PSA that Coinbase doesn't know how lightning works, went to move lightning to coinbase to use a coinbase card to pay for breakfast and it never made it, (left my lightning wallet but never arrived there) The agent didn't know they supported lightning and tried to tell me i didn't send it because they couldn't find an on-chain transaction. I spent 45 minutes on chat getting it figured out, now have to wait up to 7 days for it to be solved. (this would be easier if everyone just accepted lightning already!) I've never had an issue with another service or company thus far, but at least taught the agent about what lightning is and how it works, one at a time we will get there !

#nostr where have you been! Just discovering this and it is super cool! thinking of pivoting my simplesats bitcoin budgeting tool to being a nostr native..... hmmm so much reading and planning to do and only one lifetime to do it all!

Every store i go into i ask if they accept bitcoin. It has led to a lot of interesting conversations. Just last week I was at a secondhand store and asked if they took bitcoin. They explained that they'd love to but aren't setup for it yet. They had a square terminal and pointed out that soon they might be able too. We kept talking and it came out that they had a large investment in xrp, my heart sank. We had a long conversation where they talked about not being able to afford bitcoin and that xrp was about to take off! We talked about why xrp and the typical speed argument came up, blah blah blah. I wish everyone could experience lightning payments. Bitcoin is ahead of the curve in so many ways! I finished by sharing an article about the centralization problem and the xrp ceo getting ready to cash out a big chunk. Keep talking to folks and taking the tome to educate, we are so early to #bitcoin and we need to have ways to show people what an amazing and freeing evosystem. Hope has all but fled the fiat system and people are going to go to defi snd crypto to try snd get rich. Hopefully we can save a few of them along the way! Stay humble and stack sats! Zap me if you think the couple running this store needs to drop xrp and stack sats!