I walked into my barbers shop yesterday then notice something was different (i took a closer look at what was printed on the A4 paper pasted on the notice board and it reads "We now accept Bitcoin & ETH as payment options" it went on to explain that ETH will be accepted for the $2 and below fees and bitcoin accepted for fees above that. It gave me joy because I was the one who introduced him to bitcoin few years back. As an act of encouragement I have promise to promote his business both online and in popular blockchain related gathering I attend.
Few of my previously sold gadget monetary value were received in cryptocurrency and i have come to realize if we want the world to take us seriously we have to act ourselves so I'm encouraging the service providers and others we have on forum to start accepting bitcoin, charity begins at home.
Glad to here about crypto adoption with local shops in your country and yes definitely even we are a smaller community considering governments I believe as users of Bitcoin and other altcoins we can do a considerable change to increase the adoption rate at least in on line and local stores by requesting to allow crypto payment facilities as customers and the chance to consider our voice is much higher specially in a period that businesses say "customers are kings" but for this to happen not few people but each and every individual should have the feeling to help the crypto world