Getting this Bitcoin Wall Calendar ready for 2026 🚀 Thanks nostr:nprofile1qqsqyu0phxke0cl3tmt5yvnutn4rfyaavc5qvytr3daq7m3g4kx0lyqprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuumpw35x7ctjv3jhytnrdakj7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmqezxyfu for putting this together, happy to be sponsoring such cool initiatives!

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That's true. We're solving this friction from the user side, not the merchant side. Our tools are for someone who wants to live on Bitcoin, yet has to pay in fiat in 99% of the cases.

However, the idea is that if more people would move onto the Bitcoin standard because of convenient tools like wavecard, then more people would also try to "orange pill" the merchants to accept Bitcoin natively, as it's obviously even more cheaper, more private, less intermediaries, etc.

It's a bit of catch-22 problem between merchants and shoppers. But our thesis is that it's very unlikely that the adoption will come from merchants first, and then onto people. It has to be from people who get in the habit of paying with Bitcoin one way or another and then merchants will eventually flip.

Unfortunately, non-KYC cards are much more limited. Not accepted by as many merchants, not possible to add on mobile wallets, no physical cards as well. And sometimes non-KYC simply means that they won’t ask for details proactively, but they might freeze your balance and still ask for KYC if they don’t like your transactions.

Glad to be helping you live on Bitcoin 🫡

For the record, we identified the issue to be related to our IP checker provider being on end-user's specific DNS blacklist. We're using a third-party IP checker to serve a simple EU disclaimer. Removing that IP checker from the user's blacklist helped resolve the issue. We will check if there's a way to get rid of this third-party reliance all together.

Generally, users can and do use VPNs on our platform.

I realized that, and sent another dm over Iris. Are you able to see that?

Hey! Could you reach out over support, so we can investigate your issue specifically? Some of our users do use VPN successfully, we haven’t added any specific blocks recently. In fact, we removed one dependency on IP checkers that was blocking private Firefox sessions before.

SANTA CLAUS COMPETITION UPDATE

Someone has almost tripled the top wavecard payment this holiday season! 🎅

REMINDER: the biggest card payment until Dec 25 will get 100% of service fees refunded!

Also, don't forget that all payments over 210,000 sats generate 1,000 sats donations via proofofheart.org and give you a ticket to win our wavespace hoodie!

Someone has already beat the leader with 712,519 sats wavecard payment. The competition goes on! 🎅

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Who is the biggest Santa Claus?

Buy your last minute gifts with your wavecard and get rewarded! The biggest card payment between Dec 10 - 25 will get 100% of the fees refunded!

P.S. Currently the leading payment is 622,364 sats

You could also define it as "involuntary donations to questionable causes"

🟠 NEW: TRANSACTION EXPORTS

Whether you're filing for taxes or tracking your budget, you can now export all of your wavespace transactions in a CSV or Excel formats.

You will find the tool in your "Account" section.

Did you know that you can spend Bitcoin from your self-custody via Garmin Watch? This is probably the most unique use case our users have discovered

1. Connect your lightning node to wavespace via NWC

2. Add your wavecard to Garmin Pay

3. Tap your watch anywhere VISA is accepted

GIVE TWICE THIS CHRISTMAS 🧡

Introducing a collab with Proof of Heart - a Bitcoin-native charity directory, allowing donors to give BTC without any intermediaries.

Until Dec 25, all wavecard payments over 210,000 sats will earn 1,000 sats donation to a charity of your choice!

And that's not all! You can also win a limited edition wave.space hoodie & 100% of your fees paid back. Read more here: https://www.wave.space/blog/give-twice-this-christmas-with-wave-space-proof-of-heart

That’s the way! We build for people like you 🧡

Looks amazing! Can’t wait for 2026 🤝

1. From user’s perspective, he is spending BTC from his self-custodial Lightning node connected to wavecard via Nostr Wallet Connect. Yes, Bitcoin is sold to fund the purchase, but ONLY because the receiver is not taking Bitcoin. It’s basically selling Bitcoin on behalf of the merchant. If 99%+ of society takes fiat today, how are you supposed to pay for groceries, pay rent, buy tickets?

2. Our users sell Bitcoin not because they want to, but because they don’t have anything else. If you have cash around, you’re essentially shorting Bitcoin. But if you’re all-in BTC, then you have to sell it to live. It doesn’t matter if you sell it to non-KYC gift cards, or you automate it via wavecard, you’re still selling. We’re not trying to deplete people’s stacks. Actually, they stack even their disposable fiat income into BTC, because they are confident that they can spend BTC instantly, and not worry about not being able to pay one way or another.

3. Let’s be realistic here. Our product is not for those Bitcoiners that already went underground. This won’t make them KYC, like it won’t make you KYC. We’re not competing with whatever setup you have to pay for your life. We’re competing with other debit cards that are all KYC’ed regardless, like Revolut. Except, at least we can offer a Bitcoin-only debit card that spends from self-custody and doesn’t require you to hold shitcoins (fiat included). If you’re using debit cards, ours is the best option today.

4. There are already plenty of very smart builders working on the solutions for the inevitable endgame of native Bitcoin payments. We don’t need to exclusively stack all the manpower on this now.

The real question is when is this endgame gonna arrive? I think we simply have different assumptions of the fastest path to reach it.

It’s not enough to just build native stuff and expect the humanity to choose a dramatically smaller payment network. There’s a huge chasm between the early adopters of Bitcoin and the rest of the humanity. You’re expecting the “stupid” people, as you call it, to suddenly do a 180 on their habits, go fully non-KYC, drop their usual payment methods and live your way. It hasn’t happened and it’s naive to expect that people will choose sacrifice over convenience. This disconnect is actually holding us back. Your way is to be very strict, demanding and educational. Being one person, you have converted tons of people, relatively, but these are early adopters on the long-tail of the distribution.

Instead, we come to the majority’s KYC’ed yard, and try to offer the first stepping stone. Something that would at least tick some good boxes: being able to own only good money, put it in self-custody, without changing their habits. That will create a lot more zero-fiat Bitcoiners who will still demand merchants to allow them to pay in Bitcoin directly. Then, we will have a real chance to flip the fiat tables sooner.

And lastly, our roadmap does eventually include a native non-KYC Bitcoin payment wallet, so all those debit card users will be able to easily graduate into native payments when there are merchants that take Bitcoin.

You’ve been criticizing us since inception on Stacker News, and we do read your stuff. I tried my best to explain our case. Although I won’t change your opinion, I just hope that you can see where we’re coming from and the intentions we have.

We’re not competing with native Bitcoin payments. Wherever Bitcoin is accepted directly, you should always pay with no intermediaries. And all Bitcoiners still have the duty of persistently orange-pilling merchants, regardless of the payment method used today. You should always ask for paying with Bitcoin.

The argument that “if you go to merchant with a VISA card, that merchant will never adopt Bitcoin” is not accurate, because they already get 99% of all payments in fiat. This is a catch-22 situation for Bitcoin acceptance, whereas fiat has the network effect of being accepted 10/10 times.

Our assumption is that we can only really compete in a timely manner with the fiat system by piggybacking on its existing rails, and at least creating more reasons for people to own ALL of their capital in Bitcoin TODAY, where 99%+ of merchants still do not accept Bitcoin.

There’s a huge gap between early Bitcoin adopters and the rest of the humanity who still sees it as an investment. Most people are scared of Bitcoin, don’t know what can they even do with it beyond allocating a percentage of their “investment portfolio”.

The early majority, who are not tinkerers and early adopters like yourself, are looking at this more pragmatically, and will only switch their capital to real money, including even disposable income, if they are confident that they can fund their lifestyle today. These are not the people who will shape their lifestyle on gift cards, cash and 2 random shops that are accepting BTC directly. Meanwhile, the time is ticking, and Bitcoin is being gobbled up by existing centralised power players. Most people are still gonna ignore it until the government endorses it or enforces it.

We want more people to hold zero fiat today. If that means that you sell BTC at the last possible second, because your big name grocery shop only takes fiat, that is a fair deal, imo.

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I can’t see why we can’t:

1. Always educate and ask merchants to accept Bitcoin

2. Pay in Bitcoin if they accept it

3. If they don’t accept it, use wavecard, which at least can tap into your self-custodial BTC, and you don’t need to have fiat laying around.

SOLD MY BITCOIN…

… to buy coffee today with the wavecard 😎

No need to hold any Euros anymore! Become a ZERO-EURO BITCOINER today with wave.space!

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We have something similar on the roadmap as well. The wavecard already allows you to spend Bitcoin anywhere globally, by selling it at the last possible second and funding the fist payment for a merchant.

You can either connect your LN wallet to spend from self-custody (via NWC) or store BTC on the wavecard custodially.

Technically, the custodial BTC balance could be collateralized for a loan that is also then folded back into the same BTC on the card, essentially working like a “boosted” Bitcoin position that is partly spendable without capital gains.

We’re on the same mission to not hold any fiat whatsoever, and to automate all liquidations into fiat at the recipient level, so that you, as a Bitcoiner, wouldn’t ever need to even care about any fiat balances.

Self-Custodial Mode is now even more powerful!

Monitor your wavecard spending directly from inside your Lightning Wallet ⚡️ 💳

Connect your wallet once, and only open wavespace when you really need to.

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Glad to be sponsoring this campaign! The community needs more people working on Bitcoin 🔧🧡

Maybe on the stage? 🤔