GM! Needed to send a wire. Bank said no. They’re down for system upgrades for 4 days. BTC is the way to go
The upside of investing in paper Bitcoin as an American is that for a few weeks you’ll be able to laugh at the dumbasses who invested their retirement in state run plans like CalSavers. They’ll get 6102ed first. I mean you will too, but at least you won’t be first.
Sometimes being humble is hard. Don’t check Zillow.
GrapheneOS is currently under a state sponsored attack attempting to misrepresent it as being for criminals, which we covered a bit at https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608. These poorly researched, biased and inaccurate news stories have led to more harassment towards our community and team.
Graphene is awesome. The attacks are an acknowledgment that the state is realizing the potential threat it poses to mass surveillance and psyop factories
GM! Looking forward to the adoption of statechains because in practice the alternative appears to be strictly fully custodial systems. A system where you have an onchain unilateral exit transaction but there is some trust is strictly better than most current options people are using that are 100% custodial and 100% trusted.
Gradual improvement is the way. We don’t reach an ideal state overnight. Also good to think about in terms of tradeoffs for potential soft forks. These are the kind of compromises that likely have to be made to scale Bitcoin if we are ossified.
I think it’s time for another bear market. I don’t make the rules. https://x.com/88mphbtc/status/1941713401748615505
Retards gonna degen
Have been growing two dwarf cherry trees in the garden for ~2.5 years. Finally got cherries this year, and goddamn squirrels ate all but one that they threw on the ground. All kinds of demoralizing to come out after looking forward to them for so long and the ground is littered with cherry pits. BB gun and traps it is. 🔫🔫
Best border wallet and password manager backup technology and strategies ?? 👍🏻👍🏻
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Yeah the entering it on a smartphone app is super worrisome. I’d definitely do for a password manager backup but not a seed phrase.
At least an idea worth investigating. AFAIK in the USA and some other countries jewelry and personal effects worn on your body have greater legal protection and are harder (though never impossible) to confiscate.
A new address format is strictly a soft fork https://bip360.org/
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Unfortunately anyone trying to tell you biology doesn’t exist and they have a silver bullet to fix it is probably lying https://www.wsj.com/health/freezing-storing-and-thawing-my-eggs-cost-me-33-179-i-still-didnt-end-up-with-a-baby-ae1173a2
I think the quantum threat is wildly overstated by all objective evidence, e.g. they can’t even factor a number higher than a smart 5th grader. But I think we should get a quantum safe address going just so people with STFU about it.
If this turns out to be real and for illegitimate reasons feels like it’s the beginning of the end of the bitcoiner dream in El Salvador. Time till tell. Hope Jon is okay
GM AI enhanced education is already ridiculously good. Before the new AI paid tier of Duolingo I genuinely felt like I’d never learn even a little Spanish. Now I feel like I can make at least meager progress in <30 minutes a day.
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Every open source project outside of Bitcoin: everyone who doesn’t dye their hair purple is a nazi.
Best of luck to all of our NYC comrades
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I’m sure you and Becca would try to exit gracefully but just always good to consider
On a long enough time frame it seems reasonably likely they we get some sort of covenants soft fork. Maybe big or small, maybe soon or very far out. But there’s a decent chance.
Yes indirectly in that he assumes complete stasis in both consensus and layer two architecture. meaning if we get CTV+CSFS and ARK gets deployed with those some level of self custody will scale MASSIVELY bigger than he is stating.
My grandfather came back from fighting in the US army in the pacific theater of WW2 as a pacifist. He told me nothing was worth the horrors he saw, and that war was mostly rich old men sending poor young men to die. My great grandfather fled WW1 alone as a child after watching soldiers torture his entire family to death.
It’s easy to have a black and white view of war when you and your family aren’t the ones dying horrifically.
Buying good with lightning feels like a look into the future. Set Bitcoin aside, this is just a better experience than the broken legacy internet: type email address, scan QR code, click pay, done. Contrast with legacy online shopping where I have to fill out two pages of bullshit and fill out all this credit card data and if I try to use any even mildly privacy preserving options then half the time my order is flagged and canceled and it takes weeks to get a refund.
It’s taken a long time to get here, but I’m convinced we eventually win via better UX as the legacy internet just keeps breaking.
Even setting aside any political/social issue itself, its ethics, and its legality: if your way of getting what you want is to set your local city ablaze then your main accomplishment will be that everyone hates you, doesn’t support your cause, and that you fail long term. It’s just not a smart way to get what you want. Highly counter productive.
Zeus for small payments via lightning and Cashu. Clean, easy, FOSS, and reliable.
Nunchuk for onchain. No one else comes close to the functionality and reliability.
GM! You’re never going to retire your bloodline unless you own self custodied Bitcoin and hold the seed phrase yourself.
Pensions by governments and large employers are largely just fraud to convince workers to accept lower salaries now in exchange for the promise of a higher future payout … which they then underfund and rug you
GM! I’m happy to pay in BTC and support BTC only companies. But static pricing in sats is not workable at this stage of adoption. For now we need dynamic pricing based on USD converted into sats. Almost everyone is still earning in USD and even when everyone gets paid in BTC, the amount of sats will likely decline over time. Expecting me to pay 40%+ more than a few months back when the good or service is essentially unchanged is a poor value proposition.
Strike loans are not available in my area of the USA, and even if they were higher rates and lack of proof of reserves are deal breakers.
As an alternate I have taken out a small 6 month loan via Lava.xyz (minimum loan size as low as a $1k) at 8% plus a 2% origination fee. Will report back on overall experience, but the origination took < 5 minutes and was super easy. So far so good.
Consensus around what is a valid transaction is not changing. What ultimately is changing whether MEV/MEVil is perpetuated or is decreased. The limit only serves to provide increased centralization pressure and revenue to mines for out of band payments and weakens the public mempool, which is critical to a healthy network.
Well worth taking a deep breath, touching grass, and then coming back and reading in its entirety, and then taking another deep breath, and finally and most importantly thinking for yourself.
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Proton really is pretty good and you can have Gmail forward all your emails over so you don’t even need to change previous emails unless you want to. Pretty simple and easy way to try out a more private option on easy mode.
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Can everyone read Mistborn and all other Brandon Sanderson books so I finally have someone to talk about them with??! #bookclub
Basically every friend and family member I’ve spoken with about Bitcoin and why I stopped trying to Orange pill or give Bitcoin out as gifts