Where have you personally witnessed a budding Bitcoin circular economy? \ stacker news ~earth

Where have you personally witnessed a budding Bitcoin circular economy?

1194 sats \ 13 comments \ @birdeye21 18 Dec 2023 earth

I personally have yet to experience first-hand Bitcoin adoption while abroad and see how small communities are using it, but am very curious to hear the stories of other stackers.

In your travels around the world, have you come across communities where Bitcoin adoption is growing and helping their situation?

How has the Bitcoin circular economy there helped them?

Also wondering if there's a way/incentive to onboard representatives from these communities to SN for AMAs, Satsraisers, etc..

Happy Monday!

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340 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 18 Dec 2023

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 18 Dec 2023

damn, shoulda thought of this. the best one.

92 sats \ 3 replies \ @elysia 18 Dec 2023

I've noticed it in the last two weeks at my favorite steakhouse in Boulder, Front Range Firehouse Grill. They light tables on the bar that popup a LN invoice QR code to pay your tab. You just select the tip you want to leave, and invoice changes to reflect that. They are onboarding folks at a rapid pace!

121 sats \ 1 reply \ @vindard 18 Dec 2023

What lightning wallet do folks onboard with there now given high onchain fees and wallets like Blink, WoS, Alby not being available?

72 sats \ 0 replies \ @elysia 18 Dec 2023

Most are using the embedded node in Zeus LN or the Blockstream Green experimental embedded lightning node. The owner has an uncle Jim setup and is running eCash and giving out nutjobs or something like that for the regulars.

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 18 Dec 2023

I will have to try this out. Absolutely love Boulder, and randomly find myself in Colorado from time to time.

63 sats \ 1 reply \ @chungkingexpress 18 Dec 2023

There was a great little Bitcoin community at a flea market in Tokyo the other week.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 18 Dec 2023

Damn i was there earlier this year, sadly didn't run into any :( did pay someone in a random bar bitcoin for his art while I was there tho, that was fun

22 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 18 Dec 2023

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 18 Dec 2023

this is unironically how adoption works

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 19 Dec 2023

Bitcoin conferences and meetups in Riga, Prague and London. You sell some homemade stuff for sats, you buy food and drinks with these sats. Currently we're trying to make it grow between bitcoiners here in Riga.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 21 Dec 2023

Me, myself, and a few people close to me. I trade for things with bitcoin when I can. I do not sell for fiat.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Relight_Motion 19 Dec 2023

Madeira is having a blast this year! The community is growing, and the bitcoiners there do a great job orangepilling the merchants. Plus, there's a huge Bitcoin-only conference in March, Bitcoin Atlantis. For a small island with 200k people, that's impressive.