I'll never forget the first time I paid a bill with bitcoins: it was in the Steemit Meetup in São Paulo, Brazil.

in #bitcoin6 years ago (edited)

Hi steemians! The first Steemit Meetup São Paulo happened in March 23, organized by Dani Denes (@naturald) when visiting her homeland Brazil and keep in touch with the missed caipirinhas again :-) I had the pleasure to meet Dani and her college time friend plus @guifaquetti, @camillagomes and @fireguardian, all them in person.

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Pictures by Dani Denes (@naturald)

The event's place was chosen because it accepts cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin and BCH), the Boteco Boa Praça (translating literally it means Good Square Bar :-)), despite being in Steemit since November 2016 thus surrounded by tons of information about crypto and blockchain I never used the technology for payments or commerce. The Meetup was the perfect occasion to practice all what I learned here and try to do it for the first time paying my bill in the bar, and surprise: it worked!

Photography by Dani Denes (@naturald)

I've read that the Boteco Boa Praça was using the cryptocurrencies payment technology from Coinwise, thanks to @belzunces who shared the news here on Steemit, so in preparation I transfered some satoshis (Bitcoin fractions) I won answering emails in Earn.com to a wallet from the same company easaly set on the web at: https://coinwise.io/w/. From this wallet I tranfered to the Boa Praça wallet trough the adress the waiter showed me in her tablet, a device apparently
exclusive for this kind of transactions. (Sequence number 1 in the chart)

Despite not being a high level secure procedure (the Coinwise warns that the online wallet was created for newbies, they want to be the first but not the final customer's wallet), I felt that the solution was quick and easy to use, specially for small and instant transactions. I used my satoshis from Earn but I could exchange my STEEM/SBD collected here. In Brazil there isn't an exchange that accepts Steem tokens for transactions but I could use Blocktrades (as recommended by @casagrande before), already integrated with the Steemit wallet to buy other cryptocurrencies. Like I've done in the sequence number 1, I could exchange the STEEM/SBD for satoshis and store it in my Coinwise online wallet or any other wallet that accept LTC or BCH, just in case I prefer to pay Boteco Boa Praça with any of these cryptos. (Sequence number 2 in the chart)

Bitcoin, Litecoin and BCH ATM in São Paulo

Images credits: BitVending Facebook Fanpage and Monica Hikaru (@monicahikaru) on Instagram.

I've heard about Coinwise before when they promoted and installed a kind of cryptocurrency ATM in a shopping center here in São Paulo. Inaugurated in September 2017 the BitVending machine accepts brazilian fiat money (Real) to buy crypto and accepts it to sell R$ 50 reais money notes (approximately U$ 13.50). The service was interrupted when the Bitcoins transactions fees got high but is active again now with options to exchange Reais for BTC, LTC and BCH. The company Coinwise has its headquarter in the city of Recife, where is the crypto payments platform for many stores, including Apolo Beer Café, one of the @jsantana's favorite place.

May 22, Bitcoin Pizza Day Promotions

Beyond these solutions in brazilian fiat money and crypto payments and commerce systems the Coinwise also is celebrating the 8 years anniversary of the first purchase using Bitcoin with a promotion: https://coinwise.io/promo.html (original text in Portuguese, below the translation).

In May 22 the Bitcoin Pizza Day is celebrated worldwide as the day when for the first time in history the Bitcoin was used to purchase something physical. In 2010, the american programmer Laszlo Hanyecz posted in a Bitcoin online forum asking to buy 2 pizzas, he promised to who deliver the pizzas would receive 10 thousands bitcoins in exchange, at that time it values approximately U$ 40 (today it would value U$ 81 millions). Laszlo's request was served and the cryptocurrency amount sent.

Coinwise transformed the Bitcoin Day in the Bitcoin Month: all the payments with Bitcoin and Litecoin in the registered stores will have a 10% discount, and the payments with BCH will have 15% discount during all this month! The discount will be calculated and instant shown in the sellers' Coinwise application when you pay with your mobile wallet.

In the promotion page Coinwise shows a list of shops from different brazilians cities, including São Paulo. Maybe this is my chance to repeat the experience and expend my cryptocurrencies transforming it in good food and beverages and have fun once more.

I think this date is also a good opportunity to promote Steemit and Steem tokens, I am sure many pizza sellers would like to transact theirs delicious round specialties for crypto for happy steemians who can share and post about the celebration with creative pictures, memes and hashtags.

Thanks and good luck again!

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Original post in portuguese:
5/11/2018 : A primeira vez pagando uma conta com bitcoin a gente nunca esquece :-)

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Quero poder ir no próximo encontro da galera do Brazilians. Vai ser legal conhecer esse povo.


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Valeu! Espero que logo logo tenhamos outros eventos meetups com o povo do Steemit no Brasil. Quem sabe com convidados vindos de outros países e tudo. Sucesso e boa sorte mais uma vez!!

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