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Sure. But who is more important to you as a trading partner? Your friend? Or ExxonMobil?
I know who fills up my gas tank
To me, my friend > Exxon, but my trading partners should not matter to you either. It's just an example.
The problem with focusing on existing businesses is that they need to get customers: Exxon may be an important trading partner for you, but do you carry the same importance to them? You're not their peer.
Therefore if you want to make it worth Exxon's time & money to accept Bitcoin, you need to make sure that there are more customers for them that want to pay in Bitcoin than just you. Since Bitcoin is permissionless and optional, making it a mandatory MoE like the failed move in .sv is detrimental. It directly negates Bitcoin's strengths to lobby politicians and governments, and to some extent, big businesses: they aren't your peers. If Bitcoin is to not be government controlled money, adoption must be bottom-up, not top-down, and therefore starting with the low hanging fruit will have the most impact in the long run.
The future is still p2p, but if you really want that, you have to change the world one habit at a time.
Merry Christmas
I sent my friend some sats this morning for a service rendered. Both their oppressive, enslaving and war hungry overlords and mine of the same kind did not have the power to stop this exchange, despite there being oceans and a bunch of hostile states between us.
That's what Bitcoin adoption brings. Since I am not China or Russia, or a petrol peddler, i don't really care about their schemes. Them using it owes zero of my recognition. My own trading partners is what matters to me.
Bitcoin adoption isn't some thing others do. It's what you do.