Been trying to put it on Lyn's radar, as it seems very up her alley in the fiction space she's in these days. And I need to catch up with the last few I think. I sometimes forget he's still writing. Haven't read anything since Influx.

OMG thank you for bringing up Kill Decision. Not enough Bitcoiners know Daniel Suarez and that's a crime. I sure hope you're read Daemon and Freedom™, as the proponent of AI and decentralized digital currency that you are. If not you're in for a treat. https://fountain.fm/episode/t7f52ztSZKqnn3DJ5XYh

Whether it's seed words or simply an exportable key you can use to back up in a sovereign manner isn't something I much care about. Not being able to do so in either fashion is the issue. BIP39, Electrum style seed words, just raw privkey, or most any other way to accomplish sovereign restoration would be acceptable. And sure, people are going to act in ways that don't serve their interests. I'm not opposed to the Bitkey existing; they can just do things. But the lack of sovereign seed backups is a flaw, and they'd have an objectively better product if they fixed it.

SEC Chair?

tl;dr "We don't force you to run our software with shitty policies, but we do beg you to do so anyway." Know what else would involve not forcing anyone to do anything? Making the #OP_RETURN limit user configurable. Knots did. And to be clear, if this were about fee estimation, the core team WOULD have made an unlimited OP_RETURN the default, and made it configurable. By choosing NOT to give a choice to users in the software, they ensure that MORE nodes filter. To be quite honest, I don't hold any delusions that filtering out op_returns is going to save bitcoin from spam. I do, however, reject the attitude that users need to be protected from themselves. Too many devs seem to have come up under the Apple philosophy. It's been nice to see Knots getting the attention it deserves in any case. I ran it before this drama, and seeing the Napoleonic tantrums just show me that I made the right choice. #RunKnots https://bitcoincore.org/en/2025/06/06/relay-statement/

That's disgusting. I half expect there to be some 'Israeli' shellfish dishes I'm afraid to look up.

I'm honestly surprised to see you referring to it as a hardware wallet not a signer, though I won't say I haven't picked up bad habits listening to people misuse language myself... Also, buying metal seedplate always struck me as a little bit hazardous, at least if it's kyc'd. M8 washers are cheap enough to buy at your local hardware store, and hold together with a bolt and nut.

2% is high compared to Joinmarket fees for coinjoin...which is decentralized and 10 years old to boot.

I heard on that and are running for president. I thoroughly look forward to those campaign ads. Make sure that Ross gets tapped as secretary of commerce. And as director of National Security. for Treasury Secretary, and Jack Kruse for Surgeon General. as Secretary of Education. As for Secretary of State... ? Julian Assange as Press Secretary. Give Small Business Administration. Secretary of the Interior, I'm leaning to , just for his knowledge of mycelium. Marty Bent for Trade Secretary. And Larry Lepard as head of the Council of Economic Advisors. Perhaps as chief Ambassador to the UN. Who am I missing?

I don't touch anything designed for crypto, for one. People have lost Bitcoin due to shitcoin vulnerabilities. Not being able to provide entropy is not great but two internal sources is at least better than one. NFC is terrifying and is probably my least favorite 'feature' the coldcard has, so another strike. They try to address backup security, but personally I don't think that's a tech issue to solve. Either OTP encrypt stamped seed words, use a passphrase, or both if you're worried about seed backup compromise.

Definitely didn't intend this note to be taken seriously. The idea of in the White House is something I imagine is the stuff of his nightmares.

Lol Czechia is NOT the same as Chechnya. Thankfully you said southwest, not southeast. https://fountain.fm/episode/6Y8ID3ZllkyNuU0twer7

What the actual fuck. What's next, "Israeli" dabke? #FreePalestine https://www.tiktok.com/@birthrightisrael/video/7238675484807122218?lang=en

If it was a self donation, someone needs to remind him that if you have 300 bitcoin that people don't already know you have, don't go moving it into an address that they know is yours. I'd HOPE he's learned a thing or two about the importance about privacy on the Internet after that whole post as altoid on Bitcointalk...

People think they can somehow get the benefits of Bitcoin without the responsibility of, you know, handling their Bitcoin. Freedom without responsibility is always a mirage. I leave plenty of room for redesign of Bitkeys in the future being something that may be usable. But for now it's an unfinished breadbox, not even fit for prototype stage let alone public release as a product.

And Nik you're doing God's work spreading Eurodollar understanding without being a raving street preacher about it (no offense to Jeff...).