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The vast majority of your spend appears to be creating items or boosting although the definition in the graph is poor and its hard to separate the colours/zones but that's roughly what I can see- there appear to be very limited zaps sent to fellow Stackers that I can see in your graph- just a very thin red line...maybe 20% of total spend?
You say you want to zap directly from your wallet rather than attaching a wallet - sorry but I do not see any security issue as long as the wallet you attach is a small float and the likes of coinos- you still must consciously decide to zap by pushing the zap button on the page- but the evidence of your graph vs mine is that attaching a wallet makes it a lot more convenient to zap and thus participate in V4V.
I do not see any valid reason for you not attaching a spending wallet- just a lot of sophistry and excuses...and this is the problem Bitcoiners are more talk than action.
Back to the issue you raised- I do have some sympathy for China - anyone who has read the history from The Opium Wars and who has a conscience would. But I have never presented China as morally superior to the west except in terms of its actual economic performance where it has achieved incredible results. If I am honest I am culturally biased toward the west because I am a westerner and benefit personally hugely from the global hegemony we exert over all other cultures.
NZ is part of the US Five Eyes spy network and we are definitely subservient monetarily and militarily to the USA- yet today, like many other nations China is more important to NZ for actual trade in commodities and manufactured goods.
IMO the real bias is from the one eyed Libertarians and US exceptionalists who cannot cope with the reality that Chinas state capitalist mercantile economy is beating the west at its own game.
IMO their inability blindness to accept and confront the model China represents is dangerous, arrogant and naive. The world will never conform to our dogmas and expectations- it will do what it does and being blind to major changes and challenges leaves you vulnerable and ignorant. That is how i see many Libertarians even if I agree with them on many things.
do not see any valid reason for you not attaching a spending wallet- just a lot of sophistry and excuses...and this is the problem Bitcoiners are more talk than action.
You and I use Bitcoin, by the virtue of being on Stacker News, more than 99.9% of Bitcoiners and that is the issue. I'm not going to go into into this discussion (you respectfully don't know what you are talking about) except to say that you and I are not the problem. It's the many who could easily participate and for reasons I don't understand choose not to.
IMO the real bias is from the one eyed Libertarians and US exceptionalists who cannot cope with the reality that Chinas state capitalist mercantile economy is beating the west at its own game.
Please go out and touch grass. Stacker News is such a small community... nobody cares what we think.
That is how i see many Libertarians even if I agree with them on many things.
We are all Libertarians in the end... even if we don't realize it right away.
Yes we are a small minority but we have the chance here to zap and stack!
I care about what we think and how we can discuss all and any topics.
Ideas can change and spread...small groups have many times changed the world starting from a small base.
A horse and gun is a basic thing we can all do at very low risk and great reward...being part of a functional BTC/LN V4V community.
If we can show this can be done ( and we are!) then it can grow from here.
Both you and I are capable of attaching gun and horse and leading by example while refusing to zap anyone else who refuses to evidence their commitment to the LN and V4V.
Live by a values we hold- do not trust-verify- show your commitment with attaching and thus showing a hose and a gun.
We may be small but we can be a strong and functional community SNs is the only social media I can enjoy and it is important to me we all make the effort to grow it and LN along with it.
LN needs to be used to grow stronger- anyone saying they want that but not using LN here is looking like a hypocrit.
Enjoy your sats
I do and I enjoy more when the P2P rhetoric is actualised and utilised and proven where fellow stackers show both a gun and a horse.
There may be exceptions but where I only see a horse, or nothing at all, I don't see someone who wants to build a circular demonstrably BTC denominated economy.
Where I see a gun and a horse I can enjoy zapping that persons comments with no reservation because they have demonstrated/proven commitment to BTC P2P V4V.
You want to hear a crazy take?
I think that Bitcoin will be used as an anti-spam, paid-access, behavioral-collateral across the internet for AIs (for example AI agents) and various types of digital intelligence.
Many if not potentially most (?) of the individual Lightning transactions will be AIs paying each other for various access 'gates' or to prove 'intent' (and reduce slop) rather than Humans buying a tube of toothpaste at the store with Sats.
Just think about it... the AI agents have to be online anyway...
They are idiot savants of computer software (so they can use Lightning)...
They need to pay to prove 'intent' borrow resources, pay for information, pay to improve trust, pay to prove 'liveness'...
I can see AI agents creating multisigs together or creating them with their 'Humans' for various reasons... the total possibilities are simply crazy. Which means that machines could make more Bitcoin transactions than actual humans do
Yes that is a huge potential use case.
Micropayments generally, can be of use to bots but also humans.
There is also huge potential for use by humans and Stacker News is a showcase for how it can work...if we can only keep building a stronger network.
When I have told non BTCoiner friends about how Stacker news uses sats to create a V4V community they are quite impressed... it may not be enough to make them sign up but it is a current use case already available and operating- I just do not understand why any serious Bitcoiner would not use it.
The sheer volume of transactions that must pass through SNs must be helping build a stronger LN.
The more we use LN, the more it will be for us, humans!
I don't mind the robots using LN too, but it would be a tragedy, imo, if its use by real people does not grow.
I want to use sats to buy toothpaste!
I agree... although I think that will change. From what it looks like... AI agents are going to start using crypto/Bitcoin etc soon and like real soon to pay each other.
I never participated in 'crypto' Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency I have ever used, and so the idea of 'attaching a wallet' just sounds like crypto BS to me. It's not of course SN is the real deal...
However a wallet should never be 'attached' I want to make a conscious press-a-button decision to pay from my Lightning node which I do pretty often honestly.
I like CoinOS it is a really, really easy platform to use that's easy to understand.
Of course.
I agree 100%. In many, many posts I have said this exact same thing and critiqued Human laziness and even greed. If so-called Bitcoiners devoted even 1% effort to really SPENDING Bitcoin, really going out there and demanding to pay in sats we might never have bear markets. But I guess that's how people are. I look at it as a way to get sats on the relative-cheap.
Look through my post-history where I have thought about this again and again.