u/CertifiedHeelStriker

Hey folks,

I’ve been well out of the loop for a few years now. Back around 2019, I remember going to Rotate Bar in London and actually paying for a beer using Lightning. Was cool. Back then, we had all those fun LApps like Pollo Feed and Satoshi's Place. There were all these card games and casinos, and this like blog platform. Oh and a big tipping system on Twitter.

Fast forward to today, and it feels like a lot of that stuff is gone. BlueWallet doesn't even seem to have a Lapp marketplace etc anymore.

But the network is still alive as far I can tell from some quick Googling, still being developed, etc. So what's going on? Has it gone more enterprise / backend?

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Good news!

I'm relatively new to Canada. Before this I lived in Singapore. In Singapore, tax was ridiculously easy: the government told you what they thought you owed, and you either paid that amount (via QR code, took about 45 seconds), or you requested a specific adjustment and justified it. I never tried Option B, but friends who did said it was quick too.

Here in Canada, I spend about a full day collecting documents, then use software - which the government doesn't actually provide, which is in and of itself insane - to file a return I've had to prepare myself. Any questions from the CRA? That's like a 30-day turnaround ...

How many days are lost across Canada every year in this entirely non-productive exercise — at the CRA and for individuals? Having lived somewhere with a very different system, I just cannot comprehend how Canada still operates this way. And there doesn't seem to be any real pressure to change it. Politicians talk about paying less tax. Sure. But nobody talks about making the whole thing less of a time sink.