Bitcoin adoption would be helped significantly if people were getting paid in bitcoin to a hot wallet. Doesn't need to be significant amounts either, but enough to fund basic services such as nostr client subscriptions.

One way to do that is easy one click sat purchases like Primal has. Maybe Strike? i don't know, I can't access Strike.

Whatever the method, sats needs to flow into a "liquid" wallet where it's easy to spend them.

And obviously spending HAS to be encouraged. Hodl only is never going to work because we have a ton of bitcoin businesses trying to stay bitcoin only, and discovering that people may not want to part with that bitcoin easily unless it's easy to do so.

There has to be a lot of grease in the wheels and it must be easy to move things around if you wish to have bitcoin-only businesses and services sustaining themselves.

Can I ask, what LN address do you see?

I remember my first time benching 225. Feels great with 2 plates lol

Congrats! 🎉

With all that is happening this week I have one thing to say.

#Bitcoin is greater.

Whatever it was, congrats and keep rocking mate.

my opinions don’t change if i learn what happened in some random convo. Bitcoin doesn’t care.

we need a healthy open source Bitcoin community. period. no matter what. Bitcoin won’t succeed without one. even if we want to ossify, Bitcoin Core 26.0 won’t last us centuries to come. open source projects need open source devs and an open source community.

we should focus on no strings attached funding for devs. the community has worked tirelessly to set this up with things like OpenSats, Brink, HRF, Chaincode, etc. to enable that effortlessly for us and the devs.

we as Bitcoiners should want devs to build whatever they think is best. engineers are the artists of the digital world. the smartest most forward thinkers in the room. we want to enable them. they aren’t ever a threat, don’t mistaken them for one. why? because the only way Bitcoin can change is if we, the network, run their code. let them create. we the network, the people, decide what gets adopted.

if someone builds something terrible, we won’t run it. that’s happened many times before. see Segwit2x, BitcoinCash, etc.

often times engineers strike moments of brilliance in Bitcoin. a very famous example is Segwit and how we got Lightning. nobody thought Segwit was possible technically. was never clear if or when we’d ever get Lightning. a few open source engineers named Luke and Eric found a brilliant solution. we adopted it. we now have Lightning being enabled by Coinbase. let engineers create art. fund and support them.

wanna ossify Bitcoin? run Core 26 forever and never update. no problem. don’t wanna fund devs? no problem. we don’t need to agree on these things. however, if you want the entire network to agree with you, you need to go out and advocate for consensus around your vision. that’s just how bitcoin works. the network moves as one, not from a meeting or self elected group.

bitcoin is a distributed network. it progresses through distributed consensus. the network will act in its own best interest, not based on anything else. fund the best engineers to protect and advance the one chance we have at reinventing money for humanity. adopt what we want, reject what we don’t. if there’s anything we need to work on every cycle with new entrants is public discourse and how to arrive at consensus as a distributed network.

also, everyone should breathe. it’s all love and gonna be ok. Bitcoin was designed to not care and last through anything 🙂

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Hole up. You're saying Satoshi's name was Dan?