Recently, at a casual gathering with some acquaintances, I met a friend of a friend who turned out to be a barber and a Bitcoin learner.
The topic came up by chance.
We ended up chatting about it for quite a while.
Long story short, he offered me his barbering services, and today we finalized an appointment.
He’s coming to my place, so I won’t have to leave the house—and best of all, we agreed that I can pay using Bitcoin Lightning.
I’ll be paying the equivalent of $10 in fiat, minus a 10% discount, settled in sats.
That’s great news; I need more service providers who accept payments in sats!
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A clear example of the usefulness of Bitcoin – thank you for sharing.
There's a bit of a chicken & egg problem here.
We need enough businesses to accept it in order for it to be viable for us. But businesses need enough people to spend Bitcoin (and refuse to use fiat), in order for it to be worth it to them.
The solution is to have a certain percentage of Bitcoiners, both businesses and consumers, to do it as a charitable gesture, rather than pure incentives. Someone needs to kick us off. I believe this should be pioneered by the most able among us.
There are wealthy Bitcoiners with businesses who could refuse to accept fiat, or at least put a large premium on fiat users. There are some who could even price products in Sats, without ever doing a fiat conversion. There are some who could spend their free time to help their suppliers/partners begin to use Bitcoin, making it easier to build a full Bitcoinized supply chain.
On the consumer side, there are Bitcoiners who could inconvenience themselves a bit by only patronizing Bitcoin accepting businesses.
I'm not saying everyone can do this. But I know more of us could and aren't.
when there is 10% discount involved, who's actually doing a charitable gesture.
depending on each person, with time, more and more people will be willing to spend their bitcoin, as they are in enough profit.
10$ for a haircut? where do you live? lol
Oh let me top up your sats fund partially then haha
$10 for a haircut is dirt cheap!
I pay minimally $15 for mine.
Is that the going rate in your country?
Report back after your haircut, please!
I'm based in Venezuela. I got a good price; since he was an acquaintance of a friend, he gave me a good deal.
de que ciudad eres? ahora hay mucha gente recibiendo dinero en binance, entiendo que eso no cuenta como transaccion bitcoin, pero pienso que es un buen primer paso.
lucky you!
This still feels a long way off for me. Glad to hear little stories like this though.
That is one of the ost interesting use cases because the barbaer during the time is cutting your hair he can not do any other thing, that is a real proof on work :-)
Cool! I always enjoy little stories like these.
Yeah, these little everyday examples are what make Bitcoin adoption feel real. Hopefully we start seeing more local businesses accepting Lightning like this.
Nice! Which wallet is he using?
WoS
Wow, that’s great news; really, few services are offered in BTC. If service providers understood the utility of BTC—its scarcity, which makes it the most valuable asset in the world, its decentralization, and other benefits inherent to the currency—they wouldn't think twice.