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They did try that. They shifted imports to Vietnam and Trump added another 10% on Vietnam. I think this 34% is actually a frustrated tantrum over them being caught trying to circumvent the tariff plan.

2025-04-04 11:02:45

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I really don't understand this threat. If I sell a shitty $3 coffee and the premium coffee is $5 my ONLY selling point is cheap price. China's only selling point is their goods being cheap. It CERTAINLY isn't quality.

2025-04-02 18:58:34

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Lol, yes, I know what a private key is. You hold your own private keys on Liquid. So, there's not really a point being made here.
The issuing authority and the payment infrastructure is the Liquid Maintainer's "custody."
The LiquidBTC is full yours just like cash in your wallet. The difference is the federated group can't print more LBTC without collateral (unlike the federal reserve)

2025-03-27 00:49:27

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Well, good to have you here. Be sure to search for your interests and find like-minded frens.

2025-03-21 10:40:32

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I don't know who needs to read this but: Do not finance your lunch.

2025-03-20 09:35:04

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Depending on your trust model, you can "authorize forever" but barring that you have to acknowledge permissions at your discretion.

2025-03-08 20:56:01

I just did a bunch of drugs sat on my couch for like 5 hours and nothing happened. Protein powder sucks.

2025-03-01 15:35:27

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I don't find AMD GPUs to be shitty yet every one seems to flock toward RTXs and the proprietary stuff. Just because gamemakers seem to optimize for them.

2025-02-27 01:58:07

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It is money, not currency. Which is what Saylor ACTUALLY said. Read his quotes not the headlines.

2025-02-26 22:20:33

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Again, you can't read so, I won't waste any more time here. Any questions just read what I already wrote. Those "currencies" you are referring to are not currencies, they would be called money. Anything that can be used non-consumptively as a trade settlement is money. In no case was there a currency that WAS a final settlement. Gold coins for instance are not currency, they are literally a monetary asset.
Physical USD is a fiat asset. Assets ARE the backing. Digital USD is not an asset it is a coupon redeemable for the asset (physical dollars).
You can try to insult all you want, you are wrong and might be the dumbest entity I've had the misfortune of responding to.

2025-02-26 21:23:37

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Guy, Currency is BACKED BY A MONETARY ASSET. What is USD backed by, genius? Either you can't read or can't follow a logical train of thought more than a few ties. USD is a fiat asset after 1971. It is a terrible money, but more importantly its nature is muttled by its expansion by digital equivalence. A physical dollar is the asset, the numbers on a bank ledger are not always the asset and are the currency coupon of the USD asset. Hilarious that you think you have any idea about what you are speaking.
As for the ledger, bitcoin is in and of itself information on a ledger. The ownership of that encrypted information is locked behind cryptographic keys. I didn't say money is a ledger, I said bitcoin is information on a ledger. Dollars are a fiat asset. Digital dollars are currency on a ledger. And you have no clue what you are talking about.

2025-02-26 20:03:46

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He didn't say it's not money. He said it's not currency. There's a difference. Money is an asset that has no consumptive use, and is used to give FINAL settlement for commodity or service purchases. Currency is a coupon good for the redemption of money. Read my Article on this to understand the distinction.
#naddr1qq…uk8a

2025-02-24 13:27:40

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Yes, using embedded node wallets that use backends that aren't yours ARE hard to control. I use my own CLN node to create any offers I want. Maybe direct this criticism to Phoenix and not the BOLT12 spec.

2025-02-24 11:56:24

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💯💯💯 This is the most frustrating part of most digital development today. Bitcoin, Nostr, videogames, and everything in-between. Just do the thing you do well!

2025-02-21 08:30:15

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Yeah, turns out that was a local machine exploit not a flaw in LND. Either way, the point was risk tolerance is different at different income levels. Entrepreneurs boldly go into the darkness knowing most don't find safety. But for those who do, they forward the line of human progress.

2025-02-20 15:35:42

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That last strike is my Lightning node trying to find a route...

2025-02-20 08:30:52

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To all the people talking about "Use it to pay the debt" the "savings" is debt. All of that money was future spending. This is the equivalent of taking out a loan to pay another loan at the same rates. None of this means anything besides to whom the money goes. Giving it back to citizens is stealing from your left pocket to put it in your right (at interest). Write the debt off as lost capital, move on.

2025-02-19 15:15:42

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Yeah, as silly as that is, that's how adoption works. First it's "fax but better," then with more technical adoption, you get more accurate analogies. It's about bringing the laymen to you not standing still and calling them idiots for bot being where you are.

2025-02-15 21:05:10

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Oh, I thought that would still make them delinquent but, I guess not.

2025-02-15 18:26:02

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What an evil perspective to have. The same perspective of those who think if you aren't exporting violence to other countries you're an "Isolationist"
This can be whitled down to: "We need to be able to kill everyone and if not, be able to buy them. Or else, our country will fail."
Disgusting.

2025-02-15 18:10:08

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Uhhh, Student loans...

2025-02-15 18:08:32

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It's always interesting, having been an anarchist for about 12 years, watching people become acutely aware of just how evil the state is. It feels similar to watching a friend reaching the first big challenge of their lives and them being shocked by the difficulty. When Anarchists and Libertarians say they hate the state, they don't mean it like they hate Mondays. They mean if there was a button that would destroy the state instantly and forever, they would press it so fast their finger would break off of their hand. These demons are the source of nearly all suffering in the world.

2025-02-14 20:26:29

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So, you hold Lightning in escrow to a cashu mint. The mint distributes (in a loan) those cashu tokens against the locked up lightning funds. This allows fully collateralized loans without having to confirm it on chain.
Think of it this way:
>Anything you can do with gold, you can do with Bitcoin.
>Anything you can do with cash, (pre-1971) you can do with lightning.
>Anything you can do with credit, you can do with Cashu.
Credit is a loan instrument by its nature.

2025-02-12 19:21:22

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Compatability of kinds in many clients doesn't make the specificity of a kind without purpose. Think of the wider adoption of Nostr and how congested it would be with different media types shoved into a kind later utilized for a specific use.

2025-02-12 16:17:21

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Necessarily you have to have a "hot wallet" to have a lightning wallet. I am not sure of the question exactly, like can an NFC card copy and paste a Lightning invoice? Because you preload NFC cards with information and the purchaser is the one receiving info, not giving it. The closest to this is an on-chain Satscard but that's not lightning.

2025-02-12 10:51:02

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Backing doubles is crazy. Absolutely skilled lad.

2025-02-12 10:39:32

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Is BTCpay server to LND hub necessary? CLN can be connected to @nprofile…5fk2 with a REST connection. Host, Rune, and port. Is that not available info on Sovran?

2025-02-11 04:31:24

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Does no one else think "Gulf of America" makes more sense? America is the continent, and it is a gulf touching multiple countries. Why name it after just one of the countries?

2025-02-11 04:23:19

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It's usually the atheistic governments you have to worry about. Religion is competition for the state. The state is based on theft so, that always creates a tension between itself and established religion.

2025-02-10 16:52:12

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The money isn't lost yet. (Announce you don't have a watchtower up for revocation secrets on the internet isn't a great call) If everyone just closes the channels with you, you get those sats back to your on-chain address. Minus fees, still seems okay.

2025-02-09 03:19:48

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Okay. No problem. I'll take a look at the code, and see what I can glean from it. It is open source right?

2025-02-09 03:10:46

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Bitcoin is also there but support for ETH, LTC, and XRP. If there is a breach using an exploit for one of those other coins, the Bitcoin you stack using that app could be at risk.

2025-02-09 03:08:41

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On the site it has support for all the Shitcoins I could name. Here's just a quick screenshot. https://files.sovbit.host/media/dd1f9d502c7951df47e8f8ed245e8bfa24f7e82c28f19399a8f0e74b06113a21/eec5d361a4df8881a015151a4c9835e7a8fc537c32e336e973ef02d042efaac7.webp

2025-02-09 03:04:52

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Get your bag but Shitcoins suck. Reduce your attack surface and go Bitcoin only.

2025-02-08 20:52:40

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@nprofile…ckyu is by far the best at putting the block template in your hands with DATUM. (We need more eyes on Bitcoin knots though, a single dev pushing to master, no matter how good he is spells disaster for long term use.)

2025-02-08 20:49:47

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You can probably render fat with enough mining heat... The lye mixture is up to you.

2025-02-08 20:48:22

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I would suggest lowering your scope. Run 3-5 BitAxes for personal mining. If you can't make your own energy the hard reality is you can't be a miner. Hashing feeds centralized control so, that's a choice you have to make.

2025-02-08 19:57:15

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Technically you would just be a hasher. Miners dictate block templates.

2025-02-08 13:39:27

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Propensity is genetic. Abilities are nurtured. All of those things can be learned. The hurdle here is the teaching. Rebuilding foundational assumptions takes time and often needs tragedy as a catalyst. Patience.

2025-02-07 09:50:49

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No effect, after disabling Tor.

2025-02-07 09:25:09

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Yes, but using Zapstore.

2025-02-07 09:16:02

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Version 94.3, I use Tor through Orbot.

2025-02-07 09:11:43

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Added that relay but still crashes for me. Like I said this is a crazy bug.

2025-02-07 09:07:40

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Nostr.wine, Nostr.band, and noswhere.com. are my search relays.

2025-02-07 08:57:07

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I believe both Max and I are running on Graphene, might be OS specific bug?

2025-02-06 22:31:39

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Learned nothing from Laszlo. People will be asking you if you regret buying that pizza for the rest of your life.

2025-02-06 21:48:01

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It is technically possible but the backend would have to load the coinbase reward address from somewhere. So, random visitors would only help the chance of the site runner. You'd need to dox a valid address for yourself, enter a nonce, and have autofill scripts for the block header but "Technically" possible.

2025-02-06 20:14:27

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I think there is a misconception. The DOGE has a legal authority to subpoena any civil agent that withholds spending requests. They didn't become honest, They are threatening Peggy in accounting with a lawsuit for non-compliance. I think Elon is autistic enough to do this kind of thing for efficiency. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2025-02-06 19:20:41

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They are called scripts. Basic python or rust scripts. https://youtu.be/MJ0OzrkHvXA 28:11 in this video is relevant to what I was talking about.

2025-02-04 23:12:17

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Shorting for a collateralized asset is not a naked speculative short. Mortgages are backed by property so, I don't mind shorting the dollar with collateral.

2025-02-04 16:24:29

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I dunno, I'd have to revert to before the Magna Carta. Maybe just start over with one line of code from Locke:
[dependencies]
Rights1 = Life
Rights2 = Liberty
Rights3 = Property

2025-02-04 15:27:45

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This is probably one of the IMF stipulations. I honestly think Bukele might be playing the IMF a bit here. I think that's a dangerous game, but I think he is.

2025-02-04 14:21:40

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They're calling the program "Slave for a day"

2025-02-04 14:11:13

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Right, so tell my mortgage company that.

2025-02-04 14:09:23

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Regardless they will be poor. If they have Bitcoin, they will quickly lose it because they don't produce anything. The point of a Bitcoin reserve is to make the debtors, that have been holding up the US debt bubble, whole when the US Government ultimately defaults. Shitcoins lets the scammers pass debt to a greater fool.
This is really a question of who you despise more the US govt or shitcoin scammers. Though the US govt is both, the shitcoin reserve saves them some pain.

2025-02-04 10:53:59

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There are implementations of several with different trade offs. Liquid being a side-chain is interesting though 11/15 custodians need trust. There's something I have been tossing around that you could essentially create unlockable UTXOs as a sort of Layer one Treasury for a layer two token whose transference provides a nonce to unlock the underlying locked bitcoin. But, I am not a good enough cypherpunk to code it without having serious flaws. Though, I do believe it's possible, juwt not in my hands. This opens the door for minimum sized UTXOs to be established so the "I won't be able to spend my Bitcoin later" people can stop complaining. Also, with value appreciation, Those Minimum sized UTXOs allow for much more market expansion within a single treasury lock up. And anyone could make it without being a "custodian" (because once they spend the commensurate tokens they are divested from the treasury.
But that's all I have personally. I'm sure this can be flushed out more.

2025-02-03 03:33:53

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Cart before the horse. This only works if your culture is distinct and migration of any kind is predicated upon the expectation of assimilation. This "come into my house and do whatever you want" approach leads to violence and isolative ideals. America's culture is in shambles, I'd work on that first.

2025-02-03 02:44:37

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Well, technically when I pay my bills it sells. But, to be fair that happens regardless of the price. (Low price hurts the stack more though)

2025-02-03 02:41:02

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Wow, it is amazing to see these texts hit someone else's phone.

2025-02-03 00:11:25

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Easiest Mute of my life. Lul, get fuckt.

2025-02-03 00:09:27

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Any best practices in your estimation?

2025-02-02 21:26:51

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How does one approach the ultimate decoupling of the state and money? At what point do you disallow their intrusion into your life? Obviously open antagonism brings the force of government upon you and your family, how do you avoid that while going full on for Bitcoin?

2025-02-02 21:00:25

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It's not the apk usecase, it is the proprietary ecosystem solidification and future dependence that you are fostering. The Apple ecosystem will make certain features so important to you that you won't want to control your own software or hardware. Then you will be another one in the flock. Open source often takes longer but doesn't force control.

2025-02-02 20:45:22

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Inflation is an increase of monetary supply. So, by collecting dollars through taxation introduces more local inflation. The real cure is to decrease the dollar supply or better yet back it with actual money.

2025-02-02 20:41:07

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https://liberux.net/ seems to be the next iteration. My only issue has been the lack of hibernation for a linux phone OS kills the battery. Either way, I have not had the issues you are talking about with grapheneOS but maybe your specific software stack introduces that.

2025-02-02 19:32:43

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I dunno. My pixel 6 has been awesome since scrubbing the google out of it with Graphene. Great signal antennas and pretty fast processor for being 4 years old. GrapheneOS is what makes an Android work, not the hardware. The hardware is roughly the same.

2025-02-02 19:29:50

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Lol yeah, nothing the government does can be construed as good. I am saying Canada and Mexico should be happy their are getting divested from dollars through Taxation. Goverment will use their currency as they always have, to control peaceful people with force.

2025-02-02 17:05:12

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Tariffs have an inflationary effect on the US for the simple reason that $100 of stuff with an accompanying bill of $25 in tax, that $25 comes to the US, centralizing the money supply more. With dollars floating around in Canada and Mexico, it imports US inflation to them.
In reality, they should love tariffs so they can divest from dollars. Despite the "monetary" losses.

2025-02-01 03:12:31

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Sounds delicious.

2025-02-01 02:56:44

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I mean, that's what the government is. They just LARP as a human rights organization.

2025-01-31 22:12:28

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Dude looks like he saves his farts in a skippy peanut-butter jar.

2025-01-31 22:08:11

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Learning this is what really blew my mind on Bitcoin the first time. The second time was when I baked my noodle on ECDSA and how that works.

2025-01-31 22:03:25

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Sick burn.

2025-01-31 14:06:12

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What in the what?

2025-01-30 20:54:00

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Willie Nelson and Ralph Fiennes?

2025-01-30 08:34:03

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Choo mean, Willis? Do your thing and build your own stuff. If no one wants to help you so be it. You aren't beholden to anyone, as they aren't to you. Copy their code and fix their line breaks then republish saying "New and improved code, WITH PROPER LINE BREAKS!" I like reading your esoteric code ramblings. Keep doing it. Or don't, that's on you.

2025-01-29 16:13:41

I'm a little in the weeds here but I hope someone here knows:
- Is it possible (not easy), to write the Tapsigner code to a blank NFC card? Is that code available somewhere or is the URL function proprietary? (I have tapsigners, I am not trying to circumvent coinkite's product)
- Are there any BTC wallets with native support for threshold decay multisigs? GUI or CLI, just as long as it's functional.
#AskNostr #BitcoinQuestion #Bitcoin
(Tag any coders or devs you know)

2025-01-29 07:56:46

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Lol. I know, I was just doing the meme. I am a stable Debian kind of guy myself. I don't know any cool memes about that though.

2025-01-29 07:48:22

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Single individuals, yes. It is the multitudes and virality that gives them their power over traditional centralized media. Those wishing to be independent of coersion should broadcast anonymously, (which some do) under a pseudonym. Focus on making the barrier to entry low enough for regular, knowledgeable, journalists. Yet, high enough to exclude automated spam.

2025-01-29 00:09:56

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Arch btw

2025-01-27 21:45:34

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Open source doesn't mean audited. I have seen some very CCP politically curated AI responses. People have to dive deep into the weighting and training data.

2025-01-27 15:22:54

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It's all a matter of preference. The extra money for a system76 allows you options in the future. Even a thinkpad from 8 years ago could fulfill your needs at a much lower price point.

2025-01-27 14:00:00

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@nprofile…mxur Nice advertisement.

2025-01-26 20:46:03

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Yes.

2025-01-26 20:44:33

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Currency is a coupon for money.
Money is a Non-Consumable asset.
They are related but not the same.
When you accept bitcoin for an item, unpon confirmation, that transaction has final settlement.
When you accept lightning for an item, you must then close the Channel, and await confirmation to "Own" that Bitcoin. Then the transaction has final settlement.
That is the difference.
Put another way, if I give you a chicken, you have a chicken.
If I give you a coupon redeemable for a chicken, you do not have a chicken.

2025-01-26 20:36:14

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Everyone thinks that way which is why I don't get invited to a lot of parties.

2025-01-26 20:35:41

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Hooooooo boy. So did dollars before 1971. You trade cash (lightning) then settle on chain (exchange $35 per ounce of gold). This is why I have to write an article explaining money. And the difference between currency and money. It all gets so muddled because we've been using fiat for 54 years.

2025-01-26 20:30:44

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I do... You can spend gold too. The point is the time for confirmation makes it money not currency. Again, the 'tism.

2025-01-26 20:29:42

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Dude never checks his email anymore.

2025-01-26 20:21:32

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Why does everyone trigger my autism with this? Cash is the liquid currency abstraction of a monetary asset. Butcoin is e-gold. Lightning or Liquid is e-cash.

2025-01-26 13:59:25

This question is like: "If the weather is nice one day, would you lock yourself outside of your house?"
#nevent1q…a947

2025-01-26 13:56:40

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Value is determined subjectively so the question is sort of narrow to begin with. But, on top of that Fiat is an illusion like slight of hand. The reason you think dollars were worth anything is because gold was worth something. Dollars haven't been tied to gold sinxe 1971. So this is essentially like Wiley Coyote (The dollar) running off of the solid ground (gold) and we haven't looked down in 54 years. Bitcoin on the other hand has a marketvalue because of its immutability, transferability, and permissionless nature. A similar question would be: If the weather started being nice outside, would you leave your house forever? Obviously not.

2025-01-26 13:46:05

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Can be though, in some societies

2025-01-20 02:30:51

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It depends on the client. Primal has a zaps section in settings including default amount. Amethyst you have to hold the zap icon and adjust the amounts. I'm sure damus has a similar settings tab.

2025-01-20 02:16:38

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Lightning is best self-hosted but that can be daunting for people new to Bitcoin. Best to use a custodial wallet such as on Primal or ZBD. But, once you get used to it, running your own node means you don't need an intermediary.

2025-01-20 01:14:55

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Thanks for the correction. I didn't see the bright yellow button.

2025-01-20 01:07:48

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Why hasn't Wavlake or Fountain implemented nsecbunker sign in or even Amber signer. Why are we still copy/pasting Nsecs?

2025-01-20 00:00:11

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Keep your Nsec safe and private so that no one can post under your name. Use programs like Amber or an Nsec bunker to sign your notes and in general don't enter your Nsec into a Nostr client. (Damus, Amethyst, or Primal)

2025-01-19 23:45:27

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Please keep your Nsec safe and private so no one can post from your Npub. Use things like Amber to sign your notes or and Nsec bunker. Please research the Nostr protocol so you can keep your voice free!