I looked at a few other sources: Winnie the Pooh does pretty well on all of them. Apparently it rocks the merchandising for little kids world wide. And it's been making money since 1924 (books) and 1966 (animated shows).

the ripple people really are amazing. like that super gullible little cousin who really and sincerely believes he's in contact with a Nigerian prince.

I didn't really even begin thinking about the side effects. A lot would probably hinge on implementation.

Yeah, it's a major turn off.

I have a feeling the group of people who side-load apps and the group of people who are willing to install a different OS are almost the same.

My wife is a case of someone who uses whatever comes on her phone. If I didn't mention it, she would not be aware that you can get apps other than via the Play store. It doesn't even enter her imagination.

So I'd say 99% of users won't even notice, because they weren't side loading in the first place.

hmmm...I think calling wrapped bitcoin on arbitrum or megaETH real bitcoin is not accurate.

Breez's announcement post says

Native Bitcoin between chains. No custody tradeoffs. Instant.

This just sounds ridiculous. They use HTLCs, great, but that doesn't mean that whatever the hell token you have on arbitrum is real bitcoin. The swap might not involve trust (although I'm skeptical), but you still have to trust whoever is holding the bitcoin that is wrapped. I think something like Arbitrum just uses a custodian. Come on Breez.

Well that sucks. But also not a surprise.

Speaking as one who was very intimidated by running an alternate OS on my phone, installing Graphene is really not hard, and I've only been pleased with it. It's definitely worth making the leap.

I've not been to El Salvador, but I am interested to visit...even if I don't trust Bukele farther than I can spit.

fair. I've never promised anything. I make posters. I sell them.

It feels a little like this: I've had people pressure me to make numbered prints. I think numbered prints are a bit of a fraud in the first place. Sure, I could promise to not print more, but if someone offers the right price, I assume all the numbered print artists will print more. The artists who decide to print more are violating their promise. But I think my stance is that they shouldn't be making stupid promises.

Bitcoin-only merchants are similar. Sure, they can say they are bitcoin only, but it feels very strange that we have a culture that encourages people to make poor business choices. (Well, I think it's poor business to refuse customers based on the money they want to use rather than just adding the cost of their shitty money to your prices for them).

This are great! My wife has been looking for a new read and practical magic sounds right up here alley.

I have a little webstore where I sell posters. I've only ever accepted bitcoin. I guess that makes me bitcoin-only. However, at in-person events I have sold posters for cash when people didn't have lightning. If I had a ton of customers demanding to pay me in credit cards, I'd probably sign up to Stripe or something. If accepting USDT means you make more sales, it seems pretty clear that business-owners aren't making a bad decision by accepting USDT.

I'm in Bitcoin for the freedom. I believe freedom is best served by open markets. To me, this means people should be able to use and accept whatever form of payment they like. So at least at the level of a market, I'm in support of people using whatever the hell they want to use (even if what I want to use is bitcoin).

It sounds like PPQ offers a discount for paying with lightning. Thinking about it the other way round, it means you charge extra when people want to pay with crappier money than bitcoin. This seems like a great solution. Other moneys are not as good as bitcoin, so they carry an extra cost. I'd be interested to hear what Darth says about this.

I wonder if it is a different question when we are talking about wallet software and lightning infrastructure. Are those kind of businesses obligated in some way to refuse to do business with shitcoins?

I don't think so. The free market is the best solution here. Add whatever shitcoins you like to your wallet (it also might make it so I don't use your wallet because I don't trust all the extra stuff you have to add to support said shitcoins).

That's a bummer.

Howdy!