Appear to be licking something off the rocks - sodium? See this behavior quite frequently.

#detox

I wondered why the ride up was so easy; tail wind. Gonna be unfun on the ride back.

Giving yourself an unnecessary taxable liability isn’t separating yourself from the state. It’s actually the opposite.

Isn’t paying with bitcoin counterproductive? Genuine question. I’m trying to save as much of it as I can, so when a business accepts bitcoin I still use cash.

Things aren't as bad as the algo would lead you to believe. They're not great, but they're not that bad.

It's never been easier to take agency over your own life via tools like bitcoin and AI. They won't solve all of your problems immediately, but if you put in the work you'll be pleasantly surprised with the results.

We're living through a period of insane productivity gains that can be matched with the hardest money that has ever existed.

Internalize this, take action and combine the two.

If you do this, you will be fine.

We're going to win.

Here's what I'm working on, the ultimate Bitcoiner security setup that I've designed, and build for people ...

A laptop with fully synced Bitcoin Knots running (in the background) with Parmanode menu system, connecting with Electrs server (or Electrum X or Fulcrum). It's called ParmanodL...

Sparrow wallet pgp verified and installed, auto-connecting to own Bitcoin data (via electrum server). (Electrum wallet and Specter wallet also included) on an internal 2Tb NVME fast SSD - no dangly bits.

UDEV rules configured so your HWW works beautifully (I have BitBox02 available, and also recommend ColdCard if you're more tech savvy).

The laptop ideally is left plugged in, this allows you to have access to you current wallet balance instantly. You can turn it off, but you'll be waiting for the node to catch up each time you use it.

Laptops have batteries, so if the power goes out in your home, you'll have a chance to gracefully shut down the machine so you don't get blockchain data corruption (and have to potentially resync).

You can search your own transactions with your own mempool web viewer using your own data - rather than submitting you address/tx and location (IP address) to a public service.

And you can keep the machine in stealth mode, over Tor or I2p, if you are paranoid about privacy.

They can lottery mine, and use datum, a nice intro to get your toes wet - not to scale up with, but just to experiment.

With a few extra sats, you get MUCH more features and a custom build with ParmaDrive - self sovereign data server/cloud to help you get off Google/iCloud.

Yes, it has everything a ParmanodL has except it's not a laptop. I suppose it can be, the build can be customised.

With two ParmaDrives (ParmaTwins) you get ParmaSync set up - this is something I invented that allows two people to sync encrypted data to each other automatically, preventing single point of failure data loss, part of a 3-2-1 backup system. You could actually own both, just put them in different places to get the redundancy benefits.

More info here...

parmanode.com

parmanode.com/parmadrive

Finally, to top it off, you can pair the node with a laptop signing device, the ParmAirGap - quick summary is that it's like a Seedsigner in laptop form, except it's a full isolated operating system, so it does much more than just sign, helping you overcome extreme paranoid with wallet creation, verification, and letter encryption.

Details here...

parmanode.com/parmairgap

Does the city you live in say anything about you?

Honestly question/thought experiment, is it possible today for human brings to live “outside a state”?

If yes, please point to examples.

If no, what would it look like for one to do so? How could stateless living scale?

The self-sovereign individual. #Bitcoin

im happily dca'ing and #zapd into cold storage every now & then, then... a few days ago.

I can't send to cold storage there's a "limit"

ok, I need .0015 to send, im just under that, so I buy some more. to meet their "limit" ...

but, nope, I've reached some other limit and can't send. so I contact #customersupport and wait. "your important blah blah blah...we'll get back to you on this..."

and wait

and wait

two days later, I get an email "sorry blah blah "limits" this "limits"

so, I say fuck it. and try to deposit back into my bank. "3 - 5 days"

so, while that's "pending" my account shows 0.00 my bank hasn't gotten it yet and I wait. meanwhile, btc is going from 104k to 110k. now, of course im still stacking, but no thanks to #strike

as far as im concerned they stole from me.

so fuck'em.

I may have left out some minor details, but what does it change. while bitcoin was on the move, strike made out. I got fucked. period.