my neighbor is now "earning yield" on his bitcoin by buying the ETF and then enrolling his brokerage account in "securities lending" for 18% monthly returns on schwab

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There are no solutions, only tradeoffs.

As I'm learning about Bitcoin Lightning, I'm seeing some major red flags. To use it, you need an account with a service provider. It's a username/password type of custodial account. Then, the node has full control over your funds. They could shut down without warning, or transfer your funds. The only way to actually have control is to run your own node, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of Lightning? The whole point is to allow many users to transfer tiny amounts of money a lot, eg zaps. To me, it seems that Lightning nodes have all the problems of Mastodon. Imagine the problems of Mastodon, except it's your bank account. That's bad. What am I missing?

It's been a busy few days of general running around and keeping the family happy.

Which was all worth it as I'm very happy to announce thay at 18:15 little baby Effy came into the world.

Feeling a very proud grandpa right now 😁

#grandad #baby #newborn

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There’s enough actual illegal shit using nostr, like cp, if you wanted to examine nostr censurability. I don’t expect to see this ethically compromising shit coming from the ceo of a bitcoin-enabled company just for a gotcha. Just me I guess.

You presumed it wasn’t here already because it’s not in your feed. Pretty limpdicked to bring more attention to this noise & put it on ours imo. People following you probably expected a higher standard, but that might’ve just been me. I’ll adjust my expectations of you.

U.S. planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK to counter threats from Russia, according to the Telegraph

I’m so tired of not being a multimillionaire

The pythagorean theorum with a toddlers's toys.

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If you don’t have to pass building code the old wood stoves are better (at least in the US). Regulations killed the better ones.

We have a Jotul, it works good but I wish we would’ve gotten a larger one. The salesperson did size it for us but we do need a little more