"Can I pay in Bitcoin here?" - go and ask this each time you pay something! - page 2.

BTCtalker3000

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Hey guys,

I am very happy that the idea is so well received and imitated here. Please keep up the good work, because creating awareness is an essential key to the success of Bitcoin!

My latest idea is: While jogging, wear a large Bitcoin logo on the front and back of the shirt. Thus everyone you meet is confronted with the topic and think about (or at least perceives it subconsciously). I had one longshirt made especially for this:

SO GO GO GO AND SPREAD THE MESSAGE TOO!!!

Mike Mayor

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Your ideas are great, very good, I think I will tell my friends about this, but I think it should only apply to places like cities, because some rural areas they do not even know how to pay by bank cards, not to mention bitcoin.

With this great idea we can really create a marketing through the 'word of mouth' it's free but it is so much effective, actually I just heard Bitcoin from a friend, they are talking about it, so I search about it because I was too curious what it is, as they have explained it to me, but can't really understand what it is, so I did my job to do research.

It might be a bit intimidating or you might feel silly asking instore at places you know won't accept bitcoin. Chain stores normally. Individually owned stores are the ones you need to go and ask at.
Other then that the best thing to do is to email or message online stores asking if they accept bitcoin even if they clearly don't. If a few people do this they might check into it as a possible payment option in the future.

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Quote from: enhu on January 17, 2020, 11:46:36 AM

It may sound strange for the people who hasn't heard of BTC their entire life. When paypal was just new, I started asking my cousin if the bank she worked allow clients to send paypal funds going to the bank he worked for. She wasn't aware of it back then it was I think 2005. After few years she remember me asking about it and its now available.

The people you asked might remember you one day asked them about accepting BTC. I wouldn't be surprise that 3 years later, we'd be fastfood restaurant accepting not just BTC but other altcoins.

This is exactly it. Its a subtle form of raising awareness. Its also like when you wear the (BTC) logo in a t-shirt or a sticker in your laptop whatever. Even if they don't know what it is, they will remember in the future.

Originally paypal was to send funds (wire?) to people via email. The banks had no idea but it worked, i think they used the credit card system. The original paypal was an app for the Palm, which is the actual meaning of the pal at the end of the end ("Pay with your Palm").

The Palm was a PDA, a predecessor to the smartphone, a device long gone into obscurity.

Once you accept bitcoin, the rest of the altcoins become are trivial, for the most part anyway. Realistically the shop would probably exchange "whatever" into what they actually want to have anyway.

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Quote from: Artemis3 on January 17, 2020, 10:30:34 AM

Quote from: johnwest on January 17, 2020, 10:13:23 AM

Have done this in the past with many restaurants of my city but they were hesitant to accept because of the fluctuations. Only one or two shop managers thought about implementing Litecoin because of the fees but when they couldnt understand the market and couldnt hold for a day or week when the price went down, they stopped accepting it. For a month we enjoyed paying LTC.

Litecoin fluctuates the same and sometimes even more than Bitcoin, no reason to accept one but not the other... At worst they can use a payment processor, like bitpay.

The fluctuation is such a lame excuse, those merchants should take a look how life is in hyperinflation, where the price is permanently fluctuating (upwards, mostly). Perhaps they think a price never changes, but in fact price can be made to change everyday or even every hour. Only when you pay you get to know the actual price, that's the truth here, and in the end with electronic money it doesn't matter (as long as you have enough to pay).

Anyway if they are so scared they could also exchange everyday or even every hour (being their own payment processor).

I don't think people actually pay attention to the inflation of developed countries' paper currencies when they spend their money. All they see is that things are more expensive and the prices go up. They are so used to dealing in dollars or whatever national currency they use that they automatically think in terms of dollars, to the point where some commodities in bitcoin markets are priced based on the BTC/USD exchange rate.

Which is why people are so concerned about the volatility of bitcoin before spending anything. Restaurant meals usually cost between 10 and 100 dollars. So suppose I had 0.005 btc which is about $44 right now. One month ago, this would be worth about $34. It's not a lot of money loss since the difference is only 10 but some people are conscious of losing even 10 dollars.

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Yes, you’re right about that, when you ask people such a question they will be curious to know what Bitcoin is all about and they are likely going to ask others that same question to know whether they will get to learn it from them, and if not they will go straight to online to Google it out.

I have only been asking that question online, never asked it offline. Sometimes when I work with a freelancer I ask them whether they are accepting Bitcoin as a payment method and when they say yes I send their payment through Bitcoin. I’ve met a few freelancers that agreed to accept cryptocurrency as payment and I’m sure the rest would try to research about it, even though they did not accept it.

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It may sound strange for the people who hasn't heard of BTC their entire life. When paypal was just new, I started asking my cousin if the bank she worked allow clients to send paypal funds going to the bank he worked for. She wasn't aware of it back then it was I think 2005. After few years she remember me asking about it and its now available.

The people you asked might remember you one day asked them about accepting BTC. I wouldn't be surprise that 3 years later, we'd be fastfood restaurant accepting not just BTC but other altcoins.

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You can't do that when bitcoin got banned or not accepted as a means of payment or currency, we know that regulation in each country about bitcoin is different, some of them are banning it. Even if in an area where bitcoin is legal, will it be effective? imagine you are in the queue and have to wait until the transaction on the blockchain is being confirmed or maybe you have to pay a higher fee in order to get faster confirmation, I guess it's not ready for that.

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Quote from: ChrisPop on December 23, 2019, 11:03:39 AM

Once we start the New Year I propose myself to do this at least once in every store I get in. This is exactly how we can create adoption by the law of demand. If there is demand there should be offer. Wink

Once the store managers would find out about the demand of the customers to pay in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies they will certainly look into ways to accept that method of payment - no doubt about that, but we need enough people to do this.

Yes what you have said is a really a good idea and it is applicable if and only many people demanded about bitcoin or any altcoin as a modr of payment. But if you are the only one who frequently ask the question in every store you are entering if they are using bitcoin as a mode of payment it will not affect them. The only way to adopt bitcoin by many people is through the use of mass promotion.

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Quote from: johnwest on January 17, 2020, 10:13:23 AM

Have done this in the past with many restaurants of my city but they were hesitant to accept because of the fluctuations. Only one or two shop managers thought about implementing Litecoin because of the fees but when they couldnt understand the market and couldnt hold for a day or week when the price went down, they stopped accepting it. For a month we enjoyed paying LTC.

Litecoin fluctuates the same and sometimes even more than Bitcoin, no reason to accept one but not the other... At worst they can use a payment processor, like bitpay.

The fluctuation is such a lame excuse, those merchants should take a look how life is in hyperinflation, where the price is permanently fluctuating (upwards, mostly). Perhaps they think a price never changes, but in fact price can be made to change everyday or even every hour. Only when you pay you get to know the actual price, that's the truth here, and in the end with electronic money it doesn't matter (as long as you have enough to pay).

Anyway if they are so scared they could also exchange everyday or even every hour (being their own payment processor).

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Have done this in the past with many restaurants of my city but they were hesitant to accept because of the fluctuations. Only one or two shop managers thought about implementing Litecoin because of the fees but when they couldnt understand the market and couldnt hold for a day or week when the price went down, they stopped accepting it. For a month we enjoyed paying LTC.

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I have been doing this particular thing every time we go out and surprisingly, there are merchants who are now accepting Bitcoin as payment in our country. It will also spread awareness where they will have the curiosity about Bitcoin as a mode of payment. However, some users still prefer holding their Bitcoin instead of using it but it is still wise to inform merchants that Bitcoin as a mode of payment is still convenient to use.

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wow nice initiative you have there op . you are one of those few people that are willing to spread the good word about bitcoin and cryptos . one thing i dont understand , you said they always said no ? which means your place dont support any cryptos ? by the way on what place your living ? or maybe you live on farther areas ( away from the city ) where cryptos are mainly accepted . same to my place . btc is accepted on our country but mostly on major regions or cities .

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Quote from: BTCtalker3000 on December 23, 2019, 08:56:17 AM

Me and my friends go over to asking the staff every time we have to pay a bill somewhere at the checkout if we can pay with Bitcoin. Of course the answer is always no. We are much more concerned with raising awareness among the general public about cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular. Because we often see that shortly after this question, employees tell their colleagues about this presence, and they will almost certainly do so at home. A single question can reach dozens of people and Bitcoin is becoming more aware.

So: go out and invest those few seconds during each payment process to push the Bitcoin!

i recomended you to use https://openbazaar.org/
of course you can use mobile version at here https://gethaven.app/ or android at here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.ob1.nativeandroid&hl=en_US

its a open market using bitcoin payment procesor with decentralized system

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Quote from: diahsw on January 16, 2020, 06:19:24 PM

maybe it's a good idea, done in developed countries that support bitcoin, but for my country, it can't be done, because there isn't anything at all about bitcoin yet, and surely they don't understand what we're saying .. !!

One thing is that they are all reluctant to invest or to even accept bitcoin as a form of payment because of it's high volatility, this might not mean that they don't know about it. I mean, bitcoin's name is everywhere nowadays and it's hard to believe that anyone wouldn't have some form of surface level knowledge at the very least regarding bitcoin. So we just need to wait until bitcoin becomes a little stabler and people as well as merchants will come accepting it.

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It's probably one of the best line I've read to promote Bitcoin, and actually have done it in one online shop but although they have read about it, they don't have the knowledge to integrate or trade it because of lack of education, but it's a good way for merchants to get aware of Bitcoin and if many people are going to ask, it will set his curiousness.

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It will really create great impact to the society, very simple to do but when all of us will do it, we will create massive marketing towards Bitcoin as it will create awareness to the people. Hope that everyone of us will do the same, I am also sharing updates to my social media so that my friends even though won't ask me about it will be confused and for sure some of them will do their own research.

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Seems like a pretty positive initiative to help spread the word about cryptocurrency. What not a better way than to have a conversation with your local merchants about the potential benefits and use of cryptocurremcy.
Every now and then whilst out walking around downtown (I don't go often), I see a shop or two with a sign within the window, saying "Bitcoin accepted as payment ". now if that doesn't make you feel like adoption is happening I don't know what will, albeit it seems painstakingly slow.

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Dump it!!!

Love this idea, I'll definitely bear it in mind next time I buy something in store.

Might also be a good idea to simply mention cryptocurrency rather than Bitcoin though, since this exposes them to broader net of the market.

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I used to be able to donate to humanitarian activities with the bitcoin that I have.
however, there are not many donors who know bitcoin so payment methods using bitcoin are removed from the platform.
I hope the future government can support this social activity.

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Quote from: ChrisPop on December 23, 2019, 11:03:39 AM

Once we start the New Year I propose myself to do this at least once in every store I get in. This is exactly how we can create adoption by the law of demand. If there is demand there should be offer. Wink

Once the store managers would find out about the demand of the customers to pay in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies they will certainly look into ways to accept that method of payment - no doubt about that, but we need enough people to do this.

I'll join with you mate. Now I realized how fool I am for I haven't do such thing before. To be honest, I only seek for signages of "We accept BTC" every time I see stores along the roadand without even trying to ask them first — My bad. I'll be more courageous from now on

. If I found nothing then at least I am able to enlighten them and who knows they'll do further research regarding this new tech.

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