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Lightning & other stuff

Did anyone catch SoFi’s crypto commercial on MNF?

AICPA recognizes sats are the standard.

To survive they’ll need to actually integrate Bitcoin and generate operational income.

Bitcoin becoming more financialized isn’t a potential threat in and of itself.

The threat is from if adoption is largely through custodial and store of value focused products and services.

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Goals. I’ve got my top local spots scoped out to convince to accept bitcoin payments.

- Float tank (owner of 2 franchises)

- Greek restaurant (family owned)

- Ice cream shop (family owned)

What are your top targets?

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Right now there's ~5000 BTC on Lightning. About 0.02% of current total supply.

Does it get to 2% of total supply?

What is it in 10 years? By 2140?

I’ve only seen reported Routing Fee Revenue from Block, B HODL & LQwD (sorta).

How’s ACINQ, River, Strike and Kraken doing? What’s their RFR?

Maybe that’s the next thing Larry changes his mind about.

Interoperable platforms that focus on scalable and structured foundational data serving multiple uses cases and workflows are the way to go.

- Penpot CEO

Now is the season to stack.

Maybe checking out #PUBKEY

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SWIFT will transition to a single messaging standard — ISO 20022 CBPR+ on Nov 22.

This new standard is CBDC, blockchain and tokenized assets compatible.

The payments race is on.

Boots on the ground will push merchant adoption.

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How SMB and enterprise integrate Bitocin (or not) will determine its epicenter of trajectory now.

Anyone own a restraunt and want to accept bitcoin or want their favorite restraunt to accept bitcoin?

Tether putting $250M into Rumble.

Check out what your neighbor to the north in Vancouver has been able to do. Grassroots and boots on the ground are the biggest catalyst needed for more merchants to come online.

Replying to Avatar Contra

The Privacy Paradox: What Data Breaches Reveal About Us

The sheer volume of data breaches has become background noise. Another headline, another apology email, another year of free credit monitoring. Yet we continue uploading our lives to centralized platforms, seemingly unbothered.

This is not ignorance. This is learned helplessness masquerading as trust.

We have outsourced our digital sovereignty to authorities and corporations under an implicit bargain. They will protect us, regulate the bad actors, make it all okay. The same institutions that cannot secure their own databases are somehow expected to secure ours. The same regulatory bodies that move at glacial speeds while tech evolves exponentially.

Every breach proves the bargain is broken. But rather than reclaim ownership of our data, we wait for the next patch, the next regulation, the next promise that this time they will get it right.

The contradiction is stark. We claim to value privacy while actively surrendering it. We demand accountability from systems designed to centralize power, then act surprised when that power is abused or incompetent.

Perhaps the real revelation is not that breaches keep happening. It is that we have normalized them. We have accepted that our data will be leaked, sold, or stolen as the price of participation in modern digital life.

Decentralized protocols are not just technical alternatives. They are philosophical rejections of this entire framework. They suggest that maybe the solution is not better authorities, but fewer dependencies on authority altogether.

The question is not whether culture cares about privacy. The question is whether we care enough to do something radically different about it.

What do you think? Are we genuinely apathetic, or just trapped in a system that makes real privacy feel impossible?

Excellent!

Average won’t care enough unless they have a wake up moment. Those that will do something need to think at a network state level but not dumb balji stuff. Actual infrastructure for commerce and communication.

And your method of payment

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Wow that’s great! 🧡⚡️

Belichick is playing with Alex Smith while everyone else plays with Patrick Mahomes.

Prompting lessons on Nostr.

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Asked a store owner if I could pay for a large purchase in bitcoin. They said not right now. Then quickly congratulated me on the recent ATH.

1,000 true fans is more viable than ever.

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He was one of a kind. Most are at least moderately competent.

AI is probably helping that result.

This is pre-Mandibles script right here.

Why cut if everything is amazing?

Printer about to brrrrrr

The race to out grow the debt will super charge Bitcoin.

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FOSS wins. Powered by AI + Bitcoin.

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Choose the weights of your npub follows.

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I tipped a worker $20 the other day and it seemed like the most amazing thing that’s happened to them.

Without bitcoin your savings is dying along with purchasing power with inflation.

A lot are hurting and shows how little of spontaneous acts happen now. Which makes sense if more people are operating closer to survival mode as the default.

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Nostr is prime to be a disruptor with games.

And no I’m not revealing how long it took me to crack a score of 10. All anon in browser for now.

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