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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatAttack 12h \ on: What creative ideas have you been rambling on? Design
I’ve long wanted to combine two passions of mine. Bitcoin and poker. I want to do this in the form of a meet-up style poker game where it is mandatory to use Lightning to buy in and cash out.
Tiny game. The goal is to spread the word and use of LN, not have people lose a bunch of sats. It’s cool how well the LN could facilitate a game like that. You could play a game as small as 200 sat buy in with 1 sat 2 sat as the blinds! What other electronic payment network would make that seamless? None!
I’ve dreamt of it for a while. I haven’t done anything besides dream, but I imagine the game being held once a month at a facility that lets us buy food and drinks with sats, once a month, bitcoin books and zines all around for people to look through, Lessons from competent bitcoiners teaching others the tools and wallets available to us, awesome bitcoin conversation while we beat each other up on the poker felt.
That's great! Would that be in real life meet-up or an online version of it?
In both cases, yes, Lightning is great, but exclude a lot of people (and bitcoiners) that don't know or simply don't use Lightning. It's good that you are trying to merge these two passions, but you cannot expect others have to have the same match.
if your goal is to have fun and organize poker tournaments once a month, I'd focus on that first. Gather the crowd you like, then slowly, as organizer, you could provide options to buy chips with, including lighting and bitcoin.
I'd start simple, find the location first. I fear that if you promote bitcoin+poker, people will continue seeing it just as a gambling game, instead of sound money.
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