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.
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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.