I'll state that there was no intent on my part to be maliciously deceptive or otherwise farm for interaction here; I was reacting to what I felt was a sudden and unannounced lock out in real time when I saw it.

This should have been communicated better or ahead of time, as I did read the email now sent out to users.

As Darth said, the only solution forward is direct Bitcoin payment when you take a job... easier said than done, considering thr difficulty of finding even a basic job nowadays.

Money talks!

Posted this as I found out, nothing on their social pages nor was there emails sent detailing this.

Scummy as hell in regards to handling, to be honest.

Was just about to make a Nostr post tagging you with this post linked, now I don't have to.

Unbelievably shitty of Bitwage to do after their announcement email surrounding the regressions made to their service after switching to their new banking partner, making it seem like the "freedom" country still had access.

I let my device and operating system adjust by time of day (desktop exempt, if using LibreWolf).

Sad to see one of the few countries that forbade usury via policy now scrapping said policy; it just solidifies Japan as an Israeli proxy state decaying the same way at a delayed pace.

Late reply, but Spendit is probably what you're looking for.

Don't know about Google Pay support, but Apple Pay is confirmed to work with their prepaid cards.

I can't imagine how shitty macOS would be if it came after iOS.

Wonder how viable this would be for unlisted Substack articles.

Could use this if I ever committed to writing on @lain; post free versions of articles on SN, and (affordable) paid versions on Substack using this.

Better yet, write exclusively Bitcoin articles on my Substack for those interested in it with small payments to access it. May not do such a thing, but now it's considerable.

There were plenty before Reddit kneecapped their API for profitability reasons, Teddit and Libreddit being two major examples of privacy browsers that now suck or cease to function at all.

It's only a matter of time before classic Reddit's UI goes away, despite Huffman's comments on the contrary. Use uBlock Origin or any other ad and tracker blocker anytime you browse the web.

Not saying this is inferior in any way, but what's the advantage of using Mullvad's DNS compared to NextDNS (jurisdictional arguments aside)?

This was the argument that became the basis of Bitcoin Cash's creation, which Bitcoiners subsequently shat on once some in the Cash camp made the "Blockstream took over Bitcoin" (not unnecessarily defamatory when the majority of Core and BIP contributors/developers are also Blockstream employees) and "BCH is Bitcoin" narratives the popular ones to adopt; bigger (but not ludicrously large ones, like post-2018 Cash's 32 MB block size and Shitoshi's Venture "whatever the fuck you want" sizes) blocks are the solution for on-chain scalability, but have to be balanced out with considered deliberation since there are many more attack vectors for Bitcoin. Those include the NFT grifters misusing Ordinals for their get rich quick bullshit, Drivechains being pushed by those with vested interests in its adoption, and the forever risk of a 51% attack occurring if the majority of Bitcoin nodes and mining pools are centralized.

Just an increase to 4 MB (which BCH was at for a while before its subsequent block size increases and mempool changes) would be enough to clear the backlogged transactions in a few weeks at most. The more ideal solution without any block size changes is further optimizing the proof of work mechanism making Bitcoin function as it does, and adopting some of what makes privacy coins appealing to those who snub Bitcoin. I've even thrown around the belief on Memo that Lightning and other second layer solutions on Bitcoin could be adopted on Cash on its base layer if any developers in that camp had an incentive to make it so.

Bitcoiners could easily do the same, likely without changing anything in regards to block size, although it'd take far more time to achieve that. I'm optimistic that it will happen.

Waiting for a 10 sat/vB ZEUS force close from November of last year to get one confirmation; it's not a fun time at all.

Udi is the most passive-aggressive, grifting fag ever to make himself unwelcome in Bitcoin.

I'll say that there are legitimately useful ways to use Ordinals that are unfortunately smothered by venture-funded scum like Taproot Faggots clogging up the mempool with shitcoin-tier NFT's and other crap no one cares about.

Fuck people like him.

I do have a busy life that's set to get busier (hence the lacking activity on my @lain account aside from external funding) so it's easier to zap interesting content and reply every now and then with a reply that isn't extremely brief.

Plus, if was nice to have an indicator that showed I was as active as I could be. Maybe I won't even give too much of a shit about the hat streak this year, as per @Natalia's takes on it.

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I had a 67 day streak, going on 68... T~T