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128 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 45m \ parent \ on: Why isn't bitcoin used for more gray market things? bitcoin lightning
Solve your own problems

That's a good reminder. I don't have trouble buying anything. And as far as accepting bitcoin payments, btcpayserver has worked, and now there are so many different plugins and options.

What are my unsolved requirements?

  • I do want an ability to spend from a lightning wallet at any of the many different kinds of payment terminals in the US (Square, toast, clover, etc)...maybe even at any place that takes a credit card. Ideally, this is not a Moonpay kind of middleman.
  • I want an easy way to allow people holding fiat to onboard and off board a platform like SN -- if they stack sats, they need to be able to pull them out in a form that is spendable/useable for them. If they want to zap, they need a very low friction way to do that even if they don't have Bitcoin.

These are both pretty big problems and I've spent a fair bit of time thinking about how to route around them, but maybe that's my problem: I'm not willing to actually try to solve the problem (mostly because of defeatist thinking: "it's too big/difficult).

I'm going to spend more time on " how do I get what I want?"

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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 17m
I do want an ability to spend from a lightning wallet at any of the many different kinds of payment terminals in the US

What if you could get it all cheaper, privately, over the internet, paid with sats, without having to go visit brick & mortar? Would that be an acceptable alternative?

I want an easy way to allow people holding fiat

That's not for you, and fiat != bitcoin. The stablecoin mindset is a shitcoiner mindset, because the fiat it tokenizes is a shitcoin AND the tokenization contract doesn't have enforcement to the peg, so that is a shitcoin too. shitsquaredcoin.

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