Freedom for me, not for thee

I’m not aware of any time limit. Good to treat as somewhat temporary because they occasionally have to upgrade the Cashu ecash mint and since it’s essentially perfectly private they have no way of contacting users - though they try to post to Nostr/social media to give sufficient heads up. I’d follow Calle and gandlaf21 for more

It’s a very different approach based on Cashu(custodial ecash tokens). Upside near perfect privacy and zero fees if remaining in ecash. They can receive lightning zaps while you’re offline then you can redeem and withdraw at normal-ish lightning fees when you come online. Still beta, but an extremely exciting option to explore. Ideal for small amounts as a trade off to custodial risk(which is only temporary if you withdraw when you come online).

https://npub.cash/ minibits is also a great Cashu app on android that generates an address

you really only need to eventually get a few things right in life to have a great time: spouse and friends are at or near the top

An easy question to see if people actually care about the environment or if they just want to virtue signal is “do you support nuclear power?”

love it

great idea, excited to read thru

Haha!! I try to live conjunctivitis free unless forced by the kids

you either have freedom, accept the consequences both great and ugly, and realize that overall its far better though not without cost or you simply decide tyranny is preferrable; its that simple. also epstein was obvious even if you couldnt read his texts and the government did jack shit-they don't care

most long term bitcoiners have given away multiple Opendimes or Satscards in their day, myself included, and most just end up in the trash. Some normies simply won't accept responsibility or even free Bitcoin and find it more comforting to stick with the "narrative" and stay poor

I will boycott to make pasta

I think it’s 👍🏻

Stoke level = max

Most underrated way to Orange pill: have everyone download Nunchuk, give them Tapsigners, create a free collaborative multisig, and watch their eyes light up. Don’t at all try to sell, just walk them through the process and let Bitcoin’s properties speak for themselves.

Day 8 of being locked out of fiat accounts: In the fiat system I’m a second class citizen who shouldn’t be able to access his own money because I use Linux, VPNs, secure DNS, and a non chrome based browser. It’s all so tiresome. They say all I have to do is get rid of anything that ensures a secure private connection and use a windows or mac computer.

Bitcoin: still working.

Fiat: increasingly unusable at the best of times with no adversarial conditions.

personally I use Fedora and enjoy that, but imho Ubuntu is fine if you just use flatpaks instead of snaps though I certainly agree that pushing snaps is annoying af

Bitcoin just keeps working while all my Fiat shit is broken and driving me insane. The fiat system is all so tiresome.

Boycott Vanguard because thousands of customers have been locked out of their accounts for days or weeks, they can’t figure out how to fix it, and they can’t even estimate when they can deploy a fix. Oh and that ETF thing too I guess.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=424601

If only there were a self custodial censorship resistant alternative to this fiat insanity.

God I hope so 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I just wish more soft fork proposals considered what is best for Bitcoin, not what is best for themselves and their pet project.

The reason we should activate LNHance is that it’s the thoughtful product of long term discussions to incorporate the most desired changes of all the biggest BTC groups such as Lightning symmetry for LN Deve and CTV for base chain boomers. It’s a careful compromise of what people most want versus what is safest and still allows for the clearest upgrade paths in the future.

coinbase is at best a deceptive shitcoin casino, and likely a lurking threat to Bitcoin. big block shills

Any further context or reasons available?

spreadsheets are awesome, powerpoint is hell

Phoenix is awesome. They just ship cool new stuff all the time. Happy to see someone go around Lightning Labs while they’re focused on shitcoins

nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s Only getting 12 months is for bears. #lucky13

My US presidential voting logic: Trump = raving lunatic - no. Biden = senile octogenarian - no. RFK = awake and coherent - yes. The bar is that low.

scam

Nuclear power is the answer. Love nostr:npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3 ‘s saying “you can’t virtue signal your way out of physics”

I will admit to unfair bias on soft forks, I tend to be dismissive of those that have the loudest support from the JPG brigade. I’ll try to be better about keeping an open mind, but so far I find all of their arguments unconvincing to put it charitably.

Probably Swan jumping around or TX curtailment

Fair concern. I think those people likely start with an Unchained, On-ramp, or Bitcoin Adviser products where they hold 0 or 1 of 3 keys, can at least audit on chain, and grow and learn from there. Bitcoin has no reverse button so best for some to slowly learn before yoloing in with everything.

I think this is true everywhere and everyone just blithely underestimates how close their entire lives are to being one hack away from permanently fucked. Most people generally have shit personal technology security and knowledge and are an easy SIM swap away from losing everything. Your Twitter account gets stolen and they tweet something racist/whatever and your company fires you immediately and your reputation is ruined permanently derailing your career and life.

Totally fine with the idea and not trying to talk down on anyone. But does anyone genuinely familiar with the Bitcoin community think people are afraid to debate, share their opinions, or argue in general? Truly curious. Look at the recent conversations around lightning, scaling, soft fork proposals, and ordinals and there seems to be nothing but vociferous debate and skepticism.