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The problem is not all people know about bitcoins, even in my area only 1-2 people know about bitcoin. Before we encourage local businesses to use bitcoin, we need to introduce them first about what and how is bitcoin works. I'm sure they will start using bitcoin if the buyer want using bitcoin as the payment.

That's why op is asking on how we are going to encourage those people and business owners to use bitcoin. And how you are going to introduce it then? My suggestion would be you need to talk to them house to house or collect those people who are interested that has small business and have a meeting with them, so that you can explain and introduce it to them easily.

That suggestion is laughable, honestly. Have you seen Jehovah's witnesses knocking house to house and then get rejected all of the time? A lot of people have made jokes about them. That's how foolish you would look like when you try and talk to people house to house. What are you going to do? Knock at a stranger's house and say, "Hi. Do you know bitcoins? Bitcoin is a decentralized crypto-currency blah blah...." Grin Moreover, people won't just let you in inside their house for some knowledge that they can be well-versed of in just a matter of minutes of searching on google.
That's indeed a joke and stupid way to inform people about bitcoin, only inform those who's really interested and just leave the rest, no enforcement to the people who don't interested and no disturbing them is a must for the sake of informing about bitcoin, otherwise it will be really annoying for them. Today everyone can just find an information through internet with ease and there's no point of wasting time and energy to do such useless thing

So you are seeing it as laughable and stupid? And you are talking about religion and business is different from that Jehovah's witnesses people. You are just thinking about one side and negative because you haven't done it before. Just try to figure out that religion is different from business even you are making that as an example. And you are just going to walk all around from your neighbor, it's just like a casual talk.
Have you tried it, though? Grin Probably not.

I'm not thinking like that because I haven't done it before. I'm thinking what if someone goes knocking around the neighborhood, I thought that I would laugh when I saw someone doing such effort just to introduce bitcoins when he can simply post it on facebook where the message can reach more people. If your message really is persuading, then your post might even get shared by other people.

The difference of religion and business has nothing to do with this. The point is the idea of going house to house just to talk about some topic that can easily be found on the internet is absurd.
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bitcoin should have faster transaction confirmations and lower fees for many businesses to even consider adopting it. it should give more convenience rather than more hassle to adopters. until that is achieved fiat will still be king.
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Thats not a problem. They pass the payment of these fees to the customers. Ever wonder why the stores give you a discount whenever you pay them in cash? Its not really a discount. Its the real price. You pay more when you use your credit card because it is you who the fees themselves.

don't know where you live but having been on multiple european countries that's not really the case, although many have a minimum purchase amount for paying with cc.
Also if they're giving you a discount when paying with cash its mostly because they're probably not going to register that sale and pay the corresponding tax..

In what European countries do they avoid paying sales tax? Thats Europe, they dont condone such practices. Maybe you are from a third world country where avoiding taxes is rampant because your government is very inefficient in collecting them.

It is a known fact that the consumers themselves pay for the credit card fees. So I dont know what planet you're from.
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The problem is not all people know about bitcoins, even in my area only 1-2 people know about bitcoin. Before we encourage local businesses to use bitcoin, we need to introduce them first about what and how is bitcoin works. I'm sure they will start using bitcoin if the buyer want using bitcoin as the payment.

That's why op is asking on how we are going to encourage those people and business owners to use bitcoin. And how you are going to introduce it then? My suggestion would be you need to talk to them house to house or collect those people who are interested that has small business and have a meeting with them, so that you can explain and introduce it to them easily.

That suggestion is laughable, honestly. Have you seen Jehovah's witnesses knocking house to house and then get rejected all of the time? A lot of people have made jokes about them. That's how foolish you would look like when you try and talk to people house to house. What are you going to do? Knock at a stranger's house and say, "Hi. Do you know bitcoins? Bitcoin is a decentralized crypto-currency blah blah...." Grin Moreover, people won't just let you in inside their house for some knowledge that they can be well-versed of in just a matter of minutes of searching on google.
That's indeed a joke and stupid way to inform people about bitcoin, only inform those who's really interested and just leave the rest, no enforcement to the people who don't interested and no disturbing them is a must for the sake of informing about bitcoin, otherwise it will be really annoying for them. Today everyone can just find an information through internet with ease and there's no point of wasting time and energy to do such useless thing
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The problem is not all people know about bitcoins, even in my area only 1-2 people know about bitcoin. Before we encourage local businesses to use bitcoin, we need to introduce them first about what and how is bitcoin works. I'm sure they will start using bitcoin if the buyer want using bitcoin as the payment.

That's why op is asking on how we are going to encourage those people and business owners to use bitcoin. And how you are going to introduce it then? My suggestion would be you need to talk to them house to house or collect those people who are interested that has small business and have a meeting with them, so that you can explain and introduce it to them easily.

That suggestion is laughable, honestly. Have you seen Jehovah's witnesses knocking house to house and then get rejected all of the time? A lot of people have made jokes about them. That's how foolish you would look like when you try and talk to people house to house. What are you going to do? Knock at a stranger's house and say, "Hi. Do you know bitcoins? Bitcoin is a decentralized crypto-currency blah blah...." Grin Moreover, people won't just let you in inside their house for some knowledge that they can be well-versed of in just a matter of minutes of searching on google.
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Thats not a problem. They pass the payment of these fees to the customers. Ever wonder why the stores give you a discount whenever you pay them in cash? Its not really a discount. Its the real price. You pay more when you use your credit card because it is you who the fees themselves.

don't know where you live but having been on multiple european countries that's not really the case, although many have a minimum purchase amount for paying with cc.
Also if they're giving you a discount when paying with cash its mostly because they're probably not going to register that sale and pay the corresponding tax..
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Encouraging would really be hard.

Just go to explain the time for confermations, and wait how long they will need for start kicking you in ass from the shop.
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I'm sure they will start using bitcoin if the buyer want using bitcoin as the payment.

How do You immagine the process?
Someone will exchange local money to BTC and spend them on goods at the shop?
I dont know what he meant by that but i would like to ask if that thing would succesfuly work by just someone tend to pay bitcoin for the goods he bought and we all know that not all business owners would easily accept it specially if they dont have enough knowledge or idea on such thing like bitcoin.
Encouraging would really be hard.
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I'm sure they will start using bitcoin if the buyer want using bitcoin as the payment.

How do You immagine the process?
Someone will exchange local money to BTC and spend them on goods at the shop?
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The problem is not all people know about bitcoins, even in my area only 1-2 people know about bitcoin. Before we encourage local businesses to use bitcoin, we need to introduce them first about what and how is bitcoin works. I'm sure they will start using bitcoin if the buyer want using bitcoin as the payment.
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we have to take the start. If you start a local shop in your area with discount

Do You starting some business?
Why You have a idea to use a discount model of shop? Are You living in a ghetto?
People often like to go to those shops which provide discounts to its clients.

im always asking "are you accepting btc?" to all shops in Turkey. but sometimes staffs are know what is btc. we need more academic presentation. if everyone knows, they accept it. we need to spread it.
Not all of the local businesses know about Bitcoin and for encouraging it in our local businesses we have to take the start. If you start a local shop in your area with discount and attract the buyers to you then people will come to you and other store owners will also start to accept bitcoin.
I think it is hard to attract them if they know the benefits of bitcoin and how to use it maybe they can accept it as payment method but it is depends what is their business or product they are offering..  if bitcoin will fit for their business maybe they can attract more people to use it with special offers or discounts,.
According to my experience with bitcoin I think every business best fit the use of bitcoin as its payment system for their clients. If a person start a shop with bitcoin and will provide discount and along with that if the shopkeeper will provide unique products then people will adopt bitcoin.

With that at least the people around you and other shops will know about bitcoin and as everyone here know that bitcoin is more convenient currency so after knowing about it anyone like to adopt it.
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im always asking "are you accepting btc?" to all shops in Turkey. but sometimes staffs are know what is btc. we need more academic presentation. if everyone knows, they accept it. we need to spread it.
Not all of the local businesses know about Bitcoin and for encouraging it in our local businesses we have to take the start. If you start a local shop in your area with discount and attract the buyers to you then people will come to you and other store owners will also start to accept bitcoin.
I think it is hard to attract them if they know the benefits of bitcoin and how to use it maybe they can accept it as payment method but it is depends what is their business or product they are offering..  if bitcoin will fit for their business maybe they can attract more people to use it with special offers or discounts,.
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we have to take the start. If you start a local shop in your area with discount

Do You starting some business?
Why You have a idea to use a discount model of shop? Are You living in a ghetto?
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im always asking "are you accepting btc?" to all shops in Turkey. but sometimes staffs are know what is btc. we need more academic presentation. if everyone knows, they accept it. we need to spread it.
Not all of the local businesses know about Bitcoin and for encouraging it in our local businesses we have to take the start. If you start a local shop in your area with discount and attract the buyers to you then people will come to you and other store owners will also start to accept bitcoin.
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Its more like the business owners dont need to accept BTC. Accepting fiat and credit cards works fine and smoothly for them so why is there a need add BTC. How will that be an advantage to them? All the Bitcoiners in this thread doesnt even spend that much in BTC anyway.

to accept credit cards they have to rent equipment, pay higher fee rates and most importantly, have to wait for the payment processor to credit their account, since payments don't go directly from the customer to the owner's bank account.

Thats not a problem. They pass the payment of these fees to the customers. Ever wonder why the stores give you a discount whenever you pay them in cash? Its not really a discount. Its the real price. You pay more when you use your credit card because it is you who pay for the fees themselves.

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Its more like the business owners dont need to accept BTC. Accepting fiat and credit cards works fine and smoothly for them so why is there a need add BTC. How will that be an advantage to them? All the Bitcoiners in this thread doesnt even spend that much in BTC anyway.

to accept credit cards they have to rent equipment, pay higher fee rates and most importantly, have to wait for the payment processor to credit their account, since payments don't go directly from the customer to the owner's bank account.
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i don't think that we can help them, they have to decide on their own

Yes we can, we can encourage them. We can explain them what are the benefits, like those related to taxes or that they will maybe easier find bitcoin investors then fiat investors or that with using bitcoins they could be more competitive. There are risks too, ofw course, but it's worth trying.
Businesses owners prefer to stay out of trouble, if you begin to say to them they can avoid taxes with bitcoin they are going to avoid bitcoin even more since they prefer to pay their taxes than to risk their investment in their business.

Its more like the business owners dont need to accept BTC. Accepting fiat and credit cards works fine and smoothly for them so why is there a need add BTC. How will that be an advantage to them? All the Bitcoiners in this thread doesnt even spend that much in BTC anyway.
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im always asking "are you accepting btc?" to all shops in Turkey. but sometimes staffs are know what is btc. we need more academic presentation. if everyone knows, they accept it. we need to spread it.

If the bitcoin price rises to $5000, most people in the world will know about Bitcoin. Attention chases money.

This is not exactly true, in a more wider scale. I think its the spreading and the innate acceptance which draws people to bitcoin along with the advantages it gives. Its not always about money/price of bitcoin and rarely "acceptance" is due to `attention chasing money`.

If people believe that bitcoin can be a better alternative to fiat and that the advantages of bitcoin can overcome the disadvantages of fiat only then they will accept it and else not.

You cannot lure people with money into accepting something - you will be accused as a scammer if the project failed in the long run.
my aim is just let people hear "bitcoin". maybe they are curious about that and looking for "bitcoin".
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If they know it and see the advantages of the bitcoin you already do not need them to convince them anymore.
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im always asking "are you accepting btc?" to all shops in Turkey. but sometimes staffs are know what is btc. we need more academic presentation. if everyone knows, they accept it. we need to spread it.

If the bitcoin price rises to $5000, most people in the world will know about Bitcoin. Attention chases money.

This is not exactly true, in a more wider scale. I think its the spreading and the innate acceptance which draws people to bitcoin along with the advantages it gives. Its not always about money/price of bitcoin and rarely "acceptance" is due to `attention chasing money`.

If people believe that bitcoin can be a better alternative to fiat and that the advantages of bitcoin can overcome the disadvantages of fiat only then they will accept it and else not.

You cannot lure people with money into accepting something - you will be accused as a scammer if the project failed in the long run.
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