Awsome! I appreciate that you guys take the time to help people with onboarding. I have been using the alby browser extension for a while and love it.

100% user error setting up alby hub and haven’t invested the time to fix it yet.

Either way it’s going to be entertaining 🤷🏼‍♂️ I do believe Trump is objectively the better candidate but regardless no politician is coming to save us.

No matter what happens I’ll keep stacking sats and skills.

A big part of the reason I want Trump to win the election is to see all the people on my college campus freak out. 🤷🏼‍♂️

*XRP but it’s all shit anyway😂

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Anytime fren

Amazing how zaps even when it’s a fraction of a penny in today’s value means so much more than some arbitrary “like”!

I can’t wait for more people to experience that thrill!

Shitcoinery is straight up embarrassing.

“Yeah bro Bitcoin is cool but super bullish on XPR”

Might as well tell me about how cool your girls new boyfriend is lmao😂

Everything has trade offs.

I think Ecash is fascinating but personally I keep everything in cold storage aside from some sats for zaps.

But what Hal is pointing out here is similar to what Saylor has been talking about. That the option to take self custody at any time forces players to act more honestly.

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t also introduce counterparty risk.

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Bitcoin eliminates the need for a third party which completely changes the dynamics. That doesn’t mean that every person in the world is going to suddenly become an entirely self sovereign cypherpunk unfortunately.

Agreed the social layer of Bitcoin is extremely important to call out potential threats!

Love it, I am fascinated by ecash and things like fedimints! I agree that it mostly defeats the purpose of Bitcoin to hold it in some fiat institution. But, I’m also sure that a lot of people will do that until they get wrecked and fall down the rabbit hole like the rest of us.

I agree some combination of lighting and ecash is the path forward. However, there will undoubtedly be many different solutions with their own tradeoffs and we are free to choose what we want to use.

So true, incredibly grateful!

My life changed when I realized you just pull on the bottom part lol

gave uo on alby hub and switched it back to primal wallet. If you could lmk if it works now that would be much appreciated!

Just going to leave this here for all the Saylor haters.

It’s been weird ever since I set up alby hub thanks for letting me know!

Love it!

We are living through Atlas Shrugged right now.

Satoshi is our John Galt, and Bitcoin is our Galt’s Gulch where we can move our value and exit the corrupt system.

THE CRYPTO ANARCHIST MANIFESTO

—Timothy C. May

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.

Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re-routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today. These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation.

The technology for this revolution--and it surely will be both a social and economic revolution--has existed in theory for the past decade. The methods are based upon public-key encryption, zero-knowledge interactive proof systems, and various software protocols for interaction, authentication, and verification. The focus has until now been on academic conferences in Europe and the U.S., conferences monitored closely by the National Security Agency. But only recently have computer networks and personal computers attained sufficient speed to make the ideas practically realizable. And the next ten years will bring enough additional speed to make the ideas economically feasible and essentially unstoppable. High-speed networks, ISDN, tamper-proof boxes, smart cards, satellites, Ku-band transmitters, multi-MIPS personal computers, and encryption chips now under development will be some of the enabling technologies.

The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be trade freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.

Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and of government interference in economic transactions. Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property.

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!