For all the #tech talk and on here ... I've not seen a single #gamer

Y'all fuckin' serious??? #asknostr #plebchain #nostrplebs

Bank security practices are so byzantine and broken it's absurd. I spent 45 minutes helping my mom unlock her Chase account today (which was locked because she sent $500 via zelle to a friend who is in the hospital!) Here's how it went:

- Locked for no reason

- Number on website goes to automated answering machine

- It asks for her debit card number (what?) to identify the account

- This is lost and also needs to be replaced. There is no alternative method, 0 doesn't get us to a person

- I call Chase customer service, different number, very similar system, but I am able to get a person on the phone

- They verify her identity by making me hand the phone to my mom and ask her to state her name (what). They also ask for her ssn and a security phrase she doesn't know, although she does manage to share the security phrase for her other bank.

- They re-order the debit card and transfer us to another department, where we do the whole verification charade again

- They send a 2fa code via sms. We receive it, but the site shows an error and won't let us put the code in.

- They then send a different code, and ask me to give it to them over the phone, which the text message explicitly says not to do.

- Despite my better judgment I gave them the number. They then do something on the backend, and I enter a *new* code they gave me over the phone into the web portal to get it unblocked.

It's no wonder old people get scammed! Force someone to deal with this BS for 20 years and anyone would get confused and give the wrong code to the wrong person.

When the 2yr UST spread to Fed Funds Effective Rate goes this negative, it is a strong sign that rate cuts are imminent (and so is a recession).

At the point that you fully understand #Bitcoin, it becomes your risk/reward benchmark for all other investments and assets, one that’s nearly impossible to beat.

Imagine having defected from North Korea only to now be living in the UK.

One aspect of #Nostr and #Bitcoin I find very compelling in the long run is that it allows you to relax and live life in your very own natural rhythm.

You wanna take a break in nature, let the experience sink in before you share? Good, no central algorithm punishes you for inactivity on Nostr. You are right back where you left off.

You wanna relax, earnings are enough and there's no need to grow your business right now? Family is more important or you wanna focus on your spiritual development. Great, if you run on Bitcoin you are not forced to outrun inflation and make regular investment maintenance decisions.

Chill. Your energy is yours. You are free to do you. This is invaluable 🙏

THE ONLY OPTION IS TO PUSH FORWARD

Incredible 😂

Another casualty of our cats’ chewing addiction today. Following hot on the heels of 2 charging cables chewed to small pieces yesterday.

Helpful chart to understand why the people rose up in Bangladesh and tossed their leader out of power

Now the coordinators of the student body that led the protest against Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian rule have declared the formation of an interim government with the country's only Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus, as its Chief Advisor

Let’s hope they can start to build a free and prosperous society without military rule 🙏

Dumb take.

There are a bunch of other attack surface those wallets don't protect you against and there are lots of trade offs.

Second under Mitigations; COLDCARD has always done RFC6979 signatures. That with repro builds are perfectly adequate. jade requires pin servers to be secure that is a huge trade off. Bitbox requires usb, huge trade off.

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Just incredible how clear things are if you don’t listen to MSM and just look at the money. Just do the math on the debt and “predicting the future” isn’t even hard.

How many people were calling that this would continue for a span (basically a tiny debt cycle) as things didn’t have to get price adjusted, then contracts would run out, quarters would have to be reported, and something would break, and they’d have to aggressively cut interest rates again and start printing? And that it would very likely be before the election.

Who called it? I had this conversation with my contractor after the *first* major interest rate raise a few years ago and said we would go through another mini-cycle and real estate and construction projects would get hurt real bad. And today we literally have our contractor nearly on call because the other work has dried up.

It’s nuts how simple it all is if you just look at the money itself. Everything above it is just noise. nostr:note124d94k6zq2906809h50j57yt5lg3e546vtpuvfp7uphrdl6xmaqq9vq3za