Everyone should file for am extension tomorrow as a signal of intent. When we see all the people who intend to not file apply for an extension, then we will know what our numbers really are.

Beautiful post! As someone who is starting to dip their toes into open source contributions it can be a bit daunting, but also exhilarating to work on something you love. Trying to find the time outside of work has been difficult, but small consistent steps appear to be the key. Thanks for sharing your journey and encouraging others like myself.

Great! I can help you with that :)

Thanks! Its great to be here :)

We should do an accessibility review on a few of the color combinations in light mode and in some of the banner images with text, but for the most part everything has really good contrast in the default dark mode. Very nice to have the design guide as a tool to keep everything consistent. Love the icons. Great work!

It worked even though it said posting to relays failed...

Never had this issue on Bisq either. I had a couple trades fail when the person went offline for an unknown reason, but I always got the escrow back in addition to what I paid for.

Statists gonna state... There's a reason why only ~30% of military vets would want their kids to join.

Looks dope!

Did you retire? If you are still making a paycheck convert all to bitcoin, then just sell small amounts daily for what you need and bills. Fold has a great push to card feature that does just that.

When you are 100% in you have to sell some cause you have no fiat.

Sadly... I definitely see those forces at work here but am still optimistic we will prevail.

Why I advocate heavily for #GetOnZero... If you have no fiat, you will need to sell some SATs from time to time to pay bills. You also get the max potential upside when it runs.

I like this! There was a crypto AirBnB I used once when travelling to London for a conference. They accepted bitcoin but were also heavily shilling some ErC20 token. Not sure whatever happened with that lol.

Yeah 2020 was a really big death knell for tons of small businesses. I was running an airBnB biz at the time and couldn't evict my tenants who failed to pay (but I still had to pay the mortgage). Definitely left a bad taste in my mouth...

Interesting, so it sounds like a mixture of Gresham's Law (Bad money driving out the use of good money) and lack of tolerance for volatility when having to pay bills. I often see that but what about a merchant who might only convert some of their revenue to bitcoin while keeping the rest in disposable fiat to pay the bills? Or as underground black or grey market money that is easier to avoid taxes? Or maybe even a better alternative to paying high credit card processing fees or offsetting inflation... I guess I have tried all of these arguments at some point.

True, but someone has to make the first step. I guess a better question for businesses might be:

Then connecting the dots on how bitcoin might solve it.

Or perhaps more bitcoiners should be starting businesses themselves and asking for it.

It is a lot of time and effort to onboard and then you run the risk of losing them if the price crashes or the onboarding platform gets shut down in your jurisdiction (as with IbexPay).

UX and Accessibility in FOSS is often quite lacking. There are a lot of things I think can be done to make interfaces for wallets, nodes, and hardware easier to use for the average person. Lots of low hanging fruit out there. I think what the Bitcoin Design Guide team is doing will go a long way to bridging some of those gaps, but it is also good to see increased lightning bounties some even for accessibility (in the sense of user centered design for people with disabilities). It is my hope to start working on some of these projects to help make them more accessible and useable to the average person regardless of technical proficiency or ability. I think a lot of the hard problems around security, key storage, and bandwidth issues have been at the forefront out of necessity, but as these problems are solved and new applications are built on top of bitcoin, the adoption will increase tremendously in step with increased usability. The incentives are built within the sound money nature of bitcoin itself. This drives people to want to work for bitcoin just as much as people want to get paid in bitcoin. I also believe bitcoin bounties that solve these problems will become more and prevalent as time goes on.

Adapt and overcome, brother! Only the strong survive. Just shows you are over the target of something worth fighting for.