All "web3" is just a playground for something that will eventually be built on Bitcoin. Obviously, the incumbent power players pour capital into solutions that allow them to retain the monetary abuse though...

Bitcoin companies so far have raised 85x less capital than general crypto. It's such an assymmetric opportunity, it's kind of crazy:

It's not the first time they weaponize the dollar in the last years... pair that with them exporting inflation to the world, too. There's only so much abuse the world will take. The game theory is already playing out on an international level. The orange outcome is inevitable, just hard to predict the timing.

However, there's no need to predict when, if you're already all in BTC.

Tier 1 up to 10K€/month and up to 25K in deposits, whereas Tier 2 is unlimited

Just sent straight to your LN address 😉

Yeah, it's still a compromise we need to take to be able to interact with traditional finance (cards, IBANs). We hope for the endgame of native Bitcoin payments sooner, but currently it's a bit of a chicken & egg problem with merchants - not enough users asking to pay, so not enough merchants accept it, and vice versa.

So we're trying to piggyback on the existing incumbent rails to at least be able to employ sound money in self-custody today. If you use something like our NWC enabled debit card that pulls sats automatically via Lightning, then your actual Bitcoin stack is still very much private.

Obviously, wherever you can pay directly in BTC - do that (and also orangepill new merchants, too). But until Bitcoin network adoption flips fiat, we need to create more reasons for general masses to already try and use Bitcoin as money today.

Then, perhaps there will be more of them asking merchants to accept Bitcoin directly.

You can connect any self-custodial Bitcoin setup you want as a source/destination for our tools.

So yes, ultimately we connect Bitcoin that you hold yourself with the rest of the world.

1. Wavecard product works via @Nostr Wallet Connect , pulling sats from NWC enabled Lightning wallet.

2. LINK product links any onchain address with an IBAN, so that BTC automatically lands in your chosen self-custody.

3. Selling Bitcoin also works from any source: onchain, LN, NWC.

Depends on your tax jurisdiction. Some countries like Germany or Portugal have 0% capital gains on coins held for at least 1 year.