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If accepting Bitcoin is the first step in integration, why do so many businesses skip it???
Can we make another bull run out of this please? It would be a solid foundation.
Can we make another bull run out of this please? It would be a solid foundation.
i find the women curler teams to be the hottest winter olympic athletes.
Because they’re top performers in skin tight suits, but also they’re cleaning up a little bit.
ah great subtle sexism. pretty ignorant comment really. hope you are joking.
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Please exercise caution with this highly misleading podcast:
https://fountain.fm/episode/fMhoAHvb7Yjr7IcTErSw
The most dangerous element of Spark is actually revealed in this podcast. You just need ...
I understand your concerns with Spark. Some of the orgs you listed though seem like they have very high standards and are unlikely to be selling out in any way, in my opinion.
I say this sort of criticism would be more helpful if it were limited to the technical and trust issues of the current version of Spark and less inflammatory.
I say this sort of criticism would be more helpful if it were limited to the technical and trust issues of the current version of Spark and less inflammatory.
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Sup NOSTR! Check out our newest edition:
Bitcoin Commerce. African Scale.
This was one of those times where picking the headline was a tough decision. The Square point-of-sale integration story easily has the potential to be the industry story of the year.
On the other hand, from all the sources I can gather, right now that integration is still in a beta phase. I even signed up to be part of the beta during the Bitcoin Conference last year and haven’t heard anything.
The good news is that both the Square Bitcoin integration and the beta program seem to be very real, and a careful read of their recent press release and splash page even has a hard date for the rollout: November 10, 2025.
But that’s all about what isn’t the headline.
Africa is quietly experiencing a Bitcoin Commerce explosion. I think this gets so under-noticed and we needed to feature it and keep featuring it.
Based on my research there are enough widespread integration and adoption stories out there that it can be hard to feature them all. But that being said I really wanted to focus on the work being done by @MoneyBadger in this edition.
MoneyBadger seems to be an integral part of both the continued success of the South African Pick n’ Pay supermarket integration, and the Scan-to-Pay integration featured in this edition.
It’s so interesting to see how Bitcoin Commerce exists and grows in two such distinct worlds: African fintech and brick & mortar retail USA. These stories are superficially different but they share a common, entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm that I think is the real backbone of Bitcoin Commerce.
If you’re interested, I hope you get a chance to check it out and let me know what you think!
Bitcoin Commerce. African Scale.
This was one of those times where picking the headline was a tough decision. The Square point-of-sale integration story easily has the potential to be the industry story of the year.
On the other hand, from all the sources I can gather, right now that integration is still in a beta phase. I even signed up to be part of the beta during the Bitcoin Conference last year and haven’t heard anything.
The good news is that both the Square Bitcoin integration and the beta program seem to be very real, and a careful read of their recent press release and splash page even has a hard date for the rollout: November 10, 2025.
But that’s all about what isn’t the headline.
Africa is quietly experiencing a Bitcoin Commerce explosion. I think this gets so under-noticed and we needed to feature it and keep featuring it.
Based on my research there are enough widespread integration and adoption stories out there that it can be hard to feature them all. But that being said I really wanted to focus on the work being done by @MoneyBadger in this edition.
MoneyBadger seems to be an integral part of both the continued success of the South African Pick n’ Pay supermarket integration, and the Scan-to-Pay integration featured in this edition.
It’s so interesting to see how Bitcoin Commerce exists and grows in two such distinct worlds: African fintech and brick & mortar retail USA. These stories are superficially different but they share a common, entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm that I think is the real backbone of Bitcoin Commerce.
If you’re interested, I hope you get a chance to check it out and let me know what you think!
American cities really do have a violence problem. I've witnessed it, I've experienced it. It's bad.
But this recent outrage hits me as very political and disingenuous. If Iryna Zarutska had been ju...
Yeah bang on, exactly. If you're from a big city in the USA you're deaf to everyday violence. It's just a fact of life so it takes something out of the ordinary for anyone to actually care 😓
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How about put in on nostr?
ha yeah good idea. i had a long form blog site NOSTR experiment going a while ago but haven't kept it up : \
do you have a fav nostr site to post?
do you have a fav nostr site to post?