Usually, once I converse with on a regular basis Bitcoiners — plebs, if you’ll — they share with me that they’re torn between carrying on with their “fiat job” and getting extra concerned within the Bitcoin area on an expert stage.
I often inform them that they’ll begin by incorporating Bitcoin into what they presently do for a dwelling, although, I haven’t had an amazing instance of somebody doing this that I can level them to — till this morning.
When it’s time for the purchasers of osteopath Rob Shaw, primarily based in Essex, UK (simply exterior of London), to pay him for his providers, he presents them with the choice to pay with British kilos or bitcoin by way of a Musqet PoS system.
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— Chelmsford Osteopathic Follow (@essexosteopath) Could 29, 2024
(Please word he doesn’t go right into a lesson on Bitcoin’s underlying know-how or the ideas of Austrian economics as he does this.)
Rob shared that right here and there a consumer will act stunned when offered with the choice to pay with bitcoin however that almost all merely make their selection between the 2 and proceed with making their fee.
Rob’s efforts have led to 2 of his purchasers now frequently paying in bitcoin, and he additionally offers a touchpoint for individuals who have but to start paying with it.
On this method, Rob is a Bitcoin bridge.
(And, mockingly sufficient, it was a corporation referred to as Bridge 2 Bitcoin that launched Rob to Bitcoin as a fee know-how for his enterprise.)
He’s subtly introducing folks to Bitcoin, giving them the choice to cross over into Bitcoin land within the course of.
Some may name this “orange-pilling” (a time period I don’t like a lot as a result of it feels too coercive), however I’d argue that this can be a extra refined method to current bitcoin to folks. In providing it as an official fee methodology for skilled providers, it legitimizes Bitcoin and prompts these unfamiliar with it to start viewing it in a brand new mild.
If professionals world wide employed such an method, Bitcoin adoption would speed up notably.
So, as a substitute of feeling that it’s important to drop no matter you’re doing for work to affix the Bitcoin business full-time, take into account being a bridge to Bitcoin and bringing the Bitcoin business to what you’re already doing.
Be like Rob, be a Bitcoin bridge!
