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Le Bon Vieux Temps 🍸 in Montreal’s Latin Quarter is now accepting Bitcoin ⚡ Powered by EclairBTC: • No KYC • No custodians • Direct-to-wallet payments Leveraging @BullBitcoin_ wallet and @BtcpayServer + @Liquid_BTC + @Boltzhq under the hood. Go grab a drink and pay in Bitcoin 👇 lebonvieuxtemps.com

@BlockstreamJade Indeed. Here's someone paying a brunch bill using lightning and a Jade hardware wallet. Fast and easy and secure. x.com/EclairBTC/stat…

Psst... Jade is the only hardware wallet that can send and receive payments via Lightning. Pass it on.

@geyserfund Brunch. x.com/EclairBTC/stat…

What’s the best thing you've paid for with Bitcoin? 👇

You walk into a Prague grocery store in 1985 and the toothpaste says "TOOTHPASTE." That is the brand. White tube, blue letters, no name, because a name implies a producer competing for your loyalty, and there is no competition. There is one toothpaste. You take it or your teeth stays dirty. The soap works the same way. "SOAP," wrapped in waxy gray paper that crumbles when you look at it. Is it good soap? You have no idea, and you never will, because you have nothing to compare it to. The genius of price signals and brand reputation is that they pack thousands of strangers' judgments into one purchase decision. Strip that away and you are buying blind. Quality becomes a rumor. You hear the soap from the Plzeň plant lathers better than the Ostrava one, so you hoard the Plzeň bars when a friend tips you off. That is your consumer research: gossip. Now the line. You have stood in it for two hours, and you do not yet know what it sells. You joined because a line means something arrived. Oranges, maybe. Toilet paper, if the planners felt generous this quarter. This happens not because the planners are evil or even incompetant. Without market prices for capital goods, the central planner cannot calculate. He is flying blind, allocating steel and labor by guesswork, and the result lands at your feet as an empty shelf and a four-hour queue for shoes that do not fit. The system itself cannot function. It is impossible. Production under socialism is impossible because there are no price signals. There were no restaurants worth the word. East Berlin in 1980 had a handful of state canteens serving the same gray schnitzel, where the waiter did you a favor by taking your order and the kitchen ran out of half the menu by noon. Choice was a Western decadence. You ate what existed. This is what "they meant well" produced: a continent of adults trading gossip about soap and standing in line for the privilege of not knowing what they would get. The planners promised abundance and delivered a blank tube of toothpaste. Forty years of it. Yet, people keep telling you it was never tried properly.

Paying for brunch in Bitcoin at the first @womeninbtcmtl meetup. @BlockstreamJade hardware wallet on the payer side. @EclairBTC as the Point of Sale. @BULLBITCOIN_ wallet on the merchant side. Meetup announced on @cluborange. Fast, easy, self-sovereign. This is what local Bitcoin adoption looks like. @btc_montreal @Blockstream @Liquid_BTC @BtcpayServer @Boltzhq

The Bitcoin community in Montreal has never been stronger. What’s most impressive? This is all being built during a bear market. @womeninbtcmtl brought the signal. An inspiring event and a powerful reminder of the momentum growing in this city.

Had an awesome time at the very first @womeninbtcmtl event! 🧡⚡ I had the opportunity to showcase @tallowedandfree products and share my Bitcoin and entrepreneurship journey during a panel discussion alongside @dreamgrdacademy and @je_aash . I also learned a lot about wellness, and loved seeing how the venue accepts Bitcoin payments through @eclairbtc’s POS system. 🙌 One of my favourite parts of the event was meeting so many like-minded women (and men!) and having conversations that ranged from Bitcoin and entrepreneurship to natural skincare and tallow. A huge thank you to the organizers for bringing together such an inspiring community. Looking forward to the next one! ✨ #bitcoin #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #skincare #tallow #btc

A special thank you to the women who helped make our first Women in Bitcoin Montréal gathering possible 🍊 @dreamgrdacademy @withmargie • @tallowedandfree @jaki.naturopathy @je_aash • @pacificaorigen Looking forward to continuing the conversation.

Outside the Apple and Google ecosystems. Bitcoin payments, on the go. ⚡ Powered by Arkade @arkade_os ⚡ Pure sats ⚡ No sidechains ⚡ No altcoins ⚡ No channel management ⚡ No liquidity balancing Bitcoin doesn't ask for permission. "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" — Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi's vision, now in your pocket. Wesatoshis is evolving into the digital banknote for the Bitcoin era

What began as an idea became a room full of conversations, connections, and new friendships. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first Women in Bitcoin Montréal brunch 🍊 Special thanks to @eclairbtc and @btc_montreal for helping make it happen.

Building communities and building infrastructure go hand in hand. Grateful to @EclairBTC for helping bring Bitcoin payments to local businesses like Le Bon Vieux Temps, where we’ll be hosting Women in Bitcoin Montréal on June 20 🍊

There is no fallacy more destructive than the idea that prices naturally increase over time. All prices should fall if the economy is more productive. Indefinitely. It is literally only because trillions of dollars are counterfeited from nothing every year, and our time, living standards, home affordability, and critical resources get sucked out of the economy to pay for it that things get more expensive. It is explicitly unnatural and it’s explicitly because we have fake money and a communist central bank at the lowest layer of our economic system.

Opinion: From nothing bitcoin came, and to nothing it will return theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

Our first Women in Bitcoin Montréal brunch is almost full 🍊 Only 4 spots remain. Men’s registration is now open. RSVP: satlantis.io/events/2286/wo…

Good news: the @Boltzhq API issues have been resolved, and all EclairBTC POS terminals are back to normal. Thanks for your patience. Now go enjoy your weekend and spend some Bitcoin at your favorite local merchants. ⚡️🧡₿

And we are back online. Happy swapping! Post mortem in the following days (the team is really tired) 🙏

Boltz API and related services are currently facing an unexpected downtime ⚠️ We are looking into the issue and will be sharing more information soon 🙏

@Boltzhq This affects the Boltz plugin for @BtcpayServer. Currently getting this error:

EclairBTC POS terminals are temporarily offline because of an API outage at Boltz. We'll post again when @Boltzhq brings their API back online and things are back to normal. Thank you for your patience.