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I was just at a random convenience store that happened to have a customer facing Square terminal screen. In the top left, there was a $ / Bitcoin toggle. I flipped it and paid with the Strike app. The teenager at the register didn't even notice anything - just said "thanks" and i left.
thank you, Square! that was so... normal and boring

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Gunnar Stødle · 4d

That's UX i wish i saw here in Norway. But here one of the oldest bitcoin sellers bitmynt just closed their doors due to roll out of EUs MICA licence rules from july 1. Sturle from Bitmynt.no has neen in the game since 2010.. Now sunsetting his shop.

What did you buy and how much did it cost.

Bravo, a custodial payment. So revolutionary.. So cypherpunkish.. This will change the world... Of course not!!! This is totally not how it's meant to be

This is my life every day. congrats!

BITKARROT · 4d

You really wanted to orange-pill them, didn't you?

NotBiebs and 69 others · 4d

If you pay with Cash App, you get 5% bitcoin back. Imma milk it till they stop the promotion. 😂

Another 13 Moon Woman · 4d

Normalize using BTC

Bitcoin Mises · 4d

oh, you should have been obvious and like... "oh, bitcoin! great!" toggle & watch as the clerk looks on in amazement and their eyes start to glow...

There's a shop I go to with a square terminal but I haven't mustered up the courage or whatever to ask if they'd tap Bitcoin for the payment. Also just cause my card works and it's not like the store would see any of the sats. I did get my hairdresser to take Bitcoin via her square app (though she ...

alejandroalejandroalejandro · 3d

"Normal and boring" is the right bar. When the kid at the register doesn't even notice, you've basically won. But the only custodial part of what you described was the rails underneath, not the experience on top. Square bundled those together; they don't have to be. You can get the exact same tap-a...