Embracing Bitcoin: A Day Touring Vancouver’s Bitcoin Economy
https://bitcoinnews.com/adoption/vancouver-bitcoin-economy/
Leo
leo@lightning.engineering
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自由閪。Defund the system! Passionate about privacy, encryption and ⚡️bitcoin. Forbidden lands, forgotten empires.
A year ago I was able to book trips almost exclusively with Lightning: trains, flights, hotels. Today I can’t book trains and flights anymore (at least not for the routes that I need), and I just tried to book a hotel through Travala and noticed their Lightning implementation is broken, too.
I’m heartbroken
They tried to destroy testnet3 for nothing but vanity. Long live testnet3!
It’s a sign. Get onboard y’all! 
What a magnificent cedar, hundreds of years old, unfazed, tall, strong, moist. 
What are our plans to onboard the normies to Nostr?
The Rub 🤝 The Sauce #foostr 
If you’re in Vancouver, join me and other Bitcoiners for this concert on Sunday! They sell tickets for sats!
Mallory Chipman & Ali Wick
Drones seen over Vancouver today. We all ⚡️BC! 
Ten (10!) Percent of Cuba's population fled the country in 2022 and '23 alone as food supplies collapsed. Socialism continues to be the most disastrous idea humanity ever came up with.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article290249799.html
Touching grass today 
Thoughts on the new Vancouver Bitdevs logo (left) and the Vancouver Noderunners (right)? Both are monthly in-person events that I plan to move from Meetup to Luma. 
It’s super easy to run a #Lightning⚡️node and open a channel. The hard part is finding a reason or opportunity to use it.
Indeed quite easy to set up: BIP 353 Lightning Address: leonhard@weese.ws
Delivered to my door, fresh vegetables, bread and beer from local producers. The farm to table #Lightning⚡️ economy. Vancouver can be really great 
Meetup,com is raising its annual fees for organizers (the most basic tier) to US$360. I’ll definitely give up the three groups that I’m currently managing, but should I migrate elsewhere or simply rely on word of mouth?
The most beautiful train in the world, passing Burnaby Lake, heading for Toronto 
Trying to use Bitcoin can at times be very demotivating 😪
Everyday I’m impressed how stable and mature LND and the tools around it have become. Running a node no longer requires expert knowledge or constant maintenance, and even with just one channel, payments rarely fail. Worth a shoutout to all the internal and external contributors👏
Can’t handle tips:
- Wallet of Satoshi
- Blink
- BTCPay (if you claim otherwise you clearly have never used it)
- Lifpay
- Phoenix
- Neutronpay
- Aqua
Can handle tips:
- Coinos
- Ibex
- LNBits
Not a lot of choice when trying to onboard a North American hospitality business with Lightning.