Good for you.
Though we have a reputable wallet exchange here in our country(pretty much like Coinbase), bitcoin is mostly seen as a investment scheme here. Ponzi schemes are everywhere here in Asia, so yeah, so is "bitcoin investment" schemes, unfortunately. A poor country with lots of poor people, hence a hotspot for these types of schemes.
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Are you talking to your local merchants about Bitcoin?
Today I was buying a coffee at a local shop, cost $2.75. I hand over a card and the gal says, "sorry, do you have cash? We have a $5 minimum for cards...you know...fees." I said, "I only have $2." And the gal replied, that's fine.
So as they're pouring their finest for me I ask "Do you guys accept bitcoin?" And the gal says, "No, do people use that now?" Another gal walks up, "is that a thing?"
Best words I've heard all week. Of course, I come back with - "Yeah! It's a thing! It's great to use, you know...low fees." Then this gal mentions "some documentary about Bitcoin on Netflix, I guess I should watch it." I left them with, "It's called Banking on Bitcoin, check it out."
My point with all this extremely riveting dialogue (
) is that a simple question like "Do you accept Bitcoin?" turned into a full on conversation. The more each of talks about Bitcoin, the more we start to raise the local awareness, interest, and eventually adoption...the rest takes care of itself!
Today I was buying a coffee at a local shop, cost $2.75. I hand over a card and the gal says, "sorry, do you have cash? We have a $5 minimum for cards...you know...fees." I said, "I only have $2." And the gal replied, that's fine.
So as they're pouring their finest for me I ask "Do you guys accept bitcoin?" And the gal says, "No, do people use that now?" Another gal walks up, "is that a thing?"
Best words I've heard all week. Of course, I come back with - "Yeah! It's a thing! It's great to use, you know...low fees." Then this gal mentions "some documentary about Bitcoin on Netflix, I guess I should watch it." I left them with, "It's called Banking on Bitcoin, check it out."
My point with all this extremely riveting dialogue (
) is that a simple question like "Do you accept Bitcoin?" turned into a full on conversation. The more each of talks about Bitcoin, the more we start to raise the local awareness, interest, and eventually adoption...the rest takes care of itself!Aside from the household stores over here being run by people who are not vast with the current technological advancement in the world, every other medium and large business chains or super markets have heard about bitcoin and what is stopping them is not because they won't consider it when given the opportunity, but they legal parameters is what is keeping all of them back which means even if I talk about it anytime I visit the store, its does not change anything except its coming from an authority authorised to make such pronouncement.
Few years ago when there was first deployment of POS to businesses, it seems like it was not going to work for the business that were ready to do a test run couple with other several issues that came up, a lot of people refused to accept it even when it was for free but the moment the CBN gave a regulatory policy on that and how to reconcile, every business now wants to get one at a cost at that.
I'll try this to the nearest coffee shop and even to an internet cafe that I mostly spend time staying.
My point with all this extremely riveting dialogue ( ) is that a simple question like "Do you accept Bitcoin?" turned into a full on conversation. The more each of talks about Bitcoin, the more we start to raise the local awareness, interest, and eventually adoption...the rest takes care of itself!
Very encouraging, thanks for sharing your experience this can really raise awareness to our locality. ) is that a simple question like "Do you accept Bitcoin?" turned into a full on conversation. The more each of talks about Bitcoin, the more we start to raise the local awareness, interest, and eventually adoption...the rest takes care of itself!
Bitcoin is not legel in many countries and still lots of people all over the world don't know about bitcoin. They have detrimental thoughts about bitcoin but they have no idea about it's benefits. Day by day Bitcoin is become familiar to whole world and people are started to know about bitcoin. So most of the merchants have no idea about bitcoin yet.
Are you talking to your local merchants about Bitcoin?
Today I was buying a coffee at a local shop, cost $2.75. I hand over a card and the gal says, "sorry, do you have cash? We have a $5 minimum for cards...you know...fees." I said, "I only have $2." And the gal replied, that's fine.
So as they're pouring their finest for me I ask "Do you guys accept bitcoin?" And the gal says, "No, do people use that now?" Another gal walks up, "is that a thing?"
Best words I've heard all week. Of course, I come back with - "Yeah! It's a thing! It's great to use, you know...low fees." Then this gal mentions "some documentary about Bitcoin on Netflix, I guess I should watch it." I left them with, "It's called Banking on Bitcoin, check it out."
My point with all this extremely riveting dialogue () is that a simple question like "Do you accept Bitcoin?" turned into a full on conversation. The more each of talks about Bitcoin, the more we start to raise the local awareness, interest, and eventually adoption...the rest takes care of itself!
Today I was buying a coffee at a local shop, cost $2.75. I hand over a card and the gal says, "sorry, do you have cash? We have a $5 minimum for cards...you know...fees." I said, "I only have $2." And the gal replied, that's fine.
So as they're pouring their finest for me I ask "Do you guys accept bitcoin?" And the gal says, "No, do people use that now?" Another gal walks up, "is that a thing?"
Best words I've heard all week. Of course, I come back with - "Yeah! It's a thing! It's great to use, you know...low fees." Then this gal mentions "some documentary about Bitcoin on Netflix, I guess I should watch it." I left them with, "It's called Banking on Bitcoin, check it out."
My point with all this extremely riveting dialogue (
) is that a simple question like "Do you accept Bitcoin?" turned into a full on conversation. The more each of talks about Bitcoin, the more we start to raise the local awareness, interest, and eventually adoption...the rest takes care of itself! Jump to: