196 sats \ 4 replies \ @F 18 Nov 2022 \ on: Chris Tramount, Chief Executive Pleb of Scarce.City & SatsCrap AMA 🤟 bitcoin
Why do you choose to list items on satscrap first and foremost in a shitcoin, USD, instead of the hardest money in history, bitcoin?
Wouldn't it make more sense to first list the amount of bitcoin for each item, and then under that have the USD equivalent?
That's the approach we take for Scarce.City, all prices are in sats/btc.
For SatsCrap, we want buyers and sellers to easily compare prices with fiat marketplaces because our goal is to offer the lowest prices on the internet.
Some SatsCrap goods also have costs associated with them, which are obv in fiat terms so sellers need to make sure they're not losing money on the sale when the hardest money in history is especially mispriced ;)
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It just seems like you should change the name then, if the amount of sats for each item is listed as secondary in importance. I think the website should be called "dollarscrap" instead maybe? How can you call it satscrap when I don't even see sats listed anywhere on the main page? At the very least, you should have sats listed on the main page underneath each item's price in USD.
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Nobody really knows how much bitcoin is worth though. Theoretically one bitcoin could be 10 thousand to 10 million.
You need an anchor for people to conceptualize. Like how many apples does it cost
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That's why I said put the USD equivalent underneath. But I think we should be thinking in bitcoin first and foremost.
I understand the whole point of these websites is to help drive adoption and onboard people, so there will always be some amount of USD shitcoinery going on to merge people out of the fiat system slowly. But having said that, I don't see sats listed anywhere on the main page under items. The amount of sats or bitcoin should be more present, atm it just seems like a regular sell-your-stuff-for-dollars website.
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