Oddbean new post about login | logout Today was my first day in Madeira 🏝️. We went to 3 cafes and I used my Cashu wallet for lightning payments at each one. Never touched a credit card, cash, or fiat of any kind. This is magical 🪄 https://i.nostr.build/QmMX.jpg
Pretty jealous, NGL. Stick some Find Me on Nostr tags around the place.
Sweet Merenda is a good little breakfast place if you're in the mood for some omelette/pancake magic 🪄
What did you have, how much was it and how did it compare to the price a year ago.
Price is down in sats, even with digital nomad inflation.
Ah, Madeira is my homeland! Enjoy the view, the weather and the food! Ask for a "prego especial in "bolo do caco"(special traditional bread from madeira). Try also the "tomato soup", "Espetada", Tuna steak with milho frito (fried corn)....and "Carne de vinha d'alhos". Oh, and "queijadas" and "bolo de mel" ( this 2 last are sweets)😋😋😋😋
I'm curious to hear how spread out is the adoption amongst the general commerce there. But 3 separate cafe places for rather small town, that's already pushing way above the most.
it was probably funchal and it's not a small town, i dunno what the proportion of population based around there but whole island is about 300k and i'd guess funchal's probably got 100k, and then another 100k spread out from east to west on the southern coast, and the other 100k scattered in the small towns around the coast and through the mountains
good to know. will load up my lightning wallet
Looks beautify. They are living in the future here.
now that's beautiful... well both the picture and using lightning. i can't wait to see what you build. see you in 2 months!
Still trying to understand this angle (for years). Not being snarky? Why magical? In the US, it would be a bunch of taxable events without enough reporting to not make it a total nightmare come tax time. What am I missing?
What you're missing is that it's not like this in many/most? places outside the US.
I get that and agree. Totally more valuable as a payment mechanism in developing countries over developed. I do talk about that a number of times here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/navigating-bitcoins-noise/id1583424361
Can I ask which Cashu wallet are you using? You mean like https://wallet.cashu.me ? Or another one 😅?
eNuts is the one I've been testing https://www.enuts.cash/
