Topic: Who has entered a shop (non-BTC accepting) and asked if they will accept Crypto? - page 4. (Read 388 times)

I haven't tried asking some shops since obviously they are not accepting bitcoin or any other crypto. Also in my country, it's rare to find a shop that accepts bitcoin so I don't expect they will if ever I would ask them. Even though my country doesn't regulate crypto.
Even if I would do it, I don't think they will give attention to what I have asked since it's not in demand. Their customers don't ask for it so they will just ignore it. They will only notice when various of customer would ask the staff if they accept bitcoin.

As a distribution to the crypto world, I am also asking my friends, sharing crypto news to my facebook newsfeed, I even sharing it on 'My day' at messenger and even in Instagram this is my way of informing people so that they can be curious and check out how they are going to do research about it and I am glad because there are few of my friends who got curious and some of them are now here, some has become trader.

That's actually a good idea. We can all contribute to the adoption of bitcoin by just asking for it in stores and showing there is demand for it. I haven't done that before lol just because I'm sure that they don't accept it, but if we don't ask for it we won't get it.

I once had a discussion with a pizza place employee about them accepting bitcoin--but it wasn't just out of the blue, it was because they had the BTC symbol on their menu.  So when I saw that, I was shocked and asked the guy if they really accepted bitcoin, and he basically said no they didn't.  The pizza place owner had wanted to but never set up a payment processor or something like that. 

However, I ended up talking to two guys who worked there, and they were both familiar with bitcoin and one of them even asked me if I was into altcoins and which ones were my favorites.  This must have been less than a year ago, and the pizza place was right near my house.  I thought it was pretty damn cool that I even had a chat with some real-life human beings about crypto.  I wouldn't have paid for my food with bitcoin anyway but I was shocked to see that bitcoin symbol on a menu for a restaurant so close to me.

That's the only experience I've had with merchants in real life accepting bitcoin.  I did have a short conversation with an employee of a business that had a bitcoin ATM in their establishment, but they didn't accept bitcoin for their goods.  Both experiences were very neat.  I don't live in a big city by any means and I didn't know there were so many people who even knew much about bitcoin.

a few tips
dont just ask the cashier. try to find the superviser or the manager.
most cashiers just answer questions but dont feedback it up to their boss.

if there is a local bitcoin meetup. get together and ask which stores most people populate to and formalise a 'adoption campaign' for the most usd stores by bitcoinrs.


adoption campaign
the most successful tactic. find a local bitcoiner who likes to buy coins regularly. club together to have a upfront 'bar tab' of fiat and ask the bitcoin buyer to make a QR code for his address.
approach the store and ask them if they would trial something risk free.
tell them they will have $$ upfront (like a prepayment) to cover anyone asking to pay by btc.
then teach the store staff all they have to do is use a price calculator app and show the QR code. once a explorer app shows transaction received treat the purchase as a normal cash purchase and take the money out of the 'tab'
that way the store gets paid cash at no risk and the bitcoin buyer get the coin

if it gets used alot and the store needs regular 'tab' refills then it can become more official by making it a contracted service between the bitcoin buyer and the store. or signing th store upto a payment gateway

In my experience in our country none of them are accepting crypto as payment unless they are already into crypto community and know how to use it. One thing for sure is there will be time that banks will make a crypto atm and use it as debit/credit card to use in shop.

Well that's not something enormous. WE know that but THEY may not, that cryptocurrencies are everywhere. It is just a matter of time until shops will accept BTC payment. There are some, but still just a few.

I ask at every single store I visit - most people haven't a clue what I'm on about when I ask. Hopefully that encourages them to research later.

Of the people that knew of it - some said it's too low volume (1 in every 500 customers or smth asking to pay with crypto) and others say they would rather refer them to an ATM (or install one depending on how big demand is) and have them come back with cash.