There is safety in numbers.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently. When people are all doing the same thing, it becomes easier, but we then stop using our critical minds and start using intuition.
Before we allow intuition to kick in societally, we need to make sure things are done right, that shortcuts and malicious things are easy to identify and cast away.
Then, we need our "experts" to keep on top of everything.
But most of all... We need to have something in place to prevent the "experts" from becoming corrupted.
I believe that thing is the money.
The title and the content say two different things... Yet people will accept the title as an instruction of what they are supposed to think.
Of course, physically anyone can accept cash, but we have scaled our businesses lazily.
Hire staff to do minimum work, not be invested in the company, don't invest in the staff either.
Use banks and the tools they provide to shortcut the payments because "they are the professionals, they know best", yet for other things like marketing or securing your shop, we do most of it ourselves because the professionals are expensive and we can do it ourselves.
Now when shit hits the fan, nothing works, and no one knows how to pivot and keep shit going.
Stuff like this is an opportunity to learn and adapt. Like when the blockchain gets congested, like when exchanges rug you, and so on.
Anyway, at least "chaos" here doesn't mean the same as "chaos" in the US where people just loot.
I think I like boost just fine.
A counterargument for devils advocate sake.
Everything around us influences us and makes us do things that we would not otherwise do.
We could argue that advertisers do what they do because it is lucrative and necessary to mass indoctrinate to get ahead.
The internet is a tool, it could be used to do so many things, but there is one major influence that makes us behave the way we do, regardless of what tools are available to us.
Fiat.
Le end.
Was that supposed to be road lights? Or is he in the district?
Will you pay before or after the work?
If after, gaslight them into believing that legally they have to accept whatever tender you choose because it is a debt now. 😅
Amazing. Very nice user flow.
What's redbacks? Russian ruble?
Words I thought I'd never hear after learning about bitcoin...
"Keynes was right" 😅😎
No, just Switzerland.
Fun Fact, they accept bitcoin in Costa coffee and Hotel Chocolat, but only in Gibraltar (assuming that is still the case today).
Just saw the Spar in Switzerland video where they accept bitcoin. In the video, the presenter scanned a static QR code directly with his wallet and it knew exactly what his bill was.
I scanned it, this was the URL: https://app.dfx.swiss/pl/?lightning=LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7CTSDYHXGENC9EEHW6TNWVHHVVF0D3H82UNVWQHHQMZLXSUKGWRRVCENZWRXVC6NQVNP8Q8R6P2L
Wallet of satoshi was able to read this, follow redirects (I assume) and fetch the appropriate invoice.
Of course, this is not going to work right now, since you'd have to load the URL at the same time someone else was making a purchase and is asking to pay in bitcoin, but I'm curious if anyone knows, what other wallets would support this?
Maybe nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqd2970s, Phoenix wallet? Any wallet that supports LNURL?
And by the way, this is a seriously cool and frictionless payment flow. 😎🚀🔥🔥🔥
Just saw the Spar in Switzerland video where they accept bitcoin. In the video, the presenter scanned a static QR code directly with his wallet and it knew exactly what his bill was.
I scanned it, this was the URL: https://app.dfx.swiss/pl/?lightning=LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7CTSDYHXGENC9EEHW6TNWVHHVVF0D3H82UNVWQHHQMZLXSUKGWRRVCENZWRXVC6NQVNP8Q8R6P2L
Wallet of satoshi was able to read this, follow redirects (I assume) and fetch the appropriate invoice.
Of course, this is not going to work right now, since you'd have to load the URL at the same time someone else was making a purchase and is asking to pay in bitcoin, but I'm curious if anyone knows, what other wallets would support this?
Maybe nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqd2970s, Phoenix wallet? Any wallet that supports LNURL?
AFAIK, the perspective I have heard, specifically from Gloria, is that the changes they make are typically towards reducing load on bitcoin node hardware.
If a node can more closely predict what txs will go into the next few blocks, then it can avoid spending resources validating txs that are unlikely to be mined, and when a block comes in, it takes much less time and resources to validate because idle time was used very effectively.
Now of course, that gives an argument for setting defaults, but I do agree that optionality should exist and potentially there could be a collection of common configurations to pick from to promote individualism.
I get that configurability breeds complexity, but for bitcoin, I think optionality is more important. At the same time, it might not be the responsibility for the core team to maintain optionality, as long as they don't block it.
People can just say stuff.
Not open source, but free, no account needed... draw.io
That whole sentence is an oxymoron.
Bruh, Adam ain't Satoshi's son, he weren't even his hero.
Main takeaway for me is that it depends how we use it.
We could choose to use it to avoid thinking (this idea that we have 2 systems in our brains, a quick dumb side and a thoughtful side, and we often only use the thoughtful side when we have to.) -- effectively delegating more of our thinking to chatgpt and losing our practice of thinking for ourselves....
Or we could use it to challenge ourselves and explore our own thoughts.
I think this is a good take on AI and education/mind evolution.
Safe from what mate?
What is the risk for a newbie just starting out that they need Cypherpunk privacy out the bat?
Genuine quesion.
Pretty sure that exists, but it's pretty expensive. Unfortunately I don't remember where I read about that.
Remember when meta got in on the action?
It is possible that this was what web 3 was supposed to be... Everyone stuck in virtual reality believing they are digital, owning digital things.
Meta was ready to own the digital world. Fortunately, the world was, and is, not ready for that. Few.
Imagine going into different discord groups and forums and asking what web 3 is and all you get is their personalised pitch about their own ideas.
Never a straight answer.
That's how you know it was never a real thing.
No, I was saying 1 Bitcoin but meaning 1 satoshi...
But fair enough, maybe you wont need subunits of bitcoin, but don't underestimate the utility of micropayments in the future when we have a digital money. (E. G. Streaming money)
Web3 has no official definition. People got excited about blockchains and thought it would issue in a new type of digital web where people could own things secured by a blockchain.
Most people actually thought it would finally create a new gaming paradigm where items in games can exist outside and outlive the games themselves.
Then there was a bunch of people that saw digital IDs and thought that web3 would be a web that allowed people to own their own identities and build trust and be able to prove things like their age without having to reveal more than needed using things like zero knowledge proofs. These identities could be created and persist on a blockchain.
Forward to today, I think it is clear that the promise of a blockchain that cannot be restarted, censored or controlled in any way is still a dream. NFTs, smart contracts, all these innovations were used for gambling but not much beyond that.
It is also clear with Nostr, that we don't need blockchains to create idenities. Nostr is barely scratching the surface of what is possible.
I was asked to figure out web3 by a mate who wanted to invest in it and all I could find was fluff, buzzwords and dreams. By the time I reported back with my findings, he told me he wasn't interested in it anymore anyway... (🤬ing wasted my time).
So TLDR; it is just a buzzword and people chase buzzwords because they think that is where, if they can master that thing, they can develop a career in the next big industry and strike it rich.