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I absolutely will!

Tough to tell this early. Will know more in a week's time.

Insane. Nice work!

This is the way 🫡

That’s amazing.

This is the way 🫡

IBEX has a Bitcoin+lightning service very similar to traditional merchant accounts. It's an easy turn key on ramp for vendors.

I'm looking at venues now, will share more when I pick one!

Please do. Would like to learn about the process of securing a venue.

What methods have you used to reach out to locals and other bitcoiners?

I'm in a blockchain club (closest to a bitcoin club that I could find in my town), talked to sellers at the farmers market, posed on social media, told my friends. I make sure I always check the "accepts cryptocurrency" when selling things on Craigslist. Talked to people at my Makerspace I'm the first to admit that I don't excel at these "social" things. I tend to mention it once to a person and if they don't seem interested, I'm unlikely to bring it up again with them. I don't want to be anoying.

Mostly they don’t see the benefits to them because they have mostly heard bad news from their “trusted” sources. Probably your best bet is to show them how to get zapped by posting their brand new Lightning address on the Nostr and then checking back with them the next week.

I’m in the same position with my community. But from my experience with marketing I know it takes months to years of repeated touch points for individuals who hear of a product/service/brand/idea to adopt it.

I'll keep trying. Inflation has made the people I know a little more curious about Bitcoin, so that seems like it's helping adoption, even if it doesn't get people in today, they're at least more open to the idea. Might have to go back to a day job to hold me over though.

Man if I wasn’t working retarded hours all the time spring summer and fall I’d have the infrastructure set up already to add a Bitcoin element to our weekly farmers market up here in Bonnyville AB. I’ve got a list as long as my arm of projects I need to do aimed at setting up persistent servers for processing and confirming on chain and lightning payments for people up here, and be able to offer plug and play POS solutions to local businesses. Winter should afford me more time to migrate everything from the frustrating half baked setup I started with last winter on Umbrel and get onto Start9 Server at last. That and getting squared away on the wealth of knowledge Wicked has on UTXO management and more of Sessions’ material surrounding multi-sig. So much to learn. So little time. I am, however, so stoked to learn since joining Nostr that we have such a great bunch of Bitcoiners here in AB. I’ll have to break down and get on OPA to accelerate the process of meeting more of you.

Sounds like you got it all covered. Nothing left but to get it!

Luv It!