I'm trying to define in my head a problem I see with Bitcoin lightning transactions.

In the stores here that accept Bitcoin, there is a device "Tiankii" POS that is a smartphone integrated with a receipt printer. Small stores just have a Bitcoin wallet on someone's phone.

I don't know how they know which wallet is being used for the charge. It seems like they frequently have to hunt someone down with the wallet on their phone.

I often have this gnawing feeling of "have I paid?" I need some noise or flashing lights or something printed to assure the world Im not stealing this.

While trying to pay for something today, the one device was being shared with someone else's shop. So it was back to cash.

Problem: How to create a POS that is spread across smartphones.

I wonder if receipts could be Nostr Notes that could be zappable. I just want a Nostr note that proves I paid.

Would the store have an NSEC with a bunker key allowing each vendor's phones to be used to ring up receipts? This could integrate commissions easily with the zap sharing.

No more chasing down wait staff with machines to pay if they get a commission on their phone.

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I should know this since i work on databases, but I assume for mom and pop stores a Nostr database would be efficient enough.

However for people without a Nostr client on their phone, it would be hard to pay. Tho most people paying in Bitcoin also probably have a Nostr client.

Actually, rewards programs like Starbucks kinda seems like a specialized Nostr client.

This all just sounds like yet another way to pay.

I'm trying to gamify getting workers incentivized to have wallets on the phones and accept Bitcoin payments. And gamify stores being happy to have a cheap easy POS. And gamify customers installing this ecosystem.

I'm tired of people not having change for $10s and 20s and what the hell, El Salvador is on the bleeding edge of dedollarizing.

Every 3 pack of pupusas sold for 1 dollar instead of Bitcoin is going to be worth 33 cents in Bitcoin terms in just a few months.

People worry about the price of Bitcoin, but we should worry about the price of the dollar. people are selling things for 1 dollar like it was decreed by God.

Yeah, it's happening. Gradually and then suddenly.

I have a nose for the future.

What's happening

The hyperinflation.

#deepsink hype is a clear sign that the print money solution is running out of results.

I forgot there is actually an Oshi rewards app merchants can use although I can't find it on the app store

Pupusa rewards programs ?