Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 05:55:41 AM

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on July 12, 2020, 10:57:11 PM

I joined this community 4 years ago, and I don't see more merchants and services accepting Bitcoin, both locally and on the Internet.

Don't take offense to this, but what have you done to increase adoption? Have you spoken to local merchants you use about bitcoin? Have you emailed larger companies expressing your desire to pay in bitcoin? Have you sought out business which accept bitcoin and spent your money with them? I see lots of people lamenting that bitcoin adoption is not more widespread, but I see very few people doing anything about it. Merchants aren't going to start accepting bitcoin unless they know there is a demand for it.

None taken.

When a thing is truly groundbreaking, people quickly adopt it on their own - in the last decade no one asked people to adopt smartphones and social media, everyone did it because they clearly saw the benefits. It didn't happen with Bitcoin, because it has some big downsides, and the benefits aren't clear to average people. Therefore, evangelism can only marginally improve adoption, just like the actual evangelic christians can't convert the rest of the world, no matter how hard they go from door to door.

I even experienced some regression, as Bitcoin services that I used got closed down and no suitable alternative emerged.