Crime and Punishment. 

 Definitely. 

 YES. 

 Dammit, all-in on Reverse Ramen Index then 

 Hell, this is basically all my bitcoin life in a nutshell 

 Are you suggesting to break a decade long friendship because a friend doesn't have enough time to study the differences between two tech protocols? 

 I've been busy for months now and yet bitcoin still alive, I'm disappointed XD 

 Chocolate fires up the body 

 That's a snapshot of peace 

 It's been ages since peace has been lost 

 Love it! 

 The way to fuck the system is to realize that the stuff you pay attention defines your world.
You're what you pay attention to, your world is what you care about, your humanity is who is around you. Minimalism can help as long as you don't underestimate the role of happiness in life: nothing is worth doing just for the sake of it. Fucking the system is not of any use per-se, I prefer to explore the world and then, eventually, understand that my happiness incidentally intersects the "fucking of the system". 

 Once you pay attention, stuff happens. Enjoy the ride, whatever that is 

 That's not so bad, is it? Cov-idiots will stay at home and thus will not bother us. Social media cov-idiot gangs will be still sufficiently far away from you if you're #Nostr only.

I'm not worried at all. 

 Since trade offs consists essentially of shades, both are possible at different degrees. 

 There's a lot of Dunning-Kruger out there, agreed. Some fellas are assumed to be experts in everything simply because they are knowledgeable about one thing.
DYOR, as always. 

 Thanks a lot 

 Poor Jeff because of the demolition noises

Poor workers for the savagely hot weather out there

GM 

 Even UnifiedPush notifications for degoogled phones!! 

 Agreed

Then all the people out of United States should ask for a reimbursement from "americans" because of the orwellian surveillance that US 3 letter agencies do WorldWide. Plus the financial fiat shitshow pivoted by the FED that impacts all the planet. 

We didn't ask for these too 

 Nostr is permissionless: just post. 

 Which paid relay do you suggest? 

 what's this outbox model? 

 Isn't that still "changing the relays"? 

 Speed of a nut 

 Please consider also live streams! 

 Memes are a sublime expression of freedom and cleverness, must be selfhosted
 

 Evocative 

 yesssir :onward 

 You should go on WBD to talk (also) about it! 

 #nostronly 

 Certainly we stayed less annoying 

 Definitely not humble, agree 

 Nobody  feels represented by EU, but magically during this kind of competitions EU manages to brainwash people in believing that there's somehow an EU identity out there that people believes in. 

 This is not the question.
Since the #cashu protocol aims at solving a privacy problem by blinding the mint, I guess that's fair to say that if the mint can still correlate the IPs with the token requests, there's still a privacy leak.
 

 That's not the question either.

Question: I need to take the bus to go from A to B, which specific bus number shall I take?

Answer: take the car lol

I mean, what?
 

 Yep that's true. I give you an example about what I'm referring to

Suppose that you've a single token of 64 sats from a mint. Suppose that you need to send 30 sats: you need to contact the mint, return the 64 sats token and receive back:

1 token of 32 sats + 
1 token of 16 sats +
1 token of 8 sats +
1 token of 4 sats +
2 token of 2 sats = 64 sats
 With such "coins", you can add up 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 sats, create a payment of 30 sats and send it to the payee.

My issue is that if i contact a mint from the IP A.A.A.A and send it the token of 64, then receive back the splitted blinded tokens still with IP A.A.A.A, then the mint knows for sure that the first token of 64 didn't change owner and indeed was a "change creation" request and not a spending request. For sure the mint cannot know the exact "shape" of the blinded secrets, but knows that I'm due to creating a transaction.

Fair enough for the fact that the more the mint users the more difficult to do this reasoning, but still if every interaction with mint is from the same IP, the mint can possibly create an identity profile for their unique users.

Or am I missing something? 

 I once paid a coffee (0.5 dollars) to someone from here (central europe) to Brazil, with several time zones of difference. All in half a second, with a final settlement of the transaction thanks to a neutral protocol.
No other technology can do that. No other cRyPtO can do that. 

 Don't tell me you "like" bitcoin, tell me you run a node. 

 GM 

 Likely 

 You definitely cannot. 

 Retirement is not a matter of "I hope that...", it's about an high confidence that things will happen, so that I can safely consider myself out of the rat race without being forced to enter it back again because of some unfortunate event.

I'm quite sure bitcoin will establish a crucial role as a freedom protocol and possibly as an alternative monetary asset (we're already at that point). What I'm not quite sure about is the price at which the asset will be exchanged 1day, 1week, 1 year, 10 years from now. Bitcoin can still lose its primacy, can still suffer by some undiscovered consensus bugs, can even perish from the technological pov and became a 100% financial asset, in which case I wouldn't consider it as a win.

Therefore, I'm not sure that sitting on 100'000'000 sats will free you from the rat race anytime soon. 

If you want to believe it you can, but that's not a good financial decision.

Moreover, retirement it's a matter of stream of income too, which bitcoin does not garantee because it's not an income asset. 
Thus, you would have to sell it gradually to pay the rent and stuff, or maybe use it as collateral, but that's a very high risk move considering the asymmetric loss you would suffer by losing the sats due to hacks or bankrupcies. 

BUT, on the other hand, collateral is a good option as long as the gains extracted from the appreciation of the asset outperform the compounded intra-year gains obtained by investing the cash (from the colateralization) into other markets (or an entrepreneurial activity). I expect this to happen in the medium term (5-10 years), not certainly in the long term (10-50 years).

The result of this is that you have high incentive in collateralizing your sats now but now you risk way more due to political, economical and technological uncertainty. You would like to collateralize them in the future, when finally retired, but if you're young enough you could run into a situation where the gains from the price appreciation will be lower and you would need an active stream of income to cover the loan you got from collateralization.

Again, do your own math. 100'000'000sats are probably good to live in a very very very poor country, but:
- I dubt that into 30 years the country will be still as poor as now, thus the cost of life will increase
- if you have children or want any, don't you want them to benefit from your financial intuition with bitcoin? If so, why stopping working early and leave potentially some relatively cheap sats on the table?
- I doubt that in the very very poor country you'll be able to spend sats safely or/and will not be robbed 
- anything could happen...even if 100'000'000 sats will be worth half a mil dollars into 8 years (which is a reasonable estimate for that time span), still that's not so much to retire and never work again.

Sorry for the extremely long reasoning. 

 Okay, fair enough. My definition of "retirement" is to not have to work anymore. If you start a business that's possibly very sustainable, but not aligned with the definition of "retirement" 

 Your approach is perfectly fine.

I tent to leave way more than that in custodial wallets, but that's a matter of preferences. 
Mutiny wallet is brilliant and works well for the non custodial experience on smartphone. Blixt is good too. I used to stick with Phoenix but since the introduction of Splicing they changed some mechanisms such that I'm not fine with that anymore.

Sats related to Nostr always go through custodial cashu wallets for me, because a little bit of privacy and because I like the technology a lot.

Run your node and caahu mint if you can! 

 Well done, I used to annoy them with sats tips with the LightningTipBot on telegram until they started being interested in bitcoin 

 When I feel like this, I put in the Chopin Nocturnes, turn up the volume and roll down the windows of the car

Have a nice day 

 Honestly, I don't believe a word he's saying. Just because there's a video of someone saying something it doesn't mean that's true...it's unlikely that the guy is a former democrat supporter.

We're headed to a period where deepfakes will be everywhere in the social media, budgets allocated to marketing will be increasingly big...and the social media budget means also paid actors, means also fake profiles, bots et. 

Hey, that's true for both sides  of the spectrum, not only for Trump's campaign.

If I can't verify that the thing is true, I train my brain to consider the thing not relevant. 

 GN 

 Man, appreciate the detailed answer