Weird fun things and big acts of kindness. Basically frolic around society playing chess and giving help where I can.

Two false dichotomy’s, nice

I am optimistically envisioning an MMORPG where the gold dropped in game is real bitcoin. Interesting times ahead!

I worked for a commercial dive company for a while, and we ended up landing a government contract to install a plug in a pool on a military base so that another contracted company could change the pump. Because it was a gov. contract, the gov. dictated our wages. The state wage for commercial diver was $84 an hour and that is what the contract mandated our company to pay us. So after set up, drive, set up, dive, break down, drive, break down we got 6 hours at $84 twice. One for a 5 minute wooden plug install and One for the removal the next day.

edit: There were definitely post work beers those days.

Not very optimistic of you!

Im so excited to try one of these. It’s funny, I don’t like flying or roller coasters because I do not like a man made machine hurling me through the air, but getting in one of these I have zero apprehension. Perhaps fear of heights is the real issue here.

Thank you for your time and effort, Peter.

In that case the list of reasons for an Austin trip has expanded. I’ve gotta get there! I want to play poker at The Lodge, spend a bunch of sats, take a Waymo, eat a huge plate of bbq, and now see the studio !

Well can I give you sats for some?

I’ll go for the beanie forsure. Also I think stickers would be great. Some with QR codes and some not.

I like this guy he seems to want to stay as raw as possible.

It will be faster than we think. There’s lots of talk about the bitcoiner, and the oncoming ones, not spending because why spend bitcoin. But we will see merchants create that motivation for us/then. As companies Hoover up BTC playing fiat games supply will eventually struggle to keep up. Merchants will want bitcoin andit will then become obvious that they’re going to have to get it from us.

I’ve always thought the best natural tool bitcoin has is human greed. When it becomes too difficult to buy those who can will have laws changed so they can farm bitcoin from us the consumer and then it’s over. Money and science goes into the effort of collecting sats and competition to do so will spread wildly.

Merchant greed will be what brings real big adoption and it’s closer than most realize I think

Find as many merchants as possible near you willing to accept sats and do business with them. Encourage your friends and other business owners to do the same. Strongly gravitate your business to the sat-accepters.

I will send this to my wife. If you never hear from me again . . . it didn't go well. Cool idea but this isn't exactly a nicotine patch here. I worry too that this would enable more than it would correct a bad, unconscious habit.

Chess is too simple for Elon to worry about anyhow. Perhaps his Laissez-faire towards the game has bled into his product.

Thanks. Can you expand a bit on how their consumers can use bitcoin to interact with their business? Do they simply accept sats or is there an advantage to using bitcoin?

As others have said after seeing many of these over the years, hopefully one catches on. Sure only one will!

Is this available for purchase online?

Hey @siggy47 nice post. I'm right there with you in wanting to use a business to proliferate bitcoins use just by encouraging it in a brick and mortar spot. My idea to do this is a bit boring but I think it would be effective.

A laundry mat! It's a nice tried and true business that should be able to run itself quickly. One washer and dryer in the place, the ones with the best lighting, will be rigged up to only accept lighting payments. The how and why will be posted and the price in fiat will be much cheaper than the other machines. Wifi and educational bitcoin material will be available in the sitting/waiting area. As people start to use the lightning-only machine, which would be inevitable but may take time, a second set of washer/dryer is converted to bitcoin only.

eventually you have a nice business, a nice hub for people to learn and use bitcoin, and a nice big step towards the bitcoin world we would all like to see!

Well then you should feel good hearing that BlackRock doesn't control that bitcoin! A good clean world again for you.

Why won't you run a node man?