







I love being involved in the bitcoin cash community. I like how the focus is on merchant adoption. Although, I’ve been a meetup leader for bitcoin (BCH) at my college, and have worked on other projects for it, I never felt that I had “earned my wings” until I had on-boarded my first merchant (MoonGoatCoffee). Up till then I had been working on strategies to increase bitcoin adoption. Here are some of them:





Craigslist

A lot of sellers on craigslist are crypto friendly. When you look for an item on CL, there’s a search filter that says ‘cryptocurrency ok’. I’ve actually been able to buy things with BCH on craigslist before because of this. What I’ve found is that these sellers are often just investors/speculators, and when you go to pay, they show you an address from their Biance or Coinbase account. I then encourage them to download a wallet for themselves. I ask what they do for work, and if they’ve ever considered accepting Bitcoin (BCH) for their business.









“Where do you work?”

This is a great question not only to ask a Craigslist seller, but to other crypto enthusiasts as well. Chances are, that you are one because you’re reading this article. So I ask you now: “Where do you work?” If you own your own business, this should be a no-brainier. Just list your business on the marco coino app, localbitcoincash.org, and findbitcoin.cash. If you don’t own the business where you work at, then ask your employer to accept it. If your employer is interested, but needs a fiat gateway, tell them about one of the fiat processors for BCH that are available (I wrote about that in my last article here), or better yet ask about being paid with the bitcoin that the customers pay with. If your employer isn’t interested in accepting BCH, then wear a small lapel or something to let customers know that you take it.

Edit : Here's where you can buy a BCH lapel:

. . . And via openbazaar:

ob://QmWvWhArJS9KYvdAuwMTKMmLtvTgTUYGMAQ2P7SYsiua8R/store/bitcoin-cash-hard-enamel-pin









CoinAtmRadar.com

CoinAtmRadar.com is a website with a with a map of all the bitcoin (BCH/BTC) atm machines. Usually these machines are located in small stores, which are perfect targets to ask when they’ll start taking bitcoin payments. The fact that a place has a bitcoin atm in their store tells you that they at least have a basic understanding about cryptocurrency. I actually asked about this in a store with one of these atms, and the owner told me that they were going to start accepting crypto payments very soon.





Your Business Card

Having a business card ready is useful when you come across a business that is interested in setting up BCH payments, but would like to learn more later. Just make the title something like “blockchain payment solutions”, or “Accept Cryptocurrency at your business” and have your name and contact info on the card. Of course, be sure to get their business card as well. You want to be the one to reach out to them with a follow-up to schedule a consultation. Otherwise, they probably won’t get back to you. I have a card that I use that the Bitcoin Cash Fund designed for me.





“Do you take Bitcoin Cash?”

Never be afraid to ask those 5 words. Think about the worst that could happen. After they tell you no, you just left an image in their mind of Bitcoin being a currency. On the flip-side, I have heard stories of workers being open to the idea, and taking it in their wallets while using their card to pay for the customer.





Tipping

Last, but certainly not least, the Bitcoin Cash tip culture is vital to future adoption. In fact, this is a great to educate others how it works. During an interview I had with Jose the founder of the eatBCH project, he was telling his story of how he got started when some random person on reddit sent his brother a BCH tip, and the rest is history.





Here are some of the many ways to send people tips using bitcoin cash.

- CoinText.io – Send BCH to anyone over SMS.

- Tippr bot – Send BCH to anyone on Reddit & Twitter.

- Paper wallet – cashaddress.org & paperwallet.cash are good for these.





Speaking of tips, I want to say thank you to all those who give me one for this article. It helps motivate me to publish quality articles here on yours.org.





Now go out there, on-board a merchant, and get your wings!







