You know it brother! GG still going strong, many nyms. Got to be one of the longest running now surely?
TMG is sorely missed, those were their good old days for sure. Great vibes.
Itâs when you start talking to Satoshi on the phone that you concede those tabs werenât 110mcg and instead were 500mcg JORâs Xtal #1 GFD needlepoint from 2015.
#LSD
I didnât know that. Many thanks. I was side loading Monero on Umbrel last year but nice to see it featured. Monero is as important as Bitcoin imo.
Decided to download and run Start9 based on your tweet today around Max having a win with S9. Props.
Had the spare metal after my node suddenly filled up with spam to the full 2TB last week for no reason. Bizarre but couldnât be arsed to run the logs so itâll be remain a mystery.
Pissing with rain here in the UK and market looking horrendous so the perfect time to put them head to head.
PS, passport is amazing. Got over my initial niggles of no trick-me pin and no encrypt passphrase to microSD but loving it as my luke warm wallet paired with Blue. Keep up the good work, appreciate you.
Slow days are good for node setups.
Pitching nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct against a nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll DIY build on my usual Dell refurbished metal.
Didnât start well for Umbrel as the power supply was faulty but I had a spare so onwards.
Umbrel now packing #monero daemon in the App Store so thatâs a plus but damn is it laggy.
Anyone favour Start9 for pure bitcoin play?
My Experience with nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9
**TL;DR Strike is garbage.**
I started using Strike in the middle of March this year.
My first impression was that it was a great app. It had Lightning integrated, on-chain withdrawals were free, and the setup was pretty easy, even though I had to do a full KYC. After all, they are regulated and that is to be expected.
I began using Strike to send and receive BTC and buy gift cards directly within the app. I was pretty amazed at how easy everything worked. I loved the app. I even recommended it as an onboarding app for pre-coiner friends. Well, not anymore.
One day in May, about two months later, I wanted to send some BTC to an exchange or buy a gift card (which was basically all I did with the app in those previous two months). However, the app denied access to my BTC. All I got was a cartoon lightning bolt saying, âWe need to review your account. Contact support.â
At first, I was shocked. I didn't have my life savings in the app, but it wasnât a trivial amount of sats either. So, there it was, right in my face for the first time: Not your keys, not your coins. I got angry with myself and with Strike too.
I contacted support.
Support wrote that to comply with regulations, they needed additional information (remember, I already did full KYC), like a pay stub, signed employee agreement, or tax statement.
This was my response:
Hey, the Bitcoin with which I funded my Strike account are savings from the past. I don't work currently, and I also have no tax statement because I just moved to Brazil last year. What exactly is the problem? I didn't do anything illegal or wrong. I expect this issue to be resolved immediately or you will lose a customer. I already regret using your service. I'm very disappointed.
Yeah, I was really pissed because I couldnât access my sats. They locked me out. Just like that.
Strike answered:
Dear User,
Upon careful review, we have determined that your account has engaged in prohibited use. We regret to inform you that we can no longer provide you with access to our service.
At this time, your account has been permanently disabled. Please withdraw all remaining assets from your account within one week from receiving this message, and confirm with us when the withdrawal has been completed. After this timeframe, the account will be closed permanently. Please be advised that this decision is final.
Best regards,
The Strike Team
Okay⊠So now Strike accused me of âprohibited useâ of their app.
I asked them to be kind and specify what prohibited use I engaged in. Because obviously, I donât want to get in trouble or do anything illegal.
Their answer:
This decision is based on an assessment of different qualifications. Our customer support team can only confirm that we sent this message and assist with technical issues only. Support cannot reverse this decision, nor can they share any more details related to this matter.
Thank you for that great answer. I can really see you care about your customers and their experience. But I guess at that point, I wasnât their customer anymore anyway.
Still, I sent them another message and asked who I could talk to. If there was anybody who could clarify what I did wrong. Remember, all I did was send and receive BTC and buy gift cards.
Their answer? Well, they never answered again. Just like that. That was it.
After this beautiful experience, I posted about it on Nostr.
And guess what? nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle answered.
Woohooo!
He said I should send him a DM and he would happily look into the issue.
Cool! Now thatâs what I call customer service.
So, I did. No answer.
I sent him another one. Again, no answer.
I sent another one or two. Still no answer.
This was 5 weeks ago.
I guess he is very busy.
What a joke Strike is.
Many such cases.
KYC fucks everyone in the end.
Anyone experienced in dust attacks? #bitcoin.
This one is posed as BRC20 txs, 546 sats with 5sat/vb that will never confirm or get purged.
Two of these are sat in one of my wallets. Dusting started a week ago and it seems to be in long chain with over 200 other wallets.
Best practice? Freeze and forget or pay the CPFP and burn?
Hopefully a coincidence but my node seemed to have been spammed in some way. Went from 1TB to using the full 2TB within a day making it impossible to catch up to the chaintip. Anyone heard of this behaviour before?
nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
Any help gratefully received.
Why?
Electrum on tailsOS has been working well for nearly a decade.
Sparrow is easy to install from terminal.
No issues here.
Featherwallet for #monero should come baked in though. Awesome wallet for this environment. Obvs Monerujo for Graph phones.
There are times to run, times to walk and times to do nothing.
3 days in Rome last week was the perfect relaxation before diving back in to bitcoin.
Enjoy Greece, one of my favourite countries in the world.
Boating Accident in #madeira
https://video.nostr.build/21a36c2871f6b506183eac54fdb2ecfc36ef70969370da4625b7fcae236dc816.mp4
Well, at least itâs not a coldcard or passport.
One less Trezor in the world đ€Ł
UX is amazing.
Easy multi device multisig setup, easy airgapped support via PSBTs from my Foundation Passort.
Sparrow is way more intuitive and powerful transaction building interface.
Doesn't fuck around with lightning.
Overall granular control and parameters that anyone can learn.
Craig Raw ships code that is high quality and for me, it's left Electrum for dust. Not to say Electrum is bad, it's stood the test of time but looks and feels second class.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tails-v6-4/
Still my favourite one-stop-shop tool for simplifying my life.
Sparrow and Featherwallet.
Does it beat Whonix on a VPS? No idea but if it's not broke then why fix it. tailsOS been a solid perfomer for me for over 7 years now.
#monero + #bitcoin
Dual coin future.
Does anyone still use email anymore? Only thing I use it for is for signups and purchases. Almost every other communication is on short form IMs like Signal. Times change and for the better in this case.
Just finished watching https://www.deathathletic.com/
Never thought this would be a rabbit hole that I would go down but since I heard nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx talking about the murder of JStark I'm learning so much about this movement. Not sure what I'll find at the bottom of all this.
"If you're not reading Mandibles, you're living it"
Best Odellism of 2024 so far.
Not seen this guy in a while. Been spending too much time twattering about and not enough time on NOSTR. Great vid, much appreciated.
âEpoch Vâ will do.
Outside of âThe Wireâ, second seasons are mostly overrated.
A car, one of the few âassetsâ that depreciates every minutes of the day even when not in use. Mostly a liability if there is a loan but itâs their inherent utility that makes it confusing for the rubes. The ability for humans to travel long distances over short time periods is a superpower. In that regard, cars are a valuable asset.
lil Schiff finally went off reservation frfr. This is what denouncing Bitcoin gets you. Good news is that we welcome back all in to the fold. Only a matter of time.
100%
And to the single moms out there with weak as fuck men not taking responsibility, we salute you.
My Mk4 doesnât get a look in these days