The way you can bring Bitcoin as method-of-payment about is by providing something to the market that it wants and demanding that they pay you in Bitcoin.
That's may more effective than whining about other people not doing the same.
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This is the way. Markets require both sides of a transaction.
Well, anything is better than whining.
Be the change you want to see!
Don't accept Bitcoin for payment!
Demand it!
Jimmy knows. 👇
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Soapminer.com demands it brother 🤙
We don't accept anything else
Or better, accept Fiat too, but offer lower prices for Bitcoin..
"True believers" demanding payment in BTC won't be enough. For mainstream adoption it need to be useable to buy a cup of coffee without the threat of triggering an audit:
You want to know why mainstream Bitcoin adoption (or really any other form of crypto) hasn't taken off yet in the US?
It's not bad UX. It's not Michael Saylor, it's not Luke Dashjr. It's not even Trump.
It's this question on the form 1040:
If you so much as pay for a cup of coffee with Bitcoin in the USA, you're legally obligated to click "yes" here, which immediately plunges you into a rabbit hole of record keeping, "basis", long- vs short-term capital gains, 5 different tax forms, with 100+ pages of instructions, and on and on...
Or just check "no," and congratulations, you're officially lying on your taxes. And good luck claiming you just "forgot", it's not like some 20th question buried after "farm income", or some Schedule X you forgot to submit; it's right there, clear as crystal, "yes or no" in the middle of the page.
Sure, if you're a "Bitcoiner" you're probably used to this... You've got spreadsheets and accountants already helping you. Or if you're just not going to tell the government, fine, more power to you.
But are we really so delusional as to think that *most* Americans, like more than 1%, are going to be willing to go through with this shit to spend their "money" when they can just Tap to Pay for that coffee and not have to worry about any of this?
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If you so much as pay for a cup of coffee with Bitcoin in the USA, you're legally obligated to click "yes" here, which immediately plunges you into a rabbit hole of record keeping, "basis", long- vs short-term capital gains, 5 different tax forms, with 100+ pages of instructions, and on and on...
Or just check "no," and congratulations, you're officially lying on your taxes. And good luck claiming you just "forgot", it's not like some 20th question buried after "farm income", or some Schedule X you forgot to submit; it's right there, clear as crystal, "yes or no" in the middle of the page.
Sure, if you're a "Bitcoiner" you're probably used to this... You've got spreadsheets and accountants already helping you. Or if you're just not going to tell the government, fine, more power to you.
But are we really so delusional as to think that *most* Americans, like more than 1%, are going to be willing to go through with this shit to spend their "money" when they can just Tap to Pay for that coffee and not have to worry about any of this?
Silk Road proved this theory - if demand is strong enough people will adopt BTC payments. 🫡
🎯💯
Zaps and experimental web pages prove LN works pretty well for true micropayments. It's also an incredible ux to pay with lightning. I want a killer app to use it not just for the bitcoin aspect, but because it's such a great experience.
I'm often disappointed when 95% of the time I click a donate button and there isn't just a QR or wallet request.
We have a powerful vision to provide Bitcoin education to artists—the true creators of culture—empowering them to shape society by valuing and accepting Bitcoin for their artistry.
Yeah, good luck with that. If you want a non-bitcoiner to pay you in bitcoin, the only way to do it is to give a discount >100%. Yes I did try. Many times on different non-bitcoiners.
Since inception we at @Freedom Tech Co. have accepted bitcoin, and only bitcoin, as payment for our services.
None of our clients have ever objected, or insisted we use xyz stable / altcoin
All our staff and suppliers are also paid in bitcoin. Zero exceptions.
Thinking about selling Bitcoin Puzzle Boxes for people to gift to no-coiners to get them their first self-custody bitcoin. Complete the puzzles to unlock the seed phrase.
Was great as a KK last Christmas 🎅
💯 Merchants who only accept bitcoin is the tipping point.
That's why I own a farm now. That's why I look like a drug dealer walking into the bitcoin meetup 
This is the supply-side fix most people ignore. Demand for Bitcoin as payment follows from demand for what you're selling. The merchants who succeed with BTC aren't waiting for adoption — they're creating it by offering something the market can't get elsewhere. Incentive alignment beats evangelism every time.
The main issue is that Lightning doesn't create a channel with yourself unless you run your own node at home, which would be financially affordable for most, at least in the West (a BitAxe/Nerdminer and a Raspi, for instance). However, it's not technically feasible because there aren't any complete mini-home-servers on the market, perhaps sold in a bundle with a hardware wallet like Trezor (and with a lightweight FLOSS suite instead of some half-proprietary monster). The second problem is that the wallet has a limited capacity, so anyone wanting to use it to receive payments needs to know that it first must be set up with a certain amount, and then emptied just enough.
It's a level of complexity that's out of reach for most people. In this sense, Solana does better by remaining monolayer, even if its economic model doesn't hold up particularly well.
People need solutions they can conceptually understand, it doesn't matter how much technical complexity lies beneath, that are "ready to deploy," like a little box to plug into the home router and a smartwatch or pendant to carry around to pay or get paid without anything else. This doesn't exist for now; those who develop these things lack an understanding of how things work for the average person.
That's, in part, the plan with gaining high/mainstream-adoption with nostr/bitcoin-based DNS alt solution to the ICANN problem.
Here's a simplified visual presenting why, among various other reasons (other visuals), DNN will succeed / has the best chance at achieving mainstream adoption, in comparison to all other protocols, and the reason for a bunch of domino effects that would reuslt in an exponential growth.
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Fair sentiment but this entirely ignores adoption curve and more critically, relationships.
We have to earn the right to be heard with an individual. How we do that is by meeting people where they are.
So optionality is the more relational way to do this.
If they want to learn how to pay in Bitcoin, awesome! Otherwise stop being a lazy merchant and just convert it on the backend if the goal is to stack more sats.
But if the goal is “to make people healthier” demanding they stick a damn needle in their arm with Lord knows what in it…well that’s not very relational now is it?
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Supply-side pressure is the unlock everyone overlooks. High-value producers refusing fiat creates scarcity where it matters — at the quality tier. Merchants follow demand, not ideology. What category of goods do you think flips first — digital services, physical crafts, or education?
@jimmysong been thinking about this…
Could this happen in mass unless necessary from fiat debasement?
I can’t imagine people front-running it unless selling to Bitcoiners, since that payment friction with no-coiners would be an opportunity for another business to take their customers.
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