62 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 24 Apr \ on: Some Square Sellers Can Now Convert Their Dollars to Bitcoin Via Cash App bitcoin
https://twitter.com/MichaelRihani/status/1783148994555941163
Here's the Cointelegraph article that the ZeroHedge article re-shared:
CBDC lays foundation for new global monetary system: French central bank
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cbdc-foundation-new-global-monetary-system-french-central-bank
I love Strike, I just haven't used them since I can no longer add funds via my debit card. I still regularly use Send Globally, but that is because I'm funding my account with BTC, which I then sell on Strike for USD, and then send fiat from that USD balance.
I wish Cash App offered this "Pay BTC / Pay an LN invoice", from a USD balance. Seems such a simple step for them, yet such a game changer for us.
direct deposit your paycheck as bitcoin with cashapp...you dont pay an exchange fee when direct deposited.
What?
I've never heard of this. I looked at the Cash App direct deposit stuff and don't see anywhere where the conversion to BTC is free. You've done this yourself?
Worst case, they are forced to collect KYC from every user to "ensure" that users aren't making duplicate accounts to bypass the 1099 earning limit.
That really is the catch all that kills nearly every good idea that gets traction.
SN does a pretty decent job of determining dups for Link posts. When creating a Link post, you will see that the Link had previously been posted in another Link post.
My reply above was addressing how creating a Discussion post that has a Link, there is no dup checking as far as I am aware, to indicate that a Link post (or another Discussion post even) already exists for that Link being added to the Discussion post.
ZeroHedge coverage of it:
US Debt Rises Above $33 Trillion For The First Time, Soars By $1 Trillion In 3 Months
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-debt-rises-above-33-trillion-first-time-surges-1-trillion-3-months
ZeroHedge coverage of it:
US Debt Rises Above $33 Trillion For The First Time, Soars By $1 Trillion In 3 Months
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-debt-rises-above-33-trillion-first-time-surges-1-trillion-3-months
Of course, only after I post do I find that this has been posted (but as a NoBSBitcoin article)
Bull Bitcoin Kicks Off International Expansion in Costa Rica in Partnership
#252063
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bull-bitcoin-expands-to-costa-rica-via-sinpe-movil-in-partnership-with-bitcoin-jungle/
My frequency in checking my main email acct is now down to about once every other week. It still takes an hour and a half but that's better done when I can spare the time, rather than ten minutes a day when I really have better things I should be doing.
But even with some spam filtering I am totally disgusted with how totally broken from top to bottom email is.
I don't expect email to go away any time soon but as I personally distance myself further with almost anything email related, the less I care how bad are its flaws are and what impacts others are suffering from dependency on it, -- or their loss of privacy from continued use of it.
The only problem with creating discussion posts where mostly what you are doing is just sharing a link is the duplication checks are not giving feedback to the user that the video, article or whatever was already shared. I can't remember if the search function was updated to also search links from link posts, but many times I have tried to verify that my link was not already, an then ten minutes later when browsing I see another post for that (sometimes same link, other times different link but same article / video, after redirection) existed long before posted mine.
But yes, discussion posts are a more natural fit for SN, whereas link posts are just HN or Reddit with zapping.