Agree 100%

A small thing I do at stores is to regularly ask "do you accept bitcoin payments?" Or if it's an online merchant where the payment options at checkout are known I will email them asking if I can pay with bitcoin and give a little pitch about the benefits to merchants and customers. I also recommend that they either use BTCPay or OpenNode, and I explain in basic terms the differences between those. I've converted a couple of merchants this way, then I spend BTC when I shop there in the future to show them the effort was worth it.

The more people who do this -- ask about accepting BTC, educate about the options, then follow through and spend BTC if they convert -- the more merchants will be willing to make the effort to accept BTC. Depending on the checkout system they use, it's not always trivial to accept BTC so it really helps with morale when, after they've put in the effort to do it, they get a consistent stream of BTC business.

#SpendAndReplace