Typically, after I communicate 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 house on an expert stage.
I normally inform them that they’ll begin by incorporating Bitcoin into what they at the moment do for a residing, although, I haven’t had an important instance of somebody doing this that I can level them to — till this morning.
When it’s time for the shoppers of osteopath Rob Shaw, based mostly 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.
First Bitcoin cost accepted with @Musqet_Bitcoin POS terminal. This system reduces conventional cost charges and in addition permits Bitcoin transactions. Study extra by listening to this @Princey21M podcast. #Bitcoin 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/VHBa4mmERM
— Chelmsford Osteopathic Observe (@essexosteopath) Might 29, 2024
(Please notice he doesn’t go right into a lesson on Bitcoin’s underlying expertise or the rules of Austrian economics as he does this.)
Rob shared that right here and there a shopper will act stunned when introduced with the choice to pay with bitcoin however that almost all merely make their selection between the 2 and proceed with making their cost.
Rob’s efforts have led to 2 of his shoppers now often paying in bitcoin, and he additionally offers a touchpoint for many who have but to start paying with it.
On this approach, Rob is a Bitcoin bridge.
(And, satirically sufficient, it was a corporation referred to as Bridge 2 Bitcoin that launched Rob to Bitcoin as a cost expertise for his enterprise.)
He’s subtly introducing individuals to Bitcoin, giving them the choice to cross over into Bitcoin land within the course of.
Some would possibly 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 solution to current bitcoin to individuals. In providing it as an official cost methodology for skilled providers, it legitimizes Bitcoin and prompts these unfamiliar with it to start viewing it in a brand new gentle.
If professionals around the globe employed such an method, Bitcoin adoption would speed up notably.
So, as an alternative of feeling that you need to drop no matter you’re doing for work to hitch the Bitcoin trade full-time, think about being a bridge to Bitcoin and bringing the Bitcoin trade to what you’re already doing.
Be like Rob, be a Bitcoin bridge!
