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I went a bit over the top and hired a fully remote dev environment in hetzner. I connect to it using rayfish.xyz and I dont have to carry a big-ass laptop like I used to. I just have Mac Air. The whole setup is Mac Studio at home for heavy stuff, Mac Air to travel and hetzner machine 300 usd a month for heavy devving.

Bitcoin and similar are computationally intensive to run because of a thing called decentralization. Visa and Mastercard don't need consensus to perform payments, but they for sure don't have a single server running, I am sure they have more servers than bitcoin nodes, without counting on stripe, paypal, ... and other payment providers IN THE WORLD :)

There is something called lightning, which is p2p payments through bitcoin!

> Furthermore, a currency needs a government (or similar kind of body) to manage its stability, by printing (and buying) money. Otherwise, we'll see wide fluctuations in value like what happens with Bitcoin.

call the economists! a currency needs a government! But only from 1971 onwards, before that people didn't have currencies! Oh, you don't want to use the US dollar? the best currency ever!? I guess we'll have to bomb your country and neighboring ones to change your mind.

> to manage its stability

aka lose 2-4% of purchasing power per year. Thank you central bank! you saved us!

> Otherwise, we'll see wide fluctuations in value like what happens with Bitcoin

Oh no! The horror! A currency that can also go up!!! I guess we need a central bank for oil! to keep the price of oil stable! And food too!

guy who doesn't know what peer-to-peer technology is, laughs at man who does!

please stop using the internet! it might be slow and expensive to run! it requires insanely big cell towers and submarine cables! it won't scale!!11!! kind of guy

It's for research purposes :wink: :wink:

you could try rayfish.xyz, it is compatible with tailscale nowadays so you can run both tailscale and rayfish

You can use lightning with mixes funds. There are ways to move your Bitcoin. The main premise of my comment is that they can't *take away* your bitcoin. But they can take a way your USDC.

Someone who doesn't have good fiat rails like third-world countries. Or people who just don't want to be part of the fiat system. Or both.

They are both useful. Monero is a bit more tricky to use, there is no concept of Lightning network, you still have to wait around 7 minutes for the transaction to settle. It's not bad, but it is different. The transparency in Bitcoin is a feature not a bug.

It is what it is. You have to implement KYC if you want fiat rails. A merchant can't KYC every single person that comes to the store. But you could build a system to eventually ban wallets that could be tied to criminal activity.

The merchant can also pick to use Lightning and keep the Bitcoin instead of selling it for fiat.

Stablecoins can be censored. You deposited into Huobi 5 years ago? Banned. Now we keep your stablecoins, thanks for playing.

You can't censor Bitcoin.

I sent a transfer from the UAE to Spain and another one to the Netherlands. They took 5 days and 7 days respectively. The same transfer takes 10 minutes in Bitcoin. You don't do transfers to pay for stuff at the grocery store, the same way you would not pay using the Bitcoin network. You would use lightning network, which takes less than 2 seconds finality.

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The merchant requests 100 USD. The user pays X BTC equivalent to 100 USD. The merchant receives 99 USD aka the fee is 1 USD

> So I'd have a different IP on each network?

NO. You will ONLY have to rotate your IP if you join a network in which there is a collision. 1 in 4 million chance. If that happens, it's ok. Ideally you are using magicDNS and don't have to worry about IPs or just use the IPv6.