Payment services like PayPal or Strike are really doing their best to advertise Bitcoin, whether they mean to or not. Last year, Strike held back a payment I got from overseas, labeled *me* as untrustworthy 🙂, and froze my account. Even after weeks of back-and-forth emails, nothing moved forward.

And now PayPal just decided to hold a payment I received today for 21 days. Their reason? I haven’t used PayPal as a recipient before. They say if I had 10 regular incoming payments, this kind of treatment wouldn’t happen.

Well, that’s not gonna happen. From now on, I’m only accepting Bitcoin for international payments.

Thinking of writing a quick how-to guide—like, how to download a good Lightning app, buy Sats through a connected exchange service, and then use those Sats to pay someone.

Anyone know a super simple app for that? The Lightning wallets are mostly good enough—it’s really the exchange integration, where you can directly buy Bitcoin into your Lightning wallet, that’s the tricky part. Are there any without KYC?