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Strong work, Marty! And anyone who is worried about spending their stack and dealing with a taxable event should open a @strike account and spend dollars that automagically get converted to Bitcoin for the receiver. Shout out @jack mallers and the Strike team! ⚡️

I tip every pest person, handy person, delivery person who comes to my house in bitcoin.

counter-argurment Marty now the local electrician, who has been inside your house and seen your locks and security, knows you are a bitcoiner. You increased the risk of a $5 electric screwdriver attack. but 100% agree with sentiment, but this should be also be considered

I have been working on my HVAC guy for over a year. He has expressed an interest in bitcoin but can't quite commit. He also uses Square as his POS.😕

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I mean if bitcoin is going to be adopted as an actual useful currency by the masses it must be considered that, just like fiat, having said currency is safe. Just having a gentleman know you have bitcoin should be the same as paying them in cash.

I have mixed feelings about this. Good for adoption, bad for opsec.

agreed, sadly many humans see $$$ and are driven by greed to do harm to get their coins It is not right, but it is the state of affairs in 2026 still that physical attacks on bitcoiners are increasing we need more education about bitcoin, but also the deprogramming of a fiat mindset

Using BTC is bad for OpSec? Maybe you need a Monero. I am doing this for years, albeit with Monero to protect my privacy and also to shield me from future liabilties.

PSA: That's why we do Monero. Digital cash for the poor (but free) that can not afford a full Bitcoin.

Digital cash aka Monero. Privacy and fungibility are of uttermost importance to fulfill that function in everyday life.

What's that say about Bitcoin's future as p2p digital cash?

Does Bitcoin have any future as p2p digital cash if this is the case? Of what purpose does it serve then if not for Satoshi's famous words?

it just works (tm) bitcoin is still p2p digital cash, I said nothing to contradict this. My only addition to the conversation is that I would be careful to let contractors into my home and then tell them about Bitcoin... see previous comment happy for Marty and his electrician friend, but people do get attacked just because 'someone said' they are a bitcoiner

real shit take here a potential attack from a contractor is the subject, not onchain analytics/privacy. dont be a troll, think before you post

I'm never afraid to give physical cash. How does it "just work" if you're afraid to use it (for legitimate reasons mind you) to pay someone p2p? I see that and I have the stark realization that it doesn't just work, and we have a fundamental problem for our adoption.

hey bot, what is 167 multiplied by 8920 ?

the 'it just works' was a nerd joke (Bethesda game studios reference) The technology works, and marty has been able to settle his electrician's invoice with sats and not some fiat paper money. So it is still p2p digital cash, nothing changed there. The world we inhabit currently is still competition driven and dangerous because of human greed. I do not agree with it, but that is the situation and as such the risk of a physical attack is always there. This is a social problem, not a technological one. Fix the money, fix the world. Not the other way round.

Paying any significant sum in cash is just as hazardous. I'm assuming there's a culture of "OMG Bitcoin, must be an OG Whale", just like "OMG cash, must be a drug dealer". Normalising fixes this, and we have to start somewhere.

not sure I follow your logic. pay in cash they'll assume you keep stacks of cash in your house. letting them in to begin with means they could scope your stuff.

Sub's in my area are advertising receiving bitcoin on their vans.

Get a gun if ur such a pussy

Wonder how his cash flow looks? Will he need to convert BTC to fiat or put in storage?

I would disagree somewhat as handing over an envelope of cash doesn’t necessarily suggest that you have even larger piles of cash hidden around your home.

Also, cash is known for a long time... So less out of usual to pay with it.

I agree, but here in Australia some bootlickers are getting very funny about those of us still using cash. There really are jokes that we must be all drug dealers

Ah, say no more. 😁🦘🪃

Hows the perception of monero in your community? Is it a thing? (I like it better for use in purchasing)

that's ok, let me try to rehash this ## normie way: cash/card contractor comes, does work, gets paid, goes to next job. The risk of them knowing the layout and security of the home is unavoidable (they need to do the work within the house), but for them its just another job. If you did leave stacks of cash on the kitchen table or showed the conteactor you have a safe in the house then its the same as I describe below. ## bitcoiner way contractor comes, client spends time onboarding/talking about a new technology that they heard the name before. That one client become more memorable, they get sats or not (or refuse the orange pill) but the person is memorable. Fast forward some months, a new fiat ATH is reached/NGU is in the news/the contractor gets fired/owes money to bad people/tells his friends a fun story at the bar about how that dude tried to pay for the job with magic internet money (pick any one of these reasons). The incentive to enact violence increases, they may not do anything but when people are desperate they make silly choices. This can include just selling the info and address to some more criminally minded assholes, who might assume you are some bitcoin millionaire and worth the risk of getting caught. Please have a look at what is happening in France the last months. A tax employee leaked tax data of those that declared their coins to the state (fools) and there have been home invasions as well as street kidnappings of relatives so as to ransom them. These are legit criminal gangs who take a list and dont care to verify the data. If you haven't have a skim of this compiled list by Lopp:

GitHub

GitHub - jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks: A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace.

A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace. - jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks

Hope this explains my logic and the reason why I don't tell me barber, locksmith, plumber or anyone in my neighbourhood that I got sats. I go to other cities and keep my address private AF, which is incredibly hard and inconvenient. As well as using nostr and socials with nyms. meow

you have the perspective all wrong, I think. you're looking at it from your own point of view, not theirs. if they have the urge to steal then its never just 'another job' they will be wanting to rob you whether its on display or not. I used to hang out with bad boys and generally to them the loot was almost secondary to the thrill of actually stealing it. am well aware of the France incidents which were, as you say, caused by people being dumb enough to let the government know what they had. same issue if you're forced to register your guns and disclose where you store them. buy I think you're a bit paranoid. your average tradie has no interest in bitcoin and if you mention it they'll think you're a loony. I've tried to talk to a couple of mechanics and a sparky about it in my area. one showed mild interest but haven't taken it further

fair enough, you can disagree with me and call me paranoid, I will own it. good luck orange pilling your tradie friends, not my place to tell you otherwise.

Hi Chad, well frankly it does not really come up. The point being that I personally like monero and also have some, but here any developer who creates an app to convert local money into crypto and vice-versa concentrates on bitcoin for obvious reasons. Generally people here are not bitcoin or monero "literate" they do not really understand it until they see how it works. So here communities build circular economies based on bitcoin and nothing else and I think this is a good thing since in Africa the issue of privacy is not really perceived as in the west. Also consider that lightning is extremely private and no one spends directly bitcoin on-chain. So there is no practical need for the added privacy of Monero compared with the advantage given by network global scale, decentralization and capped supply. But I like Monero.👌 🇰🇪

Thanks for your insight into the situation 👍 I assumed in real world adoption cases it would actually make more of a difference to people as I don't find LN very attractive as it's quite complicate and accessible to most people only in a custodial setup, which comes with it's own trade offs 🤔 Glad to see tho the technology as a whole helps people advance with their economy. Lets see how it pans out in the future 🙂