I’ve not tried Strike yet or Swan either. Still buying from Coincorner as they have lightning withdrawals. Mempool causing headaches as to when to move Bitcoin into wallets and storage
Discussion
I’m panning to try River out. Been using Strike only for the past 2 years or so.
I wanted to try coin corner, the cards looks cool. But not available in Canada
Strike pays the big miner fees for you (for now)… inscriptooors are not an issue
For now is right. I’m loyal to cold storage:)
How it gets there means less to me as long as it’s easy, cheap fees, etc.
I don’t mind paying the miners , it’s exchange fees . Anybody use peer2peer? I’d like to try that next
Now that is the question. P2P, no-KYC etc. I’ve not dabbled yet but would like to open this discussion up to learn.
I’ve heard of Robosats but not read about P2P options or how you buy - it is how Satoshi designed Bitcoin to work so I should make time to learn
Hmmm. Good question. I think it is as Satoshi sent BTC directly to Hal Finney in the first ever “transaction”. If memory serves. Exchanges didn’t exist yet though. Good question.
Someone told me the other day that they think Hal finney is secretly Satoshi
Brilliant and was a massive contributor but I don’t think he was. Adam Back as well. Huge contributor. There are a few more names on this list.
Hal has long been the #1 suspect to have been Satoshi.
I've even heard a compelling case that it's Elon Musk.
Musk can’t code. He’s an actor. And a good one. A bag of shit is less full of shit than he is. IMO.
It's worth the thought experiment.
Energy. Storage of energy. Peer to peer payments. Etc.
"Musk wrote the software for his first companies, Zip2 & X.com, which literally specialized in peer-to-peer payments.
X.com’s source code was written in C++ and described as monolithic & So was Bitcoin’s.”
Satoshi’s use of ‘bloody hard’ and ‘order of magnitude’ were hallmark Musk expressions. Satoshi wrote with double spaces after a period. So did Musk."
I don’t think we’ll ever know but that won’t stop us talking about it 💯
RoboSats is excellent. The escrow model keeps scammers out effectively, it runs over Tor and Lightning for privacy, and the fees are very low.
The “premium” you pay for privacy is worthwhile: I try to think of the “discounted” price on KYC sats to be the price I’m willing* to sell my data for.
Strike is great.
You buy with no fees. You send to your on-chain address with no fees. Literally none…
And it’s a Bitcoin-only company: inherently more ethical than a crypto exchange
Except more than half the world can’t use it…
Which is a shame, and hopefully with time, that will change as their company (and others like it) are able to expand into additional regions.
But it sounds like the guys in this thread have access to it, which is why I replied favorably toward it as a service.
That’s just wrong.
