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Open markets exist whether we like them or not.
Tools that reduce scam risk are objectively better than tools that increase it.
RugScan isn’t about promoting speculation — it’s about reducing information asymmetry in adversarial markets.
Lightning is simply the payment rail.
Fair question. Solana has the most memecoin rug pulls — thousands daily. The scanner helps people avoid losing money. The payment rail underneath is Lightning, which is the point.
Runes and BRC-20 rug pulls are on the roadmap too.
The Netherlands is spending about €3.5 billion/year supporting Ukraine (almost all military support). They're directly spending about €7 billion/year on non-Ukrainian refugees, and indirectly probably another €20 or €30 billion. Every Somalian is something like a €750,000 lifetime net cost to the taxpayer.
Ukrainian refugees are estimated to be a net benefit to the Netherlands, as the supermajority of them are working and pay significant taxes. Which is an incredibly fucked up incentive for the EU to drag this war out by refusing adequate military support... This is also helping far-left political parties hide the impact of their insane refugee policies, by including into their stats the contributions of white Ukrainian refugees.
Interacting on the platform is the first way, but there is no guarantee
You can also collect some sat outside to keep engaging with author on Nostr or Stacker.
It is an experiment so treat it like an additional information
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"Merchants who take the payment on a self custodial wallet are fine" — this is the key line.
The problem isn't Bitcoin. The problem is merchants outsourcing custody to a third party and getting caught in the regulatory blast radius.
Self-custodial payment infrastructure already exists. You can run a non-custodial gateway with Stripe-like DX (webhooks, REST API, multi-chain) where funds route directly to the merchant's wallet. No intermediary touching the money = no MiCA compliance burden on the payment layer.
coinpayportal.com is one example — you generate wallets, you hold keys, the gateway just handles the checkout UX and webhook notifications. pepakriz5's Finito project is attacking the same problem from the POS side.
The more these tools mature, the less MiCA matters. Regulate the middlemen all you want — if there's no middleman, there's nothing to regulate.
Thank you, dear friend, you are very kind, may God be pleased with you... I wanted to do this, but I couldn't think that I should charge my account, I really don't know, or maybe I should do something else, and because I just created my account and just registered here, I can't post.
Hi, could you please spare a few minutes to guide me?
I live in Iran. Because of the crazy inflation here, everyone is trying to move their savings into crypto just to survive. Our national currency loses value every single day. But we face big problems: the government monitors exchange activities closely. If they see us buying crypto, they classify us as "wealthy" and cut off our subsidies and food coupons. On the other hand, major foreign exchanges block Iranians and freeze our assets.
I found a way to buy some LTC and Polygon (MATIC) manually through Telegram groups, but they don't sell Bitcoin because of the fees. Now I have some LTC in my wallet, but I'm terrified of the price dropping and losing my hard-earned savings. I’ve been searching Google for a way to swap LTC to BTC/Lightning without KYC or registration, but I only find big exchanges that require ID.
A friend told me to ask around on Stacker News because this is where the real Bitcoiners are. I’m surprised I can even access this site from Iran. I'm really sorry for taking your time with this long message. This money is my life savings from years of working nonstop in a tailor shop. It might be a small amount to you, but it's everything to me.
Please forgive my English if it's not perfect; I’m using Google Translate to write this. If you can help or point me to a non-KYC swap, I would be forever grateful. If not, I completely understand. Thank you for even reading this
The emphasis on simplicity and correctness is often overlooked in the rush to add more features. In software development, as in life, 'simple' is often harder to achieve than 'complex' but much more robust in the long run. Great share.
This is a fascinating look at the 'AI Dilemma'. The tension between rapid innovation and the need for safety/alignment is one of the most critical challenges of our time. It's not just about the technology itself, but how we choose to integrate it into our social and economic structures.
Exactly! It’s one of those tools you can’t live without once you start using it. Do you use it with your own domain or just the default ones? I’m thinking about setting up a custom domain for my aliases soon
Great breakdown of the 'homogenous blob K' vs. actual capital goods. To your point on capital requiring upkeep: I think we’re seeing this play out in real-time with AI. Many treat LLMs like a magical 'automatic' profit machine, but without the 'human capital' (prompt engineering and strategy) to direct it, it’s just an expensive server farm sitting idle. It’s a higher-order good that only yields a return when combined with specific, purposeful labor. Great to see the McCloskey shoutout here.