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 What's the best #bitcoin wallet to recommend to a noob?

#asknostr 
 I've been asking myself the same thing lately.

I like minibits.cash. is very easy and it gives them a lightning address and nostr key.

I recently created a wallet for my teenage son by writing 12 words in a birthday card and taught him how to recover the wallet by going to app.mutinywallet.com.  That's also cool, but I wouldn't do that for strangers,  I love Mutiny because of how they handle game theory, but noobs might have a hard time wrapping their head around Venmo for bitcoiners.

I tried explaining it to a newcoiner recently. It didn't go so well. 
 A long time ago, I heard Phil Zimmerman was a nuclear activist before he wrote PGP.

Has he ever talked about this publicly? I would like to learn more about this subject. 
 How many years of work is this as compared to the average salary in your city/town? 
 That is crazy, but California is about the same. A 20% down payment is now about 2 years salary for the average person. 

It appears most people haven't learned this yet. 

We hear about bullshit inflation numbers.

I don't think our rulers understand how fucked up things are for 80% of the population.  
 Reputation ratings for mints was not on my bitcoin bingo card.🤔


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 Today was my last day at my fiat job of the last 13.5 years. 

It’s time for new things. 
 Congratulations. 
 The largest #bitcoin known holder (Saylor/MSTR) is anti-Medium of Exchange.

We're going to make ... 
 90%...What is that a dip for ants? 
 
Alternatives to @ln.tips bot that recently decided to end ( on Telegram) 

@BitTipBot
@SatsMobiBot
 
 It ended? 
 Damn. 🫥 
 #bitcoin #asknostr #plebchain

Ok #nostr, I ask again: Umbrel vs. Start9 
 What do you want to do? I run both. 
 I prefer Start9, but use apps on both. 
 Medium of exchange is a distraction! 

Pass it on so your favorite “replacing the dollar to def... 
 I don't think he's really here. I assume he's a cross-poster. 
 How much #bitcoin do you have? 
 We all have the same answer, gfy. 
 I'd put all my fiat in #Bitcoin if there were offline shops that accept it... 
 Have you tried gift cards from the bitcoin company? 
 I haven't tried those yet. How do they work? 
 nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg, have you thought of a fami... 
 Good idea. 
 I don't often talk about this, but with Swan's dive into what is essentially cloud mining, I felt... 
 I had the same question. I had no idea.  
 It's high time that ska makes a comeback! 
 I like ska, I just think that song's funny. I wouldn't mind if Save Ferris made a comeback. 
 A conspiracy theory that I just made up:

All secure business shredding providers scan every docu... 
 I never understood why anyone pays for document shredding. I don't shred anything. I throw senitive docs into a waste basket filled with water. 
 We need more brick and mortar stores to make sats the standard. 
 They are trapped in a prison created by their own mind, doomed to buy a 70k car on credit and reading about how bitcoin wastes water and pollutes the planet by using the same electricity that powers their environmentally conscious electric car. 
 I heard about this on Citadel Dispatch. Looks better than I imagined. 
 We are living in the dankest timeline
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 This is disgusting. 
 Are there some new relays that have popped up that y’all would recommend? Haven’t updated my ... 
 Trying to save money by not using my air conditioner. My family is with family a few weeks so I'm... 
 Trees are great, but it's about your mindset. My wife works in an air conditioned building all day, so she gets pissed when the thermostat is over 76°. I don't even notice because I work out in 100° weather. I use Home Assistant to automatically turn it down to 77° about a half hour before she gets home. Then it goes up to 80° when we go to bed.

We open the windows and turn on fans at night to circulate cooler air. My house was 71° this morning and the air conditioner wasn't even on.

I also use solar to lower my cost per kwh. 
 “So, I like whistled into an old pay phone and zapped some dude in Japan and used a Motorola pa... 
 https://nosl.ink/ makes nostr links normie friendly. 
 #asknostr what is the best place to convert #bitcoin to fiat? #strike #cashapp #river ???

Compar... 
 Thats an average american's lifetime earnings evaporated. Over half a million people per year

no... 
 Thoughts on upgrading to Umbrel 1.0 from 0.5? #asknostr 
 I'm doing it right noe. Just waiting for the backup to finish on umbrel. 
 The backup took forever. 
 Haven't tried nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg in a while an... 
 It's amazing. 
 Block Height 842,000 
 Look at all these zeros.


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 Some property wealth is going to finally come to the family by the end of the year after prolonge... 
 Can't wait to see what you create. 🤙 
 Fill in the blank:

States can remain tyrannical longer than you can remain free.

Unless… 
 you can find freedom in an unfree world. 
 I wish gasoline could be shipped. It's over five bucks a gallon in California. 
 Who should I open a lightning channel with? 🤔 #asknostr #bitcoin #lightning #zaps 
 Good question. I don't even know anymore. 
 I love cooking!  


May I pay for an MSB membership using bitcoin, or would you prefer fiat because it's easier to pay for servers, etc.)? 
 DID I HEAR  nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 SAY TO nostr:np... 
 Dude, I totally forgot I paid for this. 
 Does anyone else use mealie on Umbrel? 

I want to purple pill some non-bitcoin developers.  
 Time to focus on Cashu v2 (offline ecash, atomic p2p trading, bitcoin-backed fiat, multinut payme... 
 So what? Nobody's saying to put your life savings on cashu.  
 Not really, but it has a sideswap extention if that's what you mean. 
 Great read!


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