do you still verbally say "sats"?

this is 100% true. emojis are cute little cartoons.

It is difficult. typing multiple characters is annoying. probably more so than going through emoji selection. I love all the imagery of the lightning bolt and the kabab symbol, but I think they are step too far for normie world. Many bitcoiners might even struggle with them.

I tried out the Square terminal thing today. Bought a coffee. It displayed a price in dollars first, and then when I told them I wanted to pay in bitcoin, they pressed a button and it displayed sats (using the ₿ symbol). It would have been pretty messy if I told them bitcoin and they switched to a dramatically different number with the same symbol...

I can see how bits can be the most logical way to proceed...but they are dead in the water to me. I don't see people ever navigating some chunk of sats other than 1 bitcoin.

emojis are the future. we must all eventually succumb. Our children will be interspersing every third word with emojis.

that's pretty good!

I hadn't thought about it this way. I'm not sure I fully follow it though: is the analogy that creators are devs and fanatics are "plebs" or "bitcoin maxis" or whatever term is current for referring to Bitcoin enthusiasts?

If so, it does make it seem more of a dire situation than I imagined.

I will tear you to pieces with my Titans and Arch Magi. And just to add insult, I will destroy your last hero with zounds of halflings.

I may have focused too much on the history rather than just explaining BIP 3 and why it's an improvement to the BIP process. Sadly, I'm a sucker for history.

I do like the lightning bolt as a symbol, but I fear that usage will wither on the branch. It never even caught on that much among lightning wallets.

II gold edition is better

Stellar 7 was pretty amazing.

Good find! didn't come up as a dupe because it's not a link post.

Howdy!

That's definitely a tell. I did appreciate the article's sense that some of this is part of the natural course of things: clearly, if Bitcoin is going to gain widespread adoption, it will attract many people who aren't particularly interested in the tech. The question is will there be so many of those people that they weigh the project down.

It's tough. But even if it's not a not, there's not really much substance to the comment. Kinda just rehashing what you said in your original post.

Respect for making the call. Although, I wonder if his investors wished he had made such a call a while ago.