Lots of talk recently about BlockClock and BTClock and got me thinking that there could be quite a cool new design implemented that’s a little different. Powered by a Raspberry Pi.

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Probably a stupid question, but how does this interact with the digital space?

Right, but those typically aren't routing nodes, correct?

Let’s get the most epic weekend pump in #Bitcoin history and make the ETF sellers watch.

Question about BTC lightning. Self-custody wallets all rely on LSPs to make transactions. My understanding is #zeus has a lightning node embedded in it, in theory, I could use a different LSP by opening a lightning channel to another lightning node. Or even if they don't provide the full range of services an LSP does, I can at least have another channel to send funds through. How can I do this? How do I find a node to open a channel with? #asknostr #lightningnetwork #bitcoin

Agree, I also prefer and I do believe a bottom-up adoption is the one that can really organically grow

You are right it can end like a total nothing burgher since wasn't mandatory for small merchants anyway, and imagine if they use some of it to buy more btc, lol. If he'll do that basically exploiting the IMF and making fun of them, will take my hat off 😂

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Long post.

TLDR: Buy and transact in Bitcoin

I have a business in Costa Rica which accepts bitcoin. Our greatest challenge is getting people to pay with bitcoin in order to avoid nightmares like this.

A customer tried to buy $3600.00 USD worth of retail goods from us. He wired the funds from his bank 10 days ago. The funds went through JP Morgan Chase as intermediary because he uses HSBC in the UK. CR Central bank alerted the local branch of the state owned bank we bank with and prevented the funds from being deposited into our business account. I went into the bank 3 times over 2 days which involves being patted down, metal detected, and questioned about your business with the bank. Once inside and after waiting for an extended period, the teller told me that the transaction had not made it to CR and the sender needed to provide a form MT103 in order to locate the funds. This form is a SWIFT transaction identifier and exposes the sender and sending bank to fraud and risk it is widely accepted by modern banks that your shouldn't provide this document to anyone. I left and came back several hours later. The sending bank had provided a more modern and safe tracking form (UETR) which showed the funds being held up in CR, this form was rejected by the CR bank and they told me that it was common this time of year for transactions to be very slow at every bank globally. I've been banking for long time and never noticed that it takes longer during December so this was news to me (also completely made up) presumably to cover their mistake of not contacting me to alert me about this issue.

After I returned a third time to the bank, they stated that the funds were sent from a "tax haven" country, the UK, LOL, so they needed 3 months of statements showing the origin of the source of the funds and a letter of good standing from the sender's bank. In addition, they requested a copy of the invoice for the goods we were selling to the customer. I have no issue supplying the invoice, which we are legally required to do anyway, but the rest of this is ridiculous.

Bitcoin fixes every piece of this problem.

How long can this continue?

Needs to feel real good. Like a safe door quality. Lock tumblers being engaged. With a solid feel on the fingers.