alex

Woofer who likes to woof

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npub15q54ducvx4l9e9hwpzauz6cvdezjh5q0t7m456mu46sp5wlsh2tqvdn8x0

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alex@lnprivate.network

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2023-05-26 17:49:02

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In the end this thread is just FUD around Ledger to promote their own alternative. It's marketing, not reality.
If my parents were to use a Ledger and had fear to lose their seed, I could still recommend this kind of recovery mechanism.
In my case I use social acquaintances because I am against KYC but there are people who are not against KYC and who are not comfortable with recent technology. For these people this is the right service.

2023-05-25 02:53:19

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How about these takeaways:
1) Better trust multiple manufacturers than one.
2) On the market there are people who are not comfortable with the management of their own keys hence the need for services like the one provided by Ledger.
3) Ultimately education or self-education is the only thing which can bring users to manage their own keys.

2023-05-25 02:38:40

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I still don't understand all the fud around this story. I am definitely using multisig, but now go to your parents tell them they have to do it and understand everything in order to not fuck up everything.
It took me some time to be confident with multisig (and I am against Casa or other providers for that, I use social connections to store my keys in different geographic locations).
So definitely as someone who try to explain technical things to people and see all the difficulties people have with unfamiliar concepts, I can see a use case for the service provided by Ledger. I would never use it, but definitely I think it is far better than software wallets.
I agree with NVK, no one knows when something is broken until it breaks. Who would have known that a German airline company would have an airplane crash because of a suicidal pilot?
Same thing for software, until it breaks nobody knows if something is 100% flawless. So my opinion is the initiative is good to onboard users who are not confident enough to manage their own keys. Once confident, I think doing it on our own is better.
By the way I use multiple vendors for multisig, I think only coldcard or ledger is bad, but a combination of multiple wallets is good as it allows us to spread the risk of a device being flawed.

2023-05-25 02:22:01

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As far as I have understood the point of this service, it encrypts the private key and divide it into multiple parts to store it safely on a the servers of a partner company. Therefore a potential user has nothing to do to manage that, the whole process is managed by someone else.
Multisig allows us to share across multiple devices funds. So not one key is used but multiple keys, and the burden is on the user to make sure everything is OK as time goes.
I never used a provider like Casa so there is something I may be missing, however I see the service provided by Ledger totally different where the responsibility is shift to Ledger and its partner to backup your key. As far as I know with multisig the responsibility is still ours. At least in my case I am solely responsible if my geographically distributed backup fails, I can't cry.
So for my parents I think the service of Ledger is interesting. For me I wouldn't need it.

2023-05-16 17:38:56

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Intrigued I looked into Pornhub. First time I have heard the name MindGeek, but I digress.
Apparently the founder is Matt Keezer, born in Montreal (Canada).
I have seen also an other CEO, named Feras Antoon. He is Syrian-Canadian, so yet again a Canadian.
I stopped there because I have to go to sleep but I am interested to know if at least in this case it is verifiable.

2023-05-16 17:05:16

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I think you both have some good points.
I remember the story of my grand mother who had neighbors living in places with robbers. After inquiries to the police station they had a permission to have a gun (this story is in South of France by the way).
With American people I experienced friends being emotional trying to avoid to fight just because they don't know if their potential opponent had a gun (from my point of view of course he did not, it was in Japan). So in this case it's one example of someone being polite.
At the same time I had to do boxing to get confidence and to have polite behavior from potential robbers (who happen to always target weaker people than me, typically girls in my experience).
So I think indeed that without all the propaganda against guns (which, at least in France, targets incidentally guns from the US, hence rights of others in a different country) we might have a different opinion about guns.
In my case I am not pro-gun per se, but I am pro-boxing, I think everyone should be able to beat robbers to death. Yet guns have the advantage to make it easier for the average person who prefer to drink beers.
The advantage of Japan and some other countries in Asia is we don't need boxing or guns to live peacefully.

2023-04-24 06:51:32

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Not far from the Ginger Farm, I don't know if you know. If you don't know I recommend to try their smoothies, they are original and good.
That being said I will move to the North of Chiang Mai from next month and I didn't see weed shops there at the moment.
(Oh shoot, after checking Google map I have seen 2 not far from my next apartment).
What I really enjoy in Thailand is that everywhere I go nobody smokes, it is quite a big change compared to Japan where everybody smokes around.

2023-04-24 00:54:52

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I see. I am in the South of Chiang Mai and I have seen zero shops there. In the old city where there are tourists I have seen many. Let's say it is a coincidence and there was no correlation.

2023-04-23 10:38:08

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I have seen weed shops only where foreigners are...

2023-04-23 10:17:47

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I feel like this temperature is quite comfortable, I don't understand why this post calls it extreme. Another day in Thailand, another day I can skip stretching before running thanks to the temperature.

2023-02-03 09:23:25

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Welcome!
I was following you on Twitter. Thank you for you book programming on Bitcoin.

2023-01-25 15:05:15

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Da, da. Zeed oil, da. Mergury, da.
Happy to see you Nostr!
I read your book, it was a good read. Hope your health problem got better!

2023-01-19 00:04:50

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If you post an invoice of 100 sats with 86400 seconds I will pay it to say thank you

2023-01-17 04:07:25

People sometimes assume the corona virus was about vaccines.
It was about control, money and change of society and hysteria.
I am happily donate money for people who had to get surgery and were refused to the hospital because of beliefs about vaccines, or for people who got excluded from society because of that.

2023-01-16 13:29:28

In Japan, "遺伝子組み換え不分別" is an euphemism for total mess in the food process. "遺伝子組み換えでない" means we may be lying to you but it is 5% of the time so saying the truth 95% of the time and lying after that is okay.
It is really thanks to the corona virus and Bitcoin that I now understand my surrounding is full of lies. Obesity, cancer or other similar chronic or long term diseases come from hidden inflation.
War is peace.

2023-01-15 23:24:18

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To my knowledge no. The only browser which has extension capability on Android is Firefox-like browsers.

2023-01-15 23:06:41

When using snort.social with Gecko it reminds me that when I was doing frontend dev we didn't test our app with Firefox but with Safari and Chrome only...
It reminds me how much difficult it was for me to make the custom CSS work on both screen sizes and particularly Safari.

2023-01-14 23:12:06

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Nice!

2023-01-14 23:09:22

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I may be living in my bubble but do you have any past reference in your mind of browsers marking websites as dangerous? Besides certificates being expired I have never seen that so I think it is unlikely. Search engines like google though I think are more a nuisance.

2023-01-14 15:52:49

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Sorry, I missed your point.
I just tried Astral.ninja and void.cat on Firefox, it seems to work fine to me. Tested on Firefox in Lineageos.
Maybe it's my environment. What didn't work exactly?

2023-01-14 15:36:25

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I didn't know that, it looks pretty good actually, even better than Swan in certain ways. On Swan to make a present it would be by email, but on Pocketbitcoin they use Opendime, it's nice and original!
To be honest I live in Asia so I will use Swan also for this reason, but if you live in Europe, want to promote local services or simply want to try, it looks good (the fees are a little bit higher than Swan but it is still reasonable if you don't have to swap fiat currencies first).

2023-01-14 15:25:08

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For people who use Android there is a project which looks good and which is available on F-Droid through their own repository, it is Bromite. There are some cons when we compare it to Brave, like a limited number of search engines, but it could be an alternative.

2023-01-14 14:46:28

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Interesting, first time I hear about relai. I don't know for you but for me not having a website to manage everything is a deal breaker.
I am not allergic to smartphones and QR codes but if I am forced to use invest in a particular way I didn't choose I simply avoid it.
That being said I didn't test the app, maybe in terms of features it is equivalent, I don't know.
I would still use the one which offers the choice of managing my finance with a computer. This is a very personal choice so it may not help you in doing yours.

2023-01-14 01:20:10

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Yeah! It can be handy!
Since it was still the bear market I was in a hurry to put all my money into Bitcoin so I uses the direct transfers, the convert all at once button, and the other features as well.
On my Binance or other exchanges for example unless it changed there were no xpub feature to withdraw automatically to our hardware wallet. So this push to customers to make them withdraw is really nice too.

2023-01-13 16:34:03

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Swan Bitcoin is straight to the point. Buy Bitcoin, minimal fuss. If we use the direct payment we can withdraw Bitcoin almost as soon as we buy it. No speculation, no trading, just buy Bitcoin.
And so the advantage is all the infrastructure for that (free courses, easy hardware wallet integration, et)

2023-01-13 15:52:52

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You'd better buy Bitcoin directly. From Europe you can buy Bitcoin through Swan Bitcoin with Wise (you can manage euros and convert to us dollars)

2023-01-13 12:19:12

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XD
I see, thanks! Yeah I have heard about CPFP just at the same time I was learning about RBF but I saw that also as theoretical and didn't see the point in practice.
For RBF, I see, so your point is start as small as we can based on the past transaction fees, send a transaction with a fee reflecting the average of the last block, then if it increase detect it and then retry accordingly with RBF?
Last year I tried creating raw transactions with Go but I struggled so much with fees I ended up passing it as an external parameter from the command line (with the help of mempool).

2023-01-13 11:51:05

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I see! Good to know anyway! On Astral and Snort it is empty at the moment.

2023-01-13 11:38:16

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Thanks, I have heard this one from Swan Bitcoin. Downloaded it also. I just need more time to read it

2023-01-13 10:22:03

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I see, thank you. To be honest I have to meditate what you say and try in practice to really grasp it. I never had an unconfirmed transaction for long, and saw more the RBF scenario as theoretical. Now I understand more this in practice as being a necessary way to get a transaction passed if our software (in my case lncli) is to stingy by default.
Again, thank you, your answers were very helpful!
Are you a miner?

2023-01-13 01:44:25

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I see, thank you! So I, as someone who broadcasts a transaction, can get the right fee for a transaction by using past transactions and looking at the fees in the last block.
Then, if a miner has more transactions in his mempool, he might increase the fees. But then in this reasoning do you know how the miner would increase the fees if the bidders already sent their transactions based on past information? I don't understand how the current market information the miner has from his mempool gets reflected to the person who made a transaction from his wallet if the bids he does is based on past information.

2023-01-12 23:57:07

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I see. Do you know how miners decide who win the bid and how they increase or decrease their fees? Do they have an automated program to automatically increase fees if they receive more transactions per second for example? Or do they use a commonly used API I am not aware of?

2023-01-12 23:40:10

Does anyone has a good resource to understand fees in Bitcoin. I really struggle to understand how the fee market works, and how fees can be computed efficiently and through the "market". Do you know any resource to learn about this market from any perspective (historic, etc)?

2023-01-12 00:51:36

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If nobody wants to forward to his relay or everybody decide to delete your posts it can.

2023-01-11 03:06:35

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Oh really?
I was comparing to 2L of water bottles in the conbini (which were 98 yens before and I can't remember the current price precisely but I think something like 112 yens).
If you have kids you may have 5000 JPY (Joke of Paper for Youngsters) for "free" every months.

2023-01-10 13:08:12

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Interesting. For next three months, do you think you will buy or sell Bitcoin?
I was buying on Swan but for fun, I am willing to trade p2p

2023-01-10 11:31:01

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Huh. Please tell me why you exist?

2023-01-10 04:46:33

Test:
lnbc10u1p3memttpp5yygkzfq7pulj9mw9ekqyvu4l7p8dq56qll0dz964mg0ae5qv5husdqjfpjkcmr0ypmk7unvvscqzpgxqyz5vqsp5ezd9y2xdsnu3wzvr9sn50can785mfzcdf5320ug3uq9ur9kl3xss9q
yyssq2vngcxz2haze2gftupkhwvr07pt52zqh0843ck0ukq8tzas6wy34ja9hxqfr4gc4vmnf6hzxga8l20t4kqzldh8pg2hf3f4ztvm5syqqy9ewzp

2023-01-10 04:23:55

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Unless it caches it for a defined period (like dns servers, let's say one day)

2023-01-10 00:02:30

Another day of work, another beautiful day.

2023-01-10 00:01:20

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Ah I see, so the idea is not just to store it encrypted on the server of Bitwarden but also to make a backup. Makes sense, thank you.

2023-01-09 05:26:26

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Why? I know someone who does the same to decrease the attack surface, but what is your reason?
At the moment I still host mine on the servers of Bitwarden.

2023-01-09 03:52:27

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I always say don't buy Bitcoin if you don't understand it or have a strong faith but I always talk about money printing, currency and why I buy Bitcoin.
I think the best actor for orange pilling is the state, failures of a currency or economic policy. I was a fan of Keiser on RT.

2023-01-08 23:23:34

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Small world.

2023-01-08 16:37:13

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I don't have one at the moment. I use Brave for everything, Firefox when I absolutely need to access something which requires tracking.
But Brave is too much noisy with altcoins.
Since I use KDE on Archlinux a lot of my browsing life has been done on Rekonq or Konqueror as well.

2023-01-08 15:28:06

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You're welcome! Then give a try to their free version, you have several countries you can select and use for free. The paid version has Tor also.
Their service really shine for emails though. They partnered with simplelogin. There is plan for anonymous phone numbers in the future.

2023-01-08 14:34:13

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I got all sorts of problem when I was using the paid version of protonvpn with Archlinux. Now I don't pay for it anymore and last time I tried the free version it definitely improved a lot. Just the automatically created network interface doesn't play well when I disconnect so I think it set up a default route which doesn't get removed after disconnection (I didn't verify this assertion).
Maybe their service is good for netflix (I don't watch propaganda though so I don't know for that)

2023-01-08 09:54:17

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Ah sorry, just to avoid any misunderstanding, let me add it says a letter of the doctor for not having the corona vaccine is OK, but it's still a joke in my opinion.

2023-01-07 06:05:12

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Interesting. If your thinking is true I could be an exception to it and explains why I am not convinced by the need of social recognition you seems to put as a rule.
E.g. considering the laser eyes on the pictures of Bitcoiners I never wanted it for my profile picture, same thing for the prefix "FPV" of drone pilots before their name to signify a sense of belongingness to the group.
So I acknowledge that you may be right and I may belong to a minority who prefer anonymity.
By the way my trophy I won a couple of years ago for a half marathon is in the trash hahaha.

2023-01-07 04:18:23

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Indeed. Recently I listened to the podcast Bitcoin as parallel economy. It is an interview by Stephan Livera of a trick master who experienced a communist country. When listening to this one, it is as if people there knew all the workarounds nobody would usually think or care about. If interested here is a link:
https://piped.video/watch?v=QxwwoHn2yU0&t=0
What podcast did you like recently?

2023-01-07 02:56:28

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I don't get your point, what do you mean?
A community of people gather only in a small group to be able to play tennis for example. It doesn't require everyone else to be in it.

2023-01-04 14:17:21

#[3]

2023-01-04 04:31:41

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Private keys for private properties

2023-01-04 01:04:21

Life is great, the sun shines and the sky is a beautiful blue.

2022-12-30 01:46:03

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I see! I have used Ledger nano s, nano x and the 2 models of Trezor too, and was considering giving a try to the DIY seedsigner or the Coinkit (I was thinking particularly about tapsigner to try to couple it with Nunchuk).
I think Bitbox has its own software, how was it?

2022-12-27 13:01:10

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I like the delicacy of this gift. Delightful.

2022-12-27 12:53:06

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Pretty good piece of art. Did you do it yourself?

2022-12-27 12:41:02

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Do you like my picture of profile (although it is not cropped).
I think dogs with sunglasses are pretty cool.

2022-12-27 02:13:49

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I see my hello world has been successful!

2022-12-27 02:13:14

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