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Aside from being impossible to read I like this a lot. Thank you.
When I started reading novels again, I noticed my brain changing modes. There was actually a bit of a hurdle for my brain to settle into doing an uninterrupted activity like that. My work tends to be very fragmented, so it's a bit rare that I get to spend several consecutive hours working on something.
I was also thinking about this a bit while chatting with @siggy47 about his cruise. Whenever we go on a cruise, there's a noticeable adjustment to not rushing through things as though you have something else to get to.
Do you think there are benefits of being fragmented rather than present? Or is it just a new obstacle that we need to adapt to?
This my story when living in Brisbane in 2017:
- type of shop your have : NONE
- type of commerce : service provider. I had a domestic cleaning company
- how was the onboarding process : At the end of the fiscal year, we sent a letter to our 40 clients telling then that we'll be accepting BTC as payment method and explaining what Bitcoin is, where to buy it, how to send it, etc. From the 40 clients, only 2 asked more questions about this new money. And at the end, only 1 client accepted to pay us with BTC. We were very lucky because it was our biggest client, so it was a great way to do DCA without KYC.
- what tools / apps you used, in the beginning and later : At that moment I was using MyCelium wallet and the client was paying us directly from the exchange Cointree.
- how you improved your use of bitcoin apps : Now days, if I need to send an invoice I'll be using Phoenix wallet over the Lightning Network. In 2017 I didn't know about it yet.
- how you consider bitcoin in your accounting (cash or "investment") : In my mind all the BTC received were an investment; for tax authorities, they didn't know about it.
- anything you would like to share: If you are a freelancer or own a small business you have a good opportunity to make your business special, just accept BTC as a payment method Not many people will pay you with BTC but the small % of payment received would make a difference for you over time.
Don't be shy to tell your clients you're a BITCOINER
Seems like a very slow day in the Saloon.
Maybe its time to assemble the Avengers.
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Met a colleague from long ago at a Physics conference. He's not from the US but has been living in the US for years.
Similar to most people in academia, he's mostly liberal (using the US political framework). He hence got infected by that awful thing in the US that makes every topic to be a partisan thing: If you are liberal/conservative, you must hate this and love that. So even though he never much looked into Bitcoin, he had a negative opinion by default.
He's a very good scientist though, so he's very open to reason and discussion. So as we got to talk about potential future plans post-academic career, I mentioned I am quite interested in the LN technology. We then got to talk about Bitcoin, and all the typical arguments against Bitcoin he had heard came up, and I simply but clearly explained why most of them are based on ignorance of reality and the mistakes of lumping bitcoin with the rest of crypto, the fact of thinking of Bitcoin in terms of Dollar price, speculation, not being aware of the actual utility Bitcoin provides, etc. The fact he's originally from a S-American country with a broken government also helped to go into the discussion talking about what a world would look like when countries stop depending on US Dollar.
He came out of this hour-long discussion (at most) saying: wow, you know your stuff. This thing might actually have potential. Not sure I orange-pilled him per se, but at least, some prejudices got cleared up.
Other than that, my wife had the typical get-rich-quick thinking mentality when thinking of our Bitcoin holdings, but recently felt much better after suffering a lot mentally during her first bear market and realizing Bitcoin is not just a dollar number but has other qualities. She still thinks of "cashing out", one day... so i still got some work to do there ;) We're in South Korea, so this get-rich-quick mentality is strong here.
My dad is typical old boomer. Very good with the old fiat system, but after I spent (one time) couple of hours telling about running a LN node, he casually mentioned: oh maybe I should put some money in Bitcoin too. Don't think he followed up with that one, so not sure he was orange-pilled. But circumstances make I don't see him often, so I prefer not to talk only about Bitcoin when I meet him, so he might only come around later.
hey everyone, my first post here
OP is clearly uninterested in discussions about altcoins, which is fine, just thought i’d present an alternative viewpoint
as someone who cares about bitcoin’s future a lot, i think conversations about what altcoins are doing differently are important in order to strengthen bitcoin.
and yes, there needs to be some discretion, since obviously much/most of what happens in altcoin-land is flat out scams, but that’s not everything. some experiments are honest and can inform future development in bitcoin and i think monero is a prime example of that
even if what monero teaches us is “we shouldn’t do what monero did”, that’s also useful
banning any discussion about anything altcoin-related will limit our ability to learn and have productive discussions about bitcoin
I'm sometimes ambivalent about the toxicity of bitcoin maximalists, myself included. I'm also not going to say he doesn't make a valid point about the almost religious way some of us worship bitcoin, but Nic Carter has his own agenda here. He makes his money off of altcoins. He doesn't understand why bitcoiners are happy to see Binance and Coinbase get attacked, while in the same tweet talks about shilling icos! That's the problem. People have been victimized by these companies. His "why can't we all get along" attitude about these exchanges doesn't address the human pain those companies caused,( the shilling, the front running, the wash trades), nor his role in that pain.
visiting the rewards page every hour to cheer on stackers as they rise and fall in the rankings, it’s almost as addicting as cheering on my bracket during march madness
Thanks for sharing.
It triggered another smash buy for me, knowing what kind of slimeballs I'm defunding.
Why do you choose to list items on satscrap first and foremost in a shitcoin, USD, instead of the hardest money in history, bitcoin?
Wouldn't it make more sense to first list the amount of bitcoin for each item, and then under that have the USD equivalent?
The coordinator makes its own judgment about potential service refusal. Contrary to some claims, neither an analytics company nor government agency has a say in the decision process.
If users find out that their coins have been refused entry to the coinjoin, they remain in full control over their funds and can freely spend those coins.
However you're generating an invoice, there should be a route hint included in the result. This tells the payer how to get sats to your node if it will need to use private channels.
Try generating an invoice and decode it. If a route hint is not included for your private channel(s) with inbound liquidity, it could be impossible for a sender to complete the payment. Generally your node should know that payment will be impossible without a route hint (if that's indeed the case) and it should include one without prompting.
I remember in my youth throwing my Nokia 3210 in the air and trying my damn hardest to destroy it. I soon gave up. Progress, I guess.
Laser is also an acronym.
Yes it's spelled with and S and not a Z. And don't tell me that in American English it's a Z it's not it's just flat out incorrect and a commonly circulated mistake.
Anyway.
It stands for
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. L-A-S-E-R.
(You don't spell stimulated Zimulated do you? Now go forth and remove thyne Zs)