“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…

Is there a succinct way to phrase "technical bitcoin development topics"? Is "bitcoin tech" a thing? It's the closest term I've gotten but it kind of sounds like it means nothing.

Is there a succinct way to phrase "technical bitcoin development topics"? Is "bitcoin tech" a thing? It's the closest term I've gotten but it kind of sounds like it means nothing.

New payjoin zone drops this week at Bitcoin 2024. Find @Dan Gould for a copy! I’m attaching a photo of him so you know who to look for. Digital version to be available shortly after at

satsie.dev

Thanks to the feedback gathered here on Nostr we sadly made the decision to swap guts guy out of the cover for conjoined twins guy. Hope you still read it, even if the cover doesn’t show a sneak peek of what is inside.

It’s payjoin! @vnprc got it 🎉 If you’re in Nashville this week for the conference, @Dan Gould will have free copies. Find him and ask for one! View quoted note →

The most recent guess is so close! View quoted note →

I’ve been heads down working on a new zine! 3,000 sats to the first person that can guess what it’s about. Kind of sort of not really hint: This herecomesbitcoin.org guy will be on the cover

My toddler, looking at my sandwich: “Oooo I love that” “Do you want a bite?” “No, I want my own.” “Ok, what would you like on it?” “Nothing” “So you don’t want a sandwich?” “Yes”

Need help with this one. What kind of animal (or insect?!) is making these scratch marks? They are only in this spot, so I’m inclined to believe it has something to do with the tiny gap between the baseboard and floor tile. I know mice are known to fit into small spaces but this seems too small.

Today we say goodbye to a dear friend, this disintegrating pair of sneakers I bought in 2005. I had these for so long the white dad sneaker look actually came back in style. They almost made it to 20 years. RIP and thank you for the sats I was able to stack along the way.

The guy she tells you not to worry about

I think I’m going to start collecting http error codes I see in the wild

The four baby robins are getting to be so big for the nest. I can’t handle the cuteness!