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142 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 10 Nov \ on: Starting today, over 4 million Square sellers can accept Bitcoin at checkout. AGORA

In general this is a very good thing for Bitcoin, I do not deny that. But my question is: why all these 4M merchants had to wait 16 years for a payment processor to add BTC payments, when they could do it anytime, without anybody's permission.

Like @oshigood did it

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These merchants never read the Bitcoin Whitepaper in all these 16 years? That stated very clearly:

A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another WITHOUT going through a financial institution.

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Sometimes I think that US people are really dumb. Seriously.

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG OP 10 Nov

Fact is that most of these squared merchants probably don't even know about bitcoin. So is a great opportunity to educate them and let them know how to do it properly.

All these curious merchants will go online and look for answers, hopefully they will find the ~AGORA where they can learn how to do it with self-custody :)

Hopefully Square will give them the first step

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oshigood 26 Nov

We are so early.

Or, people are just slow. Either way, I'm glad to be ahead of most :)

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