Avoiding Ledger signing devices and safely purchasing signing devices that are legit

Physical security of seed phrase copies and signing devices.

The importance of UTXO management and using tools like Sparrow to do it.

I dream of Uvita, Costa Rica

Imagine how hard it’s been being white AND really good looking.

https://fountain.fm/episode/vSdRpCnRuMZSleaLFtVD

Great show. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Dave speak in person and he’s a great spokesman for Bitcoiners everywhere. And I hear he holds the distinction of being not only the strongest, but the best looking Bitcoiner in Canada. Sorry Ben nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 lol.

How to sleep like a baby in Bitcoin:

- withdraw your Sats to cold storage

- learn how to use distributed multi-sig

- unless your next of kin are trained in Bitcoin tools and you have a way to let them know where your stuff is if you’re unable to communicate, use a succession planning service like Casa to give your heirs access to your assets in the event of your death

- use verifiable open source software for creating transactions, but only on a watch-only basis. Don’t assign signing capability to an app or program

- have access to this software in more than one location. Make one of them easily portable.

- clone your signing devices so you always have two sets of devices that are capable of signing transactions on the same sets of addresses or multi-sigs

- keep your signing devices offsite in locations that involve a time delay and opportunity to have armed intervention brought into the mix

- stamp your seed phrases on cloned, padlocked, tamper sealed stainless steel plates

- have ready access to firearms at home and be trained in their use

- make sure those in your home have the same training and access

- establish ordinary sounding duress words with your friends and family and remind them of these from time to time

- don’t talk about your Bitcoin

#btc #security

Thanks John! If anyone wants a free copy, here’s three days of download access to a pdf version on my Tor file server: (Tor browser required)

http://ukl4eyjaegwv5dyygzk7e3rpyllqguoouwgosmmmuygm3diz5qva6hyd.onion/share/kUebifPr

The live inauguration footage currently streaming on all platforms makes one thing clear. Cosmetic surgeons across the nation need to seriously up their game. I’ve never seen so much botched work in one room in my life lol.

#plastic #surgery

If anyone is on the fence about making the move from Windows spyware to Linux for general computing and terminal access to file servers and nodes, Ubuntu so far has worked out amazingly well with no hitches after only wiping Windows 11 Pro off a new laptop 72 hours ago.

Full connectivity to my node, and signing/ broadcasting air gapped and USB connected transactions on Sparrow through the node via Electrs is all working on the first attempt.

Back up your data, have a couple of extra thumb drives on hand for bootable media for the OS and imaging software like Clonezilla, and make the switch! You can still have your windows PC as a fallback while learning a new OS at a time where mainstream operating systems are getting creepy as fuck with data skimming and working up an advertising profile on you.

#linux #ubuntu #windowssucks #grownostr #start9

Tree trim crews are all shut down today. She’s frosty at the office/shop.

GM #freeross

Can’t beat Birch firewood https://video.nostr.build/fbeb901f8459d9e76794535e6764b334cd5a08712d83f5fc2f4c233d331622bb.mp4

Everything has worked perfectly. Just a little sleep deprived. I have local and Tor access to my Start9 node and file server, and even worked out and tested a total system imaging and restoration scheme with Clonezilla.

After I had everything working, I intentionally wiped and restored the whole system from an encrypted image file stored on an external USB. It took 5 minutes to rebuild the whole system. And everything operated the same on reboot.

Today all I have to do is install Sparrow and import a bunch of watch-only credentials and test working with air gapped PSBT’s and signing transactions via USB if it’s ever needed (not my preference). Then image the whole system and make a secondary copy of the image.

I’m really digging Linux. It feels like I am free from a lot of privacy concerns and not helping someone work up an advertising profile on me every time I go online.

And good riddance

Cool to see a link to a community website in my old home town

Looks like a Netflix, elliptical, and gaming day.

We aren’t “lucky” that we got into Bitcoin. We are

-inquisitive

-motivated

-“fed” up with corporate theft, government overreach and being economically repressed

- we refuse to accept the status quo

I dropped out of college when I realized it was a debt farming and indoctrination operation.

I worked on farms, construction sites, dug ditches, stuffed wood chippers and took down trees on climbing spurs with a chainsaw on my hip.

I made the move from using my body to earn a living to using my brain out of necessity, when I ended up nearly unable to walk for half a year by doing physical tasks I had no business doing unassisted.

I bought a PC and learned as much as I could about how it works.

I met a few key mentors.

I learned how to sell.

I learned how to touch type really quickly by accident, dodging rockets in early FPS games and sending messages mid-fight to my team.

I learned about networking PC’s together and how to keep data safe.

I talked my way into sales and technical jobs that I wasn’t even remotely qualified for, and excelled at them by over-delivering to customers and using process design and computer automation to leverage people’s time.

I helped start a couple of successful businesses and learned the hard way that employment and compensation agreements are only as effective as your ability to fight people with way bigger pocket books than you have for legal remedies.

I landed other well paying jobs and noticed there was no improvement in my family’s quality of life because of taxation and inflation.

I recognized employment as the hamster wheel that it is, running really hard, and not getting anywhere.

I finally learned what sound money is and how government issued currency is used to transfer wealth to the 1%.

I heard about Bitcoin and was fortunate to recognize the fundamental value of its fixed supply, issuance schedule, and the immutability of the network.

I recognized shitcoins for what they were and never got “bit”.

I now have hope that eluded me for two and a half decades. God bless Bitcoin ₿

Stack for your last name. Not your first name.

#bitcoin