your king cone looks weird.

see, this is the issue. lightning *is* bitcoin. it is built on top of bitcoin primitives and at no time are you exchanging anything but sats. ecash is the opposite. it _can_ be backed by bitcoin, but there's nothing about it that says it needs to. it is supposed to be a a voucher for some amount of bitcoin but doesn't have a verifiable supply. so the value of it could fluctuate depending on the whims of the mint key holders. i'm not sure why it having a separate chain is what makes something bitcoin or not. if that's the case, then the dollars in my pocket are also bitcoin. i think that chaumian mints and fedimints more specifically are a great solution for facilitating quick, easy, and private payments between individuals. however, it has nothing to do with bitcoin from an end user perspective, and i feel that bitcoin should be completely removed from the conversation around it.

how sticky is it?

nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv made a great post on stacker news not long ago discussing fedimint. if you're trying to understand it a bit, it's a great bit of info. https://stacker.news/items/395461

"backed by bitcoin" != bitcoin. this is the difference people need to understand but few seem to or just don't seem to want to talk about this aspect. however, it's an important distinction for people to consider when determining their threat model and tolerable risk level.

#footstr

yeah. this is wrong.

midjourney

wanna be sovereign? run a full node. pruned node isn't a full node. it's a nonstarter if it's not a full node.

"because no one will ever be willing to run a piece of hardware at their house. that would be such a weird thing. I'm not a techy....shit

hold on, internet at home is wonky right now. I gotta go restart my router."

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which edition of the sovereign individual is best to read for a first time read through? #asknostr

hell yeah! we should make a fiction must-read books list for these books. include daemon and mandibles.

yeah but they take care of the roads, ya know. so, I mean, it's cool.

in what way?

not if you keep shouting at us you won't.

I did this for a while. it's a good idea.

I guess they haven't picked up on my epic rig at home yet.

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someday

good call. gotta orange pill your landlord lol

you're doing it the wrong way. you're supposed to take the money *out* of the bank