Joerg Platzer, proprietor of Room77, a bar in Berlin that has popular Bitcoin since 2011, describes how patrons who desired to pay with Bitcoin at the origin needed to form lengthy Bitcoin addresses into their laptops, how of us’s interest in Bitcoin correlates with the markets and how the demographics of the Bitcoin customers private modified over time. He discusses why the bar discourages customers from sending their Bitcoins from Coinbase, Circle and BitPay, how crypto corporations can surveil their corporations higher than banks effect, and how they impose U.S, guidelines on diverse jurisdictions. He also talks about the Lightning Network point-of-sale instrument that they’re the usage of, how what he believes to be the first routed Lightning Network cost passed off at Room77, and how a great deal bowled over he by the preference of of us engaging to pay by Lightning. Plus, he unearths which diverse cash he is delivery to, and which of them he isn’t any longer.

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Episode links:

Room77: http://room77.de/

Joerg Platzer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j%C3%B6rg-platzer/

2014 CoinDesk article on Room77: https://www.coindesk.com/evolution-bitcoin-within the help of-berlin-bar

The Room77 Bitcoin Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Lab-Berlin/occasions/qbbwmhyzjbjb/

Photos of some of the Bitcoin-connected signs I saw at Room77: