Underrated advantage of paying in bitcoin - your orders don’t get randomly cancelled due to overzealous anti fraud systems. As the internet becomes more and more and more bot-ridden, everything ends up with aggressive bot detection that invariably blocks lots of people. This also applies to online shopping, where suddenly some merchants simply block a lot of their potential customers due to chargeback risk. If I pay in bitcoin, they can process the order and not spend money on broken anti-fraud systems. I’m literally trying to order a damn pan and can’t 🤦‍♂️

We’ve got to years to pass the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. We can’t let this pass us.

The bitcoin community has real political power, it’s time we exercise it. #FreeSamorai View quoted note →

Okay, my mentions are now filled with spam. I guess that’s cause I “picked bad relays”? How do I (a normal user who doesn’t have the time to investigate the relay offerings out there) fix this?

Run a bitcoin payment processor so that normie merchants can accept bitcoin and we can spend bitcoin (which was half the damn point)? Congrats you have to ask for the socials of people paying 🤦‍♂️ View quoted note →

I once had a discussion with a GNU Taler dev, who argued with a straight face that the government should have a (limited) backdoor into financial systems despite voters sometimes electing bad people because, and I’m dead serious here, the German voters would never elect someone with as authoritarian tendencies as Trump. I guess he missed his history lessons…in literally every year of school there lol View quoted note →

Anyone else find it kinda ironic that the Bitcoin 100k push came after an off-hand comment by the Fed chair, and now Bitcoin is down 5% on Fed chair comments?

LDK’s new pathfinding tuning is pretty predictive of the real world!

Turns out Taproot is great for post-Quantum in Bitcoin. https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/8O857bRSVV8

No, Roger is not facing 109 years in prison. That’s not how federal sentencing works, that’s never how federal sentencing has ever fucking worked. Stop quoting morons who don’t know how things work.

Snakes who spent years trying to destroy Bitcoin should stay in their holes rather than trying to emerge and claim they were the savior all along.