WoS is dragging ass right now….for me in this #zapathon.

Thanks for the random Zap anonymous, you just doubled my wallet. Over 5,000 sats now! 💜🧡

I’m new here #plebchain. People are giving me sats. What?!

Zapateros!! 😭🥲

If all you’re doing during Zapathon is posting engagement content for zaps you are doing it wrong.

It’s the time to give… not receive.

Just my thoughts. 🫡 #Plebchain

"The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it." Pr. 27:12

#bitcoin

Please specify which jurisdiction you are talking about. China? Are people "accepting and surviving on" Bitcoin in China?

I do understand your point about fear. There is some level of irony. You don't really care about using it until you're afraid, but then you become afraid to use it. Likewise the government doesn't really need to intervene, until people start using it.

I think my main point is that bitcoiners are too focused on the difficulty of stopping all nodes, without considering the loss of value proposition when *transactions* are effectively stopped.

We can zap each other back and forth for 20 years, meanwhile the "real" economy doesn't accept Bitcoin as currency.

This is where people like to talk about a borderless, visa-less, world citizen that just migrates to El Salvador or something.

Depends on the jurisdiction, but yes.

Most businesses in most significant economies do pay taxes.

A business can't really accept Bitcoin without people knowing about it. And it would only take a simple zero-tolerance policy and 3 minute "sting" operation to shut it down. In almost any jurisdiction, pretty much by definition, a government can shut down any business, confiscate structures and land itself. This is not just theoretical, though maximalists, anarchists and preppers may beg to differ. There is extensive naivete in the crypto community.

I own my money #Bitcoin 🟠

I own my data/speech #Nostr 🟣

Bitcoin is amplified in value by use-cases, but it embodies an underlying amount of energy that gives it a form of exchange value only duplicated by commodities. Corn, gold, and gas have human labor and energy requirements that cannot be falsified and that are consistent around the world. #Bitcoin takes the same amount of energy to produce anywhere.

It can certainly be banned. Yes they won't stop miners and nodes, but they can ban business from accepting #Bitcoin. And unless you run a black market business, the government can enforce this. Do you think a coffee shop owner is going to risk getting her business shut down and being imprisoned, just to accept Bitcoin?