Totally agree, mass adoption may not happen in my lifetime but I sure as hell don't plan on watching on the sidelines. Gonna get my hands dirty and see how I can help push adoption.
Yep, sending people their first sats has been the easiest way to create an interaction.
I want to influence others to earn/buy/spend/sell, self custody, etc. I've gotten a couple of these interactions as well. Time will tell how this all unfolds.
A week ago I challenged myself to drive 100 '#Bitcoin Interactions' in 100 Days.
https://studentofbitcoin.substack.com/p/100-bitcoin-interactions-in-100-days
An 'Interaction' = help someone earn/buy/sell/spend #Bitcoin
A visual TLDR....
What is the best way to see Bitcoin transaction data? (On chain and lighting) looking to understand the avg daily transactions that occur on lightning and the associated amount.
Context: looking to create a bunch of notes comparing current payment processors and BTC.
Has anyone encountered issues with Iris? Chrome seems to work but Brave does not.
Lol just zapped myself to see how this works. This is cool!
Domo arigato!!
Just sent my first zap...feels fancy lol
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I've been working on an illustrated notebook of Bitcoin terms. Here is a preview. Would appreciate your feedback or thoughts on this. Is this needed? How can I make it better?
https://studentofbitcoin.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-bitcoin-dictionary?sd=pf
Have you had any issues with iris? I tried to follow some people on iris but doesn't seem to have worked. The follow button highlights but doesn't do anything.
Ordinals: impact on fees and mempool, etc
With Bitrefill, it’s a gift card service provider. So you can buy gift cards to merchants who don’t yet accept Bitcoin directly.
BitWage is a payroll service, so you sign up and have a portion or all of your income paid out to you in Bitcoin.
Sending $2 worth of bitcoin is a cool way to get the convo started. The next thing to do is to show them how they can use it. Maybe send them like $7 and have them buy a gift card to a coffee shop or something. Or maybe meet them up for coffee and show them how it works.
Check this out: https://youtu.be/hyWdFTAFyfk
Appreciate it! Loving the articles on substack...keep them coming.
Holy!!! Some scary fails in that clip. Funny enough I squared today and glad I didn't let my ego get ahead of me.
Totally agree! Gotta stack away 😎
Fair enough, I work in Fintech and more inclined to spend 8+ hours a day on pushing bitcoins agenda compared to fiat. Changing course, slow and steady though.
#[0] I tried to orange pill a couple friends yesterday by sending them a few thousand sats (~$2) to get the convo going.
Takeaway: they were so impressed by the speed but didn't have a clear response on how they can spend it given it was such a small amount. Only option was to buy, or accept BTC in order to accumulate more and 'use it'
Aside from bitrefil, bitwage, bitcoin company I didn't have an answer that would have helped them. Don't these services need a minimum amount to transfer/buy BTC?
Trying to get to this stage. Figuring out how to earn in Bitcoin without a fiat job....will get there
Is your #Bitcoin node taking forever to sync? I may have stumbled on a solution.
I was using an external SSD connected to my Mac to download Bitcoin Core. It got to 60% and it was taking forever! After some digging, I found out that moving the 'indexes' and 'chainstate' folder onto my local hard drive would speed up the process. I was skeptical but gave it a shot. Doing so saved me a few days of sync time!
Step 1: Quit Bitcoin Core
Step 2: Copy the existing folder ('indexes' and 'chainstate' ) from the external SSD onto the local drive. (I chose Desktop for ease)
Step 3: Rename the existing folder on external SSD ('indexes' and 'chainstate') -> ('indexes-old' and 'chainstate-old' )
Step 4: Create an Alias/shortcut of the local folders and move it to the external SSD. If you're comfortable with terminal, naviate to the external SSD to the Bitcoin core folder and use the ln function ('ln -sf /Users/user/Desktop/indexes indexes')
Step 5: If you used the Alias method, rename the folders by removing 'alias' from the folder name. This is NOT needed if you used the Terminal method
Step 6: Open Bitcoin Core and let it sync (it should be much faster now)
Step 7: Once Bitcoin Core is synced, you can leave the folder setup as is or revert in such a way that all folders are reading off the external SSD (ie remove the alias folders and copy over the contents of the local folders onto the SSD)