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Runner of Roads&Nodes | EEng/Dev/IT

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My 2025 on various GitHub/other accounts hit a record:

Times I got a β€œthanks bro” = 13

(You’re welcome β€œsista” :) :)

Choosing your battles wisely is such a life hack/maximizer…

Gm, privacy is a human right.

Fight for that every day in your own way.

Stay humble when you help merchants stack sats…

When you’re onboarding Square merchants and their workers, be sure to notice how so many of them are every day working to make the world a better place for the customer/community/family they have.

Every Square service or store I buy from, 100% of themβ€”make the world a better place. Without a doubt.

This would be a better energy to start from instead of the mindset we see from many,

β€œMuhβ€”fiat work is stupidβ€”my thing I do in/with Bitcoin is the more meaningful or purposeful or impactful thing that makes the world a better place.’

IMO, that mindset is akin to the age-old government/tech/financial elite smuggery that places one’s self above the masses of humans and their work.

And not a winning educational or marketing mindset for those whose goods and services we all utilize.

Stay humble and help merchants and service providers stack sats!!!

Replying to Avatar hodlbod

Here are some things I'd like to see from the Square/CashApp team for making this stick. I'd hate to see merchant adoption stall again, especially when we have to tools to make it an every day thing:

- Onboarding resources for "local guides". I am enthusiastic enough to actually go talk to the businesses in my area about accepting bitcoin, but a really crisp value proposition for businesses would be helpful (fees? UX? treasury?)

- A referral program for people doing the boots-on-the ground work of onboarding merchants *and* onboarding customers. Both sides of the market have to be developed at the same time, local "guides" are indispensable for stuff like this.

- A clear articulation of the value prop for customers. You don't pay card fees when you pay, and you have to pay fees to get bitcoin. What is going to make customers want to pay to convert fiat into bitcoin, only to give it away to merchants? There has to be a clear story here β€” maybe a 1% discount merchants can offer?

I think this is a huge opportunity to move bitcoin into "medium of exchange territory" that we should be sure to avoid wasting. If Square/CashApp can leverage the enthusiasm of local bitcoiners to help nurture the network effect, that would be a huge success. nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaejuum0vd5kzmp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hhxarj9ec82c30qyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q3gljvd nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9uq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hhxarj9ec82c30qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyzvrz5fj664celjqfuagq34cxdk4ghc5jjck8dhwdf3er3dwcfyvjunv3pq nostr:npub1ds3hmzemzgp9rsuvyvxqdk0y3uxnq9m903dktjxrvyfwk9w99t4sc2hzcn

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Good list..looks like some of it already happening …

What would Meredith (Whitaker) do?

(Found myself thinking this today)

1. Talk to your local/small businesses about accepting Bitcoin on Square.

2. Post their business on

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3. Tell your neighbors/community.

4. Spend your Bitcoin at your local/small business.

Repeat ⭕️⭕️⭕️

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Be kind to the US airline workers - not their shitshow that’s starting …

Wut??! ❀️❀️❀️❀️

Could you send me the repo link please. Thanks !

Would the November 20th 16:00 UTC meeting work instead? Where can I contact you? Basic task functionality and board demo with Cashu is good.

I checked it out …let me know if you can demo on the 30th 16:00 UTC!

The right response is always to keep on trying to do the good you do with your one precious life…

Love the new #bitchat where I am not just bitch@β€˜ing at myself …

β€œNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead would have said about #bitchat

Really not a fan of the proclamation

β€œFew”

If few understand and you think it’s important, why are you not doing more to make it more than few..

More than a few who do that instead …

Inflation (PPI) came big for the veggies, and the veggie-haters said nothing. "Wholesale vegetable prices rose nearly 40% from June to July" https://www.newser.com/story/373573/veggie-flation-is-here.html

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For quite some time, my love language has been to find a creative way, every day, to talk to regular people about digital privacy, security, and surveillance in general …and why they should care …

1 out of 3 people today GAF

The other 2 thought I was paranoid.. and I DGAF

This is pretty much the normal ratio.

But I know we are changing it.

Signal’s Meredith Whitaker was one of the organizers of the 2018 Google Walkouts. She resigned in 2019.

She saw people-including herself- be retaliated against for speaking up /protesting.

People like her made Signal what it isβ€”often cited as the best private chat app.

There are privacy and security moments in the timeline - similar to 100k bitcoin - where friends and family, who thought you were crazy (Bitcoin) or paranoid (privacyand security)…

…then text and say hey I want to learn more about how to protect myself and what tools are out there.

Also feels good.

Friendly reminder that Google started out with idealistic and good intentions, too…

Replying to Avatar vnprc

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Relatable

Character building is a life-long, hard POW.

If you think it’s easy, you’re probably not building much real character.

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The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice. – Marcus Aurelius