We grow a wide selection of local varieties in the Ribes family (currants, gooseberries and their hybrids).
Also added Asian pears, Nanking cherry (,Prunus tomentosa) and peach to our first garden.
I used to be in favor of asking merchants if they accept bitcoin in order to spread awareness, but that question is too loaded. I don't even want to pay for random stuff with bitcoin because of mempool fees, so why would I even ask?
Now I could ask if they accept lightning, but if they don't understand bitcoin, that's already a bridge foo far.
I could call it "bitcoin lightning" but that opens the semantic door to accepting "bitcoin X" as bitcoin, which includes bitcoin cash 🤮
Operating on lightning is cheap and easy with custodians, but it still requires a basic understanding of bitcoin which these people don't have.
So at this point, at 500+ sat/vb, it might be too late to orange pill random merchants in this way. Accepting bitcoin as a merchant does not make sense from a convenience or cost savings perspective. If a merchant accepts bitcoin, it is only because they understand it from a store of value perspective and they are willing to put up with it's rough edges in order to stack it.
Customers won't use bitcoin until they have to. Lightning demos are often quick and painless but I have had many slow and failing transactions. We've all experienced closed channels, unroutable payments, etc. Everybody chants about KYC-free bitcoin but normal people aren't gonna do that. And the current US tax implications for using bitcoin are extremely inconvenient.
Basically, bitcoin only works as a payment instrument for those who value it more than they value ths inconvenience of using it. And I think we should be realistic and recognized how incredibly inconvenient bitcoin is to understand, obtain, and use compared fo fiat. I feel like a competent bitcoin user, but I've studied it obsessively for 3+ years. This is a compliment to bitcoin's value, which is so immense that it compells us to overcome these hurdles and obstacles. But for anyone who isn't convinced, there is no way in hell they will prefer it to fiat. It just isn't going go happen until their fiat is worthless.
We underestimate how much time and effort we have put into understanding bitcoin. Merchants are by definition busy with 1000 other concerns and do not have the bandwidth to learn about an arcane and confusing payment system that one single customer requested. This is why we should be especially grateful for merchants who do get bitcoin and use it, like nostr:npub1v0tfjv5ahr3c260jtzdk5w48krerrnkg8fmcnc5lpguk0qda04eqzm3m3e
Of course, tools for bitcoin are improving all the time. This will get better. And the network effects of demand will make bitcoin more relevant, even without the eventual collapse of fiat.
But for now I remain convinced that everyone gets bitcoin for the price they deserve, and that includes merchants.
If we want to change this, we just have to keep building better tools.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to orange pill people. Coming at this from store-of-value versus inflation is probably the strongest argument these days.
Orange pilling merchants is only worth your time if they have an actual incentive to accept Bitcoin instead of fiat:
1. Enabling black market sales.
2. Or you're doing it in a place where a high density of bitcoiners live and in the places where they a Tually buy things (Funchal is going freaking string on this approach f.e.)
Fedimint in a social wallet like Mutiny is becoming can greatly help with both 🚀
💯 If you're talking black markets / tax evasion for online sales, at least you know you're talking to the right people indeed.
Great to hear! 💪
Saturday is for transplanting farm-grown berry plants #regenag #agroforestry 
For some reason my son is suddenly really fond of pirate ships 🤷🏼♂️ #SovEng
Yup, first thing I thought of too 👌
Enginiel was here #hypernote
Show, don't tell.
Live examples of user's own creations showcase Nostr's interoperability like nothing else. #nostrdesign
"A building is ecological" is like saying "A building is mathematical or biological, philosophical, ..."
Ecological doesn't mean sustainable, it just means "related to ecology".
Even the people that want it to mean "not harmful for the environment" or "morally good" or something like that will find that the only environment morally good beings actually want to inhabit is a beautiful one.
Luckily we have a very rich history left by builders of timeless beauty and have a lot more ground to discover.
nostr:npub1fk8h6g8zhftw8c7pga2zjd84p2z949up5lc3qdchm9v4m0q7mwws7jcwld and nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y I think these two left books are missing puzzle pieces of your "universe reflecting back at itself" thesis.
O-Auth flow ftw!
Yeeeees! That's really sleek and playful man, love it 💜
1. I would make this "Share this room"-action more easily accessible. Maybe a share icon or sth on the top right of the top card
2. Detail: Icons line thickness is too fat for my taste on the bottom buttons and the copy link icon isn't rounded 😜
3. Love that the zap bg follows the card colours 🤩
These three books complete each other in way that very few people realize.
They paint a compelling picture of a universe where:
- it's habits all the way down
- a habit is an action (expression of preference) influenced by the cumulative memory of prior actions by similar agents
- literally everything is such an agent and is expressing preferences. It's just that most of them, like hydrogen atoms, have established their habits a looooong time ago
- the more time goes on and similar agents do similar things, the harder it becomes for such an agent to try something new
- the most deep down habit of it all seems to be something like: channeling energy
- once a certain kind of agents (let's say hydrogen atoms) gets really good at channeling energy, they enable a higher level, encompassing, agent to exist.
- the new agent, in it's own quest for channeling energy and establishing a habit around it, is often at war with the agents that enabled it to exist in the first place.
- we, humans, are such an agent and are masters of channeling energy. Simultaneously, standing on the shoulders of and at war with all the lower levels of agency that enabled our existence. Fighting our social norms, biological drives and literally breaking up molecular bonds in our entrepreneurial pursuit of harnessing power.
#morphicresonance #lila #MOQ #humanaction #Mises