with fiat you have two options:
- be a debt-slave: you will own nothing and will be a good guy so they can permit you to live your miserable life.
- be a credit-slave: you will own nothing and will be a good guy so they can permit you to live your miserable life (but you work hard to keep your bank account green).
ETF is better than "report to government your self-custodied bitcoins for taxation purpose".
Self custody without privacy is retarded and there isnt any use case where it can be good.
ETF or third paety custody has his own situations (corporation business investments for example) where could be a legitimate choice.
Self custody + privacy is what make you a powerful and a sovrein human.
absolutely stupid 100%. Also, to justify him a bit, I think that the best way to expose your fiat business to bitcoin is trought custodians. If you are a business you want to pay taxes, be compliant, and so on to continue to do your fiat business; so self custody is mostly a risk.
Also, even in that case, I would use bitcoin in self custody + complete privacy for doing what bitcoin is useful for: tax evasion and hiding wealth.
But they are two "different profiles" for different use cases.
If I would be him probably I would "act" like him (while speeching very differently, and understanding others perspectives). We know how many bitcoin microstrategy has with custodians, by definition we dont know how many bitcoin Saylor is hiding in self custody (probably 0 as he seems so retarded, but still, we dont know by design).
For myfelf, as subject that dont have a fiat business to be compliant with I dont have any doubt, I'd go 100% with privacy + self custody + tax evasion. (or 98% hide / 2% tax-reported to make my profile credible, idk).
hi guys, how many "bitcoiner maxis" do you think could be in the world today? Someone who do self custody with a large stack of their property (not 5% allocation...), hate the states, dont do shitcoins, and so on? What metric could be used to count them?
#asknostr
Nah, key rotation without a centralized trusted third party doesnt scale anyway, doesnt change much the thungs IMO. Still we need this to make our nerdy bitcoiners CEOs sign their shitposting from the iphone keeping the master key airgapped.
I hate iphones cause they are the most walled-garden mobile experiences, but they are better then other solutions in terms of privacy and security (the only better alternative is grapheneos).
I'm ok with shitposting.
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zeus is great, but it doesnt cover the same exact use case of phoenix today. With zeus I experienced a lot of force-closures, a lot of failed payments, and lot of problems.
Its more "sovreign" cause you can use whatever lsp and have a full control over your channels. Its also more private.
But its far away from the great UX of phoenix.
Different tradeoffs👌
phoenix is a lightning node. It sacrifice something in term of self sovreignity (mostly due to lsp-lock-in with acinq) but shit like this are unlikely to happens:
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tradeoffs.
agree with you. But the narrative seems incentivize crappy solutions as the only way as user of "being self sovrein and run your own node" while phoenix is a self sovrein experience and is an actual node (still lsp-lock-in with acinq, and other tradeoffs).
For example, electrum is cooking something like phoenix but multi lsp/trampolines and is super cool in my opinion.
Hopefully no end-user will need to run something like lnd to zap around to be self-sovrein and have privacy.
in the world there are ~50 million people with a wealth of at least 1 million $.
in the world there are ~1 million addresses with at least 1 bitcoin, so we can really roughly estimate ~1 million wholecoiners (probably today there are far less wholecoiners around).
So in some years, when the world will be enough bitcoinized, 1 bitcoin will buy roughly what today can buy 50 million dolllars (denomination will be far higher cause inflation).
And I'm probably still not bullish enough.
How can tax-evasion be so unpopular, even in bitcoin community. Or should I say CoMmUniSt-y 😓.
I dont respect you if you dont respect tax-evasion. I can understand you cant, but arguing against tax-evasion is a red flag.
Finacial freedom = tax evasion.
Bincoin is an instrument for financial freedom.
Bitcoin is an instrument for tax-evasion.
If you pay taxes you are not doing the bitcoiner the right way.
If you think is correct to pay taxes you are retarded.
Security at the expenses of freedon doesnt exist. Can work with retarded people for limited timeframes, but you become miserable and if you give away your freedom.
So simple, dont be fooled by government, apple, microsoft, google, sometimes grapheneos...
Nothing a good ice cream cant fix.
Let them make money slippering flippening bling blonging leveraging on the stock skibidi boom boom, be happy is more important
false. He choose to move to github for update because he has been pissed off of the mozilla review processes. What happened is that mozilla found, erroneusly, that ublok0 lite was spying on users someway, so removed the last update from the store for more investigations. After some days, the investigations have done and they admitted that was a falso-positive and that they was wrong.
I hate mozilla, but what have you written here is largerly false and bullshit.
because simplex is a protocol bootstrapped as a platform. Theres one implementation of every component (like platforms) and development has happened and continue to happen in a centralized way, with changes that are not suggested, discussed and implemented by multiple parties.
Its a protcol bootstrapped as a platform, developed as a platform, optimized as a platform. In the end, Its a platform very well documented.
We want protocol for decentralized DMs.
A protocol that interoperates with protocols, in particular use nostr keys as identities (not necessarly exposing metadata, but like in giftwrapping for example)
agree with you in some ways, and I frankly would migrate every chat to nostr based solutions with 0xchat. For me is more importat freedom than an abstract "security", and I'd happily abandon signal today if my chats friends would agree.
But still, its important to have secrecy on nostr and secret/really private chats.
For example, forward secrecy is something someone understimate unless copy paste the wrong key and leak chats from 3 years ago.
We need nip104, normies are not the target in this stage of development in my opinion.
Low-time preference tradeoffs need to be taken today, normie friendly clients that mix nip-44 and nip-104 in a convenient way will come one day.
Also and most important: in my opinion, every new development propsal and nip shouldnt have the goal of attract normies. Companies and clients should.
I think the reason because p2p fails is incentives. Everyone want to take, pretty noone want to give, and so pretty noone want to offer inbound connection to strangers.
Bitcoin is a strange creature with inbuilt incemtives that create a p2p that scale and works (even if the incentive to run nodes for others are weak, but pretty work in the end).
watchin this
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hi nostr:nprofile1qqs8y6s7ycwvv36xwn5zsh3e2xemkyumaxnh85dv7jwus6xmscdpcygpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qxvpy4 tor browser received a fix for a critical vulnerability exploited in the wild from ~2 days in v13.5.7 but in zap.store it is still in v13.5.6
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