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Today I wanted to go solo on a variety of bitcoin and lightning network topics I see popping up a lot in listener emails, youtube live chat and especially on Bitcoin Twitter.  There is a lot going on, good news, FUD and some actual misinformation.  You know real “misinformation” not the MSM version of the word.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

• Why do I prefer the Fold Card over something like “BlockFi” – Get Fold
• How do I buy groceries or gas with Bitcoin
• Why do so many shitcoin projects fail so miserably
• What would be a good product to build on lightning right now
• Is the lightning network actually decentralized or is it controlled by the banks
• Is anyone using the lightning network
  • 17K active nodes
  • 81K active channels
  • 92 million dollars in capacity (reusable)
  • My Twitter Thread on Lightning – link
• Why the “but it uses a third party argument” is stupid and usually made by people using a 3rd party anyway
• Why I say, the market will make lightning scale, don’t even worry about it
• If you are holding shitcoins right now and want to move to BTC should you do it now or later (it depends)
• Why products like “Wallet of Satoshi” are fine for day to day lightning use and actually pretty private
• The most impressive thing about the current BTC hash rate and how it destroys the energy argument – hash rate chart
• MicroStrategy is quadrupling down on bitcoin, time preference = courage – link to article

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• TSPC on Discord
• TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat)
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• Jack on Flote
• Jack on MeWe
• Join Me on Odysee
• All My Bitcoin Tools in One Place

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