Stop bitching and take some initiative. Asking permission has never worked.
Anyone in Calgary that wants to bootstrap a local Bitcoin circular economy with me, it's happening. Here comes the Saturday SAT market. Help me build it.
FURTHERMORE - even if you aren't local to Calgary, your amplification helps A LOT. It makes sure that people are aware and it also encourages others to do this at home. EVERY TOWN AND CITY NEEDS THIS.
OPA link:
Meetup link:
Heck yeah!
LFG!
This is freaking cool. If vendors have a website, please share as well!
I absolutely will!
The #Bitcoin Parallel Economy is growing at the speed of light. ⚡️
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This looks like an awesome initiative.
I must follow suit...
#bitcoin #agora #freemarket #agorism
Awesome idea! Let's bring the heat Alberta!
🚨 The next 21 plebs who create a "Saturday SAT Market" in their own city and post the event on #OrangePillApp will get 10k sats ⚡️
Here's how:
- post the event link in the replies to this note
- add an LN address to the event
- get 10k sats
LET'S BUILD THIS #BITCOIN PARALLEL ECONOMY 🚀
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I posted this less than 4 hours ago. So far I have merchants lined up to sell:
-beef
-chicken
-lamb
-eggs
-jerkey
-cheese
-soap
-lotions
-gift cards
-3D printed merch
-media a/v services
-plumbing/heating services
-financial advisor
-candy
-art/apparel
WE CAN DO THIS! LFGGGGGG
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What are the most preferred ways to accept bitcoin and lightning for vendors? I’d like have recommendations available for noobs.
My mind is ₿lown
This is how mainstream adoption starts.
Get your local barbers, butchers, bakers, mechanics, plumbers, and others accepting lightning.
Enough of these fringy dumbass applications. Lightning is ready for mainstream IRL currency adoption. Let's do it!
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Would love to do something like this in Chattanooga, too. 🧡
Damn, I've had a bitcoin store up for a couple weeks and haven't had a single sale.
I also am making improvements to the Magic Web Store software so others can do the same and AFAIK, nobody started their own shop.
It appears being a famous vtuber helps in getting people to **actually participate** in the circular economy! 😄 Keep up the good work!
What methods have you used to reach out to locals and other bitcoiners?
I'm in a blockchain club (closest to a bitcoin club that I could find in my town), talked to sellers at the farmers market, posed on social media, told my friends. I make sure I always check the "accepts cryptocurrency" when selling things on Craigslist. Talked to people at my Makerspace
I'm the first to admit that I don't excel at these "social" things. I tend to mention it once to a person and if they don't seem interested, I'm unlikely to bring it up again with them. I don't want to be anoying.
Mostly they don’t see the benefits to them because they have mostly heard bad news from their “trusted” sources.
Probably your best bet is to show them how to get zapped by posting their brand new Lightning address on the Nostr and then checking back with them the next week.
I’m in the same position with my community. But from my experience with marketing I know it takes months to years of repeated touch points for individuals who hear of a product/service/brand/idea to adopt it.
I'll keep trying. Inflation has made the people I know a little more curious about Bitcoin, so that seems like it's helping adoption, even if it doesn't get people in today, they're at least more open to the idea.
Might have to go back to a day job to hold me over though.
I want to do this for my area and others in Korea. 🙌🏾💪🏾
I want to RSVP but I’m going to wait to see if it’s located someplace I can get to.
That's the way. Just do it.
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Can’t make it to Canadistan but check out my buddy’s amazing hot sauce
https://shopstr.store/npub1xsf5h8suhveztq4u5spq5wwvzftqxmglt6vwllxg8z6zrlpqn4yqrulu9v
What nostr app do most people use? plebeian.market
UPDATE:
For the upcoming "Saturday SAT Market" next month in Calgary, we have
21 vendors... beef, sausage, lamb, chicken, eggs, cheese, soap, lotions, gift cards, grains/flour, baked goods, apparel, art, carpentry/renos, solar panels, IT consulting, home heating/plumbing, inuit carvings, life coaching, AV services, a candy store... and a partridge in a pear tree.
JOIN US
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Man if I wasn’t working retarded hours all the time spring summer and fall I’d have the infrastructure set up already to add a Bitcoin element to our weekly farmers market up here in Bonnyville AB. I’ve got a list as long as my arm of projects I need to do aimed at setting up persistent servers for processing and confirming on chain and lightning payments for people up here, and be able to offer plug and play POS solutions to local businesses. Winter should afford me more time to migrate everything from the frustrating half baked setup I started with last winter on Umbrel and get onto Start9 Server at last. That and getting squared away on the wealth of knowledge Wicked has on UTXO management and more of Sessions’ material surrounding multi-sig. So much to learn. So little time.
I am, however, so stoked to learn since joining Nostr that we have such a great bunch of Bitcoiners here in AB. I’ll have to break down and get on OPA to accelerate the process of meeting more of you.
Sounds like you got it all covered. Nothing left but to get it!
Luv It!
Freaking awesome, I am very eager to host similar market in my area.
Great initiative nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8
Willing to learn lessons and hope from this project.
Keep momentum going guys 💪
