Don't understand. If nobody can see the content other than the 2 parties communicating, is that not private?

Is messaging on Nostr private?

goes to show why it's important to continue working on L2 like lightning and e-cash instead of doing risky changes to the main chain. I'm a few short years I foresee a huge leap forward in LN and e-cash.

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C'mon.. is it gonna be that powerful? 100,000,000 midiclorian count?

Any way to have cashu e-cash in telegram?

This is a very reasonable and responsible view towards bitcoin development.

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I would say, enemies of bitcoin does not necessarily need to totally destroy bitcoin to be qualify as its enemies.

Crippling it by making it more centralized by bloating the chain to a point where it's undesirable to run nodes?

Having majority hash and continually mine empty blocks?

I love "Bitcoin for payments" and I love payments with bitcoin.

I want to support more development on LN, ecash etc.

But not at the expense to decentralization and security.

There are enemies of bitcoiners and I defend their rights to use bitcoin even if they are my enemies.

I don't consider people trying to get rich from bitcoin as enemies of bitcoin, even if they are selfish people trying to pump with bags.

But there are real and actual enemies of bitcoin. Who are those?

- Spread disinformation about bitcoin.

- Attempt to congest the blockchain to make it difficult to be used.

- Spammers.

- Scammers employing "creative" usage of bitcoin.

- Those attempting to create non-fungibility on bitcoin.

etc

What's the purpose of using animated QR?

I'm beginning to see the power and coolness of ecash like Cashu and Fedimint.

Regarding using bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange.

Michael Saylor thinks that bitcoin is primarily a superior asset where there is no second best. It is the best Store of Value. Thus the ease of payment mode using bitcoin as a medium of exchange will not be the main factor that drives bitcoin adoption worldwide. No one after all, will buy a prime property in central New York with the intention to break up a small piece to buy a cup of coffee.

To that, I agree. No one, given a choice will use something that cannot store value as a medium of exchange unless it has the power of force and guns behind it. Essentially, the govt forces you to use something that cannot store value as a medium of exchange. If you are a Venezuelan, you have no choice but to use the bolivar. If some of us are old enough or remember stories told to us by our grandparents, during the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, they were forced to use the “Banana currency” with literally a picture of banana on the paper printed indiscriminately by the occupying invaders. They have no value. No one wants them if not due to a gun pointing to their head.

Traditionally, going back to the ancient of days, that which has a strong capability to store value tends to NOT work very well as a medium of exchange. A gold coin was very difficult to use if you are trying to buy a chicken or some fishes to feed your family for the day. Even in ancient China, while the emperors, rulers and lords stored their wealth in gold, the common people used silver and copper as a medium of exchange.

I posit that for bitcoin to have global adoption, it must be recognised as an undeniable store of value, an asset with no second best. This is what will drive global adoption. BUT unlike gold and real estate, bitcoin is also something very portable, divisible and easily transmitted over space via the Internet. Anyone can use bitcoin as a medium of exchange today if they wanted to.

For small and fast payment, bitcoin on the Lightning Network is excellent. We are not anywhere even near to the limit of the Lightning Network. Third Parties Custodial services, frown upon by many, are incredibly efficient. Improvement on Self-custodial Lightning is continually being improved on but the current tech will not be used by the masses. The pros and cons of custodial issues require a different discussion. We also have federated solutions like Liquid, Fedimint and Cashu E-Cash that are fast and private. And all these are continually being improved.

We need not be overly anxious that a billion people cannot use bitcoin as a medium of exchange because while it is super efficient and fast to use now, we cannot even get 10 million to use them. Storing of ones’ value in bitcoin is of higher importance now and certainly more urgent. Our fiat money loses value month by month, year by year continuously. But almost no one has a problem using their fiat money as a medium of exchange.

Thereby, I would say positioning bitcoin as a second to none, superior Store of Value, resistant to both State confiscation and censorship is the message to the masses. I’m confident that the bitcoin tech communities will continue to build towards hundreds of millions to billions of users going forward. I am sending and receiving bitcoin over the Lightning Network almost every day with 99.9% success rate using my own LN node and some custodial services. We are still very early.

Can help with some clarity?

In any ecash mint, the ecash can only be used in the specific mint right? The ecash cannot interchange with ecash from another mint. Is that correct?

When I was a young bitcoiner and also a shitcoiner, I like to use wallet that supports all the shitcoins, with tonnes of features, futuristic designs, very cool sounding name... like Exodus, Trust, Coinomi etc...

Now that I've grown up, I dump all the shitcoins.

Now I want those boring wallets, that ever heard of shitcoins, no defi... be simple, be secure, be open-sourced, virtually unhackable and unruggable.

Hot Wallet (with direct Internet connection, therefore with tiny possibilities of being hacked):

1. Green Wallet

2. Blue Wallet

3. Samourai Wallet

Cold Hardware Wallet (with no direct connection to the Internet, open-sourced and cannot be hacked remotely)

1. Jade

2. ColdCard

3. Foundation

4. Trezor (if using Trezor, make sure it's bitcoin-only firmware)

Best Desktop Wallet

1. Sparrow Wallet

It's a rite of passage to ride the wave of bitcoin winter all the way down to $16k and emerge from the tunnel of darkness to the brightness of a new cycle.

Cherish every moment.

Money is a representative/token to store & exchange value. There is no such thing as fake money. Anything can be money including cigarette, salt, seashell, rocks, copper, silver, gold and nicely decorated papers. But there are differences between hard money, weak money, easy money and useless money.

Bitcoin is the hardest and strongest money, that is neutral, supply that is capped, very expensive to produce, unconfiscatable, unstoppable and transparent.

Your fiat is an ant facing the bitcoin Anteater.

what is an exit interview?

The question would be what exactly is a deep fake? When you say it is not a real child, is the face not real or the body not real, or both not real.

The usual deep fake is using someone's face on a fake body doing fake action.

If the face is that of a real child, it's very real harm to the child and the family.

I think blue wallet cannot do custodial LN anymore.

I fully support Ocean effort to decentralized mining pool and empowers miners to choose their block template.

I would think when we discuss common understanding of censorship in the philosophy of bitcoin, is the effort to stop certain parties from making financial payment/txs based on discriminatory value that in non-financial in nature. Eg: stop txs from my enemies because he is my enemies, stop txs from countries/regime I don't like, stop txs from reaching ppl I don't like etc. This is where the ethos of censorship-resistant came from.

I wouldn't like that filtering rules or protocol constraints put in place to protect a system be called "censorship".

Normalizing, encouraging or enabling the redefining of the common meaning of words will play into the hands of the enemies. While I will defend the ability of my enemies to utilized the intended usage of the bitcoin protocol as a monetary system for financial txs, I will not defend their effort to abuse and degrade the protocol using exploits for its unintended usage.

I use the word "enemies" to illustrate that the worst possible parties should not be censored from using bitcoin as a form of monetary system or financial transactions. Not that those who disagree on these matter is my personal enemies.