Back from Nashville, and after a little reflection, I need to reiterate a message I frequently put out there: kill your heroes.

Most of the people talking about the moon, laser eyes, power law, get on zero, digital energy, strategic national reserve, etc. etc., or who are telling you to buy this device or use that service are **buying and selling your attention to make themselves richer** -- they generally do not have your best interests at heart.

Think for yourself and don't fall for marketing. Educate yourself about bitcoin, discuss it with people you respect, think critically about the risks, and then, if it makes sense to you, make a sensible investment in it with reasonable expectations, while keeping your larger financial situation and your personal priorities in perspective.

I am a believer in bitcoin in spite of, not because of, all of the wild assertions, influencers and aggressive social marketing out there, and it has taken me 11 years to get to where I am.

Be careful our there anon, don't buy the hype.

My old highschool buddy wants to organize a meetup for me to come talk to our mutual friends about Bitcoin.

Shes asking if I have any info ad graphics or bullet points she could use to generate interest.

Anyone ever made anything like this up before or gave any resources?

The #EU wants to build a database on citizens valuables and wealth. Get ready to register your clocks, gold and bitcoin.

I’m looking into krux.

Help me out with why someone would need such a device.

Hypothetically here’s (a friends) setup:

Sign psbt over a sd card to an airgapped coldcard.

I read a use for this device would be scan an encrypted QR code for the seed and scan a QR code that holds the decryption key to sign. When you power off, nothing is stored on the device.

So sparrow generates a psbt QR code that this reads, then scan the other 2 QR codes to sign?

Seems I’ve just transferred the security of the seed phrase to wherever I store these 2 QR codes, and this is just a convenience device.

Do I have this right?

#asknostr

ERA OF BACKDOOR CENTRALIZED BRANDED COMPUTING

Where have all the cypherpunks gone?

I need some real data. Can you please go to the phone's Settings / Apps / Amethyst / Storage & Cache and tell me how much "User Data" do you have? Thanks!

Mine is 209kb

criticism is good, but keep in mind many nostr devs are working on this in the spare time, or are taking lower pay so that they can work on this because they believe in it. nostr is an experient, a protocol. It's not polished. There are bugs. It's not a VC venture with hundreds of millions of funding, designers, and large teams of people building polished products. It's an R&D lab. adjust your expectations accordingly. Sure you can say we suck and aren't working hard enough, but is that really productive? We're trying our best folks. These apps are non-trivial to build! Especially if you want to make them fast 🏎

GN 😴

Short analysis following the assassination attempt and democrats now turning against their own candidate(s):

I suspect that the combination of Trump now becoming de facto canonized and Biden's insistence on remaining in the race, although it's obvious to everyone that he is a powermad vegetable, creates a power vacuum within the American left that grows by the minute.

One of the consequences is that the higher eschelons of the deep state watch the profitability of their main vehicle - the government - dwindle at a fast pace.

When these powerhungry people lose big money, they will in the end begin pointing fingers at each other.

Many predict social unrest, but because that only will increase their losses and due to the reasons described above, I think it's more likely that the really serious conflicts first arise within the deep state itself.

Therefore, I won't at all be surprised if players high up in that system start issuing contracts on each other.

My logics here is that they seem to think like criminals, and therefore they will also act accordingly.

If they clean up their own system, things might calm down for the rest of us, meaning that we can avoid civil unrest.

But I do also think they might try to create another major reshuffling of wealth away from the middle and lower upper class and into the pockets of the one-percenters, just to keep the top grifters temporarily happy.

Exploiting a medium-sized crash in the financial and subsequent rescue operations from the Fed seem like a good option for them.

In this way, they can be able to postpone what increasingly looks like an inevitable civil war within their own class.

As we say in Norway:

When the through is empty, the cows start biting each other.

Let's keep an eye on how this shitshow unfolds.

In the meantime, everyone who hasn't yet looked at #Bitcoin    is probably well advised to reconsider their views on this rebellious asset.

if I follow what the last few years have taught me, then they (as the state) officially sell what they (as ETFs) buy. The state is just the sheep's clothing.

Because it’s Putin’s mouth piece, and they regularly speak of “vaporizing the United States” Does that sound like a friend?

Let me be clear when you praise someone like that and refer to your fellow countrymen as “the enemy”YOU ARE KNOW PATRIOT.

As far as the leadership brainwashing you into saying things like that. They can be described in one quote: “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel “

You might want to watch Russian state tv.