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Written by the pleb @BTCRetriever
Empowering local small businesses with the hardest money known to man has never been easier. The team at, and developers in, Pleb Lab prove that Austin, Texas is ground zero for a bitcoinized U.S. economy. With the seamless experience delivered by the Oshi App, paying in bitcoin becomes easier than ever before.
In just a few short weeks, the folks at Pleb Lab powered by Oshi onboarded 16 local restaurants, food trucks and bars, including Austin favorites III Forks Steakhouse, and a top-notch bar, The Tipsy Alchemist. It spread like wildfire. This effort sparked Bitcoin adoption that will certainly set fire to the city. It all began on South Rainey Street, with the onboarding of Monks Momo to the Oshi App. It culminated in a Block Party of epic proportions.
The night began like any other Austin Bitcoin Club meetup, a gathering of plebs at the startup incubator in downtown Austin, the Capital Factory. Waving his Bitcoin flag, Kyle Murphy led the charge with a roughly 150-man march down from the north end of Congress Avenue, just shy of the capitol building, to Rainey Street. The energy of the night was super charged by the appearance of notable Bitcoin faces such as Parker Lewis, Marty Bent, Ben Carman and even some candidates for Texas public office.
I arrived just after 8:30 p.m. and was stunned to see the massive turnout of local plebs as well as many from out of state. There were people in attendance from California, Colorado, Florida and New York, and likely many more places. I made my way to the back of the crowd to the Happy Lobster Food Truck, where the owner was having a blast dishing out lobster sandwiches made to order. The ordering experience could not have been easier: the happy lobster, regular, maine lobster, drizzle of butter, on a fresh, toasted burger style bun with a side of fries was the obvious choice as it sounded and looked mouthwatering and offered a…
