It is okay for these decisions to be journeys rather than snap decisions. Freedom tech in general has both a learning curve and an emotional curve, at least I’ve found. I was very scared of adopting Linux, but after watching enough tutorials on YouTube I eventually got comfortable.

Your product is great 🫡

If you’re having any pesto though it’s a great day 🫡

No, agree with some other anti-spanking comments. To sort of steal a similar thought from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, it’s a sign you’ve failed.

It’s is definitely fair and especially true of politicians with longer terms (such as US Senators) but they have a powerful incentive to support us if they know we can and will unseat them in 2-4 years if they try to screw us. So you’re not wrong, but writing to tell your local US representative who has to get elected every two years that you are a single issue voter on Bitcoin is influential.

Nettles are a mixed bag for me. They’re definitely decent, but strongly prefer traditional pesto.

I have no relationship with the company, just a pleb fan

For experienced Bitcoiners who want more security and customization while saving on fees, the future is here https://youtu.be/GppkFrcDrk0?si=gaoqTifnJ_AsxUwJ

My 3-5 year prediction: lots of uneducated folks buy the shitcoin ETFs, but after a few years see they consistently trail BTC performance. NGU and Bitcoin swallows everything go from memes to mainstream investment theses. They sell, shitcoin ETFs death spiral, and BTC dominance solidifies even further.

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GM! We have to keep left curve audit-ability alive in #Bitcoim or we've effectively lost the 21M cap.

If any open source system adopts such advanced cryptography that only a few people can understand it, then you have almost ceased to have any gains from being open source.

There has to be a critical mass of people who can actually understand the code to be able to inspect it. If that number is 10 cryptographers on the whole planet, the likelihood of catching bugs or being captured skyrockets. We can get a lot of incremental privacy from wallets supporting things like silent payments and pay joins. Trying to push ZK crap into the base layer is a mistake, at least for the foreseeable future.

It is some kind of dedication to take off many layers of ski clothes in such cold conditions.

Google has in the space of basically 1 year gone from the most useful daily tech product in my life, to something so frustrating I avoid it entirely

There is no way to significantly reduce over energy consumption and increase quality of life.

I definitely agree with the meta point of it was a mistake to use either. I don’t think they provided much if any privacy and it was clear governments were closely monitoring and likely Sybil attacking them and you only were as private as your coinjoins peers were smart about not doxing themselves, aka not very private at all.

In talking to people smarter than me I think there’s two points 1) since the Samourai backend is proprietary it is unknowable if there was a honeypot. They could’ve had good opsec and purged xpubs after using them or kept them forever. Impossible to know unless/until it comes out in court. 2) someone somewhere has to collect xpubs to coordinate the transactions. Oversimplifying: So your options are basically central coordinator or run your own(they called this a Dojo). Samourai provided both options. User had to elect not to run their own Dojo and divulge their xpub, it was not required. People should never give up their xpub imho

I’m vaguely aware of this and need to research more, but I was under the impression OXT was a series of open source tools to measure privacy and Samourai used them to see the effectiveness of the privacy they provided. Which you can make a pro case for and say you have to measure the effectiveness of your product somehow or con case and say it’s too risky and creates a bad incentive. At the very least I wouldn’t say throw it in the same bucket as Wasabi using an outside chainalysis firm to explicitly screen and block certain transactions. I’ve tried to research and see no evidence of Samourai blocking anyone. Also Samourai you could’ve always run your own Dojo and didn’t need to give out your xpub, another key difference versus Wasabi.

Are you thinking of Wasabi? Samourai did not do chainalysis

Genuinely curious and trying to learn, with things like this floating in the EU and already passed in the UK , and the Dutch courts basically saying FOSS code needs to include KYC and software writers are legally responsible for user actions, why do European folks pull BTC related services out of the US and focus on Europe? Maybe it’s because I’m American and biased but we at least have ironclad free speech. I’d rather take my chances with a money service business charge in the US where I can almost certainly beat in court and where I know I can say and publish what I want.

GM! #Gardening beginner? Have little or no yard but still want garden? Methley plum and hazelnut trees are small yet prolific producers, very hardy, and easily grow across most of the US in a 20-30 gallon fabric pots. Plant two of each and you’ll be on your way to tons of beautiful homegrown food👍🏻👍🏻

For noobs or my own laziness, I love trees. They are more forgiving and don’t have to be replanted every year. You can find tasty fruit and nut trees that grow almost anywhere.

Linux for desktop. Windows and Mac have basically turned into spyware. There are many Linux distributions that are super easy to run such as Linux Mint, Ubuntu, PopOS. Can even buy a great System76 computer with Linux preloaded to go on super easy mode.

Some collective ego check is certainly fair criticism for everyone to carry going forwards

My parents have for years. If you have a large shady spot, say under a treat, you just drill holes into a log and out in spores. That’s about it for many easy varieties. Some are harder but many are easy.

Swan still is the only place I’ve seen where you can go through all stages of Bitcoin in one place with good UX:

1) Swan.com/welcome has great orange pilling education to learn Bitcoin basics

2) easy to onboard and setup Bitcoin buys

3) easy to withdraw to cold storage

4) *can use Swan Vault as super easy but highly secure and redundant multisig.

*This last step is the key I haven’t seen anyone else come close on. It’s really scary for new people to take that leap of withdrawing to self custody so statistically most never do and leave it on exchanges. I think more focus on this step would help the industry enormously. Shitcoin casinos never will because their incentive is to keep you gambling, but maybe Bitcoin only exchanges will realize providing this will likely make new folks stack more and for longer. The number of people I meet that “have” >= 1 coin all on an exchange is continually shocking.

If you want to get into #Linux as a beginner, System76 makes amazing Linux computers in the USA. You definitely pay a little more for an assembled in the USA computer with great customer service, but very well worth it imho. Their Mini computer great for a reasonably priced dedicated #Bitcoin computer, which once you hit a decent sized stack is probably a good idea.

Strictly worse if you’re in a western country with decent banking infrastructure, but I get how if you’re in a poor country with terrible banking it has appeal.

Anyone who says #Bitcoin is useless has never sent a wire. They’re $30+ if not international and can only be sent 10am-3pm on weekdays, and the headache is just enormous. Settling large transactions via fiat banks is just so painful.

I’m so dumb that for a full second I read this as “3rd printer” and wondered why anyone needed 3 printers 😂

Eastern Seattle suburbs are awesome and worth considering. However, Tacoma is a murderous hellhole.

Take nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs ‘s advice and just boo shitcoiners and call them out. At a Bitcoin meet up yesterday, a lovely grandma was a new bitcoiner and was only three months into her Bitcoin journey. She has a lot of corn on an exchange, but realized she needs to self custody and was looking for help. Bitcoiners all give great advice about hardware wallet options. Shitcoiner pipes in about how she can flip into a shady custodial ETH product for yield. I try to politely explain technical aspects of why shitcoiner is giving bad advice. I see shitcoiner is convincing grandma. I channel nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs and just flatly say this guy is telling you to selling you a scammy shitcoin product where you could easily lose all your money because he owns a shitcoin company. Grandma avoids getting rekt, shitcoiner butthurt, and all is right in the world.

Wooooh!! Agree!!

With the Madeira/Atlantis federation shutting down, what fedimint are you using going forward?

This indirectly shows why it is so important to have strong states rights. These senators are doing this because businesses in their states are telling them this is bullshit and needs to stop. For instance, even NY state democrats are getting fed up with the federal government trying to usurp their ability to regulate NY chartered banks and other financial entities, or CA dems being stopped from passing some harsher environmental regulations(I don’t personally like their decisions but they should have the right to be stupid imho).

GM! How is a 3.4% inflation rate in any way good news? Even putting aside it’s a totally fake number, if it was right it’s still terrible news.