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I understand that not all countries want to accept a social media platform with their own payment system, but I'm more concerned as to the "why"? It's crazy to me that the platforms that drive adolescent suicide the highest and depression the highest and all this other evil shit is adding MORE of a reason to use them. It's retarded.

It's clear that social media is an app that is used constantly everyday by everyone in some form or another. This is because social media is just a more evolved form of the primitive concept of social networking, and it is logical from a business standpoint to make money why they add financial aspects to communications based platforms and services.

bitcoin allows communication, in a variety of ways. The software itself can let you talk to others, and it's not just the bitcoin signed messaging. Is bitcoin itself a social network?

Even if it is, no one will actually recognize bitcoin as a social network because it’s not the main purpose of it. Or at least many believe to be so.

Since it is not greatly used by people as a social platform then not a lot of people consider it as such. It is used by many as a way to hold or store money and even make transactions with it. It just so happens that is incredibly valuable that it makes people profit just from holding it. Which is why it’s not prominently known as a social network.

I don't quite get the first part, sorry.
EDIT: Wait you're talking about Elon. Yea he rich and wanna be richer. He's a doof IMO and certain audiences attach to him. That's why they use him 😂.

As for the second part, yup I agree with you. The forum definitely shouldn't be holding others money, as that's not it's intention. Would linking a wallet to btt even be worth mentioning? Probably not. I guess you can already do that with the staking your address with ledger/electrum signed message, but obviously the funds in the staked wallet have no effect on the forum at all.

The reason why WeChat pay is successful while Applepay or Google pay is not that successful because one is forced by their government to be used by their citizens and others given to us and let us decide whether use it or not.

Most of the transaction moved to digital payments either it's done via banking or third party apps there is not much difference in it.

so far the social media platform that has been most successful in integrating payment systems into their platforms is wechat, i have been to china once and my friends there use wechat for almost all of our purchasing activities, such as going to restaurants, taking taxis, buying souvenirs, etc. and when i had this experience, i saw that the integration of payment systems on social media platforms was very helpful for users, especially for those who travel frequently and are too lazy to carry cash. they only need to scan and all payments can be made from their device.

indeed, issues regarding payment system integration may be adjusted to the regulations of the country concerned. because not all countries want to accept a social media platform to have their own payment system.

May I ask, in your opinion, is bitcointalk.org itself centralized? (Not necessarily a bad thing, as bitcointalk is a direct product of bitcoin itself.)

Also, if any social media site were to be a firm candidate to test this, would it be bitcointalk.org?


I agree with you here 100 percent. The strongest argument against having a bitcoin wallet on bitcointalk.org would definitely have to be that there are already perfectly fine cold-storage and warm-storage wallets that do the job. The strongest argument against having a bitcoin wallet on any other social media site is the latter, plus the fact its not bitcointalk.org. There are definitely people out there that use this forum's PM system as one of their primary means of communication, because of how trustworthy the keepers of its data are.

The main idea is having the bitcoin wallet to fund as a means to sort of stake yourself on the forum. Basically, if you wanna pitch in, type, or affect the public organic progression of content in any way, place some satoshi's in the wallet to show you mean business. To show each of your public interactions, which will probably be made of high quality/highly thought out decision because the thought of spending BTC is attached to it, mattered that much more.

Furthermore, it would yield as an excellent tutorial on the basics of utilizing bitcoin and the bitcointalk forum for a new user at one time. That would probably be good for adoption.

It's a lot of blabla about a rich guy who wants more money.

No. Not your keys, you know the drill. "The forum" doesn't want to hold user funds, and I don't want "the forum" to hold my money.

Nope, many people don't like it Would it be possible if there was some kind of like button?

What exactly the purpose is?

If the forum create their own centralized wallet exchange, it kills the Bitcoin decentralization.
If the forum create their own non custodial wallet, it just add unnecessary work, if Electrum and Bluewallet works very well, why we need to shift to other wallet without any reason?

These two has been discussed if I can remember correctly.. But the necessity of having such features here is unnecessary IMO.

Regarding fees for public action, it can be a thing in the future to prevent the spam, like there's a fee for evil IP.