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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @clr 17 Nov \ on: We paid for our x premium plan with a Visa card linked to a Bitcoin-secured loan bitcoin
I'd rather pay for my Nostr relays directly via Lightning.
I am grateful for the mirroring.
What I miss in the conversation is a focus on the use as medium of exchange. Yes, the "reserve asset" is inevitable and will pump the price, sure, but if bitcoin is not adopted as MoE, then the "reserve" narrative is built on quicksand. Then, when the price crashes, they will attack us fiercely for it.
I prefer steady adoption and building on a solid foundation.
I would reframe your question to how do you feel about governments, central banks, pension plans, corporations, etc. using bitcoin to try to keep themselves afloat while disparaging it?
You are already getting answers to your question. Please don't get angry at us just because you don't like the answers.
How does gold protect you from government? It has been pretty much useless so far. Yes, you can own gold; how is that working for you?
The point of bitcoin is to replace fiat, not to replace gold (even though it will replace gold as well).
What's interesting is that the comments on the article itself on Reason (rather than the comments on HN) are the harshest bitcoin critics.
All those armchair libertarians have been criticizing the government for decades, and now that the solution is in front of their noses, they hate it simply because they didn't invent it. Have fun staying a slave, I guess.
I had forgotten about the Monolith card. LOL. I have just checked their website and have found this:
Dearest Monolith Customer,We would like to announce the closure of Monolith’s services, effective on 8th October 2024. This marks an end of an era, however, our journey is far from over.Reasons for this Decision
- The increasing regulatory requirements in the EU and UK make it challenging to keep Monolith operational without significant investment.
- We are preparing for the global rollout of Monolith’s successor, Token.com, a mass-market consumer crypto platform summarised as “TikTok for Tokens.”
Web 6: "TikTok for tokens." :D
I had read your post. There is no need to get angry with me. I don't run the freedom one mint.
The amount of sats is not enough to transfer to lightning via channel creation mechanism.
I understood that you were trying to send to a LSP and have the channel opening fees deducted.
Then it looks like you have been rugged. So much for "ecash, the future of (custodial) bitcoin".
Instead of trying to open a lightning channel maybe try sending the funds from the mint to a lightning node that already has inbound liquidity.
Both of you are mixing pollution with CO2. Of all the things that come out of the exhaust pipe, why are politicians so worried about CO2, which is a harmless gas for human beings, while they ignore everything else? Because the CO2 narrative requires "global" solutions, and that means affording them global power.
Please stop buying into that narrative. Yes, pollution is a problem. But they only care about pollution insofar as they can grab more power. Don't equate "CO2" with "pollution"; those are different things.
Is there a way to know how many of those UTXOs are "real"/meaningful and how many are inscriptions, ordinals, runes and other useless garbage?