At the moment, in Texas, I still have to buy gift cards or use conversion services
I've always likened this to not being able to pay with USD in Europe, or not with EUR in the US and not with either in the UK. My physical wallet is always full of foreign currency, right now there's notes in 7 different currencies in there, but not lots... like no more than 200k sats worth each, most of them less.
I recently orange pilled an existing business. It was hard to convince them and they were rather scared. So instead of accepting Bitcoin, they isolated it and started anew in a separate business, and now they have to see if they can build it out. I've done this orange pilling maybe 10 times in 5 years and results vary, most often because the business owners don't start out as bitcoiners.
So I think the question is: how do Bitcoiners enable more Bitcoining? Are we willing to do non-luxury, non-premium businesses? Run a non-sexy grocery store? A repair shop? A gas station? Are we willing to literally wash old people's butts for sats instead of renting out lambos?
I've always likened this to not being able to pay with USD in Europe, or not with EUR in the US and not with either in the UK. My physical wallet is always full of foreign currency, right now there's notes in 7 different currencies in there, but not lots... like no more than 200k sats worth each, most of them less.
I recently orange pilled an existing business. It was hard to convince them and they were rather scared. So instead of accepting Bitcoin, they isolated it and started anew in a separate business, and now they have to see if they can build it out. I've done this orange pilling maybe 10 times in 5 years and results vary, most often because the business owners don't start out as bitcoiners.
So I think the question is: how do Bitcoiners enable more Bitcoining? Are we willing to do non-luxury, non-premium businesses? Run a non-sexy grocery store? A repair shop? A gas station? Are we willing to literally wash old people's butts for sats instead of renting out lambos?