EP11: Bringing Bitcoin to Local Business w/ Michael Atwood, Founder - Oshi

Builders In Bitcoin EP11: Bringing Bitcoin to Local Business w/ Michael Atwood, Founder - Oshi, Organizer - Austin Bitcoin Club

I had the pleasure of speaking with the founder of Oshi—and my good friend—Michael Atwood. Showing local businesses how to use Bitcoin to both embrace a better system and grow their customer base is a mission I wholeheartedly believe in, and one that Michael and Oshi continue to champion.

In this episode, we discuss and dig into:
- what Oshi is and how it works
- overcoming the current friction associated with onboarding small business to Bitcoin
- Michael’s experience organizing the Austin Bitcoin Club meetup
- and a lot more…

0:00 Intro
3:30 What is Oshi?
5:56 Overcoming Bitcoin friction for small businesses
9:55 How to connect with businesses
13:54 Michael’s background
16:51 How does Oshi work?
19:23 Austin Bitcoin Club
25:18 Bitcoin is just a tool
28:58 Business accounting with Bitcoin
35:19 How Oshi onboards businesses
38:25 Syncing Oshi with your POS terminal
42:24 Collecting information + subscription models
44:52 Locally produced, globally distributed
46:52 Where to get the Oshi app
47:33 Bitcoin is hard
52:07 Where to find Michael and Oshi
53:17 Outro

Resources:
Oshi: https://www.oshi.tech/
Austin Bitcoin Club: https://www.austinbitcoinclub.com/

Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dooowta
Oshi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OshiApp
Rod on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite
Builders In Bitcoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildersinbtc

To learn more about Bitcoin Park, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.co and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://discord.gg/YZ8x7mfFKj

And a massive thank you to:
- Producer - Tom Maxwell https://twitter.com/tomjmaxwell
- Theme Composer - Max Wellington https://twitter.com/immaxwellington