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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @optimism 11h \ parent \ on: Knots doesn't make any sense to me bitcoin

Bro shares 2mo old screenshot "out here spending"... lol

If you're spending then you have counterparties that are receiving, so you know exactly where everyone is?

Counterparties... Lol.

I have to travel LONG distances to find anywhere to spend Bitcoin and the merchants I talk to? Maybe 1-2 times a month they have someone who wants to "pay in Bitcoin."

And that's in Bitcoin-centric cities within countries. In the States the vast majority of the merchants I've spoken with "don't take it anymore" because noone showed up.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 11h

So what do you mean that you're "out here spending"?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @028559d218 OP 10h

If Bitcoin is to become a "medium of exchange" we have to use it, right? What good is the HODL forever, never touch your bitcoin, put it in a shoebox forever never do anything with it mentality?

I don't know any Bitcoiners in person... and the concept of "spending Bitcoin" is a totally alien concept to 99% of the people I've dealt with.

There's no shortage of BS-people and suitcoiners and degens and "crypto-traders" but there are very few real Bitcoiners using their Bitcoin.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 10h

But if no one is accepting it and it's alien to everyone - who are you sending all these transactions to that you just showcased you're spending?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @028559d218 OP 10h

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 10h

I only did 1 transaction today thus far (across every thinkable MoE), which was to repay a friend that picked up a bottle of wine for me, and I did it over LN. LN doesn't help you gaining visibility into my transactions, which is exactly why I use that: so that you cannot see where I am, or even that I am. It's none of your damn business, or that of anyone, also not the spooks in the back.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 OP 10h

I know. Lightning is amazing. I keep asking the cab/uber driver if they "take Lightning" and I haven't found even one who knows what the hell I'm talking about.

I hope we'll get there eventually one day.