Does anyone else feel gripped by panic when restoring a hardware wallet, wondering if this is finally the one that got tampered with by the NSA whilst in transit?
All caps AND a larger mempool...š¤Ø Are you okay? Have you been kidnapped?
This entire thread between Shinobi and Lyn is very worth reading. And, it's one of the exceedingly occasions where I find myself disagreeing with Lyn somewhat.
As much as I am in the "slow and steady" camp when it comes to making changes to Bitcoin, I am also in the "go big or go home" camp. My sense is that Shinobi is as well.
When you look at the ripple effects of the Samourai arrests alone (Wasabi shutting down globally, Phoenix shuttering in the US, Mash shutting down, Madeira Fedimint closing...), the idea of bitcoin scaling solely through custodial lightning banks seems far more tenuous than it did just a month ago. And to pursue this vision is to put a lot of stock in Bitcoiners being able to win at the ballot box and in the govt courts.
It also relies heavily on a jurisdictional arbitrage thesis, which has yet to play out. We would need countries being openly willing to defy the US to protect Bitcoiners. And, in doing so, risk getting sanctioned, kicked off SWIFT, having their treasury reserves frozen, and possibly even having their ruler assassinated and regime- changed.
IDK. That just seems increasingly dubious.
Bitcoin is our one shot at separating money and state. It is this ridiculously brazen, Promethean endeavor to steal fire from those who imagine themselves to be gods. And yet, somewhat paradoxically, it seems to me that we risk the Bitcoin story winding more like that of Icarus - flying perpetually close to the sun and having our wings blowtorched by the State - if we aren't more bold in making changes to bitcoin that allow for greater self-sovereignty.
Tragic, and par for the course for the insane zionist state
In real terms, many still are š
Is there a leaderboard of most prolific zappers anywhere?
Has anyone made a t-shirt with the rolling stones forty licks album art, only with an orange pill on the tip of the tongue? I want to buy one, and it seems too obvious not to have been created already.
Has there never been a well funded legal challenge to the Bank Secrecy Act??
Here I am, trying to get a transaction to confirm, and these degens are filling up the blocks. 
Just drained my Phoenix wallet and they broadcast my tx at 12 sat/vb. Seemingly no way to fee bump.
Just drained my Phoenix wallet and they broadcast my tx at 12 sat/vb. Seemingly no way to fee bump.
Just drained my Phoenix wallet and they broadcast my tx at 12 sat/vb. Seemingly no way to fee bump.
HFSP...?
I'm joking. I'd just ressaure him that if he can't fee bump, that his tx will either confirm within the next week or so, or become spendable again in his wallet. His coins aren't lost in the ether, and the beauty of a bitcoin tx is that either the coins are with you or with the recipient. They can't get lost like a wire transfer.
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Today, I gifted Katie this beautiful painting created by nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x. I took this photo when we were on a family vacation in Uvita, Costa Rica in January. Katie's been wanting a painting for our living room. Isolabell brought it to life for us and I was able to purchase it thanks to Bitcoin and Nostr. š Thank you. 
@isolabell.art does amazing work! ā„ļø
Unfortunately I suspect Israel will strike back. They bombed Iran's consulate intentionally to expand the war and draw America in directly. This all seems highly calculated on their part.