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自由閪。Defund the system! Passionate about privacy, encryption and ⚡️bitcoin. Forbidden lands, forgotten empires. Hong Kong is my home.

Got a Bitcoin debit card from Bitrefill, can’t add it to Apple Pay, can’t use it online. Bitrefill customer support tells me to talk to the card issuer, who tell me to contact the vendor (Bitrefill). Not sure what to do next? Merchant’s error is interesting: “Error: credit card validation failed: country of the provided card does not match the country specified on registration.” 100% sure it’s a US card, registered to a US address, used with US merchants.

Any ideas, nostriches?

I'll be at the Seattle Bitcoin Meetup tomorrow evening! Maybe I’ll find some

nostriches there!

https://www.meetup.com/seattle-bitcoin-and-beer/events/296307905

The next frontiers for #Bitcoin communities:

1) Make Bitcoin a central part of your community. Only meet in venues that take sats, and only take sats yourself for tickets, drinks and swag. No more free stuff!

Consider your community to be part of an elite beta testing unit tasked with finding bugs and issues. Report back to your favorite projects with improvements, ideas and code.

2) Turn around and work with the community around you. Be humble, listen and think about how Bitcoin can directly improve the lives of those around you. Introduce them to your community, invite them to your great experiment, give help, be supportive and again, report back to your favorite projects with improvements, ideas and code.

The masses won't adopt Bitcoin before we do! Let's get Bitcoin ready for the big day!

About 20mins? I’ve taken less than five Uber rides this year and they were all terrible, one driver even caused a crash. Always happy when I can make up excuses not to get into an Uber/Lyft/Taxi somebody else calls

Cars that honk when you look them are a bigger threat to civilization than “illegal” migration

I befriended this colorful bird today

I’m definitely in some kind of cult

Getting served gumbo late night in some tiny dive bar is definitely one of those better feelings in life

Surreal. Tried to pay at a store, debit card declined, I offered cash, the clerk said it’s policy to let me have the drink for free as after-hours they don’t accept cash. I said something something #Bitcoin , the clerk lit up, showed me his Chivo wallet and I tipped him $5 over Lightning⚡️.

I’ll be at #Tabconf! I keep telling people it will be my last Bitcoin conference, and I’m not sure I can keep that promise, but for the coming future I’ll definitely want to prioritize events of local communities that put *using* Bitcoin into the foreground of their event.

Did you eventually manage? I once integrated BTCPay into Shopify, worked well and didn’t take long