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Serious question:

How can I passively orange pill my entire town? I’ve been looking at used #Bitcoin atms, and plan on approaching locally run businesses with other individuals I have orange pilled/or that are atleast open to the idea.

Honestly I don’t plan on making a huge profit; I plan on setting the businesses up for free and always being a helping hand when it comes to using #Bitcoin with their business/products and optimizing the value they get from using the network.

My dream is to have my hometown become a free 24/7 #Bitcoin convention. We are already a tourist trap!!! I just want more #Bitcoin friends IRL.

I want this process/approach to be well thought out, stress free, and easy for the businesses to adopt. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY INPUT. Not rushing it because I want it to be good. The more minds spitballing the ideas the better.

If this is successful I will definitely use some form of medium to illustrate my approach and how you could implement similar strategies to orange pill your hometown.

I know it’s bound to come to/and is already in metropolitan areas, but I want to see the people I grew up around winning too! NO ONE LEFT BEHIND.

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Sourcenode 2y ago

I'm not sure what your budget is, but clever billboards directed at locals may turn some heads.

Would be interesting if you could do it in a way where nobody knows you're behind it.

₿itcoin 2y ago

Thats basically only paper and a something to hang it on. Cant be expensive right.

Seth Michael Steele 2y ago

This is actually a great idea, I don’t have a big budget, but I do plan on rolling it out in phases to compensate.

I like the idea of trying to make it as little about me and as much about #Bitcoin and the people!

₿itcoin 2y ago

First of all, what interests do you have? Start with providing a service yourself. Once you have your own service, you can easily show others how to do it and how it is usable. Also explain to them the "savings mentality" that older people have for a reason. How it used to be, and how Bitcoin can change it. Also, find Bitcoin partners (there is a logisticks company using Bitcoin for example).

Maybe ask other communities to build stuff and ship it. You would make history by connecting two bitcoin circular economies with eachother.

₿itcoin 2y ago

How big is the town? If its a million citizen town, it probably also requires maybe billboards like #[4] posted.

₿itcoin 2y ago

Also, remember, it can all be parralell. The more people use and understand bitcoin, the more easier it is to get resources and such to boost your own service.

Seth Michael Steele 2y ago

I totally agree!!! I feel like I’m overthinking things and putting myself in an imaginary catch-22.

I just need to get the ball rolling. Your words are priceless!

Seth Michael Steele 2y ago

I went to school to be a web dev, only associate’s, and I’m a 3rd generation carpenter with 4 years experience. I plan on helping them create a website that allows #Bitcoin transactions or updating their current website. Really minimal and cheap. Even free if possible.

Idk how to incorporate carpentry other than offering my services for Bitcoin.

I do know a few of the musicians who are regulars for live music around here. I’ve thought maybe a good Trojan horse would be to have them accept tips in BTC with a little QR code LN Address, but my main problem is idk any Bitcoiners here, so I would have to make my services/maintenance free so that people aren’t deterred from keeping it running while it’s not making much revenue…kinda why I wanna get ATMs to see how many people would actually use them on their own. As you can tell It still needs to be structured, just a whole lot of brainstorming so far.

I DO however appreciate your input!!! 🧡🫡

Decentony⚡ 2y ago

Most of the small businesses usually complain about having few followers on social media, you can introduce nostr as a new opportunity.

They create an account, we zap them. They will warm up to the zaps and lightning network payments. Then comes the Lightning POS for their business.

If you are lucky enough to gather couple multiple nostriches for a meetup in a local cafeteria, that would be great for test driving the integration.

Decentony⚡ 2y ago

First purple pilling and then orange pilling looks to be the right approach.

₿itcoin 2y ago

Yeah nice one

Seth Michael Steele 2y ago

BASED 🫡

I love it!

Decentony⚡ 2y ago

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.

Seth Michael Steele 2y ago

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?

Decentony⚡ 2y ago

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.

₿itcoin 2y ago

Search niche shop operators and show them an oppertunity to grow and keep their wealth. Maybe also ask blockstream to gift some blockstream jades wallets (one of the cheapest) and give them cautionesly to shop owners. Also, you can arrange calls with btcpay.

Seth Michael Steele 2y ago

You are a freaking genius brother! I AM TAKING NOTES ✍️

Bowtied Peasant 2y ago

I would start small - perhaps with the manager of a local coffee shop? Maybe advertise in a local network for volunteers of people who want to get started? There may be more than you think.

However, you need to think about what is in it for them, and how you can help.

I would assist them set up a Lightning Network terminal (e.g. https://bitfurypeach.com, which is specifically designed for business, or BitPay, if transaction sizes are bigger). Explain the benefits of using it, and then ensure that you find them some customers who pay that way - e.g. local blockchain network, student blockchain society, tech groups etc. Put the business on local maps & directories of bitcoin merchants, and explain how this can be free advertising for them. Maybe see if the local newspaper wants to run a story for more publicity?

If it works well, you'll have hundreds of customers who will be intrigued and might want to try it out for themselves, plus a business owner who will talk with other small business owners.

Seth Michael Steele 2y ago

This is very helpful! The town has less than 1,000 people, but we are apparently one of the most festive towns in America. Some of the things you listed don’t exist around here YET. Hopefully I can change that!