Here's the Cointelegraph article that the ZeroHedge article re-shared:

CBDC lays foundation for new global monetary system: French central bank https://cointelegraph.com/news/cbdc-foundation-new-global-monetary-system-french-central-bank

I love Strike, I just haven't used them since I can no longer add funds via my debit card. I still regularly use Send Globally, but that is because I'm funding my account with BTC, which I then sell on Strike for USD, and then send fiat from that USD balance.

I wish Cash App offered this "Pay BTC / Pay an LN invoice", from a USD balance. Seems such a simple step for them, yet such a game changer for us.

What?

I've never heard of this. I looked at the Cash App direct deposit stuff and don't see anywhere where the conversion to BTC is free. You've done this yourself?

That really is the catch all that kills nearly every good idea that gets traction.

SN does a pretty decent job of determining dups for Link posts. When creating a Link post, you will see that the Link had previously been posted in another Link post.

My reply above was addressing how creating a Discussion post that has a Link, there is no dup checking as far as I am aware, to indicate that a Link post (or another Discussion post even) already exists for that Link being added to the Discussion post.

ZeroHedge coverage of it:

US Debt Rises Above $33 Trillion For The First Time, Soars By $1 Trillion In 3 Months https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-debt-rises-above-33-trillion-first-time-surges-1-trillion-3-months

ZeroHedge coverage of it:

US Debt Rises Above $33 Trillion For The First Time, Soars By $1 Trillion In 3 Months https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-debt-rises-above-33-trillion-first-time-surges-1-trillion-3-months

Of course, only after I post do I find that this has been posted (but as a NoBSBitcoin article)

Bull Bitcoin Kicks Off International Expansion in Costa Rica in Partnership #252063 https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bull-bitcoin-expands-to-costa-rica-via-sinpe-movil-in-partnership-with-bitcoin-jungle/

My frequency in checking my main email acct is now down to about once every other week. It still takes an hour and a half but that's better done when I can spare the time, rather than ten minutes a day when I really have better things I should be doing.

But even with some spam filtering I am totally disgusted with how totally broken from top to bottom email is.

I don't expect email to go away any time soon but as I personally distance myself further with almost anything email related, the less I care how bad are its flaws are and what impacts others are suffering from dependency on it, -- or their loss of privacy from continued use of it.

The only problem with creating discussion posts where mostly what you are doing is just sharing a link is the duplication checks are not giving feedback to the user that the video, article or whatever was already shared. I can't remember if the search function was updated to also search links from link posts, but many times I have tried to verify that my link was not already, an then ten minutes later when browsing I see another post for that (sometimes same link, other times different link but same article / video, after redirection) existed long before posted mine.

But yes, discussion posts are a more natural fit for SN, whereas link posts are just HN or Reddit with zapping.

What I had meant (but in re-reading what I wrote, I see how i was unclear) was that you can buy from swan and withdraw the btc immediately. If there is a custodian there holding them for those 90 seconds, or whatever, then I guess yes, a custodian does temporarily hold your btc funds.

I suppose I also didn't consider the USD held, waiting for the deposit payment to clear, as funds held by a custodian, but I presume that in another instance of exposure to a custodian, with Swan, that you cannot avoid.

Brian Armstrong brushing off his l33t coding skills and demonatrating to his arsenal of shitcoin devs Coinbase's first LN Channel open transaction?

Awesome, and thank you for setting a great example with what you have built!

Thank you for the followup!

You don't need a custodian with Swan, but they must have some feature for normies who want Bitcoin in an account just like they with their other financial investment and savings activities.

Is Cory on SN?

How did you justify to yourself back in 2020, wagering 5k that Nostr would even still be operating in 2023, nonetheless still both have that name and also be the phenomena it is today?

Not a whole lot, and the ones that are that make it as top posts / comments are in that position for good reason.

Or,

** ** / -> BTC Cold Storage ** BTC -> L-BTC -> Lightning < ** \ -> LN Spending wallet

TIL: You can call someone a butthead without calling them a butthead.