Interesting thread. Honestly I've never ever seen a "bitcoin accepted" sign anywhere in the Philippines.
Any list of shops accepting btc payments in Manila?
EDIT
I clicked on some of the links in the OP and almost all of them are associated with promotion of scammy coins such as xrp, bch, steem, "yolocoin" whatever that is.
SAD!
I think sinama nila ang XRP sa payment kasi sobrang liit nga naman talaga ang fee nito kung sa ibang wallet manggagaling ang XRP ng customer at hindi sa coins.ph. Pero agree ako na sana hindi na nila sinama ang BCH kasi hindi ganoon ka gaan ang fee at at kung sa coins.ph naman ang trasaction ay wala itong fee kaya pwedeng-pwede ang Bitcoin. Malay natin, hindi nila alam na pump and dump pala ito.
I have a negative opinion on XRP. But, even if I put that aside, we cannot argue that XRP is a highly volatile speculative asset. Now why would you push this rubbish to hard working shop owners who have possibly poor understanding of cryptos? This is irresponsible and counterproductive, it furthers increases the divide in the country between us crypto people and the 99..9% of the rest who understands jackshit of it all and is very susceptible to jump to conclusions like "crypto is a scam". Wouldn't argue with that if what they refer to are XRP BCH and yolochain.