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2024-10-21 15:36:39

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I don't particularly like AI, but I think this adds value to the market.
I'm curious though. Why did you choose ecash over BTC/Lightning?

2024-10-11 15:24:21

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Self-custody is likely to be important for a church due to the risk of illicit government action (unfortunately). There is a minimum threshold of technical knowledge to do this though, so it may or may not work in every situation. It's going to be very hard to do this if you don't have any trustees able to operate a Tezor for example.
A multi-share backup would be the best way to safeguard the seed phrase if you've got a number of trustees who can be trusted not to lose the shares or hand them over to the first goon who shows up at the door with an FBI badge. You can choose an appropriate threshold to reduce the risk of too many shares being lost while still distributing trust over a sufficient number of hopefully trustworthy people.
You could "get started" with small amounts by appointing a trustee to set up and custody a software wallet for the church, but there's a risk of the trustee being compromised or making a mistake, so a multisig wallet would be best. Blue Wallet is compatible with both iOS and Android and supports multisig, but I haven't used it myself and can't vouch for its security practices.

2024-10-10 20:33:06

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A republic can get a fresh start if enough people become aware of the rot and choose representatives and executives who are willing to do the hard work. We had a better system than Rome to begin with, so provided we can get it functioning again, we will outlast the Roman republic.

2024-10-06 16:08:33

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyfUOQlgGlI
I'm not vouching for this guy as I'm not very familiar with his channel, but he says Uptober doesn't usually start at the beginning of the month.

2024-10-03 21:31:21

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The lower it goes, the more coins the whales end up selling to ordinary people stacking sats. The whales still see Bitcoin as a risk asset because they think in terms of short term profit.

2024-10-03 21:28:08

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Same. The Greyjay team is usually very quick with fixes, rendering Google's cat and mouse game practically moot for end users. It's worth paying for, but you're not forced to pay.

2024-10-03 15:54:01

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That really makes a case for functional languages and commenting your code, doesn't it?
SimpleX actually has some of its cryptography written in Haskell IIRC, and OCaml is another good option that's a little more pragmatic in its design.

2024-10-02 15:47:09

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Have you ever tried OCaml or Zig?

2024-10-01 04:14:21

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Probably 30 days from the time it triggered. I've seen this happen to family.

2024-09-29 22:03:18

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This usually happens to new users. It appears that they're trying to reduce the incidence of people buying BTC and sending it off to scammers, but it is NOT a good look for freedom money fans. There's got to be a better way to do this.

2024-09-27 05:40:29

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Breaking news: Spawn of Satan found running an unjust court room and persecuting the innocent in violation of the law... again.

2024-08-29 16:55:03

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C is pretty good for what it is.
C++ is a mess.
Rust is not the answer.

2024-08-28 17:43:12

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More like 400-500k next year.

2024-08-15 18:28:34

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YouTube is slowly eating itself alive in the name of information control and advertising/malvertising revenue.
Meanwhile, Rumble is happily eating the lunch that YouTube turned its nose up at and Odysee just announced it no longer needs ads to make money.

2024-08-15 17:48:13

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Respectfully, this is a bad take. GrapheneOS generally works very well and is considerably more secure than CalyxOS or the stock Android distro, both of which sacrifice security for performance.
I do agree that GrapheneOS needs to improve UX, especially the stock AOSP apps which all need to be replaced with modern Kotlin + Jetpack Compose apps.
GrapheneOS makes Google entirely optional. Instead of replacing the first party privileged code with less battle-tested third-party privileged code in the form of MicroG, GrapheneOS coerces the real Google services to run unprivileged in a normal application sandbox, and therefore under the user's full control. There may be some performance issues currently as a result of this workaround for Google's horrible software practices.
Using MicroG is probably why others have called CalyxOS less secure than stock Android, and this may be true. MicroG still communicates with Google and, unless I'm severely mistaken, is still privileged code. The only thing you're gaining is transparency into the code of MicroG. There isn't any additional security, and as I noted above, this approach is considerably less battle-tested than Google Play, meaning that in fact it probably is less secure than stock Android. It may also have more compatibility issues with apps than the approach used in GrapheneOS.
I'm not saying you're wrong for using a less secure OS, but please try to understand the differences before calling one better than the other. You're sacrificing a lot of security for those small performance gains, and I haven't even started describing the plethora of other security hardening GrapheneOS adds. Ultimately, use what meets your needs, but don't discount what GrapheneOS offers. It's an incredible project.