Oddbean new post about login | logout Pay Forward is a charitable act adopted by restaurants and coffee shops whereby when a customer pays for their meal or drink, they can offer to pay for a future meal as well. Then if somebody comes in that is struggling financially, they can order a meal or drink that is already paid for. Imagine combining the concept of "pay forward" with the remote payment options of BTC / Lightning? A shop could post a Lightning invoice on social media (even the legacy kind) and get assistance from the global community. If we had a Bitcoin marketing department, this would go down like wildfire! @PUBKEY ?
I’ve thought about this idea a bit. We’re working on away to allow someone to zap a round of drinks to the bar from anywhere. It could definitely be done with prepaid food orders, too. The question is, would anyone actually do this?
Not me. There's a pandemic so even if you set it up to use dogecoin or something I actually use I wouldn't want to support people drinking at a bar. Also you would probably use Lightning or some other wack shit I don't even want to use
Gr8 b8 m8
Took a while, but I got it. May I steal this for future baiting rebuttals 🙏
Had to mute that one, it was oozing brain damage.
You are not the target demographic.
You could be surprised. My target demographic was Digit with every post I made on reddit for years leading up to meeting her, but then I thought she was just some random fool and it took me months to realize her importance. Maybe you actually need my money and advice as badly as I need Digit to be safe, and everyone else just takes even longer than me to realize who's who.
I think if you had a dedicated screen in the bar that put up the zapper's profile and maybe some celebratory animations whenever they zapped a round of drinks, and maybe figured some way for patrons to easily follow the zapper, it could be a cool reciprocal incentive. They zap a round of drinks and are celebrated for 30min, and potentially gain a bunch of new followers. Win Win.
Yes, this is basically the idea. The main issues are that we need to build a dedicated screen at the bar, and find space for it (not easy!), and the bar staff needs to be aware of the protocol. There also has to be a way to either limit this to operating hours, otherwise we need to inform the sender that zapping at a time when we aren’t open means it goes onto the next day’s business. So you can see we’ve been thinking about and it’s not as easy as it sounds. There are also costs involved to build it. If it doesn’t get a lot of regular usage, chances are it would be scrapped.
my mind keeps going to a place where this gets an overwhelming amount of usage and suddenly everything served is massively subsidized by an overflow of incoming zaps, maybe also because of a facemelting bullrun
You just described hyperpubkeyization!
I’m just hearing free drinks 😂
It would be absolutely epic if @PUBKEY was just 100% funded by anon plebs. 🍻
I would totally do this!
I would do this if it was two things, first making it easily available to do so, second giving a reward of like text to voice saying amount and message. The other side is probably more fun and let the anins run a jukebox for pulley for certain days for sats.