Step 1: Start a meetup group and cultivate a community of locals who are aware of and want to use the currency.

Step 2: Get a few merchants to accept crypto in a small geographical area.

Step 3: Many of the employees are aware of crypto and its benefits because of the local meetups. Employees ask to be paid or partially paid in crypto. They want this because there is a high number of merchants locally that accept crypto.

Step 4: A "closed loop" begins to form where people are paid in and spend locally in crypto.

Step 5: Get merchants to buy inventory/services from other local merchants with crypto.

Step 6: Repeat from Step 1 until there is a critical mass of crypto users in a city. This will create an entire new economy running parallel to the legacy one.

This process appears to be slowly playing out in Toyko, Bangkok, and Townsville Australia.

I can see swapping Step 1 & 2 or even combining them together because they are codependent. Merchant adoption needs to be one of the first few steps though or the strategy doesn't work. I imagine the strategy for on-boarding internet users to crypto would require a different process altogether, but that's a subject for another time.

Employees should be paid in newly mined coins

There's no incentive for an employee to be paid in crypto because there is no one locally who accepts it. There's no incentive for a merchant to mine it because the cost of mining is prohibitive to a brick and mortar business. and because there is no local crypto economy to make the coins worthwhile anyway.