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In general, my experience has been good. It's a good place to buy flights and hotel reservations and pay in bitcoin. They accept both lightning and on-chain. They use OpenNode as Lightning processor.
Keep in mind the experience from waxwing and don't send coinjoined on-chain funds to them. It looks like they are blocking coinjoin because of the new regulations this year or something. I would recommend using always lightning to pay, plus it's more convenient because it's instant and you won't have to wait for on-chain confirmations before your booking is confirmed.
Also keep in mind that they add a 3% markup on the fiat-bitcoin exchange rate, even though they don't say it explicitly. On the other hand, if you start accumulating AVA you can eventually get to higher tiers on their Smart program and get discounts (up to 5% discount plus 5% giveback). AVA is a shitcoin, but you can forget about that fact and think of it as just loyalty points.
Overall, it's decent (the service works adequately) but not ideal, especially because of the "compliance" issues mentioned before and the shitcoinery. I have noticed that when they mention "crypto" events on their blog, they almost never include bitcoin-only events, as if they don't want to upset shitcoiners with "toxic" maximalism. Truth be told, a good chunk of their sales come from shitcoins and "stable"coins. Granted, shitcoiners probably love living an hedonistic lifestyle rather than saving. But that's something where bitcoiners have to improve: get rid of their fiat once and for all and use bitcoin for both saving and spending. Otherwise they will find out the hard way that might trumps money and that having sound money means little if you must go through fiat rails to spend it. But I digress here.
I wish there were more options for booking travel with bitcoin, especially for other things like trains in Europe and more lodging options, especially apartments. They mostly use the Expedia portfolio for lodging options.
Apparently big cars are favored by CAFE regulations, so maybe consumer preference is not the main factor.
Lots of mention of "crypto" but no mention of Bitcoin, no mention of Cantillon, no mention even of the word fiat. Disappointing!
It's almost as if the writer is a financial nihilist herself.
It's almost as if she doesn't want others knowing that there is a escape hatch because her fiat lifestyle, her future pension, her real estate, her stock portfolio, all depend on people not finding out the truth.
And then he goes onto shilling his yield "protocol".
Bitcoin doesn't need financialization. It needs real adoption.
And when new diseases like COVID do spread around the globe, the resources of civilization that Columbus helped spread are able to meet the threat.
How so? Covid was used to enslave the free people and suppress the values of western civilization. Which part of the covid response did you enjoy? Lockdowns? Nostril penetrations? Muzzles? Poison injections?
Shot in England’s Bourne Woods, a forest slated for deforestation, Scott received rare permission to burn a vast section of the woodland to the ground for authenticity.
Clickbait-y headline.
Old methods of storing evil stuff required obfuscation: they would need to break it up into multiple chunks and reassembly would require specific software and knowledge of what the data is and how to reconstruct and interpret it exactly.
The old formats looked like this:
"Hi, I'm a Bitcoin transaction, here's my first output of 45 outputs - <filepart1>, here's my second output <filepart2>, here's my third output<filepart3>" along with a tonne of other stuff that has to get parsed out when processing the highly obfuscated material. This is thankfully also true of inscriptions.
OP_RETURN however is just a dump for raw, serialized data. It's not the same.
It says the equivalent of "Hi I'm a Bitcoin transaction, here's an unspendable output: <file> end".
This wasn't a problem for tiny OP_RETURNs i.e their current limit of 80 bytes.
If they're permitted to be 100kb, that's where the abuse begins.
And that's the end of plausible deniability.
When the stuff gets processed - which it has to be for your node to verify that they are valid transactions - then you just have a raw, unadulterated file that will trigger primitive antivirus/forensics software to alert the user: "Hi, you have CP on your computer."
You now need a licence to run a Bitcoin node, everyone thinks you're disgusting if you do, and they're not even wrong.
https://youtu.be/JLtmSzeLXOU
This is not about Luke. This is about having alternatives and Bitcoin Core not having a monopoly over what bitcoin is.
The west is decaying at a rapid rate and drastic measures need to be taken.
The West will keep decaying until fiat is transcended. The issue with government's allocation of resources is downstream from there.
Just another fascist wanting to tell everyone else what to do. Sad to see these "libertarians" becoming fascists out of desperation rather than walking the bitcoin path.
Given the widespread cross-border use of stablecoins, such safeguards could help to slow the erosion of monetary sovereignty and maintain the effectiveness of monetary policy
They are openly acknowledging that the goal is not to prevent crime, but to keep the fiat scam going.
They know perfectly what they are doing. They are not misguided; they are evil.
How so? Maybe he was an asymptomatic arsonist? Did he forget to wear his mask? Wasn't he vaccinated against fire? Didn't the government vaccinate the trees to make them immune against fire? :D
I think they were the first travel site to accept bitcoin. I used it once years ago. Not a scam. But they use BitPay to process payments, which now requires KYC even for the tiniest amounts. Shameful.