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I paid for a meal with Bitcoin recently. The place was very modest and they just had a WoS QR code glued to wall. When I told the old woman at the cashier that I wanted to pay in Bitcoin she just told me the amount and trusted me to type that on my phone and trusted that my wallet would know how to convert that into satoshis at a reasonable exchange rate (she didn't know anything about Bitcoin I'm pretty sure).

Can't we make this better? There could exist a device with buttons where she could type the amount like she did with the credit card machines all other customers were using. She would just press the amount there and handed me a QR code to scan with the amount included, and exchange rate conversion done at some server trusted by the restaurant, it could be fully offline.

I'm just saying this because I was amazed by the fact that so many years have passed and I barely hear about these kinds of issues or the solutions to them. Makes me feel that no one is thinking about the problems of grassroot Bitcoin commerce adoption, which is the most important thing.
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frphank · 3w
> I paid for a meal with Bitcoin recently. The place was very modest and they just had a WoS QR code glued to wall. When I told the old woman at the cashier that I wanted to pay in Bitcoin she just told me the amount and trusted me to type that on my phone and trusted that my wallet would know how t...
Tommy "The Purchase" · 3w
I've paid for chips at a bitcoin event in Europe using a PoS terminal that natively supports BTC. There's a British company called Musqet that builds this sort of thing but I've never seen one in the wild, the one used at said event was made someone else.
Cykros · 3w
We could call that device something simple, like Square. Or to get paid in BTC, we could have them use something called like, BTCPay. Or they could use Zaprite. This place just didn't bother. Not for nothing, the cost of overhead, either in terms of subscription, processing, or just set up, are a ...
corndalorian · 3w
Wallet of Satoshi has a built in point of sale interface. https://blossom.primal.net/63cf3e3c9e1c9c7b2d2688da8b4bfb817e74b3b982e59774d5f59230ea87223e.png https://blossom.primal.net/cb603fd2ddd28e0f7d3a8a9cad552d4daa1d56ef7ae4a41027ae54d23865ee73.png https://blossom.primal.net/37e89939529b71a4c6b50d...
Hanshan · 3w
We alienated the people interested in the problems of grassroots Bitcoin adoption in 2016
nodesy · 3w
I love the idea of having just a QR code on the wall, it would mean there was no state to report all sales/conversion etc to. If you really wanted as the shop owner you could just watch for the pending tx on mempool.space for a few seconds and resolve any issues.
CarlBLatro · 3w
Surely there's phone to phone bitcoin transaction apps? If so, then a phone's all the shop needs to accept bitcoins from customers who have the right bitcoin app.
CarlBLatro · 3w
"In 2010, a Canadian startup called Kik hit one million users in fifteen days. Allen Zhang - a reclusive engineer running a small R&D outpost 90 miles from headquarters - emailed CEO Pony Ma with an urgent warning: mobile messaging was an existential threat. Ma's reply was four Chinese characters, t...
Jordan S · 3w
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chrizzz · 3w
The solution is the WoS POS app
Technical Debt · 3w
I have seen places using these with ZEUS, I don’t it’s unreasonable, sure the UX could be better but that’s mostly on the ZEUS side, we don’t need to invent another hardware. https://blossom.primal.net/58d59dbad0ac6389f28f55b4346a67404ccb997f3a1f9b4430fbbc89d3aeb40f.jpg
Ben Arc · 3w
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Big Barry Bitcoin · 3w
It exists, but unless it comes from a big corp, people don't trust it, and if it does, then it costs a subscription fee. For those who have a leap of faith, paper is much cheaper and more accessible than a 3d printed esp32 computer and a lightning node running somewhere remotely. Fyi, I'm talking ...
SwapMarket · 3w
Merchants using Coinos can be paid via NFC or QR code. The sticker's URL will open in any browser, the client will enter the amount in merchant's local currency and pay with whatever lightning or liquid wallet he has on the phone. The merchant does not have to install any app, it is as easy as it ge...
freemymind 🇨🇭 · 3w
Where is the issue exactly? People can pay for their services. When a merchant sees, that people cheat on them, they will may search a solution. But is it probable, that merchants should be cheated oftenly? I doupt it. Like in every supermarket it is possible to steal things. But everyone knows th...
BitTasker · 3w
Hey brother nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7cnpwdehq6tnw3hkctn0wfnj7qgcwaehxw309a5kucn00qh8yetvv9uhxtnvv9hxgtcqyqalp33lewf5vdq847t6te0wvnags0gs0mu72kz8938tn24wlfze6nzn5fw we are working our assess of here trying to get noticed and have built an App where you can earn Bitcoin , please repost the trending...
TheGrinder · 3w
Do you mean like the Coinkite POS terminals? Yeah... those were cool.
Alex Gleason · 3w
There actually is no problem. This system "just works"
curt finch · 3w
well, if you owned the restaurant, what is in it for you to be avant guarde about this? teaching a bunch of employees about a new thing that isn't a thing yet. it is hard enough to stay in biz as it is w/ health inspectors, online reviews, fickle clients etc. CEOs don't have time for this crap
Megan Taylor · 2w
That’s the irony of Bitcoin adoption—merchants often treat it like magic, trusting the tech without understanding it. A dedicated POS device would help, but until then, we’re stuck with QR chaos. Reminds me of how ETF flows show institutional trust despite UX hurdles—some funds bled billions...