nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m have y’all plans to add square terminal locations to nostr:npub1864jglrrhv6alguwql9pqtmd5296nww5dpcewapmmcazk8vq4mks0tt2tq
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We should talk.
Need to automate this given the scale.
How many btcmap locations are there today?
How many square terminals are there?
16,164 as of today.
Id guess there are a lot more square terminals than 16k.
At least in my neck of the woods in the US, nearly every local business is using square. Everyone from the vape store, to the donut shops.
There’s 4 million square merchants in the US.
I imagine we could have a simple toggle to let merchants opt into automatically being added to the map.
Please do.
Just show merchants the response from Steak ‘n Shake.
Suggested business decision maker flow:
If business decision maker opts into keeping some part of payment in sats, then suggest opt-in to publishing of location on btcmap.org, and sending a “btc accepted here” sticker or two.
Yeah, something along these lines.
We need to be highlighting the difference for sure.
Verification of intent difficult though.
nostr:npub1cn670f663n3ks02jnnlsvd5y88zjnefy8343ykaxs7y3nzzketrsrjwt8a does BTCMap have a location attribute for payment processor/wallet (e.g. WOS, BTCPay, BTCJungle etc)?
And having the option to convert directly to fiat, there’s zero reason for a seller not to want to opt in
Reeeeeeeee 😬
Gonna require some thinking. 🤔
By day I’m an enterprise systems integrations programmer, I’d be happy to help out in my free time!
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Yeah, need to think about this carefully as the verification bar is rightly high on OSM.
We have some ideas to streamline this though.
*BTW I'd be curious what happened with the "Square Merchant Directory" from 2012.
It would be great to revive it, make it public, add flags for accepting Bitcoin, Location (physical/online) and let devs to create new discovery methods and channel all the traffic to you and your merchants.
There’s 50 million students whose schools don’t have SatsRewards system built in yet.
let’s make it global
i know how to do it. let’s talk
Shoot them a catchy notification when we hit the next ATH.
Maybe highlight to them an estimate how many young people already own Bitcoin in their area.
It takes another decade.. time to time 😉
Beard Papa will increase their sales by Bitcoin payment.
I have been trying to convince some cash-only vendors I pass by everyday to use Square.
They are extremely resistant.
What am I doing wrong?
Square accepts visa and other fiat payment networks.
Certain small businesses are distrustful of high fees and/or don’t like fiat networks for other reasons.
A possible better bet if you want to pay with sats is to set them up with a wallet that accepts sats. E.g. nostr:npub1kvaln6tm0re4d99q9e4ma788wpvnw0jzkz595cljtfgwhldd75xsj9tkzv nostr:npub1h2qfjpnxau9k7ja9qkf50043xfpfy8j5v60xsqryef64y44puwnq28w8ch nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq phoenix etc.
BTC map is a badly implemented concept that becomes obsolete the moment btc gains any significant (over 5%) adoption among merchants. Square will kill any use for BTC map when this goes into effect. Adding square merchants to BTC map automatically will kill it even harder and make it entirely pointless.
I say this as a square merchant already on BTC map.
Our mission is to become irrelevant.
The faster we can become useless, the better.
There ain't no Dollar Map.
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Hell yeah brother
The humble part at its best.
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Why would I be destroyed when they agreed with me? I appreciate and use their app for what it is: an affinity marketing platform towards bitcoiners. It doesn't do much else and doesn't try to be anything greater. It wouldn't serve anyone to put 4 million square merchants on it. No one using the app is trying to spend their bitcoin at a company that doesn't know what it is and has it automatically sold off and converted to fiat. They want to find other bitcoiners to patronize. Auto adding 4 million square merchants would just turn the app into a square merchant map with no relation to bitcoin.
Doing my part! 🫡
Exactly. That being said, what really needs to happen is a nostr based Google maps competitor that links physical businesses to their nostr profile. That's what's gonna stay after there's no use for a bitcoin map anymore.
If you look at my profile, I opened a PR for a nip to enable just that. Gonna try to rework it at some point into having its own kind, but a google maps alternative with all the businesses on it, directly linked to the businesses social media account would be killer.
Currently most small businesses have a Google account for maps, then an Instagram account for a real social media profile, and usually a doordash + UberEats + grubhub (or amazon + eBay + own website) for online ordering. Its a major PITA to create a menu, then recreate it all on your Google profile, then again for doordash. Likewise, let's say you take a nice pic of a product. You have to upload it to Google and Instagram separately. It would be absolutely amazing to show up on Google maps, then the customer can click on your store, opening up your insta profile. Every client showing the side of your business it wants, but no duplication of the same data type across various apps. That's what can be made with nostr and a universal identity.
Its only half a win if every business accepts bitcoin, but their entire digital footprint is scattered across a bunch of terrible companies taking a cut or farming your customers data and inconveniencing everyone to do so.
Proof-of-Place Attestations fix this. We've started experimenting with these.
Can you link your PR pls?
Good 🤝😉
Way ahead of ya! My nickname is ":Christmas necktie" cuz I am loud and useless!
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