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Are you traveling just with one backpack? What's your traveling setup?
I will write here the same I wrote under Matthew's video...
...on this one I have to disagree. I think your view on this particular matter is very black & white. Let me add something to it:
1. It is completely voluntary to use coinjoin feature in Trezor.
2. Nobody, not even the coordinator knows who you are. (As you are hidden thanks to tor and block filters)
3. I spoke directly with nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and listened to people from Trezor ( nostr:npub16lcw8ytugeh3ug3na93yl0tdf0gnjtduljhn2a852atf6jtvkucs7pruje and others) explaining their point of view on coinjoin with WabiSabi.
- zkSNACKs/WabiSabi was chosen because - as stick put it, it is superior coinjoin to the Whirlpool in the sense that WabiSabi coinjoin is a superset of Whirlpool. Meaning WabiSabi can do everything Whirlpool can (potentially) but not the other way around. So from a future point of view, in regard to potential functionality, this was a better coinjoin solution to go with.
- Both Max and people from Trezor would much rather use coinjoin which does not follow OFAC transaction censorship. It's disgusting. Everyone agrees. But as zkSNACKs is a company that could and already was harassed by law enforcers in Gibraltar, it was decided that - at least for the time being - it will follow OFAC regulations to avoid this while providing pretty good privacy feature to the masses.
4. Another kind of "feature" is that Trezor users can for free check their UTXOs if any of them is blacklisted by OFAC. (If it is, it will be refused when trying to coinjoin it) This will tell users upfront and they will know to be potentially careful to not send such UTXO to exchanges to avoid freezing of their funds or even an account. And they will know that such UTXO should be handled differently - eg. leveraging the lightning network. (I guess that should help...)
I really do not see this one to be so bad. Trezor works just as it did before. But on top, it enables pretty damn good, one-click strong privacy feature to all its users. This feature does not leak information about you to anyone. But it does not let you to use this feature when your UTXO is on OFAC list. You will find out for free, without any issue and you can deal with such UTXO separately.
Let me quote myself here from few weeks ago...
I'll just add that many of the conversations on this topic were lacking nuance and it was using shortcuts to come to conclusions in my opinion.
Announcement: New #Bitcoin Lottery - Coming Soon 🎉
In coorporation with #Ledger we present the #Bitcoin Lottery.
How does it work?
Buy a passport for $15 and find out if you're lucky 🤡
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ledger-crypto-wallet-under-fire-141439821.html
Do we know that passport is really all it takes for them to give you all the seed shards?
Nonetheless it's stupidity to use the service. And living with the knowledge that the HW wallet can send the shards out there on some servers...uf...
Did you know that cold card initially used Trezor's open source code?
And then they changed the licensing type when somebody took their code as well?
Anyway I'm more than happy to support HW wallet developed in my country. Plus I see the founders regularly on different meetups, openly talking to everyone. Down to earth guys supporting radical transparency. Works for me.
Well, storing seed in cloud is dumb. But nowhere in the message I see anything that would be stating or admitting having backdoor to your private keys in ledger. Only when you decide to use such feature, only then the encrypted shards of the seed will get uploaded out of your device.
It kind of seems like the unfounded spook that was floating around when Trezor implemented coinjoin and that they are now censoring your transactions which are not OFAC compliant. But the truth lies in nuances and basically is very much different than what was written all over #bitcoin Twitter and #nostr.
Trezor your corn. 🔒🌽
Wealth comes from picking the winning horse, not betting on all the horses in the race. #bitcoin
I don't really care. I don't use ledger, never trusted them nor I intend to start. Just curious and want to see the source.
Anything new other than the fact that personal information of their customers were leaked few years ago?
Not speaking about the fact that you'd have to carry 15kg ASIC with you. 😅
Well, it depends what ASIC you get your hands on, how much it costs you, how will the difficulty adjustment progress into the future, what will be the price of #bitcoin, etc.
But at price of 30k per bitcoin, using S19 pro with 110TH, you'd get around 8$ worth of corn 🌽 a day. (Considering the electricity is free)
It would take you like half a year of nonstop mining to break even on the initial investment.
But if it is a hobby or you already own ASIC, it's no-brainer 😂
It would be probably nice to have for this usecase something portable and silent. (Liquid cooling)
Ideas are already cooking in my head. 🌽❤️
I heard it also helps if you have problem with too many shitcoins causing pain in your butthole.
#bitcoin is universal cure.
We played shitty game for half of the game. Probably deserved victory...
How to reduce costs for any kind of hotel/AirBnB accommodation:
1. Buy ASIC
2. Travel with ASIC
3. Plug it in. Consumed electricity will be offsetting your costs
Yes. This idea is pretty dubious and arguably immoral. I just couldn't help but share how my rotten brain works. #bitcoin
Well, in the Czech Republic they asked admin of .CZ domains to block so called disinformation domains. For several months bunch of news websites were down. Disgusting.
So these practices are metastasizing into western countries quite fast.