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What is a DID?

I will say this only on Nostr: my conviction in Bitcoin has been seriously rattled over the last few days.

What have I got myself into? Is Bitcoin doomed to failure due to its unfavorable privacy properties? Can it get co-opted and turned into fed surveillance coin? What if the Monero bros were right? Privacy on Bitcoin now seems as elusive as a dream.

And on a separate matter, as Matt Corallo just pointed out to Marty Bent, miner centralization is worse than we previously thought (many miners, it turns out, are just proxies for AntPool). Also concerning is the amount of hash power residing in the United States. And worst of all is that miners aren't even TESTING Stratum v2 to potentially alleviate these vulnerabilities.

Although I'd prefer to sink with the ship, I couldn't sell my bitcoin even if I wanted to. No exchange wants tainted coins at this point, and I have no way of calculating taxes due to my poor recordkeeping (I'm stuck in the U.S.).

I think for now I will focus on my fiat savings. I'm 31, which (although quite ancient for homosexuals) should theoretically give me time to save myself if my high conviction in bitcoin was misplaced. But should bitcoin fail, it would be an extremely painful setback.

I suppose it would be for many of you as well. I just wish I could share your optimism, but my mind is poisoned with doubts.

Someone famous once said, 'Propaganda is to free societies what the bludgeon is to the totalitarian state.' So your suffering from a psyop attack. As you rightly observe, 'your mind has been poisoned'. All our minds have.

This is a normal for bitcoin - great setbacks such as Mt Gox hack and China mining ban. But, as they say, 'honeybadger don't care', bitcoin marches on regardless.

You might be correct, but I'm not aware that, 'no exchange wants tainted coins'. Maybe some, but they're probably best avoided anyway. Perhaps there are others with different attitudes? If not now, in future?

And remember, the future is not assured. And what can seem bleak in the current time, can turn out to be very good. Perhaps bitcoin will end up bifurcated - some locked inside the system, some outside? If you have some in both you might be hedging your bets?

Coin outside the system may become highly valuable, with people willing to buy it from you at a premium. So you might become very thankful that you have some outside the system!

Difficulty spending now means forced savings, which is likely good.

It might be better for travel when you become unstuck in America (nothing is permanent so your situation is likely to change at some point)?

Coin inside the system will likely be co-opted, but it will likely still retain value. NGU still likely.

And societies' attitudes change. What was once was once illegal, becomes legal. I'm sure you can think of some examples.

Have you heard of the ancient Chinese fable of the old man that lost his horse?

The device is fine but it is no Apple Watch.

Strong butterfly keyboard feelings on this one.

Do people really use phones to do all sorts of things? I think I use my phone just to listen to podcasts and send chat messages, other activities are secondary. I guess sometimes I read things there too, but every time I am presented with a URL that could potentially open a webpage full of JavaScript I feel bad and often do not click.

What are the tradeoffs between Casa, Nunchuk, and Unchained for their Bitcoin multisig vaults and inheritance products? #asknostr #bitcoin

0xchat might be the most underrated client in #nostr.

Love to see the integration of Cashu payments!

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Got my Twitter account suspended finally :)

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