Normies blissfully unaware of the impending fiat implosion as we try to teach them about #Bitcoin. https://nostr.build/av/4c8a62f8f32a9b8798e53859041106e0b508862b824e10dca422234db62f5532.mov
this xmen scene excerpt has 88mm views on youtube?
Trusting existing IOU system of fiat plagued with counterparty risk & subject to disruptions and confiscations & not open to all due to high costs
VERSUS
Holding something real, a bearer asset that is secure, virtually unhackable (especially if you compare to any bank or tech company), more uptime than facebook or Microsoft, self-custodying removes counterparty risk, and open to all, and instead goes up in value over time.
Blockstream has some good products but anyone here care that is a DCG portfolio company? Digital currency group. Last I checked, people in DCG crowd were not quite like the Bitcoin saints that roam around early Nostr. Thoughts?
what was the speech or event this dog was speaking at to hype itself up beforehand for?
=P
i read this post and saw the link to the paper. i had to mentally prepare myself, take inventory and thought to myself, 'I can dedicate a few minutes of my Sunday to dive in, also i have to, it's Odell'. I sat down on my couch and opened the pdf.
🤦♂️
agree, but isnt it simply a potential onramp method? cant you withdraw to your own noncustodial wallet from strike?
certain whales have 1,000 npubs and very few sats
not at any of the In N Outs by me
same. Imgur handicapped alot of VPN IPs
i really need a real life bitcoin friend too. gotta find & goto a meetup someday soon
be my neighbor, move to super expensive California
should include a market for pulling people off tbe soapbox as well. the guy holding the cane to yank necks down should take payments.
i think i have that silver surfer one and a couple of different others i think
so there's this thing here that allows seemingly easy swaps from lightning to Liquid's L-BTC - who's been using this?
Setting up a liquid node, if it's easy enough to work with I'm gonna add L-BTC to nostr:npub1n0delesspp5qyp9sd6d4fql9g3s96k7g4yyvfmpdncpp542wvxzqksp427
are you the 13th user for liquid?
🤣 zap on
i can zap Odell
i can zap Dorsey
i can zap NVK
I cannot zap you
fin
to anyone that knows: so the tradeoffs are that simplex relies on connecting to private servers? and also using open-source in name-only as it's opaque where source code is to self-compile & build?
then im pretty deep in illusions