Why'd he say Uncle Sam at the end? 👀

They get bitcoin at the price they deserve. If they are arrogant enough to dismiss the warnings and facts because they are winning in fiat terms and that means they are above those warnings, they will learn the hard way.

Oh yeah, Zeus is the exception, they use a pretty interesting solution.

I think other wallets don't do it because it's pretty complex and also probably because now that we have bolt12 (read: lightning v2) the new offers feature may (should) become the successor.

The tech is improving.

Muun does not support lnurls or lightning addresses.

Tldr; Lightning addresses are cool, but they aren't sovereign, so you can't use a sovereign wallet like Muun to integrate with nostr.

These are actually not lightning native features, they're like layer 3 tech but it isn't a real layer. They require web servers and if someone else is running that web server, that someone else could rug you -- they can't take the money in your wallet, but they can redirect payments meant for you using the lnurls and lightning addresses away from your wallet and to their own.

Muun is a self custody wallet, you own the money in the wallet and invoices that you use to receive payments send money directly to your wallet. They aren't middlemen in the active sense or in any sense where your money could be taken. This is the same with my favourite wallet Phoenix Wallet.

Custodial wallets like Wallet of Satoshi, Minibits and others support this, but the only way to retain self sovereignty and use lnurl and lightning addresses is by running your own bitcoin and lightning node and then adding the appropriate software to support it.

I, and I'm sure many others, use custodial wallets for zapping and receiving zaps, but only keep small amounts on it while we keep the most of our bitcoin on sovereign wallets like Muun or Phoenix.

My today seems to have been a day dedicated to this topic. This evening my mate told me that "bitcoin needs to get easier"... I might have bitten his head off.

All the memes come to mind: "I discovered bitcoin and I'm here to fix it", "you don't change bitcoin, it changes you" and "you get Bitcoin at the price you deserve".

The issue is that we are pushing bitcoin, and with good intentions too, but it isn't self motivated. The moment you are self motivated, I've seen and heard about tradesmen and computer illiterate people learning how to run a bitcoin node and operate the CLI (although that part is already easier).

I think many will custody their bitcoin to banks, and there will be rugs. Those rugs will be downplayed, they'll be socialised, people will accept it, but I am hopeful that it won't last long.

People need to be motivated to understand bitcoin and the best motivation is when the money is dogshit and all of your neighbors are using bitcoin and doing better than you.

That might be too late for you and your family from YOUR perspective, but it happens when it happens. You may set them up with a cold-card and they make all the mistakes because they're operating with one eye closed, taking shortcuts so they can get on with what they think is more important to them.

Look, we can do our best to prepare people and nudge the timeline, but we can't make people care about something they don't think is worth their time and effort.

I'm still positive because adoption is happening and fiat is failing and people are waking. I genuinely believe that people are not instinctually sheep, we are instinctually copycats and social beings. We don't want free hand outs because we're greedy and lazy, it's because everyone else has it, and it's normal to want it.

I believe if everyone around you is taking responsibility for themselves, you'll want to do it too. Right now, when someone sees you doing well, they'll want that too, but they won't want to do the work, no one else is doing work, doing work is not "normal". When you tell someone about something, they might dismiss you or ignore you, but when they keep hearing it from different people, they change their attitude.

We, Bitcoiners, are tiny in a vast of people, but we are growing and I'm positive about it. Last meme: "everyone who starts to understand our broken system becomes a doomer and has a bleak outlook, bitcoiners are positive because we see the solution and we use that positivity to build hope and advance the solution."

Yeah, cold card is cool. But honestly, only you can answer your question, I can only show you the options I've explored:

1. Cold card is cool, not used the Q, but could appear complex and scary.

2. Bitkey is the most friendly but you are putting a lot of trust in Block to not go bankrupt. If they do, you may not technically lose your money, but you now HAVE to learn technical stuff to get it and you need to find another wallet solution.

3. Seed signer is a great option IMO. Its biggest benefit is that it steps aside and makes it clear what is important. You can say it 100x but people will never learn that the hardware wallet is not your keys. It is a SECONDARY copy of your keys (even though it is often the source too). Your physical backup is your primary. Seed signer is by far my favourite and I think most people don't struggle with it. They just need to be willing to be humble and take a little time to learn.

Yet now the mouth movement at the beginning is more expressive for the top video so it makes me think THAT is the source.

Which is it? Which one? Which one?

Damn, it's hard to tell which is the original. I am guessing that since the hair is consistently black at the back but brown at the front, Keanu is the source.

Haven't seen this movie if it is real.

Those rockets... How did he "say" that? Was it like when pomp made those rocket sounds when shilling blockfi?

Oldboy 2003

Exactly and better yet, if you can just leave your computer on for a day, you can set your own premium and get a better deal than you could get on any Exchange!

Be cautious... We wouldn't want you to get scammed before I can scam you first.

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Lovely thumbnail.

Btw I think I didn't answer your question... Yes I used ledn.

Not gonna lie, there was a period when people were pushing for higher zaps, I set mine to 5,000 1,000 and 500.

After a while, even though I used 500 for small memes and stuff, I was seeing 1 sat and 21 sat zaps back and I ended up adding 21 and 50 to my list.

I also saw my ecash wallet balance going down and dropping a zero and got a little scared. Also the fiat value is rising.

I probably am a higher than average amount zapper but I want this to work in a meaningful way and I take into account that no advertiser is subsidising nostr, and others I share to are not gonna zap because they're not into all of this and they're not invested in seeing bitcoin succeed, they are, if anything focused on the price only.

I also find the idea of removing likes and only supporting zaps hilarious. It feels like memers who just want more zaps and I don't think it meaningfully improves the problem.

Sorry /rant.

nostr:nprofile1qqs2sqvyjfcqh2sls4lgsrc3nchwpr2yq3hwta5gstk36qrmev4zpjcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0ttu0xq btw, not sure why, but DMS just don't work. My posts just disappear.

Good news is that the wallet is working again.

Bad news is I'm sure I'm missing zaps.

1. Any way to go back and collect them?

2. I actually think I'm missing a recent 10 sat zap while I got the 1 sat zap from the same person on the same post. How can I debug?

I feel like the threat of it all getting thrown out is what keeps the prosecutors in check, but if that ain't gonna happen, then the system is broken and why isn't this well known?

I feel dizzy.

Ain't this the type of thing that gets the whole thing thrown out and Ver just goes free?