You have a couple of insights I'm here are absolute gold.
"I convinced my friend who owns a pizza shop to accept bitcoin and we set up a community wallet so anyone can chime in, and buying pizza turned into a collaboration the whole meetup does together."
The community wallet is a really fun idea, and making it something that the whole community works on as a way to spend Bitcoin is excellent. I'm going to try to implement this.
chipping in is one motion: scan the QR, send a few sats, watch it land on a page everyone can see. Once a month we spend that pot on pizza from a local shop. Contributions in bitcoin, a transparent community treasury, spending out to a real local business.
This is so cool. It's easy to lose track of wins like this when the mindset is "find someone to sponsor it" or "just pay for it myself."
I suspect the energizing value of doing it the way you describe will bear a lot of fruit in the future.
"Lower the ask until it’s a yes."
I know that I have made the boil the oceans mistake by trying to go whole hog when perhaps a much smaller ask was the better way to go. Something to think about here.
You have a couple of insights I'm here are absolute gold.
The community wallet is a really fun idea, and making it something that the whole community works on as a way to spend Bitcoin is excellent. I'm going to try to implement this.
This is so cool. It's easy to lose track of wins like this when the mindset is "find someone to sponsor it" or "just pay for it myself."
I suspect the energizing value of doing it the way you describe will bear a lot of fruit in the future.
I know that I have made the boil the oceans mistake by trying to go whole hog when perhaps a much smaller ask was the better way to go. Something to think about here.
Well played, sir!