US was 17th right?

How about russia did not exist in the 8th century.

DON‘T DO THIS! 🚨🚨🚨

This significantly compromises the security of your seed. Firstly, it's not Shamir Secret Sharing; it's a subpar version. While 24 words offer 256-bit entropy, making them nearly impossible to guess, the proposed method weakens this exponentially. If an attacker accesses one seed part, they only need to guess 8 words with 80-bit entropy. Though currently challenging, a sophisticated attacker with good equipment and time could achieve this. Moreover, Moore's law implies that guessing these 8 words becomes easier every year, making brute force a plausible threat within the next decade.

Even worse if you use this method for a 12 word seed. Brute forcing 4 words is very easy.

Either use SeedXOR or a Passphrase:

1. Stamp or engrave your seed onto stainless steel or titanium at least twice, creating a backup.

2. Verify that your passphrase has an entropy of at least 128 bits (refer to the image).

3. Stamp or engrave your passphrase onto stainless steel or titanium at least twice, creating a backup.

4. You will require both parts of the 2-of-2 setup to access your funds, making it crucial to have one backup for each part.

5. Store each part in separate secure locations. With only one part, an attacker cannot access your funds and brute forcing becomes impractical.

This enhances security against theft but adds complexity. Consider carefully whether you truly need this advanced setup or if securely storing your seed phrase with one backup is sufficient for your needs. nostr:note1ua696hcaae4w2wpufwu9rhd9mtt4sre420ddgrzv2lu09374wglqxx0yjl

Thanks mate. Had this for a week now. Getting worse every time that back slips. (I'm getting old...)

Sorry for not streaming last night. Backpain hit an ATH so I knocked myself out.

Sadly I have to go out today. Enjoy your studies

Good morning Matt 🫂☀️ that sounds lovely 🙏🏽

im so conflicted. i just want an ecash wallet that plugs in here and send to my lightning wallet at will. its just more ideal imo.

A simple tweet would do but yeah.

Good morning

Running nostr

If you send it to a lightning address, you will incur a tiny fee, but free if you send it to another cashu address.

If you send it to another cashu address of a different mint, these cashus will get destroyed by the receiving mint and then reissued as new and forwarded to the receiving address.

Between mints and users and between mints themselves, it's totally private. When sending to lightning, I'm not too sure.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Left-Right political spectrum is useless for proper political analysis.

Why?

First: It is utterly subjective. Politics is always going to be subjective, but at the very least try to tie it to some objective, measurable fact so that we can make inter-temporal and international comparisons.

Second: It is constantly shifting. The definitions of "left" and "right" have already changed multiple times in history, even completely switching sides on issues and ideological content. Since it was invented during the French Revolution the definition of "left" has completely changed at least 8 times. This makes historical comparisons and measurements useless.

The answer to this is to stop using this meaningless, subjective, absurd political categorisation and replace it with something better.

The Nolan chart, invented in 1969 improves by adding a second axis. X is left-right, Y is liberal-authoritarian.

However this still remains highly subjective and using badly defined terms.

An improvement is a political compass with numbers that measure something real that can be compared between now and 10 years into the future. You will be able to ask the same question now and in 100 years and compare how voter ideology has changed.

X axis replaces left-right (meaningless) with socialist-private property 1-10 score in answer to the question: how much property should the govt. control? With 1 being everything (max socialist) and 10 being nothing (max private property).

Y axis is authoritarian-liberal 1-10 score in answer to the question: how much control should the govt. have over your life? With 10 being none (max liberty) and 1 being all (max authority).

Bitcoin needs more than just developers, it needs users.

Users of software that report bugs, users of the chain that transact on it.

It needs creative thinkers to figure out new business models or improve old ones.

It needs critical thinkers to see through the meme wars and think from first principles what makes sense and what doesnt.

It needs business people that have experience running companies to help translate the message of bitcoin to all industries.

It needs marketing people who can shape the message and help builders reach wider audiences and help them explain things to the normies.

It needs privacy advocates to help educate people about the importance of privacy.

It needs UX designers to make products usable to everyone.

It needs power grid companies to expand their production and help push the humanity forward on the kardashev scale.

It needs artists to portray it and deliver the message that transcends words.

Bitcoin needs everyone and everyone needs bitcoin. nostr:note1qflelrs37sddhzrgnpqnme056xqeckeu4dxupcr8cwmddkf5zs0q3qjpa8