Babe started rolling.

Everything just got 10x more difficult 😅

GM fam

Huevos rancheros #food #foodstr

Call them what they are, EFFICIENT MONEY TRANSMITTERS. It's the least they could do.

Freedom isn't free

No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee

Remember who we're doing this for. Our kids will be the children of the corn.

Thanks for looking!

Run a node.

Build a house.

Do a surgery.

Tune a piano.

Because men pose as Asian women?

Yoo Guys ✌🏻💜

I've been trying to post on #Nostr since I woke up this morning, but I still can't think of what kind of post to post that will benefit Nostr. I'm posting on Nostr not because I want #Zapping ⚡. I don't need a #Zap ⚡for me.🤞🏻🥰 Help those who really need a #Zap ⚡. I only want an independent social network and I want to help Nostr.🤞🏻🩵

Btw: I'm an American girl (Other people think I'm from Asian) living in LA 🎡🏖️

I know everything that is happening in America🇺🇸✌🏻😪

#asknostr #grownostr

Fake

The best and most underreported part of the story about the guy who bought the famous “Buy Bitcoin” notepad for 16 BTC is that he refused an Uber and took it home with him on the subway.

As soon as he walked in and sat by himself in the corner of the room, I knew he was going to win it.

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Mental model: an ecash mint with the purpose of processing payments for a specific service is an alternative to an accounting system.

The flow:

- user tops up balance (e.g. via Lightning)

- service provider (SP) issues ecash to user

- user pays ecash to SP for use of service

Imagine running an entire blockchain for a single application, a website, social network, VPN provider. That would enable interesting use cases but would be a huge waste of resources. With ecash, you can build these systems without blockchains. Lightweight, fast, and cheap.

That is why I'm advocating for businesses to explore these use cases as I see great potential in them, especially in the Bitcoin space. Not only does it guarantee privacy, but it's also easier and safer to build than to have user accounts, passwords, balances, transactions, etc.

Closed ecash systems also do not run into risk of being regulated as money transmission services for the same reason you don't have this issue when you use a BTCPayServer for selling a VPN, for example.

It's only the service provider who gets paid for its service.

I'll be focussing on these use cases as we're developing the Cashu protocol, which allows you to use ecash with Bitcoin.

The internet is as bad as it is partially because payments are so bad. Payments forced us to think in accounts and accounts forced us to be traceable.