Oddbean

Not a needle junkies manhating on? Thou shall not, however the falacy when not a shooter, but oswald 📌 https://i.nostrimg.com/75229b5bb3ca5d06be9aa3c15ad54839fd81f61ff44182ea20878134c8b9a042/file.jpeg

Woke up this morning and saw an article on zerohedge about an executive order that Biden put out last year giving the government power to freeze your money. I never saw this report before today and I was surprised that I didn't even care. Before bitcoin I would have scrambled around panicking trying to do something about it. Instead, I just shrugged and went about my day as usual. Becoming unruggable is good for your mental health.

This is a strange one... Normally you're given nothing. But here you're being told to talk to police? And specifically Israeli police... My wonder is... Is this person Israeli or is this related to the war on misinformation? I don't know if I believe this post or not tbh. Feels off.

On this topic, I am currenlt ticked off at River where I recently opened an account. My plan was to transfer sats I purchased to my Sparrow wallet. Customer support at River told me I need to have an account there for 3 months before I can "apply" to be allowed to withdraw bitcoin. WTF!? I thought River wasn't full of suits but apparently they are. Thankfully I didn't put a ton of fiat into River while I wait 3 months.

Ledger is closed source and recently implemented features to - supposedly only with your consent - send the private keys off device. I would rather trust Trezor or BitBox02. You might find my project helpful: https://walletscrutiny.com/

That means you hold your own keys, so you’re good. However, Ledger doesn’t have the best reputation in the hardware wallet business. If you want to upgrade, you could go for a Coldcard by @Coinkite (old npup) and combine it with Sparrow. @BTCsessions has great tutorials for this. PS: I’m not @ODELL , just a dude looking to give some advice where needed ;)

Can’t be rugged with OnRamp. Gubment can still rug your ability to use your non KYC stack. Unless we’re all destined to move to El Salvador? Which is a hard ask for those of us with families, communities, churches.

Perhaps. But that’s what I’ve been trying to sort out with y’all. Obviously self custody first. But do you/we perceive the attack vectors I’m throwing down as valid? If so, then doesn’t it make sense to, at minimum, have a side pot with a multi sig custodian who is aligned in worldview like OnRamp? At least OnRamp acknowledges the need for multi jurisdictional optionality and has critical mass/scale to get ahead of the onslaught. Not everyone is a single coder bro that can simply bail out to El Salvador. The lack of acknowledgement and seeming unwillingness to beat up some of these very real attack vectors is an indictment of our team’s values or perhaps an indication of a naivety about how ugly it’s gonna get when Rome 2.0 starts to burn. I have yet to hear an intelligent rebuttal from anyone. Ape-ing memes aka virtual picketing (90% of nostr) isn’t an intelligent argument that’s going to create converts with conviction. Losing the normie masses loses the war. Feel me?