The problem I see with instant messengers like Signal is the network effect: If Signal were to charge a monthly/per usage fee, I would be willing to pay that, but many people would not. With the walled garden ecosystem that are most messengers nowadays, paid messengers will have a much harder time gaining users and suffer the network effect.
If more open protocols like matrix were common, perhaps I could use a paid server that in exchange does not log my metadata. However I would be chatting mainly with people using free servers and these servers could be logging a lot of the metadata (basically everything except for my connection details such as client used and IP).
I am happily paying money for email hosting so that my emails are not farmed for advertising. Have been with privacy respecting paid providers since 2015
I will happily pay money for instant messaging if the app respects my privacy and does not log metadata. I paid for Threema licenses, although I don't use the messenger on a daily basis.
I will happily pay money for ad-free privacy-respecting search results. I was using DuckDuckGo for years now, but just found out about kagi.com and am testing them now. Paying a small amount of money (over lightning) for unbiased well-indexed search results sounds well worth it!
All of these services cost a lot of money to host for the providers, and you know the saying: either you are paying for the product or you are the product.
Probably from timestamping the requests you make to load posts from your timeline.
Time between request to load post A and post B is time spent on post A.
Could be avoided by loading posts in aggregate. Like 10 or more at a time. Then you just know that this time was spent looking at the 10 but not which specifically.
Also it could be, that the user switched apps in between.
Aber 107€ und zwei Passfotos trennen dich davon wieder alle Vorteile der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft zu genießen. Du bist ja trotzdem Staatsbürger, auch wenn die Dokumente mal kaputt gehen.
Das ist schon ein Unterschied zu jemandem, der Staatenlos ist oder sich die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft wünscht.
Nettes Bild, aber kannst genau so gut 107€ und zwei biometrische Fotos in den Mixer werfen.
👍 Lebanon would be a good test lab for something like that. Cash economy with a sizeable informal sector and basically no banking.
‚Fifteen years after it was created, the messaging app now runs the world.‘
Because it is simple and easy to use even by my grandmother 🤷🏼
https://www.engadget.com/how-whatsapp-became-the-worlds-default-communication-app-144520113.html
Get your grandma on PGP encrypted email holding her own keys on a yubikey! 🤡
Could always be rugged by the mint operator or the operator could get thrown in US prison for operating an unlicensed money laundering service with US dollars or serving sanctioned entities.
Fiat ecash is an okay idea if it weren't for the state 😆.
More bullish on some sort of stable sat. You would find plenty of places to redeem for physical fiat and be unruggable if you hold it in self-custody.
Not directly. You can use a swap service such as Boltz. Wallets like Phoenix also let you swap between on-chain and lightning for a small fee all without you having to manuallz swap. Just scan an on-chain Bitcoin address and your lightning wallet will send the desires amount.
Depending on usecase i might go for some Liquid Bitcoin (LBTC) 😉
Really happy for you, that you get such joy out of stardew! I heard it's good, but I am not a gamer myself.
Enjoy! 🫂
Public data shows that there are around 1.8 Mio BTC on exchanges and another 880.000 in the ETFs. Where are you getting your 90% of custodied coins from? Other way around is more accurate.
If you can easily convert BTC to local fiat cash in a p2p way it is permissionless.
I can do exactly that at my local meetup (not that I would be selling).
True! 10 Million Dollars in your bank account are not worth as much as one bitcoin in self-custody if you have to fear that your bank account gets frozen at any time because your spoke out against your local regime.
Aber wenn wir keine #Steuern zahlen, wer stellt dann die "Tempo 30 - Straßenschäden"-Schilder auf? 🤔
Pirate the content, then zap the creator generously on Nostr! 💜
No middlemen, direct payments.
What is that now?! Why did the hobo steal my groceries and how is Wasabi going to fix this?
That is a costly endeavor 😄