bitcoinauta33700

bitcoin

Reading this felt uncomfortably accurate.

We have money rails and communication rails outside the system —
but we still outsource most of life to the structures we claim to want to escape.

Worth reading if you’re more interested in building than waiting.

https://primal.net/maxhillebrand/0cfcaaeb6637c145


We built money and communication rails. Not a society.

An NFC-based experiment to teach Bitcoin without tutorials or shortcu

NFC tags ready and loaded with satoshis. Now it’s just a matter of sticking on the Bitcoin logo sticker and getting started.
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When will Bitcoin finally become "mainstream"?

anon

The madness ends when Bitcoin stops being a bet and becomes infrastructure.

When people use it not because they’re excited, scared, or ideologically aligned, but because it’s simply the most reliable way to store and move value.

Until then, volatility, hype and confusion are part of the discovery process.

Teaching Bitcoin often skips the most important parts: receiving, responsibility, and friction.
Most onboarding starts with “install this wallet” and ends with people clicking buttons they don’t really understand.

I’m experimenting with a different approach for people close to me.

The experiment:

I hand them an NFC tag with a very simple message:

“Here are your first sats.
Learn Bitcoin, create an on-chain wallet and a Lightning wallet, and when you know how, withdraw them.
Once you succeed, send me back 5 sats to prove you can use it.
From then on, I’ll start sending you sats periodically.”

How it works (technically)
	•	The NFC points to an LNURL-Withdraw (temporary, conscious custody).
	•	No step-by-step instructions.
	•	No recommended wallet.
	•	No manual to follow — there are already plenty of good ones online.

The NFC doesn’t teach.
It just creates the problem.

What this forces them to learn
	•	That receiving comes before spending.
	•	How invoices work.
	•	The difference between on-chain and Lightning.
	•	That Bitcoin is not an app, and wallets are interchangeable clients.
	•	That responsibility is not optional.

The second step (sending back 5 sats) is not about the amount — it’s about demonstrating control.

Along the way, the same doubts and questions we all had inevitably appear. That’s where the real learning happens.

What this is not
	•	Not gamification.
	•	Not “Bitcoin for kids”.
	•	Not a growth hack.

What I’m aiming for:
	•	minimal but real friction
	•	sovereignty from the start
	•	understanding before usage

Limitations (acknowledged)
	•	LNURL-Withdraw is custodial.
	•	The setup is not meant to scale.
	•	It’s an educational tool, not a perfect model.

Those limitations are explicit and part of the discussion.

Open question

How would you improve or redesign this experiment to make it:
	•	more sovereign,
	•	still simple,
	•	without removing the necessary learning friction?

I’m especially interested in concrete alternatives or similar experiments you’ve already tried.

nostr

Connect your Rizful wallet to Nostrpay

anipy

There is a problem with the URL. Doesn’t work. 

bitcoin_beginners

Zeus - Graduated LN wallet, a step by step guide for newbies

DarthCoin

Which hard problem did nostr solve?

Nostr’s breakthrough: communication without consensus.

Keys as identity, signed events as data, dumb relays.
No global state, no canonical truth.

Bitcoin enforces consensus.
Nostr deliberately avoids it.


movies

Disney's 'Zootopia 2' to hit $1 billion box office

Coinsreporter

I took my girls last weekend. It’s much better than the first. 

Politics_And_Law

The Dangers of Closed Mindedness and Open Mindedness

kepford

Open-mindedness without rigor is just drift.
Closed-mindedness without understanding is just dogma.
Thinking is the hard part.


Zeus Node - Tips and tricks

Thanks for the content @DarthCoin . Great explanation. I was trying to do the same as in Blixt — transfer BTC on-chain and open a channel — but after reading this I understand the difference. I still need to finish setting up my own node to properly explore Zeus.

@bitcoinauta33700's bio

10.000 sats fee to create a channel…is it normal or I’m doing something wrong?

Bitcoin learner focused on first principles: UTXOs, self-custody and incentives.
Exploring Lightning Network beyond abstractions (channels, liquidity, trade-offs).
Learning by building, testing and questioning assumptions.
Long-term robustness over convenience.

