Let's support Bitcoin merchants! I'd love to hear some of your latest Lightning purchases and interesting products you bought. Feel free to include links to the shops or businesses you bought from.
Who else has a recent purchase they’re excited about? Bonus sats if you found a killer deal! ⚡
If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent and zap on.
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This past week in South Africa:
Those were the interesting/new ones I can remember.
All of the above were powered by MoneyBadger's app which converts the merchants' existing QR codes into Lightning invoices and hands those over to your LN wallet for payment.
That's great! Thank you for sharing. This money badger app is really innovative, remind me of PlebQR #835356 in Thailand, that is p2p though.
It is making it easy to pay with sats, still merchants are continuing to get paid in fiat i assume, as money badger is playing as intermediary. A problem half solved is already great progress!
I too strongly suspect many choose to get fiat. But it says it's the merchants' choice on MoneyBadger's site.
ok so merchants need to sign up to money badger too? that's even more interesting. I'll have a look
The merchants sign up with a QR code provider. MoneyBadger currently works with two of those providers by adding LN rails: Scan to Pay, and Zapper. (That is in addition to stores/chains that integrate in a more direct way like Pick 'n Pay, or Bootlegger.)
Those QR code providers play an important role in providing merchants a payment option which is open to the large number of unbanked South Africans. One of the key ones is the ability to spend mobile phone credits (called "air time") for goods. The phone credits can be bought with cash. That bridges the gap for the unbanked.
That's great, and is a great service. It should be open source, so others can easily replicate the model around.
parking ticket with sats! Amazing
'muricans can't even imagine that, they are still using paper checks and ETFs LOL
A stacker news DVD and a TABCONF 7 hoody
I know which one! W'd @Car make it available for sale online? Maybe in the ~AGORA?
Fast food lol
Street vendors p2p or some chain like Steak 'n Shake #991193 ?
Street vendors