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Replying to Avatar Brad Mills

I went to a local burrito shop to donate to his pay it forward food wall. He had a high tech looking square terminal.

I asked the owner if he ever thought about accepting Bitcoin for the pay it forward meals.

Then we had a 20 min convo about how he wants to learn more about Bitcoin, he was even aware of nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m leaving Twitter to focus more on Bitcoin.

He said he almost bought at $60k, but he didn't.

He even said it's a shame everyone relates ape jpegs and ftx to Bitcoin, he didn't think the other coins were interesting, Bitcoin seemed like the only one to have a real shot at competing with the banks.

What merchant focused resources can I send this man to help him learn why Bitcoin, and how to easily accept sats for burritos.

Vijay’s Bullish Case for Bitcoin

Dergigi’s 21 Lessons

Voltpay as a merchant app 🤝

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.

One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.

Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes:: politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.

Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.

Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.

+10 Jack

-10 Elon

Any day of the week.

100%

*every day of the week 🤝

Thank you Satoshi 🙏

On this day in 2008, after several *years* of building the base code of Bitcoin, Satoshi released the Bitcoin Whitepaper to the Cypherpunk mailing list

This became "the Bitcoin way"

Build first, talk about it second 🧡

https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

Replying to Avatar jb55

Made it to the final nostr:npub1ftw5mdhk9c2zcsc7fzs0vxydxtdqs8jfj2va5egz05hemsm50saqgr8wjt event in #bali 🏝️! Flying to #japan tonight! See ya’ll at #nostrasia 👀

@vrod #damusremote

Thanks for coming and especially for your great session on the Satoshi stage

Replying to Avatar Jameson Lopp

You’re born with a ton of fucks to give, so you spend them like a kid with a credit card. You give fucks about your friends, about your grades, about your fashion sense, about strangers’ opinions. You give way too many fucks about way too many things. You have so many.

Then, as you get older, you have maybe 10 fucks per month, so you learn to budget them. You allocate fucks to family and career, but there aren’t enough fucks to give to the newest fads. Oh, someone at work has something they need my help with that’s outside my job title? I’ll do my best to allocate some fucks, but this month is pretty tight.

Then, as you get even older, you’re down to 1-2 fucks per month, and those fucks are pretty damn precious. You give them to your family and your hobbies and your job, and that’s kinda it. It’s not your fault – fucks expire too quickly. I would’ve liked to have saved my fucks from when I was younger, but it's not an option - there are no fuck vaults for normal folks.

Then, you hit fuck insolvency. You’re getting like 1 fuck a year, and you have to make it last. So you go without, and even previously fuck-worthy things, you just can’t give a fuck. Some people run out really quickly, Some wealthy folks have a fuck trust fund that pays out a decent amount even into old age.

At some point, the fuck faucet runs completely dry and you’re out of fucks to give. It’s just basic Fuckonomics.

The gap between payment and settlement is the arbitrage where KYC and censorship exist

Close the gap

#Bitcoin

Shouldn’t have started

Continue helping the curious progress - you’re so excellent at that

Replying to Avatar corndalorian

.. and yet ..

https://satsymbol.com/

sats is the standard