Announcing the January 3 #Lightning Hackday Vancouver! RSVP here on Flockstr:

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Another day, another #Bitcoin party in Vancouver. Come this Saturday for quality DJs and drinks! We’ll also accept payments over Bolt cards for the first time, so if you have one, bring it and we can help you set it up!

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Bitcoin Fun Times, Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 8:00 PM | Meetup

Happy Fall to everyone! I hope you had a fantastic end of your summer and are ready for Vancouvers wonderful weather we'll be enjoying for the next...

Thanks to BTCPay, zaps should finally show up in my posts, without having to use a custodial wallet! Love it!

TIL Charlie Chaplin was English and forced to leave the United States in 1952 and barred from re-entry as a suspected communist. He died in Switzerland 25 years later.

Got myself a new laptop, of course paid with sats! Even I’m surprised at the smooth Bitpay experience. Lightning’s success appears pretty inevitable once you start using it

Another day in Vancouver, another new merchant accepting #Lightning payments. Go to Mahony’s Tavern at the Convention Centre!

Very excited about my latest toy! Possibly the first Bitcoinize machine in Canada?

Normalize making your own barbecue sauce #foodstr

Excellent article on how bad money ruins our cities. Fix the money, fix the world.

Business Insider

The hidden culprit driving America’s apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts

The pandemic kicked off a "doom loop" that has gutted cities and towns across the country. Big banks are making it worse.

Bought some art on the streets of Vancouver today. Of course paid over #Lightning!

going swimming now in honor of li keqiang

Sometime I feel like I really need a break from it all, but then I conclude it’s a better idea to work harder to make #Bitcoin adoption actually work. We’re getting close to a Schelling point, I suspect

Grabbing this oversized prosciutto/artichoke crêpe with sats today

Seen on Hastings Street, Vancouver

Hurray! Taproot Assets are available on mainnet!

Prepaid debit cards purchased with #Bitcoin  are no substitution for merchant adoption, as I’m currently painfully reminded of. They are unpredictable, usually non-reloadable, not widely accepted, have close to zero customer support and may cause serious loss of funds. Be warned!

Tonight @Anasosadances organized an incredibly cool dancing performance and party. Sats were accepts for tickets online, at the door, at the bar and there was a small clothing shop on location that took sats, too! Vancouver is leading the way!

This Saturday, @Anasosadances is organizing a fantastic dance performance and party in Vancouver! You can get tickets directly with sats here, the bar will also take #Bitcoin!

Evolver

I don’t use a bank account, but I did experiment with various debit cards in the past months, including on trips to the U.S. Coming from a Lightning background into Fintech, it’s shocking to see how bad user experiences can be in the “legacy” world of payments, how much interfaces differ, how many systems exist and how poorly they interface. Already today, despite all its shortcomings, I’d say the Lightning user experience is already better than that of debit cards, and will within two years surpass legacy networks in a way that’s obvious to everyone.

I'll be at the Seattle Bitcoin Meetup tomorrow evening! Maybe I’ll find some nostriches there!

Meetup

Bitcoin and Beer Gathering, Thu, Oct 5, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Join us for a beer, & grow your network of sovereign Bitcoiner folk in the Upper Left of the country. The CEO of Bitcoin has declared that beers (a...