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 Unpopular opinion: ultimately it was fiat that made us rich. 🤭 
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 I’m grateful every day that I can play guitar. Music is one of those rare things that can cross... 
 Haven’t played in a while. I’ll start again. Thanks for the inspiration 
 🫂💜 
 It's like 4 degrees colder than night but the sun is rising? The fuck
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 The phenomenon of it being colder in the morning than at night, particularly just after dawn, can be explained by several factors related to how the Earth’s surface and atmosphere interact with solar radiation.

*Radiational Cooling*
During a clear, calm night, the ground rapidly loses heat through a process called radiational cooling. The ground radiates infrared radiation into space, cooling down quickly. This cooling effect is enhanced by clear skies, dry air, and light winds, which allow the heat to escape more efficiently without being trapped by clouds or moisture.

*Ground and Air Temperature*
The ground cools faster than the air above it. As the ground loses heat, it chills the air in direct contact with it, creating a layer of cold air near the surface. This cold air can be several degrees colder than the air just a meter or two higher.

*Sunrise and Heat Absorption*
When the sun rises, its initial rays are weak and at a low angle. It takes time for the incoming solar radiation to counteract the rate at which the ground is losing heat. Until the sun is higher in the sky and stronger, the ground continues to release the heat it built up from the previous day, rather than absorbing new heat to warm up the temperatures.

*Air Mixing*
As the sun rises, it can create convective currents and turbulence that mix the colder air near the ground with the warmer air above. This mixing brings the colder air up to the level where temperatures are measured (typically at eye level), resulting in a recorded drop in temperature.

#askAI 🤭 
 When Trump wins against Kamala after he won against Hillary before the press will go: „Trump beats women repeatedly“

GM 
 And justice for all 
 We have Proof of Cramer, ladies and gentlemen. Trump will win this election. 

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 GM 
 GM. Fun fact: people think 1cm is 10mm when in fact it’s 1/100th of a meter. 
 Always assume 50% of your private keys are compromised. Oh, you only have one? Well you shouldn’t. 
 Both 
 Things that are better than any hardware wallet:

- freshly set up computer for wallet generation, export xpub for stacking over watch only wallet, computer wiped after initialization. 

- @SeedSigner  

- diversified compartmentalization 

- multisig

Don't be the HWW vendor's bitch. 

#Bitcoin is freedom tech. Act accordingly. 
 Unpopular opinion: hardware wallets are average „bitcoin maximalist‘s“ shitcoin 
 Worshipping of hardware wallet providers, while actively distracting from alternatives such as multisig through scaremongering. Completely uncritical acceptance of the security risks of hardware wallets (vendor, supply chain, etc.). The latest example is bitkey. Hyped by big names although extremely questionable concept. 
 I hope I’m not alone because I really don’t the trajectory we’re on in terms of self-custody and UX narratives. It’s a dangerous path we’re on. 
 *don’t like 
 Yes, and I'm a big fan of it. However, the narratives being spun are damaging and there is a lot of multisig FUD being actively used to prevent adoption as I see it. 
 Two keys are on servers as I see it. The key from your mobile is stores on your cloud service. So if you’re using a iPhone that would be iCloud. What else happened with this key is unknown (to non technical users at least). 

Ultimately it’s personal risk assessment and a decision one has to make but I would definitely prefer a multisig without HW over the bitkey as it is right now. 
 Paid shills all over 
 You say signing devices. That’s the correct way of looking at it. Most speak of wallets though. The subtle art of applying fiat terminology to lock people in 
 I look forward to seeing this come to fruition. 
 Gimme that hopium 😀 
 Bitcoiners cheering for Trump. 
Bitcoiners cheering for Saylor. 
Bitcoiners cheering for ETFs. 
Bitcoiners cheering for Bitkey. 
…

Some people here are either becoming increasingly stupid or decreasingly #bitcoin and it shows. 
 I hope you're right, and for some individuals you certainly are, but at scale I don't think it's going to work because bitcoin is being bought faster than it's being understood and the growth rate is exponential. We'll end up with a lot of bitcoiners who aren't really bitcoiners. Also, bitcoin may wake people up, but it won't make them smart. At least not in the short term. 

Tl;dr unfortunately no 
 This is such a black pill in terms of bitcoin going mainstream while remaining decentralized 

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 How is this a hardware wallet? 

2/3 of your keys are stored on servers. 

Meanwhile, you're locked into your "hardware wallet" with no way to access your private key or move to another one. 

Oh, and you have to provide an email address, because why not, I guess... I mean, Satoshi used email. How bad can it be? 😂 
 Natural selection in the artificial world. A great filter for stupidity. 

People who make that decision shouldn't be making decisions. So maybe that's a good thing. 

Smart people will increasingly make decisions for others by proxy. 

AI as an interface to your rulers. Same same but different. 
 Seems proportional to M2 so nothing to worry about 😂 
 „Gerontocoin: it‘s ultrasound money too, that’s why we can’t hear you“ 
 We urgently need a decentralized YouTube alternative to take off. 
 I think bitkey is the worst „hardware“ wallet ever made. 

Using a library computer to create a wallet might be safer. 
 It’s really bad. I wish it wasn’t but it is. 
 I was surprised how bad it actually is, and in absolutely unnecessary aspects that could easily be undone. 
 GM 
 GM 
 I keep oscillating between both memes tbh 
 Unpopular opinion: shitcoins are a sign of functioning free markets 
 Same thing 💯 
 Bitcoin will absorb what’s useful and reject the rest. Not much absorbing needed though 
 A bit of privacy we got already and it keeps increasing with adoption. I’m not at all concerned about this in the long run. 

Too many people opting for custodial solutions is a much bigger problem affecting privacy too. 
 It’s still funny to hear Trump say he wants #Bitcoin to be “Made in the USA.” 
 Few people get closer to truth by oversimplifying. He’s good at what he does 
 People often ask me "is it worth investing my time in nostr?"

IDK IS IT WORTH BREAKING YOUR FUCK... 
 Is it, anon, is it? 😄 
 Frage mich ab wann der Schaden, den die Öko-Sozialisten anrichten, irreparabel wird. 
 Satoshi had an incredible attention to detail. Always blows my mind. 
 Hard to argue against 
 Statism runs deep, even among bitcoiners. I also wonder why those who say "everything is good for bitcoin" then decide to vote as "single issue voters" for Trump and the like. Doesn't make sense. 
 Isn’t it beautiful that we’re all talking about stack sats and nobody knows from each other h... 
 I thought we all own zero. Boating accidents. No? 
 Deep 
 Just to clarify... by "simplifying bitcoin self-custody" you mean keeping 2 out of 3 private keys on servers while preventing users from exporting the third key from the "hardware wallet", effectively locking users in? 
 Aah TIME. The magazine that made Adolf Hitler man of the year in 1938. How reassuring... I bet churnalism has gotten a lot better since then. 
 Instil pain in the legal system ? What a strange way to live your life nostr:note1jx3hjmvev88sysm... 
 Luckily we’re living in a world where women have a greater say in things and can save us with their magical empathy 😍

Oh wait… it’s women discussing this shit 😄 
 No one saw that coming 
 On chain surveillance will always be possible but it will never be more than probability statements. Bullish 

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 Keep seeing some bitcoiners clowning others for voting in this election and completely missing th... 
 Voting is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. But it doesn't mean you're an idiot just because you voted. Especially not in the short term. 

This is one of the top violent agreements among Bitcoiners I guess