Oddbean

I went to a local burrito shop to donate to his pay it forward food wall. He had a high tech looking square terminal. I asked the owner if he ever thought about accepting Bitcoin for the pay it forward meals. Then we had a 20 min convo about how he wants to learn more about Bitcoin, he was even aware of @jack leaving Twitter to focus more on Bitcoin. He said he almost bought at $60k, but he didn't. He even said it's a shame everyone relates ape jpegs and ftx to Bitcoin, he didn't think the other coins were interesting, Bitcoin seemed like the only one to have a real shot at competing with the banks. What merchant focused resources can I send this man to help him learn why Bitcoin, and how to easily accept sats for burritos.

He can register an account at coinos.io in a couple of seconds and join hundreds of other merchants using it to take retail lightning payments. We'll get him listed on our homepage and btcmap.org and start promoting him to the community in an effort to send new business his way. Once he accumulates a bit of a balance it's easy to withdraw to an on-chain cold storage address at any time. We can walk him through options for setting that up when the time comes. I'd suggest printing out a QR code linking customers to his profile page e.g. https://coinos.io/shawarmacorner and posting it up near the cash register. From there they'll be able to create and pay invoices and add tips all from their phone without him or his staff having to use a device to generate an invoice or QR for them to scan. We tell merchants to just enter all bitcoin sales as "cash" into whatever existing PoS and accounting systems they already have in place. We report what the CAD value is at the time of sale and total up all payments for the day so they can easily see them all at cash out time. If he already has a tablet or phone to receive payment confirmations, great, he can install the app on his homescreen. If not, we're happy to ship out one of our custom thermal receipt printers to provide even easier paper notifications. See this video for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGoOJZUrP8&ab_channel=AdamSoltys

He can register an account at coinos.io in a couple of seconds and join hundreds of other merchants using it to take retail lightning payments for free. We'll list him on the map on our homepage and btcmap.org and start promoting him to the community in an effort to send some new business his way. From his settings page he can generate a QR code linking to his coinos profile page which can be placed up at the cash register to direct customers there. See https://coinos.io/shawarmacorner as an example. That way customers can generate an invoice, add a tip and pay all from their phone without him and his staff having to do anything. We tell all our merchants to enter their bitcoin sales as "cash" transactions in whatever existing PoS and accounting software they already have in place. We track the CAD value of all transactions at time of sale and provide a CAD total of all payments for the day/week/month etc. If he has a tablet or phone to check for payment confirmation, that's great, he can install the app on the homescreen as a PWA. Otherwise we'd be happy to ship out one of the custom thermal receipt printers we've been working on which provides a very easy paper receipt confirmation. See this video for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGoOJZUrP8

amazing story, but in your position, i actually dont thave any advice. I legit dont know what i would reccomend. People dont want to sit in linux terminal. maybie this is the time i would say wallet of satoshi and then every closing to send it to phoenix. We need something reliable but most people will not manage online cloud server. we need magic FOSS app for merchants that just works and is self holding