Hum... I haven't seen a crash in a while. Which phone and OS version are you using?

The more clients I use, the more I love Amethyst.

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Them: only zombie companies are adopting Bitcoin🥱

Me: 💡Zombies can be orange pilled. This is bullish.

What questions do people typically have about lightning wallets?

Ok, lemme know if this helps.

Ok, lemme know if this helps.

NGL, Twatter suspension is a stark reminder.

"Not your node, not your code."

Centralized voices are subject to silence.

Decentralization is key. Be everywhere.

Nostr's great. Protects your speech.

Small, but powerful.

Exile is a blessing.

#grownostr

If you haven't already, I would urge you to try Ashigaru Wallet. It is a fork of Samurai Wallet that requires your own Dojo instance to connect to.

It has many of thesamee privacy enhancing spending tools (Paynyms, Stonewallx2, Ricochet) with the exception of whirlpool.

If you don't run your own Dojo, there is a list of nodes from the community you can choose from to connect to at dojobay.pw

#FreeSamourai

I guess I’ve been quiet today 🤔

Just reflecting on what it means to speak and what it says about people who say certain things a certain way.

If you become a denimhead, and start spending thousands of dollars on quality denim - please don't blame me for that. 😅

If you're living in US - you have way more options than in EU... :)

No particular order, just what's coming to my mind:

Iron Heart (their N-1 jacket is fucking amazing)

Buzz Rickson's (awesome coats)

The Flat Head (leather jackets)

Freenote Cloth (their waxed canvas jackets are amazing)

Rocky Mountain Featherbed

Dehen 1920

Lewis Leathers (don't confuse with shitty "Levi's Jeans")

Those are the first ones I can think of.

**Just don't but mass market shit.**

Because you lose out on everything, from quality and money, to your time, because after ~1 year the thing looks like crap, and you'll look like crap in it, and you need to spend time to go and buy more mass market shit.

Buy only quality stuff that ages beautifully and that will last you for decades. Obviously, no t-shirt will last you 10 years, but you also shouldn't buy that H&M shit whose clothes aren't designed to be washed.

Tell me in more detail, what kind of things do you need? Jeans? Jackets? Shoes? T-shirts?

Mass market clothing = crap.

"Luxury" brands = mass market clothing (just with premium price.

I wonder how many other people in the crypto/foss community think about clothing and its quality?

There are a lot of quality and very cool clothing manufacturers out there, buying which you are buying exactly *quality* and nothing more. Quality of materials + quality of work, nothing else.

But, it is many times harder to buy such clothes because you either have to buy online or travel very far..... sometimes even to a neighboring country (I'm talking about Europe now)

I want to give a simple example of how we are being fleeced by goverment.

In my jurisdiction they introduced a new tax.

As soon as one converts #Bitcoin into fiat you need to pay 30 % tax.

Don't ask my what the reasoning is, or why they can introduce such changes without a proper transition phase, because I will give my clear opinion on that.

But one only realizes what the real impact is if you want to buy something:

Let's say you want to buy something of €700.

To be able to pay for it you need to transfer #Bitcoin worth of €1000 to have that €700 available.

€1000 - 30 % tax is €700

So the item I want to buy didn't increase 30% it went from costing €700 to €1000, that is an increase of more than 40%....(42.8% to be precise)

700 + 40% is only 980...

Not to mention that buy has also 21% VAT included in it.

That is another €147 government takes...

Government are masters in taxing everything and every step.

They bring it in a way that makes it seem ok, but mostly are trying to hide it and spread it over everything.

If you actually would get your gross salary in your account and right after that goverment would take away your total tax burden at once, there would be riots on the streets.

Starve the beast !

I want to give a simple example of how we are being fleeced by goverment.

In my jurisdiction they introduced a new tax.

As soon as one converts #Bitcoin into fiat you need to pay 30 % tax.

Don't ask my what the reasoning is, or why they can introduce such changes without a proper transition phase, because I will give my clear opinion on that.

But one only realizes what the real impact is if you want to buy something:

Let's say you want to buy something of €700.

To be able to pay for it you need to transfer #Bitcoin worth of €1000 to have that €700 available.

€1000 - 30 % tax is €700

So the item I want to buy didn't increase 30% it went from costing €700 to €1000, that is an increase of more than 40%....(42.8% to be precise)

700 + 40% is only 980...

Not to mention that buy has also 21% VAT included in it.

That is another €147 government takes...

Government are masters in taxing everything and every step.

They bring it in a way that makes it seem ok, but mostly are trying to hide it and spread it over everything.

If you actually would get your gross salary in your account and right after that goverment would take away your total tax burden at once, there would be riots on the streets.

Starve the beast !