I’ve been trying to get my local coffee shop to accept bitcoin on their square pos for weeks now and they are dragging their feet. Perseverance brings good fortune I guess In the meantime bitcoin merchants here on nostr will thrive and lead the way 🫡❤️

I love that: KYS. I would also like to bump: Where does your source source. What goes into @Great Ghee , @SoapMiner etc. Are we sourcing from good suppliers. Thank you for your attention in this matter 🙏

Thank you @Orange Dad , I really feel you here and am super grateful for your support and coining the acronym KYS! This really is at the foundations of everything I have studied and witnessed during these years coming closer and closer to the earth for my sustenance, we have got to do our best to get to the source, to know the farmers taking care of the land, to know all the energy that has gone into products life before we put in our bodies. This is when food becomes medicine rather than poison. For me, I can’t put a price on that! I too see out there there aren’t too many options but we are building magically from within here and it feels so good to be participating in this huge paradigm shift! We are crazy early! And just like Bitcoin, it takes time, slowly, slowly, methodically, and then bang, it’s right here! Keep up the great work @Orange Dad and if you have any services or products you would like to price in Sats get them on here man! All the best!

Have you dropped them @Orange Dad PDF with real case numbers on? Also something that comes up for me whenever I hear the word “trying” and “convincing”, it doesn’t work. The starting point is off. People resists this line straight off the bat. Like most things, we just keep being the change, living the good life and fruits freedom brings, and before you know it people will be begging us to know what our secret is. I am done with “trying” to orange pill anyone.

I can't take credit for KYS - @Small Batch Steve is the person who posted about it recently. I just went through their notes, and I can't find it. Maybe they can repost it. By the way, their stuff is absolutely fantastic. I bought a quarter of a cow with sats, and a simple meal for me is that ground beef with his seasonings and just put that over a salad. Absolutely awesome meal. I'm not sure I can offer the value I put in the world "on the outside" for sats, but I'm somewhat obsessed with it, and it seems like one of the best ways to get non-kyc. I've been holding off breaking into the awesome box you gave me because I want to take pictures of it and really enjoy it. December and January are my two busiest months of the year, and I moved in mid-November, so things have been somewhat chaotic. I'm really looking forward to enjoying some chocolate with my kids.

It's funny since I wrote that last note. I went to the coffee shop where I've dropped off the documents and talked to the guys, and I think they're probably gonna turn on the button the next time I go by. It's tough to find a time where they're not busy, but I'll pick my spots and go in the afternoon. At the end of the day, I work six or seven days a week, and I don't have much time outside of what I need to do to mine fiat for my family to go to merchants. I think those PDFs I created and those articles are helpful and useful. And I don't drink, but if I did, I would definitely be going to breweries. There's a crazy amount of breweries in the area I live at, and all those documents clearly show that the brewery is the one that has the most to benefit. In part because you could do a weekly or a monthly Bitcoin meetup at the brewery. Hopefully, somebody can use those and orange pill a merchant. I think perhaps I haven't been in Bitcoin long enough to know how to approach somebody because I've never had years of trying to orange pill friends and family. View article →

Could be your advantage, coming in a little clearer and cleaner, less jacked up! Bitcoiners trying to orange pill can be way too intense for a lot of people. I’ve scared so many people off it’s untrue! When passion overflows into intensity, it’s not been pretty for me. How about find the name of the owner of the Brewery and just email it to them. Do you want to save x% by using a new medium of exchange. Let the numbers do the talking. Less energetic output for you too. Minimal work, quite possibly maximal results. Take the emotional human out of it. Thinking out loud here. What I can say is your PDF is the nuts!! Top work!

Good things come to those who wait!

I nearly wrote it as KYS > KYC and I'm glad @Great Ghee did, and with the technology available I think a nostr consumer reports clone could be a real service to people to provide that value in an uncorrupted manner. 💪✨

I just followed a guy on X that is going around in a sprinter van visiting his followers and straight up building apps and systems for small businesses to modernize and I'm thinking a version of this that includes adopting the Bitcoin standards would be a winning combo

Great piece @Orange Dad Here in Italy we’re probably still 10–15 years behind on some practical tools (Square is a good example), but the merchant resistance feels very similar. Still, this is useful context. I’ll definitely take inspiration from it to do some local education and adapt the approach to our reality.

I’m new to this orange world too, and I feel this a lot 🧡 My personal take is to talk about Bitcoin without ever pushing it. Being insistent often has the opposite effect. Just mentioning it creates touchpoints, and people will dig deeper in their own time PS 📙the article you created has real value. I’ll use it and adapt it to share with merchants here in Italy, where we’re still quite behind compared to the US, especially now that tools like Square make things easier on your side.

I’m so glad you think it’s useful. Mi can’t wait to get my @Sat’s Oil in a few weeks! 😀👊

I’m so glad you think the article is useful. I think I’m getting close to getting my local coffee shop to accept it. I buy beans from them (and you get a free cup of coffee) so it adds up over the year.