How long will it take to earn enough Monero to pay for the computer and the electricity to run it?
You would have more Monero if you just bought it rather than a computer. You'd never mine more Monero with that computer than you'd have by just buying Monero rather than a computer.
Unless you're paying less than seven cents a kilowatt for your electricity, you'll always be better off buying any crypto, not just Monero, than mining it, even if you already own mining equipment.
I know there are people that are mining at a loss to 'help the network', which is nothing more than giving their money to a multi-national energy corporation rather than just buying crypto for themselves. Idiots.
You don't have to use the in built primal wallet. Primal also works with NWC. On Android it does anyway.
Ahh. I've just upgraded to one of the n100 Umbrel devices with the 2tb nvme drive and it only took 3 days. The 16gb ram would have helped too I guess.
HDD?
My pixel will wake up if I say "hey Google".
Most people around the world think the ACDC lyrics are "It's a long way to the top of you want to rock and roll.", but any Australian will tell you that the actual lyrics are "It's a long way to the shop when you want a sausage roll.".
Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do, we do
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do, we do
Who holds back the elctric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do, we do
Who robs gamefish of their site?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
You own your account rather than a server admin. Your account can't be censored or blocked by a server admin.
Replacing one corporate server admin with a dozen server admins that still have the same control over what you can post isn't freedom.
WTF 😦
"Freedom is the freedom to write two plus two equals five." -- nineteen eighty-four
No. Today, every merchant will know about Bitcoin, even though most still don't accept it. That's significant growth from just a few years ago when most of those same merchants hadn't heard of Bitcoin.
When that single EFTPOS machine they use also accepts lightning payments, merchants will start accepting Bitcoin.
I'd let her beat my ass any day of the week 🤣.
Custodial lightning versus custodial e-cash, there's no real difference. However, it's getting hard to get a custodial lightning wallet that doesn't require kyc. That's the benefit of e-cash. Basically, lightning without kyc.
There is a setup cost with non-custodial lightning. So, for some people, especially first timers, a custodial wallet is at least a start. Something they can use until they can afford to fund their own lightning channels. So, for a non kyc lightning wallet, pretty much e-cash might be the only option for now.
That's a very good question.
The Dan bot pumping out the hello world spam under a new npub each cycle is a good example. It's easy to block because it reuses the same text. What if it used a new npub each time with random text but flooded a hashtag or tagged a person to harass them? That gets tough to block.
Is it possible to flood nostr with bots so as to make it unusable?
Federated servers can block offending accounts, and federated servers can block another server that's not proactively blocking offensive accounts.
But, federated servers can also block or delete any account using their server that's saying things they don't personally like.
Which to me, just replaces one Elon, with a couple of dozen Elon's. Censorship by a committee.
Sooo, how long until we get a bot swarm attack on nostr?
Harassment, is not free speech.
Anyone harassing someone else and calling it free speech, is a coward that's too scared to say the exact same thing to a person's face.
And, they are an ignorant fool, because freedom of speech only applies to what you say about the government without fear of reprisal.
No one has ever had the right to harass another person. There will be consequences if you do.
Anyone that listens to anything Elon says deserves to have their Opsec compromised.