- The most important of all: USE Bitcoin. If there are services you regularly use and there is a business offering it for Bitcoin for a reasonable price: Give it a chance!
- Are you a freelancer? Accept Bitcoin for at least some of your work.
- Even better: Try to offer a stable, guaranteed Bitcoin price for at least a day. That can bring even more stability into the market.
- Or accept Lightning for micropayments, at least for a limited volume per day.
- Are you employed, but your boss is open-minded and a geek? Offer him to pay a part of your salary in Bitcoin. (I would not take my whole salary, it's still too unstable, above all if you have a family.)
- Do remittances directly with Bitcoin ore with Bitcoin-accepting services.
- Lightning: Help with beta-testing! Lightning is one of the most interesting technologies if we want to see mass adoption. The more users testing and finally using it, the better!
- Test and discuss alternative scaling solutions, like sidechains or similar concepts.
- Become a Bitcoin/blockchain developer. The Core client may be a bit difficult to start with, but there are a lot of services that already are waiting for someone to write and/or improve it. The more devs, the better.
Dude.. All these don't help to stop the bear market. This is just forcing users to adopt more into bitcoin, and these have tiny to almost no effect on the market. In reality, the bear market is in such state only because of a boring first 8 months of this year. There's nothing much really happen, I swear if you talk about ETF, I'll pin you down. ETF is shit and has only the market conditions worse because people are so into it.
Lightning network hasn't got off to a great start, what we need is some really good news, or something that would actually inspire the community.