Is the "American Dream" still a thing?

Frendly reminder to BTFD 🫂

#bitcoin

It kinda baffles me how many comments I get from people saying Bitcoin isn't suitable for a currency because of its vulnerability to a global EMP attack.

... is that even worth making a 60-second de-bunking video or should I just let that stupid hypothetical slide 😏 ?

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

#Bitcoin and #Nostr are brilliance in simplicity.

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Is it a coincidence they look like two frat bros who just roofied you?

Only two guarantees in this world:

- No one can live forever

- No one can make more #Bitcoin

For everything else, more demand will lead to more supply

That's why the only things I really value are my life and my #Bitcoin. Their growth is realized not by their supply, but by their value.

#plebchain

Running lightning nodes is too complicated for 99% of people

To do non-custodial lightning on your phone it needs to be online when you receive the payment and requires an initial onchain tx to receive.

This is terrible ux, so you are forced to use custodial solutions like wallet of satoshi, and privacy is terrible.

fedimint is a third option: the mint can provide a lightning address for receiving and sending out zaps even when you’re offline. This is private, temporary custody.

When the phone comes online it can choose to sweep fedimint funds into its non-custodial phone wallet (a future non-custodial ⚡️ wallet in damus as an example). In the UI this would be simplified as your custodied and non-custodied balanced summed to your total balance.

Damus’ fedimint would be federated with other guardians such as mutiny, so I can’t unilaterally rug the custodied balance. This is implemented as a multisig bitcoin wallet behind the scenes.

The use case is killing non-private lightning custodians who can unilaterally rug you. nostr:note12yd075f9un56nlmmh6dk6ehxnatjg5kf35wcevx8rwa8kstzt5rqkv8n9m

Those “bitcoiners” obsessing over the #Bitcoin price and making price predictions on X are giving an incredibly bad name to Bitcoin and look like idiots.

Take your crypto/trading projecting elsewhere. This is freedom money and a revolution. But at least you’re showing your true colors!

In the future, bitcoin transactions will likely be similar to FedWire transactions.

You have probably never had to use FedWire directly. You still use the USD every day though.

Bitcoin as the main rails offers a better world. The intricacies are and will continue to be worked out.

Kind of want to run a damus fedimint and/or LSP and integrate a non-custodial mutiny-like wallet into damus clients.

What is the actual downside of open sourcing swiftui? Is there really mindblowing code in there that is going to give competitors a huge advantage? Your shit is broken noone wants to use it anyways. ffs.

Tomorrow’s Real Bedford meetup is moved to 11am due to the game being canceled. Same place.

Ok time to ‘ask nostr’ a question 🤔

And you cannot use just ‘bitcoin’ as your answer 😂

#asknostr

#nostrscript’s can be very smol! They can also be very powerful, since they are portable binary executables that can be run in a client to do basically anything like create custom lists or filters. They are also sandboxed so they can’t do bad stuff like steal private keys.

Can’t wait to get back to this once I finish *the relay is in the phone* tangent I’m on.

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