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Whelp… Now it looks like I’m gonna be here more.

Twitter was just getting fun again...

lol bullshit

No more zaps…

Looking at moving my company's social platform to the Nostr platform. We're already here, but using that as the focus for content production.

We haven't made it public to our audience or network yet, but looking at doing it soon.

GM ☕️

New Living on Bitcoin coming out this week.

GM ☕️

Fuck banks.

Running Graphene OS

GM

Giving nostr a go again.

GM☕️

We’re building #[0]​ .

Focus: promoting Bitcoin adoption in schools, businesses and providing workshops for the general public.

Goal: Make Bitcoin the native complimentary currency of Tampa Bay.

Does GrapheneOS have a good NFC/tap-to-pay wallet for prepaid cards?

Wrote an article about the important of self-custody for new comers to Bitcoin. If you find it useful, please feel free to share with other new comers, your friends and family members.

https://livingonbitcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-and-self-custody-a-journey

Finally finished writing out my thoughts on the whole network congestion issues.

Twitter officially severed ties to Substack.

Either way, I hope some of my thoughts make sense.

https://livingonbitcoin.substack.com/p/from-underutilization-to-maximum

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

I like to tell this story when I talk about the Nostr Plebs humble beginnings and how my eyes were opened with where Bitcoin is at when it comes to Lightning adoption.

The amount of Bitcoiners that message me asking how to pay the Lightning invoice to register their Nostr address, that they never used lightning before, that they had a Lightning node, but never opened up any channels, or that they had channels opened, but never made a transaction, or that they were unfamiliar with Lightning completely. I was shocked. How could Bitcoiners not know about or even use Lightning? 👀

Lightning has a bit of a marketing problem or maybe it has an adoption problem or a combination of both. 🤯

When it comes to managing your Lightning, node, liquidity management and channel management is hard. It's not fun. It's kind of a pain in the ass. I believe this will get better over time. It's already gotten better in the two and a half years that I've been running a Lightning node. 🤝

Custodial solutions are getting much easier as well. While many people may not be fans of custodial solutions, it's a misconception to believe that every person in the world will do this on their own. Do you maintain every single aspect of your house? Your car? Your electronics? No. Service providers exist for dozens of industries. Bitcoin will be no different. Stop custody shaming.

Is Lightning adoption where I wish it was at? Nope. However, we're working on it here. We're making Lightning fun and easy to use with zaps. We're making Lightning easy and frictionless.

I also truly believe that the Bitcoin communities around the world will push Lightning adoption. From Africa to Latin America to Southeast Asia, Lightning transactions are how they use Bitcoin. They don't use on-chain.

Keep building. Keep educating. It's a slow process, but we're on the right path.

The issue with many (not all) Bitcoiners is the HODL only culture that’s dominated for the past… decade(?).

The idea of spending a single satoshi is sacrilegious because “Bitcoin is for saving only.”

Nothing with that, however, lack of real world on the ground use retards individual growth of being able to use bitcoin.

Using Bitcoin, not for everything but here and there, helps the user understand what’s going on under the hood.

IMO, the time to change the narrative from hodl to usage begins now. It’ll take a while.

What’s a solid LN wallet for a small biz to use?

Channel management and liquidity balance is an art form too.