This is the attitude that built bitcoin in the early adoption phase. That changed when speculation took over and the question became "What is the bitcoin ecosystem doing to make me rich"?
My efforts include asking if they take bitcoin at every sale.
Talking to small business owners about what they could have saved on that sale using BTC.
Only using bitcoin online. If they wont take bitcoin I tell them "too bad, I would have bought from you". Then I tell them where I will go to buy the same product.
Printing and distributing info-graphics, buttons, etc. All paid in BTC, of course.
For a few friends, I give them some bitcoin with their promise to spend it or donate it somewhere.
Making a point of patronizing restaurants, bars, and other places that take BTC. I do this both locally and when I travel.
Well speculation is also important, traders keep the spreads low and give us a liquid market. I just bought some Imperial Coin and the order still didnt cleared totally, because of low liquidity. Bitcoin must stay a very liquid market with razor sharp spread to make transactions easier and cheaper.
Yes small business owners are definitely a nr. 1 priority to target. I mean even if you got a barber in a local town, if you can make him accept bitcoin, it can suddenly become trendy in the 20 year old community and many people will visit him.
We got a small restaurant in our town who accepts bitcoin, and i talked with the owner and he said that the number of customers doubled since he started accepting bitcoin,
so its definitely free advertising and a sign of innovation of that business that all entepreneours should consider (both small and large)Otherwise you are doing a wonderful job, keep up the good work. We all help as much as we can.
I run Bitcoin nodes.
Wow thats also nice, i got the blockchain aswell on my PC, but i dont keep it open only when i do a transaction.
I mean it's not necessary that everyone runs a node. I think it's enough if 10-20% of the community volunteer with running services like blogs, link lists, nodes etc.