I guess on twitter you could get away with missing context.

Maybe you can ask them about the items they won't export.

This is what happens when people try to measure utility by market cap. For utility, zcash, beam, grin, monero are the best coins for actual payments, not just hoarding and speculation.

Maybe I didn't understand this correctly, but from what I understand, you're moving a seed phrase from a computer to an yubikey... which means you may already be compromised given the seed was on the computer. I thought best practice was to never enter a seed phrase onto electronic devices.

I'm probably wrong...

That's like saying, email is good for onboarding nostr users.

Use good DNSBLs. As an independent, the big boys will always look down on you, no matter how clean your IP is.

Well written, though I think perhaps a little too long as one piece.

Also, while I understand how multiple relays might delay the building of a captive market, I wasn't convinced that a captive market is out of the question. IIRC, google chat, once upon a time, incorporated XMPP. They had also developed "a better email" that was an open protocol, though it's name escapes me.

Yes, I can run my own SMTP server (snd I do), but it's definitely not for most people. It seems to me, there's a small group of companies hosting most email and that's enough for them.

And one more thought I had was, the more relays someone goes through, the more easily location triangulation is. AFAIK nostr does not use Dandelion++.

I don't see any of these concerns, but what might happen is the development of a Bitcoin 2, a new subset with more "scarcity" and tighter provenance.

Is this the same company that won't sell mobile phones outside of the EU?

dunno which chain you're seeing do that but my UW syncs just fine

I dunno why you are so triggered when people say bitcoin is crypto. Unless, maybe, you are intentionally looking to trigger others.

I'll put it to you this way. When the first universal pre-paid postal stamp came out - the Penny Black - did anyone declare all other stamps to be inferior and distinct and not to use the word "stamp"? FYI, there are much more scarce and sought after stamps than the Penny Black.

For what bitcoin does, we can say it was the first to get the ball over the net. It had managed to piece together multiple concepts and cipher code that it could stand up and not fall over. When one person achieves something great, others learn to replicate and improve. Some people go on to run and become the fastest and others more agile. This is normal.

Now, just so you know, this wondrous thing you know as Bitcoin, that no one should ever declare to be called "crypto". To date it had at least two infinite supply bugs, the most recent being 2017/2018. In more recent times there were bugs to steal money from Lightning nodes. Just let that sink in a little.

OTOH you might be right. Perhaps we should distinguish between the first and all others that we can talk about bitcoin in the historic sense and crypto in the progressive sense.

None, they're all shit. Just use a fast crypto like dash for your day to day spending / tipping. That way you won't have to consider your spending and receiving limits, or having to open and close channels. Fewer steps, better experience, easier to onboard others.

Or stick to the truth and talk about the receiving and sending limits, and the need to also backup their lightning channels, in addition to their on-chain backups.

In the time you've onboarded from no bitcoin to bitcoin to Lightning, you could of just said, "just use a fast crypto like dash or nano" and you'd be done in half the time.

Just saying, sticking to the facts.

Better than Go

Totally agree. And just as importantly, it's actually illegal to delete the data they collect. Depending on the jurisdiction, records must be kept for years and sometimes indefinitely.

This is exactly why I live almost entirely out of the fiat system. None of this is about terrorism etc, the only they're interested in is tax collection.

I dunno, I think you're making too many assumptions. Do you know she is capable of managing money better than her husband? Maybe he really is protecting her. If their collective income improved a lot, how do you know the husband wouldn't spoil her? I mean, after 13 years, I'm pretty sure they have some kind of understanding that goes beyond male domination = bad.

If you know he is controlling and abusive then fine, but this generalisation is not the best of arguments. It's really no better than a politician pushing for laws "to protect ud" for all the same reasons.

Care to imagine what would happen when the husband finds money on her phone?

I understand your POV is from a good place but just too many assumptions about cultural differences, wanting a round peg to fit into a square hole.

better to keep an air of curiosity / discovery, encourage some anonymity where people really tell you what they are thinking

I dunno what yikyak is but the way I'd like it to work is, instead of actually chatting directly with people, I just want to set certain states e.g. pissed off, feeling horny, I'm a bit geeky, I love animals, hoping for serendipity, love the rain, hate the rain, you look familiar, vegetarian, my first time here etc

It won't work like that because there's no way of guaranteeing that when you arrive at a past date, it will be the same time-space path that took you to the future in the first place. Your version of reality would of changed to whatever the new reality is.

For example, suppose you wrote down a bitcoin block hash for a specific block height. When you go back in time to witness that same block height, the block hash would be different, because the time-space path is different.

I've tried it so I know it's true. It's not just computer algos like TOTP, it's everything. This version of time-space is particularly annoying as a lot of Ed Sheeran lyrics are slightly off. In this instance, Perfect ends with "Darling, you look perfect tonight", but in my previous journey it was "Darling, you look perfect to me".

Good advice, of course. I too saw this coming years ago. But my only comment is that, imo, it is okay to talk about crypto in cash terms, just don't brag or dwell on such matters.

I suppose my situation is a little unusual in that I don't actually buy or use bitcoin. The only part that interests me is crypto as a cash payment for day to day expenses. For me, "do you accept litecoin?" is okay. But I agree, no need to draw unnecessary attention with clothing, stickers etc.

I say this because there is some normalization needed, no more or less than talking about good old fashion cash purchases that are, unfortunately, increasingly rare. I mean, ATM hold-ups still occur and I guess that's in the same risk bracket.