- Travel
- Grow food
- Try cuisine around the world
- Learn new skills
- Create things (programming)
If low power consumption is important to you, check out Intel's N100 options. Decent chip, low power. Just make sure you get your own (reliable brand) SSD in.
I don't know what you mean with no small PC's, since I saw you mention mini-ITX, also a good option, will be overkill but easier to swap/upgrade parts. Can also check HP/Lenovo/Dell mini desktops.
To me I also didn't want to use a major container service like Umbrel, set everything up from source code myself instead, but that's optional of course, but you do have the choice with these options!
If you're starting out from scratch:
Start with what you drink. Get addicted to water, always carry a bottle of water around, let go of sugary drinks.
As soon as I did that, my appetite for sweet food also dropped and I worked my way forward from there. 🌊
Taking it off an exchange gives you full control, means you're immutable by a custodian/government, but also makes you fully responsible...
Take it in steps, try a hot-wallet first for smaller amounts under $1000, transfer something, learn about fees, trace your transactions on mempool.space (great tool for understanding what is happening and what a UTXO consists of.
Then, when you feel comfortable, get a hardware wallet, MUST be open source (NOT ledger), and ideally is a Bitcoin only wallet. Get it from the official seller to be safe.
If you're stacking over $10.000, it might be wise to start looking at a multisig wallet, this is expert level, took me a couple of months of playing around to feel comfortable setting up a multisig setup with different hardware wallets, don't try to immediately go for the most difficult setup.
Take the small steps first, most important thing for self custody is getting security down. Keep your seed phrase only physical, never on a pc/mobile (unless playing with a hot-wallet where you'll have to have it in some app to use it). Just assume someone is always trying to steal your Bitcoin. Sounds scary, but being careful and responsible with your funds is the price of being in full control. It's worth it 😊
Send me a message if you need help, but best to just ask here in the open, so people don't try to scam you in private.
Little headsup: The roadmap link in your footer gives a 404 on GitHub 🙂
If anyone would be 'mad' about stacking metals, they probably are only in Bitcoin for the fiat price to go up, instead of seeing the bigger picture anyway.
Not everything is about getting 'rich' in fiat terms, it's about security and freedom.
True, gotta find out what works for you. Also, for everyone self diagnoding: your TikTok addiction is not ADHD 😂
~2014:
- Learn about this new internet money, sounds cool, where do I get this?
- Register at an exchange, find out I need to scan ID for KYC, said fuck that and didn't buy
2017:
- boom + bust, yeah glad I didn't get in on the hype
2020 till now:
- It's still here, might need to finally bite the (KYC) bullet. start accumulating, "diversify" into shitcoins as well, realise I'm a moron, reverse course to BTC only, read nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a book, conviction stronger than ever, set up my nodes, research every day.
Funnily enough, the exchange I didn't want to KYC at went bankrupt. I probably would've been burned so bad I'd have maybe never returned 🤷♂️
Not in it for the best story, and way over 5 lines, just here to say my conviction went exponential as well...
Trump is literally promoting his shitcoin on X…
I’m sorry, but this dude cannot abide shitcoinery.
FFS HE HAS “RUG RADIO” AS A CO-PROMOTER. https://v.nostr.build/lPIfOUSpV0ZdVciN.mp4
I feel like Trump + shitcoins is worse than Kamala + CBDC's for Bitcoin adoption, oh well, not my concern anyway 🤷♂️
nostr:npub10sa7ya5uwmhv6mrwyunkwgkl4cxc45spsff9x3fp2wuspy7yze2qr5zx5p translate this video to japanese from 0-15 seconds
Doing some interesting testing I see 🧐
If the apps get banned, my browser goes brrrr.
If you just want a Bitcoin Node, it's really easy, just don't put any BTC on it (Bitcoin core has a built-in wallet) and you've got nothing to lose.
Hardest part was deciding what hardware to run it on (raspberry pi or a laptop/pc/cloud) and if I should use a service like Umbrel or build it from sourcecode myself (I chose the last one since it's just 3 lines of commands, but you have to configure tor as well, which was fine but only do that if you're not scared of command prompt 🙂)
conclusion: everyone can do it, let me know if you need help!
I was hoping for a picture of the ducks 😅
It is, but I also feel like I want to get rid of my fiat currency first whenever making a payment 😅 weird dilemma
Yes, too much complacency in the west with currencies that looked strong, and now when they turn out not to be, blame the corporations for price gauging.
Sadly most are blind to what has been happening and still call bitcoin a scam when you ask if they accept it 😅
I tell myself I'm contributing by asking businesses if they accept bitcoin, if we all keep doing that we'll be planting those little seeds in their head 🌱
When I received it and found out it was 500 pages I was wondering will I ever finish this book, how can you have that much text on money.
But damn I went through it like it was nothing. Thank you so much for writing it! 📖😊
Yes, that was the biggest thing I was wondering, why USDT on Polygon. Best thing would still be to store in BTC, since USD is also losing its value, just in a slower way.
But I guess for stability and adoption, USDT is the easy choice. I often disregard Liquid, but this could be a great "in-between" solution. Where they have there USDT rails on liquid and then can easily store part of that wordt directly into BTC. 🙏🏼



