How does Sparrow Wallet for desktop work?Are digital assets secured on a desktop that has Internet connectivity? Isn't this something vulnerable to a hack? I have only the tiniest idea of Sparrows' purpose (UTXO management). What else is it's utility? Too complex for open forum here? DM me instead.

Another day, another story of a fiat banking FAIL

I’m moving and need a certified bank check for initial payment. Went to bank to do this. Bank system across the entire bank network fails to print the check.

Worker said “sorry, system isn’t working. And it will be the same with any other bank location you go to”

That’s it! No solution, no other fix. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Can I just fucking send #Bitcoin??!

This is somewhat embarrassing to admit. I’m the kind of guy who can quote you Shakespeare all day but couldn’t write a line of code with a gun to my head. I’m woefully nontechnical.

It took me a long time to wrap my humanities brain around the tech of #bitcoin, and almost a half decade later I’m still learning everyday.

The tech of #nostr, candidly, is even more intimidating to me. But I’m also in awe of it and all the builders working on it.

I’m always thinking man, I wish I could contribute more, but I just don’t have the skills!

But then I realized, the biggest contribution I can make to Nostr is just to bring my whole, weird, uncensored self to it, to bring my life energy, my thoughts, and my passions to it. And if we all do that, whether we’re technical or not, this is gonna be a wondrously alive place.

Anyway, Friday night thoughts.

You’re all great and truly inspiring. Gn.

I absolutely love that people (general population and iNVestOrs) are getting bored and impatient with Bitcoin.

It’s a fucking sleeping giant, next year is going to be nuts 😏

"Should every nostrich run a relay?" is a very different question from "should every Bitcoiner run a Bitcoin/lightning node?" due to the differences in guarantees.

I think every nostrich should run a relay IF THEY REQUIRE PERMANENCE for their historical notes. What do I mean by this?

Relays should be considered ephemeral. They are under no obligation to store your data indefinitely unless you enter into an agreement for that (paid relays.) Relays can go offline at any time and take your notes with them. This is why clients connect to many relays by default, for redundancy.

I run a relay for myself that only accepts notes from my pubkey. If my third party relays change, I'll just push my old notes from my personal relay to new relays for them to be indexed.

Nostr can't scale from the perspective of expecting every nostr client to connect to thousands or millions of personal relays simultaneously.

classic or reforged?

What was the reading? I recently read Daniel 6. Lot of powerful lessons in that story.

#sourdoughbread