Germany is the country that invented discount supermarkets. Trash and cheap (not anymore thanks to inflation) food is king. The typical sausages, the "Wurst" that they're so proud of is the worst (yeah "wurst", lol) of its kind, a pulverized, sanitized and bitless industrial paste. And their Salami has no tenure. Specialized shops like butcheries, cheeseries and bakeries that are own by individuals or small enterprises are basically gone, all replaced by industrial chains. It's quite rare to find one and even more rare one that propose organic. If you go in the former east, it's almost impossible to find a farm as everything was nationalized, when there's one, it's a factory.
Of course it's still possible to find good food and there are many organizations and initiatives that are doing their best, like cooperatives that allow for large orders and deliveries.
It also depend of the region.
There's a trend for organic and local, yet still mostly big chains that come with the typical hypocrisy of being overpackaged and not enough or nothing available loose).
Overall I don't know if it's becoming better of going worst.
"The bigger picture is that the costs of using bitcoin (costs such as learning how to use it, taking time to buy it, learning how to store it, and etc.) outweigh the benefits. There are no incentives to use bitcoin over fiat nor are there costs of not using it."
I wouldn't have had articulated that better. Just how long it took me to "understand" it and how it still doesn't truly profits me, as people accepting around me are rare and that I "got it late".
Yet isn't it mostly be the wreckage of most fiat currencies that will incentivize most people to finally decide to opt for btc? Even if it stays marginal or even banned, the economic necessity will probably prevail and outweigh the "complexity".
Then there's also the generational gap, many people still struggle with the idea of bitcoin not being tangible but our kids won't care at all.
And then I believe (or speculate) there'll be endorsement from various large entities, the way it'll become a political issue plus a bunch of secondary layers that'll made it easier, whether that's a good thing or not.
The idea that it'll be needed to obtain specific services or goods and that that could lead to further adoption is interesting to dive in, though I personally really can't relate, can't really chime in on that.
For now the "outcome" stays extremely foggy to me, as I see the current times as the peak of various very strong forces battling and not willing to give up now.
So curious how it'll develop, as so far it was pretty surprising.
Anyhow, exciting (and sometimes scary) times!
Ah well, if we go with Lightning on top, we're not out of the woods :D
Glad you did fix your issue .)
Yeah saw those a couple times, looks like a good setup indeed. But nunchuk isn't Desktop as far as I can tell.
Entirely true, the bad habit is a big point and indeed, the debate for the right way to onboard is still raging :D
Wow, thanks! Very complete.
"While great advances have been made in interoperability and recoverability, developers across the industry continue to build wallets that either:
- Don’t implement BIP standard(s).
- Implement a BIP standard, but inconsistently when compared with other wallets.
- Implement a BIP standard, but one that has not been widely adopted (and perhaps only by them).
- Don’t have clear documentation about their derivation paths, backup and recovery processes."
That is exactly it. And what I've been explaining my friend.
I'll dig through it and especially in the derivation path, as I'm pretty sure that's the issue. Besides it's the one I most heard about in similar cases.
Thanks!
Yeah Sparrow is the one I also prefer! And after this experience, I'll definitely make her opt for it despite the austere look! Curious if the issue will occur too, haha.
Agree 100%, I'm aware of the risks of software wallets. It's just that in my opinion, for beginners who have unsignificant stacks, I prefer let them first learn basics and make sure they understand the point. So long their keys are written offline I think it's "ok" (even though of course one can argue about the way the seeds are stored inside the software plus the risk of downloading a fake one. I did verify PGP keys etc.. before using it).
Throwing them in the HW setup may wait for a more substantial amount, with security measures growing with the stack, no need for a straight up full fort knox battle plan. All about baby steps so they feel comfortable and in accordance to their technical level.
I also thought about the derivation path. It's a concept I'm not yet fully familiar with, though. Thanks for the tip about the addresses, will do that -)
(And that's also the thing with Wasabi, I couldn't edit the derivation, it seems, while as far as I could see, it's possible in Sparrow).
And for sure I'll bring her slowly to a HW.
Thanks for chiming in!
Would just be great if they'd have an explanation of what it exactly does but it's nowhere and on the couple posts I found the closer related to that on reddit were with people who were connecting it to their own node.
And what would be the point if at the end it can't even show your balance? Just weird.
Yeah about the visa card from Bitcoin company, I want to add that I was particularly disappointed by their lack of help towards fellow bitcoiners even though I understand they indeed couldn't do more. But all the other services were just nicer and trying harder.
Amazon gift cards are actually some sort of trick, because for some reasons they aren't enforcing those laws and the good thing is that you can top it with a very exact amount. There's even a way to buy bitcoin with them, which would have been a way to get back the "money" with it but I forgot how exactly.
Indeed, getting commerces around you is the best. And same, the chit chat is quite a step. What can be nice could be to print a small prospect with quick info and way to a wallet. What's good to sell the idea to them is that accepting btc is actual free advertizing, since it's in fact a new market that's opening to them, rather than a conversion of their usual income but also because bitcoiners send other bitcoiners there, plus if they get added to btcmaps or other similar services.
Anyhow, wish you (and all of us) good luck .)
I've been using the Bitcoin Company visa card a couple times half a year ago here in the EU and purchased one again recently, to encounter the same problem as you, google pay wouldn't let me load it. It seems some new law went in the way since then (3D something). It was asking me address and name which the card obviously hasn't while "trying to contact my bank". Contacted all sides which, with no surprise, bounced back the issue to each other and telling me to contact them, quite a pain. I ended up using it to get a gift card on amazon.
Using bitrefill lately and works smooth but indeed, like said in the comment, it's the same as selling for cuckbucks. Doesn't further anything.
I sometimes try to orange pill small shops around (especially those who are more likely to not care about taxes, like night-shops, restaurants and mechanics) or at least just quickly ask if they may accept it, just to pike their curiosity. Sometimes if they don't plain reject it, I explain that all they need to do is to dl a wallet but then I mostly encounter laziness or whatever excuses. Also I don't always have the right mood for it.
Lately the best has been to let friends pay then reimburse them with sats. Or just ask them for some fiat against sats.
Btc maps is cool and there are online goods that accept it and it's usually nothing you can eat. There is also https://shopinbit.com/ , don't know if it works in Brazil.
So, not any better solutions that I could read here already I guess. Best is indeed to succeed to orange pill small commerces around and friends who produce needed goods, difficult and long term job and some people are also just better at convincing, I'm not that good, haha.
It's a step but I still can't get my head around the fact that cannabis still isn't fully legalized in all Europe after all those years of it being clearly not a danger. Why isn't it like any other consumable industry?
If you look at Holland, it is "legalized" since ages but the production isn't, coffee shops still basically get their stocks through unclear borderline illegal sources, which just makes no sense and above all, doesn't do anything against mafias, which are rather strong there. At some point they even started to forbid foreigners to access the points of sale in some bordering cities. It's such a strange in-between. Why didn't it even progressed there? It's like stuck.
That is why it is the whole chain and especially the production that should be legalized, it'd create so many jobs and especially, bring quality (and nicely packaged products) for the consumers and finally end that ridiculous idea that it's a "bad thing", making it an opaque and still unknown subject for a part of the society. It just needs to be integrated and remove the useless attraction for what's forbidden and take a progressive leap to have an informed population.
I just wonder what are the lobbies or the powers that don't let that happen and why exactly for? I heard all sorts of theories, from pharmaceutical groups which would want to make sure to obtain monopolies and therefore planning it to other baseless speculations. The debate was much more public 20 years ago than it is today, maybe it just got "forgotten".
I make this way too often (probably not healthy though I guess it depends of the quality of the ingredients but so damn good).
Wiener and cheese rolls.
Puff pastry squares, a slice of ideally stinky cheese and wiener. Roll it all, brush with egg yolk. In the oven. Done!