I will be glad to see the legacy VISA/MC card system go. They've indoctrinated multiple generations into thinking it's normal to have somebody else decide whether or not you can spend your money — and then charge you for the privilege.

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Concur. Lightening nodes are not something every Alice and Bob can deploy. Potentially a centralizing bottleneck in a decentralized system.
C'est cela que devrait être l'idée...mais il y a tellement de gens dans le Bitcoin qui ne pensent à leurs propres intérêts et finissent par jouer tel dans le système Fiat comme des concurrents à jouant à être les plus à en être détenteurs
We have this contactless card technology now. boltcardwallet.com MIT open source Worldwide Permission Free
They've indoctrinated multiple generation into thinking it's "your money" to begin with.
They've indoctrinated multiple generation into thinking it's "your money" to begin with.
Oh great now I have to come up with something different and I'm already running out of options and im still waiting for interviews
All within the custodial safety of a node provider, just like a bank! The funny thing is that Bitcoin is fast and cheap on layer 1 already, but greed and number-go-up thinking, as well as shit-talking and an irrational love of code that doesn't begin to resemble the bitcoin white paper have distracted the masses from a bitcoin that actually works. If you think one lightning transaction is all it takes, maybe you should try one BCH (or Monero!) transaction and you will ask yourself 'why am I wasting my time with Lightning'. Lightning was invented to solve the problems with bitcoin, that bitcoin was invented to solve for banking. Fast cheap transactions. How stupid is that?
All within the custodial safety of a node provider, just like a bank! The funny thing is that Bitcoin is fast and cheap on layer 1 already, but greed and number-go-up thinking, as well as shit-talking and an irrational love of code that doesn't begin to resemble the bitcoin white paper have distracted the masses from a bitcoin that actually works. If you think one lightning transaction is all it takes, maybe you should try one BCH (or Monero!) transaction and you will ask yourself 'why am I wasting my time with Lightning'. Lightning was invented to solve the problems with bitcoin, that bitcoin was invented to solve for banking. Fast cheap transactions. How stupid is that?