Glad I could help!🫡

Sparrow with a ColdCard is the best cold storage setup period. But it works with many hardware wallets. I personally would also recommend: seed signer and passport. I would stay away from ledger and anything that isn’t FOSS.

#Bitcoin 80K before the year is out? Thoughts?

Un día de tantos, estando en el transporte colectivo metro, pensé en la red #Lightning Network.

Sí, mi mente hizo una comparación: rutas rápidas, coste barato, estaciones,..., y resultó esto:👇🏻

➡️Rutas rápidas y baratas: viajas rápidamente entre estaciones sin tener que parar en cada calle o semáforo, Lightning permite transacciones rápidas y de bajo costo.

➡️Canales: los canales de pago en Lightning son similares a las líneas de metro. Una línea conecta varias estaciones (usuarios), permitiendo el flujo de pasajeros (#Bitcoin) entre ellas.

➡️Nodos: los nodos en Lightning pueden ser comparados con las estaciones de metro. Cada nodo puede conectarse a varios otros nodos y permitir el paso de transacciones a través de diferentes rutas.

➡️Rutas: en el metro, puedes tomar diferentes rutas para llegar a tu destino. De manera similar, en Lightning, las transacciones pueden seguir diferentes rutas a través de la red para llegar de un nodo a otro, dependiendo de las conexiones disponibles y las tarifas.

➡️Capacidad: Cada línea de metro tiene una capacidad de pasajeros. De igual forma, cada canal en Lightning tiene una capacidad máxima de #Bitcoin que puede ser transferido.

Ahora que viaje en metro no podré evitar pensar en Lightning Network 🤭⚡️

Best way to obfuscate kyc’d #bitcoin ?

Onchain->lightning (burner)->fedi->onchain?

I totally don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m doing it!

#introductions

When you get to a certain level of #Bitcoin understanding, you change. You enter into a mad dash. You do everything in your power to stack sats. Then after some years in the game, you slow down. All that stacking gives you options & power. You start exercising your power.

The first step is hitting your first stacking goal. Usually this involves an amount that takes care of you for several years. You have money, but you're not rich yet. You're still in the mad dash.

The second step is accumulating enough BTC to last you the rest of your life. This is the F-You-Money stage. You have enough to say F-You to the world, but you're not in lambo territory yet. At this point it's hard to appreciably increase your stack anymore percentagewise. You begin to slow down here.

You start to question what you're doing with your time. You have the ability to take more risks and perhaps start a business or learn a valuable skill. All the while, the ethos of Bitcoin has entered your bloodstream. You look to optimize your life in ways that were not possible before. You seek to live in a more based way. Life gets immeasurably better.

The last stage is having so much Bitcoin that you don't think you'll ever spend all your wealth. You spent the F-You-Money phase upgrading your life. Now this is a habit and you keep optimizing your life, but you're more focused on deciding what to do with the newfound power you have.

The next logical step is philanthropy and activism. You start to desire to change more than just your world. You seek to reshape and mold the external world too. This is when the fun happens. Having all your needs taken care of, it becomes pleasurable to see to the needs of the world.

Forget the lambo. At this stage you can afford one, but you don't want one anymore. Instead, you play the game of life as God intended. You're a ball of growth. And you're contagious.

Godspeed, Bitcoiners. You may be in the mad dash phase right now. But in short order you'll make your mark on the world. It's your destiny. If it weren't, you would not be this early in understanding Bitcoin.

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

- Edmund Burke

Education Alone Will Not Increase Bitcoin Adoption - Let’s Get Serious and Focus on What Matters

- If you could place your “best bet” on a goal to increase Bitcoin adoption, where would you focus your energy? What would your goal be?

- Are bitcoiners ready yet to switch from a NGU mentality to seeing bitcoin for what it really is and that Bitcoin is true freedom money and more?

- Is it finally time to realize that bitcoiners can help to advance adoption by focusing more on what matters? And what matters boils down to behavior change.

Consider these points -

1. Need to identify a priority goal to focus on AND recognize that Bitcoin adoption ultimately boils down to changes in behaviors and mindsets

Currently, there is a lot of activity occurring in the bitcoin world, which is exciting to see. However, it is clear that the majority of actions are not focused on outcomes, such as bitcoin adoption — let alone on having agreement on what success actually looks like for adoption. What is successful bitcoin adoption - how to measure?

To advance Bitcoin adoption, it is critical to first develop a clear aspiration or goal. Then, specify what behaviors and mindsets must change or shift to adopt Bitcoin. The more specific, the better - e.g., ‘A “no-coiner” purchases their first satoshis’ or ‘A Bitcoiner uses btc to purchase that infamous cup of coffee’ or how about ‘A bitcoiner transfers btc to cold storage’.

Answer this - have you been able to go through the cold storage process and verify it worked without breaking into a little bit of a sweat? Admit it - it can be terrifying. Complexity is no bueño for behavior change as it takes simplicity to change behavior.

2. “Price is a measure of adoption”

Price in any fiat currency, including USD is a limited, proxy measure of bitcoin adoption at best. Off the top — the volatility fluctuation and geographical differences alone make price an unreliable measure of adoption. Also, the value of Bitcoin should be based on its inherent properties and not on its exchange rate against fiat currencies.

One Bitcoin should have the same value regardless of its exchange rate against fiat currencies. More nuanced measures for MoE, SoV and UoA could include the number of Bitcoin transactions, the number of active Bitcoin wallets, number of ATMs, the adoption and growth of the Lightning Network, the hash rate and network security of the Bitcoin network, and the number of merchants and businesses accepting Bitcoin as payment. And Bitcoin is all about separation of state and money - its value is not tied to the policies nor economic conditions of any particular country. So why measure adoption in fiat?

3. “Education is everything”

Education is critical - I agree - it helps to raise awareness, which is needed as a first step to effect change, but education is not everything when it comes to adoption. Communication nor education alone reliably change behavior. Bitcoin Beach and Bitcoin Jungle show this - both required more than education to get people to first become aware of, buy, and then use bitcoin. If it were only about education or informing people about Bitcoin, then why don’t we send out a mass email with a set of educational links? Why doesn’t everyone quit smoking already given all the education there is about how bad it is?

The El Salvadorans and Ticos weren’t just sent a set of educational links and podcasts. Each had a community of dedicated bitcoiners and they used a lot of proven change techniques for adoption. They had infrastructure development (wallets to use, merchants accepting bitcoin etc.), tailored comm campaigns, onboarding training sessions, social support and incentives, too. The initial focus was on making Bitcoin as “easy as possible” for the people.

I am proposing that more efforts like these “pilots” should be done and scaled out - but only better - based on what has been learned already. Recognize that while a key component, education alone is not sufficient for effective behavior change. Rather than using #StudyBitcoin, we should advocate for the outcome-focused #BuyBitcoin instead.

Bottom-line :

My bottom-line points are: 1) Bitcoin adoption can be achieved more rapidly with some focus on a clear adoption-related goal, 2) Human nature and societal/cultural aspects must be considered to design approaches and pilots to increase Bitcoin adoption, and 3) It is possible to help advance bitcoin adoption when the right blend of committed Bitcoiners come together for a shared purpose and focus.

And so, the first step to advance btc adoption, is to answer “What is the next best bet? What is a clear goal to help increase Bitcoin adoption?”

#adoption #BTC #Bitcoin #Bitcoineducation #Education #Plebchain

#bitcoin e #pasta

Humans won't be able to control Artificial Intelligence, according to research.

Scientists warned that algorithms could be useless in preventing harmful artificial intelligence from taking over the world. When connected to the internet, AI may have access to all of humanity's data, allowing it to replace all existing programs and take control of all online machines worldwide.

For the study, researchers developed a theoretical containment algorithm, which ensures that a super-intelligent AI won’t harm people under any circumstances.

According to the study, an algorithm that would command AI not to destroy the world could destroy its own operation if it detects a potential threat.

However, it remains unclear whether the algorithm has successfully prevented a catastrophic event or is still analyzing the threat, making it difficult to know for certain if the machine has successfully prevented a catastrophe.

The study shows that traditional ideas for controlling super-intelligent AI have limitations, and new strategies are necessary, starting with disconnecting AI from the internet.

#ai #nostr #bitcoin #zap

Using #Bitcoin at its full potential (ColdCard + Sparrow) really highlights just how shitty and unsecure legacy banking is.

Told Llama to write a poem in the style of Robert Frost of how Bitcoin will save the world.

The woods of finance, dark and deep,

Where fiat's roots their vigor keep,

A path unwinds, a trail unspun,

To Bitcoin's promise, just begun.

The trees of trust, they whisper low,

Of ledgers open, for all to know,

A decentralized dream, where none can cheat,

A store of value, that can't be beat.

The wind of change, it whispers through,

Of freedom's call, for me and you,

From chains of banks, and governments' sway,

To a new dawn, where individuals hold the day.

The snow of scarcity, it gently falls,

On Bitcoin's code, that enthralls,

A limited supply, a treasure rare,

A store of wealth, beyond compare.

The road not taken, by the masses wide,

Leads to a future, where Bitcoin resides,

A world of peace, where commerce thrives,

Where borders fade, and freedom survives.

The woods of finance, dark and deep,

Will slowly yield, to Bitcoin's creep,

A revolution quiet, yet oh so grand,

That will save the world, from fiat's hand.

Note: I've tried to emulate Robert Frost's style, using a similar rhyme scheme, meter, and poetic devices, but the poem's content and message are, of course, quite different from his typical themes.

#Bitcoin #AI