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Jittering Blender
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Passion for freedom tech, including Bitcoin. Linux nerd, with my preferred distro being NixOS. Lover of languages, both natural and artificial, ranging from Japanese, Chinese, Lisp, Haskell, and Rust. I’m also about that ergo mech kb life.

How do you send custom zaps through emojis with primal? do I need an external service in addition to the emoji? #asknostr

Yopen looks beautiful!

Are you concerned with regulatory risk of incorporating fedimints into your wallet as a company? This is one of my primary concerns about fedimints. This risk seems too high for people to want to be fedimint custodians. My other concern is risk of law suit from customers which would suggest forming a separate business entity which makes you more vulnerable to the above regulatory risk.

Did y’all know that emoji is a Japanese word? It’s 絵文字 which stands for picture character. Mind blown.

I legitimately never knew.

I think you underestimate what is required to balance security and redundancy. Most people I know don't have a good backup and recovery plan nor a good security plan for their normal digital info. If they have any plan, it's SMS based 2FA and cloud storage. With bitcoin, you need to more carefully consider both security and backup/recovery far more carefully. These are not insurmountable and they are ultimately responsible for the consequences, but I think it's important to have empathy for their predicament and how challenging this is for a beginner. People can need bitcoin and still find securing 24 words challenging. If we maintain empathy, we will continue to make UX as accessible as possible and effectively meet people halfway.

I like you saying this because for freedom tech to pervail, it has to have better UX than the status quo.

nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg is there a way to send a portion of your lightning balance in the primal wallet to a LN client? I sent a bit too much into the primal wallet.

#asknostr #plebchain

Anyone know the answer to this?

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#plebchain #asknostr

Is there a way to send sats out of the primal custodial wallet to an external lightning client? I only see the option to send to a nostr user.

#asknostr

I too hope that we don't give up on scaled self custody

Replying to Avatar David King

A real bitcoiner ™️

You might not characterize the community of bitcoiners as a welcoming group of folks. Market forces have caused some of the most vocal among us to have developed a certain “toxicity”. And this is a rational mechanism of defense against all the nonsense scams, schemes and fraudsters orbiting bitcoin (and boy are there a lot of them!).

However, I have a more welcoming idea to share. You can be a “real bitcoiner™️” without subscribing to all the angry toxicity. I’d suggest all it takes is understanding what makes bitcoin special. I have been accused of not being a “real bitcoiner™️” at times. But, I don’t really care. I’ve been on a continual journey of educating myself and my friends about this technology. You can begin to climb the educational ladder as soon as you begin to become curious. Understand what bitcoin uniquely adds to the world: digital scarcity.

A partially ordered list of the stages you might go through:

+ buy some bitcoin via an ETF

+ buy some bitcoin and hold it on an exchange

+ understand what makes bitcoin special

+ withdraw some bitcoin to a non-custodial wallet

+ withdraw some bitcoin to cold storage run a bitcoin full node

+ explore privacy preserving technologies like TOR and CoinJoin

+ buy some non-KYC’d bitcoin

+ convert all your personal assets to bitcoin

+ run a bitcoin miner

+ exclusively hold all your wealth in cold storage

+ exclusively use bitcoin to pay for all your monetary needs

+ move to El Salvador or another bitcoin-centric community/region

+ only participate in circular economies on the bitcoin standard

The beauty of bitcoin is that it’s a voluntary system that nobody controls. So don’t let anyone shame you into living up to their expectations of what it means to be a “real bitcoiner™️”. I’m somewhere in the middle of this list personally. The further I get down the list, the more curious I become about items a bit further down. I don’t expect I’ll be moving to El Salvador, but I’m a “real bitcoiner™️” and you can be, too.

I appreciate you posting this. It both made me feel better about my path in this bitcoin journey as well as having patience and compassion for others in their journey. I sometimes get anxious when I get comfortable with my setup and then find that there is more to consider like UTXO consolidation. I also have found myself pushing back on people interested in the ETFs. I recently had to remind myself that something having risks doesn't mean it can't be a net positive for some people. Everyone's values, priorities, use-cases, and threat models are different so I'm trying to be more intentional about matching advice with the unique needs of the person I'm talking to.

I'd love to learn how to use the custom zap feature via emojis.