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opt out.

How do all the law-abiding citizens handle taxes for lightning? Most lightning wallets don't have an "export transactions" function, do they? #askNostr #taxes

i just shell out the money for a service like koinly.io. Export my transactions from my wallets in Sparrow and import them into Koinly and it does the rest.

How can I gift sats (for a white elephant party) via a URL I can write onto an NFC sticker that the recipient can tap to their phone and be taken some place to claim sats? that possible? #askNostr

As a society, we (atleast in the US) have become so conditioned to exporting out and delegating responsibility.

While I myself see self-custodianship of Bitcoin as a non-negotiable, I can not confidently say that the same will be felt by my peers. I think the "proof of work" kind of ideals most of us Bitcoiners have or have developed are outlier principles.

Its gonna be hard to convince the masses to be responsible again for the things they got used to delegating out. Bitcoin custodianship by financial institutions is most likely going to be popular. I hope im wrong.

Clearly, we all think this doesn't make sense, but we are the outliers who would go as far as finding yet another client or running our own.

Maybe what he's trying to say applies to the scope of normies....as in, for the vast majority, they wont go as far as running their own clients or finding yet another client to use their portable keys with when one gets banned. Thus, for the vast majority banning nostr apps might still be an effective means of deterrence.

Just trying to rationalize his side šŸ¤”

Few feelings top that of hitting your paces on a track workout. 12mi on a beautiful day. LFG!

#running #runstr

12mi of trail yesterday with the dog. Great day.

#runstr

https://m.primal.net/KcfY.mp4

Be water, my friend.

One way is to direct deposit from your paycheck into an exchange if supported. For example, Coinbase in the US allows for direct deposit and many employers allow you to configure your paycheck payment so that it splits, for example, 50% to ur bank and 50% to coinbase via direct deposit.

"What the dollar is? A motherfucker

my tax dollars killin children and their mothers" - Navy Blue

"Only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck

And still keep your attitude on self-destruct." - MF DOOM

ā€œThanks for picking that up for me! I will Venmo you the money.ā€

ā€œOh I don’t have Venmo but I can do bitcoin, CashApp, or PayPalā€

*radio silence*

Even if bitcoin has world-class UX, I’m not sure if we’ll ever see widespread adoption until we can figure out how to release the absolute chokehold Venmo has on people, especially millennials.

CashApp may not be self custody but at least I can live my bitcoin life if someone uses it to send me money. Venmo has normalized digital payments so much that it’s changed how people behave and has become a verb. Nobody bothers to split bills anymore and they have stopped carrying cash. Why? Because they ā€œcan just Venmo youā€.

I can see stack overflow error happening in real time when I tell my friends I don’t have Venmo because I don’t believe they created the social feature in good conscience and think it’s an awful thing for Venmo to try and normalize the destruction of financial privacy. Yes, you can now make transactions private, even if it’s not the default. No, I don’t care. I’m dying in this hill. I don’t want to link my fiat ass bank account to ANOTHER system when PayPal, which owns Venmo does the exact same thing. And you know what? People have been using PayPal since the dawn of the Internet 2.0. You already have it! And if I’m going to use a newer, mobile, digital payment solution, it’s going to be CashApp because at least I can turn that money you owe me into bitcoin, which is what I actually prefer you pay me back in. To add to that, Block and Jack Dorsey have done so much for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Of course I want to support CashApp!

In my experience the hierarchy is:

1. Venmo

2. Zelle

3. Cash (middle ground for ā€œyou don’t want to set up CashApp? Weird because I don’t want to set up Venmo!ā€)

4. ā€œI’ll get your lunch next timeā€

5. MAYBE PayPal or CashApp

6. Not getting your money back

7. bitcoin

So what do I want? Obviously the Bitcoin Standard, but if I can’t have that I want to make cash great again and more people using bitcoin compatible payment solutions.

I encourage everyone to join me in a crusade of maximum pain for anyone trying to use something that is not this. We all deserve better! A win-win would be if Venmo integrated bitcoin so then all my Venmo using friends could transact with whoever they wish, using a free and open monetary protocol.

For starters it would probably help if I was more often in the scenario of needing to pay people back instead of the other way around…

100%. I had a conversation once with my barber (who's Jamaican) who accepts cashapp and he was saying that he saw cashapp used alot more than venmo in the black community. Idk if this is true but demographics of users is always something I think of as interesting.