Since the idea of motivating local stores to accept bitcoin is IMHO pointless, i have another proposition which could work in the close future (1 year):
Motivating big currency exchangers in centres of major cities to accept internet currencies: Bitcoin, Liberty Reserve, Pecunix and such.
Because those companies are already into "currency buisness", they may be much easier to motivate to use electronic currencies, than local stores.
After people could exchange money for bitcoin on their street, perhaps it will be much much easier to motivate markets/supermarkets/shops to accept bitcoin.
It looks like a good idea but the problem is that the big currency exchangers are generally categorised as financial companies and come under direct purview of national banks of respective countries. These money exchangers have to report their forex reserves and transaction the concerned authorities and also they can only work in purview of currencies set by the national banks. So, it might seem good but the currency exchangers would actually have a hard time getting sanction letter from central bank to deal in such currencies.Motivating big currency exchangers in centres of major cities to accept internet currencies: Bitcoin, Liberty Reserve, Pecunix and such.
Because those companies are already into "currency buisness", they may be much easier to motivate to use electronic currencies, than local stores.
After people could exchange money for bitcoin on their street, perhaps it will be much much easier to motivate markets/supermarkets/shops to accept bitcoin.
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I wonder if the exchanges that already use bitcoin uses KYC details before exchanging bitcoins because if they do then again that defeats the purpose of anonymity (not saying that bitcoin is completely anonymous) .
True, but many BATMs do not require KYC under a certain amount, so it is likely that street exchanges can avoid it within a certain range of exchanged BTCs. I guess nevertheless that this will be a country specific issue, in accordance to their regulation.I wonder if the exchanges that already use bitcoin uses KYC details before exchanging bitcoins because if they do then again that defeats the purpose of anonymity (not saying that bitcoin is completely anonymous) .
Note: Yep, I saw that OP was at least active this year once I has merited the OP.
