That's the way. Just do it.
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Nah, no need for justification. I was just being curious. I'm always looking out for Islamic banks. That's why I asked.
What is that, a bank? Does it do halal business?
Somehow this dialogue box doesn't save the unlock password in Chrome-based browsers under Linux (Ubuntu). It does with Firefox/Ubuntu though, that's why I use Alby only with Firefox.
It's a small thing but it sucks in everyday use.
Terrible UI, good performance: The free and open source system cleaner BleachBit.
It just freed another 4,3 Gbyte on my well-maintained Ubuntu system.
If you're a Linux user make sure to download the right version for your Linux distribution.
If you want to get out of the fiat system you need to solve 4 kinds of problems.
1. Savings
This is the easiest one. Buy BTC, self-custody ... done.
2. Getting paid in Bitcoin
Even though most customers still use fiat you can utilize a service like Bitwage to be paid in Bitcoin directly. They give you a unique IBAN number, you share it with your customers and when they make bank transfers, you can predetermine how much should flow into your Bitcoin wallet, and how much should be routed to your traditional fiat bank account.
3. Pay for things in Bitcoin that you can also pay for with a credit/debit card
a) There are some crypto debit card providers out there which let you load your Bitcoin onto these debit cards which you can then use to pay for online and offline purchases. The good thing is, your money remains in Bitcoin until the very moment you make a payment. The recipient won’t even know you used Bitcoin. However, be aware of price volatility, which can affect the displayed fiat balance on your card.
b) Need cash for those occasional situations, like feeding the parking meter? With a crypto debit card, you can also withdraw cash at an ATM. Or right after grocery shopping I can ask the cashier to pay out some additional coins for the parking meter.
4. Pay for things that you would normally pay for with a SEPA bank transfer
This one’s a bit more complex. I don't know of any service that offers a solution to this problem out of the box yet. At this point you would either have to
a) leave a certain amount of income in the bank as fiat, which of course contradicts the idea of living the Bitcoin standard.
b) or you would have to, after receiving all the income either in BTC or converting it to BTC, sell it again and then make an old school fiat transfer. Which, to be honest, isn't convenient and doesn't make much sense if you've just received your salary and want to use it to pay your rent straight away.
So we urgently need a solution to transfer Bitcoin to another bank account via SEPA as smoothly as possible, whereby, similar to the crypto card, it's only converted into fiat at the last possible moment. This would allow us to keep all our money in Bitcoin and not a single cent in fiat in our bank accounts.
I would rather master this craft than website development. The best part is where he hammers the nails into the sole at a slight angle 🤌
[via AmmaraAziz4008 at 𝕏]
Oh, didn't know of coracle. It actually looks like it's a decent web client.
I think it's not about 'at what price' but rather 'at which event'. Like hyperinflation or being unbanked.
"Let's all please stop calling dollars 'fiat money'" 😂
"And prepare for them whatever you can gathering and collecting any kind of power at all"
Surah Al Anfal (8:60)
$7 a month just for an AI to suggest what to cook every day. Man, some people have ideas ...
I don't follow any accounts that follow nobody. I mean, you don't have to follow me back. But the arrogance ...
Bitcoin is in no way a religion or has components of it. It's a monetary system similar to what gold once was. Just because we had a completely broken phase of money for a few centuries and the Bitcoin technology promises us a sigh of relief economically doesn't mean it has a religious component. At most, to the extent that it is a gift (and also maybe a test) from Allah and He allows us to use it.
If you see any religious aspects in Bitcoin itself then you have gone far astray and I can't take you serious. We worship the Creator, not the creation.
Only 10K?
Google Drive app now scans your whole phone for suspicious files and flags you as a criminal when it finds something. Like a copyright violation or something, I guess.
Time to get rid of it.
What's happened to iris.to? Why does it look like snort now?
Why don't Nostr developers have the ability to communicate the simplest things in their changes clearly and visibly for all? I thought these autistic phases of IT had already been overcome.
Some people might think "Oh, he's into Bitcoin. He must have some brains."
Actually there are some really, really, really stupid Bitcoiners out there. Idiots who don't understand anything, who are just waiting for the price to go up and are meanwhile spouting the same stupid slogans.
Money obtained through credit creation, which deprives everyone except the cantillionaires of their purchasing power and savings, is deeply unethical. This must change as quickly as possible.
The pinnacle of archery. They were not feared for nothing.
The npub1relayxmv7tvfqa3jx36m6hqzlqt3vlgwe8hg004d6xyudzmp6v6q9p35vr bot keeps spamming my DMs with cryptic messages even though I've muted it. Anybody knows what to do?
"Nostr is Freedom Tech"
People, who joined the social web later like to think that the decentralization of Nostr is what makes it 'freedom tech'. In fact, that's a big myth.
The web technology that has given us the most freedom, we already have since 1999. It's called web servers, http(s), blog CMS and ping APIs. Decentralized at the core of the internet.
Nostr is basically just posting text and media, same as 𝕏. The only innovation is being able to zap posts (= send Sats via Lightning). Zaps could be implemented as a CMS plugin too. It's not an exclusive feature of nostr. It's just a matter of demand.
Discoverability
Nostr is much worse than 𝕏 when it comes to finding other accounts to follow. 𝕏 is really good at this. But weblogs had trends and recommendations, too. There were dedicated server apps for that which you could connect to with your CMS (like Technorati, weblogs.com and many more). This feature in itself was decentralized. You could choose which one to use and opt-in and out of them by changing a simple ping setting in your CMS. You could literally decide, not to appear on any trend lists, if you wanted to.
That's full control.
Nostr clients are now pathetically trying to implement these features at the client level. There is no other way anyway. And you can't opt out.
Full control over your data
Speaking of full control, another claim by nostr ... you don't have full control over your data here. That's also a myth.
Your posts are stored in relays. You can't expect relays to store everyone's posts forever. Could be that the oldest posts will be deleted at some point. To prevent this you need to run your own relay or pay for a service that does it for you. Only few people know this. Some people will be surprised when maybe after 10 years they sentimentally look for their first post and it's gone.
Full control not only means being censorship resistant but also being able to delete what you've posted. It's called 'the right to be forgotten' and it's considered an essential right on the web.
On Nostr: you depend on relays whether they allow you to delete your post. And there are hundreds of them synchronized with each other. If only one relay doesn't play along with your deletion request, your post is still out there somewhere.
On 𝕏: Well, you can delete your post and hide it from other's view. But can you be sure, it's really deleted from everywhere? From their other data storages and backups, too? At least you can hide it from search engines and web archives, which is not possible on Nostr.
Weblogs: It's your server, your .htaccess, your robots.txt (most search engines respect a robots.txt), your CMS and database. This is actually real control over creation, modification, storage, backup and deletion of your data. Unbeaten until today.
Conclusion
Self-hosted weblogs run by open source CMS already give us maximum data control and freedom. So why do we now need relays for that? It's convenience and a spiritual legacy from the centralized platforms.
Convenience is what made users run to centralized social media platforms and give up freedom and control to begin with.
Nostr social media a minimally better, but you still don't have the full package of what the internet has to offer.
Thank you. Where's the recurring payment part (like for a subscription)?
Do you know of any business or website that has implemented subscription payments yet?