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I just sent a mail to udemy.com
I have bought some good courses there in the past, so I sent them this message:

Hi,

I've been a customer here for a few months now and I'm really impressed with the sheer amount of courses available.
I do have one suggestion that could make my experience much better, I would like to see some alternative methods of payment like Bitcoin for example.
Would it be possible to add Bitcoin as an alternative method of payment?

Sincerely,
(my real name)

Who else is going to try?

Yes for sure, but lets push the adoption of commerce as well.

We need to more good things with bitcoin like Seansoutpost, that is one way to spread the news about bitcoin.

by the way, do you guys think we can get this thread to be sticky?

Well, someone is having fun, so the campaign is working!

Prize now fluttered it all away on the poker machine, was fun 

Your account has been credited!
You are the first one that have won, hopefully many will follow.

Thanks :-). I'd like to thank my mum, my dog.....

Anyway my username is chickun

so far it proved extremely hard to make people be pro-active. Sticky thread would help a great deal I guess.

Great job! Good idea, keep it up.

I think we need to stop the drive for merchant adoption, and start drumming up ways to just get more people genuinely interested in whats going on here.


create a bitcoin user = maybe he will speak positively about it to others and play around with btc from time to time
Create a bitcoin evangeslist = at least a few of his closest friends will try it out and everyone he meets will have a different outlook on it
Create a bitcoin merchant = Give people a convenient offramp to spend their bitcoins and then MAYBE buy more?

I dunno, merchant adoption is a good endgoal, but I had to get into the real world a little bit and realize that even in my city which could be considered one of the bitcoin hubs of the world, is largely a rarity running into a bitcoin user that is STILL a user and didn't just stumble across it or hear something about it from the silk road days.

Quite a shame, but I really want to get more people crazy about it directly.  Merchant adoption comes from consumer demand, and quite frankly, the consumer demand, for most businesses, especially brick and mortar, don't care.  Thats the harsh reality.  I am going to continue to buy bitcoin and continue to tell people about it, but the merchant adoption push is a little too soon in my opinion.  Now if I heard rumors of a merchant that MIGHT be thinking of accepting, I'll ask to schedule a meeting with that person, to help get them started.

Merchant adoption is all fine and good, but lets not kid ourselves about how far along we are in this process.

Yes, let's show some spirit. Even 1/10 of the activity of the doge community will make miracles
We need some more sponsors too!

It is. Readers now know exactly what the thread is about from the first few lines, and sponsors get better ad space  

READERS: Start promoting and get your 0.01btc now!

The original post was just edited thanks to a great suggestion of medUSA, thank you medUSA. It's much better now, isn't it?

I tried doing this to turkish stores
they are either controlled by this one huge corporation (which i cant bother to go to) or very small businesses which hardly makes the end of the month.
Its just not "good" enough for the Turkish market.

We even tried going to a company which makes automated kiosks and whatnots, but the finance person there knowingly said he wont allow transactions done with BTC.
I also have close relations with the helper of a VP in Turkey's leading bank, and he thinks this whole thing is completely bullcrap as well.

We, as a market is not ready for this, and with the distrust from bankers (which i agree with some as well) its going to be incredibly hard to do in Turkey, and many other 3rd world countries where many people can not even do with "real/old world currency"...

***WINNER***

Hey, you just won!
Please register at https://BitBandit.eu and give me your username so I can credit it with the promised 0.01BTC

no, you just have to post what you emailed them
 every sponsor chooses one winner per page
so far there is just 1 sponsor though

How much is the BTC prize? Off-line is out of limit for me but I might spend a half an hour or so talking to a close-minded people trying to persuade them to the Coin side if it worth it edit: seen it's 0.01 and it's good what about the other question? . also do we have to convince them to use BTC's to win? and who chooses the winners?

I think the way you can get a business to accept bitcoin is saying they have won to represent bitcoin and help them bring more money to  there business by doing so and will be making history.