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

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.

Plant the seed now. They will come back to you during the next bull run. Then bitcoin will make it into the news.

Thanks for the encouragement. FYSA, I was unable to zap you, but I can zap other people right now. I am a privacy advocate, so I use Tor. Some lightning providers won't accept money from Tor users; not surs if that's the case here...

Weird! I don’t know why it’s giving you my fountain.fm address. I haven’t used that for inbound zaps in a long time. How many relays are you connected to?

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Can you try to unfollow and follow me again and show me a screenshot of my profile? It should have an @Alby address on it.

I see the Alby address & can zap you now. Pleased to meet you. 😀

@Vitor Pamplona Is that an Amethyst bug where it doesn’t always fetch the latest user profile data or is it caused by something else?

It's probably a relay that has your old info and Amethyst is picking up that one first.

Well, that's my fountain address. I entered it since I selected it as a drop in replacement to my Wallet of satoshi address.

Oh, gotcha. Well I’m glad you got it working!