According to the CoinTelegraph article 5200 Keplerk tobacco shops will start accepting bitcoin payments in form of coupons. I think they not only accept bitcoin payments but also enable customers to buy bitcoin coupons that I think are redeemable but their partner Bitmedia or maybe they are only usable withing their shop network. If anyone here is from France and can share his experience with this I would appreciate.
5200 locations accepting BTC as a payment adoption is huge in my opinion, not only that but it is mentioned in the article that giants like Decathlon and Sephora will start accepting BTC by 2020. What do you think is the quickest way to adoption? Big retailers or small local tobacco or coffee shops which people go to on a daily basis?
Tobacco shops is a good development towards adoption but to be sincere its not enough to the kind of adoption we are looking at. One thing to consider is that several government authorities are against tobacco now in conjunction with environmental and health activist are clamoring for the ban because of the effect on human body and the impact on even people who are secondary users of the product. The right attraction should be the big retailers and local coffee shops because businesses like that cut across boundaries, cultures, believes or philosophy. Talk about the Amazons, McDonald or other supermarket chains all over the world those are the ones that can make real change and adoption.