Well, Thor said he loves Bitcoin :D. Grateful to have the HRF as a friend of bitcoin.

How did you get orange pilled, and how was it orange-pilling an organization like the HRF?

We'd figure it out, and there are solutions already. But let's always keep this in mind :)

never underestimate just how early we are in being early

Yeah this was mainly an amusing way for me to examine the direction we're going in with regards to tooling for non-technical people. Obviously base layer will not be where most transactions occur, but the steps required for someone to run it still needs to be low (and it is that way right now with core having a gui). For example, If someone wanted to setup their own Fedimint server, they need a bitcoin backend.

The ladder to the consumer tech layer can't be paywalled along the way :)

no, I thank you 🫡

🫡

$80 phone btw https://twitter.com/GBKS/status/1648206373581094914?s=20

your laptop wasn't free, but did you purchase the laptop for it to be a node? I assume not, you need devices in our world to work and to live. And those can also be a node. In that case, it's free to run a node and use bitcoin. There is no new added cost for you to run a node.

You already owning a device, and that being your node is bitcoin having a cost?

see: #174612

See: #174612

I work on core. This is meant as an amusing way to point out an issue and why it's very important to support truly free & open source UI's instead of just the protocol stuff. If the only way that non-technical people can use bitcoin is through corporate API's because we didn't value building out these non-corporate UI's, we didn't do anything good here. Support projects like sparrow, and the bitcoin core gui https://bitcoincore.app :)