🏷️ Hey it’s Spending Sunday! What Recent Bitcoin Purchases Have You Made? \ stacker news ~AGORA

🏷️ Hey it’s Spending Sunday! What Recent Bitcoin Purchases Have You Made?

282 sats \ 30 comments \ @AG 26 May AGORA

Let's hear some of your latest Bitcoin purchases, feel free to include links to the shops or merchants you bought from too.

If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent their sats on.

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41 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 26 May

I was going to buy a Server One with bitcoin but it autofilled my credit card and I wasn't thinking and I bought it with fiat.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @AG OP 26 May

ah man! your card should not be saved there... will be this a new SN node o personal one?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 26 May

It wasn’t saved - I try to never do that. My browser just autofilled it. 😅

This will be a new personal node. I’m currently running Umbrel on a raspi but I wanted something more powerful and was curious about start9.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG OP 26 May

Start9 is great, truly open source, I use it to and isn't comparable with umbrel, the experience is much smoother despite the simpler ui. Wise choice 💪

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @vigilantcitizen 26 May

There are a lot of local businesses that accept Lightning where I am, so I try to go to those every once in a while.

Reups to some privacy tool subscriptions.

Sometimes I eye Bitrefill. But actually, I've found recently that I don't really need to or want to spend on much beyond food and working out.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @AG OP 26 May

That's great to see how you are able to embrace it at 360 degrees for all your needs. Well done! I also assume there's a good community around that make all those business embrace bitcoin

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @vigilantcitizen 26 May

I think the community is really important. There are Bitcoiners where I am that do tattoos, haircuts etc. A fuller definition of a circular economy. I don't need those services, but other people might. I find a healthy meetup cadence allows people to benefit.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @AG OP 26 May

That's great, do you mind disclosing at least the nation this services/community is located? It's a touristic area? or a big city? I understand if you don't

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @vigilantcitizen 26 May

Canada

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG OP 26 May

great to hear and thanks for sharing 🧡

21 sats \ 8 replies \ @didiplaywell 26 May

I pay my food every day directly in bitcoin.

20 sats \ 7 replies \ @AG OP 26 May

that's cool! Do you always go in the same spot? grocery or restaurant? I'm curious! tell us more

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @didiplaywell 26 May

My pleasure :)

For now, I always go to the same restaurant for it's the cheapest and good enough in quality and quantity. So I could devote the time to introduce the guy to bitcoin and accept it directly, leveraging the confidence of being an everyday customer.

Apart from that, here we have many apps (the most prominent being Belo and Lemon) that allow you to save in bitcoin and spend in fiat (they make the conversion in the background), either via transference or debit card payment. So I actually use my bitcoin to spend for everything else, tough indirectly. It's instant and seamless, so it feels like living in full adoption already.

Happy to answer anything about this :)

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @AG OP 26 May

Thanks for all these details, I never personally used none of those apps, just because are both custodial services, however I recognize they provide great value onboarding new people and businesses. Apart switching to fiat and using their card, do you know if they are compatible in case of lightning payments? for example: if I use Belo and the merchant has Lemon, would I be able to pay via lightning? or are both close networks?

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @didiplaywell 26 May

Yes! Exactly! The magic of those apps is that, in exchange of being custodial, they make everything interoperable, like (Fiat <-> Bitcoin) <-> (Bitcoin <-> Bitcoin). This is optimal to introduce people for they can seamlessly start migrating from fiat to bitcoin, and then they do operate as bitcoin wallets, so they can send and receive payments by LN and Segwit transfers between the different apps and other pure LN wallets (like Muun). I save in Muun and send to Belo periodically for daily spending. To this restaurant I transfer the bitcoin from Belo to Belo, just to make it as easy and smooth as possible for the guy, for anything beyond that makes bitcoin transfers look like having to summon egyptian hacker gods by deciphering hieroglyph codes from the unfathomable depths of the darkweb for each transfer, literally scaring people.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @AG OP 26 May

aahha that's great to hear! Well done.. just be cautious with custodial services. Moon is custodial tooo, just FYI ;)

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 26 May

I understand the tradeoffs Muun does, but even still I consider it optimal and safe enough as a first means to transition to self-curstody, due to how simple their interface is and the smooth level of interoperability it allows within that level of simplicity. Showing Zeus to a beginner, for example, is a NO-GO.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG OP 26 May

I agree! I just wanted to highlight that muun is not self-custody wallet as you think. Or not sure if it changed after last high-fee season issue

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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @cristaiji 26 May

I’m planning to buy hard copies of bitcoin related books that I already have on Kindle for example Jeff Booths The Price of Tomorrow. Probably do it via a gift card from Bitrefill or The Bitcoin Company.