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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!

hmmm .. this is actually a pretty good way to promote bitcoin payments in many countries. But first we have to read the laws about crypto in the country where we live. because in my country they prohibit direct crypto transactions like that, the payment will make you easily go to jail for many years. Those are the things to keep in mind before asking for payment by bitcoin or crypto.

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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!

wow such a great idea,never come to my mind on how i can do this to
help Bitcoin and now since i crossed this thread i may consider doing
this all the time.
people like me that always in Malls for something to buy for my Family
(because i love surprising them0so for this one?surely everytime that
i go to each malls or other paying places ,this word i will be using before
payments done ,also maybe i may find some areas in which accepting
bitcoin now by asking this.

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I won't do that. At least, I need to wait for more years before I can ask, "Can I pay in Bitcoin here?". That is because I cannot find a local store that accepts bitcoin as the payment. I would instead ask the staff if I can pay using a debit card than ask about bitcoin. I don't want to see the staff feel weird if I am asking about bitcoin because he will think about what kind of bitcoin are?

Besides that, I prefer to save the bitcoin that I got, and sold at a higher price than to use to buy something or pay something. I feel that I should keep the bitcoin in my wallet and convert it into fiat money, so I can use it to buy my daily needs. But well, if there is a local store that accepts bitcoin, perhaps, I will try to ask someday.

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Quote from: theskillzdatklls on January 16, 2020, 10:27:52 PM

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!

The problem I've seen with this is that no one actually cares to pay in Bitcoin. There's plenty of IRL retail stores I've spent Bitcoin at. A lot, in fact. And whenever I ask them about how often Bitcoin is actually used there, they usually say I'm the first person in 3 months, 6 months or maybe the first person in history in a few occasions to ever spend Bitcoin.

Bitcoiners, when it comes to retail in my experiences, talk a lot about wanting acceptance but do literally zero when it comes to actually spending it.

for now I think bitcoin is the best for investing, besides the lack of bitcoiner, I think when the price of bitcoin goes down like now, bitcoiner is a pity to spend bitcoin because retail prices are still based on fiat money, except if prices are at a peak, it might be a different story

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Last year everytime I went into some PC stores to buy some parts for my desktop I usually ask the cashier if they accept bitcoin but the answer is always "NO" majority of them doesn't know about bitcoin until this year sad truth, I think most businesses today wont used bitcoin because of its volatility and transaction issues, lighting network is here but not totally proven to be very effective in terms of security it will take time until we convince most businesses to use btc as another mode of payment for daily transactions.

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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!

The problem I've seen with this is that no one actually cares to pay in Bitcoin. There's plenty of IRL retail stores I've spent Bitcoin at. A lot, in fact. And whenever I ask them about how often Bitcoin is actually used there, they usually say I'm the first person in 3 months, 6 months or maybe the first person in history in a few occasions to ever spend Bitcoin.

Bitcoiners, when it comes to retail in my experiences, talk a lot about wanting acceptance but do literally zero when it comes to actually spending it.

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Quote from: Duzter on January 16, 2020, 08:00:34 PM

Truly such questions make the vendor or the business owners to go in search of finding more about cryptocurrencies. By this way we can see more shops and services add bitcoin payment gateway along with the common payment support. In most of the stores people have begun to add the term bitcoin accepted, but it is very rare to see.

But no matter how often we ask this question, if the jurisdiction of a particular country is still not allowing bitcoin transaction, this will not be effective in the short run. But if we could consider longer time, bitcoin will definitely be known more and more if we always fo this kind of initiative. Maybe, the jurisdiction will change if they see huge demand out of it.

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Truly such questions make the vendor or the business owners to go in search of finding more about cryptocurrencies. By this way we can see more shops and services add bitcoin payment gateway along with the common payment support. In most of the stores people have begun to add the term bitcoin accepted, but it is very rare to see.

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NO BUSINESS EVER SELLS ANYTHING IN BITCOIN....

The question you are REALLY asking is: Can you go to the time and expense of CONVERTING my BitCoin into US Dollars for me.

If you like BitCoin so much, do it yourself, why ask some business to convert it for you ?

No business will PRICE their merchandise in Bitcoin, that would be unworkable. Seriously, could you imagine a Toyota Camry priced as 3 bitcoins ?? Sometimes it would be a total bargain, and other times it would be so overpriced no one would buy.

All business buy, sell, pay their employees, and make their deposits in US Dollars.

WISE UP people...

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I don't know mentality of people in your country but what I see in overall is bad, when you ask such question, they'll say something similar: Sorry what? Are you kidding? I can't understand what you mean and etc. There is even no time to explain because supermarkets are mostly busy and in random stores, when you ask whether you can pay in btc or not, the thing they do is funny, they call to manager or etc and ask that there is a guy that wants to pay with bitcoin, do we have something like that? What is it? Discount provider?
OP's idea is great, really the greatest but the problem is that in reality demand isn't high on bitcoin payments. One user from our forum had Cafe in London if I remember correctly and was accepting bitcoin payments but during some months he only received one payment and that was like a donation, thank you tip.

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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 .. !!

It's impossible to know how much anyone anywhere knows about it. The person you mention it to might have decided they want some but have no easy way of buying it. You might make an instant deal.

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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 .. !!

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Quote from: BTCtalker3000 on January 16, 2020, 02:55:00 PM

Did anyone here did it as mentioned ? What reactions did you get?

I did this already before you have posted it and the result is also the same but at least I have shared the word to them, "bitcoin". And asked them if they knew it and accepts payment from it. That was a small restaurant and I think they were not yet ready for it because they don't understand what does bitcoin really is. I think I'll do this again whenever we go outside and eat again sometime with my friends or family because usually, these restaurants are accepting other payment methods but with the most popular ones.

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If you are a business owner, it would be great if you will also encourage your customers to pay in Bitcoin. It will not also consume a lot of your time to ask or tell your customers "you can pay using Bitcoins". When I wen't to Hong Kong, I see lot of QR codes all over 7-11 and even in the bus that I took. It's not far from now that Bitcoin QR codes will be used.

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Quote from: BTCtalker3000 on January 16, 2020, 02:55:00 PM

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Quote from: joshy23 on December 26, 2019, 10:50:37 AM

Quote from: Gotumoot on December 26, 2019, 10:41:57 AM

These are good suggestions because even though we know they do not accept bitcoin and they are not aware of it they can adopt it because of Bitcoin demand.

So it's good that we do this to increase awareness of bitcoin and if we are store owners we should start accepting it in our businesses.

Increasing awareness by setting examples by accepting bitcoin or crypto into our own business will impress and make a good impacts to more people
around us, nor those people who are not really close to us. It's adding more people to be aware and get into this market. Bitcoin have good communities and by adding more will make it more stronger.

Awareness is the key to spread the adoption of bitcoin that's why what OP did is too useful specially if everytime you have to pay for something in a convenient store or restaurants. A simple way to make them more aware of this new technology evolving and adapting everywhere.

Yes, thats the point!

Did anyone here did it as mentioned ? What reactions did you get?

Well, they are confused since I thought they are accepting it. They have this poster outside saying that anonimity is not that bad, I thought it is a sign that they accept bitcoin. When I asked them, they are confused, they do not know what it is. So, yeah. i just look if there is a sign, if there is not, I don't need to ask. It can raise awareness, yes but my tine was wasted being asked what it is and where to get it.

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Quote from: BTCtalker3000 on January 16, 2020, 02:55:00 PM

Did anyone here did it as mentioned ? What reactions did you get?

I've done this with a holiday rental in the US. Using banks it could take up to 4-5 weeks to sort out as America is a third world country when it comes to banking.

One place started screaming about drugs and hung up. The other said yes after a brief explanation.

I wouldn't bother in a normal shop. They have better things to do as do I.

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Quote from: Hamphser on December 26, 2019, 10:55:04 AM

Quote from: joshy23 on December 26, 2019, 10:50:37 AM

Quote from: Gotumoot on December 26, 2019, 10:41:57 AM

These are good suggestions because even though we know they do not accept bitcoin and they are not aware of it they can adopt it because of Bitcoin demand.

So it's good that we do this to increase awareness of bitcoin and if we are store owners we should start accepting it in our businesses.

Increasing awareness by setting examples by accepting bitcoin or crypto into our own business will impress and make a good impacts to more people
around us, nor those people who are not really close to us. It's adding more people to be aware and get into this market. Bitcoin have good communities and by adding more will make it more stronger.

Awareness is the key to spread the adoption of bitcoin that's why what OP did is too useful specially if everytime you have to pay for something in a convenient store or restaurants. A simple way to make them more aware of this new technology evolving and adapting everywhere.

Yes, thats the point!

Did anyone here did it as mentioned ? What reactions did you get?

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Quote from: joshy23 on December 26, 2019, 10:50:37 AM

Quote from: Gotumoot on December 26, 2019, 10:41:57 AM

These are good suggestions because even though we know they do not accept bitcoin and they are not aware of it they can adopt it because of Bitcoin demand.

So it's good that we do this to increase awareness of bitcoin and if we are store owners we should start accepting it in our businesses.

Increasing awareness by setting examples by accepting bitcoin or crypto into our own business will impress and make a good impacts to more people
around us, nor those people who are not really close to us. It's adding more people to be aware and get into this market. Bitcoin have good communities and by adding more will make it more stronger.

Awareness is the key to spread the adoption of bitcoin that's why what OP did is too useful specially if everytime you have to pay for something in a convenient store or restaurants. A simple way to make them more aware of this new technology evolving and adapting everywhere.

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Quote from: Gotumoot on December 26, 2019, 10:41:57 AM

These are good suggestions because even though we know they do not accept bitcoin and they are not aware of it they can adopt it because of Bitcoin demand.

So it's good that we do this to increase awareness of bitcoin and if we are store owners we should start accepting it in our businesses.

Increasing awareness by setting examples by accepting bitcoin or crypto into our own business will impress and make a good impacts to more people
around us, nor those people who are not really close to us. It's adding more people to be aware and get into this market. Bitcoin have good communities and by adding more will make it more stronger.

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These are good suggestions because even though we know they do not accept bitcoin and they are not aware of it they can adopt it because of Bitcoin demand.

So it's good that we do this to increase awareness of bitcoin and if we are store owners we should start accepting it in our businesses.

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