A single 2.1M sat channel will last you a lifetime, as long as your peer survives that long, too.
If you see Bruce in his red/white Bulli parked somewhere around Vancouver, buy one of his carefully crafted items with sats! A real icon who refuses to budge to corporatist norma
Found a lone Cackling Goose among a group of Canada Geese. How it get there? It clearly wasn’t very welcome among them.
Mind blown when I realized Montreal is just the French version of Königsberg. Any nostriches want to meet up as I’m passing through in early July?
Sats aren’t bullish enough. Millisats the standard!
I’ve never been hit with a fraudulent charge on my Lightning node, and don’t know anyone who has. This technology might be appealing to people
Always devastating when you find out a friend endorses central planning
Very proud of the composition, colors and lighting here. My superstar the laundry bear.
I no longer believe the concept of Lightning Network channel capacity can be abstracted away from the user. I now believe channels should be a major focus of education, UX/UI in self-custodial wallets.
If you look at interest in Bitcoin podcasts, conferences, tweets and meetups versus interest in Bitcoin merchants, you realize Bitcoin’s killer app really is just talking about it.
As of block 793752 I don’t have any more pending transactions, the first time since mid April. A mid-summer miracle!
Spent a whole night not talking about Bitcoin! Even scanned the QR code at the bar, which ironically didn’t work. Normie night!
If an event requires a credit card to participate, it’s by definition not a #Bitcoin event, no matter what the organizers say
The idea of a Lightning node as a symbol of social status is a fascinating one to explore
As Bitcoiners I believe we have the obligation to advance Bitcoin. We can do that by teaching, coding, mining, evangelizing, running a business, through art, reporting bugs, moderating chat groups, updating directories; but at the very least, we can do that by using Bitcoin. Every day.
Very cool to see the bar at the Vancouver Bitcoin meetup going #Lightning only tonight. There’s even a Lightning ATM that converts spare change to sats!
Bitcoin merchant adoption, including afk, is absolutely crucial to Bitcoin fulfilling some of its most basic promises, such as censorship resistance and privacy.
Super cool picture showing the origins of Sham Shui Po's wide roads, which were first water channels in the 1920s, then market places in the 80s, before they were turned into wide and noisy roads. Imagine your city’s avenues become permanent buzzing markets
First time having credit card problems while paying with cash: The system froze as the cashier cancelled the card payment, had to wait a few minutes before the register opened.
