My side hustle is Nostr 😎
I can't turn cash into bitcoin very easily, so nah, I'd rather have digital money, or bitcoin directly 😊
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Different worlds i guess. I sell for cash. No tax. I spend on stuff i need. Keep more sats in storage. Skip a step.
We still live in a fiat world.
Yes, unfortunately we do. I grew up in Sweden where they changed the look of their cash in 2016, and people are still having a hard time recognizing the coins, because no one uses cash there. They have something called Swish there, that all the banks have agreed on so it's instant money transfer from my bank to all the others, using a phone number.
I prefer cash in fiat. But i look forward to a bitcoin standard.
Why didn’t you adopt the euro?
Because the Euro sucks. The government has been trying to get the swedish people more comfortable with the idea, but it's really stupid to join it. Instead of being in charge of our own economy, Sweden would be subject to how all the other countries are doing.
Like when a crops country gets bad crops one year, but the manufacturing market is doing great in a different country, they need to adjust for the one that's doing bad.
Most countries joined the EU during the financial crisis in the 80 (I believe it was) but sweden didn't, because we didn't experience the crisis.
Then in the 90s maybe, there was a tiny crash, and Sweden's government used it to join the EU.
Then when everyone joined the EMU (money) Sweden didn't join, and the population has been resistant to it, so far. I hope for their sake that they keep it up, and adopt bitcoin, but who knows what they'll do. Plus, they've grown from like 8 million to 10 million almost exclusively by immigration from the middle east, so who knows what opinions are being added simply because of that.
They already changed school graduations from happening at Churches because of the potential of a Muslim kid attending the school, even though in the small towns in the North, there were none!
So, they try to accommodate certain things through anticipation, rather than requests, which means they're giving up Swedish culture and norms before even being asked about it.
So, I'm not sure what they'll do, but I hope they keep avoiding joining the even faster crashing currency of the Euro.
I hope so too. I haven’t traveled in those countries yet. But agree, it’d be a shame if your heritage and culture is lost.
Thanks for the write up. I learned!
Are you still living there?
No, I'm in the States now with my husband. We started with 6 months in Sweden, but homeschooling is illegal there, and they want too much in taxes so we came to America.
Interesting. I thought Sweden was more progressive
They are Social Democrats. So progressive in the left sense, with gay marriage and everyone paying taxes that then covers school, healthcare, and such.
They're generally techy people, so they have common sense and do what works. They don't transition kids and they didn't have lockdowns. The guy in charge of that part in the beginning went with the logic of flock immunization, but he quit after too much backlash.
Swedes follow suggestions pretty well, so they don't need to make things law for people to submit. At least as long as it's somewhat reasonable.
But it's very government led. You have to go to school until 9th grade. And you can only buy alcohol at a state owned store that's open week days until 6pm or something.
Pharmacies used to be government run but got released for public ownership some years ago.