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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.

Normalize making your own barbecue sauce #foodstr

There’s the Gregorian calendar, and the Bitcoin calendar. Most Bitcoin holidays fall on the Bitcoin calendar, but one does not, and only one falls on both.

Bought some art on the streets of Vancouver today. Of course paid over #Lightning!

going swimming now in honor of li keqiang

Sometime I feel like I really need a break from it all, but then I conclude it’s a better idea to work harder to make #Bitcoin adoption actually work. We’re getting close to a Schelling point, I suspect

Grabbing this oversized prosciutto/artichoke crêpe with sats today

Seen on Hastings Street, Vancouver

And more importantly, deposit these stablecoins into Lightning channels and use them in the wider Lightning network

Hurray! Taproot Assets are available on mainnet!

The correct terminology seems to be “The Fiatjaf”

Prepaid debit cards purchased with #Bitcoin  are no substitution for merchant adoption, as I’m currently painfully reminded of. They are unpredictable, usually non-reloadable, not widely accepted, have close to zero customer support and may cause serious loss of funds. Be warned!

Tonight nostr:npub1v7kvu9msvksdujxj7ln65qwkrr59g05rxtnhxx28lru54au9tcjsutyggw organized an incredibly cool dancing performance and party. Sats were accepts for tickets online, at the door, at the bar and there was a small clothing shop on location that took sats, too! Vancouver is leading the way!

This Saturday, nostr:npub1v7kvu9msvksdujxj7ln65qwkrr59g05rxtnhxx28lru54au9tcjsutyggw is organizing a fantastic dance performance and party in Vancouver! You can get tickets directly with sats here, the bar will also take #Bitcoin!

https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/Qav7mCSz2D2Rua6CFLRSRBj9HHN/pos

In Canada Shakepay is quite good, but requires KYC. For USD cards, Moon was amazing, but now in a closed beta. Bitrefill cards are hit and miss, I’ve had two bad and three good ones. TBC generally didn’t work for me.

I don’t use a bank account, but I did experiment with various debit cards in the past months, including on trips to the U.S.

Coming from a Lightning background into Fintech, it’s shocking to see how bad user experiences can be in the “legacy” world of payments, how much interfaces differ, how many systems exist and how poorly they interface. Already today, despite all its shortcomings, I’d say the Lightning user experience is already better than that of debit cards, and will within two years surpass legacy networks in a way that’s obvious to everyone.