Help me understand why we're still displaying prices in USD so frequently.
I just downloaded the Orange Pill App, and was so excited to get a membership.... until I saw the membership prices displayed in USD on the app... a huge let down. This app, above all, should be able to set prices in Satoshis and not care about fiat volatility.
I understand not everyone can weather the volatility because too much of their own supply chain is still using fiat, so they are forced to at least worry about it. But I see far too many merchants pricing in fiat when they really don't have to. It feels like they aren't even trying to get off fiat. It feels disingenuous.
I would be willing to pay more for a company showing me they're doing what they can to change the fiat mindset, instead of larping their love for Bitcoin.
Am I the only one who feels legit sad every time they see a Bitcoin event or orange-pilled merchants using fiat as a measuring stick?
the problem with Muun is they use 0-conf arquitecture to improve UX, this could be an issue if this practice extends in the ecosystem.
0-conf is basically trust to Muun.
Trust is a problem that Bitcoin want to fix.
If you want to use Muun pls switch off turbo channels.
I was just messing around with BTC Map and discovered that there's a deli about 10 miles away that accepts bitcoin. I verified this with a phone call. Looks like I'm going to have to plan a lunch excursion. I intend to use this app more. It's also compatible with the open map project, so my organic app will get me there.
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Why did you start SB and where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I look forward to looking at their numbers, if they grow and if they have a raw margin at all
I could see them building a Google/OpenAI competitor with proprietary data advantage. But realistically, it's just an unprofitable website that will have to sell out like crazy to stay alive once the funding runs out
Password managers are hard requirement nowadays. All passwords should also be generated randomly.
Remembering passwords and re-using them is a big "no no" for any person (tech savy or not).
Here is it in one image.
Each app was tested and positioned in a specific place, for its functionalities and powers.
Don't believe me?
Try for yourself ALL OF THEM for at least 1 month.
Then we can talk.
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This.
Really would like to get @sethforprivacy take on this.
I very much enjoy the Monero community and think of them as a cousin to Bitcoin. Both communities are militant in their defense of their core values. Bitcoin can learn a lot from Monero and implement similar solutions on L2
I am not aware of the situation in the US, as a european in my thirties I decided to buy instead of renting, here rents are as expensive as fixed mortgages, it is better to pay same amount month by month and own it after a few years, instead of paying more and more expensive monthly payments to never own it. Maybe it is a vague and simplistic reflection but I think it influences to some extent
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Happy Thanksgiving !
I am very grateful for having found a fantastic community a few months ago that shares the same principles as I do. First on nostr and then here on Stacker News.
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Hello everyone. I write this with great sadness and without hope. Yesterday, once again, it was proven that there is a bloody dictatorship in my country, Venezuela. Electoral fraud occurred as expected and as it has happened other times, but something different happened, this time there is evidence to confirm it. Last night in my insomnia I left this post https://stacker.news/items/626469/r/bief57, I hope you can see it and witness the atrocities committed by the tyranny in Venezuela. My country is kidnapped.
You got a smart dad!!
Imagine all your toys. And all the toys of all your friends. Imagine all the toys of all the kids in the world!
You see that?
Maybe there are millions of kids in the world. Many have toys. Millions of toys. Rooms full of toys. Big containers with toys. Factories full of toys.
Now toys get created every Christmas right. The last 50 years before you were born toys got created every year! There are so many toys and so many toys get created every year. In the future when you grow up as old as your dad there will be many many toys created. They will never stop creating toys. Your sons and daughters when you have your own kids will have toys. Maybe you will start a tooy factory yourself and make money creating toys.
Now imagine there are only 21 special toys. These are very very hard to get. And nobody can make them. All kids are looking for these toys.
Because they can’t just be made. You can ask your dad for these 21 toys but your dad wouldn’t easily find one.
Can you imagine all the kids wanting one of these 21 toys?
But the most kids in the world do not yet know about these special toys. Most kids are just asking their dads for the normal toys at Christmas. The toys that anybody can make.
Some dads are special. Some dads are smart. Your dad is very smart. He is not like the other dads buying all those other toys for their kids.
No your dad has found one part of one of the 21 super toys for you.
What you got is bitcoin. That is one of the 21 toys. And the piece you got is called a sat. It is a piece of one of the only 21 toys that will ever be created.
Lucky you!!!
Are you going to ask your dad next time to buy one of the ordinary toys everybody got? Or are you going to ask your dad to buy you another sat thatbis another piece of the 21 super toys?
Good luck. We here all are collecting sats a piece of the 21 super cool toys in the world.
Agree. And I personally think, that their market share is mainly because the fact, that LND is first/only choice in most of the "prepared solutions" like Umbrel, myNode, RaspiBlitz, Embassy, Citadel etc for plebs.
Big players are more willing to use other solutions.
i can get behind this symbol, i also think the unit bias of large numbers is really important to making people excited to hold bitcoin.
nobody wants to give up their life savings just to acquire a small fraction of something… but give them hundreds, thousands, or even millions of sats and they’ll feel richer than ever.
I get annoyed when people act like btc is inevitable, but I suppose I shouldn't -- I think it probably is inevitable, by which I mean it will be (let's say) a force in the world that's at least 10x as big as it is now, maybe more. So that's a lot of success coming its way, obviously.
What is not clear is on what timescale. Being able to retire on my modest stash in fifty years is no comfort to me at all, since I will not live fifty more years. So the worst case scenario is that the US Govt basically declares war on it -- exchanges close, it becomes illegal to own or trade or mine, they set a few harsh examples by prosecuting people, etc. A handful of other governments would likely follow suit (e.g., the EU) and make similar laws.
This would not kill bitcoin! It wouldn't go to zero! But it would crater the shit out of the price for decades, and at that point I don't care anymore, it's useless to me. I'm not leaving my family and living some Jason Bourne life on the run in Guatemala just so I can pay for my hovel in sats.
I really appreciate Luke's general perspective and willingness to roll his own client, but this is a bad take. One man's blockchain spam is another man's treasured bible verses. Who's to decide what's worthy of mining? There's no moralizing on this - let's allow the fee market to decide. Ultimately, you can't keep people from putting dumb stuff on the blockchain. I'd rather they at least be obvious about it and keep it in op_returns, otherwise we're back to bloating the utxo set with forever unspendable transactions, increasing the burden on all nodes.
I just use bitcoin core on an old laptop. Easy to use and link with sparrow wallet for broadcasting and verifying transactions. Also, if you have a extra computer, its free.
Predicting timelines is always a guessing game. But I'm actually of the opinion that in the near term, liquidity on the network is not a bottleneck for Lightning. We can still scale to way more payment throughput and success rate with exactly the same amount of liquidity we have right now.
Liquidity is a good that will be present as soon as sufficient demand is visible. When people want to use Lightning, the liquidity will be there. When large exchanges adopt Lightning or new merchants come onboard, they will bring the liquidity they need themselves, or attract it by exerting demand.
I'm not convinced that Lightning will be a great place for "yield" in the near future either. It may be a good place for "risk-free rates", but not for earning substantial yield, compared to shitcoin schemes, bonds, or the stock market.
Doing some basic UI design work for Alby. Pretty cool stuff
HTTPS isn't a consensus system. The requirements for HTTPS to work are much less stringent than Bitcoin as you don't need “bug-for-bug” compatibility.
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