So true, when you reach that safety point, you really start thinking how to make the world a better place

Up to you man, you are gonna be fine with both anyway 👍🏼

Holy shit the last one is from artist “Bibbito”, he hangs around my area too!

ColdcardQ has some extra features: - air-gapped (it’s safer) - easier to type thanks to big keyboard - easier, faster and safer to check balance/movement through sparrow wallet - anti-fishing words to warn you if someone tried to fuck with it - teleportation feature - Bip85 (create “children” wallets from it) And there are more! I haven’t even finished exploring all of them. Bitbox02 is still amazing, love how small it is. But as you can see coldcardQ simply has way more features, couldn’t recommend it enough man

Oh for sure man don’t get me wrong, for the main stash of course it’s self-custody. Here i was talking in relation to other services (cashu banks, smart-contract, etc)

I don’t get when you say “they can generate a new private key”. If they move the funds to the new address you can simply track it (prof of reserve topic) Anyway I was listening to Alex B. on the “all in bitcoin” podcast. I think he was rightly saying how we sometimes underestimate the concept of reputation (he was talking about in cashu banks topic). Sure they can fuck you over and run with your money, but they’ll lose trust forever and all future profit (they are actually inventivized to not fuck you over). In time will emerge the Trusted ones. For sure we can never have 100% trust and sleep like a baby, but it surely will get better as the incentives will change and companies will be incentived to act in more trustful manner (on top of the fact that it’s getting easier and easier to move around and choose a different company)

wow dude, my response wasn't sarcastic at all. I simply felt there was a lot of frustration coming from your words and wanted to show some support. If you saw consedscending/mocking tone that's you projecting. I reiterate, I wish you the best and sending you a virtual hug ♥️ (not sarcastic!)

You tried something once and it didn’t work straight away the first time? Then surely it must never work

Can’t help you with Jade plus cause never used it, but bitbox02 was my first and it’s fantastic, super easy to use and so small! Then I upgraded to the holy grail of ColdcardQ and never looked back!

Come man you are punching down, everybody its better than Europe at this point (I can say this, I’m a euro fag)

I repeatedly punch someone (varies every time) but my punches have zero effect. I panic but keep punching, and eventually I manage to land a punch that flats the other person. It’s 20 years that this dream comes back every now and then, WTF does it mean?!

- going for a swim - joint + a good stereo system - stretching while listening to a podcast

Link to full interview?

I am ✋ taking advantage of 1 sats v/b to move stuff around and experiment

Not sure, but what I hear is "we want to be left alone to do our thing withouth any outside interferences/feedback unless we deem these outsiders worthy to have their opinion heard" I'm sure it must be frustrating to have "not-technical feedback" enter the discussion, but isn't this the price to pay for open-source? I'm sure they still have a more private forum to discuss only among themselves before publishing on github. And is the outside interference really so impactfull to require this? Seems like a big move into a more closed/exclusive space and this does not arouse positive reactions...factoring in also the timing when core just had problems with the "op-debate" which could have been communicated in a better way (seems like instead of trying to improve their public relation skills they want to close even more, does not seem the right approach to me). More communication, even if hard and slower, seems better approach than closing-in with less communication. also thanks , it was a pleasure talking with you about the op-debate and you helped me better think about the whole debate (more communication!) Also please don't zap me, I replied because I wanna discuss not because of sats (I feel like a prostitute if they zap me because of this lol)

Man so hard to discern what is credible and who to trust, so many aspects about it. What’s your strategy for this? My solution is to learn more on the topic to form my own opinion. But then I hit a wall beyond which I don’t have the knowledge and to build it would require too much time (can’t be an expert in everything). At that point I try to go on “vibes” about the person, but this can be sooo misleading at times. Do we all need to be an expert on a topic to be able to discern what/who is actually credible?

Pictures or never happened