Hahaha! I’d take just building more fission reactors first 👍🏻👍🏻

Umbrel is great as long as it works, but the backups are a real problem. They have a hacky but workable backup for LND but nothing for CLN. If you run a CLN node and your hardware dies you’re in trouble.

This is why I prefer start9.

Start9 currently at least has manual backups that are easy. Umbrel currently has basically no backups unless you go into each app individually on the CLI(not practical).

There isn’t a great automated backup solution right now that I’m aware of, but it’s on Start9’s roadmap.

If you need automated backups as a hard requirement I’d probably use Voltage.

Miniscript and anchorwatch are cool af 🫡🫡

People who agree: almost everyone

People who disagree: Boomers

Are you claiming they stole money? That doesn’t appear to be the case. Even investors such as nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs have come out and said they don’t think anything shady happened. So no money appears to have been misappropriated. They gave very advanced notice that it’s shutting down so you can take out your money easily, and no users got rugged. They transparently described many struggles they’ve had along the way, both in blog posts and in podcasts. Hence how I know not have covenants is/was frustrating.

*not just a store of value

They have a public blog post answering every question you asked minus giving exact dollar amount which isn’t a fair expectation

Unless your name is Satoshi or Adam Back, then the nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg guys have probably contributed way more to Bitcoin than you ever will. All Bitcoiners must deeply accept we have collectively chosen shit base layer scalability to strong ensure decentralization and security. This has created the soundest money ever, but it does make Bitcoin RIDICULOUSLY hard to build on in a way only technical folks can truly understand. Shitting on devs for trying hurts us all and reduces the future pipeline of technical talent and startups we desperately need if we want Bitcoin to be money and just a store of value for the rich. It also shows very few folks truly understand the practical implications of Bitcoin’s current scaling trade offs.

So much of what people are claiming are Mutiny issues are actually permanent structural issues with Lightning itself for as long as we do not have covenants. (Yes I’m oversimplifying for brevity)

Bitcoin has scaling limitations. Dunking on devs and rooting for their failure just helps ensure we won’t get the apps and companies we need in the future.

If both sides fail to pick a VP candidate from a swing state we know they care more about social signaling and what corrupt donors want than actually winning.

SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD: BITCOIN WITHOUT COVENANTS HAS NO WORKABLE SOLUTION FOR FULLY SELF CUSTODIAL SMALL PAYMENTS AND HODLing. All solutions such as Liquid, custodial lightning, ecash, etc. make reasonable trade offs for certain people and situations given BTC as it exists today, but they are all custodial and strictly worse than BTC self custody would be with even the most basic covenants.

*I intentionally exclude running a fully self sovereign lightning setup because this just isn’t practical for the masses, we are all learning this the hard way in real time.

GM! If you trade or leverage your Bitcoin you’re probably going to lose it at some point. You have to abandon fiat games.

Alby and Zeus seem like the best easy USA options. I’m also trying to run a Core Lightning node on a Start9. That isn’t too bad if you understand how channels and liquidity work.

In reality all our private nostr keys (nsec-s) are very hot and if they get compromised you essentially lose your account forever. FROST could help a lot there

Yeah FROST is very exciting, especially for Nostr. I would say though even “basic” Bitcoin multisig with hardware wallets from multiple vendors is still an amazing option.

I agree. I would say however since Casa is no KYC and not all tightly integrated under one company the effect is nowhere near as big of a problem. People just need to be sure to signup with a generic protonmail or other private email.

If you like fantasy books; The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

When there’s waaaay too much debt and leverage out there even what should be small issues blow everything everywhere tf up all at once