EXACTLY 15 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto debated naming #Bitcoin "Titcoin" 🤯

I can't believe Satoshi even considered this! 🤣

Bank security practices are so byzantine and broken it's absurd. I spent 45 minutes helping my mom unlock her Chase account today (which was locked because she sent $500 via zelle to a friend who is in the hospital!) Here's how it went:

- Locked for no reason

- Number on website goes to automated answering machine

- It asks for her debit card number (what?) to identify the account

- This is lost and also needs to be replaced. There is no alternative method, 0 doesn't get us to a person

- I call Chase customer service, different number, very similar system, but I am able to get a person on the phone

- They verify her identity by making me hand the phone to my mom and ask her to state her name (what). They also ask for her ssn and a security phrase she doesn't know, although she does manage to share the security phrase for her other bank.

- They re-order the debit card and transfer us to another department, where we do the whole verification charade again

- They send a 2fa code via sms. We receive it, but the site shows an error and won't let us put the code in.

- They then send a different code, and ask me to give it to them over the phone, which the text message explicitly says not to do.

- Despite my better judgment I gave them the number. They then do something on the backend, and I enter a *new* code they gave me over the phone into the web portal to get it unblocked.

It's no wonder old people get scammed! Force someone to deal with this BS for 20 years and anyone would get confused and give the wrong code to the wrong person.

#nostr

Moment of vulnerability here, wondering if anyone has had a similar experience before.

I completely LOST it on another person's kid today when I thought they had intentionally hurt my daughter, but I was wrong and now I feel horrible.

Context: on a road trip with another family. The other child has behavioral issues and has been known to get physical in the past with others at school and daycare. Over the course of the trip he's been pretty poorly behaved and aggressive but not downright violent... but I had it in the back of my mind that it could happen.

My daughter was playing with him in the other room, then suddenly runs out screaming, bleeding from the mouth and saying that he had hit her. I've never experienced anyone intentionally hurt my little girl and I instantly flew into protective dad mode before properly assessing the situation. In my mind he had punched her in the mouth.

I stormed into the room and flew into a rage, screaming at the absolute top of my lungs, pointing my finger in the kid's face saying to NEVER touch her EVER again. His mom was right behind me. He was likely terrified and I was honestly way beyond any level of anger I've ever felt.

In the next minute or two my daughter then clarified that it was an accident and they had been playing rough but had unintentionally slammed into each other.

The boy cried, his mom was in shock, and she also had tears in her eyes. I feel absolutely awful about the whole situation, I should have had more self control, and I'm a little in shock how quickly I became an absolute monster to a young kid.

I apologized in the moment to both of them and sent a message after saying I should have handled the situation better.

Just really upset about the whole thing, unsure how to proceed now. Any girl dads out there ever have this happen to them?

They wanted us to have a bad life.

We said no.

This makes them very mad.

We don’t care.

This makes them even more mad.

We stop paying attention.

Now they’re furious.

We’re busy building.

They want war.

We’re ready when they are.

it’s a beautiful day to make lists of what I need to do instead of actually doing things.

It makes me sad when new plebs show up, seem excited about Nostr, but then leave. 😢

I haven’t felt creative in what feels like 100 years

Some people have really weird manipulated brains unfortunately.

Almost time for a new phone I'd say, mines so sluggish and has issues charging now. Any recommendations?

Back home from Nashville in time to catch the sunset and enjoy my 420th miller lite of the weekend.

The best part of conferences is spending time with Bitcoiners in the meatspace.

Great seeing all you crazy wonderful people.

I’m excited to see everyone but I’ve also developed a bit of an agoraphobia so this’ll be interesting 😅💃🏼

Every time somebody tries to tell me that I am building a wrong thing. What are we, socialistic society? Don’t like it, build your own thing and make it great! 🐶🐾😂😂😂

Things are about to get really crazy aren’t they?

Just amazing to me there are people in the world that create a fake account and then spend their time copying a real account with reposts. 🫠

What level of degeneracy is this?

Imagine the power of being an indie developer and making an app where, the moment you launch, it people already have an account and they have a balance in your app!