Don't knock it! That ViC was the start of a lifelong journey for me. I had to fight my parents for a long time to get them to buy it for me, because they thought it was a time-waster like television that would rot my brain, or I'd get bored with it after a week and never use it again. Oh, how wrong they were!

Those are some cute kitties! They look like good buddies!

Did they have a specific use case in mind when they developed it? With Lightning, it's clear the intent was to facilitate fast, small-value Bitcoin transactions to make using Bitcoin as a functional currency easier and quicker. I'm just curious if there was some vision behind the design.

Is there any meaningful difference in functionality between Liquid and Lightning? Or is Liquid basically GoBots to Lightning's Transformers?

The only thing I actually did with my 128 was type 'go 64'. Lol

My first was the Commodore ViC-20

I'm giving away access to my paid Nostr1.com Public Inbox/Outbox relay for a year to five people! Exciting times, huh?

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Damn. You're suffering no fools today! Lol 😂

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There is no one more resourceful than the pot-head.

I don't know your requirements, but there is no shortage of electronics manufacturers in China, mostly in Shenzen, that build wholesale products to spec. It may be worth looking into.

This reminds me of an old yard sale trick my grandma taught me. Whenever she'd have a yard sale, and she had items that weren't selling, she'd write a more expensive price above the price she originally wrote, then cross it out with a marker so that it looked like it was marked down. 9 out of 10 times she'd end up selling those items shortly after the "markdown". She taught me a very important lesson; marketing is all about psychological manipulation.

What a totally normal pick.

I like how it's the only English city name.

They originated in Hamburg.

Sounds kinda dumb. Any idea why some wallets are still supporting it?

I forgot to mention it allows you to download a copy of all your metadata so you can maintain a local backup of your profile metadata.

It depends on yout risk tolerance and your opsec philosophy, but I use Bitwarden to store my seeds, as well as in two other places. But I do not store them in plaintext.

I encrypt the seeds, and store the encrypted text in my password manager. It adds another layer of protection in case your password manager is compromised.

Additionally, I keep the encrypted seed in my encrypted note platform which is synced to a private git repo, and I convert the encrypted seed to QR code and I print it so I have a hardcopy safely stored on site in my emergency kit.

Honestly, I don't really understand the purpose of Liquid. I've never used it, but it looks like the same thing as Lightning, but without the userbase. Am I missing something?