“I’ll only pay in Bitcoin if there’s a discount.” We hear this a lot. But if someone needs ten percent off to spend Bitcoin, they’re not your best customer. You don’t need to bow to that. Your best customers want you to succeed so they can keep coming back. They’re aligned with The Mission: Make Bitcoin the money. This isn’t about telling anyone how to spend. Pay with dollars. Pay with Bitcoin. Follow your incentives. But let’s flip the idea that you need to offer a discount to drive Bitcoin sales. You don’t. Truly aligned Bitcoiners are looking for ways to grow the Bitcoin pie while still getting the products they want. If supporting a Bitcoin business helps normalize Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, that helps everyone. Some people only stack. Some spend and replace. Some just spend. All of that is fine. What matters is that when they do spend, they want that transaction to build something. For many, this might be their first real-world Bitcoin purchase. Or maybe they want to show a skeptical friend that yes, you really can buy things with Bitcoin. When you accept Bitcoin, you're doing more than taking payment. You're validating the experience. You're giving people a reason to keep using the best money we've ever had. At first it feels novel. Then it becomes second nature. Eventually it becomes the default. You don’t need to offer a discount to meet your customers. You just need to offer value and stay aligned. That is how the Bitcoin circular economy wins.

Who has a list of merchants on NOSTR? Not specifically asking for the people selling things via NOSTR, but who has a presence here?

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Zapping a note to buy wine isn't just novel. It's powerful. There are maybe 10 people in the world running their business this way. Does it give us an edge? Yes. When you're paying for something in Bitcoin, the apex asset, you'd ideally want to try it before you buy it. But Bitcoiners aren't clustered in the same places, so most Bitcoin commerce happens online. That means very little opportunity to sample. You need social proof. And there's no stronger signal than seeing someone zap a note to pay for an order. If someone in your web of trust is willing to spend Bitcoin on a product, it's probably worth your time too. That zap is a purchase and an endorsement in one. It's a signal to everyone watching that it was worth the sats. It also puts pressure on the seller. That sale is public. Everyone knows someone trusted you with Bitcoin. Don't take that lightly. Not every sale will happen like this, but the ones that do? They give you something priceless. Revenue that also works as marketing. Your best customers are linking their reputation to yours. You don’t have to ask for a review. They already gave you one. Zaps-as-purchases are rare today. They're hard to earn. But they are absolutely the most valuable. @buzzbot 10000

Facebook is great at one thing: Finding people who buy new shit. They're the number one contributor to the fiat hamster wheel of consumer goods. You build something mid, run some ads, and people buy it. It looks like product-market fit, but most of the time it's a false positive. You bought the customer, not their loyalty. Now take a Bitcoin product. It's really, really, really hard to get your first customers. No shortcuts. No ad magic. Just trust and proof of work. But when someone does buy, it's not noise. It's signal. Bitcoiners don't part with their sats for hype. They do it for consistency, quality, and conviction. That's the benchmark. Not the first sale. The second. The third. The moment someone tells a friend, not because they were asked, but because they care. Building for Bitcoiners is hard. But it's worth it. The flywheel is real. Once you prove you're worth the sats, it starts spinning.

Soak Quest is gonna be speaking in Vegas.👀

Grass League is a revolutionary Golf League They have TV syndication, Wealthy Team Owners and their own Golf Course. High Stakes Par 3 Golf. But why should NOSTR care? Because Jake, the CEO is a Bitcoiner. And he's going DEEP on Bitcoin The Purses will be DENOMINATED in Bitcoin All backend company payments will be in Bitcoin

PGA? Nah. LIV? Nah. You want a high-stakes golf league with real skin in the game started by a Bitcoiner who gets it. The Grass League is a12-team par-3 league that has raised over $16M and has syndication on Peacock. They want to start paying their purses in Bitcoin. This is one of those secret Bitcoin entrepreneurs you hear about. They are among us. Jake, the CEO and founder, gets it. Bitcoin HAS to be part of GrassLeague's future. Zap to let us know if you want to see more (All zaps on this post go to funding a Bitcoin purse from NOSTR for the Grass League).

Alpha isn’t something you declare behind a gate. It’s something that gets validated, in public, by signal, not status. NOSTR + zaps flipped the model. Now the crowd decides what’s worth paying for, and the “paywall” is permissionless. Fiat subscriptions are an old-world filter. Zaps are proof-of-work for content. You don’t sell alpha. You earn it.

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Thanks for reading my man and thanks for helping me bootstrap this account