None of those are Bitcoin.

BRC-20 x Inscriptions x Runes x Bitcoin transactions:

Linux sucks.

Apple is just following there incentives, which might be a pain now, but it does mean they will slide billions if their treasury into Bitcoin. so there is a bright side..

Apple is not interested in freedom engineers, they want subservient devs with stockholm sydrome.

Yep, I don’t agree with Saif 100% of the time (ie on how BRICS plays out although I could be wrong myself) but I think he’s the best brain we’ve got.

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Windows laptop acquired. Life of a non-web dev. So many devices to test on 😅

People are so used to perfect goods shipped in perfect packaging that they’ve gone blind.

goals:

- use existing client software

- use existing server software

- server uses https

- server can be behind a firewall or NAT

- server doesn't have DNS

- server doesn't have IP reachable externally

- if possible, require no additional client software

- client only knows the server's nprofile (npub + relays)

- make them talk to each other

That's pretty much what I said, and one of my key points to argue that BTC will never achieve medium of exchange, a.k.a, currency status among retail, which will continue to use fiat. Both because they will be priced out of transacting with BTC by the big economic actors (I repeat: transacting with BTC, not simply buying it), and because States will simply continue to issue fiat and force them to use it.

Even in places like Argentina, the USD is not used for common daily stuff (a.k.a., "buying lattes") but for bigger and longer term transactions. In fact, the USD is rather used for savings, that is, as store of value, as another form of property, which is eventually converted to the local currency when it's time to transact. Just like Bitcoin.

Oh...!

Yes, it is still happening unfortunately, but it's not "many banks" and it's not specifically to our exchange 👍

it's cool, but what problem does this solve?

So if you use a nutzap to pay for a relay, you can pay with nuts to use your nuts.

The only good thing he accomplished his first term was to not start any new land wars.

Being the least worst is not an accomplishment. He chose swamp monsters for his appointees and didn't seem to have any clue what the president of the country can and can't do.

I'm not expecting much from him or a supermajority of republitwits. They had that the first half of Trump's term and they squandered it by doing nothing.

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Please note: Users must be 16+, Australian citizens or residents, and hold an Australian bank account 🙏

I always argue that fiat isn't going away because it's simply the most powerful tool States have to achieve total domination over their subjects, and that Bitcoin will, at most, become a reserve and store of wealth asset/commodity. Just like there are many other asset classes.

As to the visions of hyperbitcoinization and a big upset and collapse of the system, I simply don't think they're going to happen. The incumbents will adapt and will capture as much of Bitcoin as they can, as we've already seen with billionaires like Michael Saylor. Others will follow, and in the last stage even central banks will hold a piece. The most recalcitrant and close-minded among the elites who refuse to hop on the Bitcoin wagon will simply miss out and be relegated -- in that asset. There is always some attrition at the top.

The key difference though, is that Bitcoin is probably the first asset class in recent history that hasn't been captured from inception by the incumbent status-quo beneficiaries. It's truly something phenomenal, in that it gives a bunch of nobodies the opportunity to position themselves as holders of a significant portion of this asset, ahead of the incumbents.

The weakest among us will sell to Michael Saylor and Blackrock, or will allow their BTC to be seized by their government. A second portion of us will fail to turn their Bitcoin wealth into real world wealth and, sooner or later, their stack will succumb to attrition, either because they fail to understand that Bitcoin, as a non-yield bearing asset doesn't replace itself when you spend it, or because they fail to use it wisely as collateral and eventually have to liquidate their holdings.

The remainder who learn how to use Bitcoin correctly and wisely, will eventually join the ranks of the world's elite and become the new incumbents themselves.

Yes, my outlook is quite cynical. This is my bleakest vision of what's to come. Kind of the worst case scenario for which I prepare, just in case.