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If only people could use extinguishers to create fires, and that's something people actually did.

Long post written and nostr messed it up, so in short... Un-scientic rant based on anacdotel evidence: "my brocolli has gone up another $1 thus CPI is a lie". Where is the data? Don't throw the scientific baby out with the bathwater.

Yeah CPI has issues, but I don't believe it has been addressed properly here.

Do a trip up to Exmouth while you are there. One of the most beautiful places on Earth that I've ever been too. Heck, I could join you if that's an option on the table :)

Ultimately you can't eliminate trust, so at some point you do need to draw a line. For example, after you have generated your own seed words you trust the firmware to generate your xpub, which could just be someone's else's xpub.

So now we're talking multi-vendor hardware devices, using two different computers to manage the firmware updates and watch only wallets. Some people draw the line around here, others go further.

University external courses gone. Zoom sessions gone.

Roads got busier and other armys got larger. Resulted from global democratisation after WWI. This was also around the start of the dismantling of the gold standard.

6^50 > 2^128

In other words any more then 50 dice rolls will provide no additional security, as the minimum number of operations to break any Bitcoin key is 2^128