It is not so much a matter of recommendation as of common sense.

The comment is directed specifically to influencers who are supposed to understand the technical side of Bitcoin because that's how they sell themselves and right now they are promoting fast upgrade to 0.25.

Obviously everyone has their own favorite options, but it is about recommending good practices.

Whenever a new version of Bitcon core comes out it's worth waiting 6 months than upgrading fast, with the exception of a security bug, but believe me, you'll find out about it.

There are some non tech people like me (probably few, granted) who nevertheless "get BTC" and want to run our own node and participate, but we can't judge by ourselves.

So inevitably, we rely on "influencers" or just go with the majority.

It seems that there are always three or four options for everything, which is good, but "tech people" will invariably split in camps that tell you that this tech is bad for privacy, and that tech is centralized, the other one is too complex... and the other camp will tell you the same about "theirs".

I have been trying to pull the trigger on a node solution for months. Start 9? Umbrel? Just run Bitcoin core on my bloody 2010 laptop?

Because personally I am an extreme skeptic, I mistrust "advice" proportionally to the "social clout" of the one advising. Yet, I lack the knowledge to do a detailed technical dive and make a decision.

So, how do people like me participate?

Typical behavior of the left who are always talking about their tolerance and supposed "right wing extremism".

The left is the side that always pushes for violence, the right is a hell of a lot better at it. The only reason the left gets away with this shit is they are protected by the state.

It's an asymmetric game where insiders are gauranteed to steal most of users' holdings while letting a small group profit to deceive the rest.

No woman could respect a man who is willing to share her with others.

No man could feign dignity after failing to inspire the admiration and loyalty required for his full sexual expression.

Open marriages are phase 1 divorces.

#MasculineFrame

Why pay taxes when they can just print money?

It seems like one of the first orders of business for communist regimes is usually killing the gays, so that's a pretty well-guarded secret.

"the jews" is a really bad game; play better games, like #bitcoin

I partly agree. If someone operates a public relay, I would like him to have a liberal attitude about the notes he permits. However, Nostr’s censorship-resistance isn’t dependent on every public relay operator doing that; it comes from users connecting to many relays. Also, while I would like relay operators to be very pro-speech, I don’t think that should extend to relaying spam.

I was born with a value issue.

Confirmed.

#[0]​ good lightning labs bad

One year ago tonight I went to bed more scared than I had ever been in my entire life. I can't believe it's been one year since my open heart surgery. 💜

If you followed me on Twitter back then, I want to thank you for your love and compassion again. Your support truly helped me through all of it.

Goodnight, Nostr. 🫂

300 bits of entropy for a passphrase is massive. That's equivalent to 28 bip39 words! And this is on top of the maximum of 256 bits provided by the seed phrase. That's a lot to type in.

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