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I made my first go at talking to a Square merchant to turn on Bitcoin payments. This was in South Carolina and the coffee shop was actually owned by a mother son from Costa Rican. I explained to them how easy Square makes it for them to accept bitcoin and how their location would likely be added to a map where other bitcoin users would seek out their business. By the end of the conversation I could definitely see the spark of interest in the son especially when he told me that a lot of the other fees on Square were eating away at their earnings. He was concerned he lacked the understanding about bitcoin but I assured him he’d learn at his own pace and accepting it as real money will be the fastest way to learn. 10/10 recommend opening up conversations with merchants
not to mention how conveniently segwit, and then taproot opened the chain wide to ordinals. or this bitvm stuff, the liquid sidechain, strike's kyc bitcoin, the BTCs starting with michael saylor, and now a seething swarm of fiat paper bitcoin, on top of the rehypothecation and paperizing from shitcoin exchanges, and citrea trying to push smart contracts into the chain and then the cherry on top will be when US federal government declares bitcoin as a matter of national security, and they acquire 51% control. game over. another 8 years i give it. something better has to be built in the meantime. i'm not bearish short term, i'm bearish long term, on the specific project. a lot of people have got rose colored glasses about bitcoin due to years of conditioning from bitfluencers, who likely are mostly being handled and shadow funded by intel. nostr on the other hand, has caught them off balance. they are trying to leverage it for color revolution operations, with their point man with the beard and septum piercing.
The nodes haven’t done anything about it. The attack uses knobs β€” adjustable defaults, standards, and processes that subtly guide behavior. The Bitcoin development process is a dense cluster of such knobs. Control flows through funding, maintainers, policy defaults, and release cadence. They already changed Bitcoinβ€˜s properties from money to a shitcoin. …don’t worry about Wall Street. Worry about the fact that people have lost trust in Bitcoin.