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.
https://m.stacker.news/9944
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.
https://m.stacker.news/9946
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