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Aldin
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you own hash on tHe bloCkchAiN, but the jpeg got lost 😂

wait, is this real? I thought you made it with AI to make fun of him.

what does breez and aqua do if you don't have enough?

I would set them up with decent inbound liquidity at the beginning and explain only later if it ever becomes an issue. Remember, they will likely not have that many customers at the start who pay with this. About the question of exchanging to fiat, I would again help only once that becomes a need for them. My general strategy is to hook them up at the start with a basic solution, and solve obstacles later.

I have guided small number people (not merchants) in the past with either onchain or lightning, and I never regreted going the self custodial way (what I see as the correct way).

What I found surprisingly easy was explaining backup seeds. Since it is a physical thing (piece of paper), people alredy have an intuition for how to work with it. Explaining this part well is imo important. Put emphasis on "Do not loose it or you will loose your money! It is a secret!"

Phoenix does backup seed and also it has the splicing function, which is their way to enable for onchain and lightning with a single app. Imo the best for noobs. Disadvantage is high fees.

Banks are branch of the State, not private entities.

He knows that they can screw him over, if there is enough will to do so. That is even before there is a concrete threat. You think there was one? Maybe threat, or a deal.

Either way, he can tweet this at zero cost and thus impove his position, or stubornly stick to his previous revenge tweets.

All his business is on their territory and each of his companies is reliant on gov contracts, licenses or subsidies. Big boys, even bilionaires, are forced to sit down and negotiate.

The state is like an animal farm.

Imagine you are the farmer and you have got 100 chickens. 3 of them are smart and learned how to sneak out during the day to enjoy freedom outside their fenced area. They return back in the evening, acting like nothing happened.

You, as a farmer, do not like it because sometimes they hide their eggs out of reach. It is a loss.

You could punish the 3 chickens. That would scare the rest of them away from atempting something similar in the future. Make the punishment spectacular. A kind of a show trial.

You could kill them quietly without a trial. From the perspective of other chickes, this will look like those 3 just disapeared for no reason. They would make for a good soup, but you are an egg farm, not meat farm.

In our case, you as a farmer decide to do nothing. You do not want to draw attention to the fact, that farm is not freedom, and that you are a tyrant. That real freedom is somewhere else. Besides, a loss of couple eggs a day is not worth the effort, if it does not make a difference in grand scheme of things.

One thing I did not mention yet is that you are not the owner of the farm, but rather an employee, like the people in state bureaucracy.

perhaps also one small 6102 type event, so that people learn what bitcoin is about