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 ok i wanna know: what’s missing in your bitcoin life?? 
 Real friends 
 what would you do with your real friends that you dont do with your current ones? 
 Well I have real friends just none into bitcoin. We would talk and send bitcoin to each other. Play with apps use liquid. 
 🫂🌻 
 Financial freedom sill eludes me 
 focus on cashflows 💸 
 A new ATH 😂 
 biggest ath you can hit is your own stack size 😉 
 Suddenly i feel so inadequate 😔 😉😂 
 Privacy 
 what would privacy look like to you? 
 Samourai but decentralized. Not sure how we get privacy on the base layer at this point 
 use lightning 😏 
 Wooof. So much to unpack there 
 You tell me to use LN, but when I try to zap you it doesn't work...

https://m.primal.net/KSkV.webp
 
 I just finished reading The Genesis Book and I’m more convinced than ever that Satoshi never intended for the base layer to offer privacy. Being transparent is what established trust and assurance of consensus in the first place. Privacy and speed of settlement with layers was always the solution. 
 Basically says as much in Section 10 of the white paper. Pseudonymisation was all that was promised.  
 Yep 
 That's quite bad advice. If you truly want to offer people advice, Monero should be what you're recommending. It is possible for lightning to be private. If you are extremely careful, but it is very easy still to hurt your privacy. 
 Have you tried joinmarket? 
 BTCPay Server's coinjoin plugin is this on steroids. Coordinator discovery is decentralized using Nostr: https://mempool.space/tx/f0117ea9c6aee4e2634390dc07792b087a5af5897fd59fd508aba3741a160dfe 
 Is this different from when they were using Wasabi? 
 Not trying to nitpick when the options are so few and far between but there’s anonymity lost when the transactions are all different amounts. Using nostr to coordinate peers is damn cool though 
 Taproot 👍 yw  
 A social network of bitcoiners who live near me. 

Colorado Springs. 
 More bitcoin 
 A Bitcoiner church 
 Yes to this. Bitcoin evangelicals. 
 I wanna be in the choir. Our robes will be orange 
 I need to understand a lot about the economic concept of bitcoin, combine it with the economic reality of my country and achieve stability and tranquility 
 more btc 
 Satflow 😭 
 Actually no, I have satflow, it’s just the wrong way 
 Home Mining 
 Local @PUBKEY  
 Covenants 
 Places to spend it and someone or something to manage a lightning node for me. God I hate channel management.  
 Bitcoin job (work on something related to and being paid in bitcoin), home mining, and more places in my city and near ones to spend butcoin, just that 😅🙈 
 More base58 courses 
 A farm with cows and chickens 
 More merchants accepting Bitcoin as payment where I like. 

I want to pay with sats  
 a way to teleport to btc++ brazil so i don't have to fly 20 hrs??

can we make a bitcoin teleporter? 
 you + me both 😭 
 🫂 
 first rule of sci-fi, don't use the teleporter 
 Have you seen the movie "The Fly"? 
 a classic! 
 You have to die, to be reborn! But posable sooner, but Scoti will not be there. 
 But it will come one way or another. 
 Sorry not the dieing so much, the invention.  
 Hope double spends does NOT do that. 
 More Bitcoin in my wallet. 😏 
 Solid on chain privacy 
 You get solid privacy on chain with coinjoins from Wasabi Wallet: https://mempool.space/tx/f0117ea9c6aee4e2634390dc07792b087a5af5897fd59fd508aba3741a160dfe 
 You absolutely do not! 
 Look at the transaction I posted and see for yourself. 
 😂😂😂😂 wasabi fixes onchain privacy. Good one pal.  
 If I'm wrong, why don't you prove it? I already gave you an untraceable coinjoin transaction, how about you try tracing it? 
 You did indeed but that doesn't somehow erase all wasabi fuckery does it.  
 funding 🤣 
 being able to actually use it as money IRL 
 Lightning coffee shops 
 this would make my day.  I've been trying to get my local shop to accept. he's curious but he's also a busy man.  
 IRL people to discuss it with. You know, without the strange looks. 😊

And, seriously, just a bunch of learning. I’m new here, and there’s a bit of a learning curve. So… confidence that I’m not doing it wrong? 
 Adoption and Tools 
 more places to let me spend my bitcoin locally. I'm moving again soon so I'll see which small businesses accept bitcoin in the next place I visit (& try to convince a few to start accepting) 🧡🙏🙌 
 The Bitcoin wife ;)  
 Either an easy way to 1) LN on clearnet that doesnt dox my ip or 2) more reliable payments over Tor. 
 Easiest solution which is almost plug-and-go is plebvpn with RaspiBlitz. Has hybrid mode with tor as a back up for clearnet. Can highly recommend that. 
 Had raspiblitz for years. My pi stopped being reliable so I switched to start9. 
 Yeah I'm actually running it on Intel NUC which has been reliable for me. 
 Hw wallets + coinjoin payments + cross-input signature aggregation 
 You can do payments in coinjoins with BTCPay Server's coinjoin plugin. 
 Sure. But combination hw wallet + coinjoin (without payment form CJ) was able to make only trezor app. 
Unfortunately it stopped due to FUD around wasabi coordinator discontinuation. 
 More Bitcoin. 
 Literally anywhere to spend it. There is zero adoption in my entire region. 
 you make the changes! 
 I have the exact opposte problem. I have business and I accept it but exactly 0 people pay in it.  
 Have you considered offering any discounts to customers who pay in ₿ to incentive them? 
 This 
 literally more bitcoin  
 a social-life with subtle bitcoin characteristics. I don't want an all male meetup with a who-knows-the-most-pissing-contest. 
 maybe some number go up would be nice. not necessary, but nice. 😘 

oh, and other bitcoin friends.  
 Your bitcoin coding courses 
 ayyy 🙌 
 Bitcoin 
 A full node on my phone 
 A key agent / multisig coordinator in a jurisdiction that is highly protective of assets and property rights, e.g. the Cook Islands or St Kitts and Nevis.  Ideally they would also host HSM’s for small transactions, and apply manual security procedures to bigger ones. 
 sales positions that pay in Bitcoin 
 More bitcoin 
 A place to buy bitcoin in Trinidad and Tobago 
 A mi me hace falta producir mas de ese cochino papel fiduciario para poder intercambiarlo por dinero duro de verdad, que prevalezca mi poder adquisitivo a lo largo del tiempo.. pero oye que te digo que me esta costando poder hacer cambio, por que la inflacion nos ha comido tanto nuestro poder adquisitivo al ciudadanos de apie, que esta dificil la mision de poder acomular mas SATS T_T 
 More Bitcoin. More Bitcoin businesses. A job that will pay me in Bitcoin  
 DeFi on #Bitcoin L2 👀 
 more bitcoin 
 Compelling narrative.

We need less tech chat and more stories.
That's how we make people care. 
 A woman 
 being healthy 
 Teaching mom bitcoin and practicing zaps 
 Girl friends who understand BTC.