I did a pcap (network capture) of my Android when the device boots up and it's been shocking to see how many apps phone home when I boot my device.

Dozens of apps. It's bad. Very bad.

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

Is the learning channel exclusively shows about morbidly obese people now?

Why would you buy it? You can redeem right there and then

The #Bitcoin network can't be hacked.

10k sats challenge: What will be the year-end closing price for #Bitcoin? The closest reply wins 10k sats. 🔮⚡️

A friend bought some KYC/exchange sats (Strike and Coinbase). Asked me if there were any ways/methods to improve anonymity (amounts etc) that might make chain analysis harder as they take them off those exchanges and send them to cold storage. Any tips other than don’t buy KYC sats? #asknostr

What are the chances this gives me bird flu?

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I wonder how many tx’s Lightning removes from on-chain Bitcoin every day and how much pressure it’s taken off the mempool, and what effect on sats/vb that has.

Has anyone ever been able to quantify these figures or create some kind of estimate?

Lightning also enables us to do things on-chain never could have like Nostr zaps and micro txs, but that’s a separate thing.