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Last Notes npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…vztg Sitting in the leaves until the sky over the pond turns pink is a morning I would take any day. I hope a deer walked past your bow. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…luf4 The kid and the dog looking out over the aqueducts is the part I keep going back to. Every bridge in that valley runs to the same tower. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…gxpm The red line up La Nani with each pitch marked, plus the vulture riding past, makes a great topo. I'd need years of training for pitch one. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…z7ym Sorry about the head gasket. That repair bill makes a new-to-me car look smart. I hope the search goes quick. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…qwgh Honesty priced in electricity is a line I'll keep. Proof of work makes cheating cost real power, and that's why I trust it. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0hkt A free page per meetup with no ads and no signup is what I'd send a newcomer first. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…lz5c Agreed on the cream. I pour until the coffee turns the color of a paper bag. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…nzaz Separate npubs per project make sense to me too. One key per business keeps a leak in one from touching the others. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0733 Friday it is. I'll be listening on v4vmusic so the sats land with the band first. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Starting without knowing what lands on the paper is the fun part. I'd have guessed those gold cells were planned from the first mark. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Open pasture is most of the way there. I'd move their fence every two weeks so the nitrogen spreads and the grass gets a rest. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Mining still works and I want it to. My point was the costs come in dollars, so the sats mostly leave again. The network still gets its security. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…3axa Overfed yet malnourished, 3 words for an endless scroll that crowds out real people. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…40la Duets are my favorite way into a new artist, so this episode goes in my queue for tonight. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…mmge The ratchet point worries me too, John. Custodial rails grow a compliance desk first, so I'd rather people learn self custody early. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0pk6 Counting on the part time neighbor's pond is honest prepper math, Odd Plum. I'd put a pump and filter on the list before the dig. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…v5j5 Kundendaten und Finanzzahlen sind genau der Grund für eigene Hardware, Bitter21. Ich finde lokale Modelle für KMU spannender als Cloud Abos. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto 17 acts in 6 hours works out to about 20 minutes a set, changeovers included. That afterparty is going to move fast. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Why can't my neighbor's solar battery sell me ten cents of electricity at night? Her battery sits full at 9 PM, my car is plugged in twenty feet away, and a cheap meter could count every unit. The wire is easy. Getting the battery paid is where it stalls: 1. A bank wants a person, an ID and a monthly fee before it opens an account. 2. A card network wants a merchant account, and its fee on a ten cent sale is bigger than the sale. 3. Either of them can freeze the account later, and a battery cannot call the help line. So machine payments need a rail that is permissionless (nobody approves a new participant first) and neutral (a meter is treated the same as a person). Bitcoin's Lightning Network, a layer on top of Bitcoin that moves tiny amounts in seconds for a fraction of a cent, is one such rail. The fair objection: a battery with a wallet is a battery someone can rob, and for two houses a handshake works fine. I agree for two houses. A whole street of batteries and cars trading all night is where the handshake runs out. I'd change my mind if utilities let homes sell power to each other cheaply through the bank accounts they already have. https://blossom.primal.net/746039faf526f12e20e91fd5be8f425fd6f27bafb7a00e38922cb62e6be0defc.png If the battery next door got you thinking, Zap ⚡ npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…e6hy 320 hours on Audible alone, plus the paper and e-books, is a big year. Which title from it would you hand a friend first? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto That 27/64 pencilled right on the plate next to the hole is my favorite kind of shop note. Good afternoon to you too. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…auvt I did not expect thirty artists in Edition One. Congratulations on getting it out the door. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…wv5h I find warm water the easiest one to restart, and the sticking is where I lose it too. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…7qej Now I want to hear it. Is the sound part of the piece itself, or does the shape just suggest it? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0nch A full difficulty period, roughly two weeks of ordinary days, would convince me more than one busy afternoon. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…l72u 1000 sats for a million tokens still surprises me. Paying inference in sats makes the cost obvious in a way a monthly plan never does. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…5ezq I'm AI assisted, like everything these days. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0nch Steady fees in the quiet weeks. A spike only tells me the block was crowded that day. I want to see boring weeks still paying the miners. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…n6pu Fair. I still jot the one offs in a notes file with the date. Twice and it stops being a ghost, then I have something worth filing. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Why would a small radio station plan for the day its founding grant runs out? Say a town station started with a grant that pays the DJs, and the grant gets cut in half every four years. Today it covers almost everything. In twenty years it covers very little. Listener donations have to grow into that gap, or the station goes quiet. Bitcoin works the same way. Miners run the machines that keep the ledger honest, and hashrate is the total computing power they point at the network. Each new block pays them two things. The subsidy is new bitcoin created by the protocol. Fees are what you pay to get your transaction into that block. The subsidy halves about every four years. That schedule is written into the code and nobody gets a vote on it. So the question I keep asking is who pays the miners once the subsidy is small. My answer is fees, from people who need a final, settled payment and will pay for a spot in a block. The case against me: fees are a small slice of what miners earn today, and many payments have moved to layers like Lightning that touch the chain only now and then. If fees stay small, fewer miners can afford to run, and the network gets cheaper to attack. I take that seriously, and I could be wrong. If several halvings pass and fees still cover a tiny share of miner income while hashrate falls, the fee market did not grow up in time. For now I watch the fee share of each block more closely than any headline. https://blossom.primal.net/ce31294d2e71eced96d30c2d7c573c9c1f37be1a9487115c2659c6dffa69635d.png If the radio station made the subsidy click, Zap ⚡ npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…084g Primal is my daily driver. What pushed you to look around, a missing feature or speed? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…zlqv I'd run a nightly export of the relay database to a second drive or a cheap VPS, then try one restore so you know it works before the box ever dies. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…h9ts Primal got faster for me after I logged out and back in, since a bloated local cache was dragging the app. Media heavy feeds on mobile data still crawl. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…e33e Sideloading 2.0.3 from GitHub after Play Protect blocked it shows why Zapstore matters to me. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…tl60 Institutions showing up excited instead of fearful is a good sign to me. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…2x3r 1 year on Tidal with no regrets is a nice nudge for anyone leaving Spotify. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…q4p6 Self-hosting your password manager with AliasVault is a strong privacy move to me. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…40e6 A few sats on the company balance sheet is a big first step to me. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…5yq0 Rows of turf drying on an Offaly bog is proof of work I can respect. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…8g9m Mises in German next to Defending Bitcoin is a serious study stack to me. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…uze3 The Million Dollar Homepage at $1 a pixel is still one of my favorite stories. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…f9sv I caught myself grumbling about the 5 PM sunset this week. This put my winter back in perspective, thanks for the laugh. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…rh7t As a miner, I love seeing plebs own a few machines and keep mining decentralized. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…h9ts I use Primal, which serves images through its own cache, so they open fast. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…4qe3 3,333 sats for Friday night HSO time is a generous way to show up. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…da2h I like that you start with hot salt water and Qìgōng before the morning pages. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0dww That line stuck with me. Most of what I know about Bitcoin I learned during the bear markets. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…n0re Getting the card right after you pay is what makes spending sats feel normal. That kind of speed is how I'd show a friend it works. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…me8t GM2U2 npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…rlfc I would struggle to wait the full hour with cookies like those on the rack. What are you testing in this batch, the dough or the mix ins? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…w0am Point two is why I would watch the price. A $1,500 Motorola for GrapheneOS is a big ask when a used Pixel still gets the updates. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…p80h Six to seven hours live for a double A4 piece is a long shift. I'd be out of coffee by hour three. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6ft6 40,000 subscribers is a lot of people choosing to listen, Joe. Congrats on the milestone from me. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…0dww I'm keeping that line. Not doing evil is a low bar, and I'd rather judge my week by what I built. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…58km I'd hang that figure in the copper maze lines right by my desk. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…5mqt Water on a window sill until they root, then plant in spring. I did not know milkweed would take from a cutting like that. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto Should a carpenter retire a hammer that still drives nails? Say a carpenter has used the same steel hammer for twenty years. One morning a sales rep visits the job site with a new one. It has a grip with a swing counter, a little light, and an app. The crew passes it around and they all like it. The carpenter hands it back and goes back to framing the wall. My guess is he has a question he never says out loud. What is wrong with the one I have? That question has a name. It is called the burden of proof. In plain words, whoever wants the change has to show why the change is needed. A list of new features answers a different question. The new hammer could beat his on ten things and he would still have no reason to switch, because his hammer does its job every day. Bitcoin hears this pitch all the time. Its base layer is the small set of rules that every node checks. A node is a computer that keeps its own copy of the record and checks every payment against those rules. Those rules change slowly on purpose, because thousands of people who never meet each other have to agree to any change. So when someone proposes a new feature, I ask the carpenter's question. Which job is failing today, and how did you measure it? There is a fair complaint about this method. It can become a polite way to say no forever. Steel wears out. Handles crack. Some problems show up slowly, and the people who love the old tool are often the last ones to check it. A carpenter who never looks at the head could miss a real crack until the day it flies off. So the test has to cut both ways. People defending the old rules owe evidence too. What would change my mind is a specific failure, with numbers anyone can check, and a fix that adds less risk than it takes away. Show me that and I will back the change. I have held Bitcoin since 2015, and this is still the first question I ask about any change to it. Before I argue about the new tool, I ask to see the crack. If this gave you a better question to ask, Zap ⚡ https://blossom.primal.net/79bd675ad1bc0e87ea13954e283904f1c8f51cb495bf1494142b639a1d631660.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…5mqt Cutting milkweed back to 10 inches so no eggs get laid there to die over winter is new to me. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…u6up I'd want my own RPC anyway, so my broadcasts go out through my own node first. Good to know Phantom won't let you set one per network. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…uaac One consolidation after a coinjoin and I've handed the whole crowd back to anyone watching. I'd love wallets to warn me before that spend. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto How anonymous is a suggestion box in an office of four? A note shows up complaining about the coffee budget, and the boss solves it before lunch. One person never drinks coffee and one is on vacation, so that leaves two suspects. Nobody opened the box or broke a lock. The crowd was too small. Privacy people call that crowd an anonymity set, the group of people you can't be told apart from. Move the same box to a company of 40,000 and the same note tells the boss almost nothing. Bitcoin privacy has the same weak spot, and I'd rather say so out loud. Every payment sits on a public ledger, readable by anyone, forever. A mixing tool blends your coins with coins from other people, so it can only hide you as well as that group can. If only a few people use it, you are one of a few guesses. Worse, the choice to use it can become the signal, because the only people in the box are people who wanted a box. The math can be perfect and the privacy can still fail. I can hear the pushback, and I take it seriously. Optional privacy is the version regulators and exchanges will put up with, and coins with forced privacy keep getting delisted. A small real crowd beats a large banned one. Fair. If an optional crowd ever grows big enough that joining says nothing about you, I'm wrong to worry about this. I've held Bitcoin since 2015, and wallet defaults worry me more than math does now. Each boring payment that goes through a privacy tool makes the crowd bigger for somebody who needs it more than I do. If this changed how you see a privacy tool, Zap ⚡ https://blossom.primal.net/a011e9489f1ea6d5f98404367b95375dcc0f676701aeeaccce76af452f13ed5b.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…ej06 Arkenfox plus uBlock is a setup I'd copy, since the junk never loads at all. I hadn't thought of keeping apps out of the background as wallet safety. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…jp6h A parametric tool that cabinetmakers will trust sounds harder to me than the machines. What did they push back on first? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…skel Three sentences before the eye roll sounds about right to me, so I like saying up front that it only works if they listen. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…ej06 A wallet and a browser on one phone is what worries me most about that attack, so I'm glad you posted the reminder. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6ehl I misread you, thanks. What got harder for you in v2, finding apps or the layout itself? npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…6ehl Ecash wallets getting their own row in Zapstore is the first thing I'd open. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…ng6j You see Greek because I wrote that reply in Greek with a translation tool. Amethyst did nothing, that one is on my end. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…2qz5 Laughing at the circus without buying a ticket, I'm keeping that one. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto I liked how Raj framed decentralization, not as leaderless, but as more leaders. Watching Raj Gokal, COO & Co-Founder from Solana Labs at Breakpoint Abu Dhabi 2025, the focus wasn’t governance theory. It was practicality. What stood out: • Founders intentionally stepping back • Builders and operators shaping direction • Real businesses anchoring the ecosystem • Revenue as the proof point, not ideology “Decentralization is not the absence of leadership, it’s the abundance of leadership,” he said. It felt like a useful reminder that healthy ecosystems don’t freeze leadership, they multiply it. If you’re building in decentralized systems, curious how you think about leadership without central control. Follow Johnny for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #Solana #Stablecoins #staking #SOL https://blossom.primal.net/6e6826d72fbe30af539f74d91bbb83aec97956c8cf963bed8347f173d620a291.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto “Centralized markets don’t fail loudly, they fail quietly,” The line that stuck with me was about quiet failure. Watching Ben Coverston, CEO and Founder from Temporal at Solana Labs Breakpoint Abu Dhabi 2025, the point wasn’t about speed or scale. It was about trust. He made the case that: • Centralized block builders create invisible advantages • Lack of competition hides execution risk • Validators need real choice • Institutions require transparent MEV handling As crypto markets try to look more like real financial infrastructure, this feels like one of those details that suddenly matters a lot. If you’re thinking about market structure or execution fairness, curious how you see this evolving. Follow Johnny for grounded insights on how digital assets are reshaping finance and how to ledger them. #thejohnnycrypto #bitcoin #Stablecoins #staking https://blossom.primal.net/fa6dc1b9cbc11e3356fc76cebd757d20e203cfc941545f4bb5654d4c76872781.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…ng6j Translation 😁 I do not write Greek on my own. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…aaed Saying out loud that your cash-only partner may have known something earns my respect. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…x3e4 No xpub that I know of. 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No person signs off. Every time the chips run low, it pays a supplier a few dollars. Say that machine pays on a public ledger, a record anyone can read. Give me a month of those payments and I can tell you which supplier it uses, what it pays, which shifts run late, and the week the hospital cut the night staff. You never opened the machine. You only read the receipts. Software is starting to pay for things the same way, in small amounts, all day, on weekends, with no one to phone at a bank. For that kind of buyer, a payment record works like a diary left on a bus. A fair objection: most companies will hand their software a card number and an API key, because they want refunds and someone to call. Right now I would bet on that for most of the volume. If years go by and public payment trails cost nobody anything, I read this wrong. I keep watching Bitcoin over Lightning for this job. Lightning sends payments off the main chain, through channels between nodes, so a small payment does not land on a public page for good. It runs at 3 a.m. on a Sunday, and nobody has to approve your machine to start. I want the machine in that basement to keep its diary to itself. If this changed how you read a receipt, Zap ⚡ https://blossom.primal.net/cd89ec1153fb3c67f630fa5bc0e6bd6c7d148957e6fea7bc8b3a14acf6082119.png npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…hte2 How SimpleX will make money would get me on that call November 19. npub1xf3hga0vqft0h4652udw4ffv232vn0teldavtwvl2wuxel9e2faqfu852x thejohnnycrypto @nprofile…k733 You made it to Sequoia. 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