Joerg Platzer, proprietor of Room77, a bar in Berlin that has accepted Bitcoin since 2011, describes how patrons who wished to pay with Bitcoin initially needed to kind lengthy Bitcoin addresses into their laptops, how individuals’s curiosity in Bitcoin correlates with the markets and the way the demographics of the Bitcoin customers have modified over time. He discusses why the bar discourages customers from sending their Bitcoins from Coinbase, Circle and BitPay, how crypto firms can surveil their firms greater than banks do, and the way they impose U.S, legal guidelines on different jurisdictions. He additionally talks concerning the Lightning Community point-of-sale machine that they’re utilizing, how what he believes to be the primary routed Lightning Community cost occurred at Room77, and the way stunned he by the variety of individuals desirous to pay by way of Lightning. Plus, he reveals which different cash he’s open to, and which of them he isn’t.
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Episode hyperlinks:
Room77: http://room77.de/
Joerg Platzer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpercentC3percentB6rg-platzer/
2014 CoinDesk article on Room77: https://www.coindesk.com/evolution-bitcoin-behind-berlin-bar
The Room77 Bitcoin Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Lab-Berlin/occasions/qbbwmhyzjbjb/
Pictures of a number of the Bitcoin-related indicators I noticed at Room77:
