Genius 🤓 nostr:note16txy898jeewejrrmmd9mnshn2ud66r9020thgzqpw4092n3lwrzqaafdxj
Any fellow #nostriches playing HELLDIVERS 2?
🧠 Time to pivot into selling ethernet cables and racks
“People who benefited the most from the California Gold Rush were artisans who were selling necessities to the miners. While not all miners found lots of gold, every the last one of them had to buy shovels, shoes, or jackets.”
If it sounds too good to be true then it probably isn’t. Protect your sats people!
Came across this neat #bitcoin dashboard on reddit with so many interesting stats, worth a bookmark
Almost had a panic attack restoring a bitcoin wallet backup in bitcoin core. After restoring it I checked the wallet passcode by attempting to unlock the wallet for a couple of seconds and I wasn’t seeing the padlock icon unlock 😱
Turned out I just forgot to load the wallet after restoring so the walletparaphrase command was running against another loaded wallet, worst couple of minutes I’ve encountered in a long time 😂
What worries me about nostore on iOS and a reason I’m yet to use it is although it’s open source there’s no way to guarantee as far as I know that the App Store build hasn’t been modified before publishing (without purchasing an apple developer license and building from scratch). There’s many clients I want to try on mobile (web) but end up just using them on desktop instead with nos2x.
I haven’t fully grasped nsecbunker but intend to dig into it more when I have some free time.
Anyone working on Nostr Plays Pokémon yet?
Follow up, what about on mobile when I need to login to a web client. Is nostore to be trusted on iOS?
Is nos2x still the preferred browser extension for signing events on the web?
I tried #primal out for the first time earlier with a new account. I didn’t spend long using it before coming back to Damus.
The UI is nice and the onboarding of a new account was slick but the KYC wallet put me off, I know I can just edit the profile and add lightning address to receive zaps outside the app but the wallet appears to be a prominent feature of Primal with it being the middle tab and emphasised yet I didn’t want to activate it with my personal details. It looks like you can already send/receive without activating the wallet too so what’s the purpose of activation?
This experiment made me realise I don’t want my nostr clients and lightning wallet to be a single app, I understand not everyone wants and thinks like I do but the attraction of nostr to me is the ability to switch clients at any point and take my content with me so a separate wallet makes much more sense.
Forgive my ignorance but I’m finding it difficult to understand what the influx of TikTok users migrating to nostr accomplishes right now for those users 🤔
“Bitcoin has failed on the promise to be a global decentralised digital currency” - 🤡
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2024/html/ecb.blog20240222~0929f86e23.en.html
They are, I got there in the end but the pool of questions just felt off to me when wanting to buy bitcoin but asked questions about shitcoins 🤷🏻♂️
On the one hand I don’t mind the new steps to prevent people investing before understanding but the question pool needs to be revised based on the financial promotion imo. Don’t ask me about some scam cryptocurrency I’ve never heard about before when I’m trying to purchase bitcoin etc…
Follow up from previous note, after agreeing that I should not invest more than 10% of my net assets over the next 12 months 🙄 there was a quiz of about 9 questions to pass in order to continue, this will become standard practice for all exchanges operating in the UK with a final deadline of 8th January.
Questions varied a bit around rules exchanges follow in the UK, protection against losses, volatility, stable coins and even shitcoins. According to the FCA handbook and proposals users will see different questions each time as they are pulled from a pool of questions.
The on-ramp has now become so much steeper for new investors, I think these new changes will severly hinder new investors getting in and stunt growth in the UK. Consumers will also need to be reassessed every 12 months.
Honestly not sure how to feel with this, we know the risks, all of this seems overly excessive.
#bitcoin #fca #uk #globalhub 
Are you running into new FCA rules on your chosen exchange?
No coincidence the FCA have been cracking down hard and removing Bitcoin ATM’s over the last few months just in time for the new rules to start applying. Probably wouldn’t have used them myself after seeing the fees 😂
🚩New UK rules from the FCA are going to make it next to impossible for anyone to accumulate a substantial amount of #bitcoin
Most of us will fall into the “restricted investor” category limiting us to no more than 10% of our assets (excluding home if primary residence and pension) being invested.
I was honest, stated I’ve invested ~20% net assets in the last 12 months but I agreed to invest no more than 10% in the next 12 months yet still failed the assessment 🤷🏻♂️ according to their handbook I now have one more shot at this before being locked out for 24 hours before being able to try again with slightly bent answers 🫠
You would need to have £340,000 in savings/stocks right now and not invested anything in the last 12 months to be able to buy 1BTC today.
Not sure what your budget is but I’ve been thinking about replacing my raspberry pi 400 with a Mac mini 🤔
This also happens to be the port number of my development lightning rpc server ⚡️
My biggest FOMO is knowing I won’t be around to witness the final block reward be mined #bitcoin