Heres what I leaned this month about what merchants can gain in both cash and bitcoin by turning on Square’s new button.

1. If you had a coffee shop, liquor store, and brewery in the same neighborhood, the brewery has the most to gain.

Annual credit card fees:

•    Coffee shop: ~$16K

•    Liquor store: ~$28K

•    Brewery: ~$31K

2. You only need 1% of customers paying Bitcoin in 2026, growing to 4% by 2030, for meaningful accumulation.

3. Square's 50/50 option - half cash, half Bitcoin - means no one's betting their business.

With this approach over 5 years:

- Coffee shop stacks ~0.08 BTC

- Liquor store stacks ~0.15 BTC

- Brewery stacks ~0.21 BTC

4. Breweries can host bitcoin meetups on slow nights - turning Tuesday into a community event.

5. The language you learned bitcoin in - Austrian economics, sound money, freedom money - is foreign to someone trying to make payroll. Let’s not lead with that. (I also explain why I’m not sure the “no chargeback” aspect of bitcoin is a good one to lead with for these businesses).

6. They don't need to understand Bitcoin to benefit from accepting it.

The article below takes about 12 minutes to read.

At the end is a GitHub link with 2-page leave-behinds you can print on card stock for your local coffee shop, brewery, or liquor store. If the merchant gets curious, there's a 20-minute read time document for each type of merchant laying out the full financial case.

Bottom line: even with the 50/50 approach, they end up with more cash on hand AND a nice little stack after five years.

#bitcoin #merchantadoption #circulareconomy

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I’ve written an article about potential untapped value for partnerships between electric utilities and #bitcoin mining operations. In the bitcoin space is #bitcoinmagazine the best place to drop it? I’ve reached out and got a response but haven’t heard back since so they must be busy. So thinking about where else…

Any suggested publications?

I’ve written an article about potential untapped value for partnerships between electric utilities and #bitcoin mining operations. In the bitcoin space is #bitcoinmagazine the best place to drop it? I’ve reached out and got a response but haven’t heard back since so they must be busy. So thinking about where else…

Any suggested publications?

はじめまして、Nostrに降り立ちました。

日本の片隅から「見えない力」と「通貨の真実」に興味ある人間です。

政府も企業も正義とは限らない。

信じるのは、"見えるコード"と"残らない記録"。

#Nostr #NostrJP #裏みおん #Bitcoin #思想の自由

Tonight I made a mistake a newbie would do.

And I've been #scammed in 0.2 seconds.

As per my error I pushed a .env file on GitHub with my #ethereum public key and all my funds have been transferred to another account in 0 time.

I think it's a bot scanning GitHub, looking for idiots like me.

Be paranoid about your safety and your #Bitcoin and #Ethereum.

Limiting off ramps

#Bitcoin #Fiat #Spain #EU #Nostr #decentralize

#bitcoin

The price doesn't go up, your dollar worth less. Study #bitcoin.

#BREAKING: Swan will publish quarterly “Proof of Lawsuits” to increase transparency regarding how many lawsuits they’re involved in.

Anyone use the River app? #bitcoin

Anyone use the River app? #bitcoin

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