I and many others just hold their bitcoins and wait till it gets worth more. But that is not how a currency should work. A currency is meant to be used in daily trades for groceries and so on.
My question is how can we push the actual use of the bitcoin and what is nessacary to do that ?
I think first, we should wait till the scaling problem is hopefully solved in near future, because right now even if I had f.e. a grocery store, I would not accept Bitcoin as payment becasue of the confirmation time of the tx (I would hand out some coupons which can be bought for BTC)
After this problem is solved this would be my ideas, I hope you help me gather more:
- Convince organisations like amnesty international to accept bitcoin as donations
- Convince big internet companies like amazon to accept payments via bitcoin, this should take a while but with some petitions they might consider it (propably better starting with some smaller companies)
Start accepting bitcoins yourself, not only on the interent but for example if you are a student and do some private tutoring, and have a small ad for you on a blackboard somewhere, you could print a "Bitcoin accepted" on it.[/li]
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- Alright to begin from the very first ,you have got to invest something so that you can pay your donations with bitcoin,don't forget the fact
that bitcoin is volatile and if the price falls,you will be responsible for it.
- I do believe that you can purchase Amazon gift cards,not sure just heard about it.If people should accept payments in the form of bitcoin,then why don't you think people will ask the sellers for paying in ethereum,litecoin or any other altcoin for that matter?
- For personal use ,it is good that if he/she accepts the fees for any service rendered by the person in the form of bitcoin,but do you really think that a lot of people know about bitcoin?
To conclude with bitcoin has to grow,it has become famous than it ever was,people should start considering it as a thing and
know the fact Bitcoin is limited and was not created for people who want to use it for buying "groceries". as a matter of fact, i think we need to fix transaction confirming first so when a transaction is made, people don't have to wait too long and they can see the amount is already send in their wallet. this is a serious thing that we should do because i think, when people especially business man wants to use bitcoin, they don't want to wait too long for just waiting confirmed transaction.
secondly, maybe we need to make a price that is not too volatile, i mean maybe we can try to use the same thing like what money changer in every country do.
third, we can trying to asked people to pay with altcoin like you said and i think altcoin is not too volatile like bitcoin but i admitted if altcoin is down, it could be down too far.
fourth, i think its our job to introduce bitcoin to other people so they know about bitcoin and maybe we can make some courses in every city or maybe we can make like seminar and we invite people to come to learn about bitcoin and blockchain technology. until now, i think there is a few courses in the country that use this to introduce bitcoin to people.