Ulmer Circular Economy 🇩🇪

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2025-05-22 15:59:59 UTC

If you are a business owner, why would you consider accepting sats?
- New user base: tech savy and bitcoiners
- Future proofing business
- International customers
- Better credit card alternative
- Cheaper payments than cards
- Instant payment processing (no 3 day wait)
- No chargebacks like cash
#nostr #germany

2024-10-02 11:23:46 UTC

GA! ☕️
What is your plan for this week to make your life better?
#grownostr #nostr #plebchain

2024-09-30 09:08:53 UTC

In a deflationary environment, where your money worth more over time in terms of goods you can buy. It is normal that people tend to spend on less unuseful things. And spend less in general.
Inflation is not the solution to spend more. Better products and services are the solution to spend more.
If money is spent on useful good things, then the amount of spent money could be proportional to the wellness of an economy.
But if the value of a money decreases, and that is the reason for spending, then there is small or no correlation at all to the wellness of an economy, because people are not spending on things that makes their life better.
So in an inflationary environment, GDP makes little to no sense to measure.
GM! ☕️
#grownostr #nostr #plebchain

2024-09-29 09:40:49 UTC

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Cool! What is the product/service being sold there? Are they on nostr or btcmap?

2024-09-29 08:50:43 UTC

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GM! ☕️
"What is your deepest desire?"
"What do you really want?"
You may realize, that what you really want and what you pursue is 2 really different thing.

2024-09-29 08:47:21 UTC

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GM! ☕️
https://image.nostr.build/db58368cad35b901762a1126e37a6f62b65e2b4243efb5d24580003a495d02ba.jpg

2024-09-29 08:44:57 UTC

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GM! ☕️ Which group do you qualify for?

2024-09-29 07:08:13 UTC

GM! ☕️
If you
1️⃣ are selling products or services for bitcoin in #germany
2️⃣ know someone who sells products or services for bitcoin in #germany
tune in the comments and get zapped ⚡️
#grownostr #plebchain #coffeechain #nostr

2024-09-28 18:03:47 UTC

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That's how we gonna do it. Silently, slowly, step by step, working, and building!
LG! 🔥🔥🔥

2024-09-28 12:07:43 UTC

Good morning #berlin ! ☕️
Berliner nostriches! Would you be interested in a SatsMarket?
#grownostr #nostr #plebchain #germany

2024-09-28 10:46:17 UTC

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Good morning! ☕️ Have an awesome day!

2024-09-27 17:05:02 UTC

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Yes, you are right, it can decrease interoperability, if all of a sudden, people start to put random parsable things in notes.
Hmmm, nip-23 aka long form content uses markdowns. But I guess, a job description shall not be a long form content, because it is not.
But at the end, doesn't it make sense to be able make markdown notes, but not long form?

2024-09-27 16:58:07 UTC

The Zap Culture
If you got value, zap ⚡️
Value can be arbitrary:
1️⃣ Help
2️⃣ Answer
3️⃣ Direction
4️⃣ Tip
5️⃣ Compliment
6️⃣ Mood boost
...
#grownostr #nostr #plebchain

2024-09-27 16:52:42 UTC

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Maybe you could use a markdown table to visualize the info?
- It could be visualized badly in some clients though, if they don't support markdown.
It could have maybe more colors. Some emojis could help or maybe post it as a designed image/canva like template.
Not sure, if it helps, or you need help.

2024-09-27 16:44:01 UTC

GA!
A bitcoin circular economy is your interest also!
If you are a consumer,
- PRIVACY: you can spend more privately, without your transactions connected to your identity being fully analyzed and sold by big tech
- PERMISSIONLESS: you can spend on your term, wherever and whenever you want, without your bank or anyone denying your purchase
- HASSLE-FREE: you can spend without converting to euro/fiat
If you are a business,
- you can spend from your bitcoin balance sheet
- you have less conversion cost and headache
The points are considering that you already hold it, so benefits of holding are neglected.
Also if you prefer to pay in bitcoin, and look for options, where you can, you can support other hardworking plebs.
Let's empower eachother instead of pulling eachother back, like crabs.
What else would you add?
#grownostr #nostr #plebchain #germany

2024-09-26 07:28:05 UTC

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GM! ☕️ Have a great day @nprofile…hjka 💜

2024-09-26 06:51:51 UTC

#asknostr
In which german city or its near area do we have the most nostriches?
#germany #berlin #münchen #stuttgart #hamburg #köln #leipzig #frankfurt #circulareconomy

2024-09-26 06:08:08 UTC

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This is the way 🫡

2024-09-26 05:58:08 UTC

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GM @nprofile…u69u !☕️
Have a great day! 💜

2024-09-26 05:32:58 UTC

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GM! ☕️ Have a great day! 💜

2024-09-25 20:04:35 UTC

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#nostr #grownostr #circulareconomy #plebchain
#nevent1q…tqge

2024-09-25 19:59:39 UTC

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GN! 🌃

2024-09-25 19:29:02 UTC

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Because it would be a pilot project...
#dadjokes

2024-09-25 19:25:59 UTC

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But only for "testing", right?

2024-09-25 19:19:29 UTC

# Benefits of bitcoin for businesses
## Introduction
If you have a business, and you are thinking what bitcoin can do for you, you are in the right place.
As a merchant/business, bitcoin can give you the following benefits:
- New customer base
- Cheaper fees than card payments
- No payment delay like for card payments
- No chargebacks
- Simple way to lock a payment
- Collect tips
- Reward customers
- Reward customer reviews
- and many more...
## New customer base
If you start to accept bitcoin, you will open your business for bitcoin holders.
In this case, you can add your business to btcmap.org, and then bitcoiners will easily find you. If you are among the first businesses in your city, you might get a higher inflow. So worth a try.
## Cheaper fees than card payments
Generally you have to pay 3 types of fees (interchange fees, payment processor fees, assessment fees) if you want to accept card payments.
The interchange and assessment fee goes to the card manufacturer (Visa, Mastercard, etc), and the payment processor fee goes to the payment processing company.
Some payment processors give you an easy fee structure (more expensive on average), others give you more competitive rates by not giving general fees. See some providers in EU:
- Stripe
- EEA cards: 1.5% + €0.25
- Premium EEA cards: 1.9% + €0.25
- UK cards: 2.5% + €0.25 |
- International cards: 3.25% + €0.25
- Extra costs (e.g. POS device / cardreader)
- [Link](https://stripe.com/en-de/pricing)
- Ayden
- General: €0.11 + payment method fee
- Mastecard / Visa / Maestro / G-Pay / ApplePay: €0.11 + 0.6% + interchange fee
- [Link](https://www.adyen.com/pricing)
- GoCardless
- Domestic: 1% + €0.2
- International: 2% + €0.2
- [Link](https://gocardless.com/de-de/preise/)
- BlueSnap
- EEU cards: 1.4% + €0.25
- [Link](https://www.bluesnap.com/payment-gateway-pricing/)
If you accept bitcoin without a payment processor, you can accept bitcoin for free. You only have to pay to send it forward, or convert it to euro. Or you can choose to use payment processors, where fees may apply for receiving, sending forward and converting your bitcoin, but you will get additional services as well.
## No payment delay like for payment with cards
Payment delay means, after how much time you receive the money, that the customer paid via credit card. So how much time it takes after payment, that you can withdraw the money, that was paid to you. (With cash, it's instant!)
- Stripe:
- 3 days
- [Link](https://docs.stripe.com/payouts#standard-payout-timing)
- Ayden: Website does not say - GoCardless
- SEPA: 3 + 3 days
- [Link general](https://hub.gocardless.com/s/article/Introduction-to-payment-timings?language=en_GB)
- [Link SEPA](https://hub.gocardless.com/s/article/Eurozone-SEPA-payment-timings?language=en_GB) |
- BlueSnap
- 4 days
- [Link](https://support.bluesnap.com/docs/payout-method#payout-details-by-country-timing-currencies-and-payment-reference-support)
So at least 3 days, or more. But these are working days! So weekends and bank holidays are excluded.
With bitcoin, you recieve the money instantly.
## No chargebacks
Another big disadvantage of credit cards are the chargebacks. When the credit card company or bank can start a dispute process. In such cases, your transaction will be reverted, and you also have to pay extra for the revert. In many cases they are quite expensive.
In bitcoin there are no chargebacks. The payments are final, and can't be modified. If there is a dispute, and you have to send back the money, you have to initiate a new transaction.
## Simple way to lock payments
During online orders, you can choose to pay beforehand or on delivery. Usually paying beforehand is risky for the customer without seeing the product, and paying afterwards is a risk for your business. Therefore, in many cases, this is made an expensive option for the customer.
With bitcoin, you can make the process fulfill both sides. The customer makes a deposit, locks a payment to your bitcoin wallet, but does not send it. To receive the payment, you need a password, to unlock and receive the payment. Therefore, during delivery, the customer can pay the good, but the you are assured, that the money exist and even locked. Basically the customer has to give the delivery guy the password, and if it works, he can get the product.
For extra safety, you can also ask for a smaller other deposit during the online shopping period, which would be returned to the customer, on paying the invoice for the product. If the customer acts maliciously, he risks losing this deposit.
## Collect tips
With bitcoin, you can put out a QR code in your shop/website, onto which customers can send the tips.
Even you could make it possible, that customers can tip your employees individually. So you put out a QR code for each employee, and then they could get tips separately.
Or you could add this tip QR code to your receipts, so your buyers could tip after they received the product or service.
## Reward customers
You could reward your customers with bitcoin. The options here are endless, only your imagination defines the limit.
What bitcoin adds here is you can simply send really small payments to your customers, borderless, cheap and needing too much information to make it uncomfortable. Also you don't lock them in with a coupon, which sends the signal that you are confident that your products are high quality. So they are better to build a good business - customer relationship then usual coupons.
Some possible ideas for rewarding:
- % bitcoin cashback for products
- reward customer reviews
- reward customer photos
- reward loyalty
- bitcoin reward packed in the product
- etc

2024-09-25 09:58:39 UTC

GM! ☕️
Still cannot publish articles with Amber. 😅
Anyone any luck?
#asknostr

2024-09-24 06:27:34 UTC

GM! ☕️
Trying to post an article. Tried habla, highlighter, yakihonne.
Yakihonne does not seem to support signer app, so out.
Habla says I am only in read only mode, but I happen to be able to change e.g. my relays. So must not be fully true.
Highlighter allowed me to post one article, and since then, it can't publish either. I wasted it for a test post. 😅
What am I doing wrong? I am trying to use my Amber signer, but somehow it does not seem to work with any app.
#asknostr #plebchain #coffeechain

2024-09-23 07:15:15 UTC

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| Head 1 | Head 2 |
| ------ | ------ |
| Row 1 | Row 1<br>Row2 |

2024-09-23 05:43:35 UTC

GM! ☕️
Join us if you are:
- interested in buying your daily goods for bitcoin
- interested in selling your products and services for bitcoin
- interested in participating in a circular economy
- interested in living a bitcoin standard
If you are interested:
1️⃣ Write a comment
2️⃣ Write on simplex
3️⃣ Write on private DM
We are in discovery phase to see in which city to start the pilot.
If you are to setup your bitcoin payments, we can also support.
#grownostr #nostr #plebchain

2024-09-23 05:26:05 UTC

# Test
## Test 2
- Test bullet 1
- Test bullet 2
| Head 1 | Head 2 |
| ------ | ------ |
| Row 1 | Row 1 |

2024-09-22 14:43:01 UTC

#hablanews #habla #asknostr
I am trying to make an article with Amber, but habla says I am logged in as read only. Why?
I still can sign relay list change, but can't post an article.
#grownostr #nostr

2024-09-22 13:24:55 UTC

How about "Stiftung Warentest" would make its own nostr keys, and start to sign their ratings?
Then, everyone could verify a rating.
#asknostr #grownostr #germany

2024-09-22 09:43:34 UTC

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Maybe how PGP was preserved for the masses is the WAY! (Funny that it is still not used by many)

2024-09-22 09:42:00 UTC

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GM ☕️ Have a great day! 🫡

2024-09-21 20:53:53 UTC

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Hope it meat your expectation! 🤤

2024-09-21 20:52:09 UTC

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We need more of these initiatives! Great job! 🫡

2024-09-21 18:24:54 UTC

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If you don't decide,
someone else will.

2024-09-21 18:23:39 UTC

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#brotzeit
Enjoy 💜

2024-09-21 17:30:57 UTC

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Thanks!
Unfortunately Habla does not want to post my article. It say read only, but I can change my relays that really takes effect.
So weird.
Probably I shall try on PC.
#nevent1q…qhp6

2024-09-21 17:14:47 UTC

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Can you also make articles on highlighter? Or there you can only highlight? I cannot find a create button or so.

2024-09-21 09:44:19 UTC

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GM! ☕️ Have a great one!

2024-09-21 09:41:11 UTC

GM ☕️
Did anyone succeeded to setup habla.news with amber, and still post with it?
#asknostr #grownostr #nostr

2024-09-20 19:40:12 UTC

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Which is your favourite coctail Sven?

2024-09-20 19:28:32 UTC

Which client do you suggest for longform content creation?
#asknostr

2024-09-20 15:34:23 UTC

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Isn't BTC more like wealth?

2024-09-20 15:24:34 UTC

"For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you."
#JimRohn
What are you willing to do to spend your sats? To improve your payment privacy? To live on an uninflatable currency? To live on a permissionless currency?
#nostr #asknostr #plebchain

2024-09-20 15:19:26 UTC

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Circular economy for the win! 🔥

2024-09-20 15:18:51 UTC

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It is. It can have a positive reinforcing effect on local enterpreneurs/farmers/businesses and bitcoiners.
That is why, we are working on it to make this happen in Germany.
#germany #circulareconomy

2024-09-20 14:24:20 UTC

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GM! Have a great day! 💜

2024-09-20 13:18:29 UTC

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Thanks!

2024-09-20 13:13:58 UTC

Test, test, test
Can you see this?
#nostr

2024-09-20 12:29:50 UTC

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Cute cat-ato you have there. 💜

2024-09-20 11:49:23 UTC

I am working on a bitcoin benefits for businesses article, here is a short excerpt:
"""
If you have a business, and you are thinking what bitcoin can do for you, you are in the right place.
As a merchant/business, bitcoin can give you the following benefits:
- New customer base
- Cheaper fees than card payments
- No payment delay like for card payments
- No chargebacks
- Simple way to lock a payment
- Collect tips
- Reward customers
- Reward customer reviews
"""
What else would you add to the benefits?
#grownostr #nostr #plebchain #asknostr

2024-09-20 09:02:13 UTC

Let's change the world, 1 sat a time!
#nostr

2024-09-20 08:12:06 UTC

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Probably does not even worth it to deal with such companies if you can manage that. Like in case of job shortage, could be hard to be picky.

2024-09-20 06:54:06 UTC

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Thank you for your work that you put in to find jobs for bitcoiners. That can also help adoption!

2024-09-20 06:52:56 UTC

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I see!
It's kind of hard though, because it is a chicken and the egg problem.
Like more people will spend, if more people accepts, but more people will accept, if more people want to spend.
And for adoption, you need both.
But we have to start somewhere.
So I guess, we can either start it either:
1️⃣ by making it easy to spend on places where it is not accepted, like coupons.
2️⃣ by we ourselves start to accept sats for our work, and share it with other bitcoiners who would like to spend.

2024-09-20 06:45:16 UTC

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Have a great one! ☕️💜

2024-09-20 05:43:29 UTC

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Cool! Hope you enjoyed the meetup!

2024-09-20 05:39:24 UTC

Good morning! ☕️ Happy Friday!
Let's push this day, then enjoy the well deserved resting.
Afternoon seems to be great on weather side, so might be a good beering time! 🍻
#grownostr #plebchain

2024-09-19 07:17:00 UTC

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GM ☕️

2024-09-19 07:15:06 UTC

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Can I ask, why do you want it to be adopted? I mean your personal why, not like a general statement.

2024-09-19 06:01:32 UTC

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What is the benefit you see in having it decentralized?

2024-09-19 05:56:40 UTC

Why do you want to pay in sats?
1️⃣ Privacy: You don't want your spending to be tracked and used to control you.
2️⃣ Permissionless: You don't want someone to be able to decline your spending
3️⃣ Inflation: you want to store and spend a money that is not inflationary
4️⃣ Other
#bitcoin #grownostr #plebchain #coffeechain #nostr

2024-09-19 05:27:33 UTC

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#asknostr #nostr #germany
Do you know anyone in Germany who sells the following products for sats?
🥚 Eggs
🥛 Milk
☕️ Coffee
🍯 Honey
🍊 Fruits
🥔 Vegetables
🍞 Bread
#grownostr #plebchain
#nevent1q…y95y

2024-09-19 05:26:32 UTC

Gm! ☕️
Be the change!
#grownostr #plebchain

2024-09-19 05:24:57 UTC

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Gm ☕️ Have a great day! 🤙

2024-09-18 16:31:39 UTC

GA!
Enjoy the nice weather and touch some grass! 🤙
#grownostr #plebchain #nostr

2024-09-18 13:31:25 UTC

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Good morning ☕️
Finally a few days without raining and nice weather! 💜

2024-09-18 11:41:02 UTC

How to spend your #sats in #Germany
Generally you can
1️⃣ go to places where they accept sats ( you can find them on btcmap https://btcmap.org/map )
2️⃣ buy virtual cards or gutscheins with sats
The 2️⃣nd is simpler in a way, that it opens up the places where you can spend your sats without need the other side accepting it.
If you think about it, buying in group 1️⃣ means you support those people who are bitcoiners, who might have a similar view as you.
But also you can look at it, that you want to only own sats, and no bank accounts, so the important things for you, is to be able to spend your sats without a bank account and with ease.
#grownostr #nostr #plebchain

2024-09-18 06:14:49 UTC

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That's great! Thanks for informing!
Will the listed services be in Germany?

2024-09-18 05:34:15 UTC

GM! ☕️
#asknostr #Germany
What service or product do you sell for sats?
#nostr

2024-09-18 05:31:09 UTC

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GM ☕️

2024-09-17 18:00:34 UTC

German Circular Economy
I see this initiative as a multi-sided idea. The first ideas are the following:
1️⃣ Saturday Market
The idea would be a monthly market like event.
2️⃣ Online Market
This would be a kleinanzeigen like idea but also for services but for sats.
Maybe the easiest would be, if we start with the services and products you would like to sell. Then we can see which initiative can start earlier, and which shall be refined.
If you want to share your products and services that you have in Germany, you can either comment under this post, or use the #germancirculareconomy hashtag
I also think privacy is important. So I keep the option open to preserve your privacy, and we will find a way that fits everyone.
What are your opinions?
Let's go! 🔥
#circulareconomy #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #germany

2024-09-17 16:48:24 UTC

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GA Nostriches!
My big dream is to build up a circular economy around me with other nostriches/bitcoiners to buy/sell what we can between eachother with sats.
Therefore, I created this keypair to start the process of collecting nostriches and bitcoiners in #Germany 🇩🇪 to buy/sell their products and services to other nostriches.
Harsh goals, I know. But let's start at the beginning.
If you are a nostrich in #Germany 🇩🇪
1️⃣ who likes this idea
2️⃣ who wants to spend his/her sats
3️⃣ who wants to sell his/her craft for sats
4️⃣ who likes the idea of circular economy
5️⃣ who wants to shop from fellow nostriches
then this initiative is for YOU!
Also if you know any nostrich who could be interested please share it with them.
Let's use the social effect of nostr, and start this circular economy with word of mouth.
#grownostr #plebchain #circulareconomy

2024-09-17 16:33:57 UTC