We’re actually going to shut down boardwalk in a few months. We’re launching a new wallet shortly with a ton of upgrades and new features. Designed for AI use.
Square did their part, now let’s do ours. For bitcoin to become everyday money, merchants need to accept it. But first, they’ll need a reason to. We've put together the resources to help anyone make the case that only bitcoin can defeat credit card fees: https://bitcoinmerchantcommunity.org
These resources include persuasive leave-behind materials that bitcoiners can bring to local businesses, from subtle, home printer-friendly handouts to bold, attention‑grabbing combo pieces like, uh, a plushie with impeccable penmanship.
But no matter how good a leave-behind is, it’s better with a face. Included with each leave-behind is a playbook for you that includes step‑by‑step guidance for how to make the bitcoin case to merchants.
We hope for this community to be an open and independent group with a simple goal: bitcoin payment adoption among merchants—regardless of which point-of-sale solution they prefer. It’s also where all of the resources we’ve mentioned so far can be found for free.
For now, if you want the plushie combo, you'll have to pick it up at @bitcoinpark_ in Austin and Nashville, @atlbitlab, @SpaceDenver, and @PresidioBitcoin. This might change, though. Who can say? Bitcoin is weird and it’s only getting weirder.
https://blossom.primal.net/436c6dfaf938f3527eb36f5a182f7b1e91ed38242df65cbd2c1b73ad6e291012.mov
Let’s do our part! It’s easy and fun to talk to your local business owners about bitcoin!
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What are the Nostr apps that have integrated a Cashu wallet?
Nostr devs seem skeptical which is a shame because we started zaps but will quickly lose this advantage to other social media and messaging platforms that embrace Cashu.
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Millions trust Signal to keep their conversations private. The same should be true for payments.
Signal deserves a payment experience that’s just as private and instant. Powered by Bitcoin – the native currency of the internet. So we built it.
👉 bitcoinforsignal.org
Sending money to friends should be as easy and private as sending a message.
Our developers imagined what Bitcoin inside Signal could feel like. We integrated Cashu into the iOS and Android Signal apps, delivering a beautiful experience that protects user privacy end to end.
https://blossom.primal.net/dfef93d63c40f8b0ccca59b669ef1ee90455ae839b07dca685a4a8f23cdeb4b3.mp4
Back in 2021, Signal integrated MobileCoin. It stayed niche, speculative, and largely unknown to most users.
As the most widely adopted cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is ideal as the backbone for the new global economy.
#BitcoinForSignal
Using the Cashu protocol, a Chaumian ecash system that provides strong privacy, Signal users can send and receive Bitcoin micropayments instantly.
The Cashu Signal integration doesn't compromise Signal's privacy guarantees. Your messages are private. Your payments should be too.
Cashu is the best experience (by far!) for sending and receiving payments... and its just getting started.
Congrats! So excited for the public launch! 🚀
Are you a Square merchant turning on bitcoin payments?
We've built a new product to help you drive bitcoin payment adoption. I would love to chat with you and show you more! Shoot me a DM.
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🚀 ANNOUNCING: And Other Stuff
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We launched our first collaborative product, Chorus, last week at the Oslo Freedom Forum. Chorus, enables organizers to raise permissionless money for their cause with Facebook-style groups.
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congrats!! "Onboarding & UX" is the biggest unsolved problem in nostr.
we can’t preach the benefits of “taking your network with you” to every app when no one can log into any app.
happy to help any way i can!
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That's the right way to phrase it 🙏 We're still very excited about the end product experience (instant zap splits) and think ecash can help provide a better UX.
Preview links "almost" render correctly on most Nostr clients now which is a nice UX upgrade to long tokens.
I hope so! Appreciate the feedback, wish there were 100 other threads like this, its very helpful.
I think you're underestimating what we're competing with. Coinbase is leaning into their self-custodial wallet (Coinbase wallet), cbBTC and stablecoins as well as payment rails by working with merchant acquires like Stripe. Bitcoin as a payment rail is behind and losing and if we continue down this route then bitcoin will be an asset like gold and no one will use it for payments. At Boardwalk, we don't like this future and don't want it to happen, so we're trying to be at the cutting edge of technology and creativity for bitcoin payments - ecash, NWC, stable value on bitcoin native rails, and much more. So we are designing for bitcoin adoption but we must be competitive with Coinbase and every other payment method or no one will use bitcoin for payments.
We've had 4 people complain so far (but they figured it out without any help) fwiw. Small sample size of course.
Yea that makes sense. I think we're just coming at this from two different user bases. I'm just optimizing for new users that want bitcoin. They have no idea what sats are, just want bitcoin and to see how much its worth in dollars. I never want to explain sats. The new Coinbase user just wants bitcoin, sees bitcoin, sees how much its worth in dollars, easy. The new Boardwalk user just wants bitcoin, sees bitcoin, sees how much its worth in dollars. No sats. I would be surprised if anyone thinks they have 100 million times more than they think. I think its worth openly sharing that data (and I will) and it would be great it other bitcoin companies shared as well cause I think we'd get rid of sats pretty quickly if they did.
Yea sats are onchain, but Coinbase is egregiously marketing cbBTC as "onchain" (which is really an ETH rollup, not onchain bitcoin at all).
So for the new user, they see Coinbase cbBTC (with bitcoin logo) onchain vs "Boardwalk sats". Its just hard to compete with that marketing for a new user. Agreed that maybe its not better to have "Boardwalk Bitcoin", but maybe helps a bit for a new user.
We're gearing up from a product perspective (lots of awesome new stuff coming soon!) to compete directly with Coinbase wallet, so I think of them as the main competition and need to have better marketing so have been working a lot on the comparison for a new user.
Oh oops ha, like emoji 100% for me. I'm really really trying to understand the desire to have sats so this is all extremely helpful. For me its "new" because we have new information (that we didn't have a few years ago when everyone decided to adopt sats) and that is that sats is really confusing for new users and Coinbase (which doesn't use sats) is marketing "onchain bitcoin" and doing way better than everyone else. So we need to adjust.
FWIW on X, two bitcoin wallets today proposed bitcoins instead of sats. 100% think it should be bitcoins.
I get they say "sats" today, but think coming up with a symbol for sats that captures "bitcoin" is really important. There is no "symbol" so why not use the bitcoin symbol (or something that somehow relates to bitcoin). I would bet any of these apps would prefer something other than sats, its so so confusing for new users. To give more context, right now Coinbase is spending millions of dollars trying to go after new users saying they should get "onchain" with cbBTC and the logo they use is the B bitcoin logo. This makes my blood boil, however its extremely good (and of course highly misleading) marketing for a new user. BTC onchain sounds amazing. Should I get bitcoin onchain or sats? What's a sat? I'll take bitcoin onchain since onchain is supposed to be good and when i google SAT crypto price I get some random ordinal token. This is what we're competing against, and we're losing btw, with sats. So I'm trying something new, of course, we'll give you the option to show sats. I'd rather we get rid of sats, but thats hard today, so coming up with a bitcoin related symbol is probably the next best thing we could do.
So no symbol ever? Just seems like a very simple improvement to sats.
I don't think any major wallet has adopted a sats symbol? Please share any wallet you think has done it well!
See thread. “10,000 sats” or “B 0.0001” are worse.
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Turkey came out perfectly 🍽️
Happy Thanksgiving!
oh wow, never saw this before! similar points, but they keep the ₿ at the front, I like it better at the end so its a little different. thx.
Maybe but dollars have a 200 year head start... and you can express both with the $ symbol. why not express both with the ₿ symbol? the issue is the insane number of decimal places in bitcoin, so that is why i used the placement of the ₿ to denote unit.
Thx for the feedback. Yea i hear that too, which is the hurdle i'm trying to overcome with this notation. You can send 100₿ and the user knows its bitcoin and he know he didn't just receive $10m, so he does more research, learns about units and symbols and then buys more.
Or we do a verbal 100m-to-1 split and its just bitcoin.
There will never be more than 2.1 quadrillion bitcoin 😂