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?
The smaller, local ones. Big companies have good products, advertisements and such sure but the masses mostly still stick around those small local ones. And it is actually these types of masses that are most of the time ignorant of crypto, so with the adoption of local shops could potentially influence these buyers, making the community larger than it is now. Ignoring the negative publicity about tobacco, the sign of adoption is still great news and even if it is tobacco shops doing the adoption, small steps right?