Just had an exciting and fun set of interactions here at Café fuel in downtown Jackson, Michigan. I paid for my coffee with bitcoin on the Square point of sale terminal. Went through without a hitch and was instantly approved via the Bitcoin lightning network. The college aged lady working said that was the first time she seen someone do that - or maybe the second time - and she asked me “what is bitcoin“? So I start giving her a very high level explanation and after about 15-30 seconds or so I look behind me and there’s someone else in line who is another business owner from downtown Jackson and he seemed pretty curious about what I’m talking about regarding bitcoin. I asked him if he wants to just go ahead in line and make his order and he says “no keep talking - I wanna hear” so we talk about bitcoin for a couple more seconds and then I say “hey let me buy your coffee with bitcoin” Of course, he says sure no problem and he watches me open up my River wallet on my phone, and then I send bitcoin via the QR code on the Square point-of-sale terminal and it immediately says approved and now the lady cashier has seen 2 bitcoin transactions in the past two or three minutes and she’s even more interested, and then the owner of the café walks up and I know her a little bit too, and I just started talking to all three of these people about bitcoin and I explain how the owner of the café can be much better off if she accepted bitcoin because she doesn’t have to pay the credit card fees and the other business owner who’s behind me in line - he also accepts credit cards for his biz - and I tell them that if you accept bitcoin you might be able to get paid $10,000 or $10 million and it might cost one or two dollars in the bitcoin transaction fee and obviously they don’t really understand what I’m saying, but they like the idea of that and then I tell them and when you receive that bitcoin there’s no charge back options for the sender. There’s no daddy Visa or daddy Mastercard the customer can contact and complain. It’s just done. It’s like someone paid you in cash or someone paid you in gold but instead they paid you in digital gold / bitcoin… Anyway, it was really nice to have these discussions and I feel like I haven’t had these kind of real discussions in quite a while, but it felt great and I ended up sending a River link to the businessman who I was talking to and he seemed really excited and I’m looking forward to hearing more from him after he gets the ball rolling. @River @Leishman @btcisbetterorg

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Why does everything feel so unaffordable now? I argue that the real problem isn’t simply that houses, food and everything else cost more. It’s that your money buys less. Inflation quietly destroys purchasing power — and then government tells you to look to government for the solution.