OK guys, first of all, please don't throw me more sats for this post. Is just a discussion.
If you really want to push the thread to be more visible, just upvote it with 1 or 2 sats.
What I learned from this little experiment I had yesterday.
The whole idea started, after I watched @JoeNakamoto post about living in Cuba with Bitcoin. So I thought will be a nice experiment and engage some cubans into using Bitcoin.
But I waited 9h refreshing the thread every 2-3 min to see if some of them will come up.
So here are some point learned until now from this (more things will be added later):
- not everybody understand the "game" proposed. Maybe I wasn't so clear in explaining the conditions.
- I missed to add a SN invitation link for those that will read the post, but they still do not have a SN account. And they could be afraid to start one or even using an anon account to post.
- many stackers still don't know how to post an image on SN. @k00b maybe we can do something more clear with this in the post frame. Also are many mobile users and is not so handy for them to use external image services like postimg. People were sending me images/videos over Telegram so I had to re-post them into the thread, to keep a record of the facts.
- some stackers are paying attention to the details (like Dr.Shift did with his post ) and added all the details in the request for payment, as it was requested into the thread conditions. He even went to onboard a new merchant! That was a great achievement!
- we have big differences of time zones. I tried to stay awake as much as I could to cover more times zones and be able to pay the invoice in time. Will not be a great experience if people will start posting LN invoices here and I am sleeping. But one thing that stackers didn't get it is that this thread wasn't only for me to do it. Anybody can take a LN invoice and pay it forward. Some were preferring to give me the sats and do it for them, That wasn't my intention! I don't want to be the bank for anybody. Also the feeling to pay it forward is immense and people should try it.
- paying from SN account is not so handy and do not provide too many details. Yes we know, SN is not meant to be used like that. But will be nice to be. So I opened a Github issue here. Sometimes I had to pay from my other external LN wallets because people were sending me images of QR codes, not the LN code invoice.
- we still not have the enough tools to be able to run an experiment like this on SN, but was fun and I think many people learned a lesson.
Please add whatever other observation about the experiment here and maybe we come up with better ideas how to onboard more merchants and nocoiners.