In the Silk Road era, bitcoin was stigmatized as a tool for criminals. Now, a decade later, it’s clear that any centralized organization has the power to arbitrarily prevent any legal business or even an entire industry from accepting payments.

#Bitcoin is for everyone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/business/mastercard-debit-cannabis-transactions.html

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Thank you, Brother. Such an important point you're making. Bitcoin doesn't ask for permission, irrespective of who is asking or what is being asked. Tradfi is for plebs shouldering the weight of totalitarianism.

This is awesome. Yet another legacy business handing thier competitor a free lunch. I want to see more of this

Yep. Next News title is gonna say “All Cannabis Shops Across US Now Accept Bitcoin”

Slow at first then all of a sudden.

I still have my blockbuster video card I will put it with my master card one day

Their hubris will be their undoing.

You can’t just cut people out of systems and expect them to go wither and die, that’s not how humans work. They will find ways around it and given the alternatives already available it’s not like it’s even difficult for them to get around this.

I’ve always said you can only push a man into a corner for so long before he pushes back