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10 sats \ 8 replies \ @_redacted 20 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: Fiat over Lightning bitcoin
It’s a shitty half-step, but likely an easier on boarding process for folks who dgaf about bitcoin but can be sold on faster, cheaper ways to move money. While still making Lightning stronger as more adopt it.
What part of Bitcoin whitepaper you didn't read/understand?
Reminder: Satoshi's papers, stated:
Abstract. 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.
What you say is a total crap, you still use fiat.
The WHOLE goal of Bitcoin is to make obsolete fiat, not to support it.
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Is progress towards that goal irrelevant if it’s not completed in one step?
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If you are still a fiat maxi and still want to use fiat, it's your problem, but don't mix them together. It will fail badly.
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How does someone go from 100% fiat to 100% bitcoin without mixing? At some point you need to drop the fiat, mixing it with someone who deals with both. At some point people pay taxes in fiat, mixing your btc with someone who is dealing with both.
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With knowledge, patience, step by step.
people pay taxes in fiat,
slaves
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Exactly! A step! Like onboarding folks! Like giving them access to the benefits of bitcoin in a way they might understand and use
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But not using fiat. Just bitcoin.
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You and many others have made users here (myself included) of Bitwage and services like Bitrefill that allow people to fully live on Bitcoin, yet some still ask "how can you just live on Bitcoin?"
Some just love staying ignorant, I guess.