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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pretyflaco 12 Jan \ parent \ on: What does it mean to be open source? opensource
This is false. Free Software and Open Source are just two words for
the same thing. This is not just my opinion - it's coming from Bruce Perens - the founder of the OSI.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01641.html
100 sats \ 1 reply \ @pretyflaco OP 5 Jan \ parent \ on: Introducing Blink Plugin for BTCPay Server lightning
Hey Natalia, if your btcpay is hosted by Voltage, you'd have to ask them to install the blink plugin on their instance. Only then would the option to connect to your Blink account become available to you as a tenant on a third party btcpay Instance. Hope this helps!
Great post Natalia. I've been living in Istanbul for 3 years and I can confirm your findings. We're talking about these things a lot in our Turkish Bitcoin community Yirmibir. You can find us at https://yirmibir.org - we also have a telegram group: https://t.me/YirmibirBitcoin - hope to see you there! Selamlar!
At Blink, we're celebrating by inciting a #blinkrun and raffling away an open source hardware wallet among folks who withdrew funds to self-custody https://x.com/blinkbtc/status/1742625224435126425?s=20
Bitcoin economies are the antidote to financial surveillance - be it CBDCs or intrusive regulations that come with fiat interaction.
Any bitcoin merchant is a no-KYC bitcoin off-ramp. The more merchants accept bitcoin, the less Bitcoiners have to interact with fiat, go through regulated exchanges that require ID, utility bills, ask where your funds are from and make you upload a headshot etc.
A merchant that accepts bitcoin will not ask for any of this. He'll see the green checkmark for payment confirmation, and be happy.
The growing number of bitcoin circular economies prove that this vision is achievable. Lightning payments are ready for mainstream and a massive improvement over other digital payment methods, especially in regions where traditional finance has failed and left entire populations excluded from access to financial services.
Additionally, Lightning offers excellent privacy for payers. Improvements for receivers are in development with route blinding and trampoline routing to name but a few.
Soon, merchants will become no-KYC on-ramps, too, when they start selling bitcoin for cash over the counter, simply by creating a LNURL withdraw QR and showing it to the customer. This development will have the added benefit of allowing merchants to make a small commission by selling bitcoin and turn them from mere "bitcoin accepted here" merchants to "bitcoin preferred here" ones.
I'm projecting not only my own experience, but yes, especially my own experience. When I first started using Bitcoin in 2015, I had no idea whatsoever about it. I had no idea about money or bitcoin. I needed to make digital payments and it just worked, so I looked into it further and learned. But I only looked into it, because it was useful to me. Utility of bitcoin was the trigger for wanting to learn more for me. Without that trigger, why would anybody bother looking into something like learning self-custody? So there must be interest.
Remember that only 68% of US Americans have disposable income and money to save. They are living paycheck to paycheck, and that number is higher in other countries. This means that majority of people will not consider bitcoin as a tool for savings because they have no money to save. With no money to save, how can anybody have or develop the motivation to secure (nonexistent) money properly?
The only way bitcoin can be useful to most of these people is for borderless low fee payments. This is financial inclusion and that's what people care about. With custodial Lightning it is instantly available for anyone. Just download an app. It's the quickest and lowest cost way to have financial inclusion. Then bitcoin is useful for these people, and they will care, listen, develop interest and become open to learn more about it. Any education attempt without intrinsic motivation will be shortlived and can backfire. Self-custody is risky, too, it's just different form custodial risk. Developing the confidence to do it without anxiety takes some time. It's not a matter of tools, you see.
The framework we propose is for onboarding, and it will stay relevant for some time until majority understands necessity of self-custody and it's second nature.
- They are working with a custodian - they are not the custodian, so they are not talking their book, trying to lure people who can self-custody into custody like you suggested.
- The concept of bitcoin banks is almost as old as bitcoin. Hal Finney was one of the first to suggest it. And no matter what you want, they will exist, and for good reason.
- Swan is not a custodian.
- Custodial Bitcoin is not Paypal 2.0 - you can withdraw custodial bitcoin to self-custody - cannot do that with Paypal.
Get your facts right.
About publishing on Swan. #177707
On the rest: either we didn't do a good job explaining, or you have not taken the time to appreciate the thought that went into this and are out here trying to collect cheap points. It doesn't help that you misrepresent the points of the article. Not sure if I have the nerve or patience to dissect your misrepresentations.
Also don't appreciate accusations about "financially benefiting" etc. It's an attack on character, while I'm here arguing in good faith.
I've been working on Bitcoin adoption since 2017, way before I joined Galoy. It's not that I think what I wrote because I work for Galoy - I work for Galoy because bitcoin adoption and the separation of money state was the mission I want to work on.
You can use Blink. The cash register can only receive sats and can be shared with employees. It's designed specifically for this use case. https://blink.sv