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Sad State of Trying to Spend Sats
505 sats \ 6 comments \ @spiderman 6h bitcoin
So, I read that Travario accepts Satoshis for flight bookings, and was checking their offerings for an upcoming trip.
For the flight of my choice, they are charging me 964, 089 Sats, which British Air (the carrier) website sells for GBP 647. That is, about a 26% mark-up for the privilege of spending my Sats.
Just an example here, but my feeling is, there, just, is not any competition among merchants to get my Sats, hence the few who do accept, enjoy an unreasonable pricing power, and Bitcoiners flock to those merchants keeping them afloat. And if any of those merchants sink, then of course, the industry takes notice as how accepting Bitcoin is not profitable at all. Sees like there is no-win for Bitcoin here.
So, the simple question is, what would it take for the merchant adoption to get to a competitive phase where they compete for Sats and Bitcoiners have more choice to use Sats as money without swallowing huge mark-ups?
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179 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5h
In my opinion, if you are a merchant looking to support bitcoin adoption, your first task is to build a sustainable business, even if it means accepting fiat. That means building a product that people actually want to use. Make sure you have a good product and that you can cover your expenses and be sustainable.
Alongside that, you will accept bitcoin, and you should accept bitcoin at a lower fare than you accept fiat. If your business is sustainable, you should be able to do that. Bitcoin provides some benefits to merchants, including 1) lower transaction fees than credit cards; and 2) no chargebacks from customers. These reasons alone should be enough to let you lower the rate on bitcoin purchases.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @standard_sats 3h
It is not a competition of merchants to get your sats it is no KYC offramp service offering most of the time.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 1h
I think when regulation gets better and the bitcoin wealth effect. As Bitcoiners increase their wealth and demand services to be paid in sats the market will adjust accordingly
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 2h
Travala has a much lower markup
But use lightning (not coinjoin) to avoid shotgun kyc
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 3h
Airlines are about as close to banks and governments as you get and so you are not logically going to get a better deal from them by paying in BTC.
Look at smaller businesses more removed from the fiat debt slavery bankers cartel and its associates.
I have found that when traveling Bitcoin accepting hospitality businesses tend to be above average in quality- especially food outlets.
Remember there is limited profit motive incentive for most businesses to accept bitcoin and in many cases they are actually risking adverse reactions from both their bankers and customers by accepting Bitcoin. Plus any business that asks their accountant how can I go about accepting Bitcoin is likely to get told its more trouble than its worth due to the tax recording requirements.
Just support businesses who accept Bitcoin and offer equal or better service than average- and remember that's very unlikely to be any business closely associated with the banks and governments...like airlines.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 3h
It needs purchase from P2P can't for example earn from stacker news.
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