Definitely an interesting idea.

I had a similar thought when we were watching the Canadian trucker protest, and the subsequent mess around donations.

I thought, rather than a centralized donation point, and a mess around distribution, how might you just get a bunch of the protestors to create wallets and make them available for donations? You could easily split payments to each Lightning wallet.

The big problem here is verification of the destination wallets. How on earth would you stop random scammers from signing up for an airdrop every time there is a cause receiving donations?

On a small scale, this could work by someone lending their reputation. “I personally know these 10 Indonesians.” But in a large scale (a country, for example) I can’t work out how to solve that problem.

I know there has been a lot of noise about this issue, but in terms of my self interest, my nodes will continue doing whatever is currently default.

When I do update, the full rbf flag will have no bearing on any of the use cases my nodes are used for. So, I won’t bother one way or the other. I imagine most node runners will be like me.

The problem we face in NZ is that while our community is growing, today, we’re dwarfed by the crypto crowd by an order of magnitude, and dwarfed by those who don’t care and will jump in on CBDCs by another two orders on top. We’re growing, but we have yet to impact the general business/consumer landscape here in NZ.

The “blockchain nz” groups have money, interest groups, and industry communities.

As of today, we’re sitting ducks for this.

I’m jealous of the stories I hear from others about their experience onboarding merchants and individuals in other countries. When I talk to local businesses here in my area, I generally don’t get a negative argument, I get “I can’t be bothered, don’t care.”

Where do we find the hook? The problem to solve that gets people to overcome their apathy?

Don’t mean to be a pessimist, I believe Bitcoin wins in the end, just voicing that we have a LONG way to go here in NZ.