Leave your phone home. Take walks long slow walks. Remember that you are alive.

Needing to say that others are "elites" is kind of a servile mentality.

I'm a person, and so are they.

Being accomplished is another thing entirely.

Is this fixable? Is there any type of glue I can use to reinforce it. At least make the situation manageable.

#asknostr

gm did Seth post another 6 feet long note on why he doesn't care about ecash 🤣

Always working! And the government is telling us to even work more to finance the boomer pensions…. #work #germany #tax #theft #wtf

When people don't trust their government, one of the best tools they have is to trust each other. If you trust neither your government nor your peers, then your battle is going to be all that much harder.

Being able to choose who to trust, and having tools to help you do that as efficiently and as minimally as possible, is almost as much of a superpower as not having to trust at all.

Some types of trust can be privacy-preserving. Some types of trust can be spread out over different groups of trust, so that the burden does not rest too heavily on any one person or group. Thanks to cryptography, we can break down trust to its smallest possible components, and assign them as deliberately and as minimally as we want, and to whom we want.

Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, have I mentioned how much I like Chaumian ecash?

I've heard that international airports have tax duty free zones which contain artwork. The artwork is held there, it never moves, but it is sold from person to person without tax.

I wonder if Bitcoin could be held in those vaults

What's your favorite Android launcher? #asknostr

A meeting with auditors is essentially a professional game of show and tell or hide and seek.

If the only solution for Bitcoiners to have private payments is custodians (be it e-cash, Fedimints, etc. as is all the rage) then Bitcoin will simply be dead for me. Feels like the ultimate cop-out.

Custody is the line in the sand that cannot be crossed. Custody not only opens up immense risk for loss of funds, it also makes these tools far less resilient to adversarial environments.

Can "they" stop every Bitcoiner from keeping 12 words safe? No.

Can "they" stop a few popular mints from operating? Absolutely.

If the only solution for Bitcoiners to have private payments is custodians (be it e-cash, Fedimints, etc. as is all the rage) then Bitcoin will simply be dead for me. Feels like the ultimate cop-out.

Custody is the line in the sand that cannot be crossed. Custody not only opens up immense risk for loss of funds, it also makes these tools far less resilient to adversarial environments.

Can "they" stop every Bitcoiner from keeping 12 words safe? No.

Can "they" stop a few popular mints from operating? Absolutely.

Bluesky announced DMs today. Yikes.

This is the weird kind of stuff I get invited to here. Very different from any ladies night I ever went to back home. Should I go?