First purple pilling and then orange pilling looks to be the right approach.
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I love it!
after lightning POS integration, you can provide them with some nice stickers: one big for their storefront, small ones for customers visiting.
While onboarding, you can make use of competition between merchants. "Look merchant A is already using this, you'd better do it as well".
after onboarding a decent amount of merchants, you can visit city officials with some data from a swiss Bitcoin town and El Salvador to show the boost in tourism. They may support you perhaps with some activities or billboards etc.
These are great ideas that I will likely put to use and I appreciate them!!! The only thing when it comes to officials is I’m worried they are gonna give me more hoops to jump through than I already have, which isn’t detrimental, and probably will be necessary at some point, but I was wondering what you would consider a decent amount of merchants to be. So far I only have 3-4 merchants in mind (mostly bc of personal and family relations.) and they happen to be the more successful ones around here, should I wait to get all then go to officials before approaching the businesses that I’m not familiar with, or what are your thoughts?
Going to the city officials might be great if their ideology aligns with Bitcoin and if you can onboard a lot of merchants. It can pave the wave for a headline: "a Bitcoin town". City officials may like this vision or hate it depending on their ideology.