New native Minibits release is out. This is mostly maintenance release, bundling all features, fixes and stability improvements that have been released in incremental over the air releases from december last year.

Makes sense to me to level the playground and to have a stable base to work on what's coming.

Sure there is something new and highly experimental:

Minibits is now the first ecash wallet that auto-recovers ecash lost due to mint responses not coming back to device via re-playing the requests and utilizing new Nutshell mint cached responses (works only with latest mints and with caching responses turned on, such as Minibits mint)

Step by step towards safer ecash!

Can anyone confirm that a google pixel phone bought at Best Buy be bootloader unlocked to ultimately run GrapheneOS?

It’s the only place I can think of to pay cash for a pixel phone and not be attached to my address.

#asknostr #grapheneos #pixel #privacyphone

You will be given one million dollars if you can present a TED talk within 5 minutes with 0 preparation. What are you going to talk about?

#AskNostr

What if Trump doesn’t do what he says he’ll do..?

At some point, everything will fall apart, and you’ll feel like this is it… this is how it all ends. It’s not over until YOU say it’s over! You’ve got a choice to make right now, give up and let it break you…OR get the hell up, fight back, and make your dream happen. No one is coming to save you. No one is going to hand it to you. You want it? Get up and TAKE IT. Be your own damn hero!

Where you put your energy is what grows. If you focus on negativity, if you sit in your excuses, your body and mind will respond with deplete and defeat. Negativity doesn’t just hold you back…it DESTROYS you. But when you flip the script, when you think like a champion…when you speak power into your life, you unlock your potential. You don’t just talk about it…you MAKE IT HAPPEN. Say it out loud. Own it. Believe it. Detach from that weak-ass scarcity mindset. Stop limiting yourself. You are NOT here to play small.

You start where you are. Solve one problem…then the next… and the next. Keep moving. Keep grinding. Keep pushing. Because at the end of your pain, you don’t just survive…you fucking FLOURISH. That struggle you’re in, it’s building you into something unstoppable. Get through it. Own it. Make it yours.

And when you hit the wall…and trust me, you WILL hit the wall… it’s not the end. That wall is there to test you. No test, no testimony. Some people will hit it and fall apart. They’ll quit. They’ll run back to safety. But not you. Hell no. You’re not most people. You’re the kind of person who smashes through walls. You don’t stop. You don’t quit. You go harder. You come back stronger. You break that wall down…and you take what’s yours.

And when that breakthrough comes… and it WILL come… it’s going to hit like a tidal wave. All that pain…all that struggle… all those late nights, doubts, and fights… it’ll all make sense. You’ll realize it wasn’t luck. It wasn’t someone else who made it happen. It was YOU. You got up. You kept going. You fucking WON.

So don’t just survive…THRIVE. DOMINATE. WIN. Speak life into your dreams. Own your power. Push past every excuse… every fear…every obstacle. The victory is already yours…it’s waiting for you to claim it. Get after it. Make it happen. It’s your time. LET’S FUCKING GO! RIGHT NOW!

you’re welcome.

#thenostr #nostr #motivation #fearless

Happy new year you beautiful 🫘!

Elon is turning X into a safe space. Pretty woke.

What are your top/favorite LN inbound liquidity providers other than lnbig and coincept? Go!

#asknostr

Thought experiment.

Option # 1

Let’s say you have 10 bitcoin and we hit 2 million in the next few years.

You’re tempted so you sell it for 20 million dollars.

After taxes you’re be left with 16MM.

Which you use to comfortably generate 1.2MM a year in the tradfi markets.

So you take the money and retire.

Bitcoin crashes 60% back to 800k.

For a few years you feel like a genius. You enjoy your new rich person lifestyle.

You even buy back a few bitcoin. 2 to be exact. 20% of what you used to have.

Then bitcoin rises over the next decade to be worth 50 million per coin.

You’re worth 120 million now. And you decide to sell a little over half a coin and upgrade your lifestyle again to be able to generate an additional 2 million a year.

You’re now on paper worth 120 million, you generate 3.2 million a year (266k a month) and you’ve been largely stress free for the last decade.

Your kids will inherit roughly 1.62 bitcoin from you upon your death.

You have some level of regret about not hodling through, but you’ve been largely stress free and the mental health benefit was worth it in your mind.

Vs.

Option # 2

You have the same 10 bitcoin but you Hodl them.

Your stress levels are persistently higher.

You also decide to retire when Bitcoin hits 2 mil, but you decide to do so in bitcoin terms.

Your plan is to sell a little bitcoin as needed in order to fund your lifestyle.

This is roughly 1-3 million sats a month. Depending on bitcoin price.

Over the course of 10 years you end up selling or spending 2.4 bitcoin and are still left worth 7.6btc when bitcoin reaches 50 million.

Your net worth is 380 million.

You’ve reduced your lifestyle in bitcoin terms down to a million sats a month. (500k) or 6 million per year. You’re 46, Assuming you live until you’re 90 you will pass down 2.32 bitcoin to your kids.

You have no regrets about the way you played it, but your stress was consistently higher and there were a few scary months along the way.

Which option do you choose?

1 or 2?

Lightning payments when you don’t have sufficient liquidity

Interesting how coin control can help save on fees and improve transaction privacy! I wasn’t aware of the idea of consolidating smaller funds to optimize future costs. This seems like a great feature for managing Bitcoin more efficiently. I’ll explore more about it on Blockstream Green. Thanks for sharing! 🙌

Ge #Nostr

Had a wonderful 7-mile meditative walk today.

In addition to cows and horses, I often see deer on my walks. They are such beautiful creatures.

Present and centered. Now it's time for Sanskrit studies and writing.

#IKITAO #Meditation

I'm becoming obsessed with farmers markets. seems like a good place for #bitcoin transactions to occur.