One of my fiat businesses is making a lot of payments recently and I'm trying to orange-pill as I go by asking the recipient of the payment to accept Bitcoin. My main negotiating tactic is to show the Normie a screenshot of a the PayPal payment (they almost always want a paypal payment)... and show them how horrible the exchange rate is and how much PayPal is taking. But -- I'm starting to think that the biggest barrier to Bitcoin adoption as payment tech is actually the "crypto" industry. The problem is that, if you send a normie Bitcoin, he/she will immediately go onto an exchange to try to exchange it for fiat... and in the process, there is such huge likelihood that the exchange will be able to trick/confuse the Normie into some kind of "crypto" gambling thing... this only has to happen once, and the Normie will assume that the whole thing is a scam.

@Rizful.com and Megalithic.me users -- right now the megalithic.me website is down. Rizful seems fine. There is some kind of big internet-wide infrastructure issue going on right now. Will keep an eye on it..

How do we kill Binance? I'm trying to pay someone with Bitcoin and they send me this crap.... It's incredibly misleading as it literally shows "Deposit BTC" with the Bitcoin symbol...

what is the closest thing to a discord replacement that nostr currently has?

We are working on a campaign to onboard normies to Nostr. We need the most succinct possible page which is like "Make money from zaps by using Nostr!" -- this is the starting point --

Rizful First Steps | Megalith Lightning Docs

Set up your first Rizful vault, choose a Lightning address, and connect a Nostr wallet so you can start receiving payments and zaps.

-- if anyone has any comments/suggestions for this page pls let us know

DNS issues seem to be fully fixed. Probably a lot of users might not have noticed an issue anyway -- if our IP addresse(s) were cached locally.

Rizful.com and Rizful NWC is experiencing intermittent downtime over the last hour or so. This is not related to our systems, but seems to be a (very rare) outage from our DNS provider -- you can see the status here:

DNSimple Status

Welcome to DNSimple's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

Messing with DNS is not fun or recommended, and actually switching DNS often takes a few hours or days -- so we're going to "do nothing". Apologies.

When my grandkids ask how I made so much money, I'll explain to them that I bought bitcoin on Thursday, Feb 5th, at 14:00 PST, and held it for exactly 24 hours, thus realizing a 15% gain.

Bought at $63.5. From ski lift.

Bought at $70k, $66.5k… my memories of not buying when it went down $18k to $3.5k in 2018 are enough to keep me consistent on this…

Bought at $70k, $66.5k… my memories of not buying when it went down $18k to $3.5k in 2018 are enough to keep me consistent on this…