How To Increase Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Adoption & Usage Rate By 10,000% In 1 (One!) Day

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3 years ago

Yes, I am serious. No complex software development required. No investments needed. Very fast implementation possible. Bonus: the BCH price will increase too.

Meet Joe. Joe is a devoted user of Bitcoin Cash for many years.

Joe loves BCH. He tips small amounts in Bitcoin Cash over the web & offline, occasionally buys something from the rare vendors & bars who accept Bitcoin Cash in his town.

He also sends some BCH to his girlfriend Natasha - to motivate and convince her as Natasha is still quite skeptical about cryptocurrencies usage in the everyday life.

Joe believes in Bitcoin Cash because of its decentralized nature, privacy protection & low fees. He is sure that sometimes in the future BCH and other cryptocurrencies will surpass traditional (fiat) banknotes & coins.

Meanwhile, Joe`s problem is the present. While he is successful with investing into and holding BCH - so his Bitcoin Cash holdings worth is constantly growing - every time he wants to use his funds to buy something like a new laptop or a pair of sneakers, he needs to:

- exchange Bitcoin Cash for fiat currency;
- withdraw the close-to-exact amount he needs for this particular purchase;
- pay to a vendor;
- exchange the rest of fiat money back into Bitcoin Cash, to make his funds working again.

At every step, Joe spends his time and still a distinct amount of nerves. In most cases, he needs to pay a provision (fee) for exchanging crypto to fiat and then reverse. Furthermore, if the price of goods or services he is buying unexpectedly goes up, or Joe wants to buy some complimentary stuff, he needs to repeat the exchanging process, urgently.

Definitely, Joe is unhappy with that.

This is Natasha. She is Joe`s girlfriend. Despite all Joe’s efforts, Natasha is still skeptical on Bitcoin Cash - for the reason.

When she goes to a local supermarket, she can’t pay for groceries with Bitcoin Cash.

When she eats in a small restaurant near her office, she can’t use BCH coins Joe sent her as well.

Natasha can’t refuel the car at the gas station with Bitcoin Cash.

She knows that Joe made pretty good money on buying, holding, and then selling Bitcoin Cash. But she sincerely thinks that as an instrument of payments - not investments! - Bitcoin Cash is pretty unusable at the moment.

This is David.

David is a Bitcoin Cash hater. Sometimes he posts on Twitter comments like this:

Do not be like David. Be like Joe :).

While he is too rude and aggressive in his statement, David’s opinion has some background. The cryptocurrency he loves with all his heart (see David’s Twitter nickname) is currently more popular than BCH, despite enormously high transaction fees and the fact it’s not a cryptoCURRENCY at all. It’s a cryptoUTILITY or a cryptoSTOCK - not a currency.

But what if we could solve Joe’s & Natasha’s problems with using Bitcoin Cash as a payment tool - and do it fast, with virtually no investments?

What if we could change David’s opinion - with one simple action?

What if you could pay with your Bitcoin Cash in a nearby supermarket, cafe, or barbershop - tomorrow?

What if the price of BCH rises, maybe significantly - as a result of one simple action we did to instantly increase Bitcoin Cash consumer & merchant adoption rate by 10,000%?

You say - IMPOSSIBLE.

I say - realistic, and even quite easy.

This is the instant solution I am talking about:

While this one is a Binance Visa card, there are several similar products available on the crypto market now from other exchanges or services (like Crypto.com etc.).

This card is connected to a Card Wallet of your Binance account - a separate wallet (or wallets of several cryptos - to be precise) where you should move to a part of your crypto funds that you want to be available for card transactions.

Whenever you pay for your lunch, shopping, or taxi drive - your card is billed in fiat currency, at the same time Binance (or another service provider you use) automatically exchanges your crypto into the exact USD, EUR, or whatever currency amount needed to fund the transaction.

The fees and rates with Binance Card in the process of billing & conversion are low & fair - checked many times by the author. Hope other companies maintain the same approach.

So - Joe can use his crypto holdings to buy a new laptop.

So - Natasha can spend BCH to buy meat and vegetables.

So - David can admit that he was wrong, and Bitcoin Cash is not that useless in terms of everyday usage as a payment tool.

Sounds excellent… So where is the problem?

The answer is obvious: Binance does not have a BCH wallet among available card wallets!

It is strange to say at least - as they basically have wallets in BTC (store of value), ETH (stock & utility), BNB (utility), BUSD (stablecoin), EUR (fiat), and SXP (what the hell is it)? So there are no CURRENCIES among cryptos available to connect with Binance Visa Card.

As far as I know, the same situation appears with other wallet-card providers. So to use this feature, I need to sell my BCH, buy something else (BNB in my case) - and hold it in the Card Wallet until I spend it. It is completely OK for me to hold BNB, especially while its price increases every week. But as a Bitcoin Cash proponent (and a little bit more - promise to discover it soon), I would prefer to hold BCH instead.

Imagine if we can change this as well. So instead of selling BCH for BNB, let holders of UNI, SUSHI, AVA, and other tokens buy BCH and hold it in their Card wallets.

This would create additional demand for BCH coins on the major exchanges. The higher demand, the higher price.

All we need is - to convince Binance to add a Bitcoin Cash wallet as one of the Card wallets they maintain.

How to do this? The first way is decentralized: we can all write to their support asking for the matter. I doubt that it will work.

Or we can tweet to @cz_binance hoping he will read (he actually may) and solve the issue.

Or we can opt for a more “centralized” way - so somebody from Bitcoin Cash business development team contacts Binance and other exchanges to convince them. But does this person (Bitcoin Cash BizDev) exist at all?

I honestly do not know how to implement this feature - adding Bitcoin Cash wallet as one of the Card wallets at Binance and other exchanges.

What I definitely know that, if implemented, it will be one of the easiest and the most effective Bitcoin Cash updates - in terms of adoption & usage - possible at the moment.

And it will give a healthy boost to the BCH price.

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1 year ago

BCH Chop index indicates a strong move is ready

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3 years ago

Nice 👍

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3 years ago

I am just beginning in crypto but I don't like that Binance have an exchange and also a coin. It is pretty clear that they do it to make more money and they know their game, good for them. Actually the place is not so user firendly so you really need to know what you are doing. I prefer some other smaller exchanges in Latin America. Maybe I will change my opinion in the future when I understand more this crypto world

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3 years ago

Binance is easy as an exchange. The problem comes for a beginner when starts trading as usually most beginners don't know how to trade correctly. Use the spot exchange only and no derivatives like futures.

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3 years ago

Coinbase and bitpay cards already do this. Fuck binance, they hate BCH. Stop using their services if you can.

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3 years ago

I'd rather not give my business to binance. I'm waiting for the Bitpay, Nexo or Crypto.com card to arrive to my country, whichever arrives first will have my business, as long as fees are cheap. Binance is openly hostile to BCH.

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3 years ago

I tried Crypto.com app, it is totally horrible. Unusable, slow, expensive... Will try Nexo & Bitpay - thanks for advice!

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3 years ago

I get your point but it seems paradoxical that Joe, who likes his privacy & decentralization (you say it in the beginning), would actually use the Binance Card which requires KYC and is managed by a centralized party.

And if we go that route, we could also talk about the biggest crypto card provider right now which is Crypto.com and their token, why would they add a currency when they have their own and are preparing their mainnet launch?

Again, I understand where you're coming from but unless someone finds a way to make an actual BCH card, I don't see cards being the main adoption point. I would bet more on network effect combined with the need for a reliable currency.

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3 years ago

Well, Joe (probably) has a mix of KYC-ed and private wallets and accounts.

There is no sense to stay completely anonymous if you book plane tickets or hotel as you anyway need to show your passport on boarding / arrive. The same is with small casual payments - who really cares that you have $100 in crypto for miscellaneous purchases like coffee, snacks, gas etc.?

Furthermore, I doubt that issuing decentralized debit card is possible at all. So if you want to use this product, you need to accept some level of centralization. But you are not obliged to do it in full.

Binance also has several own tokens, but they allow BTC, ETH etc. to be at the Wallet zone. Even if we say about Crypto.com, you can see that they feature Binance BNB above their own token in the app. So they actually offer BNB first, CRO second. Why so, where is the logic - ask them, not me.

As for a private-labeled BCH card - yes, I`d also have the one, especially if fees are reasonable. At the same time, for growth of the BCH ecosystem it is more useful to penetrate into external exchanges Wallet lists as we attract new BCH buyers & holders with almost no efforts.

Cards are a kind of hybrid way of BCH adoption. But they work and work fast. In this article, Joe and Natasha still de-jure pay in fiat currency, just using their BCH balances for fast exchange at the moment of transaction. At the same time - de-facto those are crypto payments, as they will see their balances changing in BCH, they save money in crypto, transfer to each other in crypto outside of traditional banking system or fiat cash etc.

Thanks for good comment!

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3 years ago

I thought that the Binance card was giving the option to select which cryptocurrencies you wanted to use for your purchases. This is very bad if it is true and Binance should give this option. Thanks for letting us know about that. How is it with Coinbase though? I don't use any kind of crypto cards and feel that exchanges should be more careful and give the option for all of the cryptocurrencies they handle to be used for their card schemes.

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3 years ago

With Binance you can choose - but only from the list of 6 wallets: BNB, BTC, BUSD, EUR (fiat), ETH, SXP.

As far as I know, Coinbase does not have it is own banking card. At the same time, you can withdraw to PayPal, and then instantly withdraw from PayPal to a card you connect with your PayPal account. But Coinbase is too expensive as for my taste.

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3 years ago

Thanks for the info. Coinbase had a debit card before Binance released theirs. https://www.coinbase.com/card

I checked again after reading your post and found that Coinbase card is using BCH for payments. "You can use one of nine wallets — BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH, XRP, BAT, REP, ZRX, or XLM — to make payment." https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/trading-and-funding/other/coinbase-card-faq

In fact I would recomment Coinbase over Binance for many reasons as an exchange and a card provider. However, I don't use crypto cards currently but prefer the bank cards for various reasons. I don't like messing with my investment, unless perhaps one day I go all in and abandon the banks completely.

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3 years ago

Very nice post bro.

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3 years ago

Technically I am sis, but thanks!

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