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Gary Green
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According to the author of The creature from Jekyll Island, it's long past the point where voting matters. It's going to take brave militant souls to fight the corrupt machine. Our present condition is a result of the machinations of the cabal of central bankers and globalist elites. The socialism pump has been primed. We gotta decentralize our way out. Vote with your feet, your time, your attention, and your wallet.

It's that season again. This is a second year buck visiting my front yard.

I have a pack rat that I've been trying to live trap in my barn and it hasn't been interested in my bait. Well yesterday I unexpectedly trapped a skunk. My lovely spouse got sprayed and came running back to the house stripping of all her clothes and jumped in the shower with the skunk antidote: Dawn dish soap, hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. In the mean time she sent me to the barn to arrange for it's disposal. Wouldn't you know it but that little fucker got me too! I dispatched the stinky bastard and had my own trip through the shower. Somehow that just wasn't on my bingo card for the day. That put me in a foul mood for the evening. It gave me insight to my personality how I just don't have the resilience and necessary sense of humor in the face of adversity that I once thought I had. Can anyone relate? What wasn't on your bingo card recently that caught you off guard that taught you a valuable lesson besides never approach a trapped skunk from its business end?!!

What books did you read this week? I got through The Creature from Jekyll Island, Hayek's "The Fatal Conceit", "The Road To Serfdom ", and"Principles of Economics " by Saifedeen Amous.

If I wasn't a BTC triple maxi already.... These books seal that deal.

For example? It looks this way on Satellite and Amy... So you're saying i have a relay turned on that allows the repetition and bots and others don't? Where do we find a list of safe relays? Inquiring minds want to know...

This thread looks like the seven circles of hell. Did you break the matrix? What a hot mess...

Thanks I know him. Just shot him a DM to see if he's coming to the meeting.

There is a Bitcoin Meetup coming to my area in a few weeks. I would like to see our time together be productive beyond the socialization. Does anyone have ideas for a topic(s) that could/should be covered in an hour or less of a 90-120 minute meeting? I'm thinking it would be useful to teach/ learn how to use the lightning network for micropayments. Are any of my inland Northwest compatriots adept at this use of the technology - willing to bring a lesson plan of sorts to our meeting in October?

How does Sparrow Wallet for desktop work?Are digital assets secured on a desktop that has Internet connectivity? Isn't this something vulnerable to a hack? I have only the tiniest idea of Sparrows' purpose (UTXO management). What else is it's utility? Too complex for open forum here? DM me instead.

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Yes. To be precise, #Bitcoin does not have an “account” model. It has a transaction model. Transactions involve previously unspent outputs (UTXOs) and yield new outputs. Outputs are locked using scripts, the hashes of which we call “addresses”.

So then what is a wallet? A wallet is, essentially, information that allows the user to:

1. Generate addresses.

2. Create transactions involving those addresses.

3. Determine whether a transaction involves its addresses.

The wallet is the closest thing you have to an “account” in Bitcoin. To discover incoming payments, your wallet needs to connect to a node, which has visibility into all transactions. (The exact mechanism for how the wallet talks to the node can vary).

Strictly speaking the wallet doesn’t need any secret information. It works on what are called “public” data, such as your XPUB, which can be used to generate addresses. You don’t necessarily want to leak this data for privacy reasons, but an entity that gets a hold of it cannot spend your coins.

A keystore, in Sparrow parlance, is something that stores the secret information—the “keys” or seed material. While your wallet needs to at least occasionally connect to a node to discover transactions or broadcast new ones, a keystore has no such need. Its job is solely to secure the seed material while in use.

(Aside: Super strictly speaking, Sparrow allows keystores which contain only public info, such as an XPUB to create watch-only wallets. But the core idea here is that keystores hold secrets and wallets interface with the world.)

So when you create a wallet in Sparrow, it sets up a file with info about the keystores in use. This file has a name and lives on your hard drive. You can create a password to encrypt the file, which protects against malicious code on your computer reading its contents.

If you create two wallet files with different names, but all the same parameters (keystores, etc.) those two wallets will generate the same sequences of addresses and have the same signing capabilities. It’s the same as if you made two text files and pasted the same information into both. The two text files are different files but contain the same information. Same with making duplicate wallets.

In fact, it’s a good practice to make a duplicate right away as practice. Making a duplicate wallet is the same as your recovery procedure. That is, your recovery procedure consists of making a “new” wallet that yields the same addresses to receive and sign.

Thanks for sharing the explanation. I'll look into Sparrow.

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Doesn't matter which organized crime family you vote for. The Mafias decide what does or doesn't happen in government. It's all corrupt fiat chasing.

Who is favored to win this one? Hope you have a blast with whomever is your company. I would rather be there than sitting here.

That's a good thing. Nostr is going to do it all. Best devs on planet Earth are grinding off all the rough edges. End the social media monopolies...

David, glad you're still at this podcast. I find value in your content. I'm still hoping you'll reach out to @stuart bowman for an interview. He's still the cutting edge Nostr developer of Satellite. He and Hzrd are working on social graphs and web of trust as well as other angles to improve the Nostr experience. Reach out of you want something other than his Nostr DM. I can get you his number. He presented at Nostriga last week with PabloFZ7 and others. He's one of the top 5-10 devs in the

For a perfect medium rare steak: Heat gas grill to 450-500 degrees. Apply steak for four minutes each side. Easy peasy.

Web of trust and social graph are on the way. Nostr devs are working on interesting solutions for getting high signal non-bot feedback you can actually use to determine the quality of the profile. We won't just need to rely on follower counts. Satellite devs are hacking out solutions to the social graph and web of trust as we speak.

This is a really sad commentary on what we have become.

I can't fault the reasoning of the author. Do you think they are wrong?

Here’s the million-dollar question nobody is asking about the Baltimore bridge collapse… https://tiny.iavian.net/1z1sc

Did you meet Stuart Bowman of Satellite?