Yes.
Governments are unlikely to give up their ability to tax people, in a stealth way, by printing money.
So currencies, as a legal tender, in most countries, I think are there to stay, at least for decades to come.
Of course, I could be wrong.
I'd like to be wrong and soon witness governments move to a Bitcoin standard.
But...
https://simplelogin.io/ good?
better options?
Thank you. I will take a look. I used KeePass for many years, synced password database file to Google drive.
But then, some time ago, for usability, I defaulted back to Google chrome password manager. It's just so easy and works on mobile, etc.
Then, more recently, I thought I'd get out of Google.
Hence Bitwarden. I will look again at KeePass, maybe KeePass DX for mobile, or your product.
Thank you.
But I hope they cannot read my nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane, right?
Because, first of all, HTTPS is used, so the traffic from my browser to Proton Mail is encrypted, and secondly, the emails are also encrypted, right?
Or can the spyes circumvent it?
I thought Switzerland was privacy friendly.
On the other hand, I understand that monitoring the internet is one of the ways for government to prevent or detect crimes.
But, as an individual, law-abiding by the way, I want to be able to receive my Bitcoin newsletters to an email account nobody is monitoring.
How are your running it?
I played with ollama
Worked for me
Clowns at best, manipulators and criminals at worst. I guess we will never know.
Anyway, doesn't matter that much for those who hold.
Thanks for the timeline summary 😀
And, additionally, optionally, you can use a BIP-39 passphrase.
I see it as a, kind of, equivalent of 2FA for Bitcoin.
Is this a right analogy?
Knowledge --> conviction level --> portfolio allocation percentage
When you say "we don't have the desire" (for the government to use freedom tech to communicate), who do you mean by "we"?
Because I, for example, would certainly desire it.
But of course, the government does not.
And the people, most people, they don't care I guess, unfortunately, and are mostly unaware of the problem and of the existence of Nostr.
And I guess the only way to get the government to use Nostr works be to grow Nostr... Right?
True.
How might we convince the government to start using Nostr for communication?
(while probably most of us Nostr users think that government is a criminal protection racket)
Impossible, I guess.
But I agree, they should.
Do you recommend any password manager?
Bitwarden?
Thank you 😀
Hard question that haunts me for a while. Maybe for someone as smart as nostr:npub1lz8xv2dnyryrk4vswkcgf52vqqzruqwuyp53s7pvusx4fef9fh2s7hh86s
12 word seed is protected by 2^132 while 24 word seed is 2^256.
Why the heck did we allow that compromise? That is like 38 levels of magnitude worse defense against possible brute force hack. Am I right or wrong?
#bitcoin #grownostr #asknostr
There is an argument here that 12 words in enough and 24 does not add much
I don't know enough to form a strong opinion about this
Common sense tells me 24 is orders of magnitude more secure
But the author claims otherwise
Your take?
https://foundationdevices.com/2023/06/make-12-words-the-standard/
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/degoogledphoneinfo/
We can do a 6a for 300, i'll even throw in free shipping to the EU because I like you
Thank you
Love to hear it
Let me think and get back to you directly
Which country world you ship from?
(I want to assess the risk the border customs control makes me pay VAT and a tariff to receive the package) (for example of happens here to shipments from AliExpress)
We made 610 Bitcoins anonymous with a single coinjoin transaction: https://mempool.space/tx/fb596c9f675471019c60e984b569f9020dac3b2822b16396042b50c890b45e5e
Stack sats, stay private.
Number of inputs: 327
Number of outputs: 279
Value: 610.74252451 BTC
Fee rate: 50.53 sats/vbyte
Input anonset: 4.48
Output anonset: 7.15
Will I be getting similar forward-looking privacy if I peg-in to Liquid, keep L-BTC for a while, and then peg-out, in a couple of transactions, back to BTC, to new addresses in a new account?
The cost is 0.1% one way.
Coins will not be tainted or tagged as conjoined.
Could it be a good option?
I wanted to say "against you", not "sharing you"...
I agree but fiat has one big advantage over you hypothetical crypto token you could create.
And that is, people with guns, people who can and will use force and coercion sharing you, government and police, will force you to pay taxes in their fiat token and force everyone in their jurisdiction to accept their fiat token as payment.
So, there is that.
But yes, I agree with your sentiment :-)