The US Gov is hinting that creating and/or using a self custody wallet may just be operating as a money service business.

This is a self custody wallet with privacy features.  If you keep one in your back pocket, watch your literal ass.

I did the deal. I also watched the whole thing. Great extemporaneous flow, especially for a first shot! When you think he's ready, I have a gift. It's in great shape and I never use it anymore since I upgraded. Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. It needs a home anyway, and if it inspires dedication, I think grandpa knows how it feels to receive gifts from listeners. All he'll need is USB 2.0 and a mic (maybe some earbuds depending on production style). The Focusrite is basic but pretty darn good quality. Let me know. We'll figure it out. Shipping is on me too.

Frens...

Sometimes these days sophistry feels like it might just be an upgrade in many situations.

Not a new key. A new address. Yes in the same wallet. Just click on what ever button is for receiving. If there is another button for 'new address' click that (most good wallets give you a new address each time anyway). Copy that address to the clipboard. Then go to send, select all the BTC you want to consolidate and paste in the 'receive address' you just copied. (check the first and last few characters to make sure you have it all)Pick your fee and hit send. This is also called a self-send. Most consolidate UTXOs within the same wallet unless there is something wrong with the wallet.

Is there new news or did you just switch wallets?

As he said toward the end. The legacy actors have shareholders. If they can and do cause a fork and THEY choose one for THEIR customers, THEIR customers ONLY get only one coin. I get both. They can pick one for their customers because they have custody. Not your keys..... They don't have custody of my coins, nor should they yours. My node, my rules. They don't just need a bunch of coins, they need a bunch of miners and a bunch of nodes to change the rules. Sure, some or even many miners will follow their lead until it becomes less profitable. The difficulty will adjust and tick tock next block will continue for BTC. It's not like this is something new. The Block Size Wars showed us how this will end.

They'd fail at their fiduciary responsibility if they chose one fork, but that's not my problem. He also repeated that everyone he complains about is only interested in NGU. Many of us on 'team orange' as he calls it aren't in it for NGU. That's just a byproduct. A price crash from a Legacy system dump only benefits HODLers in the long run while it will weaken team legacy. I will have more of what will always be BTC and they will have legacy's version which will eventually fall as it will basically become a fiat. Over 50% of the total supply is in the hands of HODLers. If team legacy finance dumps it, they'll have even more. The volume in stable coins matters little as they are all fighting over the small % which is for sale. The volume is high because of traders and speculators. As the trading supply reduces even further due to ETFs (which by definition will move toward Hodling status as well) the all important (to some) volume of stable coins will drop as well except as it correlates to the rise in price of the assets it's chasing. I don't know anyone who holds stable coins for anything except trading. It's the only place it makes sense. You either have stable coins to trade with a goal of increasing fiat or increasing your chosen crypto. Winning and loosing will depend on your end game goal. Mine would be increasing BTC but I don't trade anymore.

So, lets say the new system won't let you buy real BTC on their system or without stable coins. What becomes of their new coin and the volume of stable coin trade? There are already markets outside of the legacy (regulated) systems. They'll just grow and multiply to meet demand. Yes things will become more difficult. But, we always knew it would. Regulation always promotes black and grey markets. Hundreds of attempts at various prohibitions have shown this for thousands of years. You can't stop an idea or product who's time has come and is in demand.

Rough waters ahead? Probably, but what's new. 'Then they fight you....' has always been on the horizon.

Yes that is consolidating. Although another wallet is not necessary. Just a new address. It doesn't matter what wallet it's in.

https://stacker.news/items/414232

He did changed his profile "custom message" at Amboss to reflect that we should force close at least a couple of days ago. I was giving him time but that's when I knew.

"5/Feb/2024 - need to close down, please force close your channels, sorry"

"see (stacker.news/ite... for more info

suffered penalty tx, pls see this to return funds to me"

Progressive ideology has its roots in Enlightenment philosophy. That was the beginning of "progress". How deeply are we willing to look for the source of the problem? Because now we are talking about The Founders and their ideological roots.

Poor fella. I'm watching a short 'bad cop' video. The guy is in cuffs in the car and they're going through his wallet on the body cam and out comes a paper wallet (BTC) then I see a list of 24 words with "Ledger" written in the lower corner. They just basically doxed this guy's Ledger wallet. I hope he moved his funds before the video was posted.

Repeat:

I sous vide almost everything these days and get more of a steak than a roast. Did a London Broil about a month ago. It was awesome! I think I had it in the Sous Vide water for about 12ish hours to make it as tender as possible then seared it in a pan with either bacon grease or ghee, can't remember.

Puussshhhhinngg zap button. Nothing happens. Get your wallet set up. lol

Welcome.

Translation: Hi. My name is Sybil. Vote for us. We have you covered. Depending on where we are and who's in charge that day.

Oh... let me know how you like the Jade after you play with it for a while.

Craig Raw gave us Sparrow wallet. It's free and open source. It is BTC only. The best desktop/laptop wallet out there, period. It will connect to public nodes, private nodes, TOR nodes, Electrum nodes, YOUR NODE... It is coded to work with Whirlpool and Paynyms from the Samourai team. Works well with almost all hardware wallets. Links where you can read to get caught up. Feel free to ask questions as well.

https://sparrowwallet.com/

Samourai runs Whirlpool (sorta... mostly). Samourai has an awesome Android wallet but no desktop. Sparrow is desktop but no Android (IOS is just out at this point). You can have the same wallet in both Samourai and Sparrow so problem solved. Whirlpool is a CoinJoin system where the ownership of your BTC can be obfuscated better than anywhere else.

https://samouraiwallet.com/

https://docs.samourai.io/whirlpool

Happy learning!!

Still so many people that I've told before:

'No really, remember whe I told you at $3k and 7k, 10k, 20, .... and remember when it was in the upper 60s and I said maybe you should wait? Remember when it was back down in the mid 20s and you gave me shit later cause it got to the mid teens? Member when it was back in the mod 20s again and I called you? Then again in the 30s and now in the 40s?'

God I love them but COME ON! DO IT ALREADY!! 40s is still cheap.

Trying primal now. So far it looks better than Iris on the desktop. Will install the android app later.

Heard some podcasts and watched some videos of people talking about and using Blockstream Green with Lightning. Was so excited. Downloaded the wallet. Oh.... that wasn't for the peons yet. When do I get lightning on Green!!

I want my.... I want my.... I want my blockstream green.