What did the merchant use to accept your payment?
Today at the Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood, FL. Walked in for 2mins and saw this stand and the “Bitcoin accepted here” sign put a big smile on my face..😃
Bought two smoothies, paid with nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 connected to my nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct node at home and the transaction routed via my friend K‘s channel we opened, pretty badass that that he is in
Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 and helped me route a payment here in Florida 🌴☀️
Discussion
That was the first question I asked, he was using Blockstream’s green wallet!
Turns out he’s been mining bitcoin since 2016 back home in Mexico, he has a friend that runs the operation and he manages the miners from here.
Also he said I was the second person to ask to pay in bitcoin in the 1 year+ he’s been at that farmers market!
Interesting. I don't know many people using that wallet for lightning. Last I heard was that lightning didn't work well in Blockstream Green.
Doesn’t work at all.
Gonna suck for this merchant if he can only receive 😂
I’ve had sats stuck in nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n since January and nobody there gives a fuck.
Now that you mention it, the pay QR code screen that I paid did not look like the Green wallet I just tried, so it must have been a different one!
I hope so, I got his twitter account so if there are any issues I can contact him!
nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx I’ll be in NYC late a July for a work conference, thinking of making my way to nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h maybe I can recruit some conference attendees to join me one night!
