I like the idea of bitcoin meetups, but I don't like the idea of people in public knowing that I'm into bitcoin? How do you reconcile those two feelings? Have you ever been to a bitcoin meetup in your area? What was your experience like? I usually don't talk about bitcoin to anyone I don't know, so the idea of going to a bitcoin meetup is worrying, but at the same time it would be cool to meet bitcoiners in person.

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Any plans for @npub1u663...46r8 to support local relays? I just noticed Ditto doesn't connect to Citrine and has no option to configure a local relay. @Alex Gleason

This was the concept that pushed me down the FIRE path and being frugal to get there. Lowering expenses and saving more is extremely productive toward building wealth. View quoted note →

It amazes me how few people understand the connection between the increase in money supply and the rising costs of goods. One is the primary driver of the other and it impacts everyone in our daily lives. It just isn't talked about enough in discourse, politics, media, etc.

Living on bitcoin is extremely difficult, at least in the USA where I'm at. I haven't used a centralized exchange in probably 5 years and I really don't want to go that route. But I'm realizing, then unless things change soon, that's the only option. Businesses don't accept it. P2P exchanges aren't reliable enough and are often riddled with fraudsters. And even if that weren't the case, dealing with P2P with the fiat banking system is a massive headache. The second you have any sort of volume with transaction activity, it raises alarm bells with fraud departments and I've had to sit on calls with them and explain in detail the reason for all my transactions over the last week, etc. It's annoying to deal with as well as stressful wondering if they'll shut my account down if I say the wrong thing. I'm not moving, though I wish I could, but family obligations are local, so we're staying put. Things need to get better if we want bitcoin to be money. Laws, infrastructure, technology, adoption, perception, etc. Bitcoin isn't just used by criminals, but the stigma of that permeates through legacy finance like a plague. I'm hopeful we'll get there someday, but I'm not sure if it will be soon enough for me before I cave and sign back up with the centralized exchanges I swore off many years ago.

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We really need to build a P2P bitcoin exchange on top of Nostr. Things like Robosats, Bisq, and Vexl are nice, I've used many of them extensively, but they're also ripe with fraud abuse which can get your accounts in trouble when trading with the wrong person. We're almost all bitcoiners here and there is a wide mix of people looking to either accumulate or sell bitcoin. We could use the web of trust with Nostr to find people within our trust circles looking for a partner who we could regularly exchange with. Similar to the idea of Vexl, but rather than needing to find exchange partners via our phone's contact list, we could use our Nostr follows (which are already public) to find trusted people looking to exchange with. From there, all exchange details can be done privately through encrypted communications. Obviously you can't fully stop fraudsters, but being able to find exchange partners among the people in your community you trust would go along way toward facilitating P2P bitcoin trades which is really needed to help bitcoin fight KYC. I think Nostr is in a prime position to help facilitate this.

Wait, so banks are slow in processing transactions, so to combat that they come up with EWA apps that are really just PayDay loans in disguise. This is creating the problem so that they can come up with an even worse solution. And they claim to be helping people while they're actively robbing them. Imagine in the future just being streamed your income as bitcoin as you work via lightning. That way you have access to the money you earned immediately. Oh, and also no one can debase the currency you earned robbing your wages through inflation.

These trolls are very cool. I would love to see them some day. Great artwork. Check out the Troll Map to see if there are any near you.

Trollmap — By Thomas Dambo

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Greece Moves to Ban Cash Payments Above €500 - GreekReporter.com

Greece plans tighter cash payment rules, doubled fines and stronger crypto oversight in a new tax bill targeting tax evasion.

Just watched Finding Satoshi this morning. I thought it was a very moving and uplifting documentary. I went into it thinking it was going to be more sensationalism around who Satoshi is. But there was a lot around the cypherpunk motives for creating bitcoin. In the end, while they presented their theory as to who they think Satoshi is, I think the main take away from the documentary was genuinely about what bitcoin can do for humanity and why it now exists. I definitely recommend giving it a watch.