Do a lot of people still use Yelp? I though that they were slowly but surely losing a lot of customers, especially compared to previous years where they were the top review website.
I've personally never used it & stick with Tripadvisor instead. Don't think that Yelp ever caught on in my country, maybe even Europe in general.

Their online offering suffered when Google lowered their search ranking, in order that people should use google to find things rather than Yelp, along with moving advertising to google.

I think this initiative is much like Overstock's back in the day. Try to find new customers that Google is ignoring.

It's not easy to find merchants that accept crypto on Google - so perhaps going to Yelp and using their filter will become a thing in this community.

I've heard about Yelp, but till this article I wasn't even sure what it was. The idea to make a database of facilities that accept Bitcoin as payment sounds pretty cool to me, though. If it's a worldwide base, I might as well start using Yelp now
I think it's a mutually beneficial move. Yelp will get more users from people interested in cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin will become more adopted, since more people will see it as method of payment.

That's cool, but I don't see the filter yet at their website, is this still a plan and not implemented yet?



Yeah, many people use it. Some store even pays someone to create a positive review there. I mean do Tripadvisor have Auto Service section? No, they don't.

It's not necessarily just mass adoption.

Right now, I'd say that adoption levels for bitcoin as a speculative investment are already quite widespread, while bitcoin's utility as a currency is still yet to be proven. Mass adoption as bitcoin as a medium of exchange and long term store of value is what matters most.

Although it may incentivise more merchants into accepting bitcoin as a payment option to gain more attention, I doubt that this is an initiative that is going to all of a sudden drive people crazy into adopting bitcoin and pay with it, it's not like people who had bitcoin didn't know where to find bitcoin accepting merchants in the first place. Mass adoption is driven by much more than a single company's decisions, though this is obviously welcome one.

We need every country in the world or at least most countries in the world to legalize bitcoin, this is the only efficient way to see mass adoption and if we pay more attention we realize that the years pass but we do not hear some parents legalize bitcoin. The question here is: what can we do to persuade governments to legalize bitcoin.

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we are a long way from seeing mass adoption

I haven't heard enough about Yelp so I did some research about it. So far, I have read positive reviews about it since it's really convenient and efficient to use. If every country would know the importance of bitcoin, I'm sure that people would also choose Yelp as their mode of payment I'm sure that it would reflect the growth and volume of bitcoin in the market.

You say that as if it's something positive... Who wants to use a review website that receives payments to create good reviews...
That's what I meant with shady business practices. Well, also the fact that they receive payments to remove bad reviews.

Haven't heard that about Tripadvisor...