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 I’ll be at bitcoin live in Sydney, Aus this weekend. Come down and say Hello. 
 There's a pandemic. Unnecessary gatherings are sort of stooping to the tyrant's level in the fight 
 I hope someday all cats will be allowed on nostr. Not just fat cats 
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 Four years ago, Trump admitted about Covid for the first time: “This is a pandemic. I felt it w... 
 Ironic that Robert Reich would post this while pretending the pandemic is magically over. Did it go away on its own?

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 Vaccines & masks have saved countless people but the FDA has killed more people with brainwashing and dangerous experimental vaccines that help keep the viruses in circulation  
 Masks & avoiding unnecessary contact are the best measures known for fighting these viruses actually 
 There is plenty of proof that masks and avoiding unnecessary contact are the best measures against coronaviruses. There is plenty of proof today's coronaviruses are killing far more people than the common cold and flu in the past. By not trying to fight these viruses, you have helped kill millions of people.

By not caring about those you've killed, you haven't made me think your liberty is more important than other people's survival, you've just made me try not to sympathize with YOUR drive to survive on my planet.

Have fun pretending the pandemic is over & welcome to world war 3 
 Not sure why this is a reply to me saying:

Vaccines & masks have saved countless people but the FDA has killed more people with brainwashing and dangerous experimental vaccines that help keep the viruses in circulation  
 There is always much everyone can do. We all make choices that matter every day in this era 
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 I hope "delete" never becomes an option on the #nostr protocol, because if that were to happen, I... 
 There is "request deletion" which I've definitely used for typos or whatever 
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 the 🪨 is now shipping!

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 If the hardware and software components aren't all open source, that's not even the worst they can do  
 I find it hard to believe John Barnett's death was a suicide 
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 is there?

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 But still not good

Zach Herbert: Block's Bitkey "Hardware Wallet" will Violate your Privacy and Security

https://www.zherbert.com/bitkey/ 
 So the best example of an "assumption" you can give is the guy trusting Bitkey's own claims about their own product, which is also the guy's own best example of an assumption? That's your critique? 
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 it's international sign someone up to nostr day 🎉 
 Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more.  Think of it as a donation to eve... 
 Would also have to hide identity and/or keep the keys memorized, deleted from all hardware

With the world knowing this guy had 20k bitcoins, his heirs could get his hardware hacked to find any keys stored 
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 open source designers:

Would you find value in regular public “office hours†and design crit...