#Chausseestrasse

[chrisjohndewitt]

Berlin 1990. Tatra KT4 Tramcars, Lead Car Number 218129 6 A triple BVB tram turns the corner of Invalidenstrasse and Chausseestrasse in the Mitte district. 

[coinnewsstore]

Bitcoin cointelegraph.com 09 November 2022 18:59, UTC    Reading time: ~4 m No, it’s not Groundhog Day. Subway is accepting Bitcoin (BTC), again — but this time it’s using the fast, nearly free Bitcoin Lightning Network. Kicking off the 7-day #usingbitcoin week with Lunch at Subway, Chausseestrasse in Berlin! 50% off when paying with #bitcoin #spendyourbitcoin pic.twitter.com/f81kdMOnEQ — felix (@felixbillert) October 19, 2022 The world’s largest franchise by number of restaurants is trialing Bitcoin payments at three Subways in Germany’s capital, Berlin. Subway first experimented with Bitcoin almost 13 years ago in Moscow, Russia. Over the past few months, Daniel Hinze, the Berlin Subway franchise owner, recorded over 120 Bitcoin transactions. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Hinze explained his desire “to help Bitcoin become money.” “Five years ago, I started to deal with cryptocurrencies; and in the last two years, I have dealt very intensively with the topic of Bitcoin. With that in mind, I’ve decided that [Bitcoin] could be the better money system.” Bitcoin is not a popular means of exchange in Europe, despite the efforts of merchants, retailers and even Lightning-enabled conferences. Hinze has encouraged Bitcoin payments by offering a 10% discount on all footlongs, meatball marinaras and sucookies paid for with BTC. Lunch with #usingbitcoinat Subway in Berlin. Also got 50% off. :D pic.twitter.com/yZkZ6osO9D — Rumpel_BTC (@BtcRumpel) October 19, 2022 To kick off the campaign, Hinze offered a 50% discount on all Bitcoin payments for one week: “Around the week, there was, of course, extremely high demand. Our three restaurants were frequently visited by people who liked to pay with Bitcoin.” German-speaking social media was buoyed by Subway buys as the hashtag #usingBitcoin took over. Hinze partnered with Lipa, a Swiss-based Bitcoin company, to enable an easy-to-use point-of-sale solution. Bastien Feder, CEO of Lipa, told Cointelegraph that its mission is to make Bitcoin “basically irresistible to use because Bitcoin is currency.” Lipa kitted out the Subways with merchant devices that allow customers to quickly scan a Lightning-enabled QR code that allows for fast, frictionless, low-cost payments. Lipa charges merchants 1% for the service, as opposed to Visa or Mastercard payment rails, which charge double or more. Feder explained: “It’s 2.5% to 4% depending on the contract from the merchant. If it’s a business card, there’s 0.5% on top of that. […] And if it’s a foreign business credit card, you pay up to 7%, and you don’t know until the end of the month.” The experience of paying over the LN differs greatly from when Subway franchises first accepted Bitcoin payments in 2014. Before the arrival of the LN, customers would have to wait for around for several minutes. Miners would mint the next block on the blockchain, with the transaction confirmed by Bitcoin nodes around the world. The process was inconvenient for retail payments due to the wait time as well as the sometimes high fees. With the LN, customers enjoy faster settlement times than Visa or Mastercard and lower fees thanks to a peer-to-peer network of payments. RACE OF THE RAILS ‍♂️ Bitcoin #Lightning payments vs #fiat contactless payments at the #Gibraltar Bakery. £2.20 loaded up on both PoS. WHO WINS?? ⚡️ ⚡️ ⁦@CoinCorner⁩ ⁦@CoinCornerMolly⁩ pic.twitter.com/b3ezy7FIeq — Joe Nakamoto (@JoeNakamoto) July 25, 2022 Nonetheless, due to the fact that Bitcoin has for most of its history been a speculative vehicle — sparing a few use cases for purchasing — encouraging Bitcoiners to spend BTC can be a challenge. Nonetheless, retail examples are popping up, such as in Berlin or San Salvador. Nicolas Burtey, CEO of Galoy Money, told Cointelegraph that the adoption of Bitcoin in El Salvador was the tipping point for the Lightning Network. He joked that the Bitcoin Law “should have actually been called the Lightning Law!” Related: McDonald’s, pizza and coffee paid in Bitcoin: The Plan B for crypto payments Lipa and Hinze expect a steady increase in demand for Bitcoin payments. Feder told Cointelegraph that it’s due in large part because of the ”exponentially rising Bitcoin community in Germany, in Switzerland, basically all over the world.” Indeed, the LN is enabling communities keen to trade, from Senegal to Guatemala and Switzerland. Hinze told Cointelegraph that for the moment, the Subway restaurant only accepts the world’s most recognizable currency, as he and his business partners “firmly believe in Bitcoin.” #Subway #accepts #Bitcoin #users #sandwich #Lightning #Network

[nucifract]

Chantilly.  Juni 2014

“Chantilly” würde ich denken, wenn ich ein Sandwurm wäre. 

#olympus om-1 #35mm #2.8 #Schlagsahne #Chantilly #Crème #Sandwurm #Chausseestrasse

[bonocity]

a patio entrance in #berlin #berlinmitte #chausseestrasse https://www.instagram.com/bonocity/p/BvkRGXVgQ36/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1313rtwanhem0

#berlin #berlinmitte #chausseestrasse

[habersaath]

#googlestreetview spioniert den #bnd aus. #spy vs #spy #spyvsspy #spionundspion #habersaathstraße Ecke #chausseestrasse #google #street #view #bndberlin #südpanke (hier: BND Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwY_UttgAry/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10015mml7rtuu

#googlestreetview #bnd #spy #spyvsspy #spionundspion #habersaathstraße #chausseestrasse #google #street #view #bndberlin #südpanke

[bridogradiliste]

Chausseestrasse, Berlin, Germany. August 2016

#Chausseestrasse #berlin #germany #facade #architecture #rhythm #fenestration #details #graphism

[localr]

„Glotzt nicht so romantisch“ — Kleines b an der Chaussee #bertoltbrecht #brecht #chausseestrasse #dorotheenstädtischerfriedhof #brechthaus #literatur + #architektur #sunnyday (hier: Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv3d22TljJz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=39rpe0chd68e

#bertoltbrecht #brecht #chausseestrasse #dorotheenstädtischerfriedhof #brechthaus #literatur #architektur #sunnyday

[janmaruhn]

#WIETERSHEIM ARCHITEKTEN #chausseestrasse #contemporaryarchitecture (hier: Bezirk Mitte) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuBJeD_Fsrt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gxsc3bb2ttdv

#wietersheim #chausseestrasse #contemporaryarchitecture

[architecturalmodels]

#Chausseestrasse Builiding #Wietersheim Architekten #Berlin #Germany #2018 #residential #architecture

[grenztruppen]

On April 8, 1989, two young East Berliners jumped the barrier at the Chausseestrasse border crossing in Berlin-Mitte

"The firearm to prevent border breaches should no longer be used": This instruction to the GDR border troops of April 3, 1989 did not reach the Stasi passport control

#east germany #ddr #grenztruppen #grenzer #berlin wall #warsaw pact #soviet union #eastern europe

[chrisjohndewitt]

Berlin Chausseestrasse 1992. The Schwartzkopffstrasse U-Bahn station is named after a short street going off left. The car on the right is a Trabant 601S Estate Car, with a larger interior than the standard 601.

#analogue photography #blackandwhite #East Berlin #DDR #communist-era #cold war

[ccohanlon]

Anton Newcombe, leader of the psych-rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, was one of my more unlikely acquaintances in Berlin. His recording studio was just a few blocks from my apartment, north-west of Nordbahnhof, where affluent Mitte began to meld with the predominantly Turkish, working-class neighbourhood of Wedding. I sometimes cycled there for a late afternoon tea with him.

Anton’s studio was a converted, single-storey coach house at the rear of an altbau, on a quiet street that was once the northern-most of East Berlin’s city centre, a block from the old Chausseestrasse/Reinickendorfer Strasse border checkpoint.

Set at the rear of a courtyard cluttered with bicycles, the studio itself was weird and Tardis-like but welcoming, especially in the middle of a dismal Berlin winter. The walls of the large living and dining area were blood red. Antlered skulls and a gilt-framed painting of a nativity scene framed the sky blue walls and yellow door frames of the adjacent hallway. A large, sculptural collage that suggested an American flag hung on the longest wall, alongside a commemorative plate featuring a head and shoulders profile of Pope John XXIII, and a framed portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. There was also a large blue butterfly under glass. On a wooden trunk beneath the collage there was an ornate but tatty faux-mother-of-pearl accordion and an ugly piece of taxidermy — a stuffed weasel baring its fangs on a length of desiccated tree branch. Opposite, the narrow window ledges were like voodoo altars, filled with pot plants, wax skulls, kitschy statues, toys, African and Arabic-like busts, Polaroid instant photos and odd bits of bone, shell, and porcelain.

There were a couple of worn-out replicas of a ’60s Scandinavian-modern sofa but most visitors sit at a pine table that took up half the room.

The last time I was there, on a dull, rainy afternoon last week, the Canadian singer, Tess Parks, was putting the finishing touches on an album. Tess was at the table, sipping tea, and leafing through pages of handwritten lyrics in a notebook. With her was Joe Dilworth, a Berlin-based English photographer and bookshop proprietor, also well-known as a musician, who was waiting for the rain to stop so he could photograph Tess for the album cover. Anton, and his engineer, a large Liverpudlian woman named Andrea, fussed over a detail of a mix in the sound-proofed room next door. When Anton took a break, he chatted with Joe about instrumental effects on obscure mid-’90s recordings and fingered through the clutter on the table — scraps of notepaper, discarded biscuit wrappers (chocolate digestives), Indian bead necklaces, and coiled, unused guitar strings — to find crumpled packs of cigarettes. They were usually empty.

A couple of hours passed, during which, somehow, random strands of a four-way conversation were started, discarded and picked up again as Anton dubbed a new guitar track, Tess laid down her vocals and Joe loaded 6×6 black and white film into a vintage Rollei twin lens reflex before leading Tess out to the courtyard for her portraits.

When the rain eased, Joe and I took our leave. I risked the rush-hour traffic on nearby Chausseestrasse to take a round-about route home. The bike lane was blocked by construction work outside the foreboding 30-acre complex that is the new headquarters of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service). I was forced out into the road to cycle close, too close, alongside an accelerating tram. At the cobbled turn-off into Tieckstrasse, opposite the Dorotheenstadt cemetery, where Bertolt Brecht lies beside his second wife, the actress Helen Weigel, just a few feet from the philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a too-sweet scent of shisha wafted from a gaudy Turkish bar. It hung in the damp air like cheap gauze.

First published (in a slightly different form) in The Learned Pig, UK, 2017.

#berlin #antonnewcombe #cycling #recording #tessparks #brianjonestownmassacre #memoir #joedilworth

[johncsee]

Chausseestrasse, Berlin #monochrome #chausseestrasse #street #Berlin (at Chausseestraße)

#monochrome #berlin #street #chausseestrasse

[habersaath]

Die #Kiefern des #bnd werden gegen feindliche Angreifer mit Gift ☠️ bestrichen. #bundesnachrichtendienst vs #borkenkäfer #chausseestrasse Ecke #habersaathstraße (hier: BND Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwUGJRLAaSv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v7dg2ihml26z

#kiefern #bnd #bundesnachrichtendienst #borkenkäfer #chausseestrasse #habersaathstraße

[scavengedluxury]

Chausseestrasse, Berlin. September 2018.

#architecture #Berlin #abandoned #graffiti #travel #scavengedluxury #original photographers #fujifilm x-t1

[lconontheinternet]

L CON // EUROPE 2018

Oct 7 - Chausseestrasse 131 // Red Bull Music Fest - Berlin DE Oct 19 -  Links Neben Der Tanke - Leipzig DE Oct 20 - Institute for Music - Osnabrück DE Oct 22 - Chaff - Brussels BE Oct 24 - Bobuska - Copenhagen DK Oct 25 - Cafe MIR - Oslo NO* Oct 26 - Good Omens - Trondheim NO* Nov 1 - Madame Claude - Berlin DE *w/ Synne Sanden

#redbullmusicfest #berlin #germany #tourdates #lcon #lisaconway #norway #denmark #brussels #copenhagen #oslo #trondheim #redbullmusicacademy #rbma2018