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1136 sats \ 16 comments \ @DarthCoin 17 Feb Design

I would like to see more wallet apps adding tools to find near by merchants accepting bitcoin. It's a win-win for all participants. Maybe could be a BTCmap idea for integration?

Example:

bitcoin user is travelling to a new place, country, and doesn't know any merchant accepting BTC.
open a bitcoin (LN) wallet app and click on button: "show me near by (btc) merchants"
app will display in different colors, those that are linked to the wallet app, with a discount offered, special offer or simply are affiliate.
user can consult the discounts offered paying through that wallet app or without.
merchants, by linking their business into an app, is a direct promotion ad for their business, so they are willing to pay for that. How? Directly to the wallet app developer a % and another % goes to the... customer (wallet app user) through a discount when is paid with that app.

In this way all 3 participants can win:

developer have an incentive directly from his app use
merchant have a direct promo to the consumer
consumer have a direct discount

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183 sats \ 5 replies \ @justin_shocknet 17 Feb

I'd like to do this but on the social side, not necessarily the wallet side

If you have a business with a nostr presence you should be able to geo-stake a physical location for discoverability

Nostrification would allow for different UI/UX contexts and increase the network effect

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 18 Feb

What about to start with an app like nostr-uber? A car-sharing app coomunicating over nostr with a built in nwc wallet. Bonus: you can link it with lightning.video to stream irl a camera from the taxi you order, showing a dashboard view of the route is coming to you?

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 18 Feb

There's been attempts at that, @AtlantisPleb in particular could speak to it as he's come as close as anyone to making it work... but I think the two-sided real-time market is difficult to bootstrap... need to have a critical mass of people in a pretty narrow geography to make it sticky

LV will def be a big part though of anything local though, when people look for business on google maps or facebook pages they also look for pictures/videos of that business

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 18 Feb

You have the "test driver"! The famous BitDriver from El Salvador https://nostr.at/npub18rjdwux48asrcz25k32tqfxeuunwcm64v0eqvm8vw9aljyytfyss68fxch

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 18 Feb

hmm... a nostr app that knows your location could suggest business in the vacinity... imagine if you landed in El Salvador and got an ad for BitDriver

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 18 Feb

BINGO! Also you can even send an alert to those services before you arrive, that you are willing to use them.

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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @Design_r 17 Feb

This will drastically increase the ECB (Economy Circulating in Bitcoin)

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 17 Feb

and less CBDC (Corporate Backed Digital Currencies)

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Design_r 17 Feb

I take that as a failed project already

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 17 Feb

see tether over LN

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Design_r 17 Feb

True, anyhow I prefer to reduce noise, face my fears and deal only with a limited circle of people around me.

Those falling into the CBDC game will pay the consequences, same as those that have fallen into jabs in 2020. History repeat

however, out of topic. I like the idea of the map! Something maybe Bitcoin Design community should consider implementing in the guides.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 17 Feb

Bitcoin Design community should consider implementing in the guides.

exactly and close the bad mouth of those saying "but I cannot find where to spend BTC..."

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 17 Feb

Promotions and discounts within the app make things even more interesting.

You could even have a small marketplace with deliveries for loyal customers.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OPAGO_PAY 17 Feb

Great idea!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 17 Feb

It is an excellent project that should be presented to developers as soon as possible, so that it can begin to be implemented and strengthen the Bitcoin economy.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Feb

I would love this.