ThomasHayden87S

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Cristine Lagarde is airdroping me... wtf???

DawnGilesGJP

I'm thinking about some kind of civil asset forfeiture program. Issue legal orders seizing any bitcoin that are alleged to have been used in the commission of a crime. Then bitcoin holders would have to prove their specific bitcoin were not used in commission of a crime. 

For small holders it wouldn't do much, since no one is declaring their bitcoin. However, the SEC could require public companies to only hold or transfer "clean" bitcoin. That would make it much less attractive to buy or hold bitcoin.

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MichealMathisZRY

This is why Occupy Wall Street happened. What the fuck does BlackRock need a bailout for?

gaming

After having used services, such as [lnvpn.net](https://lnvpn.net), [sms4sats.com](https://sms4sats.com), or [nostr.wine](https://nostr.wine), I was amazed by the convenience these services bring.

A premium Nostr relays could of course be paid via a regular subscription. However, being able to receive a single SMS or access a VPN for a mere hour feels amazing to me.

**What services would feel amazing to use via a Pay-Per-Use model?**
1000 sats to the best answer!

*(PS: Please don't say video-streaming 🙊)*

What products and services would you love to Pay-Per-Use? ❤️⚡️

Hello there! 

I just wanted to share the recent BTC journey, 

About two weeks ago I came across Nostr and instantly fell in love with it, from there, I learned about Zaps and Stacker News. Two weeks later, I'm now building my first BTC Node and zapping on a daily basis. 

Grateful for you guys, let's keep growing! 

Nostr + StackerNews have been lifechanging

bitcoin

[Recommendation] Dune (books and movies)

DanielleDrake87P

Experience has taught me that the simpler the better. A retirement savings plan, an SP500 or world etf and Bitcoin with biannual reinforcement are enough.

@Alby is there a way to recover my funds without opening another channel? Where's my savings account? I didn't find it

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I don't wanna open another channel. It's too expensive and I fear losing my funds again

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My LN channel on Alby Hub was force-closed

During Summer time in Patagonia we like to enjoy going to the lake. Problem is there is the need for connectivity. I just solved getting myself a starlink dish.

Now I want to get a lightning paywall captive portal in order to get ppl the chance to connect only if they manage to send a low amount of SATs.

Any suggestions on how this could work? I am kinda looking for a DIY guide. I bought the ethernet adapter and I am going to get my hands on a solar panel, sine inverter and lithium battery set.

Guess the trick is to allow for lightning wallet app download and a faucet or easy way to get SATs.

Got myself a starlink, Lightning ⚡ Internet AP?



1. RoboSats and Bisq are platforms where you can get your sats without having to KYC. 

2. RoboSats is short for Robotic Satoshis. It is named as such because it allows you to generate a robotic avatar when exchanging your sats.

3. The difference between them is that RoboSats employs the Lightning Network whereas Bisq facilitates only on-chain Bitcoin payments. So, you can swap Lightning Network BTC to on-chain BTC and vice versa on RoboSats.

4. Another difference is that RoboSats requires you to use it with the Tor browser (http://robosats6tkf3eva7x2voqso3a5wcorsnw34jveyxfqi2fu7oyheasid.onion/) while you install Bisq which is a desktop application that has an in-built payment protocol. 

5. Since RoboSats uses the Lightning Network, it has a 3 million sat limit to ensure that transactions can go through completely.

6. Both platforms require you to have BTC first before you can buy BTC - as an assurance that you won’t waste other users’ time with empty promises.

7. Many users use platforms like Strike, Revolut, CashApp and even PayPal to accept payments but if you are particular about your privacy, cash by mail orders, Amazon gift cards or even cash in person would be your best bet.

8. Bisq is non-custodial and decentralised, which makes it harder to be shut down. RoboSats could be shut down if the sole operator were arrested for whatever reason.


8 basic facts about RoboSats and Bisq

Doom is not a strategy

In a way, the ordinals scam is an excellent sign. Altcoins have long been associated with Bitcoin through the moniker of "crypto" and have used Bitcoin's good name to scam people through pump and dumps.

But as we've seen, this narrative is no longer what it used to be. There are enough people that have recognized the pump and dump nature of altcoins as well as Bitcoin's continued rise that there's a distinction made in the peoples' minds between Bitcoin and altcoins. One is sound money, the other is fiat 2.0. The scam of altcoins, in other words, is starting to fade and the returns aren't like they used to be.

That's why ordinals and BRC-20 are becoming more popular. There's little chance of escaping the "shitcoin" moniker by releasing a token on Ethereum or Solana now. The gulf between Bitcoin and altcoins is too wide and crossing that chasm, to scam newbies has become that much harder. But by releasing a token on Bitcoin, now there's a lot more room for confusion. They can claim to be supporting Bitcoin through fees while running the same scam. It's changing names and disguises so you don't get caught. This is the snake oil salesman leaving one town to get a bunch of suckers in the next town.

But this is where we need to be even more diligent. The people that are scamming are picking up the verbiage of the people that know what they're talking about. They're going to scam people by looking and sounding like the real thing. They can talk about sound money, self-sovereignty and property rights and even sound pretty convincing doing it. Except, of course, that token they want you to buy.

The time to separate the Bitcoiners from the Spamcoiners is now. They are running pump and dumps, just doing it with a new rationale like a new disguise and name. And they'll fool a bunch of people. Indeed, the people they seem to attract are the very people that pumped altcoins in the past. Altcoin-land is a scorched earth they've left behind and they want to run the same policies on "top of" Bitcoin.

Don't let them take over. Reject these charlatans and shame them for their chicanery. And if you're someone that's throwing up their hands and saying there's nothing to be done, you're wrong. You can do something by calling these things out for what they are. They're scams and the faster they fail, the better it will be for Bitcoin. And as we saw with altcoins in the past, ignoring them doesn't make them go away. Calling them out and relentlessly exposing their grift is what's needed.
