In my opinion, it's more important to get more Merchants first. We have to find more idealistic oriented Merchants that are willing to support NLG first. We could start in some kind of city/village getting as much merachants as possible and then contacting all people living in that village and explaining them how they can use NLG. We help them to install a wallet on their Phone, send them some NLG right away, and also give them some information papers.
Like I said, more merchanst first, because the people must be able to spend them. I live in Groningen, but cannot use NLG for my daily shoppings. When we can get like 25% or 50% of all Merchants in a village be willing to accept NLG, then this is a good starting point. At least I would pay all my daily shoppings with NLG and at the same time I would try to educate other people in the village. Also from a promotional point of view, I like the village idea. Wouldn't we love to see an article in "de telegraaf" or "AD" about a whole dutch city accepting NLG.
The awesome part of this piece you wrote is that you've given yourself an answer to change the fact that you can't spend your NLG in Groningen yet. Meaning. Go to the shop you shop at daily or weekly and ask them about Guldencoin. I'm sure 'deaurin' on the Guldencoin Forum (PM him) who lives in Groningen (city mind you) would have a chat with you about it. I normally live there too, but I've been out of the country for about 2 years now. So when I'm back there I'll surely get to work. In the meantime, it's up to you and the others that live in the cities to approach merchants with some information about NLG and get them to accept it
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I personally disagree on your opinion that we need to find more merchants first. Let me explain by example:
If three guys, one with a hotdog-stand, one with a beer-stand and one with merchandize, would go to a large open field somewhere near Groningen and start selling their stuff, it is highly unlikely that a large crowd will gather around them to buy their stuff. If, on the other hand, you attract a large crowd to that open field first, you almost certainly will see those guys rushing over there to sell their stuff, regardless of why that crowd is there in the first place...
So, in my opinion, get a large group of people to start using NLG and let them collectively start asking merchants if they are willing to accept, the larger the user base becomes, the more merchants will get motivated to accept...
You could be easily right. Like I also said, I am thinking a lot about it, but not finding a real solution. In case you are right, it's important all NLG users should know exactly what a merchant has to do, to be ready to accept NLG ( technically, I men). So, that we can make it more simple for them to make this step.