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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

What would you rather own right now?

10 BTC

Or

A business that generates $6,300 USD/mo in profits.

Tomko 2y ago

Quick maths, if you think business will continue to generate income past 3 years then cashflow is king

If you think we get hyperbitcoinization within 3 years, then this bet may not pay off

To have to balance your risk tradeoff. If you have a certain amount of Bitcoin, then business would be to lock in more income

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

Yeah I typically recommend trezor too, it's so easy to use, software simple and nice

But shitcoins :(:(:(:(

Tomko 2y ago

They can ignore the 💩coins

I would not recommend Ledger at all though, for many reasons

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

Do you think coldcards are a good first hardware wallet for a noob?

I find myself not recommending it to newcoiners because I'm afraid they'll get too intimidated.

But the others allow shitcoins...

What do you all think?

Tomko 2y ago

I feel like the Trezor is a good intro wallet

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Ayy

Yeah the regime has been doing this with people and bots for years now. It’s an unholy alliance between the various intelligence agencies, state department and ngos. Things like Chatgpt will make it much cheaper and more convincing at first but I actually think ultimately your average person will become a lot more suspicious and use tools to detect if they’re being botted.

Tomko 2y ago

Definitely this capability is more obvious to the attentive person (real vs narrative), but to the masses I'm not sure. It seems they are deeper stuck in their own hypnosis, and will continue to get worse

In digital age, even with neutral platforms like Nostr, it's still super easy to do in mass. Scaling is super easy to do in digital realm

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Ayy

A lot of the activity on there is artificial activity used to steer opinion and the discourse. They make topics that nobody real cares about become center focus and then real people get wrapped up in talking about it. Twitter “looks the other way” because all they wanted was as much activity as possible. I’m not going to simp for Elon but there’s a reason that the whole system had such a negative reaction to an unknown quantity like Elon take over the whole thing. I doubt Elon ever gets to the bottom of what was and is truly going on there but it’s just a big machine to warp people’s perception of reality.

Tomko 2y ago

I guess monetization is the root of the problem with social media. To manage a company, there need to be profits, and polarization like this only increases engagement

I see Nostr can shine here as a more neutral alternative

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Ayy

A lot of the activity on there is artificial activity used to steer opinion and the discourse. They make topics that nobody real cares about become center focus and then real people get wrapped up in talking about it. Twitter “looks the other way” because all they wanted was as much activity as possible. I’m not going to simp for Elon but there’s a reason that the whole system had such a negative reaction to an unknown quantity like Elon take over the whole thing. I doubt Elon ever gets to the bottom of what was and is truly going on there but it’s just a big machine to warp people’s perception of reality.

Tomko 2y ago

Interesting. Thanks for your take

These days a lot of platforms are glaringly obvious to me how skewed they are, to the point I concluded there's a push to slant perception of reality. Definitely from a political front for sure, likely funded

I just haven't noticed it as much on Twitter until recently

Was just talking to someone today, how extra easy it would be to frame sentiments in a specific direction. Not just mass of bots, but think ChatGPT style algos that mass produce realistic profiles and discussions, all with a targeted nuance narrative. Repeat it enough subconsciously and it becomes engrained

Increasingly volatile times where truth and fiction are exponentially blurred to the many

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BTC Sessions

This wasn't on my 2023 bingo card, but I'll take it. Time to teach Peterson some lightning, self custody, and perhaps plant a seed regarding Nostr given his many forays with censorship.