This is absolutely the best news we can get.
The only way for adoption to grow, would be for merchants, who accepted
BTC as payment method, to offer incentives and discounts like this.
As a merchant, you cannot simply state that they accepted
BTC as a payment method, and wait for adoption to grow by itself.
The consumer needs to have access to a
BTC ATM {Without
BTC he cannot buy anything} This MUST be a easy and fast process.
The payment with
BTC must be easy and fast.
The fees must be lower than tradisional payment methods. {Credit cards / Fiat / Debit cards}
There must be something, to motivate the consumer, to switch to
BTC payment. {Discounts}
If only one of these things fail, the consumer will not adopt the
BTCcurrency and then you would find, that the hoarders, will be spending their coins, and the price of
BTC will drop, because of the over supply of bitcoins, on the exchange side. {The demand will only increase, once more new people adopt
BTC and wants to buy it}
Newegg has succeeded in finding a great way of doing this, and I applaud them for that.
