Well, spend and replace is only superficial if there is no reason to spend in the first place. The 'replace' part is only relevant to a person who has income in non-Bitcoin and *also* has some reason they prefer to spend in Bitcoin.

For myself, I find several reasons to prefer spending in Bitcoin where possible - mostly related to security and not revealing personal information, but increasingly, the broken nature of the traditional finance system plays in too.

I think the right critique of spend and replace is simply that the friction and costs of buying Bitcoin can be a real pain, so minimizing the number of times you do it is desirable. Debatable point though.

AI4ALL Hackathon we're currently running, it's remote and ends July 31st. Ton of use cases for bitcoin within scaling generative AI because the API calls when you hit against GPT/Midjourney/any of the more cutting edge models are so expensive, you need to wrap them in micropayments.

For Fedi specifically seeing more federations popping up in the wild. Fedimint is going to have a release in the next couple weeks so people can start setting up their own mainnet federations more easily and building more fedimint modules.

CassandraJames033

Day 187 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

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Eating a light breakfast. First day of new job! woohoo. let's goooo

FranciscoOdomM58

Additionally, we've added numbers to top stackers as requested by 

When you link github/twitter/nostr auth to your account, you can opt-in to display them in your profile. 

. Note: you may need to unlink and relink existing auth methods if you want to do this.

We absolutely nuke deleted bolt11's by also deleting them on our lightning node. 

lnd autowithdraw maximally restricted macaroon

If you know how to bake your own macaroons, you can now use lnd for autowithdraw with only 

 perms in addition to the already supported prebaked 

#### top territories

You can view [top territories](/top/territories/forever) now. *via @mz* 

Additionally, we've added numbers to top stackers as requested by @benwehrman

#### linked accounts in stacker profiles
🚨 first time contributor alert

When you link github/twitter/nostr auth to your account, you can opt-in to display them in your profile. *via @alex_lewin*. Note: you may need to unlink and relink existing auth methods if you want to do this.

This was requested by @metamick most notably.

#### deeper bolt11 deletion 
🚨 first time contributor alert

We absolutely nuke deleted bolt11's by also deleting them on our lightning node. *via @dillon*

#### lnd autowithdraw maximally restricted macaroon

If you know how to bake your own macaroons, you can now use lnd for autowithdraw with only `invoices:read` and `invoices:write` perms in addition to the already supported prebaked `invoice.macarron`.

Requested and specified by @RocketNode

#### detailed validation of NWC strings

As heading *via @ekzyis*

#### bug fixes

Fix missing saloon comments in profile *via @ekzyis*