Topic: Brazil has more than 150 stores that accept bitcoin - page 27. (Read 57877 times)

I've been using bitcoin for trade here in Brazil since 2012!

In the beginning BTC was considered a black market taboo exchange used for drugs and contraband trade to an acceptable alternative for payment albeit that the majority of Brazilians still know little about crypto currencies in general.

With the national currency crashing allot of people are starting to see potential in bitcoins and their usefulness in securing assets and facilitating trade. One of the things that holds this back in Brazil is our twisted economic regulations that even prohibit non business entities (private citizens) from buying goods for the intent of reselling (national or international products)

I trade in gemstones and have to deal with this allot. If I export Im required to provide a invoice (stamped in triplicate) stating the product in MERCOSUL harmonization and international harmonization code, stating the value in foreign currency and its equivalent in national currency. The method of received payment approved by the fiscal authorities. This can be travelers check, international credit card (I've had problems with paypal etc..) or if I request permission from the state before the completion of the sale, I can receive an international bank transfer..

So selling goods abroad in bitcoin presents problems. One way I have been able to do this is trading goods for digital services for the amount charged in bitcoin... Like I said its twisted and a big reason we are in the crisis we are now.

I would love to hear experiences from other vendors that are in the same situation as me.

Best wishes,

Dave 
 

Yes!

Today bitcoin is my second way to profit. I work with bitcoins everyday.

Of course I will support these business accepting bitcoins!

In some days I will share my experience here.

@RealBitcoin

Hmm.

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Well i dont know much about your country but my bet would be to start with Facebook, it is the most efficient way to do so.

You get some of your friends, or if they dont want then, post about bitcoin on facebook, and see if you can gather some people there.

Then form a bitcoin community, tell them about this forum, and make yourselves a Serbia board on the forum, and from there it should be easy to move forward.

in my country only some merchand accept bitcoin
http://blog.bitcoin.co.id/toko/

i hope one day i can visit brazil and buy something with bitcoin

@RealBitcoin

Any concrete way to start with? Whom or how? Also I dont know how to explain them how can they make money online by using bitcoin only. They probably have services that do international shipping but not exactly necessary to get into bitcoin

There is always positive in the negative. If your countris economy is bad, then that should be an extra motivation why people should join.

I bet many guys there want to make money, so people should promote there bitcoin as a way to make money online ,and you will imediately see a big bitcoin community forming.

Then its only a matter of time until the stores start accepting it.

Its as easy as that, you only need a Facebook and a few volunteers who would promote bitcoin, and it will get big very fast

We are economically devastated country. As i can remember only 3 bars were accepting bitcoin and that was in Belgrade (capital) while in other cities they barely handle PC ( not literally but still ). We have here Croatian forum on bitointalk and that is for all countries that have the " same " language. Even from that forum you can see that we are the bottom top.

Make it that way! Its the community that needs to react.

Do you have bitcoin communities in Serbia? If not then make one.

If you do then tell them to go to all restaurants/bars and tell them to accept bitcoin. Mostly restaurants and bars are the first forms of business that accept bitcoin.

And then later more and more of them will join.

If only Serbia was like that

Yea definitely help and support those innovative businesses, they deserve it.

Do these 150 stores have websites and facebook pages? If not then better tell them to make one to be competitive, and gain more customers...

Fantastic.

I'm brazilian and I didn't know this fact.

I will look for some bitcoin accepting stores in my city. Let's see what I could buy! 

Great news, hope bitcoin can grow more in North America though.

They either didnt heard of it, or are very skeptical.

Most store owners are old people, who dont like "new stuff", its a well known fact that old people are less innovative, which is a shame.

So bitcoin will mostly be popular with younger and open minded people.

brazil have 150 stores that accept bitcoin is good  , but im still wondering why so many stores can't accept bitcoin  , they just too much of thinking

No shit, almost all of south america is in economic turmoil. All their currencies is going south, and soon the rest of the world will join.

I dont know how friendly the governments will be (ecuador banned bitcoin...) but one thing is certain that the citizens wont let their hard earned wealth being flushed down the toilet.

So good luck S America with bitcoin!

Taking into consideration how volatile the Brazilian Real is, we will have many more stores accepting Bitcoin in the future in Brazil.

We just started a discussion about this problem in another thread. Feel free to join:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12589945

I think bitcoin will become big in the 3rd world and developing countries due to currency instability and exchange controls by governments. Also, some countries do not have access to Paypal so bitcoin is a viable option in those places.

I hope Bicoin gets popular in south america, there are many guys there that need some easy methods to transfer money globally.

Imagine, total elimination of poverty. That would be some achievement isnt it?

I think people in Brazil have been using bitcoin as the money is used offline, maybe they have an ATM via BTC