There’s 4 million square merchants in the US.
I imagine we could have a simple toggle to let merchants opt into automatically being added to the map.
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Please do.
Just show merchants the response from Steak ‘n Shake.
Suggested business decision maker flow:
If business decision maker opts into keeping some part of payment in sats, then suggest opt-in to publishing of location on btcmap.org, and sending a “btc accepted here” sticker or two.
And having the option to convert directly to fiat, there’s zero reason for a seller not to want to opt in
Reeeeeeeee 😬
Gonna require some thinking. 🤔
Yeah, something along these lines.
We need to be highlighting the difference for sure.
Verification of intent difficult though.
Man have I got the best open street maps implementation for you!
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Could do with some assistance down here in the tagger trenches!
Yeah, need to think about this carefully as the verification bar is rightly high on OSM.
We have some ideas to streamline this though.
There’s 50 million students whose schools don’t have SatsRewards system built in yet.
let’s make it global
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Shoot them a catchy notification when we hit the next ATH.
Maybe highlight to them an estimate how many young people already own Bitcoin in their area.
*BTW I'd be curious what happened with the "Square Merchant Directory" from 2012.
It would be great to revive it, make it public, add flags for accepting Bitcoin, Location (physical/online) and let devs to create new discovery methods and channel all the traffic to you and your merchants.
TechCrunch
Square Launches A Merchant Directory To Help Customers Discover New Places | TechCrunch
Square, the startup disrupting the payments industry with its easy smartphone/tablet card-reader, has today launched Square Directory. It is a web-...
It takes another decade.. time to time 😉
Beard Papa will increase their sales by Bitcoin payment.
I have been trying to convince some cash-only vendors I pass by everyday to use Square.
They are extremely resistant.
What am I doing wrong?