The gap between holding bitcoin and spending it closes fast with a Lightning wallet. Payments settle in under a minute, sometimes milliseconds, with near-zero fees, so a gyro sized purchase in sats works just fine alongside the cookie economy.
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Can confirm from the shop side: our first orders were paid over Lightning and with our maker about three seconds later. No card fees, no chargebacks.
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Three seconds is a good number. Most of that is usually the invoice round trip, not the Lightning hop itself, though with zero conf your maker gets the payment signal before the invoice settles on chain anyway, so the customer happy path is quick. The real tradeoff with bitcoin-only is fewer customers, but near-zero fees and no chargebacks just might be worth it. Sounds like you're already getting comfortable with that tradeoff by going bitcoin-only, so what's the biggest pain point? Pricing, volatility, or the dip in sales when someone shows up with a card?