47 sats \ 15 replies \ @BlokchainB 8 Sep freebie \ on: 🏷️ Hey it’s Spending Sunday! What Recent Bitcoin Purchases Have You Made? AGORA
Haha yesterday was quite interesting. Needed to buy milk and produce at my organic grocery store. The bill came to $81.83. To pay for this with bitcoin I did the following
1.Opened my the bitcoin company(TBC) app 2.Went to visa pre paid cards and entered the amount of $81.83 3. Selected to pay via Zeus wallet 4. Zeus wallet acknowledge the request I slide to pay 5. About 45 seconds later payment is confirmed 6. Open up TBC app and get my challenge token 7. Copy paste the token into the pre-paid card redemption field 8. Get my credit card number exp and security code 9. Open Apple wallet 10. Select add debit or credit card 11. Manually entered in the card details
At this time the cashier suspends my order because about 5mins have passed and the customer behind me was told to start loading their groceries 😆😆
  1. Apple Pay confirms my card
And before the cashier can start scanning the customer’s items I say I’m ready. He recalls my order and I make payment via Apple Pay.
A lot of work to use bitcoin to pay for my groceries. But until shops take Bitcoin directly this is the way unfortunately. So
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111 sats \ 4 replies \ @jgbtc 8 Sep
Next time load the prepaid card in advance and consider that your budget or max amount you can spend on that shopping trip.
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80 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG OP 8 Sep
Is a bit of time invested, but worth the effort (and challenge) I think. In this other case, the card would have stayed with some unusable credit... or there's a way to discharge cards when containing some change?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 8 Sep freebie
That would be ideal but it will cause clutter and extra tracking I rather not deal with. I have gift cards already with random amounts
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 8 Sep freebie
Nah I don’t like to do this then you have a card with like random amount of dollars and cents. I like to spend the cards to zero then delete them. Don’t want to start having 5 or 10 cards with random amounts on them
82 sats \ 1 reply \ @briguy2 8 Sep
How do you like the card overall? I've tried the coinbase card but honestly their app's UX is so bloated and sucks these days
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 8 Sep freebie
It’s just a prepaid card it’s easy
72 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG OP 8 Sep
Needed to buy milk and produce at my organic grocery store. The bill came to $81.83
That's what happen when going shopping without a list 🤣
Kudos for ramping up such a complicated flow across three apps in such a short time... just in time I'd say!
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100 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Sep
Went to visa pre paid cards
LOL that doesn't count. You are perpetuating the use of fiat and not bitcoin.
I make payment via Apple Pay.
LOL and you name this a payment with bitcoin.... pathetic fiat maxi.
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127 sats \ 5 replies \ @AG OP 8 Sep
I assume everyone is trying doing the best they can, depending on diversified needs and environment.
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121 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Sep
But that doesn't mean they use bitcoin, they just go back to fiat and even worse, they support perpetuating the use of fiat. These posts it supposed to be a P2P payment using bitcoin not bullshit crap intermediaries fiat ramps.
Why should I always remember why we are here and what really is Bitcoin?
I do not see anywhere in this abstract saying about Visa cards as usual payments for bitcoin...
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127 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG OP 8 Sep
It's a fact, we need to build more Bitcoin infrastructure and services outside (and disconnected from) the fiat world!
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Sep
We already have infrastructure and rails and solutions. We just need people to leave the fiat rails and do not pretend anymore to be bitcoiners.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 8 Sep freebie
Exactly. Some people rather I starve then use dollars and cards to pay for food.