Quote from: harizen on October 27, 2015, 05:33:22 PM

Quote from: thejaytiesto on October 27, 2015, 03:34:20 PM

So my friend was in Canada and it was really cold, none of his friends had change, he had some Bitcoin in his phone. Happened to find a place where they would accept BTC. He bought some coffees and warm chocolate and invited all of his friends with it. A quick payment into the guy's Bitcoin address which was printed in a piece of paper, delivered a nice breakfast for him and all his friends. Then they understood how Bitcoin is money no matter what others might say. They stopped seeing it as some geek weird thing. I think using Bitcoin in real life in return of some useful service in front of clueless guys that still think it's not real money, is a great way to teach them how Bitcoin is very real and the real party hasn't even begun yet. Thats why we must never forget about the importance of small transactions like those. Buying some coffee in exchange of Bitcoin impressed them more than any of the revolutionary protocol tech stuff you could explain them.

Quote from: Kprawn on October 27, 2015, 05:14:28 PM

I had the same experience on a lunch appointment with some clients. I took them out for lunch and I paid with Bitcoin. They were very amazed and intrigued and we extended the

lunch to talk about Bitcoin. I helped them to setup a wallet and transferred some coins to them and to thank me, they paid with Bitcoin for some desert.

Out of the three of them, two still use their wallet regularly. { I still have their Bitcoin addresses, because I transferred coins to their wallets, so I can check up on them } Grin

Im really amazed with both of your story. What a nice place there. Directly accepting bitcoin in some of your physical stores there just like how fiat is moving. Hope someday my country will have that too. Even bitcoin debit card are not accepted here afaik. The only good thing here there are lots of online merchants here accepting bitcoin and converting our btc's to fiat is just one click away. Hope physical store here are will adopt bitcoin payment too.

Merchants will not start accepting Bitcoin if people do not ask for it. The problem is... people will not ask for it, if they do not know about it. It is our task to educate them and

to get them to buy some. I also saw this predicament and decided to concentrate on individual people at first, but it went to slowly. I then mastered the art to demonstrate

Bitcoin to people in small groups.. I now take on small groups of between 5 to 10 people at a time and I have a +/- 50 to 60% success rating. It makes it easier if they are in a

informal setting like a bar or a pub. Wink