Yeah the entering it on a smartphone app is super worrisome. I’d definitely do for a password manager backup but not a seed phrase.

I think the quantum threat is wildly overstated by all objective evidence, e.g. they can’t even factor a number higher than a smart 5th grader. But I think we should get a quantum safe address going just so people with STFU about it.

If this turns out to be real and for illegitimate reasons feels like it’s the beginning of the end of the bitcoiner dream in El Salvador. Time till tell. Hope Jon is okay

Best of luck to all of our NYC comrades

if anchorwatch and the web wallet disappears, where can customers go to access their funds? Is the only current option manually restoring to the BTC core wallet? Because that would be tough for most users though certainly possible… I’m sure you and Becca would try to exit gracefully but just always good to consider

My grandfather came back from fighting in the US army in the pacific theater of WW2 as a pacifist. He told me nothing was worth the horrors he saw, and that war was mostly rich old men sending poor young men to die. My great grandfather fled WW1 alone as a child after watching soldiers torture his entire family to death. It’s easy to have a black and white view of war when you and your family aren’t the ones dying horrifically.

Buying good with lightning feels like a look into the future. Set Bitcoin aside, this is just a better experience than the broken legacy internet: type email address, scan QR code, click pay, done. Contrast with legacy online shopping where I have to fill out two pages of bullshit and fill out all this credit card data and if I try to use any even mildly privacy preserving options then half the time my order is flagged and canceled and it takes weeks to get a refund. It’s taken a long time to get here, but I’m convinced we eventually win via better UX as the legacy internet just keeps breaking.

Even setting aside any political/social issue itself, its ethics, and its legality: if your way of getting what you want is to set your local city ablaze then your main accomplishment will be that everyone hates you, doesn’t support your cause, and that you fail long term. It’s just not a smart way to get what you want. Highly counter productive.

The upside of investing in paper Bitcoin as an American is that for a few weeks you’ll be able to laugh at the dumbasses who invested their retirement in state run plans like CalSavers. They’ll get 6102ed first. I mean you will too, but at least you won’t be first.

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Sometimes being humble is hard. Don’t check Zillow.

Bullish af https://fountain.fm/episode/LsZmWG6yj1tgaqbfJdxX

Graphene is awesome. The attacks are an acknowledgment that the state is realizing the potential threat it poses to mass surveillance and psyop factories

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GM! Looking forward to the adoption of statechains because in practice the alternative appears to be strictly fully custodial systems. A system where you have an onchain unilateral exit transaction but there is some trust is strictly better than most current options people are using that are 100% custodial and 100% trusted. Gradual improvement is the way. We don’t reach an ideal state overnight. Also good to think about in terms of tradeoffs for potential soft forks. These are the kind of compromises that likely have to be made to scale Bitcoin if we are ossified.

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Retards gonna degen

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At least an idea worth investigating. AFAIK in the USA and some other countries jewelry and personal effects worn on your body have greater legal protection and are harder (though never impossible) to confiscate.

You can just live in the Nostr circular economy 🫂

The emptiness of the mempool and number of less than 1 sats/vb transactions is fucking wild

So sorry to hear! Unbelievably frustrating to be stuck with bureaucrats and neighbors with nothing at stake being able to decide what you can do with your own property that doesn’t have any real downside for them.

Napoleon complex, 21st century style