sometimes in media show only negative news about bitcoin and people tend to believe in the news. because people dont know bitcoin and the people who heard of it dont trust bitcoin. I think with a great promotion will make people curious with bitcoin and began to find out about it
I don't think to promoting bitcoin in any way is a good idea
It's like promoting USD or euro to everyone to use it, pretty strange isn't it?
To attract people to start using and get their first bitcoin is just to show off to the world how benefical bitcoin it is
And it's required a lot of time to reach that moment.
It is nothing like promoting USD or euro. They are currencies, with nationality.
Promoting Bitcoin is not a bad idea but the way it has to be promoted should be done very carefully. Rather than promoting Bitcoin, if merchants start using it as a payment gateway then it will be automatically get popularized and people will try to know about it and start using it.
What you said is the real perfect way of promoting Bitcoin to the endusers as if the merchants start using bitcoins as payment gateway automatically the user have to automatically take a look in bitcoin technology as he also wanted to know the bitcoin and use it to buy the goods from the merchant.
so like this way you can see more users coming to the bitcoin technology and like this we can advertise about bitcoin and its benefits