The adoption numbers tell a different story, but to each their own


Anybody else feels like Bama is gonna spank Michigan? Them southern boys are built different


The circle jerking about grapheneos is something to behold. Giving veganism and crossfit a run for their money


Who even uses to buy apple pay to buy bitcoin? weird straw man, but sure pal. Like I said, all you are really crying about is solved by using primal on testflight.

Yeah bitcoin is totally not for people that enjoy great hardware and software. It’s reserved only for those brave enough to have a worse user experience on a google phone. Lmao cope harder


2 tier justice system

Paul pelosi can kill a whole family while drunk driving and nothing would happen to him.

Judges are corrupt and woke way too often


The number will decrease over time forever tho


It would probably range between 5-100+ depending on your family’s spending patterns


Claro


Tell that to Salvadorians

No one is advocating for the killing of innocent civilians. It’s always the people that don’t live in the thick of it that all the sudden care about humanitarianism now that there is change in leadership. When criminals terrorized the streets for years none of these Monday morning quarterbacks said anything.

If it were up to them they would still have MS13 terrorizing salvadorians.


Price just being the exchange rate between goods, you can very much price bitcoin in hashrate or energy.

While the difficulty adjustment mitigates variations in the issuance rate of sats, one can definitely get more bitcoin faster by deploying more hash rate within the ~ 2 week period


What fight are you alluding to?

If it’s the zapping fees thing people can just use Primal on Testflight and keep the great IU/UX, beautiful hardware, and all the ecosystem benefits Apple offers


Too bad I stacked a few days ago. Every single time I fomo smash buy the price goes down 😂🫠


Let me help you with that


Don’t tell that to a FOSS maxi 😂 they will not agree. From a user perspective there’s no real difference


He will be lucky to get to 0.2


Yep seen enough girls curling their eye lashes while driving to trust these suicidal mfs not to rear end me. Not to mention all the texting and driving… its a gamble every time you get on the road


They are not FOSS. Source Code Verifiable is what they use for marketing. You can do everything but commercialize their firmware afaik


What else did you expected from Samourai


No money no specialization

No specialization no spaceships

They totally use a proof of work money.


The Mandibles fam did come together after all 😂

All the RE bros can put their folks in their failing Airbnb rentals


Bitcoin gives people financial freedom. Spiritual salvation is much more important.

The reason why bitcoin resembles a religion is because Bitcoin is truth. If you seek truth then you have to find God. Otherwise it’s all relative since good and bad becomes merely an opinion. Deep rabbit hole. Frank Turek is a good place to startz


Bitcoin will not stop cultural degeneracy.

NOSTR will probably make things worse too by enabling women to prostitute themselves without censorship.

The money is broken and social media platforms are overly censored, but people need God not just magic internet money and a public square to sell themselves


Facts


We need more Craig Raw’s


You know


Trigger warning for orange pillers

Not having to deal with massive mining fees is a value prop of the spot ETF. Most people don’t and won’t care to hold their own keys, but they will care about 300 sat/vB fees


I think he gets it, he just knows what most people his age and in general will do. Him being pragmatic is not him dismissing the other value props of bitcoin. He just understands in the US most people won’t care enough for those things and will just buy the ETF.


He hit the nail on the head tho.

There will still be the freaks that run their own server, but most people just want iCloud


ETF talk is stealing their thunder, so they trynna stay relevant


That shoe box sure ain’t worth 20+ BTC

RE bros are gonna have a long decade of their drywall stick houses getting repriced in sats


Yup, my company has a Men Advocating for Equity group. Totally cucked with the woke mind virus


Yep, that’s the way


You get ~17k of gifts that you don’t need to report, so perhaps if you’re zapping fat stacks


No worries, I was curious if you used that function in the Jade. I think it’s cool you can mine with it, I might have to get one and try it out.


Don’t buy their shitcoins


You sound vaxxed mate

By all means report your donations to the IRS for a tax credit. Free country


Have you used your Jade to mine?


Community Marketplace or Start9’s?


Telling the government and 3 letter agencies you support Bitcoin projects that exist to undermine them seems like a poor choice at best and a honeypot at worst, but that’s just me.


There aren’t great options for inheritance planning outside of it tho. Nunchuk doesn’t do KYC and inheritance planning is quite simple. Bullish on their Byzantine product tho, which should fix the privacy loss by not needing them to hold a key for you


Do goldbugs ever complain about XYZ being an attack on Gold?

Must be strange being a normie watching people constantly cry about this and that being an attack on Bitcoin. They must think we are like the carbon hysterics


Sounds like you don’t know either

I sure will, no need to be unhappy because some people configure their nodes a certain way.


How can he lose with that hair?


Seth? Pretty obnoxious indeed


Neither camp needs a hard fork afaik, so idk what you’re talking about.


Can’t a man just be curious haha


1gram of sodium per 32oz of water tastes salty enough


You can verify the signature on the release was made by the developer. Most people that don’t know or want to do this will and probably should stick to downloading apps from the app store. This is already possible on Macs, so it’s not some new thing for Apple in general.


First the EU makes them add USB-C to their iphones and now this?? Tim Apple can’t catch a break 😂


Exactly, competition must be brutal… but plenty of degens out there so who knows


That was from 3 years ago too. Wonder how many are still making it as eprostitutes after seeing so much competition pour in since

No more stimi checks to blow on that garbage either.


Bitcoin doesn't have wallets.

It has clients and signers.

Get on with the program https://bitcoinstack.info


While wrong about bitcoin, he does have a point

Several products like collaborative multisig address it to some extent, but he has a point


Godless ‘freedom fighters’ are upset because some miners have values and won’t compromise on their morals to maximize profit

They think freedom is being able to do anything you want instead of having the right to do what you ought

Find God or you are NGMI


Whoever mines the block can include or exclude any txn they want. They are not morally obligated to add any one txn. No one is entitled to block space other than whoever mines the next block. Best you can do is economically incentivize whoever mined the block to sell you block space.

Unless you have a moral argument (necessarily rooted in religion/God) as to why what OCEAN is doing is wrong, then all you have is your opinion on what is right and wrong. Your opinion is not any more valid that Luke’s or anyone else’s opinion.

A pastry baker that refused to bake a wedding cake for a homosexual couple because it goes against their believes is not ‘weaponizing’ desserts. That is absurd. Forcing or pressuring said baker to bake the cake is what is wrong not the opposite.

Same deal here. Find another miner, you’re not entitled to other people’s services


as long as every txn does fit in the next block then whoever mines it has to select which txns to include and which to leave out i.e filter/censor/etc.

Some miners filter to maximize total block reward, and others filter to maximize the number of financial/economic txns in the block.

Who is anyone to tell someone else how to construct their block?


See, but if ppl do that then they can’t complain


The Amish know


People do be looking at Core the same way Catholics look at the Vatican nostr:note1rnpulvz9hstd8r7a7hfy7v7uh8arnr7yr5mq6vq9cy0em20dsdxqjw5py9


Vivek 2024


NPCs pretending it all makes sense…. Historians are gonna scratch their heads when they look back on the plandemic clown show


Reminds me of that guy that went all in on doge and became a millionaire after Elon pumped his bags, but didn’t sell cause he believes in doge 😂 some people just can’t help themselves


This feels like when people argue over which note taking app is better, Notability or Goodnotes. It’s just an app guys. No need to attach your identity to the software wallet you use


Miss me with that “you haven’t done your own research” bullshit.

Don’t be butthurt because you failed to see I was just commenting on my preference and not attacking your precious samourai whirlpool

I used both and prefer JAM for the reasons I stated. Evokes an emotional response then that might be a good sign you need to touch grass and maybe a woman or two


On Ocean Mining Pool, Inscriptions and Luke
———————————————

There's been a pretty big flare up in the Bitcoin community about Ocean Mining's two recent blocks. Namely, that they didn't include certain transactions designed to use the block space for something other than its monetary transactional uses. Indeed, many influencers, especially those that are pro-BRC20 and Ordinals, are condemning this course of action as censorship.

In a sense, this is exactly what all pools do. They create a block template for everyone else to mine. In that sense, each miner to a pool is really renting the pool hash rate and the pool does the work of using that hash rate to create blocks, whatever they may be. But it's a bit disingenuous to complain specifically about Ocean, since lots of pools have made blocks that didn't create the optimal profit-driven block.

Not every pool makes the maximal amount of fees for a block, whether because they have bad software, certain policies or just because the block was found before a block template could be constructed. The optimum is an ideal and though the modern economic assumption of idealized homo economicus would create these blocks each time, we don't have a steady-state mining economy so not everyone mines the theoretic optimum.

In a sense, the analysis of pools and the block templates these critics make is flawed because they assume some optimized economy. Given ideal conditions, of course, there is an optimal set of transactions you accept to increase fees. Over a long enough time period, those should result in more profit which get spread over the participants which should make the pool more popular, making those that don't perform the optimum lose profit and eventually bankrupt. But that's a very narrow analysis based purely on monetary incentives.

We don't live in under ideal conditions and situations change all the time. Basic things, like getting a block template ready quickly after a block is found is an optimization that's difficult and still not completely solved. But there's also the opinions of the miners themselves. Are they all strictly profit driven?

Think about normal businesses. Why do they offer fair trade coffee? From a purely monetary perspective, fair trade coffee doesn't make any sense. They're more expensive for the same good. From a profit-maximizing analysis that MBAs are so fond of, the non-fair trade coffee would put the fair trade coffee out of business. But yet, in the real world, they do not because people care more than just the good itself, but what it took to make the good. In other words, the homo economicus analysis of economic situations rarely is the optimum for the real world. There are other considerations other than profit that go into any business.

And that's really at the heart of what's being argued here. Luke believes that inscriptions are a waste of block space, a public nuisance and that even if his pool participants have to take a loss, that it's worthwhile because of the public good that it does. In other words, he sees these inscriptions as *immoral* and that the price he's willing to pay is fees that he would otherwise have gotten.

People are acting like this is some sort of affront to market forces or game theory and that the only consideration he should have is like that of homo economicus, whether he makes more profit or less. But this is a very fiat/Keynesian way of looking at the whole picture. People are more than just profit-maximalization machines and mining pool participants are no different.

Indeed, that's the impression I got from the Ocean Mining Pool summit I went to a few weeks ago. They are that response to the many mining pools that are doing unethical things like not paying out their participants for fees that come in off band.

The calculation that Luke has made is that being moral, that is not polluting blocks, is worth the 1% loss in fees. Given what I know about Luke, even a 90% loss in fees is unlikely to sway him. Morals have a place in any ecosystem because they, too, have value. A mining pool that doesn't burdens nodes with extra data that they have to persist has positive communal value. A mining pool that does the opposite has detrimental communal value. And from Luke's perspective, not burdening nodes is important enough that he chooses not to include them in his block templates.

This moral reasoning is not something that is welcomed by a lot of people and it's hard to miss that many of the critics are creating ordinals, BRC-20 and so on. They want to run this centralized scheme over Bitcoin and make money. In other words, they have a strong economic interest in getting their transactions included and shout censorship whenever they're not.

But we must be careful, because this is not the same as, say, the OFAC prohibition list. And this is where things become a little harder to explain because most people have no sense of the difference between centralized rules being enforced under threat of violence and bottom-up moral behavior slowly adopted. But what Luke is doing is very much bottom up. He's specifically doing something out of moral conviction. Whether you agree with him or not, you can understand why he's doing it, particularly  the moral reasoning. This is different than a centralized mandate with threats of violence against those that don't comply.

I believe that what Luke is doing is a good thing. He's showing his convictions and reasoning about why inscriptions are bad through these templates. The participants are free to move if they disagree. I suspect, though, that there are many that agree with him and they'll vote with their hash rate.

For homo economicus, something like fair trade coffee does not make sense. Yet people gladly pay a little more for it because they believe that it ultimately helps those people produce and live a better life. I believe what Luke and Ocean are doing is similar. They're offering less-bloated blocks even at the cost of some fees.


Hence the tradeoffs

If it’s not for you, don’t use it


Zerolink is no panacea

I didn’t say anything about samourai being compromised. I simply stated my preference. You’re barking at the wrong tree

I like my mixing coordination decentralized, fast, and in any UTXO size I want. But you do you

Idk what you mean by postmix tools. All I need is to lower the probability that a certain UTXO belongs to me. Joinmarket accomplishes that for me.


80 byte maxis triggered


Sparrow for wallet
JAM for mixing


Not without tradeoffs of course

Prudence would dictate that one should only convert sats to ecash to transact in the short term and not to store wealth for the long haul


😂😂😂😂😂
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Ecash seems to address some of these concerns at least

Plan E?


You would think


Only if you’re in the US cause they can’t format dates correcy


selective outrage gets more engagement tho


Source: their anemic sperm


Indeed

More variety > cheaper clones


Smash buy. Anything under $50k is a bargain


Gotta love the selective outrage over ‘censorship’

Same energy as the JaN 6 InSurRecTiOn


people can go to another mining pool and or start their own.

All good as long as they are transparent is what I’m hearing


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1. Reply describing bitcoin in 3 words
2. Repost this note

Banana for scale, Bitkey for safety in sats (not included).

Bonus: Reply with a Lightning invoice or link for a surprise! ⚡👀 https://image.nostr.build/03682fcd4fe5351a09288aab4a3a3a2a61509c3de5f7bb659cfcd8cc100b3956.jpg


Fuck You Money


OCEAN hysteria is a distraction.

To a hammer everything looks like a nail


If ocean can kneecap bitcoin’s fungibility, what are we even doing here?

A tiny mining pool has different standards, so what? If they are not profitable it will fail and if it succeeds it’s because the market finds it valuable.


Mempools will never clear, so there’s no shortage of people bidding for blocks pace.

They can just grab the next txn in line.

Only brokies are the orange pillers that capitulated at the bottom


Nah but good to see more options in the market


Yeah that tripped me too


Right, so the original limit was around 40. That’s what Luke pointed out.


Wasn’t Core’s original limit 40bytes for OP_RETURN tho?


People clutching their pearls about ‘censorship’ don’t get that societies have been censoring things like obscenity, etc. for centuries.

Just because bitcoin is censorship resistant does not mean people (miners) are now going to throw their morals and values out the window for some extra money.

Censoring can be appropriate and/or necessary if you have an objective moral framework that you can use to make that determination.

All conflict is ultimately about theology. Praise God not Bitcoin


Whoever mines the block can filter, censor, discriminate all he wants.

The miner can’t force people to stop inscribing subjective spam on the chain, and the degens can’t force the miners to include their spam on their block. It’s beautiful if you ask me.

Economic incentives only go so far.


Out of stock


If you’re in that field and can’t the the genius in bitcoin…. He needs a refund from his university

NGMI


gm, it's time to ask more questions ☀

https://video.nostr.build/dd90852ed88247e22fa7dde703e88c975926584b0d4dab9909ef49d1c5e22f1c.mp4


No beef, but that’s gotta be the most overhyped bitcoin podcast. Thank god they have actual jobs as firefighters


Classic orange piller

Stack harder next time


And thank God for that


Nevada is not a place. It’s a state of mind

Mandibles


Will never get tired of Sen. Warren crying about bitcoin lmao


Always eventually


Cronies don’t like the coin


A technical analysis of ordinal inscriptions and the history of fighting data spam in bitcoin

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/jb55/1701876273423

I’m going to be on an ordinals panels as one of the people who is counter arguing the claim that they are good for bitcoin. I decided to brush up on the technicals on how inscriptions work. I am starting to see luke’s perspective on how it is exploiting a loophole in bitcoin’s anti-data-spam mechanisms.

## Storing data in Bitcoin, the “standard” way

The standard way you add “data” to bitcoin is by calling the OP_RETURN opcode. Bitcoin devs noticed that people were storing data (like the bitcoin whitepaper) in the utxo set via large multisig transactions. The problem with this is that this set is unprunable and could grow over time. OP_RETURN outputs on the other-hand are provably prunable and don’t add to utxo bloat.

Here’s an excerpt from the march 2014 0.9.0 release notes that talks about this:

> On OP_RETURN: There was been some confusion and misunderstanding in the community, regarding the OP_RETURN feature in 0.9 and data in the blockchain. This change is not an endorsement of storing data in the blockchain. The OP_RETURN change creates a provably-prunable output, to avoid data storage schemes – some of which were already deployed – that were storing arbitrary data such as images as forever-unspendable TX outputs, bloating bitcoin’s UTXO database.
Storing arbitrary data in the blockchain is still a bad idea; it is less costly and far more efficient to store non-currency data elsewhere.

Much of the work on bitcoin core has been focused on making sure the system continues to function in a decentralized way for its intended purpose in the presence of people trying to abuse it for things like storing data. Bitcoin core has always discouraged this, as it is not designed for storage of images and data, it is meant for moving digital coins around in cyberspace.

To help incentive-align people to not do stupid things, OP_RETURN transactions were not made non-standard, so that they are relayable by peers and miners, but with the caveat:

1. They can only push 40 bytes (later increased to 80,83, I’m guessing to support larger root merkle hashes since that is the only sane usecase for op_return)

Bitcoin also added an option called -datacarriersize which limits the total number of bytes from these outputs that you will relay or mine.

## Why inscriptions are technically an exploit

Inscriptions get around the datacarriersize limit by disguising data as bitcoin script program data via OP_PUSH inside OP_IF blocks. Ordinals do not use OP_RETURN and are not subjected to datacarriersize limits, so noderunners and miners currently have limited control over the total size of this data that they wish to relay and include in blocks. Luke’s fork of bitcoin-core has some options to fight this spam, so hopefully we will see this in core sometime soon as well.

Inscriptions are also taking advantage of features in segwit v1 (witness discount) and v2/taproot (no arbitrary script size limit). Each of these features have interesting and well-justified reasons why they were introduced.

The purpose of the witness discount was to make it cheaper to spend many outputs which helps the reduction of the utxo set size. Inscriptions took advantage of this discount to store monke jpegs disguised as bitcoin scripts. Remember, bitcoin is not for storing data, so anytime bitcoin-devs accidentally make it cheap and easy to relay data then this should be viewed as an exploit. Expect it to be fixed, or at least provide tools to noderunners for fighting this spam.

## Where do we go from here

The interesting part of this story is that people seem to attach value to images stored on the bitcoin blockchain, and they are willing to pay the fee to get it in the block, so non-ideologic miners and people who don’t care about the health and decentralization of bitcoin are happy to pay or collect the fee and move on.

Data should not get a discount, people should pay full price if they want to store data. They should just use op_return and hashes like opentimestamps or any other reasonable protocol storing data in bitcoin.

After going through this analysis I’ve come to the opinion that this is a pretty bad data-spam exploit and bitcoin devs should be working on solutions. Ideological devs like luke who actually care about the health and decentralization of the network are and I’m glad to see it.


This may remove distortions in the free market for block space, but miners are under no obligation to include any one txn in the block they produce. They may be incentivized to, but not obligated


He who mines the block can choose which txns to include and exclude. Everything is an attack on bitcoin if you ask the right person.

No one is entitled to block-space. Best we can do is economically incentivize block producers to sell us some block space for our txns. They are under no moral obligation to include any txn however


High time preference in full display.

10 OF subscriptions but buying diapers is too much to ask

NGMI and the gene pool is all the better for it


It’s all cope because they didn’t want to give up eating out every day and going to concerts


Sellers are in denial about how much their houses are really worth

In for a rude awakening when bull run is in full force and the recession hits


Can confirm


The reality of bitcoin’s supply constraints is gonna sink in real quick when FOMO hits


BITCOIN IS THE EXIT PLAN.


STACKERS ARE BUILT DIFFERENT. SUITS IN DISBELIEF. THEY ARE USED TO MOST "INVESTORS" SELLING AFTER A 100% GAIN.

WE NEVER SELL. WE SPEND WHEN NECESSARY.


Onchain > Wire transfer/Zelle

Non-custodial LN still not as good as Venmo/CashApp

But I’m good with bitcoin only replacing transactions that one would use a wire or zelle for


It can be if you use Satscards, but I get your point


I know he is hyperbolic and contrarian about bitcoin on social media for attention. But I also know he is salty he missed out on massive gains when he didn’t listen to max keiser decades ago

The delivery might be acting, but the substance is all him imo


Peter Schiff ain’t no bull in training 😂 he gonna hate on bitcoin until his last breath


Bears in disbelief


Unless it’s a Tapsigner


I really hope ark pans out or that something better than lightning comes around


The corn is repricing everything.

Most people don’t know what this means


My dad had a similar experience a while back in a different country. RE is a gamble at best if you’re renting it out.

Stack sats and stay humble ppl


This price action is giving me end of 2020 flashbacks.

Hope you all stayed humbled and stacked sats this past year

FOMO is gonna build gradually and then suddenly


$$40K/BTC is nice.

But step back.

Look at the big picture.

In the 2030’s #bitcoin will likely have a daily trading range of $40k.

In the 2040s, the bid-ask may be $40k.

In the 2050s you won’t want to have anything to do with dollars-unless they are backed by bitcoin.

We are still at the start of the bitcoin revolution.  Not many humans will ever have a chance like this.

Provide value, save your production (or earn) in bitcoin, and HODL.


Very few


I think your math is off. You went from million trillion to billion trillion after dividing


Same people that are bearish on bitcoin because the new york times said it takes pools of water to send a txn. NGMI


Hard pass exchanging my corn for some house built from wood and drywall.

I want my house to be made from cement, bricks, steel, and stones.

Houses being a “durable” good has become a meme. The median house hold will start falling apart after a decade


Buying a house near peak fiat = shit build quality = hella repairs

Bitcoin doesn’t have that baggage. Renting and letting the owners deal with the repairs and rapidly deteriorating homes is not a bad deal.

Bring back cement a stones. Drywall and wood is for treehouses lol


Just get a Starlink


Yes, but not from muslims. The war comes from atheism and ‘The Science TM’


Pretty sure Tate at least helped make that a trend


No, as Laser pointed out.

Like with any other software you install you ideally want to check the binaries, but otherwise anyone can see, download, reproduce, or change Coldcard’s firmware (as long as you’re not commercializing it) so you don’t have to trust them.


Tate fanboys made it popular?


Concerned in what sense?


Are the windows also bulletproof? The only issue is daddy musk can turn off your car and knows where you are at all times. Cybertruck with a FOSS OS would be dope.


Cope will only intensify from here


the cosmic serpent


Here you go.

https://video.nostr.build/cd969cfc5cff53fa16d1081f33902070e041078b01b1f71cfea3a9979a8bd0d6.mp4


Or those with subsidies that then get paid to dump milk on fields lol fucking fiat

A business that is not profitable will soon be departed from its capital which will find itself in the hands of someone who is better suited to use that capital. Simple as that, in a free market anyway


But can you zap notes?


I think it is above the threshold. I imagine it only goes to their wallet if your share is less than the threshold in which case it will build up until it  the threshold and then they send you the payout. I also imagine they will give you the option to get lightning sats next year for amounts below the threshold


Idk what to tell you man. World ain’t perfect. The relationship between miner and pool is voluntary. It’s on the miner to ask questions and determine if the benefits they get from the pool are worthwhile.


Well one would notice a decrease in revenue compared to their previous pool so that would be a signal. I highly doubt anyone that goes into mining is not researching these things or comparing revenue from different pools


The bitcoin protocol that is


Yeah that’s how the protocol works. Everyone has to wait 100 blocks to get the subsidy. Not sure if the fees also have to wait 100 blocks tho


They can point their hash somewhere else whenever they want.


People be clutching their pearls because OCEAN is filtering txns

You ain’t entitled to block space in a block produced by someone else. Leave the fiat entitlement programs mentality where it belongs

Economic incentives are not moral obligations.

But censorship they cry. Yeah people with morals censor things crazy I know in life and bitcoin. You don’t like it? Mine your own blocks, or wait for someone else to sell you block space


Nobody is entitled to block-space in a block produced by someone else. Best we can do is offer block producers money so they give us some of that block space, but they are under no obligation to sell it to anyone.

Economic incentives are not moral obligations.

Few


Few


Yeah poor choice of words there.


So even worse?


Reach out to Hugo in the Slack group if you still have any issues.

Once you get this sorted out, I would import the BSMS file of your wallet to Sparrow so you can manage your UTXOs from your laptop too


Indeed

Even if the pools are not decentralized, just having more of them decentralizes the hashrate


Fuck around with opsec and one shall find out

All the finance influencers telling you how much money they have just for views is so cringe


Who’s computer? The manufacturer?


That same military lost against Vietnam and the Taliban.

They are not gonna nuke their own cities, and they are massively outnumbered on a guerrilla warfare type of situation.

 I agree we should hope it doesn’t come to this and we should and are building an alternate system. But if the old system attacks the new system people like eric are not just gonna take it, or flee to El Salvador.

The Venezuelan economy imploded yet the same people have the power because they have the guns. Erosion of purchasing power is not gonna change the fact these people will use violence and coercion to take your stuff


What's your line in the sand anon?
nostr:nevent1qqsffnat4p8t2ep9wtlw8xcf9rqwzhhwmwqvp27flvcczq5fr49v7ycppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0drthy9


We can still celebrate people trying out new things and giving market participants more options. Nothing is perfect, sometimes bitcoiners can’t take a win. We always be like “but what about X” 😅


Strawmanning is more fun tho


‘Inventing Bitcoin’ is the best entry point imo. Short and easy to understand

Bitcoin Standard is too boring for people that aren’t into the history of money or bought into bitcoin


Got it


Can you self host?


Wonder why MSM is fudding apple. This function requires the user to enable Airdrop to “anyone for 10mins” and then once the phones are brought together you still have to select ‘share’ and a profile you created will be shared. Sure bad actors can get you to jump all those hoops so you can namedrop them your phone number and name, or they can just get you to unlock your phone and then steal it.


Nice $100k send limit 😅must be nice


Dan the dentist ain’t gonna vet no repos either


nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs  get serious bro 😂


Well I would say sats/dollar but that would be a ridiculously small number right now.

But yeah, good way to fix unit-bias. It would also get normies thinking in terms of sats


There are no Bitcoins just satoshis

Exchanges should list the amount of sats you can get for $1 instead of the dollar price of 100M sats


SATSCARDS solve the privacy problem for bitcoin at least for irl transactions, but they are not too popular yet. One day tho


But also there is no guarantee this utility will continue into the future, so my comment is relevant to the present


I think it’s fair to view monero as a suitable tool for certain situations where privacy and anonymity is extremely important, without viewing it as a potential global reserve asset or best store of value.

And even if people choose to view it as a shitcoin that does not necessarily mean it is without a use case or utility. The yen is a shitcoin, but it has utility for people traveling to Japan.

You can almost think of it as cash, it’s a shitcoin going to 0 in btc terms, but it has certain privacy guarantees bitcoin does not provide to most users.


NOSTR only


There’s a lot of other things one has to do like creating a profile, enabling Airdrop to ‘everyone for 10mins’ and clicking a button to share the profile you made when prompted after putting the phones right next to each other while unlocked. Not exactly a spy’s wet dream. That twit was mostly for attention imo


Is it really?

I mean you do have to unlock your phone go to contacts create a profile to be shared then go to airdrop and select ‘everyone for 10 mins’ bring the phones right next to each other and click a button to share when prompted.

That twitt makes it sound like any stranger can place their iphone next to your pocket and steal all your info.


Wen DBS season 2 tho?? Been too long


At what energy cost?


This is why I love me some JAM


Did 300 dice rolls just to be safe.


Fair enough. While I think the concept of IP is flawed at best, I understand  why people would hold that view given most governments recognizes IP in some form and will use force to protect it.


You can call it anything you want, but it’s not illogical.

The UTXO set exists on every node that stores the blockchain. Surely you don’t think everyone running a node owns all the UTXOs. Anyone running a node owns the history of the blockchain that is on their hard drive.

Again, no one can own the specific arrangement of words (seed phrase). We can own our piece of paper or steel with those words on it, but not the words or their arrangement on someone else’s property. So if someone sees these words without violating your actual property (house, car, backpack, etc.) then they have not stolen from you. To “own” bitcoin truly is to be the only person that knows how to move UTXOs.


What is being stolen?

If I see something and write it down on my piece of paper, what have I taken from you? You still have your piece of paper with your peanut drawing.

Are you claiming ownership on the specific arrangement of graphite on a piece of paper?

Claiming ownership of ideas is ridiculous. You can claim to be the person who came up with an idea, but not the idea itself. Well unless you use the force of the state to make it so


We not so much own bitcoin, but rather become the only person able to use/move/spend specific UTXOs. That is if we manage to keep the secret that allows to move/use/spend those UTXOs secret

We are secret bearers at the end of the day. Not land owners


To put it more clearly.

Your piece of paper or steel with a secret/private key written on it is your property.

One does not and cannot claim property on the specific arrangement of words in someone else’s property (paper/steel).

If someone simply sees your seed phrase and writes it down without committing any crime such as breaking into your home, then they did not steal your property. After all you would still have your piece of paper/steel which is what you own.


IP is a ridiculous proposition. How can one claim property of an idea? What is even an idea tangibly? If you think about it, it makes no sense.

A physical book can be someone’s property. But claiming ownership of the specific arrangement of words on someone else’s piece of paper is just wrong. Just because the state uses coercion and violence to make this the case does not change the fact that it’s nonsensical.  If you want a comprehensive argument against IP, see the book “against intellectual monopoly”.


Most olive oil is adulterated with seed oils. Pork and Duck fat are better than avocado and olive oil


Somebody dug up the fossil of a shark from 450 million years ago?

Carbon dating is kind of like S2F. Best taken with a grain of salt, especially for predictions in the hundreds of millions of years


Or better yet help get people elected that will repeal IP laws.

But many of these people think politics is not important and or beneath them


If you’re butthurt about closed source software or anything that’s not on the MIT License then build something better and make it FOSS. The bitching and complaining is not going to solve anything.


Got it, they should stick with one terminology to avoid confusion if they are not already.

I don’t think labelling software that people can download for free, use, share, and modify as ‘close source’ accurate or helpful in understanding the status of the software. The difference between CC’s firmware and iOS is more than just view ability.

Imo, we should rely less on this buzz terms and focus on having companies accurately describe the terms of their products and software on their websites so people can make educated decisions


Honestly, I don’t think many. Every few months there is some drama usually with the Foundation fanboys shitting on NVK/Coinkite on social media about this exact point. Perhaps someone that is not on social media or hasn’t purchased a coldcard or been to their website over the last year might be under the impression that they are open source. I doubt anybody that actually understands what open source means thinks CC is open source.

Most people probably don’t know the distinction and likely never will or care to know tbh

If every company goes open source then people will just have to pick who to trust based on track record.

And if we are being honest, the vast majority of people still trust even if the product is FOSS. Very few people are actually able to look at the code and know it does what the team or company says it does. The rest of the 99.9% of people trust the “experts” they know did the due diligence and confirmed the software is not malicious. You can argue it’s better to trust many people that have independently reviewed a foss project and arrived at the same conclusion, rather than trusting a company. But for most ppl we are still trusting these people are not lying to us


Coinkite stopped marketing the coldcard as open source a while ago, so saying they are coopting the ‘opensource’ buzz word for street cred is disingenuous. Their marketing on their website is that the coldcard uses ‘verifiable source code’ which is factual.

Isn’t the distinction you’re pointing out the difference between open source and free and open source?


Or just move entirely to sats. Exchanges should list sats/dollar or how many sats you can get for $1


Start9 is also having black friday deals


That’s great 👍🏼 Definitely join the Start9 telegram group, their support is second to none


WoS hasn’t rugged last I checked. Apple and Google rugged their US users by cucking their app stores.

The possibility of WoS rugging is still there nonetheless


The node can be in the computer. Maybe have a venn diagram?


It’s a node, one with the mining function turned on


Not all HWW allow for PSBTs. Maybe add an asterisk on the USB


Sure there is corruption, but the SEC much like every other government agency has a stated purpose. They don’t in principle act based on incentives or a “what’s in it for me” attitude. They get sued and lose when their actions do not align or go against their stated purpose. I don’t want to get hung up on this rabbit hole, my point was that the SEC has a purpose and aside from corruption it’s not up to the head of that commission to make decisions based on personal incentives.


Will take much more than WoS getting banned to move the needle for most. Maybe when ppl pay in sats for most of their purchases they will make the move


Any mobile OS owned by a company that has to answer to gov regulations fits that box


The SEC’s role is not to make decisions based on what benefits the US government. When they do they get sued and lose, as I pointed  out. The DMV doesn’t give ppl licenses because of some incentive. They exist to regulate driving on the road.


The SEC does not need an incentive to approve ETFs, that’s not how that agency works. Their job at least in theory is to regulate securities and exchanges to protect investors.

But if you want to think in terms of incentives, then gary is incentivized not to get embarrassed again by losing more lawsuits in court, which could also get him removed of his position


👆🏼this

Even as a competent user I rather wait 24hrs to have a transaction confirmed on chain than having to deal with managing a LN node, inbound/outbound liquidity, and privacy implications of receiving bs sending.


TLDR: host your own password manager.

Password managers are great, but you run the risk of the company getting hacked as has happened to LastPass and others. You could use something like Bitwarden and set up 2FA and use a Yubikey. This will protect you against your passwords getting hacked, but if the company’s servers go down then you’re screwed. If you enable cache then you might be ok, but you’re still relying on a third party to store your data and if you opt for the plan with yubikey you have to pay a ~$10 annual subscription.

Solution: host your own instance of Bitwarden (Vaultwarden). Not only do you get to keep the convenience of using a password manager, but you can rest easy knowing you’re hosting your data in your own server. This does require you spin up a server, which can be done fairly easily nowadays. I’m a big fan of StartOS from nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll they sell plug and play servers, but you can use an old laptop if you don’t want to buy new hardware.

I would suggest you keep the passwords to the Server and Vaultwarden on a piece of paper inside a tamper evident bag. This way you keep the gatekeeper passwords offline, and if someone were to come across those passwords at your house they would still need to know what to do with it (go to your server LAN address). There are some tradeoffs and nuances, but I think this is a pretty solid option


Better than have it go through and then getting notified your account is being closed because of a “business decision”, but really it’ because the amount you sent was large enough to raise some flags in the system. Or maybe they didn’t like that I didn’t tell them what the money was for.

In any case, fuck them indeed


ATMs without crazy fees would be nice


I see a lot ppl pointing fingers and complaining about ordinals, ETFs, suits, etc. and crying that anyone supporting this is “part of the problem”

Cry harder


Where’s the lie? Haha

The beauty of the subjectivity of value


I’m sure many miners care for the revenue they get from ordinals.


Temperpedics are 👌🏼 very expensive but they usually give you a line of credit with 0% for 2-3 years. Worth give you’ll spend a third of your life sleeping.

No mattress sometimes is better than a bad mattress


Good beds are well worth the trade off imo. But if you want to experiment I know some people use gym mats similar to those used in mixed martial arts or gymnastic gyms.


Indeed nothing is without trade offs. No free lunch in this world

One can optimize or adapt. Both have their role


I don’t imagine many people shop on Wednesdays


Yep just like shadow boxing.

Build the muscle memory before you need it


Sabroso 👌🏼


Damn climate change!!


Any good?


The green one is good too. Get them all the time

That one is good mixed with a lil honey


It took a while before ppl started using lightning. Give it time


Especially with how the bonds auction went the other week


Seems to be the case.


The wild thing to think about is how much a new ford would be today if the money supply had not expanded


2730 sats/usd

Will look back the same way we do when you could get millions of sats per dollar


607 EH/s and climbing


Wishful thinking expecting ppl to wake up if they haven’t already given everything that’s happened.

If you follow politics for any amount of time you would see people are not going to wake up or suddenly see the uniparty doesn’t care about them


Maybe satoshi was a time traveller that came back to gift us bitcoin cause otherwise we ngmi


All those NBA players that were forced to get the fauci ouchi must be feeling real anxious


Buyer’s remorse setting in


🏳🌈 was always about 🍕


Slade got caught with his hands on the dough…


Gotcha


Or stop watching and or reading the news.

Spending most of your time fortifying your ‘mental resiliency’ because of what’s happening or may happen thousands of miles away does not seem like a fruitful way to live a life, but by all means.

I really hope you were being hyperbolic.


Wasn’t he driving a toyota corolla? I’m sure he wishes he had gone for the Lambo now 😂

Everyone knows financially successful ppl that want to keep a low profile go for the camry lol


Same experience with a similar background.

I think seeing how broken and corrupt the mainstream medicine/nutrition space is when it comes to food made it easier for me to see the same when it came to money, so bitcoin was a no brainer


*weapon, but better safe than sorry


For the paranoid or extra cautious you may want to store your hardware signing devices, external SSDs, and other important electronics inside ESD bags which themselves are inside faraday bags.

Maybe china won’t launch an EMP wr


https://www.costco.com/ever-ready-first-aid-kit%2c-217-pieces.product.100729222.html

Cosco has a good first aid too for less. Probably not as compact, but hood value


Isn’t it a one time use?


nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8  when is the metro card shipping?


Cassandra taking Ls trying to prove he’s a genius

Reminds me of Belichick


Indeed it would not look as cool


Where were you when the bull started his run..


They can’t believe the lines they drew on a chart didn’t pan out lmao

They fell for the “technical analysts” influencers on youtube and fumbled the corn, or they got rekt on FTX/BlockFi. Their attempt to manifest 10k bottom was nothing but salty cope.


Wen USB type C Opendime?


Totally cucked


EVs are in line with CBDCs. You do or say the wrong thing and someone clicks a button and shuts you down remotely

Hard pass


Without knowing any specifics on who runs WoS them operating under economic incentives to make a profit honestly is a perfectly reasonable. Vigilance is good, but not everyone is out to rug ppl


Any recommendation for home security cameras? Ideally with the ability to store data locally. I’ve been looking at eufy, but wondering if there is something better out there


No one knows better than nostr:npub1ce9hun4wrcyz245d82ne4eq64rd8afu6zut0efcx088c7dtvekzs236q9r that the whole LDL cholesterol = bad narrative is BS in otherwise healthy individuals.


Trace Minerals or LMNT are both good and have adequate amounts of sodium unlike other garbage products like PRIME


Nothing can stop an idea who’s time has come


Oh ok, I thought there was something else going on


What’s the TLDR on the Cory/Swan drama?


Indeed

They think bitcoin’s success hinges on them lol


Cringe

Another indication we are still early. In 5 years no one will buy what they are selling


Border wallets might what you’re looking for


Add a strong passphrase and memorize that instead. You can store the seed on steel or a password manager


Bitcoin encourages the lowering of time preference, but some types of high time preference behavior have to be tackled culturally.

Love your fellow nostriches


Yeah the evidence on fiber is iffy. You can find studies supporting either position. But to your point I think fiber does help if one is eating processed foods. At least anecdotally, I found that to be the case. When I’ve done a meat only or meat heavy diet devoid of fiber that’s when I’ve had the best digestion and 0 constipation.


Stackers who started accumulating in 2019 or later got extremely lucky FTX suppressed #Bitcoin spot price with billions in unfulfilled paper.

Top would’ve likely been well above 100k and bottom likely twice 2022 lows.

We’d all have substantially smaller stacks without the massive FTX fraud.


Cheap labor exists because people’s labor at least locally is denominated in their local fiat which in many cases has been debased to oblivion.

The dollar is not artificially scarce outside the US. If anything it’s more abundant than it should be because people within the country send it outside the country. After all it’s our currency not any other country’s

I see your point. Nation states are who to blame not companies tho.


Or perhaps when we open the labor market there is more competition and we get a better idea of what the actual market price is for different types of labor.

I see where you are coming from, but at the end of the day buyers and sellers of labor will agree on a price for that labor or they won’t. As long as the transaction is voluntary then there is no exploitation. No one is forcing overseas labor to accept a rate they don’t agree to. They can negotiate for the pay they want.

Ethically one could argue they have a responsibility to use honest money. But I don’t think they have a responsibility to hire people based on their location, and what a certain labor is worth is determined by the market. If one wishes to stay in business anyway


Every time someone says ‘fuck this dystopia’ all I hear is JSTARK

RIP


Even if cost of living is cheaper overseas and they have lower or no taxes?

If an prospective employee agrees to the terms of the contract voluntarily, why is that unethical? Maybe local talent is miscalculating its value ;)


Few


Nothing in terms of health is a one size fits all. I wouldn’t take that comment to be a prescription for literally everyone.

A strong argument can be made that if you had to mandate one diet for every single human, a 100% animal product diet would result in the least sickness/illness in the population.

I think human resiliency in terms on what foods individual people can tolerate is sometimes confused with thinking those foods are net beneficial or good.

When you break down what the body needs (essential amino acids, fatty acids, minerals, and vitamins) you will be hard pressed to find a better source for those nutrients than animal products. That some people can eat plant foods for entertainment or social bonding purposes is perk imo


Platanos 👌🏼👌🏼con miel mejor aun


Pre paid cards, especially virtual ones are mostly trash from my experience. Use only as a last resort


You pointed to someone else instead of addressing my points, and also labeled my argument as uneducated. What else is someone to conclude?

I’ve listened to enough of Hitchen’s to know his arguments are not particularly persuasive, which is why I pointed out Alex O’connor as a better suggestion.

If you have been reading about this matter for decades and your first thought is go point to Hitchens then yes this discussion is pointless, and so is life ultimately and objectively if there is no God.


They were also undermined by the use of capital to make the goods and services by those crafts cheaper.

I think bitcoin will allow people to have more free time to pursue such crafts however


Vivek was on fire last night. Deep state won’t let him win, but one can dream.

The broken political system is one of the reasons we bitcoin.

Short the dollar
Short war


The government lied to us? No way, they would never embellish something like this to score political   points.


What product or method do you recommend? My wife likes the Trace Minerals concentrace drops.


Seed oils made everyone fat and sick


They simulated a pandemic in some war games a few years before covid broke out.

They know we know and still dgaf

You will get vaxxed one way or the other lol fucking gates


They couldn’t convince enough people not to have kids, so this is plan b?

You’re the carbon they are trying to reduce.


My insurance premium (thru my employer) went up for next year.

And I’m sure it will continue to go up.

MSM and the medical establishment can continue to gaslight people with the ‘safe and effective’ horse shit, but insurers are telling us what is really going on.

Insurance premiums are a lagging indicator


https://x.com/pierrekory/status/1721891797377683556 doctors are learning the hard way that they aren’t God 😂😂😂💉💉💉💉


I thought so too when I first got into bitcoin, but as time has passed I’m more convinced it will take longer than what most people think.

Time will tell


Definitely possible, but it will likely take many decades for that to unfold, assuming bitcoin is able to scale to that level.


Thinking in terms of INFLATION to gage debasement is a trap.

We need to think in terms of purchasing power and know that it should increase per unit of money over time.

If deflation is the natural trajectory in a free market then inflation is just half of the picture. Prices staying flat while the monetary base is expanding means you’re still being robbed of lower prices.


👆🏼 this is key, and most people don’t understand it.

Just because prices are not going up it doesn’t mean you’re not getting robbed. Even if CPI was 0% that still doesn’t tell you much about how much PURCHASING POWER we could all be missing out because of monetary policy.

Saying oh well the Fed expanded the money supply by X amount but we didn’t see any inflation (or high inflation) as George Gammon would point out does not paint the whole picture.

Once ppl understand that prices should fall to the marginal cost of production over time, as you point out Jeff, then they will know they are being robbed even if prices stay flat


My puppy doesn’t know how to catch. I toss him treats and they just hit him in the face 😅


What are the rules of the game?


SEED XOR
PASSPHRASE
LOGIN COUNTDOWN


IP is a scam enabled by the state


Basically. The idea is to have the hardest point in an exercise, typically referred to as the ‘sticking point’, aligned with the point at which your muscles are able to produce the most force.

Doug Brignole has great info on this topic if you care to know more. You can find his book ‘the physics of fitness’ on libgen.rs


For the gym goers out there make sure you choose exercises that have resistance curves that match the particular muscle’s strength curve.


Reaching failure between a 90-120sec window is a much better target than reps. Reps is for ppl that don’t know what they are doing.

Jay Vincent does a good job of carrying on the Mentzer high intensity training philosophy


You’re free to label my observations of an atheist’s reality as uneducated, but I’m not sure how you arrived at that since by your own admission you’re uneducated yourself.

People have been convincingly refuting Hitchens for decades. Someone like Alex O’connor would have been a better suggestion imo, but I guess Hitchens is quasi famous, so people think of him first I suppose.

Since we are giving suggestions check out “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist” or “stealing from god” by Frank Turek


God will not subject you to his presence against your will

Heaven much like Bitcoin is for anyone but not for everyone


We often here the ‘If Israel put its weapons down Palestine would kill all the Jews but if Palestines put its weapons down there would be peace’

Hamas is not in the West Bank as far as I understand, yet it is also my understanding (I could be mistaken) that Palestinians in the West Bank are being harmed or negatively affected by Jew settlers in the west bank. If this is in fact true, who is to say people in Gaza wouldn’t be subject to the same treatment.

Curious what your view is on the Israel/West Bank dynamic.


Yep, might want to check Whole Foods or Natural Grocers. Probably not best to add to popcorn tho. Butter is better for that


It’s probably cut with seed oils anyway. Tallow ftw


Nice

If you have access to a Vertec use that instead. Box jumps can be quite dangerous if you miss 😅


To make matters worse Tesla owns bitcoin and back when they were accepting bitcoin as a method of payment they were using BTCPayServer, which indicates the company and Elon know how to operate sovereignly in the Bitcoin ecosystem. The fact that zaps are not the standard on twitter really speaks volumes. He might not be evil, but he surely is no champion of freedom.

Technoking? More like Fiatking


Elon Musk started PayPal and as a result of that and his first principles thinking, it is highly likely that he perfectly understands money.

Similar to how it is highly likely Elizabeth Warren perfectly understands money.

He also must understand that the natural state of the free market IS deflationary.

If both of these are true - then he also must know (as one of the top AI + robotics companies) that he is stealing the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices by pretending he is solving planetary issues through a broken system that makes them worse.

In other words, Elon not advocating for #Bitcoin is not because he is stupid. It’s because he believes you are.


Sure, I don’t think my point suggested otherwise. I said people are wired to worship something, so if it’s not God it will be something else.

Finding purpose outside of God, does not change the fact that life is basically meaningless if we all just become worm food when we die as atheists believe. Hedonism is the natural conclusion of that worldview imo. Of course many ppl live by some of the wisdom passed down in the bible (as long as it fits their preferences) without acknowledging that fact either purposely or because of ignorance.


I said atheism.

There are many reasons. One of them being the practice of adopting aspects/teachings of the bible to shape their morality and definition of good vs evil without actually giving the bible any credit because surely human kind would have arrived to those conclusions with or without God.

Humans are wired to worship something. If it’s not our creator then it will be the environment, money, idols, ourselves, etc.

More recently some of these people seriously entertain simulation theory, but the prospect of a God that created everything is a bridge too far.

Going through life knowing that nothing matters because eventually everyone will become worm food has to be quite depressing. No wonder ppl need to be distracted 24/7 otherwise they would have to wrestle with that reality day in and day out.


Say more


Well that only happens you restore from the backup password instead of the Tapsigner itself, no?


Love Mark Moss, but he fumbled the ball on the conversation about religion with nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx hard to watch.

The point I think he wanted to make was that atheist’s moral code is made up by each individual since what is good vs evil is subjective with that worldview.

Gotta love atheists that give absolutely 0 credit to religion/God on helping shape their own moral code.

nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx have Michael Knowles on your show, he can properly explain the silliness of atheism.


END
FED
NOW


Those bombs kill ppl you see, so really they are lowering the carbon footprint. It’s part of their net zero goal


Stopped watching a long time ago.

NOSTR only has been a blessing. Thinking about quitting youtube too. Everyone has turned into attention seeking and click baity whores. So much noice


👆🏼

Neither is giga chad. If bitcoin fails then we are all fucked anyway. Might as well commit to the bright orange future


Didn’t he get astroturfed by Pomp? I remember he all the sudden became Pomp’s go to analyst in 21

Same old “I trade shitcoins to make more bitcoin guys”

No beef, I just don’t get why ppl idolize his kind.


My college roommate is in a similar spot but with LINK instead of ETH 😅

I don’t say anything. There’s plenty information out there to inform ppl’s decisions. It’s not 2017 anymore, so I just let people make their own choices.


Probably


He probably custodies both on Casa lol


Do you know why he holds eth in the first place?

Maybe he is just speculating

I don’t think many if any view alts as contenders for the best money or global reserve asset. Usually is just a bet to get more fiat or bitcoin.

Instead of trying to convince him that eth is a shitcoin, perhaps it’s better to make sure he really understand bitcoin. When he does you won’t have to tell him to drop eth, he will just know what to do.


Some truth to that, definitely better for civilization when ppl lower their time preference.

At least when the discounting of the future (i.e high time preference) is caused by easy money it doesn’t necessarily follow that one must become self-centered. Families in poor countries can and usually have high time preference but it’s to satisfy their family’s present needs.

Time preference alone is not sufficient to fix a lack of virtue. Ppl also need to find God, or adopt Jesus’s teachings for their moral framework even if they reject Him as atheists do.


We need a reality tv show where a bunch of roided up dudes try to reproduce how slaves allegedly moved those stones. If they can’t then we know it was done through other means.

It doesn’t need to be a mystery. Maybe Mr Beast will do it on a video lol


as long as more people are buying bitcoin than earning bitcoin we are still early


Probably why the price moved today


Given this was virtually non existent a few years ago, it doesn’t take many instances in a single school for it to be alarming.

The growth of this ideology in schools across the country is pretty well documented. It doesn’t take much effort to find teachers saying how they are fostering these ideas in the classroom.


My wife taught middle school for 5 years in a blue city and she had many students who were identifying as the opposite gender. And of course all the teachers had to go along with it. Thank god she got fired for not getting the fauci ouchie.

The issue is worse depending on the region as you would expect, but it’s not overblown. MSM actively ignores the issue or plays it down


Yep only increased transistor count by 56% on the base level chip.


They can anything, and any criticism is just antisemitism.

Antisemite is the new racist


Uptober did not disappoint


I think your view makes sense for people not living paycheck to paycheck.

Dollars allow people to cover short term needs. Once that is taken care of they can lower time preference and move to bitcoin.


Monetization of a good is a slow process. Bitcoin is not on anyone’s schedule.


I wasn’t cherry picking, I just asked about the previous year to point out that someone could just as easily be down. No one knows what the price will do in the time frame that’s relevant to these people, which is weeks and months. They are not hodling for 4 years

For one, people accept dollars in many forms as a method of payment.

Common now, they don’t hold dollars for 60 minutes. They buy goods and services over the course of days between paychecks. In many places prices in the local currency literally change every day, so turning the local fiat to dollars allows them to maintain the purchasing power for the days and weeks when they will need it.

No one is suggesting stablecoins are some sort of savior or final solution to their problems, but it is the best tool for the job in their circumstances.


What about the prior year? I don’t think anyone who’s wage is denominated in a crapy fiat currency is willing to gamble their limited ability to provide for their families because maybe bitcoin will go up that week or month.

The whole point is that these people don’t have the means to save because their wages are denominated in their local fiat. For many every single dollar they bring in as income is spent right away to buy essential goods/services. They are not really saving long term in dollars be it cash or stablecoins.

What you’re suggesting is that they earn their local rapidly inflating fiat and turn it into bitcoin to then that same day or week turn it to dollars (cash or stablecoin) so they can buy the good and services they need since basically no one accepts bitcoin. This is just extra steps without a clear benefit.

If you want to understand their actions pretend you don’t have any savings or assets and turn your next paycheck to sats. You might not feel so hot if in that 2 week period bitcoin is down and now you can’t afford to pay rent or find anyone that will sell you food, gas, etc. for sats. Then throw kids into the mix and tell you don’t miss dollars.


The white paper

The protocol was launched in January of 09


Yep there’s instructions for wives and husbands


They are the same thing. NOSTR inside joke


Probably an extension to the, a wife must submit to her husband directive


Exactly.

I think we all agree that holding mid to long term savings in tether is not a good ides. Short term it has a lot of utility for a lot of ppl


It’s easier to provide free healthcare when there’s less people

Tax receipts go down
Euthanasia goes up

Broken incentives


They will feel the volatility of bitcoin every day.

They may go years or even decades without getting rugged if at all

Time preference is positive. We are all gonna die one day.


I understand your point.

It should tell you something that people are willing to risk getting rugged in order to get dollars in tether form. That’s how valuable it is for them. They are not under the impression that this is some perfect money. Just means to an end. They would probably agree with you it is a shitcoin


They can’t afford the volatility of bitcoin that’s why they use dollars.

Whenever the dollar in its many forms stops meeting their needs that’s when they will move on from it.

They just use the tool that works. Bitcoin doesn’t work (yet) for them.


People needing to exit a currency that is hyper inflating so they can afford to buy food next week is a tad bit different than what people investing with Bernie Madoff were doing.

It’s just tone deaf and strange to anyone that is experiencing hyperinflation. None of these ppl are gonna forego supporting themselves and their families because they saw a mean note about tether being a shitcoin


Exactly

Orange pillers gonna orange pill


Tether truthers still perplexed on why poor people in south and central america want dollars in stablecoin form. So tiresome


Or they will find the next US dollar stable coin if they can’t het physical dollar because they need to pay bills in the present and can’t afford bitcoin’s volatility. As Pedro would say


Because they understand people in emerging markets need dollars to make ends meet. Simple as that. Tether hate only makes sense in the west.


Community is very important out there. If things go south like in Mandibles, anyone with land will need bodies and guns to protect it


Some never, some rarely

Back n forth is more productive face to face imo


GM

Stack sats, stay humble, and think for yourself


I see why some people just post.

Wise men and women very wise


I’m sure all 8 billion people on earth are going to verify their hardware wallet’s open source code themselves instead of trusting other people that say it’s good lmao this must be the orange pillers rand0 is always talking about

Obviously it’s better to have the code be verifiable. No one is arguing that, that wasn’t even my point. I don’t even use ledger, but I’m not a mindless drone and can recognize that at a certain point if their customers don’t get rugged people need to give credit where it’s due, or at least stop the knee jerk FUD. Buy as I have learned that time frame is never. Some people will always hate the opposite team no matter what


Seems like you have it all figured out. Carry on sir.

For everyone else that is not a trained killer, they might benefit from the points I made.

https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md


If someone points a gun to your family are you not going to open the safe?

A multi sig such as  a 2 of 4 or 3 of 5 poses a greater challenge for an attacker to overcome as he now has to drive you to a second or third location to get the other keys, and it gives the user margin of error as he can afford to lose access to 2 keys and still be able to recover the funds. With a single key, while it works just fine in a lot of cases one most likely will either keep the seed and/or signing device at home where it is easy for an attacker to coerce you into giving up your key, or at a safety deposit box or similar location where a third party might be coerced by the state to give them access to your stuff (seed).

Granted not everyone is at risk of a physical attack depending on where you live and your lifestyle.

But when you have a large portion of your net worth in bitcoin I would think twice before having a single point of failure. That is why I said I hope everyone doing that carries a gun and is able to fight back against a physical attacker.

It was true in the past that a multisig was not user friendly for beginners, and many ppl lost coins because they fucked up something. That problem has been solved with collaborative multisig products like those offered by Casa, Unchained, Nunchuk, and others.

If you’re not already doing this I recommend you SEED XOR your key and implement a login countdown of at least 24hrs on your signing device if it happens to be a coldcard.


It was more about collaborative custody of private keys, but presumably they would be stored on a multiple servers. But this is why encryption matters.

The increased convenience surely comes at a cost. Never denied that


Don’t be this dude https://image.nostr.build/d2ea8d055e44adadf7aec139e851a073ccf404422470d103c25374a3c227af6b.jpg


Lmao no one does m of m multisigs. But sure I should go to single sig, that will really protect against an attacker 😂 you crack me up. Top notch trolling or maybe you’re serious idk bless your heart either way


Sure pal


Oh you’re trolling my bad I thought you were making serious points


Anarchism is rules without rulers. Weapons are tools. Makes sense to have them in case someone wants to be hostile towards yourself


It’s not without trade offs, but it’s not objectively worse than single sig for individuals. For some ppl single sig is a better option. I hope those people are strapped tho. Don’t want to fall prey to a $5 wrench attack


Multi sig is for anyone that doesn’t want to have a single point of failure. There are many products and services that make this user friendly.


People shit on the Fed because they debase people’s money. Whether or not they declare a recession is irrelevant to most people. Almost good troll 😉


Assuming the funds are in a single sig and one uses this product and is also a person of interest to a gov. then I grant odds are reasonably high of getting rugged.


They can’t unilaterally get your seed, they need at least one of the other custodians to send a shard in addition to the one held by them. You don’t need to lie to criticize the product, which is my whole point. The encryption serves to protect against a bad actor trying to get into the servers, which matters whether the server is yours or not.

It is very unlikely that a government is gonna request millions of people’s shards. The more likely scenario is that they have individuals of interest for whom they can definitely get search warrants. And sure depending on the scenario a search warrant won’t do anything if the individual is savvy enough and was able to hide the backups well. But the state attack is not exclusive to this product.


Lmao

It ain’t me that looks silly peddling bad criticism. I just think we can all do better. Being the peter schieff of ledger ain’t it 😂


It is true, you just said it. The shards are encrypted. I never made a comment about who has the decryption key. I said collusion was needed for the custodians to take your money. The government can definitely try to get those shards, the same way they can come into your home and take your steel back ups.


I gather you feel the same way about the multi sig products Unchain is coming out with where people can store private keys with multiple custodians


Ledger is holding an encrypted shard of the seed. Without collusion they can’t do anything. EO6102 is not a great example here. A better example would be when the gov went to Apple for user info, and that didn’t go the way they thought it would. It

Well the seeds have to be somewhere. They can be stolen in the physical world. I think the government would have a much easier time taking your seed phrase from your home or safety deposit box than having to go to 2 different companies. I’m not endorsing this product but keeping your seed phrase under the mattress is not much or any better if you fear a state attack.


One can argue their customer (who choose to participate in that program) keys are not any more vulnerable than someone who is holding a key/seed with a family member or at a locker at the office/gym/etc.

This product may not be for everyone, but it’s for some people. Especially those doing multisig and those who don’t have a good place to store their seed phrase.

Pointing out the trade off is one thing, but the unnecessary FUD is cringe tbh.


How long does Ledger have to operate without anyone getting rugged before people stop shitting on them? Honest question.

My guess is sometime before peter schiff stops saying bitcoin has no value, but we shall see.


The cat (arms) is out if the bag. Might as well have the ‘good guys’ carry as well.

Why be defenseless when you don’t have to. Seems like a no brainer, especially given the social decay and rampant mental illness


Another reminder to conceal carry

It might not always change the result, but you gotta give yourself a fighting chance. Level the playing field


Cheap gold jewelry incoming

I’m here for it


Because then we would have to back an additional 12 words. This way he can just derive this seed from the parent seed


KYC on KYC

I for one regret doing KYC when I first got into btc. I’m in the minority, but ppl should know the tradeoffs


Would be nice if they made a miner with apple silicon


Not enough UTXOs for everyone. Maybe for everyone that can purchase more than $100

But yeah no excuse for companies and countries not to add it to the balance sheet


In that order


Yup

Exchanges aren’t delaying and capping withdrawal rates for your safety. They have to make sure they have enough sitting around and can’t afford everything flowing out quickly


*everyone


Yep, when you have mold in your home you don’t want a slow transition to a mold free home lol

One fair point tho, is that orange coin may not be ready to onboard on a short period of time, but we should want adoption as fast as the system is growing and developing


I’m not saying we should ignore it. Same way we can’t ignore the legacy financial system.

But we know both of those systems are broken and that helping either grow is not the outcome we want. That’s all


Same


Supporting the wechat of the west?

Tell the Chinese that, I’m sure they love it


They probably put down your eyebrows color or N/A lmao


Makes sense


The tax is on the gain, so unless the tax rate is 100% you will come ahead if there was a gain. But yeah taxable events are a major hurdle preventing ppl from spending bitcoin. Strike lets you pay LN invoices with your fiat balance, which I think is a win win. You don’t have a taxable event and the merchant is able to receive sats directly for goods and services


I was mainly alluding to online purchases, but it is still very difficult to find brick and mortar businesses that take bitcoin. You can buy gift cards on bitrefill but that can be a hassle.


But if one still has fiat to spend is one accumulating as much as possible?

Even if you’re not on a bitcoin standard it makes more sense to use sats at businesses that accept it. It’s just better tech and user experience. Turn the fiat to sats right before the txn if you’re concerned about volatility


ATM deposited on Munn while they learn and understand the tradeoffs of doxxing yourself and stack to the gov. (KYC)

If the are ok with KYC -> Strike, but instead of buying sats on the platform, I would have them pay a LN invoice to themselves using Munn or Phoenix and then sending it to cold storage in Sparrow or Nunchuk

If they want to avoid KYC then either continue with ATMs that only require phone number (use text verified for burner number) or use Strike + Robosats for a light KYC option but greater plausible deniability.

Coldcards and Tapsigners are great

BTC sessions for the hand holding if needed


Yeah UX is not to blame here. We gotta let natural selection do its thing too no? Otherwise we just get dumber and dumber


True but both parties love war, so that money was going to a proxy war anyway. The people waiting for student loan forgiveness will get continue to get rugged


Hard to measure a system with unit that is not constant.

CPI is measuring the change of something in terms of dollars which are also changing. It’s all distorted

People be like why you want a FiXeD SuPpLy money?! Cause if the money ain’t constant economic calculations get all fucked up and we end up with NPC streamers 😂


Indeed, lots of malinvestments made possible by all the QE and fiat clown world stuff


Like the metrics for GDP growth and CPI?


Indeed, security is a moving target as nvk says


De pana! La dieta de maduro


You’re welcome


I see. I obviously don’t know all the details, but as a married man myself I would try to make it work. When you make that commitment it has to mean something. Your wife, kids, extended family, and community are all affected by a divorce. Unless he is being abused, I would think long and hard before going thru with a divorce. Even if he is not religious, I would encourage him to read what the bible has to say about love and marriage. Men are supposed to protect and provide for their families. I think focusing on that and serving others will go along way to changing his outlook on life. I’ve seen men in my life sacrifice their happiness for the sake of the family and I’m thankful they did. Probably not what he wants to hear, but those are my 2 sats


Speak truth kindly and at the right time and place.
Lying is not love.
Love your family.

I’m guessing you’re talking about extended family. Foregoing some happiness during family gatherings to keep peace is the prudent move imo. If you see these ppl every day then that’s different


The dollar crashed to below ⚡3000 yesterday. Get out before it rugs.


Or even be cautious about buying from exchanges in the first place. You might not be able to get it off

If you must, do small amounts at a time. Don’t want to be that guy that sent his life savings to Quadriga to buy bitcoin and never and hadn’t seem his money to this day…

P2P thru robosats, hodlhodl, and bisq


To their defense, they are probably atheists. In which case their morals and ethics are subjective, so in what grounds can they criticize other ppl’s degeneracy. It’s up to us christians and other religious people to combat social decay.

Orange coin incentivizes the lowering of time preference, but as we can see it doesn’t fix everything. We need social pressures to restore this mess.

This is what happens when we stop shaming


This is when the conviction pays off


How is bitcoin pumping keeping broken money in power?


All caps odell back?


Buy the rumors

Buy the news

📈


What a beauty


Scammers just want some zaps 🤣


Some of these devs have thinner skin than KD lmao

Emotional stability of a 5yr old


MK5 in 2024??


Are ya’ll removing the server lite from the line up?


Pure inner peace


🍄🧘♂🧎♂🕉

#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/1f17baa77bda51c8b1bc96b59c3aebebc32bf3865cfe7937b2e9f3d36d27e3f7.jpg


One can broadcast your txns at 1 sat/vB which is basically no fee. However, one is not entitled to have miners include one’s transaction on the next block if other ppl are willing to pay more to have their txns included.

Miners don’t owe anyone shit. Economic incentives will win every time.


The state will be Big mad once they realize their buddies in big tech can’t do shit nostr too


I would say good, since about ~28% voted for the person that came in third. That tells me there is more ppl that voted against the status quo that in theory should vote for milei next month, but we shall see.


Once enough future uncertainty has been removed by saving in hard money the opportunity cost of not consuming valued goods and services in the present becomes too great to ignore.

Understanding marginal utility/analysis and Austrian economics in general brings much needed clarity.

After all you can’t eat your sats or clothe your kids with it.


In their world what matters is being deadly with guns, mentally tough, and smart. Overly nig muscles just weigh you down and it’s not like they protect you from bullets


I guess the reason is to not have to wait for the node to sync up when you do want to use it.


True but marbling is key. Not many enjoy a mouthful of fat


What else do people do when running a node but self validating transactions? Isn’t that the whole point? Perhaps besides also doing lightning stuff.


That cut can be hit or miss. But when it has a nice marbling and it’s dry-aged 👌🏼 rib-eyes are great, but sometimes you get big chunks of fat on the middle that I’m not a fan of


When and where?!

Where’s that?


Seriously

Thankful for magic internet money


Virtual pre-paid debit cards are shitcoins. Only site that would take it was coinkite lol everything else kept getting cancelled by the merchant. Probably because I used a fake name and address.

The whole legacy system is a shitcoin compared to bitcoin. Even with fintech and all. Not even close to bitcoin.

We living in 2023 and everyone else is living in the 1950’s asking permission to send money


Nah find a good butcher. NY is where it’s at unless you get it from a grocery store or costco


Nunchuk Honey Badger Plan

No KYC + Inheritance

Hard to beat


It’s always a good time to buy absolutely scarce money


I’m more worried about the mandatory neuralink if you want to be able to use the internet or go anywhere future that my grandkids will inherit if fiat daddy Elon gets his way.

We always knew this battle for privacy was coming. It was inevitable. It’s on the individual to be ready and capable of telling these ppl to fuck off.

Appreciate all the devs that are and have been building freedom tech 🙏🏼


People that say ‘full stop’ after making a statement on social media 🤢🤮

Touch grass people, no one talks like that irl


I must be the only that thinks he just basically said we are fucked on the private money front but that nostr is cool. I didn’t think his message was particularly positive, but again at least we can get freedom of speech with nostr.


The bible project has great videos. Highly recommend


One hit wonder, but he knew it. We all did.

He should have taken that bag tho and bought some sats


What he actually looked like is irrelevant really. We are all made in God’s image so it’s understandable that different groups of people imagine Jesus looking like they do. Given the way he was conceived he could very well have looked like anyone.


If it wasn’t state sponsored maybe


Thursday’s are not the same without RHR

nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy  ya’ll ripping tomorrow? Or is marty still recovering from the spa weekend in Utah??


I still can’t believe that is happening in canada. Pure evil


I concur

UI/UX is quite good, on par with google imo


Didn’t know that was a thing.

Ppl need to find something to do


The ‘study with me’ videos on youtube where you literally watch someone supposedly study for hours has to be the laziest and most cringe genre/content I’ve come across yet.


I repeat:

https://image.nostr.build/902e6490ef4277194ff2af5bc742bd0b2bd569fd749fbabfeca53eaa8a04ccfb.jpg


42 second orange pill.

Unmatched, and probably never will be.

https://m.primal.net/HNwA.mp4


Orange pillers in disbelief


They can’t make money by helping ppl from Maui. But they can make billions by “helping” israel and ukraine. It’s really that simple.

That normies still have their heads in the sand is a testament to the effectiveness of the propaganda being peddled by the talking heads.


Nothing we can do about if the SEC approves. There will always be a threat to bitcoin, especially during bear markets


We’re at the “things are broken behind the scenes but the info isn’t public” stage of the financial meltdown.

https://m.primal.net/HNuh.png


Nice!


Jstark saw it coming, that’s why he did what he did


Except there is no Hamas on the West Bank and yet thousands of palestinians have been killed.


They all own each other and every S&P 500 company.

Just one big circle jerk.


Literal plant food.

The “green” movement wants less trees basically. Oh the irony 🤡


I see. On the surface I would say there is nothing controversial about that idea and even libertarians and anarchists would support it. But only IF the organization was  accomplished through economic means (voluntarily) instead of political means (violence and coercion) as the dictionary definition points out. At least in practice just about all major States if not all accomplish their ends through political means, so a strong argument can be made that it is in fact inherently evil. At the core, anarchists just want to interact with others voluntarily instead of relying on coercion and threats of violence.


What is the State in your view?


The protection and welfare is provided voluntarily, which is a key distinction. I’m not suggesting an overnight abolishment of taxes. Doing so would be like quitting heroin cold turkey, which would likely be fatal. We can rationalize why we need to have a group in society that has a monopoly on violence and coercion which won’t let individuals opt out without risking loosing their freedom.
We can rationalize lots of things.


The issue is with the use of coercion and violence to accomplish ends. People would be more than happy to pay for their communities to be protected by trained and armed individuals. And members can donate to those that can’t afford the service. The idea that society would fall apart if we didn’t have a government that took people’s money by force is a psyop to get people conditioned to give more of their money to the state. Income and many other forms of taxes were not always a thing in the US.


Indeed

Don’t talk about it

Be about it


The best promotion is to commit to nostr. Actions speak louder than promo tweets


If it was genetic, wouldn’t that genetic trait die off since homosexuals aren’t reproducing and passing down the genes that make them be that way? I know recently we are playing god and making babies in labs with eggs and sperm from homosexuals, but that’s fairly recent. And sure we have seen these behavior for millennia, but we have to assume sexual abuse was also a thing back then.

So would that logic not suggest it could be a learned behavior?

Animals are different than humans, but even then are there animals that only mate with the same sex. I’m actually curious.


Most people don’t realize scientists don’t really know how viruses are transmitted. Those lil bastards aren’t even alive.


Bullish on nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5


Hillary hard at work


Completely forgot about monkeypox. MSM killed that story real quick. Wonder if it’s still around


Just watched American Made the other day. One might think they exaggerated how the CIA operates, but one would be wrong. Tax dollars hard at work destabilizing foreign nations


The horror of choosing not to coerce or threaten others with violence? What the mob does or does not acknowledge is irrelevant to what an ideology is proposing. Mobs also don’t care about peace and order yet that’s what most people want. You’re making an assumption of what would happen if the state didn’t have a monopoly on violence. You are also disregarding that protection/security is a good like any other which can be sourced in the market as many businesses like banks, department stores, private schools, etc. do today. What does not have to be assumed is the horror and body counts of communist and socialist countries where the state has an even greater monopoly of coercion and violence than in western democracies. I grant that many people today are more than okay to have a government coerce and commit violence towards groups they don’t like. Voluntarism is not for everyone I suppose.


You missed a letter. Arkhos meaning ruleR would make the translation “without a ruler”, which is a very different proposition. Not to let a word derail the main point I was getting at, voluntarism is better than coercion. The state has a monopoly on coercion and violence, one can be for that, but there is no way to morally justify it. Democracy literally denies the minority. I’m advocating for voluntary interactions as opposed to those needing coercion or the threat of violence.


As I understand it there are 2 ways of meeting ends as described by Rothbard on ‘Anatomy of the State’. Economic means which is voluntary and Political means which involves coercion and force. Anarchism would seek ends through economic means, or at the very least it does not support political means of achieving ends. How is achieving ends through economic means extreme?

I get your point of such a behavior not seem in the animal kingdom. Unlike animals, humans have faculties of reason.


What is anarchism in your book? The basic dictionary definition and the one used by advocates like michael malice is basically what I described, i.e voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals and groups.


Anarchism is not a utopia. There may well be violence and risks, but letting people interact voluntarily with each other is the only just approach. Letting a group in society have a monopoly on violence and coercion (the state) is not just even if it’s “safe”.

Unlike animals, humans have reason and are able to recognize (over time) that collaborating peacefully satisfies everyone’s needs to a greater extent than being a savage like animals.

Anarchy is not a place, it’s a relationship!


Everything in moderation sounds good but it’s abused to justify all sorts of harmful behaviors.

Thinking in terms of trade offs is better imo. This way you’re not fooling yourself into thinking what you’re doing does not have down sides, but understand the pros outweigh the cons


See the new raspi 5?


StartOS is where it’s at, but umbrel is ok too


Wasn’t it always available? I could have sworn I’ve seen it on the marketplace before


Gotta help out the frenz


Before Bitcoin I was deep in the fitness/health rabbit hole. Fiat really fucked up that space. You can stop doing planks and leg raises for your abs, you’re welcome.


Anybody on eNuts? First zap gets some ecash


Tell me more. Haven’t heard of that


Ya’ll remember the National Emergency phone notification testing from a few days ago. Call me crazy but timing looks a lil sus given current events


Haha right on, best of luck with the recovery.


Had to do that as well for my baby. It heals quickly if it was done with scissors.


Today in 2006 WikiLeaks was founded. For 13 of its short life it’s founder Julian Assange has been detained one way or another. https://video.nostr.build/7b8b2c0af82045034d7067e415754f818795219430e910fc375cbdd4d52eee87.mov


Wild poor people are convinced they need the exact opposite in socialism.

Without a money that incentivizes one to forgo consumption and save instead capital accumulation ain’t happening. So simple, yet so few understand


If you are cheering on mass killings of people just because of their ethnicity/nationality/religion, you are not "awake" and you are certainly not "anti-war". You are also not "anti-establishment" or "anti deep state" because death is what the establishment sells.


High time preference chad trynna end up on a wheel chair over here.


Clear as the day is long.

Sin is death justification or not


That’s a very solid set up.

Personally, I don’t like having more than one steel back up on a 2 of 3 multi sig, but if you go for it look into SEED XOR or/and use a passphrase with at least one of the devices.

Yeah key can hold its own funds.


East Palestine, Ohio….


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- **New**: #SeedVault - Encrypted multi-seed storage with easy recall. Supports TRNG, #DiceRolls, etc.
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https://m.primal.net/HNNy.png


I can see how someone might think that, but I don’t know it for a fact. It’s just a piece of plastic. If you take care of it I don’t see why it wouldn’t work for decades. But even if stopped working, it has a Backup password in back of the card, which you can use to create a software key to sign a txn. And you can write down that backup password on a piece of paper/metal to hedge against losing the TAPSIGNER.

I wouldn’t recommend having all your funds in single sig using a Tapsigner, but it makes sense for secondary wallets with smaller amounts and/or as a part of a multi-sig set up. Nunchuk uses it as the inheritance key in their paid plan.


That’s why Casa and Nunchuk exist. Nothing wrong with single sig + passphrase, but it is a single point of failure at the end of the day. Pick the trade off that works best for you. But I must say collaborative custody (I personally use Nunchuk) has come a long way and the user experience is top notch in my experience, specially when it’s KYC free and you have things like TAPSIGNERS. Even if you don’t want to use their collaborative custody services, Nunchuk makes it really easy to set up a multisig that you can easily recreate in Sparrow.


Indeed, it wouldn’t be magical internet money otherwise ;)


Then use it on the SATSCARD, since that one actually carries the corn inside


https://m.primal.net/HNKI.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HNKI.jpg


I’m here for it


Yep, but Elon ain’t gonna do shit because “current thing”


If you don’t want to develop a coffee addiction don’t buy a Nespresso machine


Both

Tapsigners do need more options compared to  SATSCARDS


Algo making ppl psychotic and depresso for $

NOSTR is the way


Right. The machine loves forever wars so wars we have


That’s my understanding too. The issue seems to be with zionism specifically, not just jews in general. From what I understand jews, christians, and muslims used to leave peacefully in that land until european jews moved there with British support/influence and basically claimed land that was already being occupied. I’m sure there is a lot more nuance


Yep, people won’t appreciate it then 🤷🏽♂ oh well


Remember war over the last century has been sponsored and made possible by fiat.

Every sat you stack is a vote for peace.

Starving Central Banks is one actionable step we can take to put and to never ending wars.


Fuck War
Stack Sats

SATSCARD?


True story


KYC no bueno. God bless Robosats

Ironically enough it’s all Strike for US trade on there lol one day we shall have better methods of stacking uncucked sats but in the meantime we do what we can


GM

Go spend some sats today. The circular economy ain’t gonna build itself ✌🏼


Nodes enforce the rules not miners. Have all the hash rate you want but if the block proposed doesn’t abide by the rules nodes will reject it. The meat space constraints (energy) only affect who gets to update the ledger. No?


I believe the half life can vary much more widely in some people. When it comes to these matters ones N of 1 is more valuable than any study


Few


69 for the next 4?


Didn’t the guy say the solution is political not technical?


And many over private property in the form of land


Yep, get in the sun as much as possible.


Yeah Totally


And it’s probably insured as well.


One doesn’t. This whole idea that bitcoin is a weapon (which was walked back by lowry) is nonsense. An honest decentralized ledger is not  ‘power projection’ that will take your enemies down. Watch the TFTC podcast with Jason, he couldn’t come up with one example of how bitcoin’s hashrate secures anything other than bitcoin. He claims that somehow putting info behind a bitcoin paywall is revolutionary. Very skeptical about the whole thing. Lopp has a good article responding to his thesis.


Yep, best to get to know your local rancher just in case


Yep

Still beats low tier fiat currencies, which is why ppl use it.


It’s a proxy for the dollar after all


But Michael Lewis said Sam is just misunderstood and if it weren’t because of CZ causing a bank run non of this would have happened. His effective altruism was just around the corner lol

What a clown


become unruggable


I gave up on orange pilling normies a while ago. When they are ready to take personal responsibility and stop being debt slaves getting fucked by the state I’ll be here to show them the way.

They can HFSP in the meantime 🤷🏽♂


Even worse, it’s someone else sacrificing your future for their present.


Indeed.

It all starts with property rights.