This is an inevitable outcome of people not spending their Bitcoin.

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Yep... 😢

It’s a sad reality of the “Bitcoin economy” that we have to use fiat. I think it’s only a matter of time until we see fiat-based “zaps” in nostr clients, and at this stage I’d welcome it because maybe we’d see some actual meaningful economic activity here. There are already some clients that offer fiat-based in-app purchases. A lot of Bitcoiners larp an wax eloquently about a parallel Bitcoin standard economy, but then they go and hoard sats and spend only dollars.

Kudos to nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 for choosing to degrade their own UX rather than comply with Apple’s demand to use fiat for zaps.

Damus uses in-app App Store fiat purchases for Purple subscriptions, so that’s not really a “gotcha” argument like you think it is.

It wasn’t a gotcha, it was just a statement.

Cool 🫡 I’ll fine tune my snark radar a little more 😂

The problem is that we need to increase business adoption. That then transitions people from earning fiat and buying bitcoin, to earning bitcoin, saving bitcoin, spending bitcoin. If their source of income is Bitcoin it takes away the fiat option.