I don’t know if you’ve heard about Lightning Network, but this is a layer on top of the bitcoin blockchain that is much more suitable for small payments. That’s how I do most of my bitcoin payments now, and while it’s still a maturing technology, it mostly works well. Transactions are fast and inexpensive.

Unfortunately yes, there’s a lot of that going around Lemmy. I hope an influx of new posters can counteract it a bit, but until then, expect a lot of “Russia did nothing wrong”.