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McDonald's takes Bitcoin!
The argument against lightning network is ridiculous.
We want to spend bitcoin on Layer 1?
Why?
So you can wait 10 minutes to an hour while the payment goes through?
I'd much rather send BTC to my lightning wallet and use it from there for no extra fees. It's still bitcoin and you're still avoiding the central banks and their grubby little fingers.
If you're a bitcoiner expecting to spend bitcoin, you have btc on your lightning wallet anyway.
If not, you should.
Nobody planning to spend bitcoin is loading just enough btc for 1 transaction.
I'm excited! You should be too! https://video.nostr.build/78dcc1053b5a362e715dc5c83e23b936cfaac45b6689b0f17f148761d35b5c13.mp4
If you learn how to steward well what you're given, in word and deed, then you can graduate from sowing and reaping to inheriting as a method of leveling up.
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Minimum wage is government price gouging by threat of force.
Fix the money, fix the birthrates.
TLDR;
@PeterSchiff
#Gold tried to solve the human problem of money and failed multiple times over thousands of years.
@jackmallers
Bitcoin tried to solve the human problem of money, and succeeded in 15 years.
#Bitcoin wins.
This Lightning development is actually pretty cool.
Static Lightning addresses.
Socialism espouses peace, but always ends in bloodshed.
The Chinese Communist Party and North Korea have already in certain ways maximized the use of technology along socialist values. Just take a look.
Having lived in China myself, and having a relative who has gone into North Korea multiple times, I can tell you they use technology to centralize power, not for the benefit of their populations but for the government's empowerment.
One of the problems of socialist philosophy is it's implicit message that certain portions of the population can't make their own choices, which is the same thing as asserting other people are capable of making choices for many other people, which is a deeply codependent believe.
Socialism is extremely interpersonally toxic, and violative of personal boundaries, which means people who genuinely follow through on their socialist beliefs are destined to have highly toxic relationships, because personal free will empowerment, which is necessary for healthy and functional relationships, cannot be genuinely cultivated under the values of socialism without contradicting it.
So, you're for sanctioning terrorism to end oil consumption? Without oil, the world would plunge into abject poverty and many millions or billions of people would die. Your movement is anti-human flourishing.
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An excellent list of Marxist philosophy driven articles, a philosophy that is responsible for 100,000,000 people's murders and genocide and starvation over the last 100 years.
The Michael Saylor v Saifedean Ammous debate is sorted out here I think pretty logically by nostr:nprofile1qqsggcc8dz9qnmq399n7kp2yu79fazxy3ag8ztpea4y3lu4klgqe46qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq35amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvg26msf, and I think it's worth a watch.
"Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now."
@navel
I've made the mistake of selecting the path of better pay, and I could tell you right now that it's not worth it. Thankfully I have a boatload of intellectual curiosity that helps me make money.
I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.
The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)
Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)
That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.
Either:
1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.
OR
2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)
While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.
Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.
Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.
Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day. You make a difference with every word, thought and action.
Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.
Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.
People will continue to do what works for them, until it doesn't. And then they will adapt or fade away.
@saylor and Saifedean and all of us are in the process of a segway from the old world to the new world.
Disagreements will happen on the way, but we'll work them out and continue growing and adapting.
The world we are building is the future we will live in. That is how life works, and in some sense that's why we have hope.
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The hardest money attracts all the value.
Germany's Commerzbank and DZ Bank To Offer Bitcoin and Crypto Trading https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/germanys-commerzbank-and-dz-bank-to-offer-bitcoin-and-crypto-trading
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