If this isn’t true, I don’t know what is. 🤷♂️
Bitcoin is king.
At the end of the day, if you have a hardware wallet and it says it generates a seed phrase one time, and one time only, you are the most custodial of custodians.
If you use an app and it says you HAVE TO WRITE IT DOWN OR YOU WILL LOSE ACCESS TO YOUR FUNDS, it is very probable you hold your keys and nobody else does.
If you can just “get started” for free but you are paying additional fees over the appropriate block transaction fees (based on mempool activity at the time) or lightning fees, to use their wallet, you are 100% custodial and if they get shut down or rug, you forfeit everything you held with the wallet. Not safe at all for more than lunch money, and if Bitcoin goes to billions or trillions, you just got rugged for thousands or millions of “today cuckbucks” in the inflated future.
“in my day FIVE pieces of bubble gum cost a penny!” - all of our grandparents, great grandparents and great-great grandparents.
. . : : The Hacker's Manifesto : : . .
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager
arrested in computer crime scandal", "Hacker arrested after bank
tampering"...
Damn Kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain ever
take a look behind the eyes of a hacker? Did you ever wonder what made
him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school. I've listened to the teacher
explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand
it. "No, Mrs. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is
cool. It does what I want it to do. If it makes a mistake, it's because
I screwed up. Not because it doesn't like me...
or feels threatened by me...
or thinks I'm a smart ass...
or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... A door opened to a world... Rushing through the
phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day to day incompetencies is sought... A
board is found.
"This is it... This is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... Even if I've never met them, never talked to
them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... We've been spoon fed baby food at
school when we hungered for steak... The bits of meat that you did let
slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by
sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to
teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in
the desert.
This is our world now... The world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without
paying for what could be dirt cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering
gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... And you call us
criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without
religious bias... And you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs,
you wage wars, you murder, you cheat, and lie to us and try to make us
believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that
of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never
forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all...
After all, We're all alike.
+++The Mentor+++
9 to go!!
Been here since before the first “halvening” and one thing I can say for certain, is: I have never been more excited for an event in my life each time this happens. I think the best way to look at if you’re Bitcoin rich is, how much more Bitcoin do you have above the current Bitcoin subsidy? If you have had 6.25 BTC during this epoch, you were “Bitcoin Rich” 🤑 After today and after the new bottom that proceeds this bull, I’d say the new 3.125 subsidy will make you rich enough to buy a house.
What makes me think of this:
I heard in one of the 164928 documentaries on money that I have watched/listened to that gold has always been able to buy a man
An entire suit (including shirts and accessories like cuff links), a new tie and a new pair of shoes.
I think the then-current Bitcoin block subsidy will always buy you a home and acreage. I think the size of the home and acreage will adjust (probably up) over time, but I think the subsidy will ALWAYS buy you a nice house and some acreage in a modest neighborhood from here on out.
What is this voodoo?! It looks so cool!
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Any chance we could get the current block hash or at least a partial of it added? Maybe in a really small font, within the blockclock? Either above or below the block height somewhere?
Would be great to prove something occurred when a screenshot was taken on the page and, for example, written on with an Apple Pencil or similar?
https://void.cat/d/Tvv6ab8NoQTGGreRNu98rH.webp
Crazy I just found a screenshot of these times... crazy that Bitcoin is over $60,000 and people are complaining when I remember this all time high like it was yesterday.
Just happened across one of my first Bitcoin wallet addresses and see that over 500BTC went through it. Lost most of it to playing Satoshi Dice like a total idiot.
Before that, in 2010, I lost over 500 (good chance it was closer to 5000) BTC because I didn’t know what I had when I mined them.
Fml. 🤦♂️
And people apparently don’t think Coinbase could rug the world in the coming decades. It’s becoming the Bitcoin central bank and shitcoin casino all-in-one. 🏦
Sending a tx just a few Satoshi less than what is clearing current blocks is masochistic. I don’t know why I do this to myself.
Oh yeah I do, it’s to save hundreds of thousands of sats over the past 14 years and years to come that will someday make sure my great great great great grandchildren each have their own citadel. 😅
Let’s fucking goooooo #LilBubble
Classic 😆
Because everyone here is COOL. Duh! 😉
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What say the Nostr community about the fact that every single zap is a taxable event?
Does this not prohibit all law-abiding citizens from wanting to participate in Bitcoin?
There is the Virtual Currencies Tax Fairness Act that was introduced to the House of Representatives exempting transactions under $200, but what about RIGHT now?! Seems impossible to account for every zap and the capital gains and losses on each transaction.
How can a Nostritch stay compliant with the current rules?! This is a mess as it stands. Let’s hope the <$200 house bill passes and soon.
Just reread this note and saw I said cleaner wallet. I meant clearnet wallet. Autocorrect fail. 😂