Shoe on head! Don't trust, verify!

And finally - I really like the symmetry here.

What type of food is this?

I don't know about you, but to me this ain't Earth.

Are these mushrooms spreading? This was one of my favorite vacations.

And this looks like some chemical reaction going wrong.

Where could this be? Looking like iphone covers...

To bring back some sanity, here are some cool places I found on the satelite/google maps imagery. A thread 🧵

Can you guess the places? I have actually been in more than half of these...

Here's a first one:

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Well, can you post more of the propaganda, so we don't need to install it on our devices?

Welcome 🤗 Are you anywhere close to Uvita?

Welcome! 🤗

While the regulations indeed suck, the other countries have very similar and often worse. I think the main blocker is the mindset of the people and proliferation of very large scale solutions (like Square POSes).

The way how a lot of these communities achieved spread is by default having a solution that turns the bitcoin into fiat for the merchant. In some cases it's just a guy that in the end of the day gives you cash for the bitcoins.

This simplifies a lot of the onboarding problems. The merchant can accept bitcoin, but they get fiat and can optionally (or later) select to get bitcoin. For example in Europe Confirmo is a big provider of this solution that then all the different POSes and e-shops use. In Costa Rica, the Bitcoin Jungle team has one solution to holds the value in fiat (stablesats from Blink) and then also has a direct integration with Sinpe (like Venmo) via Bull Bitcoin.

DRE in the reply below this one...

Yeah, I also keep getting these relay subscription messages. I just ignore them.

And did you talk to the owners? I found that talking to the workers doesn't work. They are not the decision makers.

All it takes is starting it in some local market - farmers market, shops in a smaller village, etc.

The strategy for larger cities is imo different though - there I think it is better to create community of bitcoiners who actively help business to onboard, have engineers, etc - this has been done mainly in Europe and they added thousands of businesses that now accept.

No. Did you get something from me somewhere? Or maybe some scam?

Also what I meant is that there is an illusion of choice and that results in much more people buying the service.

I mean some people may only want to try it for a month first. (I don't know the background about what service is this)

The trick is to offer both $1/mo and $12/yr, so you have an option to choose from.... 😉

Also this is the absolute upper limit for how many people are currently actually owning bitcoin. In reality the number will be like1/500 of that.

UTXOs clearly 😉

The one cool thing I can show (and don't tell that to anyone - super secret) that a local food app in Uvita that works very well will soon be able to accept bitcoin for orders and deliveries. 😉

I'm guessing that was Segura's shop? Uvita is great! Great beaches, great people. My guess is like 30% of places accept bitcoin. It's a bit hot here though, so you need A/C 😅

Coffee at the spot under Bitcoin Jungle office? 😉

Yeah, technically correct.

It runs the previous version of acinq (I think currently Phoenix doesn't use actual Acinq node code).

I do not currently 😥 I don't have a permanent home so can't self host and VPSs are too expensive imo.

This is using Phoenix, which is self custodial, but I'm using their LSP channel.

That is not bad either! 😃 The surprising part at the market is that there are quite bad internet connection conditions. The signal is low and sometimes there's no cell reception at all.

Currently it's the fastest wallet I know about - including the time to open the wallet, scan the code, pay the invoice... 😊

Lightning is FAST!!! ⚡⚡⚡

I went shopping to the local farmers market in Uvita with my Phoenix self custodial wallet.

3 out of 4 payments happened under 1 second!!! No kidding. I think I found a trick 😉

4233 sats: 977ms to get coffee ☕

8827 sats: 732ms to get bread 🥖

10763 sats: 729ms to get veggies and fruits 🍆

58016 sats: 1026ms to get meat 🥩

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