the boiling frog analogy goes both ways. the authorities could have ended bitcoin, and any other freedom enabling tech in general, when they were smaller, but incremental growth makes it harder every day
humanity is a constant arms race between state coercion and the people
can you stop all the PR crap and "future of humanity" drama around ai and just build the goddamn thing? nobody knows shit about guttenberg, other than he just wanted to print stuff. just stfu and build the thing
normalize having "safe spaces" to trade p2p bitcoin with cash. there's no reason why this won't be the norm for people who don't need bitcoin to gamble or sell for bank money
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it's OK because ETFs will solve this
lebanon and syria had years of civil wars. iraq vs iran. turkey vs armenians vs kurds. isis vs everyone. yemen vs saudis. sudan vs sudan vs eritrea vs ethiopia vs somalia. afghanistan vs world. chechens vs russians. parkistan vs india
but israel is destabilizing the middle east
how early are we? people fund a few 0.00000546 btc UTXOs to trade JSONs and BT is losing it… bitcoin still got a few extra orders of magnitude of real dissidence capacity before covenants are needed, in a couple of years. just enough time to fight on which ones are the best. there is no time, but there’s still kinda enough time. trust the process
you have to admit cz was hardcore. banked millions and never lost a dime for degeneracy, unlike so many entities much closer to the American hegemony
shitcoining was inevitable, but bitcoin got significant reach with the help of binance. they got him because he was a threat
hamas has been given briefcases of USD cash from qatar, approved by the israeli government believing giving them a carrot will counter motivation for terror. don't buy the bullshit that binance/crypto is used for terror. it's a strategy to give bitcoin to wallstreet
wallstreet swallowing bitcoin through paper was always one of the more sophisticated hypothesized responses from tradfi and it seems like it materializes in real time. this is the real deal
LSPs should charge based on liquidity time and they should start yesterday. I much rather knowing how much the liquidity cost me instead of just "7000 sat setup fee" or some obscured pricing like this
these model can never compete with WoS anyway, just like holding your funds on coinbase it easier than anything else. this shouldn't be a base of comparison
as much as I respect nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg stance on nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 hodl invoices, zapping via a non-custodial mobile wallet is a pain in the ass as well. even if you use NWC you have to go into the app and wait for each zap, or hack it with a split screen like this 😂
I see it counter productive to aim for each payment to be perfectly self sovereign forever. it's OK if your zaps could be batched by your service provider and settled every few days, preferably with as little hops as possible. let the providers handle most of the plumbing risks
ecash is the straight forward glue between the seams of the BTC/LN protocol
TFW you’ve got zaps back on nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955.
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is it?
bitcoin is unfit for venture capital because bitcoin is moat resistant. if your business captured a moat around bitcoin it means bitcoin failed, and venture capital cares only about network effects and the rent you can collect from them
where do i follow the ordinals activity? i really wanna know what kind of culture donates these huge amounts of BTC to miners
nostr will not centralize specifically because it's not just a twitter clone but a wide protocol that can serve the kind of things like events, marketplaces, streaming, and who knows what else, all interoperable on your portable social graph
it's either you got the resources to compete the zuckerbergs and elons of the world in creating another tHe eVeRyThiNg ApP, or you'll play nice and interoperate with the rest
the age of rents is passing. provide value or GTFO
hodl invoices should be a feature on the LSP.
some level of trust for small funds on the move is inevitable for mobile LN