No question the current situation makes self custody harder with small UTXOs. But there are alternative ways to stack with minimal fees and a high fee environment incentives development of L2s. nostr:note18954ydknlp07dez5euy2qmz6k5dngaqzqlew5n02lqrgu05t9v3sfhyq72
The place to be if you have an opinion and you really, really want 100 people to hear it.
I love the design of this site and the story. Thanks for sharing!
Crazy that anyone out there still thinks ETH is 🦇🔊 Also crazy about Ledger too. Glad I dumped mine for a coldcard.
December 16 for me 🥂
Sorry to hear! I sent some sats to see if that helps
I agree with you. I think Luke-jr is using his new mining platform to force the discussion. I don’t think any serious bitcoiners really want ordinals to stay, and thus low risk of a fork, but I think it’s also right to take issue with how Luke has pushed for the change through mining pool censorship.
This author is trying to take down Vaclav Smil, but Smil has it right. A clean energy transition needs to follow the laws of thermodynamics first and foremost. Then it needs to be economically incentivized. Political will may be necessary on the margin but will not be the main driver of success. Fortunately, #bitcoin calls out the thermodynamic charlatans and provides the economic incentives for a transition. The cheapest energy wins and in a truly free market, the cheapest energy is that which is the least wasteful.
I’ve been looking at a refurbished Lenovo Thinkcentre. What OS would you run?
I’m looking to upgrade my Raspiblitz node at home to a more capable mini PC. Any recommendations for hardware and software? I’m reasonably comfortable with a command line but prefer a decent GUI.
The last two advertisers left? 😅
Zap sent! I use mutiny wallet on iOS. It works well so far.
If you are on nostr and don’t have have a wallet linked to accept zaps stop whatever you are doing and start right now. 😉
I was going to zap this note but I couldn’t. Sats are on the table!
I’m a simple man: I see a good post, I zap
It’s mind blowing that I can send open source, digital cash permissionlessly to anons posting notes on a distributed network of relays. What a time to be alive.
Yesterday we held a Bitcoin meetup at a local cafe that I convinced to accept BTC in late 2021.
We didn’t call it a Bitcoin meetup, we called it a financial session on inflation & investing.
The idea was not to have a social bitcoiner meetup, but to bring friends/family to learn about the real causes of inflation, the risks to traditional markets and the opportunity in studying and saving in bitcoin.
We got ~15 people out on a Monday evening in a small town.
2 teachers, 2 real estate investors, 2 fitness instructors, 2 local entrepreneurs, 2 construction workers, 4 bitcoiners and 2 artists.
My friend and I decided to make a presentation sheet that we printed off and gave to all of the folks who came out.
We discussed at a high level the “cost of conventional thinking” inspired by a recent Saylor piece.
Here’s the presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6pwxs6qm7qljsaexiu6hk/Cost-of-Conventional-Thinking.pdf?rlkey=jkw955y1nlqr4owd31tlulgyx&dl=0
I had been the only customer who paid in BTC for 2 years. The owner was impressed at the price movement of BTC as she watched her stack grow over the year.
We made up a stack of lightsats.com tip cards with enough BTC for a few cups of coffee.
The printable light sats cards are a great way to promote local businesses that support bitcoin.
You should try it in your local area if you are so inclined to give away BTC, or if you can find a sponsor to sponsor the event with ~$200-$500 in free sats.
The best thing about light sats cards is that when half of the people inevitably forget about the card and don’t claim the sats, they come back to your wallet after x days.
This is a highly underutilized orange pilling tool.
Half the people setup a Blink wallet at the cafe, claimed their sats and paid for a coffee over lightning.
It was a great night where we focused more on high level conceptual financial literacy topics and didn’t delve so far into the activism side of things.
The information was received very well as we didn’t get into libertarian views of small government, free speech issues, politics, etc.
We tried to keep it cheerful & constructive as Saylor says. 
If I happen to be in Strathroy, I’ll be sure to buy a coffee with bitcoin. I’m not too far away in London.