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After having a fully working #Lightning setup now - and it DEFINITIVELY works! <3 - I think it's time I move to the next phase of the coin-game.

Learn how to buy something with BTC or sats.

My ultimative project is still to pay for a McDonnalds cheeseburger here in germany with crypto - be it BTC or sats - and I am getting rapidly closer to it.

The reason why I do this? Right now, all my friends think that #Bitcoin is just gambling; trading back and forth, trying to make a profit. Which, to be fair, is something people do. But I want to find out how, and then actually do it, to buy something in real life, with digital money. You could call it my "Project: Crypto-Burger". x)

I heared there are credit cards that can be charged with crypto and then be spent. But, having my own node, I wonder if there is a better way to do so. However, I will keep an emphasis on self-sovereignity; with the idea that if I no longer want anything to do with this, I can just "rm -rf allofit" and be gone. x)

So yeah, thats my future plan. To buy a burger! =)

Also kudos to those who saw my lightning instance's description. (: I do like me a burger once in a while.

Troy 2y ago

Instead of McDonald's, (which probably already holds BTC in their portfolio), you might find it better in the long run to flip a local business to accepting BTC.

The local business owner will increase their stability, and might draw in more customers. Not to mention that they're not trying to poison you like McDonald's is. Overall, this will help your local economy and your neighbors.

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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

Bitcoin has a very stinky stigma here in germany unfortunately. Plus, most of the good burger shops here are ran by people who barely speak german in the first place. So trying to explain Bitcoin to them in this circumstance is ... difficult. o.o; That is why I need to find something like a "side channel" - i.e.: have something like a credit card that pulls from a bitcoin reserve to do the payment in fiat.

And, why McDonnalds? Its a low price and I pass by one every day I ride a train x) I am not a fan of their food (if you can really call it that) myself, but it's something to munch on while you wait at the platform or count stations o.o

Thanks for your input though! ^^ If I do spot an opportunity, I might just take it. But, knowing the people here, I'll have to play the waiting game... Good thing I am incredibly patient. :)

Troy 2y ago

Maybe the best move for now is just to gently educate those around you. Wait until they bring up the subject of money, or economy. Almost any complaint they have about the money they are using now can be solved by Bitcoin.

Give them one benefit of Bitcoin, not a waterfall of facts. Choose one that solves their complaint. After that, see if they ask about it more.

If they reply with, "I don't want my money in something that can disappear when the Internet/electricity is shut off.", then drop the subject of Bitcoin until later. When they reply with something like that, I like to ask them what their plan is if the Internet (or electricity) disappears, and listen for good advice. I might later bring up that fiat doesn't work so well in that situation either.

Sooner or later you will find people that resonate with the benefits. Be their guide!