I was wondering since a while and now even more:

Is there some magic about Pixel phones or Graphene OS that justifies trusting Google all of the sudden ?

If you ain't bullish, then you is foolish

#bitcoin #2024 #uptober

If you generate your Bitcoin private keys offline using a bip39 wordlist, make sure you always return the word you choose back to the hat you are drawing from

This is the way 👏

If you understand physics you know that a black hole will consume everything around it. If you understand money you know that Bitcoin will consume all monetary energy around it.

Oh StarCraft 1 was the discovery of competitive gaming for me. It was completely engrossing.

WTF where is this? Is it only possible to buy something after they scanned your face?

#meme #memes #nostrmemes

you have customers residing within the EU, therefore you are subject to EU laws yourself????????? wtf

#memes #meme #memestr

“Thanks for picking that up for me! I will Venmo you the money.”

“Oh I don’t have Venmo but I can do bitcoin, CashApp, or PayPal”

*radio silence*

Even if bitcoin has world-class UX, I’m not sure if we’ll ever see widespread adoption until we can figure out how to release the absolute chokehold Venmo has on people, especially millennials.

CashApp may not be self custody but at least I can live my bitcoin life if someone uses it to send me money. Venmo has normalized digital payments so much that it’s changed how people behave and has become a verb. Nobody bothers to split bills anymore and they have stopped carrying cash. Why? Because they “can just Venmo you”.

I can see stack overflow error happening in real time when I tell my friends I don’t have Venmo because I don’t believe they created the social feature in good conscience and think it’s an awful thing for Venmo to try and normalize the destruction of financial privacy. Yes, you can now make transactions private, even if it’s not the default. No, I don’t care. I’m dying in this hill. I don’t want to link my fiat ass bank account to ANOTHER system when PayPal, which owns Venmo does the exact same thing. And you know what? People have been using PayPal since the dawn of the Internet 2.0. You already have it! And if I’m going to use a newer, mobile, digital payment solution, it’s going to be CashApp because at least I can turn that money you owe me into bitcoin, which is what I actually prefer you pay me back in. To add to that, Block and Jack Dorsey have done so much for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Of course I want to support CashApp!

In my experience the hierarchy is:

1. Venmo

2. Zelle

3. Cash (middle ground for “you don’t want to set up CashApp? Weird because I don’t want to set up Venmo!”)

4. “I’ll get your lunch next time”

5. MAYBE PayPal or CashApp

6. Not getting your money back

7. bitcoin

So what do I want? Obviously the Bitcoin Standard, but if I can’t have that I want to make cash great again and more people using bitcoin compatible payment solutions.

I encourage everyone to join me in a crusade of maximum pain for anyone trying to use something that is not this. We all deserve better! A win-win would be if Venmo integrated bitcoin so then all my Venmo using friends could transact with whoever they wish, using a free and open monetary protocol.

For starters it would probably help if I was more often in the scenario of needing to pay people back instead of the other way around…

Hmm curious, why did RFK say 19% during his speech..?

So USA has a gold reserve which is approximately 19% of the world's gold supply. Still USA sucks at managing and paying back their debt.

But somehow now by trying to create a bitcoin reserve of 5% during the next 5 years it will solve all their problems..?!

I don't buy it...

They need to completely restructure their economy system and with the help of Bitcoin maybe they can get to a Standard that will be attainable for future generations.

#bitcoin #gold

First the banks wanted to limit #AUStriches transferring money to crypto exchanges.

Now they’re telling customers not to withdraw cash.

All for their own good of course!

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Haven't been on top of it lately because I have a life and I can't continuously monitor the mempool. For months they'd been over 15 and 20, so there's that. But thanks for the heads up, I may be able to save a few UTXOs if tomorrow morning if the fees remain like that.

All this furthers my point really, which is precisely how the unpredictability of the fee system, the difficulty of UTXO management and all the billions of sats lost as dust and dead UTXOs now and in the future, make BTC a lousy currency for daily retail transactions.

Which hardware wallets is the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve going to roll with?

Multi-sig or distributed single-sigs?

What kind of entropy?

What’s a good way to make a secure pin for your phone? How many digits should it be? #asknostr

Honest question about Liquid… what’s the scaling strategy? The Blockstream website states 7-10 tps i.e. the same order of magnitude as the main chain. Or is it designed to increase tps over time?

I probably don’t understand what You’re asking. It is meaningless to continue. We’re not standing on the same ground.

I own MY #Bitcoin Everyone of them.

You, nor anyone else, can take them from me, other in some hypothetical and for me totally uninteresting scenario.

If someone goes into your house and take your TV to another location, does the theif own the TV?

Ownership isn’t a complex issue. Ownership is a selfevident thing that comes with the human condition. It is a basic human right.

I don’t want to learn from people who say that you cannot own bitcoin. It is fucking stupid, and in NO WAY interesting or enlighted. Just fucking stupid.

There is no point to discuss things with marxists

Define ownership. A good working definition is exclusive control over a scarce resource. If you keep your number secret you have exclusive ownership over your Bitcoin.

You won't get that kind of ownership guarantee for land or cars. Stop paying taxes or insurance and see what happens.