I just spent over an hour with my accountant here in Italy and we spent 90% of the time talking about Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr. 😂
He's pumped about the idea of getting more local businesses using Lightning payments.
What's the easiest lightning PoS set up for local, brick & mortar type businesses these days?
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We're just launching our own PoS based on LNBits.
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Tell me more! Separate hardware device or phone based? And how are you thinking about nodes/channels. Fully managed?
Web-based, although there is a cool little hardware device you can get for about €20.
Custodial lightning, but we'll be pushing for self custody through automated sweeps on-chain or real-time forwards to a non-custodial lightning address.
We manage our own node and liquidity.
No fiat off-ramp. Hiping to encourage P-2-P trading with local plebs if merchants need fiat for some reason.
I'll put a blog post together to explain more, but that's basically it.
That's awesome! :)
My local barbers are interested in Ln
I guess absolute grass roots, barber can set up WoS or preferably non custodial
And start receiving payments right away
Declare the income as normal
Yeah – direct with a wallet is one way but I think the reality is that most vendors are pretty low-tech and would need lots of support.
E.g. the problem isn't getting people set up with a Lightning wallet, it's more about how they integrate LN into their business in a way that feels easy.
We need to expand Bitcoin payment in Italy
