The good times were when the government didn't care at all about Bitcoin.
The bad times were when agencies wanted to crack down on crypto companies.
But it's entirely possible that government "support" ends up being worse.
There are few scarier phrases than "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
I use to say I don't care if the government supports/adopts Bitcoin. What I said be saying is that it worries me that the government supports/adopts Bitcoin.
Testing zap receipts for this note… we made six attempts to⚡zap this note, at sime@21m.lol, over a period of 28 minutes. Six of the zaps were successfully paid... Please check for 6 satoshis received. Problem: we found that your lightning address server **did not** produce any zap receipts. This means that nobody else could see see that you got zapped... no number appears next to the ⚡icon after zapping.... We recommend that you use a cloud-based Lightning node to get more reliable zaps.
Cheers. I see them.
Is this the spec for zap receipts?
https://nips.nostr.com/57#appendix-e-zap-receipt-event
Which LN implementations support this?
yep, that's the spec... you need a web server that talk talks to a lightning node to implement it...
Possible they get a big bag then dump it during a future crisis, tanking everyone’s price.
So true but hasn’t it always been inevitable?
Bitcoin can’t do what it’s supposed to do unless governments welcome it.
And governments are just people. (Often some of the worst people but nonetheless)
You are correct though.
And would be much nicer to see the gov getting behind it because they HAVE to, rather than because they want to.
It's true that they could marginalise Bitcoin again and drive it underground, but it's more lucrative for them and their cronies to loot their herds through it.
Governments are not "just people": they are gangs pd armed people running people farming concessions, and asserting the right to live entirely by looting genuinely productive people through direct coercion.
Won't take long till we see government layers on top of bitcoin. They probably will work great and you won't need any technical knowledge.
Hi jameson 🏴☠️😉🤟 It's true! I think so too. It's a terrible fear of mine that the governments manage to contain bitcoins with dirty games.. they pretend to ride it but they want to hide it as much as possible to cover its wings
100% true. Then add in that 3 mining pools seem to be in cahoots together and produce 40% of all Bitcoin, Saylor's stash and his motives, how much Bitcoin BlackRock have under their belt and their ties to the government, how Coinbase has managed to hold all this Bitcoin etc etc and I ask:
"Is this decentralisation? Wasn't Bitcoin about the little guy?"
And having some entity eventually owning 51% of Bitcoin can no longer be stated as an impossibility.
Worse this we did was let corporations and governments in. Greed is not good. Despite Gordon Gekko's convincing argument 😂
There was never such a time when they didn't care that an alternative appeared to their biggest superpower.
American Senator Schumer was on their TV talking about Bitcoin powering Silk Road practically as soon as it appeared. That was what, a year or two after Bitcoin began?
Their position was from the beginning that if they can't destroy it, they will work to loot it through direct and indirect #taxes and controlling as much of Bitcoin infrastructure and exchanges as they could to coopt the Bitcoin ideology and purpose, and pilfer its users.
They succeeded; Tether fiatcoin is used far more than Bitcoin as the "digital cash" Bitcoin was intended to be!
What's left for them to do is to become the biggest Bitcoin holders by "nationalising" for "national security" the giant Bitcoin repositories they control, such as Conbase, et cetera.
