When people understand what bitcoin offers, they become less likely to want to spend it at this phase of adoption. Most people haven’t internalized the spend-and-replace philosophy yet.
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Surely. The time will come though.
My goal is to first bring notice, to spark a little curiosity and let it roll from there.
I can’t fully implement btc payments at the restaurant (cause I’m not the owner of the business) but I’m sure as hell that I can help bring Bitcoiners who can orange pill the entire town
for the business owner, including the tax problem, you could maybe have a aintermediary, who pays the part of restaurants bills, equivalent of income that has come threw lightning. And find a way to agree on that legally. Then you have easy enough way for a business to withstand weird payment - adoption. You then have to figure a way to be a sustainable intermediary, who pays someone's bill for being a QR code on tables in the restaurant.
Which is what a company Qerko does:
Haven't tried it, but I use the service often with fiat and it's awesome. And they say they are testing it, so you need to activate the feature. Which is worthless for UX, but still. Don't know the legal perspective.