this is a great initiative! these are the news that are good for bitcoin and the community, knowing that somehow it is possible to use one's btc to pay for daily expenses will lead to more and more mass adoption. as far as wallets are concerned, I also advise you to use the lightning network both to receive and to pay, because the TXs are instantaneous and with few fees. it seems to me that electrum supports LN

Congratulations to you OP, I hope the place you open the gas station is close to busy area because, the moment people discover that you are accepting BTC as a payment in your business, many people will conclude that you are a big man and they will be looking for way to snatch your system or phone from you to have access to your BTC. Am not trying to put fear in you than to advise you to be careful for late hours business because, people always look at those that is accepting BTC in their businesses as the richest man or woman in the country. I believe, trust wallet is reliable and trusted for that business because it is difficult for scammers to have access to your BTC unless you expose you seeds to someone.

You have a valid. This is the first thing I think when I saw gas station implement Bitcoin as payment because people come and go as quickly as possible when loading gas because they are on travel. I don’t know how Bitcoin works with OP’s business or if there’s really a business but showing Bitcoin to customers as an option is already an advantage for Bitcoin because it will serves as marketing. But I doubt OP can get benefit on using Bitcoin due to the nature of his business. Only few people have a time to wait for 1 confirmation before they will leave the gas station because I will not let my customer leave if the transaction is still unconfirmed.

Setting up LN doesn’t make sense because it’s not popular with common people. Most user has the native Bitcoin and only few use LN.

I understand what smartvirus is saying, the similar stories about this subject are hard to miss in this board, at first it was encouraging to see others do their bit to increase bitcoin adoption in their residence, whether or not the stories were true was not a priority but now it seems the merit distribution on these topics have made some users to create their own version of adopting bitcoin.

I can’t confirm if what you claim is true but I think it’s a big leap from being confused about bitcoin and lightning network to now accepting bitcoin in your establishment.

This is a really cool and unique idea since as far as I know, I haven't heard of any gas stations that accept BTC so this is a great step forward, and I'm sure that many people who don't know what Bitcoin is will eventually get into it because of the hundreds of new people who will come to the gas station from time to time.

The promotion of Bitcoin will be significant in the area where the gas station is located. Congratulations on your new gas station, and keep up the good work. It should work well since people can simply pay with a QR code on their phones, and the transactions take only a few seconds. I'm sure it will be useful, and I hope to see this in my country someday too.

Best of luck in your project @OP

Busy areas required enchance payment, Bitcoin happens to be fast when using it's network to make transactions. You're probably making the point that fraudsters exist anywhere in the world and can defraud individuals if appropriate controls aren't put in place to guarantee the security of Bitcoin transactions in that particular region. However, we must cultivate a positive outlook and stop only focusing on things' drawbacks. Gas stations accepting Bitcoin as the primary form of payment will improve and develop the neighborhood. Residents have a tendency to amass more Bitcoin, and awareness of it will grow.

I have across of variates of thread which stipulated that they have a business that is been paid with bitcoin for the payment but known of them have return to the forum after some months or years and tell us if the system of bitcoin payment in their business is still propagating or not, I will not stand to condemn the act of people who embrace bitcoin with the little scale business investment for payment, from my view its a welcome development if we establish a business and make bitcoin as one of the payment condition, from my perspective that is another method of advertisement for bitcoin only if the business have its ground of accelerating frequency in such domain, but due to we do see this kind of thread to the newbies and we can't tell if the phrase of information they portray or present is real or not, because none of users that make such kind of thread have return to update the community again, but I can't fail to embrace you op and applaud you for your good initiative for advertising bitcoin with your business, I wish you good for your innovation.

This is great news. If more and more people implement payments using Bitcoin then this will increasingly make Bitcoin even more trusted among the general public. Implementation of payments using Bitcoin is not easy, because this is related to government regulations, your readiness and also your customers. Including how do you introduce Bitcoin to new ones. But if you can get through it, it will be invaluable.

I truly appreciate the initiative and idea you have taken to introduce Bitcoin to the general public. Not everyone can start their Bitcoin journey as tangibly as you have done. Selling fuel on a small scale is not a bad start. Many people need fuel and it creates a high impression to make people curious about the existence of Bitcoin and Blockchain.

Thank you for starting to adopt Bitcoin as it was originally intended, as a decentralized digital currency. Its general use is for transactions, regardless of the amount.

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For payment methods, it is highly recommended to use the suggestion from @TravelMug, which is the Lightning Network. I have personally used LN and even transactions as low as $0.1 run smoothly. I have tried it here: https://btcln.app/atm/