Bitcoin Promotion and Adoption in my locality

[CryptSafe]

In line with the global adoption and promotion of bitcoin for which  I am a member of this community, fulfilling one of the course for which this community have long being on the move. I decided to take the bitcoin adoption and promotion movement to my locality. My major targets are vendors, traders, skilled and unskilled labors in my locality and my neighborhood. To start with, I met this barber in my locality, he is good at his work and gives nice haircut. I took my time to talk with him about bitcoin and how it works.  At the first stance, he was reluctant and said he does not really have digital knowledge and it would be a kind of difficult for him to go through it but I assured him he would like it when I start putting him through the whole process and he gave in. I started by giving him hint on technological innovation towards digital currency with Bitcoin as topic and subject of discussion. He picked interest in the discussion and started asking me questions about bitcoin and how it works for which I responded to him accurately. It was an interesting and interactive session as I made him understand the whole system and how it works.

In other for the communication, learning and teaching process to scale through, I had to come up with a learning scheme for an easier understanding and they are as follows;

1. What is Bitcoin?
2. When and why Bitcoin was founded.
3. Founder of Bitcoin.
4. Importance and benefits of holding bitcoin.
5. How to trade bitcoin. ( listed some  notable exchange where he can trade bitcoin)
6. What is blockchain and how it works.

As a first timer, I explained and showed him what a public and private key looks like, showing him a transaction harsh too was another thing I did for him to get a clearer picture of how it works.


Never the less, I taught him how to set up a bitcoin wallet, the easiest to be precise so he could easily understand and do it himself, copy and send his wallet address to his customers for payment. As earlier mentioned above, I also told and showed him the difference between private keys, public keys  and transaction harsh so he could get acquainted to them all.










For accepting bitcoin as a means of payment, I promised to patronizing him and also introduce him to more customers ready and willing to pay with bitcoin for services rendered  within my locality. He was very happy for my kind gesture of me introducing him to new customers ready and willing to pay in bitcoin which means a plus to his business. It was nice and also fun on-boarding him into the bitcoin movement. I believe he too can reach out to his fellows as I told him to do so because it would aid in the faster and rapid adoption and promotion of bitcoin in other locality where they belong. This course we must achieve until bitcoin adoption gets to the various locality as this is the grassroots goal on target.

Edit.....

I will keep updating this tread as I continue to carry on with the Bitcoin Promotion and Adoption  campaign in various locality.

[hugeblack]

Thank you for contributing to the spread of Bitcoin, but without a real motive and questions from users, you rarely find someone who continues to accept and buy Bitcoin, I do this because:

It gave me an opportunity to send money to hard-to-reach areas using traditional methods.
It has value in itself and increases in the future.
A way to hedge against inflation.

and other motives.

[Dave1]

Good move in your end, just wondering though,

1. What kind of bitcoin wallet the barber are going to used? might be better as well to introduce him to LN (Lightning Network)
2. And probably it's important to let him understand the difference between custodial and non-custodial wallet. I'm sure you are aware of what is going on right now.

Best of luck to the barber and hopefully he can get clients to try and used bitcoin when paying for his services.

[mk4]

Recommendation: Google some photos of "Bitcoin accepted here" and "we accept Bitcoin". You know, those with the Bitcoin logo. It's simply just more appealing.

Something like this:

[Poker Player]

Is that in Nigeria? I say this because of the large Nigerian community on the forum. In any case, it looks like an African country and we have seen several such initiatives in other posts to spread awareness and use of Bitcoin. I too doubt, like hugeblack, that this will turn into a significant volume of transactions in the barber shop, but you never know, as I have read that there is quite a bit of cryptocurrency usage in Nigeria.

Nigerians Turn to Crypto Assets as Currency Weakens

Cryptocurrency usage soars in Nigeria despite bank ban

It would be curious if they end up using Bitcoin more there than in El Salvador.

[Z-tight]

I am sure there are many of us here that are very passionate about BTC, and have convinced merchants in their locality to accept BTC payment, but wouldn't post it here either because they see no need to, privacy or something else. BTC loyalists do this often so it may no longer be a thing, but anyway bravo for posting this.

How popular is BTC in your locality, and will the barber get >2 customers that will want to pay him with BTC in a month, the living condition in your locality is another thing, do the people living in your locality have a moderately good life to care about paying their local barber with BTC, good luck with this, but it is still very hard for merchants to accept BTC in many localities and for many reasons.

[Kakmakr]

The thing is...

You can introduce someone to Bitcoin and you can even inspire them to accept it as a payment option in their shop or business, but if there are not people using it as a currency.... those businesses will stop accepting it as a payment option.

Bitcoin's volatility encourage people to rather use Bitcoin as a Commodity or an investment ...so people are hesitant to use it as a "Currency" ...because they anticipate huge profits on the horizon. 

[Anguwa]

Good awearnes OP, you have did a good job by given back to your community through Bitcoin awearnes. If the Barber will learn more about Bitcoin transactions and Blockchain technology it would be better and added advantage for him so that any transactions confirmation issues will not arise and he will be safe and gain more knowledge about Bitcoin.

[Leviathan.007]

As always I see another person in Nigeria in a forum trying to expand the bitcoin community and spread the bitcoin word all over his nations, I see many Nigerian people here in this forum and this shows how big is the Nigerian bitcoin community in the world, regarding your move, what you do is very much creative and I guest you to add some questions about bitcoin investing to your questions and then you can create a general report which can be useful data if you know about the data science what you do is a tradition data gathering which can provide us useful data about your nation.

[Frankolala]

Good innovation OP, you have done well to spread Bitcoin awareness and letting the barber know the importance of Bitcoin in business. Nigeria are doing great in bitcoin usage even though their government hasn't adopted it yet. Please also teach him not your keys not your wallet in other for him to be safe from scammers and centralized system

I have always think of how people can choose bitcoin first instead of fiat currency but they find it difficult to understand because they are in a fiat world,so I thought that to remove this acarde thought from their minds is for more bitcoiners to campaign for Bitcoin which OP is doing.

[The Cryptovator]

Incredible, mate! To be honest, you're doing an admirable job. It is not an easy task to reach out to people and explain Bitcoin to them. Because it's difficult to explain Bitcoin or cryptocurrency to someone who is completely unfamiliar with them. However, I assume cryptocurrency is legal in your country and that helping to promote Bitcoin will not cause you any problems. If there is an opportunity, that is how we can all adapt Bitcoin. Unfortunately, Bitcoin is not legal in my country, so I cannot do the same. I just tried to explain Bitcoin to my very close friend.

[buwaytress]

Nice one, OP! As hugeblack wrote, though, motivation is what really ensures that the people you're targeting (in this case, his potential or existing customers) are converted to try using BTC at least once.

How do you convince them? When they understand why you do it -- some reasons or motivations given (opportunity to send money to places inaccessible by traditional payments, inflation hedge etc.).

But even more powerful for me is to demonstrate the positive change (before and after).

Example (from perspective of the shop owner): before, I couldn't accept Mister A as customer because he could not leave his farm. Now, I send him a payment request for BTC and I now have a new customer.

[avikz]

It's a very good Move! Kuddos to you for doing your part of spreading bitcoin knowledge. I agree to Mk4 suggestion to add something more attractive about bitcoin acceptance. It will catch more eyeballs which will make some people intrigued about what is bitcoin. People may miss simple black text. So adding something attractive may help!

Also, in a couple of month, it will be great if you can open a thread to let us know how many people actually paid via bitcoin. I am interested in knowing this number. because while many merchant establishments are interested in accepting bitcoin, there's no substantial data available to understand how many people actually transacts through it. So I will appreciate if you can let us know about it when the time is right.

[Adbitco]

A good move mate because I truly believe this is a great steps to your locality just as I have been on ride and I do discussed with the drivers about bitcoin and at last we both exchange whatsapp numbers and I do teaches them how it works. I have been successfully introduce to about 4 to 5 drivers who are using Bolt app to drive around my locality, with this movement I believe we all could foster the max adoption of bitcoin within our localities.
Keep the good going!

[RockBell]

It's a good idea to accept Bitcoin at your barba shop, people will start having Interest and start holding , I love the way people are carrying it as a responsibility upon themselves to make awesomeness about Bitcoin is a way forward, and the most interesting part is accepting Bitcoin in your Barber shop is a good idea for people that have no knowledge about Bitcoin, people have heard but don't know how Bitcoin works, this  will be an eye opener for people that have no knowledge about Bitcoin people have heard but don't know, definitely people will start asking questions.

[Bitstar_coin]

We the btc community owe it to ourselves to promote btc adoption and acceptance. we shouldn't hesitate to spread the word of btc within our community and outside our community, this is our little contribution to the great technology satoshi created.
Despite how popular btc has become in recent times, millions of people worldwide are still very ignorant to this great tech, it is very necessary to take the time to educate anyone who is willing to learn and understand it. you did a great job reaching out to your barber with btc knowledge, I can tell he is thrilled with the piece of information.

[BIT-BENDER]

I like this one OP accepting Bitcoin is one of the ways to encourage people to an actually see Crypto-currency as usable and not just an investment property. You can also motivate others to start this process too.

But it's not just going to end by you accepting Bitcoin alone, I believe you know some of your patronizers you can start by telling them about Bitcoin. You can mostly based on what challenges they face right now in Crypto-currency.

[albon]

What the OP did, every person should do for bitcoin to be adopted by people and help spread it, but in countries where cryptocurrencies are banned, this will expose you to legal accountability if someone reports you to the police, You have to be content with teaching people online without showing your identity and without anyone recognizing you in your area, so it will be safer for you, but in countries where bitcoins are allowed, this would be a great initiative if everyone took the initiative to do it and offer it to his friends or sellers in stores to deal with bitcoin and not in Fiat money.

[BitDane]

The thing is...

You can introduce someone to Bitcoin and you can even inspire them to accept it as a payment option in their shop or business, but if there are not people using it as a currency.... those businesses will stop accepting it as a payment option.

Not really since they can just leave it as that and no one knows when a customer that is willing to pay in Bitcoin come knocking.  I believe they will not stop accepting but rather keep it there as an option since local stores doesn't need to pay to maintain their stance of accepting Bitcoin.  It is different in an online payment gateway though.

Bitcoin's volatility encourage people to rather use Bitcoin as a Commodity or an investment ...so people are hesitant to use it as a "Currency" ...because they anticipate huge profits on the horizon. 

I am not hesitant to use it as currency.  After all Bitcoin is the only payment system for me to be able to transact online.  .  If there is no additional option to use beside Bitcoin, then people will use it no matter how valuable they think it is.

[GeorgeJohn]

Op Bitcoin is a decentralized currency which when it was first introduced to the world, it was not been acceptable by the government, even upto date it never be accepted generally by the government, but what i want to put in nutshell is that since people across the world have noticed the important of Bitcoin the adoption took another dimension. It's acknowledgeable to extend the news and transaction of Bitcoin into localities so that will not be unaware of cryptocurrency and especially bitcoin.