Nope :)

I bought some graphic designs for our company. Guy who we paid had never used Bitcoin before afaik, but he was game to get paid that way. Times are changing :)

This is, IMO, how nostr should have been designed. We have DECADES of P2P software to build on top of and so often nostr is just re-inventing the wheel. Among these softwares, some of which basically offer identical features to nostr, nostr is not more private, secure, or decentralized. And instead of building on and expanding existing networks, we instead decided to make a brand new one. If you're curious about these existing softwares, read about I2P, Freenet, Hyphanet, and the various darknet and mixnet softwares of the 2000s. etc.

In nostr, every user should be a node, but instead, for some reason, nostr devs decided to centralize things around relays. Notes are so small, even an entry-level android phone could store and route tens of thousands of them.

Cool that you listed PrimeGrid. PrimeGrid is part of a larger network (BOINC - the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). The BOINC network has dozens of projects like primegrid and is the world's largest volunteer computing network. Projects include medical research, the Large Hadron Collider, and a database of asteroids among other things. Recently a project started to crack the genome of the dodo bird.

If you have some spare CPU or GPU power, it's a great way to contribute to something meaningful and get the most out of your hardware. I've been using BOINC for years, it's lots of fun, and essentially free heat in winter if you otherwise pay for electric heat. It's an open-source, permissionless network. Anybody can start a BOINC project and you choose which projects you want to crunch data for.

Because we don't want a generation of children raised without basic skills required for employment and engagement in society. It would be nice if they could do basic math, read & write, and know how to use their vote to participate in governance. Without monitoring, that is not possible. Public school is a major win from a time period where only the wealthy could be literate, it became a major equalizing force in society, giving everybody opportunity to participate.

What a sane and well-explained take. People here will hate it.

Great. Now when other countries consider collaborating with the US, they'll see what an asshat we are even to our supposed allies, and they'll choose to work with China instead. Real 4D chess this idiot continues to play with relationships that have taken generations of Americans to build and foster.

Assumptions:

1 & 2 This is already true. I've been using lightning for over a year on a nearly daily basis. Never had a payment fail.

I believe some wallets already support NFC, though I haven't played w it personally. No need to open an app or unlock your phone. Just tap the phone and tap "ok" or set it to automatically appove all taps.

When people understand Bitcoin, the current friction is no big deal. But friction should continue to be reduced for mass adoption. Lightning being a pain to get inbound liquidity on is the primary piece of friction right now for new users.

I asked every single business I ever interacted with if they take BTC, and if they said yes, I left a tip. Moved my business purchases to a "Bitcoin first" policy, always choosing vendors who took BTC as long as they were reasonably priced. Onboarded three new users locally and hosted events which were the first way to buy anything with lightning in my city. Let's go 2025!