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Autopoietic. Scratching things from chaos. Homesteading the noösphere. Opportunity farmer: Reading things that are not yet on the page. Haskell. Dollars only, thanks.

One day, when you're up to their standards, you can go there.

The power is flowing? Uh oh I had not noticed. Do I live in the wrong area?

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A colleague has been asking me a lot about bitcoin lately and tonight we went out for dinner so I could answer some of his questions. He was insistent that bitcoin would never work for a number of reasons and became increasingly frustrated that I had an answer for everything. He did not want to download any apps or to give any details to anyone. Eventually I was able to convince him to download AlbyGo after assuring him he did not need to sign up for anything. Within 30 seconds he had the app, was connected to my nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm Hub and I sent him his first sats.

That’s when I watched his eyes light up.

He was amazed at how easy it was. Shocked that it did not take an hour for the transaction to confirm and that there was not a $10 transaction fee. It completely shattered his belief that it could be stopped because I explained this was open source software running on a node in my closet. It finally became real for him.

I explained the custody trade off to him and have set him up with enough sats that he can buy some inbound liquidity to set up his own lightning node if he does not want me holding his sats.

Pretty awesome how smooth the onboarding experience was.

> we went out for dinner

How did you pay for dinner.

Illuminated lol.

Illuminated by the illuminati eh?

It's what backs 99.99% of all transaction volume in the world. The other 0.01% aren't backed by anything and end up causing a loss somewhere.

Israel launched the first attack or so I'm being led to believe from mainstream media. Iran broke some nuclear agreement though or didn't they?

Totally Bitcoin is known to work well where there is no electricity, internet or computer chips.

Ah well. By that standard the local drug dealer around the corner has a "marketing campaign" too. Caveat emptor.

I neither care about the numbers and especially not about the global population. I care about myself and the few likes of me. If 90% of the global population doesn't "make it" that's not a bug that's a feature.

Survival is tough. The 21st century will be nothing like the 20th.

It's working for anyone productive in a civilized society. I'm productive and live in a civilized society. Works for me.