Android has app store competition and allows side loading of apps. Moar freedom.

Are you upset with Apple for their recent App Store shenanigans to restrict Bitcoin functionality? Google is currently offering $455 trade-in value for all iPhone 11 models, allowing you to switch to an unlocked Pixel 7 Pro for a mere $244! store.google.com/config/pixel_7_pro

The app store monopoly is a single point of failure and a massive chokepoint when it comes to software innovation.

I traverse the globe solely because Bitcoin drives me to do so. And everywhere I go, I find my people. We speak many languages and have different cultures, yet we share a common goal.

Onward!

Had a lot of excellent nerdy conversations in Prague that gave me several ideas. Now I must retreat to my lair for a few months to craft incantations for new Bitcoin wizardry.

If Trump goes to prison, would the Secret Service follow him? Sounds like yes.

Under the Former Presidents Act, which was signed into law in 1958, all living former presidents are entitled to receive lifetime Secret Service protection unless they decline protection.

It would require a change to Federal law via Congress to modify this entitlement. In the 1990s Congress did change it to a 10 year limit post-presidency, but they removed the limit again ~15 years later.

"So then I told them there is no second best!"

I kinda miss the peaceful part of 2020-2021 when nobody was asking me to travel to speak at events.

Wish we we still doing Bitcoin VR meetups!

It sounds like they are calling staking services securities, not necessarily the underlying assets bring started.

One of the most nail-biting experiences as a system administrator is updating a bunch of software on a machine that has been running for years without being touched.

"To live is to risk it all. Otherwise, you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules, drifting wherever the universe blows you."

- Rick Sanchez