The books are so long you might as well start now. For reference the audiobooks are something like 40-50 hours each if I recall correctly. It’ll take a while to get through them.
Bitcoiner Bank Boycott & Bounty: banks only speak in fiat. I’m calling on Bitcoiners to pull their money out of any bank that discriminates against Bitcoin users engaging in legal commerce. I’m trying to compile a list of those banks.
Call to action: Send me the confirmed identity of any bank canceling bitcoiners (please include some sort of evidence or screenshot) and I’ll pay you a 10k sat bounty.
Once list is assembled, I’ll boost them to the podcasts of nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 for public shout out.
We collectively have the resources to grassroots a stop to this if we work together.
If you are complaining about the Fincen proposed rules and haven’t posted a comment, you’re part of the problem. Bitcoin needs proactive constructive participants, not whiners.
Yup, I will always assume incompetence before malevolence unless there’s specific evidence saying otherwise
They said it was their fiat institutional partners without naming anyone specifically.
Swan has and continues to do a lot for the community and some amazing people work there. But for the love of God, just take the L and pivot. Build your own back end. This is the third strike. 
Is it finally the year of the Linux desktop? If it’s ever going to happen this has got to be the catalyst…
We need deepfake/AI pen testing of assisted multisig and Ledger Recovery setups in the same style nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp tests seed backups. Can you deepfake yourself and get a key signing approved? Of course don’t mess with other people or be a jerk, but testing how robust these systems are is extremely important, and I suspect they’re much worse than people assume. If so, your multisig setup is really only one key theft anyway from being stolen if another is an easy deepfake away.
Love lightning, but we should have our eyes wide open to its limitations. Roughly 75% of known lightning node capacity is hosted at a third party cloud company. Not ideal. #bitcoin #lightning
I was big fan but Phoenix fees kind of got a little high same with Breez. Not sure if you are having that experience now too. Mutiny seems to be way more reasonable. I got try nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 without connecting to my own node. When they open up that self custody lightning address to all I'll test it out more.
Totally fair. Just my own thought process was 1) running a lightning node sucks and I just don’t want to do it 2) I consider the Breez and Phoenix fees paying it forward to get some financially sustainable lightning companies going.
The hard truth is in the grand scheme of the world lightning adoption is still tiny and has a long way to go, and I worry it won’t ever hit mass adoption if we don’t have at least a few companies actually profiting off of it. An industry with no profits in a high interest rate environment will only attract passionate first adopters (here bitcoiners), not so much mainstream investors. The profitable business case for on chain is there, but for lightning the jury is still out imho.
GM! I wake up at 5am everyday. Not because I’m motivated or I think it’s a good idea. My brain is just trying to torment me. #coffeechain
Phoenix, Breez, and Mutiny seem to be the top 3 for me (in no particular order). Had good experience with all.
Only $40 and probably the best coffee maker for the money:
As a backup an aero press is pretty easy and cheap, and they still make great coffee 👍🏻👍🏻
Would you hold money in Bank of America knowing this? I wouldn’t. Per Wall Street Journal “Those unrealized losses in the bank’s held-to-maturity assets climbed to $131.6 billion in the third quarter from $105.8 billion in the prior quarter due to the recent spike in bond yields. The losses aren’t expected to be realized but they’re still a hindrance for the bank.” #bankruns
nostr:npub1csamkk8zu67zl9z4wkp90a462v53q775aqn5q6xzjdkxnkvcpd7srtz4x9 thanks for the suggestion, great coffee
#coffeechain 
Time for a UASF (user activated soft fork) to activate CTV. Let’s go full toxic and embrace the chaos! State actors can’t outmaneuver us if our next move makes no sense. Any core devs want to release node software with CTV?
#bitcoin #maxi #toxic
How so? This could be valuable feedback to the devs.
nostr:npub1dx5q2el8nd4eh3eg9t2e25fd7zuqg7zxz6ldkc3uzgh66ss2yc6st288sj app is really slick. Give it a try. Imho: Cashu is massively underrated. It’s custodial and has tradeoffs, but has significant product market fit for small private payments.