So I was dicking around on reddit (yeah, I know, I'm sorry) and this guy was bragging about his stack. I told him not to do that and he told me to shut the fuck up. So I perused his account for 5 minutes, found a picture of his tattoos and body, what he does for work (doordash driver) and what neighborhood of what area he lives in. I told him this information and laid out a plan (go rent a hotel in his area and order Wendy's on doordash every night til he shows up, it's that fucking easy) and told him hes lucky I'm not an unscrupulous piece of shit, but someone out there is and he should delete his post about his stack size and if he did I'd delete what I laid out. Of course that won't protect him from everybody, the information is archived at reddit servers and whatever archive services are storing reddit posts, but at least some random lurker on reddit couldn't find him. He deleted it, then replied to me "lol I don't really have that kind of money" like, from context people can see what we were talking about and now your username is attached to the conversation. As a wise friend of mine once told me, you can't save everybody. Lots of people, I mean lots, are walking around without realizing that they've diarrhea'd enough information about themselves into the world that they're targets. Even someone like me, I don't have a big stack or anything, but I could be bullshitting about that thinking I'm smart, just talking about stuff like this and being knowledgeable about bitcoin and hardware wallets will make a predator think you're worth attacking. And so, I'd say, youre missing one very important piece of advice: stay strapped or get clapped.

GRIN is the closest thing to space money that exists today.

Or they could, you know, update the outdated do umentation on the site. But priorities I guess. I tried to tell them, to no avail. The old site looks better IMO.

I'm old enough to remember when bitcoin was supposed to be a new financial system. Now it's just supposed to be a new reserve currency underpinning the existing system. Never trade in your hoodie for a suit.

What's the secure channel?

Relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfmzS_A-8MQ I'll find it and share it at some point lol

No joke I know a guy that dived head first into nfts and "ethereum killers" in 2020 and had a fucking psychotic break in 2021 when his dreams of riches were thoroughly crushed.

Lol you can't please everybody all the time man

You write good informative stuff. I almost always enjoy reading it. I've been doing the degoogle stuff for quite a long time now and have a over good understanding of it, you're always on point. I live the lifestyle fully, just as you describe, and have been for about a decade with some improvements along the way. I have the mindset. Let me ask you, do you have some business model in mind? Like offering services down the road, anything like that? Or are you just trying to be a philanthropic educator?

I tell people this all the time. You don't understand in depth what you think you do until you can articulate it in more than one way. Taking time to do that helps you find your blind spots in your understanding of the world, helps you learn and grow and helps you help others. This is about the only good use in arguing with people online, but ego must be abandoned in that endeavor to get the best out of it.

I'm not quite following. Would you elaborate? Seems to me, a bottleneck on keypair generation would reduce the number of accounts that can be generated for spam, so it would significantly reduce spam as spammer have to continuously generate new keys as they're blocked or filtered by relays. This of course doesnt take into account message level PoW, where one must be in the hash of the messages themselves, which clients and relays could implement. And none of it addresses how PoW requirements are communicated between parties, both users and relays, to ensure that everything doesnt just become some standard, which is sure to be a difficulty of 0 in that case. I should he able to set a PoW as a user for DMs from users not in my follows list, for example, or something like that. Seems to me it would be better than WoT because it wouldnt shut new keypairs out of the network effects.

It's an atomic swap from bitcoin to Monero, the swap used to be called unstoppable swap. https://eigenwallet.org/eigenswap.html

Don't know if that's going to happen. It will, eventually, but I can't say I believe it will be very soon. When what I've predicted occurs, and I now am leaning towards saying next year is when it starts, it's going to suck a lot of faith out of cryptocurrency in general. Of course us xmr guys know better, but the number go up and degens dont. With faith goes capital. After that is when some people will begin to discover other ways of doing things that make more sense. I think this is when the cool stuff rises from the ashes, the cryptocurrency market decouples from bitcoin and all the different assets with any type of real utility begin to follow their own market trends, and obviously xmr is primed to shine, but I don't know how long it's going to take to get to that point. Could be a protracted bear, it could even take as long as the current sypercycle we are in, so 15 years, I have no idea. I do expect though that by then or shortly after bitcoin will have had a hard fork to remove the hard cap to maintain relevance, probably in vain.

Bitcoin block space demand is at a 14 year low while the price is just below it's ATH that it broke a week ago. These two happening at the same time is a very troubling thing. At the same time, MicroStrategy is leveraging their entire company on the run up. It's a house of cards multiple times bigger than any exchange exit scam you've seen in any cycle before. Is this the cycle when we rug the banks? Until recently I've been thinking not, that we had one more, but it really does look like it. For reference:

I'm gonna put it in my will that I want my corpse dismembered and scattered to the four corners of the earth because nobody is going to do that, and it's a statement on the futility of having your will executed after you're dead.

Not really. But remember, these FOSS maintainers work a lot, get people acting like they are owed something a lot, so they're often in defense mode and standoffish. A little bit of "not trying to bark down your throat man" goes a long way with some of them. Others can't be helped and are just pricks, this guy in particular doesnt come across that way.

You ever consider willow for fencing?

This sounds really cool actually. I'd be interested I'm acquiring some cheap for simple device to device and low bandwidth communications. Weather stations, time keeping servers, intercoms and things like that.