This is a really cool idea. I pay for a vps and VPN with bitcoin regularly. Would be awesome if I could setup a subscription - but on my side!

Excellent post!

Going with USA and West Indies.

I'm in Puerto Rico now and out of the cricket loop!

Mega Man 2 🤓

Ha have you replayed it lately? It's still excellent and quite politically incorrect. I bet they would sanitize it 😅😬

Nah no way hermano yo leo tus posts viejos

That's a really cool idea 💡

This is really cool. Dates as block heights would be a cool addition.

Question: isn't Litecoin and dogecoin also Bitcoin forks?

This is an interesting question. Probably a state that is restricted enough to be considered socialist will never "work" in the long run imo.

But I can't see why it wouldn't be theoretically possible? Right I mean they just couldn't print money but that isn't a core definition of socialism.

Interesting case! Wouldn't it be cool to know an "optimum taxation level" but I guess there's a billion variables and we may never.

This is a poor argument in my opinion against the case.

Definitely true but I'm not sure that absolves us of designing and maintaining effective systems when there is a need for them. I believe this example of environmental regulation fits this case and there is a lot of historical and contemporary evidence to support this.

I've thought about this problem a lot and I think environmental damage is a uniquely good example of the need for regulation of the free market.

I realize the idea isn't perfect. But there is environmental damage that our technology doesn't have the means to fix. Therefore even if we punish wrongdoers we still end up with environmental damage.

Therefore I think there is a case for proactive measures, such as regulation, inspection and enforcement versus reactive measures like suing or jailing wrongdoers after the fact.

Wow thoughtful post and great title.

I also agree that tax is not theft. Everyone enjoys the benefit of public works, the military and civil service. If it were optional to pay for this we'd have tons of freeloaders and we would all suffer.

It's all about balance though. If there is too much taxation or redistribution then the whole economy breaks down and that's shit for everyone.

It's really cool! Do you have an invite code for testing @Rsync25 ?

This is a really cool idea thanks for sharing ⚡

Hoping to try this out with CLN next month. Hopefully will make liquidity management easier 🙏

Ubuntu and Mint are both really good IMO.

Heya cool question. We run a bitcoin focused dev shop and many of our clients pay in bitcoin.

I'll pass you his info and would love to chat if wanted. Email me at erik@velascommerce.com

My wife orange pulled me about 3 years ago 😅

This is a great article thank you for writing and sharing your story.

It will be interesting to see if the idea of a routing node will survive, or if routing payment profits will only be secondary to another business model.

We run a mainnet node too. I've used it to experiment with routing but now it's more to hook up new e-commerce sites and apps and payment services.

This is a great reminder for me to stay focused!

This is excellent thanks