When I see complaints like the one fiatjaf’s note is referring to I love to say things like “I’ll to let the CEO of bitcoin know” or “I’ll file an issue with Nostr customer support” 😆
Not quite as bright but still very visible with the naked eye, even with the light pollution in our neighborhood. It was kind of like a sunset but with stars!
There are lots of ways to address this, many of which you have named. Thinking about the specific scenarios that worry you most and then being prepared goes a long way towards peace of mind. Whether that’s carrying a firearm, having excellent self defense skills, using a multi-location multi-device multisig, or stepping up your privacy efforts.
We all know it’s a spectrum and you get out the amount of work that you put in. Lately life has been keeping me too busy for the kind of bitcoin work I was able to previously do but I also find it funny that bitcoin is largely just not cool to normies 😆 Those two things have me laying somewhat low these days, and when I do engage with people they usually are already into bitcoin. The more I do this, the less of a desire I have to shout my love for bitcoin on rooftops 😆 I mean, at the end of the day we’re all hoping for a hyperbitcoinization world right? Where everyone is a bitcoiner and it’s so normal that it’s boring to talk about! Thanks for the tag!
This is my lazy girl attempt to drum up hype for @TABConf in Atlanta at the end of the month:
I will be there with the Saving Satoshi team (https://savingsatoshi.com) doing a workshop on Thursday 10/24. We’ll be playing the game together and will have lots of swag for those that participate. You won’t want to miss it!!
I’m also moderating a panel on FROST on Friday 10/25. It’s gonna be cool ❄️ HAH!! See what I did there? This won’t be the last time I use that joke 🥲
Thank you Open Sats for your support! <3 Whoever wrote this post certainly has a way with words. I appreciate the glowing write up and can't wait to use these funds to make bitcoin education more accessible. Onward!
What’s the latest on capitalization rules for “Bitcoin”? It’s my understanding that “Bitcoin” the network is capitalized and “bitcoin” the currency is lowercase. However, that seems to have fallen out of favor with the preference to always have it lowercase.
Anyone have an opinion on this? I’m writing some copy for a project and want to follow the most widely used convention.
Thank you for sharing this! Nothing like being repeatedly asked “did you mean to capitalize this?” 😭😅 I think your experience makes a good argument for common noun casing, something I’ve been starting to think about more.
Hah!!! Same. Did you see this reply? It makes a good argument for that.
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Dumb story time. This is really stupid and I might regret posting it on nostr where it can’t be deleted.
I was driving to get breakfast and remembered that when it comes time to order, my voice is voice is usually all crackly and “I just woke up”. I decided it would be wise to warm it up a little and sing to whatever music was on. A cover of Missionary Man by Ghost started playing and I did NOT want to be caught singing to that. Did I skip the track like a normal person? Of course not. I just tried to sing without moving my mouth. At some point, after getting through most of the song I realized I was acting like a ventriloquist, something arguably more embarrassing than being caught singing in your car. Anyway I burst out laughing and still can’t stop. Highly recommend. Everyone should experience the silliness of this at least once.
Thank you! The ones I make are 1 page with content on the front and back. (4 rectangles in total for 8 pages) The format you are describing sounds tiny and cute! Right now I’m having trouble fitting all my content into the current format. I think I need to pick easier topics 😄
What kinds of things were your zines about? 🤩
I usually throw them into a stir fry but now that we are a family of four, we’re pretty good at eating them fresh when we’re outside in the garden.
My Thai mom makes a really nice green bean salad that is served over rice. This recipe is similar (I have a seafood allergy so I omit some ingredients and it tastes just fine): https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/som-thum-tua-thai-som-thum-style-green-beans
Oh no! Our garden is small so we don’t need a high germination rate for it to fill up. I have noticed slow germination but not a low rate.
For the last few years I’ve been saving some of my own seeds. Each year the crops become better tailored to the specific conditions here.
Do you have other seed companies you like? I’ve been happy with Botanical Interests 🙂
I’m zone 7a 🌱 #growstr
“Thanks for picking that up for me! I will Venmo you the money.”
“Oh I don’t have Venmo but I can do bitcoin, CashApp, or PayPal”
*radio silence*
Even if bitcoin has world-class UX, I’m not sure if we’ll ever see widespread adoption until we can figure out how to release the absolute chokehold Venmo has on people, especially millennials.
CashApp may not be self custody but at least I can live my bitcoin life if someone uses it to send me money. Venmo has normalized digital payments so much that it’s changed how people behave and has become a verb. Nobody bothers to split bills anymore and they have stopped carrying cash. Why? Because they “can just Venmo you”.
I can see stack overflow error happening in real time when I tell my friends I don’t have Venmo because I don’t believe they created the social feature in good conscience and think it’s an awful thing for Venmo to try and normalize the destruction of financial privacy. Yes, you can now make transactions private, even if it’s not the default. No, I don’t care. I’m dying in this hill. I don’t want to link my fiat ass bank account to ANOTHER system when PayPal, which owns Venmo does the exact same thing. And you know what? People have been using PayPal since the dawn of the Internet 2.0. You already have it! And if I’m going to use a newer, mobile, digital payment solution, it’s going to be CashApp because at least I can turn that money you owe me into bitcoin, which is what I actually prefer you pay me back in. To add to that, Block and Jack Dorsey have done so much for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Of course I want to support CashApp!
In my experience the hierarchy is:
1. Venmo
2. Zelle
3. Cash (middle ground for “you don’t want to set up CashApp? Weird because I don’t want to set up Venmo!”)
4. “I’ll get your lunch next time”
5. MAYBE PayPal or CashApp
6. Not getting your money back
7. bitcoin
So what do I want? Obviously the Bitcoin Standard, but if I can’t have that I want to make cash great again and more people using bitcoin compatible payment solutions.
I encourage everyone to join me in a crusade of maximum pain for anyone trying to use something that is not this. We all deserve better! A win-win would be if Venmo integrated bitcoin so then all my Venmo using friends could transact with whoever they wish, using a free and open monetary protocol.
For starters it would probably help if I was more often in the scenario of needing to pay people back instead of the other way around…
It definitely could be regional. Were your PayPal purchases made in person or over the Internet? I still see it used a lot for sites like eBay and Etsy.
YES! I have the same question!! Was it an organic shift in user sentiment that caused Venmo and Zoom to come out on top, or was it a strategically planned thing? I guess we’ll probably never know but it feels like those apps exploded in popularity overnight.
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