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Josh πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²
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If the recommendation is to have the least amount of relays possible, then what relays do you recommend?

I hear ya. I'm stuck with ONE. No other options where I am.

Maybe it's my iPhone. But for some reason my Damus takes forever to connect to relays and load content. If I scroll too fast it crashes. I'm on the Testflight by the way. Damus is still my iOS client.

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nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z is secretly excited for nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s to launch Damus for Android so that Will can get my bug reports and complaints, taking away some of his load πŸ˜‚

Imagine if they combined forces and worked on the same client. πŸ‘€ I like Damus (it's the client that got me on Nostr) but Amethyst has way more features and runs smoother.

I feel the opposite. I can't comprehend how anyone could go through with it. Is life really that hard when we think about the reasons people take their own lives? Money, relationships, troubles with the law.

Curious. What browser do you use?

Yeah. This season is redeeming. Last one was pretty bad.

Guess it hasn't gotten much love in the year since it was posted. 😒

I haven't looked much into it. How exactly do you recover it if you lose the device and your phone? Is it completely dependent on the fingerprint?

Not at all, actually the reason why a hardware wallet can rely on pin security is because as a physical device it assumes there will be physical security too (e.g. in a location protected by secret service inside a safe within a room that only authorised personnel can enter etc.). Also it may have a self destruct feature like the ColdCard, where it bricks itself after a few incorrect tries with no way to recover.

But talking just in general about wallets set up by hardware devices, you'll always be told to write something down, back it up, hide it, maybe stamp it into steel. Maybe you are given many things to back up, but for a typical user setting up their first wallet, it's usually 12 or 24 words that they need to keep a copy of.

It's the copy that is the most important thing. Hardware wallets are not built to live forever. Electronics can fail, they can be broken and they can be lost or stolen.

The backup is actually your master, the device is more like your secondary which is designed to kill itself before giving up your private key, but also built such that it could kill itself when you make a few mistakes and it can do that because it knows it is a secondary.

The physical backup needs even stronger security, maybe it is split into parts (using a cryptographically sound method like seedxor or Shamirs secret sharing scheme) and secured in different locations.

You use the primary if the hardware wallet is compromised, lost or whatever, so it can be put out of reach where it takes days to get to if you need.

With more corporate situations, you're probably going to use a multi signature wallet where there are multiple keys and signing is a multi step process where different people are responsible for each key and there is a well thought out signing ritual.

If I were president, I would also be sure to consider a way to hand over the bitcoin to the next political party that gets sworn in and make sure it is a well thought out and well documented process. It would probably involve generating new keys and a new address and having the funds sent to the new address because you can't trust people to lose their keys.

Great explanation. It's gonna be interesting to see the transition of power in El Salvador. It's a lot harder to smuggle cash and gold vs. a pneumonic or two. We still don't know who controls which seed or what the process is. The guy hasn't been transparent about the process at all. Like I mentioned earlier, no one even knew he had that much Bitcoin and he's claiming it's just a "chunk".

Dogs are an amazing gift. The more the better. Arguably the best money you could ever spend.