Let's support Bitcoin merchants! I'd love to hear some of your latest Lightning purchases and interesting products you bought. Feel free to include links to the shops or businesses you bought from.
Who else is excited about a recent purchase? Bonus sats if you found a killer deal! β‘
If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent and zap sats on.
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This past week, we bought quite a few things with sats:
The hotel and chiro were a first for us.
And I found it fitting to pay with sats for a hotel during a Bitcoin conference. :)
Much impressive, as usual!
Where or how did you find the hotel accepting sats? Or was it done thorough the third party app you use with picknpay?
btw, how is your price index going?
They offered payment by Zapper, which works with the third party app, MoneyBadger.
Still going...
Will keep posting updates once a month over at ~bitcoin_beginners
Topping up ppq.ai.
Pay Per Query - account-less AI. You can switch between all the models.
portion of a downpayment on a house.
and I invested in a friends startup... more notes on that forthcoming
That's interesting, will you be telling us more? I'm curious about the process, there was any intermediary or agency to help close the deal?
Look forward to read about your friend's startup too
I converted the BTC to USD via the exchange where I bought it. its a cheap house, and only 10% down... so only $7250 worth of BTC was sold, as the rest was in cash already on hand.
I DCA'd out of BTC into cash over a couple weeks. because that's how I got into it and I just don't want to fret about the price... once I knew the plan and the amount necessary, I just did the thing. somebody recently said "you can't live in a bitcoin" and that sorta stuck.
because of details I won't share, I didn't need to explain the source of those funds to the lender.
the lender was a traditional loan originator, I may work with this lender in a different capacity if my work and savings plan ends up setting me up in the way I want.. for now, I'm not interested in an 'investment' property, but there is a nearby house which could be a good, short term home if this one ends up catching a remodel, or if friends come to stay for extended period.
yes, very interested to share about this, but gonna do it with some coordination
It depends where you live, and the community you are surrounded by. But it's true that for the majority of us is still a really hard job to live in a bitcoin standard.
You could also monetize it somehow else. the strategy however make sense. Thanks for sharing and look forward to read about the startup :)