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You simply don't know how good PlebQR is. I've been basically living on Bitcoin for the past couple of weeks and purchasing food, drinks, clothes, tickets with the sats I earn by shitposting on Nostr.

PlebQR is an unstoppable peer-to-peer Bitcoin to fiat on and off-ramp. Every Bitcoiner deserves to have this. Read on and maybe it'll inspire you to create something similar for your region too.

In Thailand, like in many other places in the world, especially in Asia, the most common digital payment methods aren't credit cards, they're QR codes. All sorts of QR codes from many different fiat payment providers. Shitty ones, good ones, it doesn't matter. As long as it's a QR code, it'll work for us.

Here's where PlebQR comes in. PlebQR is what I would call a Let-me-pay-for-you app. It matches you, the person who wants to pay for a drink with Bitcoin, with a random stranger on the internet who wants your Bitcoin and pay your fiat QR bill in return!

The UX is straightforward: You scan the QR code at the store, pay a Lightning invoice, and wait for the payment. No sign up needed and with incredible privacy.

It works best when you're not in a hurry and when there isn't a line of people waiting behind you. Those cases are surprisingly common, think restaurant bill, or at the flea market. Right now, it usually takes a minute or two for the payment to clear but it'll get faster as more people use it.

The best part though isn't that it just enables Bitcoin payments for basically everything and everywhere. It's that it represents a different, more natural form of decentralized trading that can't be stopped, and that isn't about buying and selling Bitcoin, but about spending it.

I wish you could try it out some time.

Pure magic Internet money ✨
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BitBlik 3d ago

nostr:npub1k3g092rlzvn7nftz3jte9pkx63zp705nh78r6hjpjm55fjg7r2cqx8stj3 was created exactly to achieve the same "basically living on Bitcoin" dream here in Poland.

Besides the p2p, privacy and unstop-ability aspect of it - which is cypherpunk AF - it also gives people wanting to live on Bitcoin an important advantage of being able to exchange your bitcoin for tangible things that you can feel you actually "own" and now in your hand like groceries, meal at a restaurant that you just consumed, or even cash from an ATM.

Unlike when using exchanges (even decentralized non-kyc like robosats, hodlhodl and others), you still mostly need to receive the fiat in some sort of bank account or fintech app thingy, which opens the possibility of being scammed by people asking platforms like revolut/wise for charge back.

In such cases usually those platforms require you to prove that the fiat origin was for a legal trade of some sort, you might have difficulties in proving that the anonymous trade of your bitcoin is in fact your identity, since they operate in a KYC, centralized, proof-of-identity world.

This basically means that you sent your bitcoin but you now hold "fiat" which is not in your actual possession, and you need someone's permission to use/spend it.

Spending your bitcoin in things or services that you already have consumed or hold in your hand is such a powerful feeling, you rather cannot be rug pulled in this way, and with that comes a feeling of freedom and sovereignty.

Another nice aspect of it is that now you have a much better answer when your normie friends come at you with the argument against bitcoin: "But you cannot spend it practically anywhere".

Here's a quick summary of the amount of places in Poland you can now spend your Bitcoin anonymously/privately and non-KYC, so shut the fuck up!

Now the issue is not finding places where you can spend your bitcoin, but rather: is there enough people wanting to live in a Bitcoin Standard and wanting to spend their bitcoin?

Demand for non-KYC bitcoin is here and will only probably increase in near-term because of more regulation and control.

nostr:npub1k3g092rlzvn7nftz3jte9pkx63zp705nh78r6hjpjm55fjg7r2cqx8stj3 fills this demand, but we need more people wanting to actually spend their bitcoin and creating more offers in tools like nostr:npub1l8ktdyyhwxh4ty5cf48tl72g8ra286nr9klmvqznvk3aqyjkucgsem97q9, nostr:npub1k3g092rlzvn7nftz3jte9pkx63zp705nh78r6hjpjm55fjg7r2cqx8stj3 and others.

Remember:

If you don't want to spend your bitcoin, you still have too much fiat.

#bitcoin #everyday #money

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JesterHodl 3d ago

As a user of both making and taking trade offers I can attest that BitBlik does work as advertised. BLIK is basically everywhere and that makes living on Bitcoin Standard a breeze.

And BLIK as a payment rail is expanding to EURO countries.

Shhh, but this combo may be massive 🤞

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dbdee246... 2d ago

can you make a video a show us how its working??

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JesterHodl 2d ago

I suppose I could. Are you in Poland and would use it with PLN, or just curious/researching?

I demoed it yesterday even. But let me check first with nostr:npub1g5rwqnjtwpuuuplr36v82eu2sxkn8fzkc6tdwz8036dzmrqkhgzqm6qq0t: do you have a bitblik demo recorded?

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JeffG 2d ago

Anyone working on doing the same with satispay here in Italy?

https://www.satispay.com

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techjunkie 2d ago

Didn’t know this existed but we will be visiting Poland soon now to test it out and spend some sats.

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BitBlik 2d ago

Nice, let me know when you're here, would be cool to meet, maybe during nostr:nprofile1qqsfpncy8ps7tddfjukt0dff5ka8rvs46mg7x9x8f824ymkpx0cakucppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs2gc7fn

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techjunkie 2d ago

Ok cool. Is it working already though? Installed it and I cant seem to select a ‘coordinator’

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techjunkie 2d ago

Interesting, it seems to load in the coordinator on an android/osx device but not on an ios device… no matter what browser i try.. same internet connection