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A former particle physicist interested in empowering individuals to regain their agency.

The OP listed India, I've looked at the INR market quite a bit. Some years ago my order was the only order for several months before I gave up. Recently I've seen about 1-2 orders a month. That's not beginner friendly at all.

Also in Euro/USD markets, I see smaller amounts (< €100) often have close to 50% premium. You get more reasonable, say <10%, premium only if you are willing to go to above €400, again not so beginner friendly.

I found Peach Bitcoin a lot more beginner friendly when trading in Euros.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckqZ90zLyy36qjO5YIn1RulG

The 2nd on the list is on C specifically. The other videos are a bit more than just C, covers Unix and computing in general. These interviews are like hearing from the horse's mouth. Enjoy

Also, Bisq requires you already own some BTC for the collateral

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nostr:npub1dllf8wmj6jk83r7chck6madmfgh3fges65ctpe5t6ueujazvvcvsh20tz5 is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that allows users to buy BTC with pretty much any fiat currency in the world

As for custodial wallets, those should be avoided because they are centralized and compromised

Best to only use non-custodial wallets

As for hardware wallets, Jade hardware wallet is a decent choice

Avoid Ledger hardware wallet at all cost.

Ledger is compromised, it does data mining on its users

Bisq has very poor liquidity in non-euro/usd markets.

Because it's irrational, I evaluate people as individuals.

Also, if I'm humble enough to stack sats, I'm also humble enough to know that I don't know it all. Someone different might be able to teach me something new.

Maybe Fountain is the first to show symptoms? I don't use it myself, so can't really share a more specific opinion.

The more valuable function of a password manager, is the random password generator. Password created by humans are often insufficiently random, and vulnerable to automated attacks. Particularly if there's a data leak, because then there's no rate limit on failed attempts.

Sadly most miners are leveraged, and they need FPPS to survive. I'm afraid they're still stuck in the fiat mindset.

In the Netherlands supermarkets often have a "to go" smaller shops at busy locations like stations. Now the dutch Ministry of Defence has opened up a similar pop-up store at one of the busiest stations. It invites citizens to join in as a civilian employee. The tagline reads, "find your way here", doing what!? Enabling war elsewhere!?

https://werkenbijdefensie.nl/defensie-to-go-pop-up-store-utrecht

Does non-european lives mean so little, that the military industrial complex is using the same marketing approach as supermarkets? Or is the motive to desensitise the civilian population of non-european deaths in far away lands to garner support for forever wars?

#military #industrial #complex #netherlands #dutch

Don't twiddle your thumbs asking strangers on the Internet. Search and get cracking. It's a really old MacBook after all, nothing to lose.

You should have a clear goal though, e.g. I want to run a Bitcoin node, or I want to use this machine to manage my finances, or I want to learn about Linux, etc.

Live in your western bubble. In India it's really bad, the ruling party disqualified a quarter of the parliament before passing a significant amendment to the criminal code, and online reporting rules, none in the media covered that. There's also a sectarian riot going on in the Northeast since May, zero coverage. The job of the mainstream media is to distract people with meaningless issues.

What do you mean by doesn't allow dhcp config? You can always put your router behind the ISP router.

If you mean you won't get a public IP address, then that's correct, but you could work around it with dynamic DNS clients. If your ISP blocks incoming connections, then I'm afraid your options are Tor (too slow for mining), or a VPN hosted on a VPS provider like Linode (I've heard while not ideal, the latency is acceptable for mining)