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I talk with Jimmy Djabali of Swiss Bitcoin Pay, an app for easily accepting Bitcoin payments at point of sale.
This is an important area of development, and unfortunately there are still not that many solutions out there for making accepting Bitcoin as a business easy. Swiss Bitcoin Pay seeks to fix this with a simple interface that is suitable for shops, restaurants, or any kind of customer-facing business.
Jimmy shares how the project came about and his vision for it, as well as the Bitcoin merchant situation in Switzerland including the city of Lugano which has over 300 merchants accepting Bitcoin already.
Finally, if you want to learn about some of the Bitcoin payment solutions that are suitable for kiwi businesses check out the community project myself and a few others have created at acceptbitcoin.nz.
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Swiss Bitcoin Pay - https://swiss-bitcoin-pay.ch/
AcceptBitcoin.nz - https://acceptbitcoin.nz/
Bridge2Bitcoin - https://bridge2bitcoin.com/
Lugano Bitcoin City - https://planb.lugano.ch/
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Swiss Bitcoin Pay on Twitter - https://x.com/SwissBitcoinPay
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