The post was about people being inconsistent.

but when tether started mining on Ocean that was all bad

if anyone’s going to have opinions, be consistent

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“I’ll only pay in Bitcoin if there’s a discount.”

We hear this a lot.

But if someone needs ten percent off to spend Bitcoin, they’re not your best customer. You don’t need to bow to that.

Your best customers want you to succeed so they can keep coming back.

They’re aligned with The Mission:

Make Bitcoin the money.

This isn’t about telling anyone how to spend.

Pay with dollars. Pay with Bitcoin. Follow your incentives.

But let’s flip the idea that you need to offer a discount to drive Bitcoin sales.

You don’t.

Truly aligned Bitcoiners are looking for ways to grow the Bitcoin pie while still getting the products they want.

If supporting a Bitcoin business helps normalize Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, that helps everyone.

Some people only stack.

Some spend and replace.

Some just spend.

All of that is fine.

What matters is that when they do spend, they want that transaction to build something.

For many, this might be their first real-world Bitcoin purchase.

Or maybe they want to show a skeptical friend that yes, you really can buy things with Bitcoin.

When you accept Bitcoin, you're doing more than taking payment.

You're validating the experience.

You're giving people a reason to keep using the best money we've ever had.

At first it feels novel.

Then it becomes second nature.

Eventually it becomes the default.

You don’t need to offer a discount to meet your customers.

You just need to offer value and stay aligned.

That is how the Bitcoin circular economy wins.

How do you exercise your natural right before the state?

In other words, how do you prevent someone from stealing from you without inflicting violence on the thief?

At a certain point violence is necessary and inevitable.

Wasabi is fucked.

Question for you. Hypothetically, would you feel completely safe storing 20 bitcoin on a Coldcard Q singlesig with passphrase?

Or do you think for that type of money, a multisig setup would be best? If not for 20 bitcoin, is there some threshold at which one should 'graduate' to multisig?

LOL, not trying to be an angry bitch, but the 'inconvenient' learning curve for newbies is legit. Bitcoin takes over when my Grandma gets it. 😂

What would stop government agents from deporting me or you to an El Salvador prison? Are you ready to prove your citizenship at a moment's notice? Should we be required to carry our papers around at all times?

When the very question is whether someone has committed a crime, there has to be someone other than a government agent accusing you before the government can do something against you. Even if you believed that witches or terrorists or illegal aliens were subhuman and had no rights while non-witches or non-terrorists or non-aliens had rights there still must be a bootstrapping process (due process) to establish whether someone is in fact a witch or terrorist or illegal alien to avoid violating the rights of the non-witches or non-terrorists or non-aliens.

The only real rights are human rights: natural and negative rights. They do not apply to different classes of people. No one, not even citizens, have a "right" to health care, for example, they only have rights to not be prevented from voluntarily exchanging for health care, especially by a government.

So whatever that due process is, if the government has done it for that individual, they should deport. If they have not, they should not.

OK sure, but in the context of immigration, are you really saying that the existence of public commons constitutes being "forced" to interact with other people? Because I think that's quite a stretch...

You could in principle live in a tower with a helipad, or Iive your existence on a private luxury yacht, never having to step foot on public property or be within 100 m of anyone outside of a carefully cultivated bubble.... it's super expensive of course, but it's possible.

And then the other problem is, from a fundamental moral perspective, if you are being "forced" to interact with people in public, then by reciprocity, they are being "forced" to interact with you. Who gets to have the moral claim of grievance here?

OK sure, but the problem is more the existence of public property producing the "tragedy of the commons" issue.... Everyone's experience with this is different, but from my point of view living in a major US urban area, the problems of homelessness are much more pronounced than that of immigration....

And I think there is data to bear out the conclusion that homeless people are far greater consumers of public services and "disrupters" of public life (in whatever context you're referring to be "forced association") than immigrants.

Whenever a new version of Bitcoin Core appears I will be here to remind you that with a single client there can be no consensus.

Quick, everyone install the latest version without even reading the changes!

"Do you mean immigrant as in in the US illegally or just someone who immigrated?" We're going around in circles here. The context is specifically Abrego Garcia who is here *legally*, according to the Trump administration in legal filings.

"Forced association- massive illegal immigration" --- Nothing about this is "forced association." Private property allows one to exclude whomever one wants from property. Public property is another issue, and while there can be a "tragedy of the commons" effect I think the problem with home-grown homelessness and mental health issues is far greater than anything created by illegal immigration.

"Forced Disassociation" -- Yes, this one is the problem. If I choose to employ or associate with someone who happens to be on the other side of an arbitrary line, and some Band of Thugs kidnaps that person, then the Thugs are the aggressors and in the wrong.

No I suppose it's not happening to the "majority" of immigrants, but it signals a pretty clear policy change, with new "boundary pushing" things happening every day. If I were an immigrant in the US, I would reasonably be scared as to whether I'm next.... Not wait until we start filling up trains with people.

This reply is more thoughtful and I appreciate the words of kindness. Some of your points are spot on, but some are still off, however.

> Fostering a community that expresses value in zaps: Absolutely. Zaps are revolutionary. Anyone ignoring them is a fool.

> Talking about zaps explicitly comes off as dicey: That’s a you problem, not a me problem. Your feelings and misinterpretations are not my responsibility. Monetizing digital content is a multi billion dollar industry, and nostr + bitcoin removes nearly all barriers imposed by centralized systems. Why should we pretend that this space is anything less than revolutionary for creators? Why should I act like zaps don’t exist, or that monetizing digital content isn’t a thing? It obviously is. Anyone offended by this is stupid.

> All forms of engagement seem valuable in their own way: Not likes. They’re worthless. Replies, reposts, zaps, quotes, are all meaningful interactions in their own way, and I didn’t discourage them in this meme, nor have I ever discouraged them that I am aware of. Likes, however, provide zero benefit/value to creators and ought to have never been added to the protocol.

If you want to show someone posting digital content on nostr that you appreciate their work, a zap is the most potent and “tangible” way of doing so, but of course other interactions have meaning too.

It is unfortunate that that is what you interpret from this. You are probably more intelligent than you let on.

Do we have a source?

There are only 2 ways to make Bitcoin scalable and fungible:

1. You upgrade Bitcoin with the best tech out there, accept the tradeoffs

2. You use other networks that tokenize bitcoin, such as Beam/DarkFi/Zano. You get the features for BTC, but don’t use the Bitcoin network

But a popular number 3 is:

You pretend that the problems don’t exist, Bitcoin is already perfect and it’s the fault of users for wanting to use Bitcoin or having greater expectations from it

If prices go up, printer is not coming

Higher interest rates and nuked prices are more likely

I love how people don't realize what they are saying when they use *hundreds* of *percentages*.

The words literally say * 100 / 100.

You're right that cork isn't the only way, but artificial cork and stelvin tops aren't solutions, just different tradeoffs. Youd never way to put a nice red that you're aging in either of those.

Interesting to know more of the history! Thanks for sharing. Would need like 25 years to kickstart the industry, it seems, but glad to know it's doable.

Do you know where in the US?

Literally what our #electedfelon is doing now.

Google search how much cork is made in America and why

Can't reshore a wine industry completely.

Gonna be posting details on that tomorrow

A 20% tariff on wine sounds simple.

But in the U.S., wine moves through a system designed to multiply cost:

Producer → Importer → Distributor → Retailer → You

Each layer adds its margin.

So when the base price goes up, the whole chain compounds it.

Here’s how imported wine moves through the system:

→ Producer sells the wine for $10

→ Importer adds 35% → $13.50

→ Distributor adds 30% → $17.55

→ Retailer adds 40% → $24.57

That’s how a $10 bottle becomes $25—before any tariff.

That’s just the system.

Now let’s add a 20% tariff to that $10 bottle:

→ Producer + tariff = $12

→ Importer markup → $16.20

→ Distributor markup → $21.06

→ Retailer markup → $29.48

The price didn’t rise by just $2.

It rose almost $5—because each step adds margin to a higher base.

That’s the multiplier effect.

This system what put in place after Prohibition.

The government banned direct sales to control alcohol.

They split the chain into tiers to make it easier to tax and track.

It’s not efficient. But it is law.

And that’s just the sales chain.

Even American wine relies on foreign parts.

Most bottles come from China.

Most corks come from Portugal.

Many barrels come from France.

So tariffs raise production costs here too.

A $10 bottle doesn’t become $30 because of a tariff.

It becomes $30 because of the system.

Tariffs just amplify the effect.

If this helped explain wine pricing in America,

please like or repost to help spread the word.

Tomorrow: how we ended up relying on foreign glass.

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It’s so fucking annoying. Every time I listen to him I hear within 20 minutes about Israel is evil and a complete misrepresentation of Christianity

Finally understand why I can’t stand Dave smith, he’s a fucking atheist

There is something really ironic about voting to decrease the influence of government in your life just to see your vote not only increasing your own taxes but sparking a chain reaction of all global governments hitting each other with even more taxes.