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Boston BitDevs 25 - September 2024, Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 6:30 PM | Meetup

This month we'll be at Fidelity's 245 Summer Street location. **Advance RSVP and valid identification are required.** **The RSVP cut-off is Thursd...

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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.

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For the last few years we’ve been growing these purple podded pole beans from Baker Creek Seeds. They are crisp, delicious, and absolutely prolific! So great for vertical gardening too. #growstr

Me: What do you want for dinner? My 3 year old: I want you to give me a nervous breakfast.

My interview with @Nik Bhatia for @The Bitcoin Layer is up! We chat about zines and Saving Satoshi (https://savingsatoshi.com), a browser based game about Bitcoin that is gearing up for launch. Check it out below!

“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…