Around this time 5 years ago I purchased my first #Bitcoin ASICS. I paid Bitcoin to a guy in Russia I had never met and prayed that it wasn’t a scam. The ASICS came, but the aha moment for me was that I had never actually used Bitcoin to make a purchase.

About a year later, I was setting up a large mining location and needed a lot of ASICS and had to do a wire transfer. I had never sent a wire before and was shocked at how complicated, slow and awful the user experience was.

I’m grateful that I used Bitcoin before sending a wire because it burned into my brain how much of an improvement it is over the legacy financial system; and all of this before widespread use of the lightning network.

The lesson here is use Bitcoin. Spend and replace when possible. Send small amounts on Nostr / Damus to random plebs. The transformative power of the system is in using it. It makes you see Bitcoin for what it truly is…freedom.

Nearly the entire spectrum of political thought includes the implicit assumption that the State is the institution best suited for the production, interpretation, and enforcement of law and order. In fact, the variance in most political discourse is confined to which laws the State ought to produce and how they should be interpreted and enforced. The questions often left unasked, though begged by traditional political thought: "Is the State the institution best suited for these tasks? If not, what is the superior alternative?"

You are always on the right path don’t doubt it. ⚡️✨🙏

GrapheneOS is great. I ran it a couple years ago.

If you need a code for $100 off on your Pixel 7 Pro lemme know.

For my needs and my level of trust, Qubes does the job. What would you suggest as an alternative?

Thank you for explaining what #[4] meant. I still don't know if I understand the argument though. People need to be able to save data.

Plausible deniability is a feature you want if you’re worried about the authorities seizing your machine. It’s not the first-line-of-defense if you’re trying to defend against compromise.

Plausible deniability for what? That you have a computer? The entire Qubes installation can be encrypted with full disk encryption.

I just joined and I heard someone say using QubesOS is bad advice. I obviously missed the initial part of that conversation... QubesOS is great if you care about privacy and security.

Great point! The polish coming. #[6]

Any chance we could get a “Share” button that prefills brb.io/n/note… and brb.io/u/npub…

One implicit way to achieve this would be a feature that allows displaying Nostr content outside of Nostr (on websites or social media). Kind of like Twitter allowing embedded posts. Repeated exposures would create awareness and familiarity with the platform, hopefully making it easier to join when the trigger comes. How difficult would this be? #[5]

Bitcoin just works. Nostr is a great example of this. We can easily tip and pay fellow Nostriches for their content with just a tap of a button and soon we'll see people streaming sats to Relay operators. I'm so thankful to be on a platform that's built by Bitcoiners.

Imagine spending $1.7 TRILLION and not buying any bitcoin with it.

The energy here is still overwhelming. It's the Bitcoin community at it's finest. The close knit feeling is what's missing on Twitter. I'm sure this will change as the network grows and expands outside of the Bitcoin community, but we'll always still have our own corner composed of our relays and clients.

Definitely not lowest fees, it costs onchain fees. They are insane compared to other wallets. It's definitely the worst ln wallet (and its not even ln)