{"id":2418,"date":"2025-01-31T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/be-a-bitcoin-bridge\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:17:39","slug":"be-a-bitcoin-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/be-a-bitcoin-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Be A Bitcoin Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        Follow Frank on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/frankcorva\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Often, when I speak with everyday Bitcoiners \u2014 plebs, if you will \u2014 they share with me that they\u2019re torn between carrying on with their \u201cfiat job\u201d and getting more involved in the Bitcoin space on a professional level.<\/p>\n<p>I usually tell them that they can start by incorporating Bitcoin into what they currently do for a living, though, I haven\u2019t had a great example of someone doing this that I can point them to \u2014 until this morning.<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s time for the clients of osteopath Rob Shaw, based in Essex, UK (just outside of London), to pay him for his services, he presents them with the option to pay with British pounds or bitcoin via a <a href=\"https:\/\/musqet.tech\/\">Musqet PoS device<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First Bitcoin payment accepted with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Musqet_Bitcoin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Musqet_Bitcoin<\/a> POS terminal. <\/p>\n<p>This device reduces traditional payment fees and also enables Bitcoin transactions. <\/p>\n<p>Learn more by listening to this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Princey21M?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Princey21M<\/a> podcast. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Ac9VgOopL\">https:\/\/t.co\/8Ac9VgOopL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VHBa4mmERM\">pic.twitter.com\/VHBa4mmERM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelmsford Osteopathic Practice (@essexosteopath) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/essexosteopath\/status\/1795822497046356455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Please note he doesn\u2019t go into a lesson on Bitcoin\u2019s underlying technology or the principles of Austrian economics as he does this.)<\/p>\n<p>Rob shared that here and there a client will act surprised when presented with the option to pay with bitcoin but that most simply make their choice between the two and proceed with making their payment.<\/p>\n<p>Rob\u2019s efforts have led to two of his clients now regularly paying in bitcoin, and he also provides a touchpoint for those who have yet to begin paying with it.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, Rob is a Bitcoin bridge.<\/p>\n<p>(And, ironically enough, it was an organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/bridge2bitcoin.com\/\">Bridge 2 Bitcoin<\/a> that introduced Rob to Bitcoin as a payment technology for his business.)<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s subtly introducing people to Bitcoin, giving them the option to cross over into Bitcoin land in the process.<\/p>\n<p>                        On Tower Bridge in London with Rob.<\/p>\n<p>Some might call this \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/the-subtle-art-of-orange-pilling\">orange-pilling<\/a>\u201d (a term I don\u2019t like much because it feels too coercive), but I\u2019d argue that this is a more refined way to present bitcoin to people. In offering it as an official payment method for professional services, it legitimizes Bitcoin and prompts those unfamiliar with it to begin viewing it in a new light.<\/p>\n<p>If professionals around the world employed such an approach, Bitcoin adoption would accelerate notably.<\/p>\n<p>So, instead of feeling that you have to drop whatever you\u2019re doing for work to join the Bitcoin industry full-time, consider being a bridge to Bitcoin and bringing the Bitcoin industry to what you\u2019re already doing.<\/p>\n<p>Be like Rob, be a Bitcoin bridge!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Frank on X. Often, when I speak with everyday Bitcoiners \u2014 plebs, if you will \u2014 they share with me that they\u2019re torn between carrying on with their \u201cfiat job\u201d and getting more involved in the Bitcoin space on a professional level. I usually tell them that they can start by incorporating Bitcoin into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}