We bitcoiners hate middlemen, but sometimes it is difficult to forget them, as we need to buy or sell bitcoin at some point, so maybe it is a good time to consider doing it ourselves, this also means covering a need, especially for nocoiners who want to acquire their first sats, usually they have no choice but to resort to banana commissions, custodial wallets and absurd KYC processes.

Dropping into an atm involves a camera pointed at your face and sms verification at best. On the other hand, buying from an intermediary app involves having a bank account and huge fees, which is ridiculous. Another drawback is that most atms and specialty stores are not using lightning currently, don't ask me why, I don't understand it either.

In the very near future, I feel and hope that bitcoiners will be more organized, weaving networks in real life to solve this problem, a network of buyers and sellers based on trust in which the fee is zero or minimal, maybe group decides to have no fees or include some (1 or 2%) to allocate it to certain common causes, such as maintaining a website, create events or simply donate it to charitable causes within the neighborhood. If you are walking with bitcoin fellas around your city it would not be too hard to start operating on a small scale, you can buy and sell each other, but sometimes it is difficult in such a small group.

This system could simply works as a group of people connecting each other, but I imagine a western-style bar where sats are exchanged by customers, amidst laughter, whiskey and dark tobacco

I like this name: lightnIRL Thanks for reading, sat