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 is excited about a recent purchase? Bonus sats if you found a killer deal! β‘
If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent and zap on.
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I wasn't aware that paying via Lightning was possible at Incredible Connection, glad I asked. As for the council rates, we found out that instead of paying via bank transfer or online portal you can take that bill to PicknPay and pay it there (with Lightning obv).
That's incredible, what do you ask the cashier or the merchant to be able to pay with sats?
First, I ask if I can pay with bitcoin. And usually, that only nets me a confused look.
Then, I ask if I can pay with Scan to Pay or Zapper. If yes, then I tell them that it means I can pay with bitcoin and show them how if they're interested. Somewhere between half to a third of the people show interest.
Even though I know that most won't know that paying Scan to Pay or Zapper QR codes can be done with bitcoin, I still ask to pay with bitcoin first. That way, they start associating it with being able to use bitcoin for payments. Both for themselves and future customers who may ask the same question.
That's a great approach, it probably works great in small shops where the owner is at he cashier, I giess?
Or does it work on the supermarkets and gas station too? and if not does the employee get some interest in learning more for himself or herself?
Considering your experience there, there's any chance you got merchants showing you a P2P lightning invoice directly? If yes what do you recon is the % of merchants accepting p2p vs those using third parties services you have mentioned?
Most places I buy from are chains like that.
Almost all of the places use third party services. They verify my transaction has gone through by checking their systems for confirmation. Pretty sure the lightning level is abstracted away completely from their perspective.
$20 worth of supermarket vouchers from Bitrefill
Yay! Singapore +1, you are making history over there :)
just been spending more and more on https://nano-gpt.com
Nothing, I just keep stacking.
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