The only thing that will make bitcoin grow is more adoption bt both merchants and consumers. Keep telling everyone you know and meet about the benefits of btc and it will slowly grow naturally.
And you need to onboard people. Like back in dialup days. I don't know how many Trumpet Winsock scripts and shit I wrote for friends, family, neighbours ect. Taking around copies of Netscape that I acquired from a CD stuck to the front of a computer mag.
Thats where we are now.
Help your mates get onboard. Instead of paying them back in fiat, offer to pay them back in BTC.