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The price is the least interesting thing about Bitcoin nowadays. I used to check it many times a day, but nowadays try to avoid it. One time I managed to not know anything about the price for two months and that was awesome! 😀

You're wrong. When talking about scaling, the issue is validation. In Monero, people cannot run the nodes so they'd need to trust centralized entities for validation, that's much bigger problem than higher tx fees.

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3 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER ORDERING A COLDCARD, TODAY.

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1. IT'S THE PREFERRED DEVICE FOR BITCOINERS

Quality of the users, not quantity, is most important. The smartest people in bitcoin trust the COLDCARD.

Their focus on security is second to none. The reason guys like #[1]​ vouch for the COLDCARD is because of it's security features.

Other devices require a connection to a laptop. The reality is that even if the device is clean, the laptop it's being plugged into is likely corrupted.

The COLDCARD uses airgapped technology which means that it doesn't need to be plugged into a laptop.

2. DEMAND IS STABLE RIGHT NOW

We're in the middle of the longest "bear" market in bitcoin history. Coinkite is quite busy now (I would assume) but wait until the price starts ripping.

Will they be able to keep up with the demand at that point? How long will the delay be for new orders? I don't know. But I'm sure as shit not waiting to find out.

Think of it like a burning building. As soon as you smell smoke, you start heading toward the exit. You're not going to wait to see the fire before making a move. Things get really dicey when everyone is trying to get through the same exit.

3. THE SCAMMERS DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS... YET

Any company who is shipping these devices is at risk. The risk is that someone will intercept the device, tamper with it, and steal customer bitcoin.

First of all, Coinkite has a great way to ensure no one has messed with the device (3-way audit of the serial # on the exterior package, inside the package, and within the device itself).

Secondly, no one has figured out how to crack this yet.

As the value of bitcoin continues to increase, the number of scammers will increase alongside. I'm sure Coinkite will monitor and continue improving the security to prevent this. But I would not want to be the case study for that one.

4. BONUS - THEY ARE BADASS

Look at this thing. Low tech, high security. Exactly what you need.

You can even get a steel plate to make sure your 24 words survive anything, including fire.

You worked hard to earn those SATS. Make sure they're protected to the highest degree.

Grab a COLDCARD and thank #[2]​ later!

#nostr #bitcoin

Why not some open source wallet like Jade, Bitbox or Passport?

There's no such thing as "price inflation". It's a term coined by fiat institutions to distract people and to evade straight consequensies of excess money printing.

There's many things on the market that affects prices but inflation/deflation are definitely the main drivers.

Not necessarily. You can have debt in bitcoin but you still cannot increase the supply of bitcoin.

Government deficit spending is the same. Only then when they negotiate with fed to print more money against bonds, then inflation is introduced.

Yes, and noticed that everything in Bitcoin is always priced in, at all times. Bitcoin seems to be pure signal, nothing like everything else.

No it's not.

Inflation by it's definition means a increase in the money supply of a economy, nothing else.

Inflation have consequences, like price rises, loss of economic signals etc.

Deficit spending can also lead to price rises etc. but it cannot introduce any inflation.

He's actually correct.

Inflation is not introduced when spending money, it's introduced when banks print excess amounts of money out of thin air.

Of course, govs wouldn't be able to spend so much money so easily if there wouldn't be central banks.

Almost any problem in civilization I can think of has something to do with printing excess amounts of money.

But #Bitcoin fixes a lot in humans too!

It all starts with the time preference. You should learn what it does to humans.