I wonder if it's possible for Bitcoin, Nostr and BitTorrent to have a glorious pirate baby

A fellow man of culture.

Would be crazy if the stack moves... to be burned/probably unspendable via OP_Return

Calling it layer 2 is not accurate, but in the sense that it takes a big load of the chain (which I think is what you posit) then I would agree.

Basically the folks who were just trading and "investing" before now have an option to do it without touching the chain even if it's potentially paper Bitcoin and they can only do it M-F from 9:30 to 4pm

Do you do it because you've got a good memory and that method has served you well, or is it a dislike of note taking?

I suffer from a selectively good memory, where I will remember useless details for a long time, and then get stuck in "tip of my tongue" state as soon as I really need to recall something crucial I haven't written down. I'd probably be tempted by a memory-enhancing brain chip.

Most of the time, I write blurbs on a .txt file, text myself on Signal or write in G Keep then forget about a lot of them scattered all over when I need em.

In the occasions that I can remain laser-focused on a specific topic or project for a given amount of time, I use Notesnook, but not married to it.

Always loved the scenes in the future. something about that dark and dusty, retro-looking lasers flying around aesthetic and sound. I don't hate current CGI capabilities but it doesn't hit the same.

Same reason I rewatch an EP of GundamWing once in a while

Try Yakihonne or Primal Those are my preferred ones for desktop/web

Most people are still just winging it and playing it by ear. The class clown slingshotting boogers at the teacher, he's still out there, also winging it. There won't be a definitive moment when you just know "how to adult". Also don't ever say "adulting" shit is cringe.

Using the semicolon + Being a grammar nazi online esp. in comment sections

iirc the self-custodial is opt-in right? Have they released any details on their backend?

My assumption is their model will be similar to Phoenix's, where you hold the keys but they do the LN heavy lifting, single channel, etc.

Ive thought of this defense vector before: educating the malintentioned criminals about multisig and other security schemes.

However, the world where it's common knowledge that almost everyone either uses multisig, or don't have easy access for other reasons (e.g. they just have ETFs), is a world much closer to hyperbitcoinization than now

7-8% for no KYC is common around here too I think. I've seen much higher on some of the p2p platforms. like 20-40% when BTC was around 30k. But that's because the CAD market has very low liquidity on those platforms

Smells like corruption

IRL. New merchant accepting BTC and have to support those

Coffee beans ☕ (Gonna need to buy a grinder now)

Do you have orangepilling stories written somewhere?

I get the impression from your posts that you surrounded yourself with people who will accept sats. Wonder if you orangepilled all those folks or simply found them, and what's the proportion of true believers vs folks who reluctantly do it because they like you.

Like what happens if that beer delivery guy says "sorry no bitcoin, pay me fiat", you turn them back and ask the shipping company to send someone else? lol

"No matter who you vote for, you're getting John McCain"

And it was unconstitutional when Obama did it as well

It definitely has its drawbacks but I find myself warming up to cashu/ecash over time. It's interesting to think about its potential, the space and role it might take in the long term.

Maybe we're thinking of mints wrongly as equivalent to custodial lightning models because right now, it's fairly similar in terms of use cases and risks.

What if they turn out better suited as temporary/ephemeral mints for time limited events and closed communities/purposes?

e.g. what if a place like a theoretical Silk Road 2.0 ran its own mint? seems better than custodial lightning due to maximal privacy and inability for the mint to spy on their mint's users or freeze accounts individually, which is possible for custodial LN services atm