Satoshi's Place is serving up suds for Bitcoin, but how did this pub come to be?
) in 2013. Five years later, he opened a coffee and breakfast shop that accepted Bitcoin payments with its own Bitcoin ATM. Back then, the founder highlighted that they did not have the Bitcoin Lightning Network and had to wait for a bit for payments to go through. He explained that:
“That was literally layer one. It wasn't lightning, it was slow. But I mean, it was only kind of small amounts anyway. So, we just let the user sit down and watch the transaction and stuff.” After a while, the cafe's team did some testing over the years but had difficulties in terms of adoption and troubles with their bank. “I had a bank account here which got blocked for about a year just for taking Bitcoin payments,” he said. Adam highlighted that even though everything was documented properly and presented to the banks, their accounts were still blocked.
Despite the issues faced, the founder said that they still carried on. From just being a coffee shop, the place started to offer pizzas in honor of the Bitcoin Pizza Day. Eventually, the place also offered workshops to those who wanted to learn about Bitcoin. “Everything from Lightning education, Bitcoin for kids, Bitcoin development, all different types. There are about 16 hosts that I've got up to now that want to do workshops,” Adam noted.
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