I already have people sleeping next to my house so that would be a huge improvement. YIMBY!

Apparently my standards for dentists have been too low, thanks for the info.

No it’s not. I’ve never paid $5 for a transaction in all these years because that is not how the mempool works. Here’s a screenshot from literally right now with it cranked up all the way to next block. Whoever is saying $7 above is deliberately misleading you.

0-conf was never secure; you guys just declared it so because you have no L2.

Bro. It’s nearly a decade later. All time high. LN is working. Gresham’s Law still exists. It sucks to get scammed but we’d love to have you back. You don’t have to do this to yourself.

He looks like Uncle Sam but fun

So when you asked for a full quote up front, they gave it to you?

Have you ever actually tried this? They often don’t even know the brackets up front.

Isn’t it just someone else watching the kids and cooking the food? Except now that daycare worker or cook might be a man.

It’s certainly an efficiency improvement (different people different skills) but not double the work IMHO.

Now when covid hit and we had to educate our own kids and cook our own food, while holding down our jobs - that was double the work.

In addition to the other reasons, there is also the worry of surprise charges. You’ll go in for a $100 checkup, only to find a bunch of other “standard” fees and services tacked on at the end. They’ll act like this is normal, and you’re weird for asking how much it costs up front.

This is twice as bad at the doctor than at the dentist.

Never forget that real technological progress is being made, but an ever-growing percentage of your labor is stolen from you.

My group almost switched over during the licensing fiasco. Musk would get us to do it.

All rolls must be on the blockchain now.

A little bit. But mistakes happen, it’s a huge order, and they were transparent about it. I can accept that so long as it stays infrequent.

On the Electrum client on my phone, it’s $0.53 for on-chain and basically free for LN.

Your wallet stores digital coins that are blindly signed by an exchange. The Taler Exchange keeps funds matching all unspent digital cash in a settlement account. (Source)

When you add dollars or bitcoins or whatever to Taler, you’re making a deposit.

The only thing we all have in common politically is that we don’t think social media should be controlled by a handful of gigantic manipulative corporations.

“Exactly! Simply do that for every product you need to live.”

Why deposit your money with a central authority? The linked website points out that Taler adds instant confirmation to Bitcoin, but you can already get that using the Lightning Network - without custodial risk.

At work right now they’re denying all the new vacation requests because we’ve got to make a bunch of products for customer. But they at least told us when the order was placed, so everybody took a vacation before the rush or planned one afterwards.

It can start with as little as someone filming you do something you’re already good at.

Vermin Supreme for President