You've been trained since childhood to believe you cannot function without state permission and provision. The programming runs so deep that even reading this, you'll feel resistance to acting on it.

But learned helplessness has a cure: you must demonstrate to yourself that you have control by actually exercising it. This post maps the escape routes. The only question is whether you'll take one.

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DeltaNode is my self hosted Lightning Node. I’m running an instance of nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg , promoting Bitcoin Lightning Payments using nostr:npub1cashappn03s3cl2ljsdntv0v28e2um5lgx4vjctqjt23pcwzjhsqmtdg5l to my nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 business account. Showing some love to all the #bitcoin service providers. Trying to educate the masses on how to spend using bitcoin rails provided by your team and nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle team. We are all team lightning. 🤙🏻

How many do we need?

okay we just have to go through the setup together if we are enough people

whats your setup?

how much you know about fedimint?

Who is ready for a nostr fedimint federation?

I will install umbrelOS tomorrow and i should be set to go!

#asknostr

If you know how to operate a node and you know

how to run fedimint and want to be a guardian:

Just comment to this note.

If there are enough people maybe we can set something up!

🤣😂 I just love this scammer's address.

I think it’s time to accept that the government has collapsed.

No matter which party wins or which side of the aisle people stand on, the outcome is the same.

Public trust is gone. People no longer believe what the government says or does. It’s over.

You can do it!

I changed my zapper. Can someone see if it works?

I don’t think everyone needs to be a software engineer, no. What I don’t know about code could fill volumes. I’m trying to catch up, a bit every day. We should all be working to improve our skills and technical knowledge on a consistent basis.

It’s been quite rewarding not having to ask my son to bail me out every time I get stuck on a technical issue. Many won’t put in the work and maybe they’re not ready for Bitcoin. That’s cool. Sovereignty is hard and people are soft.

Mental model: an ecash mint with the purpose of processing payments for a specific service is an alternative to an accounting system.

The flow:

- user tops up balance (e.g. via Lightning)

- service provider (SP) issues ecash to user

- user pays ecash to SP for use of service

Imagine running an entire blockchain for a single application, a website, social network, VPN provider. That would enable interesting use cases but would be a huge waste of resources. With ecash, you can build these systems without blockchains. Lightweight, fast, and cheap.

That is why I'm advocating for businesses to explore these use cases as I see great potential in them, especially in the Bitcoin space. Not only does it guarantee privacy, but it's also easier and safer to build than to have user accounts, passwords, balances, transactions, etc.

Closed ecash systems also do not run into risk of being regulated as money transmission services for the same reason you don't have this issue when you use a BTCPayServer for selling a VPN, for example.

It's only the service provider who gets paid for its service.

I'll be focussing on these use cases as we're developing the Cashu protocol, which allows you to use ecash with Bitcoin.

The internet is as bad as it is partially because payments are so bad. Payments forced us to think in accounts and accounts forced us to be traceable.

testing Lume

lol I love the nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqjwuwjm vlogs… best part was when we were getting deeply inspirational and he was gassing us up and then suddenly he was like “I don’t want shift to assassinations but…. I’m going to now”

What do you mean by this? Not sure what you are meaning to say. Cheers.

Kinda tokeny/shitcoiny.

I feel like I look insane when I smile with teeth😂😂

Like a cheerleader 😂😂

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO BE ALIVE HOLY FUCK.