Only after creating an account, what does that mean in practice? For example, Proton may ask you for your Visa/MasterCard details and only then allow you to pay with Bitcoin. That's exactly what they do to me because they think I'm unreliable.

You can't pay with bitcoin without paying with something else (credit card) first.

There was a case where Proton disclosed data not to the authorities but to the press. There was a case where they helped the CIA with money. They don't do anonymous payment with Bitcoin, they don't have logs disabled by default in client settings, etc.

As a result, Proton just sucks. It's basically just a paid Google.

oops accidentally transmitted some money without a license #zapathon

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Men who are 30+, please give one piece of advice to men who are 19 to 30.

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Have tried and really like both. If you or anyone who might inherit are not tech savvy I would go with Casa. I love Liana but it’s definitely more on the bleeding edge and requires strong knowledge(probably running a full node and DIY sparrow multisig as a roughly comparable level of difficulty. Though Liana does have excellent support and a support package designed to help your family if you pass. So either ultimately can work.

Favorite self custody setup for each usecase I’ve encountered:

Small stack, small budget uncle Jim: Nunchuk collaborative multisig, give the noobs tapsigners and you hold a coldcard

Large stack, large budget, but low tech knowledge uncle Jim: Casa 3 of 5 paid multisig

Small stack, small budget fully self custody: Jade with blockstream green

Medium stack, medium budget fully self custody but low technical knowledge: Nunchuk 2 of 3 paid multisig with two hardware wallets from different vendors

Large stack, low to medium budget and high technical knowledge: Liana with TBD count hardware wallets from different vendors

Any size stack, small budget, but high technical knowledge: DIY on sparrow with whatever hardware wallets you can afford

All of these are no KYC (why Unchained is not included. Sign up with a protonmail email address. When ordering hardware wallets and seed backups - don’t order with your real name or actual home address(try PO Box, work, or a consenting acquaintance’s address), and pay with Privacy.com, Bitcoin, or gift cards.

Anybody else really love movies that don’t have happy endings..

Who deals with the ecash end of things? You're pretty much back to where we are with custodial Lightning solutions for zaps as far as I know.

To be clear, my knowledge of ecash development right now is slightly above zero. There's too much to keep up with everything lately, which is a great problem to have.

Someone asked me recently how I am receiving #zaps since I'm using Phoenix to send them (after Alby sending broke).

The answer is still Alby, since receiving still works.

However, Phoenixd is looking like a possibility in the near future.

Just wanted to share that for anyone who cares. I've put zero work into figuring out how this will work or how practical it is at this point.

I will definitely share my thoughts once I work on implementing it.

Sovereign #zaps sounds really cool.

After a long sauna session I realized I was only living at about 3-4 out of 10 of my potential for the last ~4 years.

I’m improving every day but I’m not even at 6.15 out of10 yet.

It’s exciting to think about what it will be like when I’m living to my full capacity as my 10.0 self, empowered by Bitcoin.

I’m going to have so much more fun, create so much more and help so many more people.