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Brad Mills
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Can you do a whole set of 10,000 85 seeds from a bip 85 child seed?

I setup my friend with a 288,000 sat channel with Phoenix.

The fees were $30 to set up the channel then splice more capacity šŸ˜…

The I switched her to Mutiny wallet and paid another $30 in fees šŸ˜…

She still has rhe 288,000 sats in Phoenix and now I feel like this phoenix seed is now worth $30 at least.

What should we do with the Phoenix seed once she sends the sats to her Mutiny?

Should we just chalk it up as a lesson learned or is that Phoenix seed / channel re-usable if we keep a small amount of sats in it?

Should I open this box topper? Probably not eh?

Glad I got a box of bitcoin trading cards I can actually give out to people.

The other boxes I bought I have not wanted to open them because I’m a hoarder.

These are designed without the scarcity FOMO element, meant to be opened and distributed.

Brilliant.

Replying to Avatar Boog

Sent!!

Thank you very much!

That’s what my wife says, but then she does pretty much the same thing for all the other ā€œspecial occasionsā€ and in the end it’s a non stop treat train all year long !

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My wife makes up a Christmas advent calendar for my daughter every year.

This year she put a lindor chocolate ball in every door.

Is it a big deal? I’m trying to teach my 13 yo daughter healthy habits and how to make better decisions for herself.

In my opinion starting your day for 25 days in a row with 80 calories of sugar and saturated fat *on top* of the normal treats of a day is a bad idea.

Should I put my foot down and replace the 25 lindor balls with something else or am I being a grinch?

I posted something on Twitter 2 days ago about my local coffee shop accepting bitcoin via Blink with a link to her ln address (muggs@blink.sv)

She started getting sats streamed in from all over the world and thought she was receiving someone else’s transactions.

In 2 days she’s received $450 in gifts from Bitcoiners! šŸ™

So very awesome as she’s always supporting local homeless people with free food and coffee, fundraisers and charity drives.

She doesn’t have a lot of money as she poured everything into surviving the pandemic and keeping the business open during that period.

She’s started to save in sats and this goes a long way to show her the power of Bitcoin.

She also was extremely happy that the fees are minimal using Lightning compared to credit cards and interac.

You’re already started on and next one!

Replying to Avatar Dylan LeClair

You think they are going after Tether or just commenting on the overseas USDT markets on the unregulated exchanges?

Yesterday we held a Bitcoin meetup at a local cafe that I convinced to accept BTC in late 2021.

We didn’t call it a Bitcoin meetup, we called it a financial session on inflation & investing.

The idea was not to have a social bitcoiner meetup, but to bring friends/family to learn about the real causes of inflation, the risks to traditional markets and the opportunity in studying and saving in bitcoin.

We got ~15 people out on a Monday evening in a small town.

2 teachers, 2 real estate investors, 2 fitness instructors, 2 local entrepreneurs, 2 construction workers, 4 bitcoiners and 2 artists.

My friend and I decided to make a presentation sheet that we printed off and gave to all of the folks who came out.

We discussed at a high level the ā€œcost of conventional thinkingā€ inspired by a recent Saylor piece.

Here’s the presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6pwxs6qm7qljsaexiu6hk/Cost-of-Conventional-Thinking.pdf?rlkey=jkw955y1nlqr4owd31tlulgyx&dl=0

I had been the only customer who paid in BTC for 2 years. The owner was impressed at the price movement of BTC as she watched her stack grow over the year.

We made up a stack of lightsats.com tip cards with enough BTC for a few cups of coffee.

The printable light sats cards are a great way to promote local businesses that support bitcoin.

You should try it in your local area if you are so inclined to give away BTC, or if you can find a sponsor to sponsor the event with ~$200-$500 in free sats.

The best thing about light sats cards is that when half of the people inevitably forget about the card and don’t claim the sats, they come back to your wallet after x days.

This is a highly underutilized orange pilling tool.

Half the people setup a Blink wallet at the cafe, claimed their sats and paid for a coffee over lightning.

It was a great night where we focused more on high level conceptual financial literacy topics and didn’t delve so far into the activism side of things.

The information was received very well as we didn’t get into libertarian views of small government, free speech issues, politics, etc.

We tried to keep it cheerful & constructive as Saylor says.

Wow I haven’t really spent much time with the coldcard’s other features in the last few years, I just buy the coldcards and give them away.

I am going through a nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 tutorial now and it’s pretty incredible how many new features they’ve added including the seed vault to backup tapsigners.

What a dandy device.