YES!!
Fiat systems allow for a top-down control system, which incentivises grown adults to suckle from the teat of the powerful, which diminishes their own authority and agency, which leads to a hierarchy of expecting the top end of the structure to provide for the bottom end, which leads to entitled children without proper role models to show them how to provide for themselves. The end result is a pattern of learned helplessness, which stems from us outsourcing our autonomy over our monetary system to equally-fallible humans.
- Tim Niemeyer via Bitcoin Magazine
We’re so so early.
This guys is a heavy social media user, owns Bitcoin (gifted to him as a wedding present) is a designer, pretty tech savvy and VERY anti-establishment.
I sent him a lightsats.com tip just for fun to see how onboarding would go. He ignored it and it expired.
What are Sats??
I love that the Nostr devs can move fast a break things in this era - because the protocol allows us to jump between clients so easy! If nostrgram goes down we hop to astral. It's that easy. (not saying nostrgram went down:)
One of the biggest improvements coming (hopefully!) to Lightning is the ability to have recurring payments, or re-usable invoices. What’s that improvement called? Is it a BIP?