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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @3a42879d5f 25 Jul \ on: Bitcoin Brick & Mortar bitcoin
I think about this a lot, but don't have the capital to do anything with the idea. My three Bitcoin brick and mortar ideas are
- Makerspace (3d printers, laser cutters, etc. Memberships paid in sats)
- Bitcoin coworking space (Rentable desks, chairs, good Wi-Fi and printers)
- Retro games bar (Nintendo, Playstation, MS-DOS, Win95 games, junk food)
Memberships would be paid in sats, Makerspace and Coworking spaces could have Lightning Network smart locks. Bitcoin meetups on the weekend and training events in the evenings. Retro bar food and drink paid in sats, etc.
How to get people to actually pay in sats? Just copy Zaprite's model and offer steep discounts for doing so. Put a BTM in the entryway. Or make it the only option. Most people entering arcades are already trained to use the Arcade's NFC cards. There's gotta be a way to setup a pre-loaded Satscard for nearly the same experience.
I love the makerspace idea. But in my area, there's a publicly funded makerspace (it's part of a university), that would probably make a private version hard to sell.
For all these ideas - I think you'd need to be in a large city. It seems like those are the only ones where bitcoin businesses exist - like in Berlin, New York. There's got to be enough people who are into bitcoin to make it work.
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