Cholesterol-rich foods are good for you.

realistically adoption will occur first in the places it is most needed, then other areas will follow as the network effect makes it more attractive

For US businesses not considered “high-risk” by banks, the primary benefit for merchants is avoiding credit card fees and chargebacks, but this is somewhat to the disadvantage of most consumers who buy on credit and rely on chargebacks as a form of consumer protection

How useful would it be in terms of local community resiliency to encourage local businesses to take BTC?

What's the best argument you've used to get a friend on board with BTC? My friend is getting close, but still thinks BTC is a fad...

Is any particular L2 considered a reliable long term solution at the moment?

- LN seems centralizing due to complex edge cases, backups, liquidity, routing, etc. Seems like a new complexity pops up each time one is fixed.

- Chaumian mints sound great for specific situations but do standard / battle-tested best practices exist?

Bitcoin fees are currently only a dollar, but niche programmers are suggesting to change the fundamental nature of bitcoin and increase its attack surface to make it more scalable… for people who don’t necessarily know or understand the trade offs of that scaling.

Scaling is an important discussion, but everything is a trade off. I like many of the scaling discussions, but rushing them is another matter.

It costs me $100 to buy a 1oz gold coin by mail, or to send signed documents internationally in a few days. Verification is expensive.

The idea that global monetary verification should be super cheap inherently comes with security trade offs.

All ideas should be evaluated carefully and come to major consensus. Otherwise change proposers risk a fork war.