Probably a couple million sats for a conference/event ticket, but to be honest every purchase has Bitcoin as its opportunity cost so technically the deposit I paid for my home in 2020 could have stacked sats.

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Awesome gift idea, Merry Christmas!

I dunno, I think this is a US specific thing. Here in New Zealand an iPhone costs a massive premium to the equivalent spec Android and there's a lot more variety when it comes to Android. Most young people I see are using an Android. One reason could also be because we don't ban Chinese competitors from selling their phones here (Huawei).

You could give them a lightsats gift and it includes basic onboarding and let's them withdraw it to any lightning wallet. You can either share a link with them or if the gift is physical then it might be easier to use the feature that lets you turn it into 3 words that they enter at the website (and then write those words on a card).

It's probably in everyone's best interest, including Satoshi's, for the nym to never be used again.

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I'm in El Salvador at the moment so I've been buying something every day with sats (usually food or drinks). Here's a video of me buying coffee from a great cafe called Good Beans.

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I've used liquid for the security tokens from stokr (e.g. Blockstream Mining Note) and other tokens like when Blockstream presold the Jade as a token or that film premiere sold tickets as a token. I've also supported artists at raretoshi (e.g. Scam Artist). I accidentally misclicked the poll and voted no.

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Scammyboos:

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Oh and direct flights between all the major cities with Bitcoin conferences would be awesome

Being based in New Zealand most of the flights I take are long haul (10hrs+). The economy class with Air New Zealand is pretty good. Free wifi, modern screen with lots of entertainment, great food & service all included. It would be a lot better if there was ~25% more space. I would be ok with removing the other two classes, business & premium economy, to make room for everyone. It might not have to cost that much more than economy and would be cheaper than premium economy.

e.g. the layout of the plane we flew in for the NZ to Texas 14hr flight. If the whole plane's layout was XX-XXXX-XX and perhaps the middle seats were angled towards the aisle in pairs, e.g. XX-LLRR-XX, then that could be cool. Having only 2 seats by the window instead of 3 means if you're travelling with a partner then it's less likely for your group to be blocked from the aisle by a stranger or have to get up to let a stranger out of their seat. This can be an issue for long haul flights when people are sleeping and someone needs to use the bathroom.

That's awesome, thank you.

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Also, what nostr clients are people finding themselves using? I've tried a few now; satellite.earth, iris.to, nostrgram.co, primal.net, coracle.social, and have found myself gravitating back towards satellite.earth. Would love to get more suggestions and hear people's opinions on them. They've all really impressed me with how quickly they're developing and improving.

What recommendations do you give to teenagers who ask how do they start using Bitcoin?

If you want to play around with lightning bitcoin first and get familiar with sending and receiving sats then try a quick custodial option like:

Once you're ready to up your security then consider trying a convenient self-custodial lightning wallet where the channel management is taken care of for you, e.g.

When you've saved up enough sats to go onchain then consider getting a hardware signing device (or 3), such as a Jade, seedsigner, coldcard, ledger, trezor and pairing it with an onchain wallet like:

To use it privately you'll want to run your own Bitcoin node, which you can do on your windows/macos/linux computer but to keep it in sync you might want to get a dedicated device that you can leave running 24/7. There are specially designed personal server operating systems that make it easy like:

Once you're running your own node you can start experimenting with managing your own lightning channels and using mobile lightning wallet options that you can pair with your node like Zeus.

I've missed out a lot of wallets because I just wrote this quickly off the top of my head, so please do your own research. Personally if I was just starting out today I would play around quickly with coinos on web, then when you have a few sats move them to Breez on mobile, and once you've got a big enough stack to take onchain I would start with a simple set up of a Blockstream Jade + Green wallet (on mobile and desktop). There are plenty of 10% discount codes out there for the Jade, but it still sets you back a little bit so it only makes sense once you've got a bit of savings going. The last code I saw floating around was "ORANGEMART"