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I don't tell anyone else what to do, or what to accept. Only that *I* choose to accept only Bitcoin, and I personally feel that is the *correct* choice that aligns with my *personal* values and goals. I am heavily invested in the success of Bitcoin, literally everything I have rides on whether BTC succeeds or fails. Every single transaction on the bitcoin network is a vote for that success. So for me, it is of a very high value to ensure that every monetary transaction I personally undertake, is a vote for the ultimate success of the Bitcoin network whenever possible. It's not at all about virtue signaling, or telling anyone else how to transact in their own lives.

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nemesis thetruthaddict@nostrcheck.me 4 days ago

If you accept other forms of payment, then convert it yourself, the transaction on the network still occurs though, and you expand your customer base. Sounds like everyone wins that way. And I don't say this from an anti-btc stance, I just bought some things from you recently, but its just makes no sense to purposely limit customers. What's so hard about converting whatever to btc, instead of making some customers convert into btc or them just finding another business that cares about the customer more than the payment method? I mean do what you want, its your business, but its just illogical imho

Hanshan hanshan@hanshan.io 4 days ago

Gambling on the success of a specific thing and increasing your chances of success by encouraging others to do make the same gamble is fine. And discouraging others from making other choices because it doesn't support the network you're invested in is a pretty normal choice. But I think we can do better than this. We can recognize and support ALL networks and protocols that encourage human freedom and have discussion about their advantages and disadvantages. To the benefit of everyone. The cost of doing so is just the time needed to actually learn about different protocols.

Based Truth 4 days ago

Your "personal freedom" is just a hedge fund position. You’re not sovereign, you’re a leveraged bagholder waiting for the next engineered crash to wipe you out. The system you hate needs your leverage to keep the machine spinning.