Months ago one of my friends told me she just doesn't care about Bitcoin, that I'm not an economist and she doesn't want to talk about it anymore.
Saturday night her boyfriend (also a friend of mine) at a party was all enthusiastic because XRP was up, I suggested he sell it for Bitcoin.
That if he wanted to know why I could spend a day with him, to explain why Bitcoin is the only one worth his time.
His reply? You probably already know. Bitcoin is "too volatile" š©šµ. He was also saying I'm probably doing great though because I got into Bitcoin before everyone else there!
I insisted that Bitcoin is the only one worth owning and he shut the conversation down with "everyone says their favorite thing is the best one" sigh. I agreed on principle that it's generally a true statement, and just stopped trying.
Can't help people who don't want to be helped.
In Bitcoin call "gas" transaction fees, here's the answer to your question:
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-median_transaction_fee.html#log&alltime
Silo is a very entertaining TV show.
If you want something high end I'd look at the watches previously released in the Watch Gang subscription box (like loot crate for watches) and just order your favorite watch on eBay. The watch brands produce significant numbers of fairly high quality watches for the monthly drop and so the used market gets flooded with new condition high quality watches at relatively low prices that the subscribers resell for a markup.
If you don't yet self custody your Bitcoin keys and want to dip your toe in the water, I highly recommend the Bitcoin-only Trezor Safe 3. It's simple, very secure, and made in Europe.
You may not know this but Trezor was the first ever hardware wallet and they pioneered the use of words to replace the wallet.dat files, originally used to secure Bitcoin wallets, when they introduced and suggested BIP-39. This was incorporated into the Bitcoin protocol so now every hardware and software wallet uses these mnemonics to secure wallets.
Trezor Safe 3 Bitcoin-Only with tor routing and passphrases offers an extremely user friendly and secure entry into the world of self custody.
Only purchase directly from their website however to avoid the risk of supply chain tampering: Trezor.io
You can also pay for it with Bitcoin!
If you choose to use a passphrase keep in mind that it is case sensitive and must be entered in exactly the same way every time to access the same wallet. Blank spaces are also valid characters. Use something easy to remember but hard to guess, like another 4 - 6 words of things sitting around you. Backup the passphrase separately from your 24 words for increased security. Don't dump all your funds into a passphrase until you can easily remember it and opening it is second nature to you.
This post is not sponsored, this is my authentic personal recommendation.
How well does it play on the switch?
I feel like I spent a lot of my life looking for that place on the internet where I could really spend time with who I chose, I could send or receive money freely, where our networks were actually ours, where we could share files and media without censorship, and I could keep my entire digital life connected and accessible without some huge centralized corporation controlling or watching everything I did.
There were many attempts and half solutions along the way. They were all promising, but always failed to cross some critical barrier, or died due to lack of motivation or funding.
I feel like after all that time I have not only found it, but there are actually multiple solutions that genuinely work, all emerging at the same time.
ā¢ I live on a bitcoin standard, I can zap people whenever I want from my own personal node thatās currently 180 miles away and itās as fast and responsive as any other app I use.
ā¢ I use a fully P2P and encrypted chat app more than basically any other for work and personal chat.
ā¢ Iām working on an application that will finally make sending and receiving files as simple, intuitive, and as private as it always should have been. And Iām really just building it for me.
ā¢ I spend most of my social time on #Nostr with no complicated setup or constant technical issues to fight with. Everyday it just works and I post my GMs for all the other autists to see.
ā¢ The UI and experience of these is basically what I would expect with most paid products today, in fact a lot of ātraditionalā products or those I pay for are annoying as shit.
ā¢ I own my profile and contact list.
ā¢ I have a stupid simple full backup of everything Iāve posted. The number of times Iāve been gatekept by a service or app I use so I couldnāt take my shit off of it is almost unbelievable.
ā¢ I can ā”ļøzap people freely all day and I donāt even think about it. Nothing more than a tap and sats are delivered instantly.
ā¢ I use genuine digital, sound, global money without third parties, no inflation, no censorship, and that no state on earth controls. I jump over to a fiat integrated service built by bitcoiners just to get a debit card and be able to spend fiat during the month. The dollar system is literally just at the edge of my monetary world, it is no longer the center.
Things that Iāve wanted for most of my life are actually here and Iām actually using them. And on top of this, weāve only really just begun to round the corners, simplify the onboarding, and unravel everything we can accomplish now that these tools exist for us.
And lastly, for the first time, it feels like I canāt be rugged from it all! There were so many promising options in the past that just got bought, repurposed, re-centralized, and ācorporatized.ā But it feels like the ecosystem now has too many open source tools, too much diversity, too many builders, more than Iāve seen with anything yet before it, such that it seems like that risk is more behind us than in front.
My son is gonna get to grow up in a better world, and itās because of what everyone here has devoted themselves to and is building.
Time is a crazy thing. It always seemed like a distant dream back while I was discovering this entirely different vision of the future in the weird corners of the internet. I really only had my brother nostr:npub1ajv7m32k0cpgzha32qszsh304qusjvwwmavus0ttktzldms4xzusuftppj to share it with and make it feel like it was something that could be possible. That one day thereād be a huge community that wanted to build everything open source, open access, censorship resistant, decentralized, and private toolsā¦ I wondered if it was just me being naive, or if maybe one day people would start to see why it mattered and how great it could all be.
From the POV of that naive kid years ago, we are already here. And from the POV I have today, itās going to get so much better.
This is what Iām thankful for. š«” 
Love it! ā¤ļø
I watched the movie Jerry and Marge Go Large last week and a particular scene stood out to me.
In this movie the protagonist figures out that the local lottery has a mathematical mistake that shifts the odds in the favor of the players when they invest large enough amounts.
He successfully tests his theory and wins thousands. He goes to his family members and his adult son is listening to him explain that the math is foolproof, but the son says he's not interested. He's not interested because he just doesn't understand the math behind it.
I have always found math relatively intuitive and easy to understand and extrapolate in my head. The longer I think about all the self reinforcing aspects of Bitcoin, and how it compares to our broken monetary system, the more confident I am that it is mathematically CERTAIN to succeed.
I try to explain the reasons to others but few listen and respond positively simply because, like the son in the movie, they don't understand the math. They're afraid.
The negativity we receive in response to our voicing how significant of a global evolution Bitcoin represents, is simply due to the fact that nobody understands any of the math behind it that supports our confidence.
Bitcoin is not an invention, it is a corralling of the mathematical truth that a static number grows more valuable relative to a growing number. Satoshi simply figured out how to create a way for us to apply that math to money and value, and it enables everyone everywhere to preserve their value for all time.
Humans will never stop creating more stuff and more humans, but we will never create more than āæ21,000,000.
This is to what ā¾ļø/21M refers. Infinite and endless human growth and productivity, divided by a static number of 21M āæ.
No matter how many people there are, no matter how much energy or effort is exerted in an attempt to change it, the number of Bitcoins will NEVER change.
Future generations will look back and catalogue world history as the time before Bitcoin, and the time after. Because the more stable and unchanging of a foundation we build upon, the grander and larger our projects can be. Bitcoin is the financial equivalent of solid bedrock, and it truly enables us to create a society only dreamt of in sci-fi of years passed.
Figuring out how to fairly capture the perpetual value growth of all of humanities efforts combined, for the benefit of everyone through Bitcoin, is what I believe will be considered the most important milestone in human history.
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When you need permission to participate in the economy, you are not a free individual. This is one of the most important benefits of Bitcoin as it allows us to be our own bank with no permission needed.
We don't live in a Capitalist society anymore than North Koreans live in a Republic.
We don't live in a Capitalist society anymore than North Koreans live in a Republic.
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Bitcoin is the beginnings of what we will ultimately call:
The Bedrock of Time.
Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate!
I had a small Thanksgiving with close friends and family last night, best one ever!
Star of the meal was my homemade Cranberry-Mango sauce!
12oz fresh cranberries, 7oz frozen thawed mango, 3/4 cup of sugar, 1 cup of water.
Heat in a sauce pan over medium heat, while stirring, until desired texture is reached.
Delicious.
#proofofwork
Investing in any emerging technology that obsoletes previously used tech ends up profitable. Think cars vs the horse and buggy, or Internet retailers vs brick and mortar. The bigger the business the new tech displaces, the more value can be captured in the transition. Only there's literally no bigger business than central banking, so Bitcoin is more value accruing than any previous tech shift in history.
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*it is likely that in a decade or less it will be unrecognizable as the Nostr we see today.
(Hey, here's an idea, edits can show up as asterisks over the original comment that can be expanded to see the edit. Preserving the original comment as the main one people see, but allowing edits to be easily viewed.)
At the end of the day, isn't Nostr just the beginning stage of a protocol for information broadcasting and cataloging?
Clients can do whatever they want as far as broadcasting info and cataloging it. Other clients can implement the same methods to allow interoperability.
Decentralization means no central decision makers. The network will grow organically, and it is unlikely that in a decade or less it will not be recognizable as the Nostr we see today. You're building a version of Nostr on top of the base protocol, you're showing other clients an idea and they get to see if it causes any issues or a success that they should implement it too. That's the free market, let it work people! Play nice, we're all on the same team.
Homeschool.
Sleep a lot, eat unprocessed foods, drink water, be kind, be patient, dedicate time alone and time with others, spend less than you earn and save the rest in Bitcoin.