas too.

mindset has changed, from pro pow, anti banks, towards anti pow, and anti banks

Unfortunately, those who have the means to act won't act since they are getting tons of benefits of keeping bitcoin on where it is right now. Let's face it, our collective individual efforts wouldn't get much if we only are spreading the word but not practicing what we preach, and also without the help of those with the $$$, our ideas will only remain ideas unless we put some more effort and money into it. Everyone can be as enthusiastic in getting the word out, but not everyone can make a drastic change in the current shape of the ecosystem.

It will take time to succeed. It stayed for a decade due to its technical excellence otherwise in this fast pace world product /invention become obsolete and replaced within a few years. Bitcoin will stay and go to mainstream but not too soon.
Most People are cynical of BTC and other just purchased as investment tool.
Media still  make fun of pizza story terming as million dollar pizza's and with this attitude will you be able to convince anybody to spend bitcoins?

Both ETH and BTC have huge fees from time to time and I can't in good faith recommend them to anyone.
I made the mistake of recommending BCH to merchants, but the hash war destroyed its stability, too.

i have been encouraging everyone that i talk to and knows about bitcoin or shows interest to use it as a currency more often. and so far in all these years i have never introduced bitcoin as anything but a currency which they can buy stuff with online and offline. i even discourage people who talk about price and profit if they are new from seeing it as such.
but unfortunately the volatility have always changed the mindset of some people and there is not much we can do about it.
i still don't get why people try to use ETH as payment though!

Sharing our knowledge to the other people about cryptocurrency is important. The mass adoption will not occur if we users will not help the people in our community to become aware to what it is cryptocurrencies. By influencing others, the community of the cryptocurrency will become more strong.

Well i think that is a good idea.A lot of investors who have little shops, or little businesses , like the man with a barber shop can accept the payment in BTC and and let other people know about the existence of this coin and make Bitcoin useful in everyday situations.

As a user, I have a important task which is to influence the others to use and patronize cryptocurrencies. I have small business in my community and I know accept cryptocurrencies as a payment. My customers are now curious and some of them are now interested to use cryptocurrencies.

by marketing bitcoin to the public it will greatly help the spread and adoption, in the near term I will make a service business,
and I am ready to accept payments with bitcoin, at least that will give little help to bitcoin

jes run around like the witness jehovas, and tell everyone to earn the bitcoins of the miners,

whoever is doing that for free is an idiot.

Inspiring indeed. I myself is still trying to sell my stuff for BTC on a social media. But sadly, when they ask how much was the price and when I said the amount in bitcoin, they all went asking, "Huh, what is BTC?"  :(
Reading this OP convinced me to never give up. Staying positive even in this bear seasons.  :D

Some of us think bitcoin is a way to get rich quick. To get financial freedom without utilizing the cryptocurrencies. It is a sad fact that bitcoin adoption is slowed down by that kind of perception. People are interested in their own profit instead of looking for a bigger picture.

Bitcoin is already spread in all countries but still it is not consider as money and some people do not approved it. We need to do something in order to see a massive adoption of bitcoin and if we want to happen it we should all information about it and tell to them that it is a new form money that can be used in different kind of transaction. But, the most effective way to see massive adoption is to use all kind of social media.

Well it's great to encourage people to start accepting crypto payment, but not all countries are welcoming this currency, in my country using crypto as payment is against the law, so before we can start the mass adoption we will need to have the governments on our side, and we need good infrastructure to make crypto into a successful currency

I agree. I dont think bitcoin has to be mass adopted in the next 6 months.
It will take time, development has to evolve in line with greater demand
it all cannot happen overnight. Patience and time are key elements in this
game!

I think its depend on government regulation. I will use my bitcoin and my others crypto for shopping but merchant afraid to accept it because government regulation. If government regulating cryptocurrency for payment, i am believe crypto community will happy and use it in merchant

The OP had made a valid point towards encouraging we bitcoin community to further enlighten and educate our community people to adopt bitcoin and other cryptos, personally I had introduced two of colleagues to bitcoin last week and the funniest part is that both of them are willing to invest into it immediately without delay, there is the need to spread the good news about bitcoin for adoption.

Good point, I'm sure we have small and big business men among us on here ,even company owners either small or big ,we have the power in our palm to make not only bitcoin be useful as means of payment

there's an idea in telecommunications known as "metcalfe's law". it says the value of a network is derived from the number of its users. in other words, the more users the network has, the more valuable it becomes.

i tend to believe it's true. so while i think promoting bitcoin to merchants is a noble cause on behalf of bitcoin users, i don't think it's particularly important. i think the important thing is whether users continue adopting bitcoin as p2p cash/currency. as long as usership continues growing, merchants will eventually be forced to accept it due to the size of the market.

That was when the network was overloaded, as of current I believe it takes about $0.1cent +/- to excute a transaction on the ethereum blockchain and as of bitcoin I haven't done transact for quite some time but i believe the fees will be in cents too.  We have various cryptocurrency so if bitcoin fees becomes high a merchant can have other options for the main time. I believe the goals is to get cryptocurrency adopted with bitcoin plotting the adoption.

I have a high hope that the people in my community will use cryptocurrency in their daily lives but I know it will take more time if I will not take any actions. We should do something that can help the people in or community to have information about what it is and its function.

Small efforts will become large once everybody helps to contribute helps the growth of crypto.
The possible domino effects could happen if ever everyone helps.
This is not short term plan but for long term plans.

Yeah, we won't see any massive adoption of cryptocurrency if we don't using it as a real currency in our real life.
The most challenging to using bitcoin as a currency is about the value of btc which is not stable.
But if we can make many peoples using bitcoin and crypto, i am very sure the value will become stable because many use them.

  What do you think the biggest roadblock is for most retailers in accepting BTC/ETH for payments?  In addition to working in blockchain, I am also a merchant and would love to accept crypto payments but the volatility is one issue for me.

If your country allows it and you can manage the volatility today then why not? I think this is one of the best methods to actually amplify the noise of the usage of bitcoin.

I have done something similar with quite a few merchants and shops in my area and it has paid off in the long run. We are hosting several Bitcoin evenings <meetups> at one of our local bars, where the owner accepts Bitcoin payments. It has been so successful that other bars have contacted us to ask if we can have these events at their bars too.  ;)

A lot of small fires, will start a wild fire that would become uncontrollable.  ;)  <Just do your small part and ask, you have nothing to lose>  ;D

I couldn't agree more with you more on this, to enhance widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies, we all have our role to play. However, the bitter truth is that the so called whales wouldn't be interested as they benefit a lot from keeping cryptocurrencies (especially Bitcoin) where it is at the moment. Some people are simply involved in trading and making cool profits through price fluctuation. This post actually did serve as a wake up call. It is not about talking, but doing.

Perhaps, the answer also comes from the specialization of altcoins and being able to trade between coins used in different industries for specific needed purposes.

The value that is assigned to each coin is assigned by its community and their participation, which is then relative to another coin.

As this industry grows so too do all the values. We are now at the edge of not relating coins to fiat currency but only to each other and this is a very good step.

Your story inspires me.
But it's not simple as it seems for the first.
Firstlt, the use of cryptocurrency is illegal in many countries. What to do with it? To promote cryptocurrency and go to jail for it?
Secondly. It's difficult. Who would not say, but to use BTC or ETH for small transactions is stupid and meaningless. It is not suitable for this.

not all times . they are only expensive when their value is also high but thesedays tx fees are freakin cheap . thats why using btc or eth isnt really a headache .


bch didnt ever become stable because bch is still a crypto and all cryptos will always be volatile  . but your recomendation is good , bch is more lighter and has a smaller fee compare to eth and btc  .


thats good if you will  add the suport of crypto payments but you must adjust your pricing depending on the current value of the coins so that you wont loose . 

Personally, I basically want to do as you do. But unfortunately, there are restrictions for cryptocurrency in my country. There is a rule from the central bank which states that only fiat money is a legitimate payment instrument. That was a problem for us

At the moment I'm thinking about creating a specialized online store (for the first time), where Bitcoin will be the main payment method. I think about details, but it seems to me this idea will more than pay off. In addition, it is a great contribution to the development of Bitcoin.

I will do something as I can. I can't force someone to use bitcoin, they have their own assessment of something new. I once promoted bitcoin on my insta story, but no one was interested and even no one asked me about it. Perhaps, in the next few years when payment instruments are more popular using virtual money, I'm sure it is a gap for someone to know bitcoin.

Well, improving ground level use of cryptocurrencies for day to day transactions is the intention of the creator but sadly we are involved in speculation so giving second priority to the fundamental aspect of decentralized cryptocurrencies. I do see transaction fee as a barrier for day to day transactions because most of the things of daily needs are available at the cost of the Bitcoin transaction fee in my country so we need to find some better solution to optimise the usage of cryptocurrencies and improve the utility value of it.

There's no harm in setting up businesses and then accepting bitcoin as a form of payment. Obviously most people don't use bitcoin so you would not make as much money if you decided to restrict payments just to bitcoin.

Bitcoin adoption, the good things we can do for bitcoin is really good for bitcoin and cryptocurrency, I will continue to support bitcoin  and scattered every news about bitcoin to other friends through social media, and encourage them to invest and join bitcoin, and so for this let us support amd promote bitcoin to be more popular than ever.

Bitcoin reached the demand it needs and the market showed the price of it.
This is so hard for some sectors especially banks and government.
Many government seen the power of BTC and they need to step forward to regulate the currency "BTC".
Before it gets too late to control. there are big  amount in risk if they will let this one go with out any regulation which government can earn.

Good to see that people are thinking like this. Me, personally, I've got nothing against people who have Bitcoin and support it, but don't ever really use it. That's perfectly fine for me. I like to think I'm doing the best I can, every small effort I make where I successfully spend bitcoin instead of "regular money", I feel happy and satisfied knowing I've done my very small part for adoption.

I would like to say here also that a little bit of awareness can go a long way too. Whenever we can, remind people that storing Bitcoin at exchanges, or on Coinbase wallets, aren't really the same as owning and using Bitcoin. Also, using Bitpay or 3rd party processors - yes, it's convenient, but that's also a step away from true Bitcoin adoption. Always encourage actual bitcoin transfer, from peer to peer, from buyer to seller, without any 3rd party involved. Even if it's just a few cents worth, it's something and the way it was intended.

I totally agree with you because we all know bitcoin is a decentralized currency which has no centralized party to make it successful so as users we are the only people that can decide its future to be bright and successful or not so we are the only people who has the power to make bitcoin expand in the financial and non financial world through adoption by contributing as a community to make it more usable as a currency not just as a investing asset by implementing more options to use it as a means of payment in the real world

I'm afraid it doesn't work that way

Neither is it supposed to work that way, strictly speaking. When you want to sell something and offer it for selling, it is called a buyer's market, i.e you can't demand someone to pay in something other than an established means of payment used in your quarters. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a sell but rather an exchange of things. In this case, you would be striking a barter deal like an exchange of apples for oranges

On the other hand, if you are given a choice as you describe further in your post, that would be a different situation since you are not being limited in your payment options

It is not that easy in the past I tried to convince people of joining bitcoin and I failed but then when they saw bitcoin going up in price all they wanted to know was where to buy it so they could earn money with it, I refused to help them since I knew that if they were only interested in making money they will lose it if they did that, my friends were not very happy with my response and then the price crashed, they understood that I did it to protect them but I still had to endure several weeks of difficulties.

So while trying to make people adopt cryptocurrencies seems like a good idea it is not as easy as many people think since any losses that are caused by people following your advice will make your relationship very difficult.

Be sure to maximize the promotion of Bitcoin to the masses, as it is quite likely that this will help it to scale.

99% of the world has a neutral or positive stance towards Bitcoin. You are in a very small group of people that not only can't formally use Bitcoin but can also get arrested for doing it. There are some crazy places like Venezuela where police steals mining equipment and arrests people for mining but it can't be treated like something normal.

Most people aren't doing anything because they aren't paid to do so. Are we to take a day off and walk around town persuading merchants to use Bitcoin?

I think i have promoted bitcoin in my own way.I used to share ideas about bitcoin with my family,relatives and even closest friends.Some of them may seem to be interested while others just ignore about it.So i just told them if you want to make sure if bitcoin is legit,you can try to make some studies about it by reading related articles available in the internet.

In the last 6 months or so, i have made all my bitcoin transactions using the smallest possible amount, which is 1sat/B. That results in a typical tx fee is under 1000 satoshis, usually under 500 (depending on inputs), and gets confirmed within the hour, sometimes within the block (10 minutes).

For reference: 1000 satoshis = 3¢

In the near future, Lightning Network (https://lightning.network/) enabled wallets would allow your barbershop to accept bitcoin payments instantly, in fact he could have a "tab" for frequent clients, and further bitcoin updates (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0174.mediawiki) would allow him to do that even offline...

There was no need for you to waste time with altcoins, bitcoin is becoming even better for business and small "Lightning" payments.

The title says so. Yes I was introducing Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency to my friends from time to time. I'm not just talking about the price, but the potential of its technology and the future of it. Although that Bitcoin may not replace cash entirely, but for sure more and more people are going to use it for peer to peer transactions in several years to come. I can see that coming once we don't just sit and wait for the price to go up. Keep sharing!

Yeah I think so, most users are workers they will not do anything without getting paid, so is the promotion of bitcoin. whereas what they promote can provide benefits to them afterwards. if you are prohibited from promoting bitcoin because it's illegal, you can promote it anonymously on the internet?

Governments are elected by people. If majority of people want bitcoin no government can do any thing about it. They cant jail half of its population. Unity is power. Before that creating acceptability in masses is the most important requirement. We have take an initiative in our village. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5098721.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5098721.0).

People think starting big online exchanges serving the world, we created Local Independent Micro Exchanges (LIME) with zero cost in our villages. Government can jail single big exchange owner but can jail all small exchange owners. One big exchange can control and manipulate exchange rates but LIME's are independent to set their own prices which can be accepted or rejected by general public. General public are free to go to any LIME's who can give better exchange rate. Now my village farmers who are uneducated can invest in bitcoin.

We too have taken up initiative to promote bitcoin and connect more people with bitcoin.

Just because you sell stuff, may i ask you.
Would you be interested in starting a LIME.
LIME - Local Independent Micro Exchange.
Let me get it clear - LIME is an ideology and not a product.

An exchange just for local people in your neighborhood, community or even tourist places. This will save people from sending their personal information to some offshore exchange with zero liability. Through LIME you can provide people with liquidity and most importantly you can introduce them to bitcoin.

I have written a post on how my village farmers now invest in bitcoin. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5098721.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5098721.0)

There are definitely other factors at play here

And we have already seen them in action. People won't pay with Bitcoin for things you mention (like daily necessities or haircut), even if it would cost them nothing in terms of fees and time. But it doesn't mean either that Bitcoin will be useless and worthless. It will just turn into digital gold (it is not yet) but without gold's shortcomings and deficiencies. And this is where altcoins are going to pick up the lead as with Bitcoin being new gold (a store of value), using altcoins as change money would make perfect sense

As much marketing as possible, to spark interest and get people more involved and learning about bitcoin. Small businesses and overall any business that accepts crypto currencies is a lot. working towards a bigger purpose

yes i agree with that statement, i think it will be great when you do something in bitcoin or cryptocurrency, dont sit down and see what happen, you need to make something changes with your move.

Legal clarification is a major issue when it comes to bitcoin adoption, majority of the countries have not done anything to have some clarity to use it as a legal tender, with due time we will see majority of the companies adopting bitcoin for trade and the ease with which you can trade internationally is the best aspect of crypto currency.

You are correct, many in crypto wait for mass adoption to come while thy sit on their asses doing nothing. What I have notice in crypto is that there is the belief that always someone else has to do the job. And it is because of someone else that we are not rich yet. This has to stop. People in crypto should at least promote crypto to outsiders.

If only one person moves, there will be no effect. The step we have to do is to grow our awareness to unite in fighting for the adoption of bitcoin

Social media is one of the efffective tools in spreading the news on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and I've been doing this since I started using bitcoin a couple of years ago. Some of my friends don't like the idea of a currency that can be use only when you are online but after they've their own research, they are now planning to buy bitcoins. They are many ways to the spread the use of bitcoin to speed up its adoption and it is up to the people to do their own.

It would be great to see bitcoin becoming widely accepted as a medium of payment globally but truth be told it wouldn't be that easy. We have alot of very cryptocurrency unenlightened people globally some fill it just share scam so trying to convince folks like this would be hard

The idea is very nice. Hope all establishment will do the same way so that it will be easy for the users for payment of bill.

I agree with your assertion here , but the issue here is that not many here are into business or provides services and so they will not be able to have a massive reach. I think the best way to increase the adoption rate of cryptocurrency is improving on the various key technologies of the blockchain in order to extend value to the everyday activities of the public.

Hold bitcoin for long term is also a support for bitcoin. When more people hold bitcoin then bitcoin price will tend to rise then it will makes people's desire to own bitcoin increase. Finally more people will adopt bitcoin as medium of exchange because they want to like bitcoin users who improve their prosperity. But we can do more by create online shop which accept bitcoin.

I agree to you that we should really do something if we want the bitcoin to be recognized as a currency by all of the people. We should help the bitcoin to become more popular for us to earn more benefits. The value of the bitcoin will increase more if more people will patronize bitcoin.

- Agree that media is a useful tool that can help us spread crypto and bitcoin, encouraging people to use more bitcoin in life but with news like scams and losing money around bitcoin, our spread only has the opposite effect, it will make people think that we are scams and stay away from us. In addition, encouraging the use of bitcoin can make us face government and police when bitcoin is always an enemy of government, I think you should not continue to do this, it will put you in danger, what we should do is make money with bitcoin in silence, acceptance or disapproval of bitcoin, it is not so important

The market is now continuing gaining more popularity and power because we users are now keep promoting it. There are now many investors who entering the market because they attracted to the high returns that they can get through investment. As a user, I keep promoting cryptocurrencies because for the people in my community to earn opportunities and benefits from it.

Great and inspirational thought and I really agree with you how bitcoin become powerfull over the government world wide.
In the help of eaxh other and people understand how bitcoin works as currency we need to encourage more people to understand the importance of bitcoin as currency to become large community to protect agains the government want to destroy bitcoin.

The demand of the people to bitcoin will grow more if we will spread our knowledge about the whole blockchain technology to other people. I am sure that they will also enter to the market if they fully understand what is for and how it works.

That's right with us spreading the word about bitcoin and the blockchain system so people will know its function and its use that can make many people adopt bitcoin

It's so great that there are more and more people who even in their small business are not afraid to accept bitcoin as payment for their services. I hope this trend will spread around the world and then bitcoin adoption will happen much faster.

I think as many people and organizations as possible should start accepting bitcoins because it can really take their business to a new level. If I had my own business, I would definitely enter payment in cryptocurrency. It is very modern and promising.

It is very commendable that there are more and more places where bitcoin is accepted. I think you're right. This is a small part of what we can do for bitcoin. If we tell people more about it, it will contribute to its development and soon we will be able to see a lot more places where they accept payment with cryptocurrency.

I have actually bought things with bitcoin, just not daily needs directly. Indirectly by selling for fiat, yes. Once LN becomes universal in wallets, i see no reason not to pay little things directly as well, as long as the business accepts BTC. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, pay for things in satoshis, especially if as you say, the value of bitcoin will keep going up. Unlike gold that remains mostly fixed in place...

Gold itself used to be used for payment, but it got so expensive that it got tricky to pay small amounts with it. Bitcoin doesn't have that problem, not only has 8 decimals already, but can quickly be expanded into 16, should a time come where a single satoshi becomes too much money.

By spreading information about Bitcoin, at least we have contributed to the development of crypto. And now there are so many people who continue to disseminate information about crypto either through the media or offline seminars.

Market is in good condition as people are coming aware of bitcoins and institutions are also adapting it. The price is although still low. But instead of only looking at the price we should play our part and help to give awareness to bitcoin to our near and dear ones. As i know most of my friends and family are not aware of bitcoins, so if each of us can teach few other about bitcoins, we will collectively help bitcoin grow more.

it's very cool dude. I had a similar situation with one programmer, whom I told about Bitcoins in 2014 on one party and about the fact that Bitcoins are the future. as far as I know now, he earns a lot of money on cryptocurrency and now he is creating a team to launch his own token. respect.

I checked your country and I see that you are from Nigeria West Africa is good to see bitcoin is being welcomed and acceptable there I think we all have a huge part to play in the expansion of cryptocurrency globally and if we do our best then the future would be brightened

It would be a good choice to introduce bitcoin as a payment method and that would make the value of bitcoin more stable, and if many people think of bitcoin as a method of payment rather than investment, then the risk of bitcoin will be smaller.

This doesn't count

Because merchants may not even know that you paid them with a cryptocurrency (in this case with Bitcoin), let alone accepting it as a legit means of payment. And I'm afraid LN won't mend matters in this department as it is not merchants who are a limiting factor here. And while you (and me too, for that matter) are ready to pay for small things with cryptocurrencies (though, personally, I would prefer to pay with lites, not bitcoins), this is not what most cryptocurrency users are inclined to do at large


The problem is not with Bitcoin and its decimal places, the problem is with the majority of people not willing to use it as a means of payment

I am sure by sharing more information on social media, and we can help bitcoin to spread among us because people now will search something they don't know. They will keep searching until they found what they want and if they are interested in that thing aka bitcoin, they will join and will use bitcoin as what we did. We need to do this over and over again so we can give the information about bitcoin to them and we can reach more people to comes to the cryptocurrency.

If every user wanted to tell on of their closest people about bitcoin. of course bitcoin adoption could be accelerated ? because of course one word can provide curiosity to others people. especially bitcoin is a new innovation. certainly makes people want to know more deeply

That's true. To make sure adoption and mass usage of crypto or Bitcoin becomes realistic depends on us those who have some knowledge in it. We are in the best position to do that and neither the government nor the media can do it better than us the basic users. One unfortunate thing is that the Media, governments and even some of us or certain companies are preventing people from seeing the good aspects of this technology and so it's difficult making people use Bitcoins or cryptos.

That's a good advice for people that can actually do that in there country ,it will make bitcoin get better but presently there are many places ,business accepting bitcoin as means of payment already ,its only a matter of time it will get better but as for me its not legal in my country

I am believe people who involve and investing in cryptocurrency must be want adoption happen more faster. But its need government regulation and every government have their own rule. I think right now many advance country already regulate cryptocurrency and allowing crypto as payment, i am believe more country will follow this step

Many people are already using bitcoin and eth but the majority are still seeing it as a store of value. Unless this changes then the numbers of transactions will probably stay low for some time to come.

I totally agree with you. However so many banks are fighting Bitcoin.
In my country, banks won't accept large bitcoin withdrawals. But it makes sense, because cryptocurrencies is a big loss for the big cooporations.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the future. No problem!
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yes I agree with your statement, many out there people just stay quiet but want the price of bitcoin to always be high and keep rising. so if you want bitcoin to remain stable and keep rising you should often promote bitcoin to others.

I strongly agree to this because we need to act now to make the cryptocurrency adopted all over the world so that we can now fully use crypto everywhere and anywhere. Only crypto people can make this hapoen due its decentralization who doesnt have any central agency that runs it.

There are some small store in some community who will accept bitcoin and ethereum because of the price is really low now.
BUt i hope they will keep accepting the coins even at the top of its price and when the market is falling.
we need more support from many community to keep the coins uptrend and stronger.

good idea for cryptocurrency crowds to know about this crypto but will not prevent it from the government if they know that it's using cryptocurrency. it's a fun feeling to talk about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency especially if they know crypto and you'll get ideas about it.

indeed it's true because by storing them they can get the benefits they want, so most of them now are holding rather than making transactions

Truly bitcoin have had a massive progress for the passed ten years, but there are still more to do, the adoption of bitcoin is the main challenge facing this currency, many prefer local currency than bitcoin when it comes to trade, simply because, many traders in some country don't know about bitcoin, some are not interested at all,due to the level of their knowledge, and it's the high time to have some group and their job is to interact with these people in their local languages,to enlightened the about what bitcoin is all about.

When we have to decide to become a bitcoin investors don't get into this quickly because when you entered into field you cannot get out this field for a long time because it is made up like that so you can do something for the development of the cryptocurrency every day it will be buying selling exchanging and much more to do for the journey of development.

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Correct sentiment though ...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100327210623/http://www.bitcoin.org:80/faq

"... What is Bitcoin’s value backed by?

Bitcoin is valued for the things it can be exchanged to, just like all the traditional paper currencies are.

When the first user publicly announces that he will make a pizza for anyone who gives him enough Bitcoins, then he can use Bitcoins as payment to some extent - as much as people want pizza and trust his announcement. A pizza-eating hairdresser who trusts him as a friend might then announce that she starts accepting Bitcoins as payment for fancy haircuts, and the value of the Bitcoin would be higher - now it would be backed by pizzas ''and'' haircuts. When Bitcoins have become accepted widely enough, he could retire from his pizza business and still be able to use his Bitcoin-savings.

Currently, Bitcoin is in beta development stage, and some new features need to be implemented before the system is well suited for real use. The system already works on the basic level, though, and you can trade with it if you want to. ..."

It's quite true that we have to start the change ourselves. Once we start to accept cryptocurrency and the market grows then adoption of cryptocurrency will grow enormously.
If I had a restaurant or a store I would definitely have accepted BTC and ETH as payment options. I would also have promoted it online.
This is how bitcoin will grow in the future if bitcoin supporters encourage on using BTC as payment method. I believe this will happen some day or the other.

most of the people in this world don't know about what is cryptocurrency so don't think all the words talk about cryptocurrency just do your work and learn by yourself then educated others what is the cryptocurrency and why we need it which will include the number of people using that cryptocurrencies.

This is precisely what i believe is stopping the wide adoption of Bitcoin besides probably volatility.

People seeing it as a payment method will start to ask questions not only to themselves but to others and talk about it more. Also the ones who already know the currency as a mean of payment could have an easier life using them.

Another interesting aspect is that getting paid in Bitcoin after transforming from the fiat currency the company uses would be a lot easier.

Yes, that's the best options to do while we're still not having more demands nowadays with bitcoin and other crypto coins. Sharing the ideas how crypto works in our lives can help spreading good news, and don't ever be discourage even if other individuals was having negative perceptions against btc. We can't blame those people, because they've been feed by fake news and fuds.

I agree with those comments saying that the community getting bigger and stronger day by day and we will surely have more impact in future. Also it’s weird to me that there is still alot of people out there who have no idea about what the cryptocurrency is. I know the impact is kinda small but i think we can at least try to do something to spread some awareness about bitcoin.

Yes, Crypto is illegal in our country too. We can't talk about crypto in public! Though the government hasn't banned yet but they discouraged dealing cryptocurrency and talking openly! We use "botoch" word to describe bitcoin in public, So, how can we encourage people to spread and involve into it? So, in our country, every crypto people are bounded!

you need to create a messaging group and invite your friends or other people within your country  . talk about btc adoption and make your own plan  . if all your groupmates agree then thats the time to make a real organization . make some shirts and banners about btc and why it must be adopted .  final step is to rally in front of the governments office so that they will hear your voice and opinions  . thats effective though , you better try it  out .

To increase the popularity of bitcoin throughout the world, we must use bitcoin for trade and investment.
Bitcoin is a digital currency that in the future will definitely increase its use, so propaganda about bitcoin should never stop.
Of course, by playing an active role the profits will be even greater, along with the increasing price of bitcoin.

but that is the reality, everyone already knows that not only is Bitcoin present in digital currency, there are others, bitcoin must think hard to get back up. don't just rely on the market.

In our country crypto has been quite fully adopted as i have found out lately that in my near locality, there is a gas station that already accepts Bitcoin as a payment option. Thus, i am quite optimistic about the future of crypto here in our country. I do always promote through social media thru my friends & acquintances about cryptocurrency and sometimes they do ask me how to earn money through this new technology and i am always open to give advises to them as well.

I once suggested to people and entrepreneurs in my country, to adopt Bitcoin and Ethereum as a payment system in the company, in every payment transaction with crypto, it's already been running and some are still in the stage of further development. and there are still many who are doubtful because this year's crypto is not improving so hopefully crypto will be better in the future. That's what I can work on crypto.

Now it's time to use bitcoin to trade or travel to a country that legalizes bitcoin, so the bitcoin movement gets faster.
If all bitcoin users use it simultaneously I'm sure the price of bitcoin will go up, because the issue in the bitcoin market will be positive and more and more buyers of bitcoin. The more you buy, the price will definitely go up.

The more you show how to use it and allow people to see the benefits will attract them to buy as well, there's a lots of movements that can be process
you can accept bitcoin as a payment or try those online market who already cater bitcoin and make the circulations to be noticed by many people around the world, no need to wait but we need to act.

Doing something that will bring more exposures for bitcoin definitely needs to start now.

If a barber can implement bitcoin payment in his shop then what are we waiting for ? I build rigs for people both gaming rigs and mining rigs and guess what? I prefer payment in bitcoin and so far so good ,I think if we really want bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general to succeed further we have to start implementing them in our businesses too ,it helps and before we know it  bitcoin will gain stronger community

Indeed, bitcoin won't be adopted automatically without peoples themselves are using it as a payment.
Other thing that makes bitcoin adopted is the hype, like at the end of 2017, peoples were come to cryptocurrency because the value were very high.

I personally have heard something that I can afford, bro. to make the world of bitcoin better than before. but the limitation of knowledge and capital so that I cannot do anything as much as I can. the important thing is to try and work

I totally agree, if we really want more people and more growth we cant simply wait and do nothing

that’s why I became somehow a blockchain evangelist and basically spreading the word and telling friends about it

also explaining how it works and how it compares with the old traditional financial system

Am really trying to see that happen. i have a shop and it is boldly written there{ pay in bitcoin and ethereum} and so far just two has paid in bitcoin and one person in ethereum .

You doing great, some scarify have to be made for success to be achieved. You might not be recognized globally but if you can achieve that recognition in your local community you have contributed positively towards the success of the use of bitcoin as a currency.

Glad to here about crypto adoption with local shops in your country and yes definitely even we are a smaller community considering governments I believe as users of Bitcoin and other altcoins we can do a considerable change to increase the adoption rate at least in on line and local stores by requesting to allow crypto payment facilities as customers and the chance to consider our voice is much higher specially in a period that businesses say "customers are kings" but for this to happen not few people but each and every individual should have the feeling to help the crypto world   

This is a one step of adopting cryptocurrency, people will use their coins to purchase goods to you and at least you contributed a lot in this market. We should make actions on this and don’t just think about ourselves, newbies need to be guided let’s continue to help people and spread the knowledge that we have about cryptocurrency.

We should do something in order to help the cryptocurrencies to become more popular. Actually, I giving free seminar every month in my community about the blockchain technology. I saw to their faces that they are really interested to learn what it is

Bitcoin was born and became big because of the role of the community who thought that its use was better than the use of fiat money.
Therefore, being active in socializing bitcoin will be better than bullying it, because bitcoin has proven that many people become millionaires because they are involved in bitcoin trading or investment.

yes you are right and it is a good thing telling the barber about bitcoin and making him understand the usefulness of bitcoin for transactions. The truth is if we want bitcoin to be massively adopted in the world, we have to play our part in telling people about it and we start from those around us. Imagine if each and every one of us tell every single business man or shop onwers around us about bitcoin, sure we can cover so much within a period of time and soon enough bitcoin will be massively adopted all around us. Lets do the goof work today and spread the information about use of bitcoin for payments.

Every one has a part to play to ensure that bitcoin and it's adoption is spread across the world.
We can start accepting bitcoin as a medium of payment in our trade

Bitcoin adoption will come slowly and steadily in regular usage. This is just a beginning if you consider it a long term based asset. The whole thing will go digitally in the future. So, there will be trading methods will be also digital as Cryptocurrency.

''Bitcoin adoption: Don't just sit down, do something ''  You are right. we must adopt bitcoini first and try to use it in every aspect of our lives. for example when ordering coffee from starbucks, can I pay with bitcoin? we should. it is a beginning to want to pay bitcoin. :)

This is what I'm doing for almost 2 years and I see that people around is following my actions which is good because it will spread the awareness about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. Luckily my country doesn't ban Bitcoin so we are free to make any transaction or receive payment as Bitcoin.

When I go for a beer with my friends, or to the cinema, and I pay the whole bill so my friends owe me money, I always tell them that they can pay me in bitcoin.
And I bought some stickers with bitcoin symbol so I stick them around the city. So I think I'm doing my part to popularize bitcoin

The easiest and fastest way for people to learn how to use bitcoin is through peer to peer ,(traditional advert placements on mainstream media may be frowned upon in some climes.),that sort of place some level of dependence on all who love cryptos to teaxh their peers.Every of such action has a snowballing effect towards mass adoption.It is a collective responsibility

yeah, i think the best thing when you do by yourself. and its great if you have shop or something that people needed your service. you can put bitcoin payment and people will ask about it. its up to people, want to know or just read, how to spread equal how your act. because, its easy if someone learn bitcoin and they have teacher to teach it

If we want to make this a realization, then we have to first educate newbies and people who think that Bitcoin is just a ponzi scheme and people using to buy illegal stuff, after we educate them and they accepted this technology, they will integrate it to their lives and businesses.

As of now we need to do the best to circulate the cryptocurrencies. Adoption keeps increasing when users get more access to use it as a currency. To me, the growth needs to start from the base. Every small scale business people who are cryptocurrency users need to accept bitcoin, which is the one that makes the community grow.

This should be the things we need to do and that is to introduce the use of cryptocurrency for transparency and to avoid third party transactions that will going to deduct huge transaction fees. Though bitcoin now has also deducting huge transactions but this will going to change over time if that bitcoin will be adapted globally. THe team or the developers of cryptocurrency should lead the adaptability for they will be the one to benefit directly.

We may educate them but will they be using it? I am that kind of person that do something if I know that it will create or have an effect on something but if I know thay it won't work, I don't do it. I am not that positive into something and I think even if we educate them about Bitcoin and crypto currencies, they will not be using it. They will just know what Bitcoin is and it will be great even if some start to use it or invest on it but I think if they are good investors they should Bitcoin already, right?

One thing leads to another if we can have an online friend with an online shop to use Bitcoin, it will be mileage and if he saw how good cryptocurrency is, then businesses and their customers will start using Cryptocurrency, it's like a domino effect for everybody.

Wow this could be nice. It is certainly good to do such promotion even in just simple ways. Using cryptocurrency in small activities as this could actually help create opportunities for growth and may probably help in the process of creating a global acceptance and stability to the coins. If all of us will be using it then we could just create a new cryptocurrency economy where it could stand more or less like how fiat currency do. Of course there is so much to change but hopefully it will be a real currency just like fiat several years from now.

Keep educating the people around your surroundings, take seminars etc so that they can become aware about the crypto currencies and how does it functions, how can they buy/sell, their advantage and disadvantage etc. The more you indulge with people , more and more will come through word of mouth and start buying.

Have to explain them well and helping them to open up their mind for this great opportunity. But we can't push them neither if they don't want to learn and listen to us. Basic introduction towards crypto will be just enough and it's up to them if they'll need more help and to guide them for investing.

I would never disagree on the situation were bitcoin accepted in my owned country and used as a payment and the community adopt BTC. I did something good and a right choose of being part of this BTC community.

I have really tried that in my office but people will always ask me to explain to them what bitcoin is and sometimes its really frustrating.

Yes, I agree, but educating beginners who already know to develop and understand bitcoin will be easier and more professional, holding geratis seminars from city to city will be more effective in introducing crypto entirely from buying, selling, profit and loss, and how Bitcoin works , good and true for those who are new.
why I agree with this seminar, because there are many great people in it and experts who will educate them by providing information or something else that will be easier for them to digest and understand.

I agree with it and it's good to know that you a person that you encouraged to adopt the bitcoin is currently enjoying it. It will just really going to depend on the person if he/she's going to accept, enjoy, or etc the bitcoin but what we can really be sure is bitcoin will really going to be part of our future and adopting it now is one of the best advantage that we can do.

This is a very laudable idea which when we, I mean crypto enthusiasts begin to practice, can contribute to what we all anticipate to happen. It is not very easy in so many countries because of various reasons which include lack of adequate information on digital currency but at least, we can all start from a point.

Already we have a duty towards encryption as a whole
But in community society we are still at the beginning of the road
But at least I can spread the idea of crypto between family and friends
Then we will be a larger team that can exert greater pressure to adopt crypto .

Exactly, we need to do our best to circulate carpets in the world. Crypto will need us to grow more in the future, promoting it in business will help so much! For example, by creating some online or even offline project which accepts crypto as an addition payment, we help crypto to gain more value and also we help the community to be more bigger by spreading our project news.

Well done for introducing Bitcoin to a friend who is finally accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for services he render. This is what every cryptocurrency user must adopt. Bitcoin adoption cannot increase out of nothing. Users of Bitcoin must create more awareness to the public and as a good sign, initiate the payment of Bitcoin into our businesses. This is what will trigger others to adopt Bitcoin.

Well if it's within the crypto community then i don't think there'll be any problems with accepting and paying through btc. The challenge is how to make non users and non believers to do the same. With all the negative reports and news circulated from last year, bitcoin's image hasn't been pretty and people are reluctant. I guess the community should start to first try and be louder in making people understand that btc can be used.

I'm doing what I can but it's not easy to convince people that Bitcoin is something good.
Many of them are very skeptic because of negative articles in the media or negative public statements from the central bank for example.
I still trying my best, sharing news about btc on social media, online blogs and forums, talking with my friends.
It seems that for the most of my friends bitcoin is to complicate or they don't trust it.

I agree with you. We ourselves should contribute to the promotion of bitcoin to the masses. If we tell our friends about bitcoin, maybe they will tell someone else. And some of them who have their own business may also think about accepting payment in cryptocurrency. That's great.

I also made a small speech at a business conference about cryptocurrencies. If this is what we can do then spreading word of mouth is the only option for us. I usually talk to my classmates about cryptos but they have misconception between crypto and network marketing. Explaining this can be a pain but this worths to spend your time explaining to others.

In time, they will understand what you're talking about.
I was hesitant at first also upon hearing such digital currency way way back.
Many people have negative connotation when you talk crypto because they have read articles of hacking, stolen funds, etc.
And they didn't know nothing about why those bad circumstances happened.
They will understand it on their own. Hard to push somebody to believe you.
Let them ask you first and not the other way around. That strategy might be effective.

something big will definitely start with a small action, one of them is by buying and selling using bitcoin at the lower level and with a small value. if all are used to it and the public already knows more about bitcoin then in the future it will likely create a stability in buying and selling. so let's together do the best even on a small scale.

It is not easy to explain to others about crypto and its advantages because of negative FUD on the media. Media manipulates the news for their own sake of their advantage. If others believe to this lies blindly then it is meaningless to explain the same things over and over to people around me. Just my 2 cents.

A small move like introducing bitcoin to your friends can be a big help, we should really help this market up.
Always think that a small rise in the market, is also are rise so if the market succeeds we can also succeed but if we continue to give false news or feed people with the wrong person, I think it will be hard for us to make a new peak. Let's not just watch the market, start to invest, invite more people, and become a successful investors.

Im been doing this for a quite while now, but bitcoin reputation in our country are negative because of the wrong news of media, but still i am trying to explain to my friends and relatives that using bitcoin is easy and even profitable, I also told some of my friends that i bought my own pc  or desktop using bitcoin. Sadly only few of them are serious to learn.

- Why do you try to explain to others about bitcoin? Believe me, it really doesn't bring too much meaning and efficiency, this explanation only makes people more suspicious of bitcoin, even suspecting you're a fraud because almost everyone has no concept of making money online and they are always influenced by government and media, they believe the information that governments and newspapers say, they do not believe what we say. So we don't need to do anything, it's a good way to contribute to bitcoin, advertising and explaining too much just making stories about bitcoin become more complicated

I appreciate what you do, but the real problem is always a scourge in every level of difficulty. in my country, it is very difficult to be true, because until now bitcoin or crypto is still not legalized. so this is the main factor. As for the other things, because of the weak selling value in the market, this lowers many concerns for beginners or new investors

First of all, I must commend your effort in trying to convince people to adopt and use bitcoin. If we all follow what you do, in no time bitcoin will be used by shops and companies all across the globe. We all should talk to shops and businesses close to us and let them know the importance and benefit of accepting bitcoin as a means of payment. The current bitcoin community is huge, imagine if each and everyone of us is able to convince at least two persons who own a shop or business around where we stay to use bitcoin, in no distant time we would be able to convince so many people into the adopting bitcoin usage. Nice one, keep the good work goind and we all should do the same.

We can't really blame business owners that are not bitcoin enthusiasts themselves. Even those that are, maybe they are still waiting for signals from the consumers, if they even have cryptos.


I operate more on the informal economy, would you really get in trouble for accepting payment in anything else except fiat? Can you accept foreign currencies? Coz if yes, it'll be hypocritical of them.

When walking through the local shopping mall i saw a huge sign flapping in the wind by the entrance. To my surprise it was advertising the bitcoin ATM machine below it. Although no-one was using it i was glad to see it spreading

I'm working hard to launch my fashion online eccomerce business in my country and I will surely accept Bitcoin as a method of payment right of the launch! I also encourage all my business peers to start integrating cryptocurrencies in some way.

I think buying and selling using bitcoin has been done a lot, but what is usually a barrier is from the government which usually prohibits it, if the government is difficult to give permission to store stores to be able to accept bitcoin as a means of payment, this will hinder the flow of crypto currencies. and this always happens in countries that don't support bitcoin as a currency.

Fiat usage around the world is found for generations. With that it isn't an easy task for bitcoin to takeover fiat. Bitcoin will get accepted all around the world soon or within few generations. But it's acceptance same as fiat won't happen. From my understanding fiat is so strong with its years and years of history, upon which I believe bitcoin will serve as an alternate to the fiat.

The truth is if we all do our part every now and then in educating people about the great benefits of using bitcoin as a means of payment and also go further to show them how it is done. in no distant time we would be able to reach everyone. All of us in the crypto community has at least 5 shops in our vicinity. Imagine each and every one of us take out time to educate those 5 shop owners and show them how to use bitcoin for payment, no doubt the crypto community will experience a massaive expansion in no distant time. Lets alll come out and spread the news. There is so much we can achieve doing this.

I totally agree that we do not need individual efforts now. We all need to come together as a unit and see how we can get people to trust and use bitcoin. It would have been very nice if the early adopters who probably still have at least double digits of bitcoin initiate and sponsor projects in the name of bitcoin. This would have quenched the fear people have about bitcoin.

That's very inspiring but I do think that the huge impact that will lead to mainstream adoption is already on the way. Your contribution will work but will take a very long time to succeed. While those huge companies like Google, samsung and particularly Facebook will soon introduce their own coin globally.

I hope that they can influence people in their circle to know and learn cryptocurrency and not just bitcoin because that is what we need to see the adoption will happen in every where. I am sure that with the biggest community in Google, Samsung, and Facebook, many people will know about cryptocurrency especially bitcoin and they will know that bitcoin is the strongest coin in the cryptocurrency.

I think we all have the power to make people believe that bitcoin is legit through its more promotion and advertisements in facebook or in google.Even sharing it to our friends and relatives can be of big help to sustain promotion of bitcoin.After all,if a person gets interested in bitcoin,he will surely make a thorough research about it.

There are a lot of people that knew Bitcoin all along and I am even surprised that a lot of people I know knew about Bitcoin and also including other crypto currencies but still not using nor investing on them since they are scared of what might happen with their money. I do understand that they are scared of how the price moves but I just always told them that without the risks, there will be no profit, that is the reason it is called investment.

* Promoters have to be 100% sure those dangerous volatility that happened recently won't repeat again.

* We should advice against negative publicity about Bitcoin...
I think most Governments could become hostile if you try to spread Bitcoin in countries. They will certainly use all sorts of bad words to discourage citizens from using or promoting it.

I think people should start developing more applications to encourage transactions. For example, I'm creating a website to help people find venue spaces near them called https://venuesnear.me (https://venuesnear.me)

How is bitcoin going to be implemented? well once I'm finished with the website, you'll be able to pay for venues using crypto. I Know, super simple but it's a small step. Even if it means showing the bitcoin logo to help with awareness it will do. Anyone working on any cool bitcoin projects?

People who are living in countries where cryptos are banned can contribute by educating other people about cryptocurrencies who are not still aware of it.
When more people in your country will have crypto knowledge then surely sooner or later government will think to lift the ban.


Exactly, it's time to do it practically instead of waiting for the future while sitting, we should need to start it from grass root level.
If you don't have your own business where you can accept crypto as payment, then you should encourage other people in your local community who can do it.

Given that bitcoin is already banned on your country then why bother talk about bitcoin to others ?  I think its useless because they cannot still use it anyway  . you will only risking you self because you are doing illegal things that is against the law  .  all i can suggest to you  is to wait for your government or country to unban/allow  the use of crypto and that is the time to start your advocacy about spreading the word bitcoin to other people  .

who the promoters is ? we can't give that promise to potential investors, we know that fluctuations will continue to come at any time, and maybe will make prices fall back later, that's a natural thing in the real bitcoin market.
negative news will continue to come because bitcoin competitors will continue to stand next to bitcoin, all we have to do is educate them about bitcoin

You're saying that it is like a disease that is spreading.

There are a lot of Bitcoin ATM machines in some countries, some don't have them and some don't even legalize Bitcoin. I don't know why we should advertise Bitcoin but I don't think we should force people to do it. I know that as an investor it will be our profit doing that but I don't know if other people will be doing the same.

You are right with everything you said. I will already follow such advices and provide such payment options for my customers in the future as i'm with current software developments.
I might as well talk with some partners to discuss how they could be winning with crypto market for their own businesses. So let's see if more of them will adopt their payment systems.

This would also boost up Bitcoin prices as more people would be willing to buy more and more coins just for their own real life situations.
I think it's a +1 and we can't ignore it.

If we advertise and promote the bitcoin then i don't think it is harmful for anyone. If you think as a investor you also have a benefit in it. Because when people have awareness about bitcoin then they do invest more in bitcoin and it will be profitable for all of us. But now we have no need to promote any crypto currency even Bitcoin, because Bitcoin has some in this place where it don't need any praise from us.
Few years back, people did not know about bitcoin too much but now i am happy to see that the world environment about crypto currencies has been changed.

Yes you are right. For bitcoin adoption to enter mainstream, we all as the crypto enthusiats have a lot to do. It is our duty to create awareness of bitcoin in all available media, accept bitcoin as payment for services, and encourage others as well. We are the bitcoin army, lets go make mass adoption a reality

Agree, using and investing in bitcoin is always a job that others should automatically do, we should not force or encourage and promote bitcoin to them because I feel it will make the image of bitcoin worse, I don't deny that when we advertise and recommend, bitcoin may be more popular but what people remember is just an obnoxious person talking about a scam product. As long as the quality and benefits that bitcoin provides are good, it will grow rapidly, we need not do anything else except to accumulate and earn from it.