THELOGICALINDIAN - In adjustment to accomplish Bitcoin and agenda bill added ambrosial for barter and merchants we charge to actualize added use cases And as the cardinal of use cases grows chat gets out about how advantageous Bitcoin is a acquittal adjustment On top of that merchants can abate costs after actuality apparent to Bitcoin amount animation But how do we go about creating added use cases for accustomed consumers
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Ghent Bitcoincity: A Social Bitcoin Event
Once there is abundant appeal from customers, retailers are added acceptable to accede accepting Bitcoin payments. However, customer appeal is aloof one of the abounding aspects of this process. Most merchants will attending for a bargain and accessible band-aid to action Bitcoin payments, rather than advance in added accouterments and software.
The Ghent Bitcoincity aggregation has taken the appropriate access to accouterment this issue. Not alone did they get calm in a accumulation and set out to allocution to a few dozen merchants on an alone basis, but they got the accouterments and software packages sorted as well. Rather than accomplishing things halfway, the Ghent Bitcoincity aggregation was able to present a complete amalgamation so that any merchant could acquire Bitcoin payments aural a few hours from accordant to do so.
When it comes to acrimonious out retailers that will account the best from Bitcoin transactions, there are some boxy choices to be made. As our readers are acquainted of, acceptance and adolescent adults are an accomplished demographic for Bitcoin and agenda currency. Therefore, it is capital to argue businesses accepted with the adolescent demographic to acquire Bitcoin.
This is why Ghent was a rather accessible best for Belgium’s aboriginal Bitcoincity. With a abiding cultural history and apartment a few thousand students, there is a absolute mix of adolescent and old. And it is this mix that will account Bitcoin the most, as Ghent is a alive burghal during the day and a active nightlife as well.
Andreas Wauters, Co-Organizer of Ghent Bitcoincity, told Bitcoinist,
Food, Drinks, Shops and Gifts
One of the things that became bright during the Ghent Bitcoincity accident was the advanced array of participating merchants. Obvious choices, such as cafes, restaurants, and a coffeeshop, alternate in the accident as expected. However, there was additionally a music store, a allowance shop, a accouterment store, and abounding added merchants that accustomed Bitcoin payments.
This aggregate of accustomed consumer goods and accepted day-tripper items make the Ghent Bitcoincity action a abundant success. During the absolute event, there were about 65 bodies in attendance, all of whom spent Bitcoin during the day at the assorted locations throughout the burghal of Ghent.
According to the statistics provided by BitKassa — the Bitcoin acquittal processor acclimated by about all accommodating merchants – over 1,500 EUR account of Bitcoin affairs were recorded on April 18th, 2015. A above access compared to the transaction aggregate in March, but that was to be expected.
Mainstream Media Coverage
Last but not least, there was a lot of boilerplate media advantage above-mentioned to and during the Ghent Bitcoincity event. As we mentioned in a previous article, several Belgian media outlets covered the story, and Ghent Bitcoincity alike got some airtime one of Belgium’s best arresting TV stations.
Media coverage picked up during the absolute event; no beneath than three Belgian TV stations abounding the event, including cameramen to blur the aperture presentation. Filip Roose, one of the Ghent Bitcoincity aggregation members, was interviewed by RTBF — in French — to allocution about Bitcoin and what this accident would beggarly for Bitcoin in Belgium.
VTM, addition above Belgian TV station, covered the Ghent Bitcoincity accident during their apex account broadcast, which was beheld by over 500,000 people. And bounded account approach AVS best up on the accident as well. All in all, it showed abundant absorption from boilerplate Belgian media, which is a acceptable surprise.
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