WiFi only

When people ask my opinion I just send a video of the 2020 debate against Tulsi that was so bad she had to drop out afterwards

I think most supporters realized he was about to suspend his campaign and got sad, or am I just projecting?

Joe is the #1 Bitcoin influencer, he just doesn’t know it yet

Any chance you’d be willing to write up your experience setting up the Bolt12? I have a CLN node but still tried and failed

I don’t get why people are emotional about Nostr on X. If someone goes to Nostr why do they care so much? Even if you think Nostr is silly, just let people be silly. Smh 🤦🏻‍♂️

GM! Just because someone is annoying doesn’t mean they’re wrong, just because Udi is an annoying troll doesn’t instantly mean OP_CAT is an attack on Bitcoin. This is exactly the lazy tribalism thinking we need to avoid. Try to learn about the actual reality of how Bitcoin does and/or could work and build your opinion on reality, not influencers.

Thanks a lot both! Mostly just trying to learn and be a more knowledgeable BTC community member. Not trying to change jobs or really build anything. Appreciate the help!

Noob non programmer question: python is always recommended for first language to learn on, and I’m trying to learn a bit now. Bad move? What would you suggest instead?

Fold ACH payment are a decent way for plebs to get around this issue for themselves

GM! Not updating your node has zero impact on soft forks because they’re by definition backwards compatible. #Bitcoin #forks

Common misconception: a pleb not updating your node has ZERO impact on if a soft fork is successful or not. Soft forks are by definition backwards compatible. Therefore you have to actively resist a soft fork you deem evil or your node will by default do nothing to blocks that contain the soft fork. You have to adopt a new node client that actively rejects blocks that signal for a soft fork.

Saying Bitcoin will not change because you won’t update your node is 100% false in a purely technical sense.

Ultimately there’s no fair or freedom oriented way to do it that I can think of. Maybe the closest thing is if you commit a violent crime or a non violent crime of sufficient impact (steal $10B or something) you lose your right to vote as you’ve shown you are a threat to society by a jury of your peers beyond a reasonable doubt.

However, down this path you end up doing some sort of “purity” test to see if people are more long term or short term oriented and that is hugely flawed and problematic at best. Yes kids are a maybe a half decent proxy of more long term orientation, but there’s plenty of shitty parents and honest people without kids. It’s not a strong enough indicator to take away someone’s fundamental natural rights imo.

The problem of too many people being too short term biased is very real but it’s easy to get to a state where the cure is worse than the disease. Everything I’ve seen on this topic falls under that category to me: would just make it worse.

Problem for me was there’s so much cheap plastic crap out there it’s worthless so you can’t sell and even some donation venues refuse to take lots of it. It’s often just literal worthless trash.

Anyone know of an American bank that doesn’t require SMS or a phone number for 2FA verification? This is the only item I haven’t solved for deleting my existing phone number and getting a new one. Mine has been leaked in so many hacks that all I get is spam and it’s driving me nuts. I have to have a consistent phone number available for work so I can only do so much to mitigate spam.

In my experience it’s usually worthless plastic crap that even goodwill doesn’t want they’re so inundated with this fiat trash

I definitely respect your point of view but think for family you need to be more mature than that and do what kids and parents ultimately both want, aka quality time doing games and activities they enjoy, and doing something because it’s what makes you feel better but everyone else dislikes it is just selfish. If your love language makes everyone else miserable that is not an adequate justification imo

This is brutal but it got so bad for me I had to bluntly say any crap you buy for the kids will immediately be thrown in the trash. That still didn’t work so I actually did throw the next batch of crap in the trash, and they finally eased up after that. I totally realize this is extreme but the amount of crap was overwhelming and got to a point where I felt like I couldn’t walk around my home so a drastic move felt justified. 🤷

GM! Any hardware wallet is strictly better than leaving your #Bitcoin on an exchange. If you’re a beginner, just pick one you like and can use comfortably for now and get your Bitcoin into cold storage ASAP, and then research more later. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

I love debating nerdy hardware wallet tradefoffs, but the truth is they are generally all pretty good and sadly there’s still millions of Bitcoin held by custodians.

Agree. We don’t have to be puritans that’s it’s BTCPay or nothing. Can use Bitcoin on easy mode and that’s still strictly better than pure fiat banking nonsense.

I had seen a lot of talk on the Bitaxe and Canaan Avalon Nano home miners, but hadn’t seen anything detailed yet. So I wrote about my experience on: Home mining options for noobs https://www.yakihonne.com/article/btconboard@vlt.ge/4VfSYBRTgkkVFirjC0mnY

#mining #homemining #bitaxe #avalonnano

Know many smart people who lead unhappy and unfulfilling lives stuck in society’s tropes, and lots of left curve folks who accomplish a ton and are happy and hard working.

Huge life changer. It’s really great. I really feel bad for the Peter Pans out there living sad lonely lives because society lied and said it would be happy and fulfilling.

It’s so easy to make a little mistake and get owned in fiat world, so sad

In the long run Twitter spaces being totally trapped in Twitter is very frustrating. Even just doing as a podcast is superior imho vs Twitter

2 years

Largely agree. We should be willing to think independently and proceed forward according to our own conscience rather than government dictates, but you also have to be willing to take feedback from others. No one has it all figured out.

Most people I know 50+ have the vast majority of their wealth in banks and government bonds. To me that’s insane compared to Bitcoin.

Just Stacking and not sweating the details is a 100% reasonable option 🫡🫡

Many people loved it. Sad but true.

Everyday we grow further from Jod.

*joke stolen from nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc

Definitely some truth to this but also it is hard to resist an ideology everyone around you believes. If we are brutally honest we are all social creatures and our peers always influence us to some degree. It’s a hard balance.

If it isn’t hot and I do not exercise its every other day, but if it’s hot or I workout then everyday.

Just great to have no alcohol options at bars where you don’t feel like a dweeb