protest_ant on Nostr: As amazing as this is, and it is amazing. The part that I just keep getting hung up ...
As amazing as this is, and it is amazing. The part that I just keep getting hung up on at the end of the day is that this all comes down to networking and community building. It’s like pulling teeth to get somebody to use the lightning network, let alone create a Federation.. I just don’t see how or why anyone would use this in real life. I’m talking about the day-to-day, boring as hell, juggling kids, late to baseball practice, gotta pick something up for dinner, finally a day off on Sunday, life that 95% of people live. Don’t get me wrong, I am going to continue trying to build my local bitcoin meet up here in Statesville, I’m going to try to push people to use this tech. But I just can’t help feel like it’s a solution to a problem that no one even cares about or realizes exists. If you truly want to see the bitcoin network grow, then start funding family and micro businesses, - entrepreneurs, who are barely making it in small towns all over the world. But still get up every day and do it because they would rather be barely making it and be free, then be rich but a slave to a corporate salary. I’m Talking about restaurants, bike shops, coffee, houses, health food stores, private pharmacies, Ice cream shops, Bookstores, etc. back their business with a couple bitcoin grant and tell them that they can draw on those funds for business expenses, as long as they accept bitcoin payments on a discount and market, a bitcoin meetup to their community. Maybe they also have to run a bitcoin and lightning node, and create a federation. One thing that will always be true: money talks, bullshit walks…. The reason the state always beats us is because they flood their NGOs with more printed money than they could ever need. I’m not saying that we do that, what I’m saying is you find hard-working honest family businesses to support, they are the tip of the spear. Why do you think the government has been trying to destroy them for the last 30 years? OK and rant.
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