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Testnut mint

It feels weird to see one week old version of an application 😀

Eddie created a “Med-O-Mat” - a honey vending machine. Two things about it caught my attention: 1. The goal wasn’t to use lightning, but to find a working offline payment solution. And bitcoin, with the help of LNbits, turned out to be the best approach. 💪 2. He built it in a small village where most residents are of retirement age and generally not interested in bitcoin. But once he helped the first elderly lady set up an LN wallet and sent her first sats, it triggered a chain reaction. She started showing it to others. It seems that age is not a barrier to bitcoin adoption at all. According to Eddie, locals have even started using these payments in some other businesses. 🔥 https://www.med-o-mat.cz/

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I’m reading Humankind and it’s surprising how good and kind people actually are. And that only fews are trying hard to turn us against each other.

Would I be able to interact with @White Noise users from its fork?

After some research I feel that cashu is the next starting point for newcomers. I have tested Zeus, Cashu.me, eNuts, Minibits, Sovran, Nutstash, and Macadamia. Each of them have some nuances, but none of them fit to my needs.. or rather needs that I observe around me. ## What do I want from a wallet - Trust in long live maintenance - Reliability without significant UX changes in time - Data storage - not losing cashu tokens, nor contacts - Generate automatically 12 words on the background and utilize it for nostr, evolu?, and even onchain addresses potentially - Enforce words backup when reaching predefined threshold - ie 1 000 000 sat - Automated mint selection - Either based on first receive or from nostr ratings - Automated contact creation - Ideally LN address (from preselected mint), but even npub can be sufficient - Localization - Fiat rates and translation for small countries - Direct flow for send and receive - No selection between cashu, LN, onchain, scan/NFC, … - Aways go with lightning executed via cashu

Finally we have a motivation for upgrade on another level

I’d like to share a story about adoption with you. Lately, I haven’t been able to find time for meetups because of family and work, so I decided to focus on lunches instead. In a regular local pub, I asked the owner if he’d be willing to accept Bitcoin. He politely declined. I kept going there about once a week. After a few visits, I made an NFC card and loaded it with 1,000 sats as a tip. I also gave him a leaflet with instructions on how to access the Bitcoin. He’s an older gentleman, not very interested in technology, and doesn’t have much time for experiments while running the place. The following week, I tipped him another 1,000 sats. On the third week, he finally agreed to let me install a mobile wallet app for him. Suddenly, he had a bit of Bitcoin in his Wallet of Satoshi. I asked him if I could start paying that way — with the promise that if it didn’t work out, I’d exchange it back into cash for him. He wasn’t too keen at first, but since I was a regular, he wanted to make me happy. From that moment, I announced in the local Jednadvacet (our Czech version of Einundzwanzig) community that we’d meet for lunch every Thursday. A short meetup — a chance to exchange Bitcoin, learn something new, meet people, etc. The only condition: payment must be in Bitcoin. Two months have passed since then. The group has been growing. At first, there were just three of us. Last time, there were already seventeen. For the owner, it’s become a significant part of that day’s revenue. He’s started treating us better too — now he greets us from afar and even reserves the biggest table for us every Thursday, not letting anyone else sit there. Every time I ask him if everything’s okay, if he wants to cash out, or needs any help with it. And you know what he told me last time? That he doesn’t need to — it’s growing nicely in Bitcoin. He even recently bought a fridge with Bitcoin. He said he had to use Lightning because he ran into some issues with on-chain. I never even mentioned the word “Lightning” to him. He’s been learning on his own, and now he’s become quite the Bitcoiner. It looks like the pub might soon turn into a nice little vexl point — a place where people can exchange Bitcoin for dirty fiat and vice versa. I’m writing this because I think it’s a great blueprint. It’s short, takes me about an hour a week — time I’d spend on lunch anyway — I meet people, and it helps Bitcoin adoption in a very natural way. Hopefully, it’ll inspire more Bitcoiners to try something similar in their own area.

Znáte někoho ve svém okolí, kdo řeší hypotéky? Na jaké nejnižší RPSN se dokáží dostat?

Testing new onboarding approach. Giving NFC card with some sats on it as a tip. It’s reusable. You don’t loose the sats until receiver accepts them. Almost any lighting wallet can be used. Ecash would work too, but it’s not yet that adopted so I keep using LNURLw.