The word "toxic" itself being used to describe your position is weird. I agree with @kepford's take tbh

Lightning's never really had to have had a "toxic" maximalist though, because half of the people that argue about Bitcoin have no clue Lightning as a scaling solution even exists, and the people that do know, are usually never 100% against Bitcoin (excluding Kaspa maxis)

The whole meaning of "maximalism" isn't even the same. It used to mean to push for decentralization, self-autonomy (is that a word?), and being devoid of any influence from banks and politics.

But now, I see self-proclaimed maxis barely touch anything technological on Bitcoin, and just say "Guys, this chart cycle shows me, Bitcoin will go to the moon!!!!" or "Trump is buying more Bitcoin, we are all gonna be rich!"

Doesn't mean there isn't people that still argue about the tech itself, but the phrase itself "maximalist" doesn't mean much

the CSAM thing is overreacting, but I still prefer Knots since that provides more mempool control, at least easier than Core...

A reason to run Knots is because you don't want big dumb JPEGs on my computer, or you want really precise mempool control. But a lot of the reasoning behind using one or the other has been extreme fearmongering. Just my 2 sats.

I don't understand more than half of these, but the least effort one I can guide anyone to do, is run a full node.

I like the idea of it, but only in micropayment terms, not in "I will now make a secondary income by charging users 0.0001 BTC per email"

Some of these amounts are too much. Good way to get around spam though, maybe even fork out and create an "anonymous" messaging system that costs 21 sats.

Don't add a board to it aswell or else you get stacker.news 2 hahaha

Assuming I've read your reply right:

As long as it's being used for monetary purposes.

Confiscation of funds from a thief(?) is a valid monetary transaction. So is paying out a worker for their efforts.

Byproduct of being ungoverned right.

It depends on the intention... I don't think the developers from back then would've expected the rather niche features of Bitcoin to start being used too much.

For development/testing purposes as to see what Bitcoin can do, it's good, but if you still support it today with the war going on, then maybe you're not built for Bitcoin

Sucks, I liked TradeOgre. UI was pretty minimalist. We're at the stage where governments want to use crypto, but don't exactly know how to so they got to appeal to the general masses.

Next they'll mention how they "reclaimed funds from THIEVES on an underground exchange!"

It's funny how people know they should buy Bitcoin, but then don't keep in mind THE most basic rule: NYK NYC

I believe AI is best used for processing a huge chunk of repeating data, that's definitely where it excels. Also not half-bad for programming, but it'd probably make spaghetti code in the long run.

Good for saving hours on a task that anyone can do but nobody wants to do, but it's not reliable enough (yet) to do tasks that people actually STRUGGLE to do. I could ask AI to arrange my Excel spreadsheet and it'll do it completely fine, I could also ask AI to program me a rudimentary script on Python that does something very specific and small. Ask any more or less, and it'll barf up a random answer confidently.

Say that SN goes for tackling with AI slop. This would require a moderation team, which is sort of like centralizing the platform. They could also start deciding what post is bad/against their views etc. I'd say, downzapping posts are a good option for now. If it gets too worse, we can also do "flag as bot response", and if enough GENERIC members vote for it, then it can be removed or hidden with a blurb of being a bot response. I don't know if that would cost SATS/CC or not, maybe just 1?

pretty easy target for the traders... It'll be a close call though

Three-hour session might be too long to sit around and pay full attention to. some might also consider 100 USD too high, but it is worth it if you are very interested in Bitcoin.

All the topics you intend to cover are important though, you could try summarising all of them to make it a two-hour session, and maybe slightly cheaper, 70 USD?

It's not very difficult to self-custody your Bitcoins, you could just spin up Core or Knots, (or even Electrum), send Bitcoins to an address from there, extract the private keys and keep it offline.

I think the main barrier is that people have to figure out how to be responsible for their own money, when they are used to banks keeping it "safe", till they get burned.

If I'm talking to a Bitcoiner, then usually I can describe it to be similar to a "bitcoiner's paradise", no AI slop, pay to post & get paid directly in Bitcoin over Lightning.

If I'm talking to a nocoiner, describing it as Reddit without the censorship (and more of useful content than shitposting) is good enough.

Of course, none of that matters, because I like Bitcoin which automatically makes me a weirdo in society. Tough. 😁

There's a lot of sats to own, yes, but considering how ideally Bitcoin is to be adopted by billions of individuals in the world, even 1 billion people owning a thousand satoshis is about 1 trillion allocated. There's still a lot remaining in that case, but you'd eventually run out,

Usually dark, but I never really bother, it's just system default. So on my laptop, it'll be light, whereas anywhere else it'll be dark.

Pay off your debt, even if 0% now, they will try to screw you over later. And then buy Bitcoin. Freedom would come from not being very dependent on FIAT or banks I assume.

That is not what I meant. I cannot use Bitcoin directly to pay for gas, buy food at restaurants or shop if I am the only individual in my country that utilises Bitcoin.

I would be the change, but again, I do not have anything to sell, and I doubt anybody still has self-custodied Bitcoins they can spend. (i.e: there are some "investors" that own fake BTC on exchanges and can't transfer them)

I like the explanation, but none of it explained why LN-BTC is a wrong term. I know how Lightning is a payment network for Bitcoin, and your hypothetical statement of how it gives nocoiners and shitcoiners the idea of multiple types of Bitcoin existing has not happened yet. They can always tell I'm talking about Bitcoin over Lightning, and there's the people that cannot, which is due to a general lack of understanding of Bitcoin as a whole. (knowing it as a speculative asset)