So, family gatherings such as a holiday dinner are actually a bad time to get relatives to listen about Bitcoin. In my corner of the planet, there once was a craze for Axies - yes, I know, I know, Bitcoin != Axies/Crypto.
But even that recently soured, very badly. In my country, small and medium sized business people, got into that and even sold Axies on FB marketplace for hundreds of thousands of pesos. (Approx $2000 to $2500+). It was a country wide craze.
Then Axie fell.
A lot of people got hurt. To them, anything and everything "coin" or "token" was de facto "bad."
If Bitcoin was a virus, normies have since gotten their first, second and third doses of a vaccine.
In the Axie story, selling the pen, was the idea that "I can make a lot of money" out of an Axie. But to get Axie, I have to exchange and get ETH. To get ETH, I have to get BTC to exchange. Thus fueling the demand. People who wanted Axies, didn't really care about BTC. They cared about "Axie price go up".
In retrospect, I think BTC is soon running out of pens to sell.
Remember, the first pen was the Silk Road and Mt.Gox era.
The second pen, was ICO craze of 2017-2018
Normies, who don't like to figure things out, who have been burned by the other defective pens, who have other concerns - ultimately, will not be open to going down that rabbit hole with you.
So, what keeps me in the Bitcoin space? It became my job. I feed my family with my work, I get paid in Bitcoin, I get to meet a community that strives to build me up and teach me. The more I learn, and the more I work, the more Bitcoin becomes meaningful to me.
It's slightly more difficult to keep track of conversations - so I'll post everything as I go. Hope you can see them all.
Try the Socratic method.
Sure, First, am I correct in guessing that you started off with a lecture on economics, central banks and other intangible concepts?
have you tried the "sell me this pen" method?
A life well lived.
He seems to be really disconnected.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1186316124/france-riots-macron-video-games
Brown Asian. Jungle Asian.
It's okay to tell me I'm wrong. I want to learn.
So, France. How I perceive Western Civilization particularly France, as an Asian.
I think the French are disconnected from one another. They do not have a "small community spirit" like most Asian civilizations do. So, these migrants - who come from war torn regions in Africa Asia, impoverished and disadvantaged, normally band together with their own race - people who they share values with.
I did have some French visit our place and they would speak of their own Paris, as "disconnected, cold, impersonal - angry even" quite characteristic of metropolitan cities, yes, - and I haven't been there, so, I'm not qualified to agree or disagree with them. That's what they said.
The migrants then would be in a situation, they will not integrate but rather, form their own microcosm. Sadly, the French may perceive this as a threat - so membership, in Far Right organizations would increase. The disconnect - the rift would grow.
Loving the new design of nostr:npub1j9kttlc86w63emmldd4h74rekyqpksqup6p9trhp5gjsf374qlyszvuswx Stay tuned
Cloning the overhauled UI of walletscrutiny
I hope this ends all the drama. https://stacker.news/items/197704
Big thanks to Carl Dong for clarifying the diffs.
We've been called scammers, grifters, extortionists - on a near monthly basis by a popular personality in the bitcoin space. That person even told our grantor to stop funding us - and has egged on other bitcoin wallet providers to hate us by discrediting the project.
Technical concerns need technical responses. Not defamation.
Maybe one day, when said person is old, he can look his child in the eye and say, I sat with billionaires like jack, sold a million coldcards, became a millionaire and trampled these nobodies.
It is so easy to defame on the Internet especially when you are popular, respectable, rich, connected and powerful. And so easy to do it to nobodies.
Writing a contribution guide for @walletscrutiny
Apple is toeing the line with the US government's cynicism. Somebody up there, suspects or knows, that zaps can be used to transfer value. It doesn't matter how much. To them it's a threat. When reviewing wallets for walletscrutiny, I've noticed a trend with most "compliant" exchanges. They are playing catch up with a slew of regulations. Previously it was just KYC. Now, they also include in their terms, AML-FATF, terrorism funding, and other issuances. It's primarily because of the war in Ukraine + the onslaught of Fentanyl in the US. Many of these are transacted via crypto using unconventional means.
TLDR: US government going all out to control any value transfer because of Ukraine war and Fentanyl.
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Spot the banana
Hello @GooglePlay, the nostr:npub1j9kttlc86w63emmldd4h74rekyqpksqup6p9trhp5gjsf374qlyszvuswx project currently lists 1173 bitcoin-related apps on your platform that are **defunct**. These are apps that are:
- abandoned
- 404
- site down
- no longer working
Thank you.