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How it feels to be a #Bitcoin  maximalist on Twitter vs Nostr

Yea, Lawrence unfortunately has to cater to his investment clients and they're all gold bugs. Deep down he gets that Bitcoin is going to demonetize gold completely, but he has to play the part to make his clients happy.

Some humans like waging wars because they are fuckin' crazy.

Bitcoin doesn't fix this.

"The meta-analytical results obtained allow us to estimate the prevalence rate of psychopathy in the general adult population at 4.5%."

-Prevalence of Psychopathy in the General Adult Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Air cooling miners is fine.

Immersion cooling miners sucks.

Hydro cooling miners is badass, if you can handle it.

Because users outside of the Bitcoin echo chamber don't know what satoshis are.

I’ve always been amazed that people go cashless, meaning they literally walk around and even travel without cash, and just rely on cards to pay.

Credit and debit cards are centralized and can be shut off or denied for all sorts of reasons, or can run into technical issues. BTC/LN is better because it’s decentralized, although it still needs power+internet and merchant acceptance. Cash as physical bearer asset money is great. Of course I wish cash was redeemable for something sound, but maybe in the future that’ll be the case again. In the meantime it’s good to have a few meals or taxis or hotel rooms worth of cash on hand.

I always have a diverse mix of digital and physical payment methods on hand, so I never get caught unable to pay.

So far in life I have only had one instance where I couldn’t pay. I was at a restaurant in Cairo a few years ago and their card machine/connection was down, and were only accepting cash. I had physical US dollars but they were part of a bigger corporate restaurant chain and so didn’t have the flexibility to accept them. My husband normally carries Egyptian currency but didn’t have any on him that day, and since he carried it, I previously did not. Neither did our friend that was with us. So we had to go on an awkward search for an ATM for a while and then come back and pay. And from that point I iterated, so I always carry Egyptian currency in Egypt as well as my other methods. And it has come in handy a bunch of times, when my husband needs some spare cash for tips or something I always have a little stockpile ready to go since I am a stickler about always having a certain amount whereas he is more flexible.

I always have a kind of “prepare for everything” type of mentality and like to be in control of my situation, and thus always have like backups for my backups in various contexts, including payment or being able to access various types of value anywhere, even when such preparation is not really needed.

1. Renaming 'sats' to 'bitcoins'

What do you think about this idea?

What would be the benefits/downsides?

I'd love to have a client or filter that doesn't show images or videos, only short text notes.

And I'd love to have a client that only shows images. And one for just videos.

When I was a kid, I used to watch Batman Beyond, which was set in the future.

The money they used was called “credits” and was digital, with no banknotes/coins. People would swipe cards like credit cards, but also when doing a bearer asset payment, they would hand a card with credits on it to someone who would take possession of it. The same type of card could be loaded with various amounts of credits for various sizes of transactions. Normal people used the money (it was ubiquitous) but also criminals used it, implying the funds couldn’t be frozen or taken back or anything like that, much like cash.

Turns out they were satscards, I guess.

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