Understood.
I think I understand my next role within the Bitcoin community.
Many coincidental coincidences have been pointing me in the direction of working within Bitcoin merchant adoption.
I think this is the role I am adopting.
Bitcoin changes you, you don't change Bitcoin.
That's great, Mike. I'm a merchant trying to adopt Bitcoin; for example, I'm in the process of integrating BTC payserver to my website. I'm keen to make it easy (and cheaper) for my customers to pay with BTC, and I'm happy with lightning payments too.
Great to hear.
I’ve written my first article on Bitcoin Merchant Services here:
https://habla.news/u/mhardcastle@nostrplebs.com/1739282482577
Let me know how it reads, it would be great to get some feedback.
I shall do so straight after work. Cheers, Mike
It reads very clearly and outlines all the options. Cheers, Mike. I'm going for the 'Self Build', although 'self' not as in myself, but as in someone else (my brother). He has a node and he wants to get it set up, so he's helping me. I think the node is the easier part (even I had an Umbrel node a few years ago!). Our main task now is getting BTC payserver integrated onto the website. Something about clearnet and tor bridges and many other things I know nothing about. I'm relying on my brother for the most part 😃
Umbrel has cloudflare tunnels as an app, something that may help your brother 👍
Very interesting info - thanks! I will tell him tonight. Just heading out for a few beers with him
Mike, I can confirm Jon will be using cloudflare, but with raspberry blitz. Really appreciate your help with this. I'm dreading getting my Thinkific website integrated with btc payserver. I think i need to use something called zapier, but I havent the foggiest
Ironically, Zapier have Zaps, but it's nothing to do with Bitcoin or Lightning 😂
One step at a time, it'll be fine. Backups and redundancy are the main considerations with self hosting.
Good luck 🤞
I went to the farmers market this weekend and I ended up getting my second vendor interested. I just ask every vendor whose products I like if they accept Bitcoin. If they say no, I say “It’s great, you should try it. It doesn’t lose value over time like government printed money. Want me to show you how easy it is?” Then show them the send and receive screen on your Lightning wallet. It immediately makes it real.
That will either spawn further conversation and an opportunity to show them how to set up a wallet, or quickly qualify the person as disinterested. At the very least it’s another touch point in their life, of the handful it takes for someone to dive down the rabbit hole on their own.
Farmers markets or small Mom and Pops seem to be the best for obvious reasons, since you are more likely to be speaking with the decision maker.
For other businesses, the Bitcoin on-boarding pack from Bitcoin rocks is really great too.
According to advertising doctrine, it takes 7 mentions for somebody to consider a new product or service.
Regularly mentioning Bitcoin to these farmers will allow them time to consider it independently until your next visit, so if they don’t say yes first few times, it’s worthwhile persisting.
You should speak to the guys at nostr:npub1musqetp57matzsjcwd2y7tvxe59h85v74pqasnqxk7fhpwazzjpseyv5kr 🫡
We are emailing.
