We could call that device something simple, like Square. Or to get paid in BTC, we could have them use something called like, BTCPay.

Or they could use Zaprite.

This place just didn't bother. Not for nothing, the cost of overhead, either in terms of subscription, processing, or just set up, are a friction point. If they're not paid enough, trusting you was likely less costly, even if you were dishonest, than the cost of set up.

Just like people don't worry about cold storage or multisig for 100 sats and even use Cashu, most businesses are going to decide what to use based on their use case. Maybe we could make it even easier but at some point there is some overhead to converting fiat prices on the fly. I'm actually happier that there's a good chance using WoS that they're just not participating in the government robbery scheme...

I tens to verify anyway. Just in case someone snuck in decaf.

Least I can do. Hope you get some down time with your lady.

Congrats on escaping Vegas. Sorry you had to be subjected to that again.

Also, seeing how people jumped on your comments about STRC's interest rate over the past few days, you make me really glad to not be famous.

Probably not a bad time to make some markets on Payjoin and/or throw some liquidity into Wasabi to keep those coinjoins flowing.

Valid. I had looked at these back during the lockdowns as I was transitioning from a LOT of walking to, well, a lot less. But yea, pricey. Cheaper than a gym membership but a lot more than a kettlebell.

https://www.crossrope.com/

Some of those are very cool but can be pricey. I do wonder about jumping with a chain though...

The means of production was seized not by the proletariat, but by Salmon P. Chase, when the Union government borrowed all of the gold and drained it from the banking system to fight off the British backed Confederacy (the same ones who Marx chose to live his last years out amongst). The war was won but not without the hollowing out of a free economy, where equity was replaced with debt, on a volatile currency. It may have survived the hangover, had Woodrow Wilson and co. not delivered the one-two punch of the Federal Reserve Act and WWI on behalf of his imperial backers (as the first not only democrat president, but southern democrat, since before that colour revolution began).

Communism and socialism in general have long been favorite weapons the Brits have used to destabilize their enemies, both in the Marxist form which took down the Russian Empire, but also the Fabians who have continued to be useful in more subtle ways.

Peoples who control their own wealth and means of production seldom need to listen to what would be overlords have to say about how they should live their lives.

Billionaires get rich via the cantillon effect and regulatory moats and somehow people blame free markets.

Idk if it's a conspiracy or just mass foolishness that makes people conflate an economy controlled by a central bank, the fifth plank of the communist manifesto, with capitalism, but it's definitely a pet peeve of mine.