ryan on Nostr: People who say this kind of stuff don’t understand #Bitcoin and what it represents. ...
People who say this kind of stuff don’t understand #Bitcoin and what it represents. I get it. Finance isn’t the most sexy topic to think or talk about, and I’m no expert, but it’s not hard to understand. One just needs to spend a little time understanding how to connect the dots and understand what problems exist now and how Bitcoin solves these problems. It really doesn’t take all that long to get a good enough understanding of why Bitcoin is hard money. At the end of the day, we’re all tired of getting screwed by people who don’t care about us. Bitcoin goes a long way toward leveling the playing field in money and finance, much like the Internet leveled the playing field for numerous industries starting in the 90s, and maybe earlier. I’m excited to see what Bitcoin is going to enable in the future.
As a side note, I was walking past the Salvation Army guy ringing his bell today. I said to my wife, “They really need to accept Lightning.” I didn’t have any money on me to donate if I wanted to. Lightning payments will make payments a lot easier. I’m considering trying to come up with some hardware that the guys over at the artesian springs water place can attach to their coin machines to accept payments that way. What is a better use case to showcase Lightning payments than paying $0.25/gal for water via Lightning? I need $6 in quarters, give or take, every time I go to fill up our 5 gallon water bottles. It’d be better if the lightning payment terminal could be preloaded with some amount of money to get water and then refund whatever money is left over when I’m done with filling my water bottles. My concern with actually implementing this is that I would be the only customer using Lightning, but we have to start somewhere, plus I don’t know the owner(s) of the business so it’s not like they’d happily agree to participate in this just for me. Things to think about.
As a side note, I was walking past the Salvation Army guy ringing his bell today. I said to my wife, “They really need to accept Lightning.” I didn’t have any money on me to donate if I wanted to. Lightning payments will make payments a lot easier. I’m considering trying to come up with some hardware that the guys over at the artesian springs water place can attach to their coin machines to accept payments that way. What is a better use case to showcase Lightning payments than paying $0.25/gal for water via Lightning? I need $6 in quarters, give or take, every time I go to fill up our 5 gallon water bottles. It’d be better if the lightning payment terminal could be preloaded with some amount of money to get water and then refund whatever money is left over when I’m done with filling my water bottles. My concern with actually implementing this is that I would be the only customer using Lightning, but we have to start somewhere, plus I don’t know the owner(s) of the business so it’s not like they’d happily agree to participate in this just for me. Things to think about.