Or, he's done a deeper dive into what makes Bitcoin different, and he's starting to get it. Most people go through a shitcoin phase before waking up.... even the most intelligent of us are guilty of it.

Unfortunately, Bitcoiners today are more willing to take up arms against a bunch of bullshit (like OP's goals), and unwilling to take up arms against the things which really matter. They're unwilling to spill blood for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is just their lottery ticket, nothing more. The Bitcoin community, currently, is a fucking joke, made up of nerds in their grandma's basements. Yea, I'm talking about you Simply Bitcoin... Nico and Opti.... fucking NGU nerds. Zero balls on these guys.

... or what I call, just another day at work.

This is really cool. I love it.

I'm wondering, though, why are you displaying values in decimal BTC instead of Sats?

Yea... this one is the most terrifying of all.

It's terrifying both in the sense that the disease would be awful to have...

AND in the sense that trying to pronounce it gives me nightmares.

You have pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Sounds like an idiot. Ridiculous statement.

Socks? Me?

I'm just passing through.

Yes, your point stands. And I agree with all your points.

The US may be the last beacon of hope.

But, it's shocking to me how many people in the US are completely clueless as to how far the US has fallen. How many cheer the dollar as a patriotic thing. How many think KYC is completely normal and innocent.

In the same way the guards working at Nazi concentration camps didn't like what they were doing, but had "no choice" because it's just how the system was set up...

Bitcoiners use fiat for all kinds of similarly repulsive, reasons.

Accepting only fiat.... and that's okay with Bitcoiners cuz "that's just where we are right now".

Nice try, FBI.

The US has already fallen.

Passports are required. Federal Reserve Notes are required. KYC is required for everything. Property and income taxes are required.

There are no freedoms in the US anymore.

I'm planning a trip to the area and I have to choose between Rovereto and Lugano. I do not have time to go to both, even though they aren't far from one another.

Which one should I choose?

Holy shit!

It's been a while since I checked BTCmap.org for Lugano, and it's blown up recently!

Tons of merchants accepting Lightning payments there!!

I'm going, and I'll report back.

True, I agree.

But most revolutions have some amount of emotionally-driven momentum....

I believe the end of fiat will require some amount of non-passive revolution.

The reason I believe this is because the average person does not enjoy finance. They are not "nerds" like we are. They don't understand the basics of computer-science or finance. We are not going to gain enough momentum to bring an end to fiat if we rely on the Chads alone. We have to figure out how to bring a certain amount of normies in as well. This happens when they see the Chads doing it. Monkey-see, Monkey-do.

But, stacking Sats silently does not bring about a monkey-see, monkey-do outcome. It just keeps fiat in the driver's seat forever, and us in the underdog position.

Can it? Yes, for a while.

But it WILL eventually destroy everyone, even those with "disabilities".

Now that this is out, we need a map of merchants with the feature turned on and boycott any who don't have it. We should be loud about this. There are enough of us to make a difference. The question is, are there enough of us who care?

I've been hearing about this for a while, but haven't really dug into the details.

All their marketing and communications about this seem to be targeted at merchants. But what about consumers? Are we able to spend Bitcoin at ANY Square PoS, even if the merchants is taking 100% fiat, and/or has not set up the Bitcoin stuff on their system?

I know this is a simple question... I could probly just ask an LLM... but maybe if someone answers me here it will help others learn as well.

Fuck yes.

Revolutions don't happen 100% passively. We have an obligation to change hearts & minds, not just sit here watching our number go up and stacking quietly.

The Titanic is sinking, and our friends/family are on it. Most Bitcoiners are just sitting in the life rafts watching their loved ones sink, doing fuck all about it. It's despicable.

Hey Bitcoiners..... listen up. Fiat is evil. Stop using it, even if it is inconvenient or you have to deal with cap-gains tax. Shut the fuck up and do the right thing.

These communities started before the last major bear market, and thrived through it. I went to Bitcoin Jungle in 2022, and Bitcoin Beach in 2023.

The problem for these communities is that many of their supply chains are not accepting Bitcoin, so they have to convert to dollars at some point. What we need to see happen is complete supply chain loops using Bitcoin. This way, price discovery can happen without taking fiat into account whatsoever. I believe this only happens when enough people stop accepting fiat because of how poor it is as money. And I believe this happens when enough people who already know get loud enough and lead by example. (which isn't really happening in the Bitcoin community. Here, it's just NGU maximalists pretending to hate fiat, but gladly using and accepting it daily)