Lol Saylor: Okay so you open a coinbase account, transfer money, select Bitcoin and smash buy buy buy buy!
El Salvador becomes first nation in history to un-adopt Bitcoin https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/12/18/pr-24485-el-salvador-imf-reaches-staff-level-agreement-on-an-eff-arrangement
Debt is a tough habit to kick for any country, it's just so tempting to run up the IMF tab
1, I always had an issue with let the people decide, don't force it on them as for the government wallet failing colour me shocked, lol the free market will provide better solutions anyway
If they've built up so much Bitcoin in the past few years, and actively mining and generating income from the bump in tourism and investment why the need for the IMF loan? Whatever happened to those volcano bonds they were shilling? And didn't they refinance their older debt to better terms? I remember reading that somewhere
The lads at #Lightspark have thrown their hat into the ring with their take on a Bitcoin scaling solution, Spark is a #statechain implementation that will act as a middle ground for those who don't want to return on-chain and want to interact with Lightning
We need more LN education
We don't want no custodial control
Big Mac going up biggly, why so bearish?
When the company won't pay for your ChatGPT subscription now you gotta add a $1400 annual drag on your salary just so you can be lazy throughout the rest of the year
https://video.nostr.build/da9e57eb1dc814aefb912ef152d59ccce4df284c163aaea8e7ebaee4d7d03c5b.mp4
If you want to use their payment rails and medium of exchange you gotta pay the toll, don't know why he couldn't just pay the outstanding taxes not like he is short on sats
Hope this is never me, going back to fiat is just too damn risky, lol they just made up my mind for me, it's a no brainer
I note, therefore I am
Just set up my own nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm hub with a self-hosted Lightning node! ⚡ Taking control of my payments, enhancing privacy, and diving deeper into the Bitcoin ecosystem. Decentralization never felt so empowering. 🚀 #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #SelfSovereignty
Good on you man, keep pushing! We all gotta learn the ways of riding the Lightning
Ouch! Maximum pain.
Dude sells 640 BTC for $5,807.53 each in 2017, nets $4 million fully doxxed in his Coinbase account, underreports his capital gains tax and thinks he'll get away with it.
He #FAFO'd and got 2 years in prison.
Just a reminder, don't bother with this headache, just don't sell and you'll be fine! If he did he would be up so biggly its redonk, his total 1,366 BTC would be worth $146 million right now
Bro got cooked for what is relative chump change
For the general non-custodial enjoyer I would say so, but I can also see this as a starter device for newbies who later upgrade to cold storage as their stack grows, would be cool if it can be used as a lightning signing device too, so you can keep your keys separate from your node
I guess you could but I mean do you want to have your entire stack on something you're using all the time? I wouldn't this seems more like your everyday grind tool, instead. I think of it as a hot wallet/hot wallet companion