Lots of time to spare. Done. Now we wait. I talked to one of the other proponents and we are definitely in the ballpark on price. Just shy of $2.5M and would account for a third of our volume in this business line this year, at maybe a 10% net margin if we execute well. The ship will have to be tight. Scrambling for pennies. 
NEWS RELEASE: Bitcoin Coalition of Canada delivers new federal recommendations to power economic growth, social development, and environmental action
2025.01.15 -- The Bitcoin Coalition of Canada (BCC) has tabled critical new recommendations for the Government of Canada, outlined in “Leveraging the Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits of Bitcoin, Now and For Future Generations.”
The recommendations have been sent to all Members of Parliament, federal political party executives, Senators, Premiers, and MLAs/MPPs.
The BCC is urging the federal government to take several key measures to harness the wide-ranging potential of Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin mining for Canada and Canadians:
1. Implement a de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin transactions under $10,000 CAD and commit to a more detailed study of how best to facilitate Bitcoin’s use as currency in Canada.
2. Eliminate capital gains tax on Bitcoin (BTC) held for more than one year.
3. Provide incentive support and remove regulatory red-tape to scale up Bitcoin mining in Canada.
4. Establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) for Canada, with the goal of securing 100,000 BTC over four years beginning in 2025.
FULL NEWS RELEASE: https://bitcoincoalition.ca/2025-01-15-news-release
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS PAPER: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/53bd0c95-dfdc-4fed-9c78-a7c2f6c673ab/downloads/5b096fa8-4ff0-4db0-abc2-8b6b86e29321/BCC%20Federal%20Policy%20Recomendations%20-%20January%2020.pdf?ver=1736879907486
Awesome. You guys are doing God’s work.
I can’t believe what a clown show my workplace is. I’ve got a two and a half million dollar bid submission due in two and a half hours that still needs to be reviewed by my boss, edited, converted to pdf and uploaded to Oracle. This process will take two hours. Plus we are changing office locations today. My desk and my computer will be the last items to leave the office.
I spent two days on the road away from home scoping the work, drove about 1000km in the process, and spent the last two days writing the submission documents.
I’m fine.
My new laptop that I’m wiping Windows 11 Pro off of and replacing with Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS is only hours away from delivery.
I’ve got the roadmap written for the OS install on an encrypted partition, establishing and testing a reliable image backup/restoration routine with Clonezilla before I install a bunch of new tools, enabling simple firewall and VPN functionality, importing the root certificate, and establishing SSH connectivity to my node.
I hope it goes well. Can’t wait to relegate my main desktop Windows box to being a glorified filing cabinet, backup computer and largely offline gaming rig.
#linux #ubuntu
Another huge factor is the fact that employers and corporations get to largely hide the fact that they are paying you less every year because of the difference between fake CPI inflation and real inflation.
Employment is a hamster wheel.
GM 
Working a fiat job for a salary that isn’t tracking with CPI inflation, let alone real inflation.
If you’ve been fortunate enough to receive CPI inflation indexed raises every year over the past 5 years at your place of employment, your time is still being purchased by your employer at a 25-30% discount when measured against real inflation. You are working a quarter to a third of your week for free in real purchasing terms.
If you have received only one sub 5% raise in that time, you are now effectively getting paid 80% of what you were making 5 years ago.
GM 🤙🏽
Six Hail Mary’s, Six Our Father’s, 20 pushups, 20 crunches my son. Go with God. Sin no more. Lol
You love yourself
You think you’re grand
You go to the movies
You hold your hand
You put your arm around your waist
And when you get fresh
You slap your face.
-Unknown
Dell Inspiron 15 3000 3520 12th Gen Intel i5-1235U 1TB SSD 16GB RAM 15.6-inch 1920x1080
Seems to meet the Ubuntu compatibility needs.
It’s a real maze trying and hoping to get the right rig for the purpose.
Is anyone using Sparrow on Linux and using both air gapped and USB connected means of signing transactions? And as a terminal for talking to your Start9 node? How has the experience been? I’m setting up a new laptop on Ubuntu this week when it arrives. Transitioning away from Windows spyware. Thanks.
#linux #ubuntu #sparrow #asknostr
I’ve got a new Windows 11 Pro laptop arriving this week that I am going to wipe and install Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS onto. The goal is to have it act as a largely offline and portable second computer for
- tertiary encrypted important file backup
- writing on the road
- PGP tools
- as a terminal for my Start9 node
- for any Bitcoin on-chain related operations with Soarrow (creating, exporting, importing and broadcasting air gapped signed transaction files
- signing transactions that require a USB connection to older signing devices, as I phase those devices out. (Bubbeye Ledger)
Is anyone using a Linux box for their on-chain stuff with a variety of signing devices that could offer any advice on the realities of using such a setup, so I’m not reinventing the wheel or leaning my ladder against the wrong wall? Thanks.
PS I also have a dedicated external SSD the same size as the internal drive that I plan on using in conjunction with a thumb drive that has Clonezilla on it, so I can routinely image the whole primary system for easy restoring from an image file should it ever be necessary.
#ubuntu #linux #sparrow #coldcard #ledger