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Why do I insist so much on Bitcoin markets for exchanging goods and services? It's very simple.

If we only use Bitcoin for Hodl (Saylor narrative) and goods and services are not offered for Bitcoin, you are forced to sell Bitcoin for Fiat to obtain goods and services, favoring the fiat system and having to pay taxes on the sale of Bitcoin. In this case, Bitcoin is harmless to the state; it is no more dangerous than a stock.

But if you can buy goods and services with Bitcoin, this changes everything. You don't use Fiat, you take volume away from the Fiat system, and the state has no control over what you have purchased because there are no bank accounts, making it extremely difficult to collect taxes.
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Des Imoto マキシ 5d ago

Like I said yesterday. For that to happen we need to solve the shipping process. We can advertise and buy things on #nostr now. P2P. Pay with zaps. Anonymously. But how do we get it shipped and delivered without doxing names and addresses? Once that is solved people will feel comfortable.

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Timekeeper VI 5d ago

Our closest example: Tor drug sites (darknet markets) safeguard user addresses via: 1) Tor's onion routing for IP anonymity; 2) PGP encryption; buyers encrypt shipping info with sellers' public keys, decryptable only by them; 3) No central storage of plaintext data; 4) Escrow & feedback to build trust without revealing identities.

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Des Imoto マキシ 5d ago

Great. Like it. Needs to be automated, somehow. Also, the physical address is a problem. Need local delivery hubs, or geo location points (encrypted of course)? And a transportation network, where people can just volunteer to pickup and deliver for zaps, based on geo locations?

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Des Imoto マキシ 5d ago

I don’t know how to program anything. But can all that be added to Damus? To make it simple?