The bolt driver experience: promoting bitcoin in my business

[sokani]

Naira redesign? Governments are not supposed to withdraw the old notes until almost everybody is using the new ones. And whatever happened to their CDBC? Does nobody really want to use it (as I had anticipated in another post)?

Nigerians have not welcomed the e-Naira with open arms, the acceptance has been really poor.
https://cryptoslate.com/nigerias-cbdc-program-called-a-very-dark-experiment/

I was always under the impression that these taxi services worked through an intermediary third party service that accept the payment on the drivers behalf and then they take a fee and pay over the rest to the taxi driver???

On the contrary, bolt drivers accept the fees and pay commission to bolt.

Do you ask for payment in advance or after you driven the customer to his or her destination?

Payment is made at the end of every trip.

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[Kryptowerk]

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I got some bitcoin stickers and for my car and It's been about two weeks since I displayed it and no one has patronize me in bitcoin. Though, some of my passengers see it and engage me in one or two conversation. Today, I carried a passenger and when he saw the stickers and was like do you accept bitcoin and I said yes and he said do you know you are the first bolt driver I have actually seen accepting bitcoin and I smiled. He asked me if I have actually received any payment in bitcoin and I answered not yet, and he said I will be your first customer to pay you in bitcoin. We talked a lot during the trip and our discussion was mainly centered on cryptocurrency, mass adoption, crypto ban in the country. At the end of the trip, he paid me in bitcoin with additional tip and I felt really happy about it. I know this is little but I hope it would help to promote mass adoption of bitcoin in my locality, the nation and passes a message to people out there that bitcoin is here to stay and all we can do is to embrace it and be part of history.

Great work and congratulations on your first BTC payment.
I truely believe that these tiny steps are ultimately what will bring real / mass adoption to Bitcoin. It's something that is still spreading slowly, but there will be some waves of wider adoption, depending on situations like describe in your post (in this case getting hold of the new fiat notes). So great work and well earned merit from my side.

[Mate2237]

Op you have done well for making things easy for passengers. But from my last sale of bitcoin on p2p, I discovered that the period ( seconds, minutes and hours) of the transaction was up to 1 hour and now if you passenger want to drop in a short distance driving and the person send bitcoin within 30 minutes and the person is to drop with for 10 minutes driving, what will you do? Because you don't know what fee rate the person will select to do the transfer and if it is 1.4 fee rate then it will be 25 blocks and these block will take about 30+ minutes to verify the transaction to the receiver's address. So I don't know which parameter you are using to calculate your transaction with the time frame.

[Rengga Jati]

There are many ways to promote Bitcoin. In this case, both openly and secretly because it is related to the legality of Bitcoin in that country. Not only that, people's views on Bitcoin may also have an effect. I applaud the OP for boldly introducing Bitcoin in the way he can and it may very well be effective. He could have at least introduced her to his passengers or whoever he was parking somewhere. Maybe there are some of them who don't care or don't focus on seeing it, but of course there are also those who get distracted and start asking what it is about. And indeed we can do it in everyday life in ways that we can, according to our environment and activities.

[cafter]

Hello guys! I felt I should share my little success with you in receiving my first bitcoin payment in my business. Well... I have a car which I used for Bolt (Taxify) as my side hustle whenever am free from my work. I've stumbled on a couple of topics of some members on this forum promoting mass adoption of bitcoin by accepting it in their businesses. Since then I've been nursing this idea and at the same time I've been having cold feet. I accept payment for my services in fiat currency or bank transfer, but with the naira redesign in my country, the new notes have really not circulated everywhere and it's been making life a living hell for a lot persons. So I said to myself this is the right time to add another means of payment to my business.

I got some bitcoin stickers and for my car and It's been about two weeks since I displayed it and no one has patronize me in bitcoin. Though, some of my passengers see it and engage me in one or two conversation. Today, I carried a passenger and when he saw the stickers and was like do you accept bitcoin and I said yes and he said do you know you are the first bolt driver I have actually seen accepting bitcoin and I smiled. He asked me if I have actually received any payment in bitcoin and I answered not yet, and he said I will be your first customer to pay you in bitcoin. We talked a lot during the trip and our discussion was mainly centered on cryptocurrency, mass adoption, crypto ban in the country. At the end of the trip, he paid me in bitcoin with additional tip and I felt really happy about it. I know this is little but I hope it would help to promote mass adoption of bitcoin in my locality, the nation and passes a message to people out there that bitcoin is here to stay and all we can do is to embrace it and be part of history.

Don't get me wrong here, just trying to become a detective,
are you not trying to become smart, to get merits OP? (may, i trying to become smart)
you said i have a car, in which you sticked the stickers , but in images you shared 3 different cars with different stickers.

here your sticker says: "pay your ride in bitcoin"
IMG: https://ibb.co/0cF3Ks3

here your sticker says : "make your payments in bitcoin"
IMG: https://ibb.co/Dkn2LRr

here your sticker says : "      "
IMG: https://ibb.co/k8bLTP5

and the OP is driver of bolt not owner of bolt so he have only one car, just the pictures are taken from other areas or downloaded from internet.
nice trick some members of forum are using, no?
Op is surely talking about only one car ,

Maybe i am a newbie detective.(forgive me if this is mistake)

OP has well tried to become the smartest.

 

[serjent05]

Don't get me wrong here, just trying to become a detective,
are you not trying to become smart, to get merits OP? (may, i trying to become smart)
you said i have a car, in which you sticked the stickers , but in images you shared 3 different cars with different stickers.

Lol if you are trying to become a detective then you should try it right.

here your sticker says: "pay your ride in bitcoin"
IMG: https://ibb.co/0cF3Ks3

This one is on the back part of the car

here your sticker says : "make your payments in bitcoin"
IMG: https://ibb.co/Dkn2LRr

While this one is on the top right part of the front of the car

here your sticker says : "      "
IMG: https://ibb.co/k8bLTP5

If you look closely you can see the mark of the sticker inside the square mark  part that I draw on the car

and the OP is driver of bolt not owner of bolt so he have only one car, just the pictures are taken from other areas or downloaded from internet.
nice trick some members of forum are using, no?
Op is surely talking about only one car ,

doesn't he say it in the title? "The bolt driver experience: promoting bitcoin in my business". His business is being a bolt driver and that's it.  

Maybe i am a newbie detective.(forgive me if this is mistake)

OP has well tried to become the smartest.

It is obvious that @OP is posting his experience to get merit just like most of the topics created with the same theme as intended.  So I do not think there is a need to emphasize the merit farm thing, almost every member is well aware of it but some member feel that this thread deserve some merit so some member throws some.

[sokani]

and the OP is driver of bolt not owner of bolt so he have only one car, just the pictures are taken from other areas or downloaded from internet.
nice trick some members of forum are using, no?
Op is surely talking about only one car, Maybe i am a newbie deteve.

OP has well tried to become the smartest.

It's a pity you wasted your time displaying your stupidity to the world. I didn't want to reply you but I just had to.... Too bad for you I took this snapshot of the 2 stickers the night I got them from the printing press, so this is to prove to you that the pics are not some random pictures from the internet as you claimed. Also, I don't own bolt I owned a car that I use for bolt services, so if you have comprehension problem you need to work on that.

My advice... Instead of hating other people's success you should actually wish them well, work hard and your time will come. Peace✌️

[cafter]

and the OP is driver of bolt not owner of bolt so he have only one car, just the pictures are taken from other areas or downloaded from internet.
nice trick some members of forum are using, no?
Op is surely talking about only one car, Maybe i am a newbie deteve.

OP has well tried to become the smartest.

It's a pity you wasted your time displaying your stupidity to the world. I didn't want to reply you but I just had to.... Too bad for you I took this snapshot of the 2 stickers the night I got them from the printing press, so this is to prove to you that the pics are not some random pictures from the internet as you claimed. Also, I don't own bolt I owned a car that I use for bolt services, so if you have comprehension problem you need to work on that.

My advice... Instead of hating other people's success you should actually wish them well, work hard and your time will come. Peace✌️

I apologize, it's my fault, i was just trying to be a detective, i am very bad detective.

[bitzizzix]

and the OP is driver of bolt not owner of bolt so he have only one car, just the pictures are taken from other areas or downloaded from internet.
nice trick some members of forum are using, no?
Op is surely talking about only one car, Maybe i am a newbie deteve.

OP has well tried to become the smartest.

It's a pity you wasted your time displaying your stupidity to the world. I didn't want to reply you but I just had to.... Too bad for you I took this snapshot of the 2 stickers the night I got them from the printing press, so this is to prove to you that the pics are not some random pictures from the internet as you claimed. Also, I don't own bolt I owned a car that I use for bolt services, so if you have comprehension problem you need to work on that.

My advice... Instead of hating other people's success you should actually wish them well, work hard and your time will come. Peace✌️

I apologize, it's my fault, i was just trying to be a detective, i am very bad detective.

If you just stay at home or just in your location you won't find any bitcoin related stuff which I find very familiar and I also found some bitcoin pictures in a few places taped to car parts. And after I investigated it turned out that the owner of the car was a bitcoin user and I discovered it a few months ago and I didn't think to explain it here, because lately there have been lots of bitcoin posters with different purposes.
and there are also bitcoin lovers who take the initiative to make bitcoin stickers to stick on the items they have because of their love for bitcoin maybe because it has benefited them, and in my opinion something like that is very cool and one way to introduce bitcoin when someone asks about it .

[hannahB4]

This is a good creative idea, I also take the bolt, and like your passenger said you will be the first I have seen to come up with such an idea of promoting bitcoin and creating more awareness for bitcoin, even with the sticker itself many curious customers will like to ask to know more about it, way to go.