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3 sats \ 2 replies \ @yoshi 19 Jun \ on: I made a Square Bitcoin savings calculator for merchant onboarding bitcoin lightning

With 0% transaction fees I am surprised that more merchants are not pushing customers towards bitcoin. Especially if they can just convert it straight to USD.

How hard are Square communicating this to their customer base? As the incentives from their perspective are broken.

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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @orangedad85 OP 20 Jun

I think there's more of a stigma than you might expect.

I'm almost positive that the hipster coffee shop I was trying to onboard, the owner who's behind the counter (who I know by name and have a great relationship with), doesn't want to be known as the Bitcoin coffee shop. All the 25- to 35-year-olds in the coffee shop think it's a Trump scam.

I could be wrong, but I really think that's part of what's going on. In the city I'm in, some people are having better luck onboarding small business owners in the suburbs. I am forced to live closer to downtown, where it's deeper blue, and younger, so I do think that's some of what's going on.

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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @yoshi 21 Jun

yeah I sense this stigma as well. I do feel that the potential to save thousands of $ should overcome this with time. Education is the key as has always been the case.

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