The cartoon would be even better if the dude on the left had a screaming baby and a fat, contentious wife on the box stack.

Not saying quantum isn't a threat to Bitcoin, but if brute forcing a private key were to become possible, wouldn't we have much bigger problems on our hands? Like SSL no longer securing websites, VPN traffic being intercepted, etc.

Those were good days.

This could go a couple of different ways. Your sister could realize the value of hard money, self custody, and individual sovereignty or, like my girlfriend, provide her personal information to a website named CoinDog or CryptoMadness and spend her limited resources on a Trump-themed NFT.

The ironic part is that if you become that guy, you'll be condemned as being a "fascist."

Are you the same Gnome that moderates the Discord group? If so, thanks for the help you’ve given me over the years.

It's actually short for Nostradamus because.... It shows us the future of digital communication.

Great summary. Thanks, man.

Did she literally forget where she put it, or was it damaged or accidentally thrown out? Stolen? Just curious.

In all seriousness, what leads you to believe Biden plans to launch a nuclear strike?

Just once, I wish someone would make one of these videos, but instead of Michael Saylor, it's Jim Cramer saying to sell your Bitcoin.

Do you offer .ovpn (OpenVPN) files that I can plug into my existing setup, or do I have to use proprietary client software?

Hey just FYI your website is throwing "certificate expired" errors.

I don't know anyone who has a fiat savings account though.

I mean, I know it's a thing. When I withdraw money from my ATM, for example, it asks, "Checking or Savings?" But I don't recall ever meeting anyone who's used a savings account. For no-coiners, excess capital just goes into stocks and real estate and treasuries. Or for us, Bitcoin.

But fiat savings? I just don't see that too often, do you?

If someone asks about Bitcoin out of genuine interest, I'm happy to chat. But as for those smug "but it has nothing backing it" antagonists, as far as I'm concerened, the time for my unsolicited economic theory lessons has passed. The most they'll get out of me is, "Read 'Broken Money' and get back to me."

Email is kind of like SMS. Use it only for conversations that you wouldn't mind being broadcast to the world.

I use Proton. I don't know how much they can do to address the concerns you raise though. They have to decrypt your outbound stuff in order to relay it. The inbound stuff already arrives decryrpted from the sender's SMTP relay. And since they're a centralized service provider, there's no way they're fighting on behalf of their customers in court.

That's just the nature of email, I think, and why using it should be avoided when possible.

In general, for Proton, or just email in general, there are some best practices I tend to follow:

- Use a custom domain, paid for in Bitcoin.

- Pay for Proton with Bitcoin.

- Connect to Proton using a VPN or even better, via their Tor site.

- Delete all emails that aren't part of an active, ongoing conversation.

Not sure what else to do beyond that. Self-hosting just doesn't seem viable due to all the IP blocking that goes on, the need for spam filtering, ISPs blocking SMTP relay ports, etc.

You know what happens in open water? That's right. Friggin' boating accidents!

Policy in Australia and EU indicate full retardation is knocking at the door.

I haven't done the office thing since 2003. I don't think they had this kind of crap back then. All I remember is that there were way too many birthday parties. Every friggin' week - another darned birthday party.

The tagline in the listing makes it seem as though it's a $200 card costing $220. But it sounds like you're actually doing the oppoaite - charging only $200 for a $220 card, correct?