121 sats \ 6 replies \ @2bithits 3 Nov 2023 \ on: This is how I orange pill people slowly from now on.. bitcoin
Mmm, she might see that as bitcoin doesn't work.
Sounds like it worked well in your case; but I’d be worried about that too. The fact that it didn’t work seamlessly (like using a traditional debit or credit card would) might make certain people think that bitcoin doesn’t work or would not be as easy to implement. Glad it worked well in this case!
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Y’all scaring me. Do y’all know how Bitcoin works?
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What/who is your comment referring to?
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Maybe I missed your point, apologies. I think you're speaking from a normie's perspective, like the card that I'm showing to them doesn't "work" per se.
At the end of the day, it needs to be explained to anyone curious enough to ask. I play on the fact that the card looks almost unreal but yet, my intentions were very real to pay for it.
Think about it..who even does that? lol I could have pushed further [like @quark 's idea in the comments above] and insisted for them to try my Bitcoin card again and then after I had enough laugh of this situation, I'd ask them "Does your terminal even supports the Bitcoin technology?" and as they'd say no, I'd go "Oh wooooooooow that's crazy".
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Haha. I like playing dumb and being flabbergasted that they don't accept bitcoin yet. It could have fun doing that for sure and can see that technique working for some people.
I guess I was speaking from a normie perspective in the sense that I was thinking about how a non-bitcoiner might view it; not how I view it. The non-bitcoiner in the US might see how the bitcoin card did not work in their standard POS terminal and think "stop slowing things down, why didn't they just use their standard credit card because that works seamlessly already."
The fact that the bitcoin card requires a update to their POS or an additional step for their employees could be a turnoff. You and I know that with the correct setup, the process on Lightning would be even faster, easier, cheaper, and more secure from fraud for a merchant to use. I just don't want the merchant's first exposure to bitcoin to be how it doesn't work yet with how they accept other payment methods.
Quick sidenote: I asked the place we take our dog to get groomed if she ever thought about taking bitcoin and she said "absolutely not." I asked her why and she said, "isn't the founder of that getting charged in court right now?" She thought that SBF had something to do with bitcoin. I corrected her and will soon show her how easy it would be to accept bitcoin via a process like OpenNode or Ibex. She'll need to convert to fiat, unfortunately, but at least she'd still accept bitcoin and save money versus what the credit card processing fees are costing her.
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I think you're onto something:
She'll need to convert to fiat, unfortunately, but at least she'd still accept bitcoin and save money versus what the credit card processing fees are costing her.
Maybe all a normie just wants is to save money on fees (assuming they're a merchant), and ease of use if they're a user. We should just focus on that and let the rest flow imo. haha maybe I'm speaking to myself but I like what you did there. Cause once your normie is sold, we all know he'll never get back to fiat [alone].
On another note, maybe OP'ing people starts when you successfully make a normie use Bitcoin even a little and get of zero. We're thinking too hard. We need to let them get rekt a little, talk about privacy a little but not too much. Let them reel into it themselves. The best way to learn is through fire honestly, assuming most people don't want to read their way out of an Orwellian future... [I'm just thinking out loud here]
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