100% and things like expiry dates, social credit scores etc are primarily legislative requirements, not technical requirements.
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And to ignore ineffective international sanctions that primarily hurt the people instead of the regime
For it's the end of history
It's caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one
That made you ill
It does do that yes. But I’m more saying I can support bitcoin merchants, without having to touch my main stack, by spending fiat (which is what I get paid in, unfortunately).
I also think Strike is making a pretty savvy play in terms of international payments. Producer in country X wants to sell to importer in country Y. They can negotiate price in any denomination ($, btc, etc), importer pays in any currency, value moves over LN, and then producer gets either their local currency or btc. Essentially strike is replacing international banking rails with lightning, which is obviously good for bitcoin
There are multiple flows, and I think that’s one of them.
But I use it to buy from bitrefill. I deposit dollars, then pay a bitrefill invoice, and bitrefill gets bitcoin
Dump your fiat, merchant gets bitcoin
So many exciting things on the horizon. I will keep my eye out :)
And in case you haven’t seen this, it’s a nostr marketplace that looks promising: https://github.com/lnbits/nostrmarket
Wow this is really cool. Fantastic work!
I would for sure purchase something like this to wear everyday 👀👀
And also, I want to say that I love your content, and am grateful for all the work you do. Just a difference of perspective :)
No, but you can smile and celebrate how far this feature (zaps) has come in just a few months.
And then from this place of positivity, realize that the status quo is 100% due to the difficulties in creating your own lnurl, and with more time people will have a self-custodial solution
After we make anon zaps the default, let’s keep going and make likes anon, posts anon etc. Then we can all just be a bunch of anons anonning and what not
It’s somewhere between a wink and outright gas lighting.
Are they acknowledging that their money is imaginary? Or are they so drunk off the kool aid that they actually believe this shit?
