Pro-Tip For Merchant Adoption
There is no reason to cold call merchant adoptions, sure getting NEW merchants who have never dealt with Digital Currency is a great thing to bolster the BC community.
However
Don't cold call merchants for an attempt to get acceptance, use the long existing laundry list of merchants who ALREADY accept BTC, and get them to also accept BC!
That is the fastest way to get the ball rolling behind more and more merchant adoption; get the early adopters who are already being proactive in the space, and then get the smaller fish, the mom and pop stores, that shitty coffee shop that you like so much for some reason or the other; GET THEM to accept BC, but only after you've exhausted pre-existing adopters.
Just my 2cents.
McKie
This is the wrong way to go about it and your vision is way to narrow.
Merchants would only get access to an additional 12k wallets currently. which is rather lame. a Merchant that accepts bitcoin can already receive around 99% of all crypto users, if not 100% since if you have crypto you have bitcoin or can use it. Nothing new there.
We want current crypto accepting merchants to switch to BC on their own accord. Create an atmosphere of success, don't beg for it. If you want to spam them that's great but i don't see them making any more sales because of it.
This isn't just about the success of blackcoin, its about the success of crypto in general. Coinkite solves so many issues.
Why focus on the .01% of businesses that have already switched to crypto? FOCUS on the 99.99% that are left, Coinkite makes it easy !
They are just sitting there on a silver platter waiting to be taken. SPREAD what you know about crypto and help the adoption.
My vision is not narrow -- the avenue by which BC will have to travel down to get large market adoption is LONG and narrow. The point is, to stress the added advantages of BC, over BTC -- and how in the long term we hope for BC to overtake BTC. If they were smart enough to start accepting crypto in the beginning, they are smart enough to adopt the new kid in town with a more mass-adoptable image, and lightning fast transactions speeds (compared to Bitcoin).
Why stand in the wake and shadow of Bitcoin, when we can over shroud and steal the #1 spot.
Thinking bigger is better. But, I'd rather Blackcoin be the name in the news, not Bitcoin.
We create the appropriate infrastructures, they will come.
McKie