A friend of mine pejoratively referred to Bitcoin as a religion, which really bothered me for a while.

Religion requires faith. Fiat requires faith. Fiat is a religion.

Bitcoin is apolitical, areligious. It requires math, physics and game theory. It does not require faith.

Is Bitcoin monetary atheism?

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It’s downright impressive just how much friction BitPay managed to add to paying with lightning. The whole “bitpay verified” thing (which requires KYC at any amount and appears to be a totally made up requirement that no one else is even aware of) makes it totally impractical to use any EU BitPay merchant, which means I use bitcoin a hell of a lot less than I’d like.

pretty crazy how quickly people can turn in this space, greed is a hell of a drug

less than two years ago:

Testing out the zaps feature, can someone zap over some sats.

Plz don’t send a lot, just want to see if I got it set up correctly 🤝

Damn dude, #[0]​ doesnt fuck around

No you don’t want to have the ability to delete notes on nostr