Interesting the timing of this "apology". Interesting also how the 'democratic' and 'free' countries that claim to respect human rights 'apologize' for past atrocities while ignoring the present ones.

Same. #1414784

Thanks for replying. Of course the state wants to slow down adoption for as long as they can and they use all tricks at their disposal. It's what I see as a defeatist tone that I don't like; I get similar vibes from Whitney Webb, as an example.

What if the ultimate psyop are these defeatist conspiracy theories, trying to make us believe that bitcoin cannot win, that the state always wins and that we are doomed to live in slavery forever.

I really hope that this kind of moronic ideas don't proliferate after fiat dies. This is why we have to stop using fiat now.

Look at the fake "Bitchat Plus" on iOS on the right. And they say that the app stores protect people from scams.

In that future, you can have anything you want as long as you submit. That's the price to pay: absolute submission. You will own nothing (not even yourself) and you will be "happy".

I agree. Merchants accepting directly is the best. But at least they let us spend KYC-free and bank-free.

I'd also consider Bitrefill or The Bitcoin Company for when you cannot find a restaurant that accepts bitcoin directly. They have gift cards for most of the big restaurant chains and gas stations, so you can demo lightning payments.

I think they were the first travel site to accept bitcoin. I used it once years ago. Not a scam. But they use BitPay to process payments, which now requires KYC even for the tiniest amounts. Shameful.

It used to be that a flight would cost maybe 50% more than somewhere else. That's what I understood by ridiculously high.

If you booked the flight long ago, I would give it another try. The flight pricing has improved significantly during the past year.

In general, my experience has been good. It's a good place to buy flights and hotel reservations and pay in bitcoin. They accept both lightning and on-chain. They use OpenNode as Lightning processor.

Keep in mind the experience from waxwing and don't send coinjoined on-chain funds to them. It looks like they are blocking coinjoin because of the new regulations this year or something. I would recommend using always lightning to pay, plus it's more convenient because it's instant and you won't have to wait for on-chain confirmations before your booking is confirmed.

Also keep in mind that they add a 3% markup on the fiat-bitcoin exchange rate, even though they don't say it explicitly. On the other hand, if you start accumulating AVA you can eventually get to higher tiers on their Smart program and get discounts (up to 5% discount plus 5% giveback). AVA is a shitcoin, but you can forget about that fact and think of it as just loyalty points.

Overall, it's decent (the service works adequately) but not ideal, especially because of the "compliance" issues mentioned before and the shitcoinery. I have noticed that when they mention "crypto" events on their blog, they almost never include bitcoin-only events, as if they don't want to upset shitcoiners with "toxic" maximalism. Truth be told, a good chunk of their sales come from shitcoins and "stable"coins. Granted, shitcoiners probably love living an hedonistic lifestyle rather than saving. But that's something where bitcoiners have to improve: get rid of their fiat once and for all and use bitcoin for both saving and spending. Otherwise they will find out the hard way that might trumps money and that having sound money means little if you must go through fiat rails to spend it. But I digress here.

I wish there were more options for booking travel with bitcoin, especially for other things like trains in Europe and more lodging options, especially apartments. They mostly use the Expedia portfolio for lodging options.

Of course, not a word on reducing expenses 😆. More pain needed.

Apparently big cars are favored by CAFE regulations, so maybe consumer preference is not the main factor.

Lots of mention of "crypto" but no mention of Bitcoin, no mention of Cantillon, no mention even of the word fiat. Disappointing!

It's almost as if the writer is a financial nihilist herself.

It's almost as if she doesn't want others knowing that there is a escape hatch because her fiat lifestyle, her future pension, her real estate, her stock portfolio, all depend on people not finding out the truth.

And then he goes onto shilling his yield "protocol".

Bitcoin doesn't need financialization. It needs real adoption.

For 1. I like PDFArranger to add/remove/reorganize PDF pages and Xournal++ to edit PDFs.

Because they want NGU no matter what.

And when new diseases like COVID do spread around the globe, the resources of civilization that Columbus helped spread are able to meet the threat.

How so? Covid was used to enslave the free people and suppress the values of western civilization. Which part of the covid response did you enjoy? Lockdowns? Nostril penetrations? Muzzles? Poison injections?