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 ask yourself 

what value is this providing me? 
 Nearly all the projects I touch, benefit others, but usually not myself.

I see more value in helping communities over self. 
 Was it sealed? Mine were not sealed and they offered to replace them. 
 🔥

Hoping to see a product that everyday people can purchase that can help distribute blocks and mine as well. 
 Hello world 
 Hello Carine 🫶 
 People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybo... 
 Do you have a suggestion for this issue?

Many cities I travel to for work and where I live, they offer cellular over "city-wide wifi". Would this be a potential solution?

I also heard T-Mobile will be using Starlink -- but if I understand it correctly, their towers will be linking to Starlink so the phone-tower connection will still be based off current infrastructure -- and thus will not be any more anonymizing. 
 The minted rewards aren't as necessary, as the value of bitcoin is higher than before.

It's very simple. 
 I've been using mine 2-4hrs/day, no negative side effects.

It was uncomfortable to wear in the first couple weeks but my head and face adapted.

I wear a bike helmet with accessories for up to 41miles/day so my *neck* may have adjusted quicker than most. 
 i love this episode 

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 I have watched TNG so many times and I do not remember this episode 🤔 
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 This reminds me of the ancient faucets 👀

I remember collecting 21500 doge and thinking, wow that's hardly anything compared to my bitcoin mining - and then donated it 😂

Good memories 🫶 
 GM DOES THIS WORK? 
 Looks like it's working to me 
 Could someone point me to the rng for the master secret?

I started looking but didn't immediately find it 
 For anyone wondering, I believe this is where keypairs are made:

https://github.com/proto-at-block/bitkey/blob/main/app/core/crypto/src/keys.rs

So now I need to find references to this, but github is claiming there are none 😭

I will keep progress updates on this 🧵

It is frustrating that nobody from bitkey is monitoring this, all other wallet providers I have contacted are very active on 𝕏 and have been very helpful 🤔 
 starting a 3 day water fast tomorrow to honor president's day  
 If you follow Jack and are wondering how to be your own Bitcoin bank, and own/backup your own keys ("not your keys, not your crypto"), here's a 30min video over on 𝕏:

(I can't upload video here for some reason)
https://x.com/medicgordus/status/1759481061149720579 
 I am planning to make another video showing the Block BitKey and the Ledger Stax, they still are not available to purchase 🫶 
 Update: Someone let me know they are actually now available!!

USA: https://bitkey.world/en-US/products/bitkey 
 Oh, their site crashes whenever I click checkout 😭

I am going to try thru vpn in a few different countries to see if it's just USA IPs... https://image.nostr.build/00e524347a2e4accf2b466d5430139e62ec89bb721573a302e18edb6a8ee3551.jpg  
 True Tone and Night Shift are scams. 
 I keep night shift on 24hrs 👀 
 I got a ton of flak on 𝕏 for talking about Bitcoin.

More recently, the negative comments have gone down significantly, so I think some progress is being made 👍 
 Twitter account suspended because I posted “eat the glass” in response to a do hard things en... 
 One of my close friends who has a depression disorder had their recovery buddy commit suicide two days ago.

Apparently the negative content they came across in social media played a large part in their decision.

I understand you may not care about life, but most people do:

So expect negative consequences when you try to harm life. 
 I worded that poorly:

Expect negative consequences when you recklessly joke around and are perceived as intending to harm life. 
 Bitcoin is for everyone. But the current tools for self custody aren’t. So we set out to build ... 
 We....found another block. 
 If I understand correctly, I believe the correct term would be "One of us"?

One of us found another block.