Block Inc. owns Cash App with 57 million users. It owns Square with 4 million merchants. Square merchants accept Bitcoin. Cash App users can buy, send and receive Bitcoin. ...and yet @jack does not know how to connect the two of them. How to make Cash App users spend sats at Square merchants. Surely this type of marketing problem has been solved before...

South Africa's PicknPay supermarkets have been accepting Bitcoin payments for groceries for years. 1000+ locations

Pick n Pay Online Shopping

@Spiral asks why Bitcoin payments have not taken off.

GitHub

GitHub - spiralxyz/bitcoin-payments

Contribute to spiralxyz/bitcoin-payments development by creating an account on GitHub.

They should study Nostr, where sats are zapped every day. @Giacomo Zucco how are things going in Lugano?

Inflation rates.

215 million brazilians just experienced the "stability" of fiat currency.

Bisq DEX trade stats visualized @Bisq

AI driven, CBDC aided bank run will be hilarious. Most probable scenario and also the funniest. 1. ECB launches digital euro CBDC. 2. Tradfi banks connect their apps, webs to digital euro. 3. AI hacks banks. 4. AI buys Bitcoin. 5. AI moves Bitcoin to quantum resistant addresses.

Electrum vulnerability disclosure

GitHub

Malicious server can replace a just-broadcast tx and try to trick user into RBF-ing it

### Summary The main Electrum server the client connects to is trusted with mempool ("unconfirmed") transactions. This is documented [design](ht...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Twitter trying to emulate zaps ⚡

8 Rue Puteaux, Paris.

Greek Cities

Greek Cities in Present-Day Greece

739 cities in present-day Greece that were Greek at some time between the Mycenaeans and 1821: an interactive map by period, statistics and the ful...

#history #timeline

Roman battles #history

Forma Urbis

Forma Urbis Romae - Wikipedia

Ridgeline chart of 100 empires #history #timeline Territorial expanse (height in million km2) Including primary written language (colour). Improved labels, added some decorations.

Why are cities in France burning? 1. Left narrative: welfare state cuts. -> False. France has huge social spending and it has continued to increase. 2. Right narrative: immigrants. -> False. Switzerland has more inmigrants and no riots. 3. Bitcoin narrative: inflation. -> True: stagnant wage growth has not kept up with rising cost of living. 4. Political reasons: upcoming elections. -> True: funding and organisation of groups that started the student protests was ideological. Timing of elections was a major factor. 5. Police reasons: No consequences for looting, vandalism, etc. -> Partly true. Low cost of vandalism facilitates violence in protests. Other reasons?

Switzerland, end of 2025: Born abroad: 32.9% (about 3.0 million of 9.13 million residents) .

@npub19dg0...6yd2 The liberation of Satoshi

Bitcoin books.

More government.

Ridgeline chart of 100 empires #history #timeline Territorial expanse (height in million km2) Including primary written language (colour).