It's a great place.
Even better if you want to check what's happening, then go back to life. No algo means no psyop hooks. No attempt to take every second of your life away. It's weird when you're used to being stuck on a doom scroll elsewhere.
Hats off to ya. Every time I start to do a security audit on myself (I'm no expert but more aware than most) I shake my head, realize I'm already fucked, and say a silent prayer none of the three-letters decide I'm important.
Solving that without breaking mainnet is a 100k BTC problem. It's probably impossible.
We should be able to make cheating immediately detectable, with security provided by violent backlash. That might be enough.
You really don't get it. You are not going to convince any long time student of bitcoin to be interested in Monero, ever, no matter what. There is no improvement you can make, no advancement, no marketing campaign, absolutely nothing. This is not because of the infamous bitcoin immune response, mind you. It is because of a fundamental law of nature that a longtime student of bitcoin has a grasp of that you are either unaware or willfully ignorant of.
Bitcoin discovered, for the first time, a way to create absolute scarcity. It's arguably as important a discovery as the number zero. Most importantly, it can only be done ONCE. BTC is the token that represents that absolute scarcity. Whenever a separate token has been created, from LTC, to XMR, to ETH, to all the rest, they are incapable of being anything other than a fiat expansion against BTC, and violate the absolute scarcity of BTC merely by existing.
Were the developers of Monero to finally accept this fact, and put their engineering skill to work improving bitcoin instead, I'm certain the privacy we all need could be implemented. Instead, we fight, you lose, and maybe we all suffer far longer than necessary because the one money that can actually do the job wasn't given necessary upgrades.
BTW, There is a trick you can do that would allow a new chain to be created without being a fiat expansion. Establish a fixed ratio of BTC to the token, and permanently burn BTC on-chain at that ratio each time. If the ratio is never broken, then you've transmuted BTC and conserved the absolute scarcity. I have zero idea what the market would do with that, mind. And there are other pitfalls that can befall any such project. But the discovered law would not be violated, and it might be the only way to implement a hard-fork level upgrade to bitcoin that could actually work, should that ever be necessary.
A horrific situation to be in.
Unfortunately, many are going to have to learn the hard way that only those systems that have no ruler can be safe from bad rulers. Many have been driven from one platform, found temporary refuge and mistakenly believe they're safe, and they'll be lucky to ever build their connections again when they're proven wrong.
Hopefully the recent discoveries about the routing capabilities of nostr enable you and others to access the web freely in near future. Hopefully Telegram resists long enough that the word about the essential need for Nostr, Reticulum, Meshtastic and other protocol solutions reaches enough ears.
There's no such thing as good porn. Good erotica, sure. And defining porn without including erotica is tricky. But porn is despicable, always.
If the UTXO is only 10k sats, it's not going to be worthwhile to attempt to recover them regardless of it's kind and if you can dig out the key. Write it off as the learning expense it is in that case. Main takeaway: measure twice, cut once. If you never fund a self-custody solution until you've verified you can rebuild it and get the same addresses first, you're less likely to have this happen again.
As long as the original private key is available, it should be recoverable, but it might not be worth the difficulty.
When you say you "send some sats to fund the wallet from an address generated on ride the lightning" do you mean the sats were in the on-chain element of RTL and were used to open a channel, or do you mean the sats were in an external wallet and sent to an RTL address?
*jots down* add "privacy friendly security cameras" to potential business ideas
Something in Nostr's favor that (at least among my follows) isn't discussed much is that the sex industry has been responsible for determining which technology wins for as long as there has been a sex industry. Why is this in Nostr's favor you might ask? Because zaps plus completely uncontrolled distribution ability is currently the most in-demand service for independent nsfw creators. Especially with the crowdfunding sites most used constantly banning them. No group in the west has faced more financial authoritarianism than sex workers.
I'm not personally interested in attaching this npub to the porn side of nostr. The CP that exists in some corners is the worst downside of the protocol. But the reality is, the internet userbase most primed to join and actively use nostr are these people. If the only way to get some of the best hentai art or 3dx games is to zap the creator on nostr, it's already won.
Pentester.com? You're not dealing with a scam, that company's been doing cybersecurity for a while now. If it's really concerning, search while using VPN, and just use one of the states you've lived. They aren't public about full birth date and ssn, but they reveal enough that you can verify an entry is you.
You're most likely in there, though the degree of exposure will vary. Everyone in my family is except one. The exception has an odd spelling and so likely is misspelled. The others vary from just a name and address to comprehensive, and all of us are in there multiple times.
Later response better than none I hope.
Just in case this isn't nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza burner, the nsec on this is burned. note1qqqqqdtx9fuqeq7pjdjsscpacylqfqe5usg86t9vd0278qhr98pq5tn9hk
If they could just sidechain as Layer 2 bitcoin, but no. Sunk cost has them good. A deep analysis of XMR shows it's far worse at scaling than bitcoin, and inevitably centralizes nodes.
As an L2 though, borderline necessary. Privacy doesn't get enough attention by bitcoiners, and if we can't soft-fork a means to break chain analysis safely, L2 Monero is the next best thing.
So hackers took more than 2.7 billion records from 3 countries including the US, and effectively every single person in the US is exposed to some extent. All unencrypted too.
We need easy-to-use cryptographic signing tools that can be deployed by illiterate morons every single time we would currently use a handwritten signature or a "digital signature" on an online document. We need to demand the use of these tools everywhere old signature schemes are currently used. And we need to make any claim that we signed a contract, TOS, etc that doesn't have our crypto-signature is treated as a 100% forgery.
If we don't, very soon we will all have signed away all of our property and agreed to permanent indentured servitude with legally binding contracts.
Full article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-27-billion-data-records-with-social-security-numbers/
Have you heard of Eliquis?
It's a blood thinner, currently the most effective on the market. Bristol-Myers Squibb with Pfizer have been defending the patent like vipers, extending it and suing the more than 20 generic alternatives that are trying to get to market. Without government intervention, this drug would likely be $30 a month or less. Because of that intervention, it's difficult to get for less than $300, and out of pocket is $600.
Back in 2021, I stopped taking Eliquis. I was leaving SSI, leaving Medicaid. Couldn't afford it while also trying to escape the life of government supported parasitism I'd been living. I'm one of a small number of people under 40 with sever blood clotting issues, with only Eliquis able to effectively treat it. So despite attempting through diet and supplements the whole time, eventually the lack of proper treatment caught up with me. I nearly died this last week, the clot that ended up forming strangling my gut. I got out of the hospital today, still recovering.
The government has, through sheer dumb luck, successfully forced my hand. Their intervention means I cannot continue to live without depending on them; without returning to parasitism. I'm going to have to beg and plead from people who I hate and who hate me to stay alive through their stolen goods. Plus, I'll be lucky if I figure out how to escape the debt spiral I'm now on. I'm already 99% certain bankruptcy is inevitable, bye bye my BTC.
It's a personal rant, but it's where I'm at. I don't even know who's death would solve it, otherwise I'd go hunting. I'd happily sacrifice myself if it brought this to an end for everyone else, but I don't see how that trade happens. Ugh
A schizophrenic woman in California
Filed an Emergency Red Flag protection order
Against a relative in Texas.
Because the Texas man
Was unable to get to California
To face the judge in the case
In only a matter of days
He can no longer purchase firearms
Because the federal database
Has him flagged.
Source: https://youtu.be/LuFxmjteoH4
A best case path by which US gov could overcome their debt:
1. Buy as much bitcoin as they can get their hands on.
2. Mark the dollar value of all of the bitcoin they hold at equal to 110% their total outstanding debt + interest.
3. Officially default, and use their bitcoin holdings instead of dollars to pay off all treasury bonds.
We get the same massive upheaval in the economy we're gonna get anyway, but we also get a rapid widespread distribution of bitcoin comparable to the current dollar distribution. There's also an incredibly simple direct translation of value between dollars and bitcoin to the layperson. The value calculation would be off by some order of magnitude, but it would be as smooth a transition to hyperbitcoinization as possible.