I'm planning to experiment with something like this:

1. Buy lighting from exchange, Relai or Pocket Bitcoin, weekly dollar cost averaging

2. Peg in to Liquid, using side deal, after each buy, keep in Green wallet

3. Keep it in Liquid up to a more significant amount, perhaps after 6 or 8 weekly buys

4. Peg out from liquid to on-chain cold wallet

What do you think?

I do this yes but after the boat step I do a coin join for good measure and then send every single utxo separately told storage. maximum privacy

A new strategy people seem to be using to self custody Bitcoin. Chain foot print is low and also good privacy.

People who refused to agree with me 10 years ago on how I viewed the world are now realizing that I was right.

Seeing some insane bullish calls for price tops with this next cycle. Fam we're not going to hit 700k. Most likely range is between 150k and 250k. Remember that these same people calling for above 500k+ are the same people that said we were going over 100k last cycle.

Wtf happened in 1971.

#bitcoin

Ok I got so excited with this coldcard that I now wanted to get all in.. buying a seed plate, set of dices, etc etc.. but Argentina is a mess so I can’t use my credit card forcing me to use bitcoin instead at this point 😂🤦‍♂️..

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"May you live in interesting times" is an interesting expression, sometimes referred to as a curse.

Many of our best stories, from literature to shows to movies, are about horrible times. They're about conflict, and people overcoming that conflict. And our heroes, both real and fictional, are tied to those times.

And yet as people with lives and families, we don't want to live through those times. We don't want to live through war, oppression, or conflict. We don't want to have to be the ones to stand up and tell some more powerful force to go fuck themselves. We'd rather read about others doing it, and how cool that was when they did.

I continue to view this period of time as "interesting" in the historical sense. The 1990s were probably the best recent time to chill, but it wasn't where history was made. The 2020s and 2030s are not as good for chilling, but from looking back in the future, it's these times where the bulk of the historical content is likely to be focused on.

For some regions, it's outright war that they're dealing with now.

For the majority of other regions, it's instead a cultural war, and an economic war. And it's going to get worse before it gets better. Do we fund those who are at war, and if so, which side? What values do we subscribe to, and who is "we"? How do we determine truth, and with what framework? For breakthrough tech, who gets to control it? Should it be centralized and regulated, or open and accessible?

And more directly it's about stepping up and saying, "It's good for people to be able to own and transfer money without state control and state dilution. And it's good for people to be able to communicate how they want to without the state silencing them. Even when they buy things and say things that I disagree with." That won't be an easy battle.

Someone on Twitter sarcastically asked me today what army defends Bitcoin. My answer was:

"The army of encryption and energy spread around the world.

A shield, not a spear."

The same is true for Nostr, in a slightly different way. The developers and relays, and the people willing to use it and finance it, are what defend it.

Communication and value are the two key components of free commerce. All of those people today who build strong shields for communication and value are living in interesting times and contributing to them in a positive way.

FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.

You don't want easy.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.

Easy is not putting on your running shoes.

Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.

Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.

Easy is compliance.

Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.

Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.

Easy is starting up the money printer.

Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."

Easy is not educating yourself.

Easy is not taking responsibility.

Easy is trusting a third party.

Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.

Easy is not having to think.

Easy is not having to understand.

Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.

Mining pools that “filter” I.e. censor bitcoin transactions are losing out on fees.

It’s economic suicide for miners to point their hashrate to such a mining pool.

Any miner who actually wants to be profitable will point their hashrate to the mining pools that don’t enforce “filtering” (aka censorship).

Only moronic charitable miners who do not wish to maximise revenue would point their hashrate to Ocean. Why would a miner support a mining pool that doesn’t maximise their revenues? nostr:note156zq09nqvysa5rz5k82muwtfu78h4jl8xwum0py3krsrg3nd6yhqumtgay