You don’t protect your privacy because you have something to hide.
You protect it because you have something to protect.
~ wise man in @vexl 😎 T-shirt 👏
When I pay with #bitcoin, businesses often use services that understandably charge a fee for processing the payment. 👌 Paying with bitcoin ends up surprisingly being more expensive than with fiat. Yet the merchant saves money on many fiat-related fees. Whether they use Confirmo, Qerko, or indirectly tools like Bitrefill.
Wouldn't it make more sense to actually incentivize bitcoin payments? 🚀
The user, the merchant, and the payment processor all benefit from such transactions.
Unpopular opinion: I actually like the Saylors talk from @BTC Prague. 🔥
Biggest issue I have with him is the hodl narrative. Idea that we should use shitty fiat for payments instead of bitcoin. However he didn’t mention this stupid thesis even single time in his talk.
You don’t have to calculate the exchange rate of bitcoin.
Just feel the price in bitcoin.
I know how much is whole bitcoin in fiat, but don’t feel it since I never transfer whole bitcoin 🥲
But I know that 10.000 sat are acceptable price for good lunch
Bitcoiners look like a honeypot... But if @Gart can be realized, then on the contrary, the aggressor will become increasingly more and more afraid to attack a bitcoiner.
Dev/hac/day was awesome.
Top highlight for me was @Gart 👏
Ark looks very promising as a bridge between onchain and lightning even for Trezor and other HWW. 🔥
Thanks to Marco from @Ark Labs , Eric from Second, and Vincenzo from Lampo project for great discussion.
Will we meet at BTC Prague next week?
I'll be there giving a keynote on “Living on bitcoin” - basically talking about why it's good to pay with bitcoin and build a network of people. I'll also be on a panel discussion on a similar topic.
Besides adoption, I'm also very interested in scaling bitcoin, security, privacy, inheritance, and generally solutions that could work with Trezor. Let me know if you want to meet up to discuss some ideas. I'll be at both dev/hac/day and all days from morning to night at the conference.
If Satoshi choose to start with 100 BTC per block in the beginning we would end up with 42M in total instead of 21M.. Which would be kind of beautiful too.