Would love to see some gliding pics. Back in the day at the Abbotsford Para Centre we used to occasionally have a glider call the manifest office and request landing on the DZ. A couple guys with powered rigs and I think one that launched just east of Mt. Cheam in Chilliwack who did a nice cross country. We used to love doing hop and pops with our sport rigs from 12.5 for the sunset load, and just play at formation flying instead of doing a freefall. Canopy time is great. As we would descend to the ground, which was already not lit by the sun, you could see the peak of Mount Baker to the southwest, colored by the sunset, and the blazing orange sun setting way out over the Pacific. Sometimes we would do what we used to call a “Mr. Bill”, and one guy would wrap arms and legs around the other, facing one another and roll out the door. The jumper on the bottom would immediately deploy, and you could both ride around under the same canopy for a while. Not a Transport Canada approved practice for sure lol. Then at a reasonable altitude, the “clinger” would say “Oh no, oh no, Mr. Bill!” and let go, and fall silently away for a quick freefall. Great days.

I had a really hard time with Umbrel other than running a functional Bitcoin node for many months. And it’s funny, now that I am finally set up with StartOS, the main reason for wanting to switch to StartOS (getting a Lightning node up) has been replaced by other aspirations. I just don’t have enough BTC to risk to be fucking around with potentially having assets hung on forced closes etc. Who knows, maybe $1000-$2000 of liquidity won’t be a big deal soon, and it’ll be worthwhile. Perhaps I’ll change my mind later, but it just seems so complicated right now. The main goal I was trying to get to was to be able to assist local merchants in using Lightning as part of their point of sale solution, but I have a lot to learn.

First connection to new Start9 server. I got this i7 1TB mini PC off Amazon a while ago and ran a node on Umbrel for a while. Just dropped a new 2TB in it and got StartOS server going. Excited to explore the world of sovereign computing!

How many people are testing that seed phrase lol

Omg my soy milk just came out of my nose

Straight fire all day as usual. You have been elevated to meme godhood

How long could you have a particular hardware wallet before a critical firmware update came and went uninstalled, rendering you unable to sign transactions with it?

And regarding hardware wallets that don’t ship with native open source software support for creating transactions, how would a person safeguard themselves against a day many years in the future where community support for the device became such that there were no remaining open source projects producing and supporting such software for whatever version Bitcoin core has morphed into by then? Should a person at minimum be storing a compiled version of a compatible piece of client software on a thumb drive (and a computer that will run it) with the same diligence that they are safeguarding their signing devices? Or is routine replacement of one’s signing devices (and the associated need to move UTXO’s every 5 years or so) a foregone conclusion?

Doesn’t this introduce a form of counterparty risk for long term hodlers?

Interested to hear some thoughts on this. Thanks.

Great idea. I just about had my whole stack siphoned last weekend over a fake version of sparrow that was listed as a mobile app.

I would recommend reworking the trailer and eliminating the FUD comments. Without context, high time preference no-coiners with zero attention span might take them as statements of fact.

Thanks for the reminder. Hadn’t re-established my Alby link since I nuked my last npub on the weekend. 🤙🏽

Lol stacking Sats made 5 based on it only being 2 years now

Looks amazing.

Spent a good part of my 20’s and early 30’s in a search for meaning. There was a time I thought it was all about fun. I looked in self improvement, martial arts, marriage #1, extreme sports, philosophy, male conquest, religion, psychedelics, shady and dangerous people, and more.

The most meaning I’ve found (a product of marriage #2 that’s still such a source of joy after 21 years) was when I looked into my daughter’s eyes for the first time and realized it was up to me to be a provider, protector and teacher. Forever.

I recently boiled everything I know, have read, and believe down into four statements about how to have a fulfilling, while still often turbulent life:

1. Know that the Universe has a plan for your life.

2. Choose a noble purpose and pursue it wholeheartedly. It will not find you. Go get it.

3. Do hard things.

4. In the pursuit of your goals, resolve yourself on death. The way of the warrior is death. Let it all hang out.

5. Stack Sats.

Can’t wait to try one on the new combo charcoal grill/smoker once it’s not so cold outside.

Bright kid. I hope he overcomes the bastardization of our language that he has inherited as he gets older. Y’know wum sane?

I’ve seen much of a generation become high time preference, dopamine addicted junkies with zero interest in doing hard things or those that involve delayed gratification.

“Smart” phones. Mushy brains.

Yeah aside from some minor fees and $30 for a new set of plates, it worked out so much better than it could have. It was very interesting that despite the estimated TX confirmation time approaching and passing, the unauthorized transaction would not get added to a block. I am assuming that must be due to the air gapped nature of my signing device.

Despite being on solid ground now with a new seed for the Cold Cards, I’ve still looked at the balances like 47 times today lol. And finally got smart and divvied up assets across a couple other devices. I was due to do that this week anyway, but of course this incident occurred when everything was in one spot. Never again will I have my ass hanging out like this again.

I got lazy with this

It was an imposter mobile version of Sparrow. All I did was try to set it up as a watch-only by sharing my wallet descriptor and somehow that was enough for someone to broadcast a transaction. But the transaction couldn’t fully fly because it was not signed by my actual device for some reason. At one point I got down to ten minutes to confirmation showing for the unauthorized TX, but the ten minutes came and went and the unauthorized TX didn’t get added to a block. If I had been using a software wallet instead of a fully air gapped security model, it would have been a different story. Talk about a lesson in online security. On the bright side, I inadvertently got to learn how RBF works in Sparrow, and now get to double down on security by severely minimizing my attack surface by staying away from mobile apps and, by the end of the week, even having sparrow on a segregated server on StartOS. I am hoping all of these lessons will one day allow me to assist others in their journey and help them confidently start their Bitcoin journey with confidence. I have a fairly technical background and was able to navigate this with a couple of Google searches, but I really wonder about mass adoption of safe self custody being within reach for people that haven’t put in the work. It’s just funny that I was just reaching the threshold for what I am willing to protect with a single seed when this all went down. I had already begun a second stack elsewhere with plans to keep my assets that exist in a single place sub 15M sats. After this incident I am thinking about backing that off to no more than 7M in a single location. This whole thing still has the hair standing on the back of my neck. I wish there were some way to trace the unauthorized address to a physical person.

Peace out friend