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2024-08-07 20:54:29

Was going to wait a bit but no better time than the present. I get no value out of this place or bitcoin twitter anymore. Deleting the socials. It's been fun I guess, going to focus on building.
Peace.

2024-08-07 19:59:35

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Apparently you've done nothing.

2024-08-07 19:37:16

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Do something with your life and maybe I'll listen to your baseless nonsense.

2024-08-07 19:35:34

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And what have you done?

2024-08-07 19:27:34

Let's be clear here:
There's people that are nothing but loud and there's people that actually do things in the space. Fuck this nonsense, ignore the fucking idiots like this.
#nevent1q…d3ep

2024-08-07 00:32:44

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I think the three areas we've spent a lot of time in was private key management, e2ee data synchronization, and identity/privacy. We have some interesting research and product ideas for any app that wants to protect user data while still offering a good UX. While we're not specifically targetting nostr or bitcoin things, some of our GTM strategy may include some experimentation with them.

2024-08-06 21:18:24

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https://m.primal.net/JqVz.jpg

2024-08-06 21:14:08

The number one thing I learned building a product is that people do not know how to read.
That is completely reinforced by people's inability to read product shutdown announcements too and coming up with their own conclusions in their heads. It's wild.

2024-08-06 20:09:37

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Thank you again Hodl, your words mean a lot.

2024-08-06 16:05:41

Huge launch for fedimint and fedi this week.
While Mutiny is shutting down, happy to say that Fedi will be the only wallet on my phone going forward.
#nevent1q…fmfh

2024-08-06 15:44:56

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I've really appreciated your support, patience, and feedback over the past year. I know it's not been easy at times but it's meant a lot to me personally. Thank you.

2024-08-06 15:10:32

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You want us to announce that we might announce that we might shut down? Come on dude, I get that you're angry and confused and that not everything happens perfectly in hindsight from every single person's perspecrtive but be reasonable. We announced as soon as a decision was made, to give the most amount of time for people to migrate off. A timeline and further updates, including disabling new wallets, will come soon.
Mutiny+ users are month to month subscriptions and they've received their services for each month they were subscribed. We stopped processing payments for Mutiny+ about 2 months ago so there's nothing to refund.
We're not making another wallet.
What does this say about open source donations? Well, for one, you don't own people for life if you've ever zapped them. For two, look up the definition of donations. If you've expected something in return then that really says more about yourself. For three, we've delivered on our 6 month grant and our code is all FOSS. This isn't a lifetime commitment.
Again, literally everything about our shut down decisions is in the block. Things don't always work out in this world. You can accept it or you can lash out and reject it. The truth of the matter is you're never going to be happy with any kind of decision or answer when things like this are out of your control. Sorry this impacted you, you're still welcome to maintain and run the software we provided everyone for free.

2024-08-06 14:28:56

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Literally, every single question is answered here.
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-wallet-is-shutting-down/

2024-08-05 21:13:06

I appreciate every one of you who has helped us get this far and for the words of encouragement.
From my perspective, it's not a sad day at all. There's a lot of relief in this months-long resolution.
I have many thoughts about my burnout in this space that I'll save for a future personal blog post.
For now, I'll say that I'm grateful to have met some of the best people in this space and in this world.
Thank you.
#nevent1q…ltyk

2024-08-05 15:44:15

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wtf there were stickers?!

2024-08-01 15:55:10

This is really cool. Looking more into confidential compute, and it looks like Azure has one of the first platforms combining confidential CPUs w/ confidential GPUs. So far I only see enterprise/healthcare focused but would love it for AI consumers.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-confidential-computing/announcing-azure-confidential-vms-with-nvidia-h100-tensor-core/ba-p/3975389

2024-08-01 14:32:38

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quite frankly you can fuck off too

2024-08-01 14:14:25

Fuck tran's rights, it's a mental illness and that shit is better off being in the special olympics.

2024-07-31 02:28:07

I'm blown away by Cursor + Superwhisper + Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Coded up a react webapp (I don't frontend) that used oauth to get distributed key shards to assembly a bitcoin pk, and then coded up a tic tac toe game.
All via speech, I did not type a single line of code.
Less than 1hr. Mostly just battled webpack/web assembly/bitcoin-js.

2024-07-30 22:16:03

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If it's going over LN anyways it doesn't matter if you're talking about just recipient knowing. Your question was comparing coinjoins vs liquid as a privacy solution and quite frankly liquid doesn't hold up.

2024-07-30 19:43:50

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You mean the one provider that is the sole LN swap provider for the whole network? That sees completely the destination and amount, in addition to the liquid funding transactions in the 1 tx/min network with an anon set of like 100 people?
FYI, not even XMR<>BTC swaps are safe enough.

2024-07-30 19:32:58

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Because it's a terrible privacy solution.

2024-07-30 19:31:55

Pretty fucked up by Bitcoin Magazine to be running facial recognition on attendants. All over a lighter?
Enjoy your state sponsored conferences now. Pulled my speaker position as soon as I heard about trump.
Won't catch me at another conference again.
https://protos.com/bitcoin-lightning-dev-tried-to-outsmart-secret-service-at-trump-speech/

2024-07-30 02:16:20

Every election is fraudulent.

2024-07-28 18:45:22

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I think PIR can be a decent strategy. Just not sure how reliable it can be given the differences in data with multiple relays.

2024-07-27 22:27:54

It makes me sick how much Bitcoin the US steals and plans to continue to steal. Quite frankly, your Bitcoin is not safe, just look at their success rate. They don't fail.

2024-07-27 01:56:29

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If you're not already addicted, don't try. Find other ways to deep work. I've been an on and off tobacco user since a teen and think I now prefer this method to any other.

2024-07-27 01:44:11

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A few tries at pork ribs, some smoked mac and cheese (was amazing), to get a feel for the smoker and doing brisket tomorrow!

2024-07-27 01:43:08

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To be fair, I've had a very depressing two months and finally coming out of it.
Also picked up doing zyns lmfao

2024-07-27 01:39:40

I've had a list of like a million things to do and no better time than skipping a conference to do them. Nobody else is getting normal work done anyways lol.
#nevent1q…smpn

2024-07-27 01:39:02

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So far I've smoked meats in a new smoker, set up a new server rack, moved my huge workstation to another room and reorganized it, fixed a few doors and other things around the house, deep cleaned the kitchen, got a massage, groomed my dog, and went from iron to bronze in league of legends.
And the weekend hasn't even begun. Going to smoke more meats, reconfigure my home server, deep clean my car, and research more AI workflows that I can incorporate into my daily work.

2024-07-26 21:10:26

Absolutely zero FOMO about the conference, though really cool to see all of the releases and announcements.
Will likely not attend another bitcoin conference again, was fun while it lasted.

2024-07-26 20:22:13

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Create a free account normally and then pay with Bitcoin. Hit and miss when going over TOR but it does work sometimes.

2024-07-23 15:00:55

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100%
Nostr is a terrible solution if someone is trying to literally recreate the entire internet stack.

2024-07-18 18:48:51

Max and I cover everything under the sun! Was a much overdue conversation, really enjoyed it.
#nevent1q…md7v

2024-07-18 16:49:28

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Congrats to you both, happy to see.

2024-07-10 14:55:28

Kudos for the quick and thorough investigation. Godspeed.
#nevent1q…wwjc

2024-07-09 20:17:32

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It's a temporary fix but yes it should improve things.

2024-07-09 20:14:44

Basically blastr built into a client directly now. Glad to see clients catch onto one of the two main reasons why I built it in the first place.
I still think real private information retrieval is where we should end up on the read side. It really is a concern that your client developer is also your main/only relay where they can see EVERYTHING you do here.
#nevent1q…97ud

2024-07-09 20:06:31

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I'm not really active there either. I'll probably delete all socials soon. Just staying heads down.

2024-07-04 16:25:59

Bolt12 is intriging but we've already had 95% of the UX for ages.
Paying someone more than once, contacts, attaching messages to payments.
Glad other wallets have caught up I guess.

2024-06-21 23:57:05

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What's funny is that there is actually a big difference in the ability to use LN at all when you haven't built your business on the monopoly you have with a $100M routing node that infringes upon user privacy in order to provide a "good ux"
Go figure.

2024-06-20 22:41:16

People always ask me if I need 128GB of ram in my laptop.
yes, yes i do
https://m.primal.net/IsDZ.png

2024-06-19 13:00:56

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1. They _finally_ disclosed, well after 1 whole year.
2. The disclosure went live at the beginning of the day and you're linking a tweet made only after seeing my tweet: https://x.com/tonygiorgio_/status/1803182840663908770

2024-06-19 02:11:46

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Or maybe large organization that have severe security vulnerabilities can at least inform the public when they should update in a timely manner.
It's the lowest hanging fruit. Can't trust an org to handle security properly, can't trust an auto updater.

2024-06-15 17:02:23

Creatr is really cool, they're doing some unique things to try to paywall and control the spread of notes to other relays, like putting in an expiration tag.
Unfortunately not all relays obey this and some clients rebroadcast notes anytime they interact with them. So it almost makes it unusable as a paywall.
Really unfortunate. To me, it just confirms that Nostr is only ever usable as a mass broadcast messaging system. Which is okay, but just kills the whole idea of paywalls, "small relays", etc.
#nevent1q…cksy

2024-06-14 20:50:43

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Actually, fuck, yeah for some reason they are bleeding through even with the tag.
https://coracle.social/notes/nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsz8nhwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshszxthwden5te0d35kw6r5de5kuemjv4kxz7fwvdhk6tcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0qyv8wumn8ghj7cmjv4shgu3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshsqg94suhnfk534cn6z7tn4xjvxlz9arad0dz32y3j6er6kwuytadu0yqx7q7p
CC @npub18kz…x5sz

2024-06-14 20:47:09

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Rebroadcasting my creatr post doesn't work because of how they are handling special tags for it. I can't find the docs where I've read that right now.
However, yeah your reply to me does show up everywhere and my reply to you will as well since the Creatr platform doesn't have a good way to do that yet. However, I could manually apply the special tag and respond to you on only this relay. Not sure if you could do the same in theory.

2024-06-13 19:05:32

I just bought an ebike from MOD Bikes with Bitcoin/ecash in Austin and really enjoyed the experience.
Wrote up my thoughts on the integrations, which spans from onboarding ( @npub1t8p…gkvf ), to merchant ( Strike, cc @npub1cn4…3vle ), to rewards (Oshi) to wallet ( @npub1mut…23vg ).
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/bitcoin-case-study-buying-an-ebike-with-ecash/

2024-06-12 21:50:27

If you love having LN channels, DM ben to test a new LSP.
Otherwise I'll remove LN from our wallet.
#note194v…t4cf

2024-06-11 21:35:26

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The whole private compute stuff is also blowing my mind with potential innovation and bleeding edge stuff that can come out of it.
Out of the whole WWDC announcement, that's probably top 3 innovations out of the last 5, maybe 10 years.

2024-06-11 13:54:37

I always knew deletes were not very well supported, but trying to go through the efforts and realizing that it barely functions at all makes me not want to post at all here anymore.
Something about going through the efforts and being powerless with relays that ignore your delete requests.
I'll be significantly lowering my social media usage from here on out. Don't DM or message me here if you expect a response. Peace ✌️
#nevent1q…e403

2024-06-11 00:58:29

Really excited about more private cloud computing setups like this.
https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

2024-06-10 15:22:54

Tried deleting all of my nostr notes. There was probably like 10k of them across notes, replies, quotes, reactions, zaps, etc.
It did not work very well, all nostr clients handle it differently and a lot of nostr relays do not respect deletes.
Keep this in mind.
https://gist.github.com/TonyGiorgio/72e6822fce3e0e9ee637aa116c4d2bf4

2024-06-07 13:55:18

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Done. Fuck them.

2024-06-07 13:41:09

GM
In this household, we use our hands, no forks allowed.

2024-06-06 20:12:47

in other news @npub180c…h6w6 just merged LNURL-verify :)
ty based king
https://github.com/lnurl/luds/pull/264#event-13071772195

2024-06-06 14:40:09

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They only want one thing. To endlessly print their own money and scam. If it doesn't enable that, they don't want it.
If it enables that, I don't want it.
Quite simple.

2024-06-06 14:14:23

If shitcoiners want it, then I don't. It's that simple.
Hard to imagine being a "bitcoiner" and thinking otherwise.

2024-06-04 17:34:08

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dinners are not allowed at all, you eat when we zap you

2024-06-04 17:25:32

no fun allowed, sit in a dark room by yourself all day and code for us for free
#note1x6h…s9d9

2024-06-04 14:00:30

👀
https://m.primal.net/IYVw.png

2024-06-04 13:54:32

Ark looks nice to some because they see the high liquidity burdens and unscalability as a way to build a monopoly around a protocol.
If there was ever a question an LSP might have regulatory concerns, wait till you hear about ASP. It was originally pitched to me as a coinjoin protocol around a centralized coordinator.

2024-06-04 13:47:41

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If he did more building and less shit talking, maybe he could have something to show for it himself.

2024-06-04 04:01:49

man oslo looks dope

2024-06-03 15:19:26

Nuked my TG. Such a honeypot.
There was maybe two groups worth keeping but that's where they get you.
#nevent1q…x3hu

2024-06-02 18:37:49

I thought the new Wasabi release was just a coordination switching feature. It's way better than that.
Wasabi coordinator discovery based on nostr. Talk about unstoppable coordination.
Well done @npub1klk…x3vt and @npub1y24…z2ad
#note14d5…jp5v

2024-06-01 18:21:58

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I already tagged him and he's aware. But this probably affects 99% of people here anyways.

2024-06-01 18:12:07

You're leaving money on the table if you use an LNURL custodian that limits max balance or max transaction size.

2024-06-01 15:58:43

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Don't forget to put a column for monero and show an X because you're giving up bitcoin to hold something weaker for the purposes of privacy. And then give it an X for "valuable" because it is trending to 0 in bitcoin terms.

2024-06-01 15:51:44

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tried and resorted back to amethyst, it's just too good

2024-06-01 02:41:50

I deleted all socials on my phone and my nostr experience on the web/desktop has just been terrible this week. I've now resorted to running Amethyst in an emulator just to have something usable again. And holy shit, I've missed so many notes, dm's, etc.
Honestly, if you're using any other nostr client besides amethyst, you are only functioning at like 10%.

2024-05-30 16:03:29

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Interesting, I'll check it out. The notifications on Amethyst have been great, I'll miss those too. But at minimum, having a good UI/UX around DMs in general has been a huge miss by all clients.
All web based clients seem to want to spam the DM decryption API in web extensions and it is terrible. I have hundreds to thousands of DM's.
No nostr clients work well with any sort of sizable following, except Amethyst.
You've spoiled me @npub1gcx…nj5z - I may have to run an emulator just to use Amethyst on desktop.

2024-05-30 15:51:47

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The eagerness of the author is an entirely different attitude I thought it was going to be reading your paragraph, which I 100% agree with from a pessimistic attitude.

2024-05-30 02:41:46

Nostr clients, please for the love of god work on your notifications and DM's. Amethyst is the only thing that's functional to me. So much so that I really question how some people use some of these other nostr clients at all. It's so bad, I may not come back to ever look at nostr again besides to post a random thought or crosspost and close app.
#note1509…pt79

2024-05-29 14:57:57

I've deleted social media from my phone and unfortunately amethyst is the only usable client for notifications and DMs.
So don't expect me to reply or see messages here anymore. Twitter, the mutiny discord, or our github for mutiny issues.

2024-05-28 19:27:01

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It was brought up because of the recent stuff but it was hardly a talking point I made. FYI, I still won't be voting and I highly pushed back against your suggestions to launder money to politicians as a solution.

2024-05-28 12:40:48

GM
Feeling very bullish, we're going to fight and we're going to win
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-fight-for-bitcoin-carman-and-giorgio

2024-05-27 17:32:41

If you can't make payments permissionlessly, your money has no sovereignty.

2024-05-27 15:37:22

It's that part of the cycle for people to learn by touching the stove.

2024-05-27 05:27:14

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We're deep in dependency hell.

2024-05-26 23:30:13

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That'll be whatever fee the gateway for that federation is charging.

2024-05-26 19:25:56

It's all probably one big psyop, but that's life. Try to keep your sanity out there.

2024-05-26 11:40:58

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That's where you're wrong but hey I appreciate your attempt at being an armchair lawyer for today! Lesson number one, look up the definition of custodian and number two, then look up the definition of unilateral control.

2024-05-26 11:02:25

If telegram lightning wallet bots were run by federation and not a single custodian, they wouldn't have to shut down because one guy got scared of the legal liabilities.
Fedimint is for the 99% of services that don't want to end up in jail. Watch what people do, not what they say.

2024-05-26 02:21:42

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I think the Prime Trust situation was within a year ago? Seems like it could be a reasonable timeline with bankruptcy proceedings happening somewhat nowish.

2024-05-26 01:59:06

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If you weren't aware, it was very close last time.

2024-05-26 00:44:29

Is this true? All Swan customers had their information leaked through their trusted third party's law firm?
https://stacker.news/items/551242/

2024-05-26 00:18:13

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A single cashu operator has unilateral control. This is not only a red flag, but illegal in most jurisdictions of the world.

2024-05-25 21:35:06

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Ah I found the code for it, it's right here and it's called FEDIMINT
https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint

2024-05-25 21:28:47

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This is lies. @npub12rv…85vg why do multiple people seem to think cashu is capable of being federated in a distributed multisig like fedimint?

2024-05-25 21:17:52

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If mutiny ran a cashu mint we would be in prison already. It's the end destination for all of these public mints unless they shut down.

2024-05-25 14:39:04

Cashu is doing wonders for ecash innovation and research. A lot of their work gives inspiration to many teams, including ours.
That said, I have very little interest in any sort of deployed cashu instance and I think they should only exist for proof of concept experimentation. Which is how I think most people are using it, which is great. I just don't see it as thing that can nor should be used seriously. It's a step backwards and won't last long if it's used at all. That's why we will not be supporting it at Mutiny.
If you want to use ecash in a way that does have the chance to operationally exist with enough decentralization (IE, NO UNILATERAL CONTROL), fedimint is the best hope for that and I would encourage checking it out. It takes 5 minutes to install.
Some don't see the difference between the two projects but the difference is the most important aspect that is relevant to this day and age.
Death to centralization, pick the better path. You don't really have a choice, it's being made for you.

2024-05-24 01:19:43

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Umm, I think that's going to affect all Mutiny profile image uploads and doesn't give us a lot of time to switch off of it.
@npub1u8l…turz we were still using nostr.build right?

2024-05-23 03:55:34

I'm starting to think @npub1qny…95gx was right..
https://image.nostr.build/858435ccd3aafa8ece08194fb59230e2ff763e0ab5dadac65a98428654794f44.jpg

2024-05-22 20:17:41

The more information you give amboss, the more they're going to use that to hurt you and this industry.
I don't know how many more fucking times I have to say this but I've been proven right time and time again for years.
Fuck them.

2024-05-22 20:10:39

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I've been going through article I section 8/10 with all of the coinage language. And related supreme court rulings.
To be frank, it's not good and is very broad.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C5-1/ALDE_00001066/#ALDF_00001475

2024-05-22 15:02:45

Just finished the rest of Jekyll Island. So depressing, but the end solutions sound exactly like the multigenerational approach we're taking with Bitcoin.
It's going to be so much more difficult than I imagined though. The whole world runs on a broken accounting system make out of debt. A lot of powerful people and governments make sure of that. It's literally an addicting drug and they'll wage wars just to push it harder.
Looking at recent events since the book, such as Liberty Dollars, 0 percent reserve requirements, FDIC bank takedowns, custodia's fed account prevention for being 100% reserves, ETFs, bankers getting involved in Bitcoin more, the US's unlimited cash deposits into ukraine, a sweeping crackdown on privacy and using Bitcoin, etc etc.
I'm very conflicted. It's all a big cluster fuck.
#nevent1q…46zp

2024-05-20 20:44:39

Paranoia keeps you alive.
Embrace it. Induce it if you need to.

2024-05-20 18:44:16

Going sim-less (including no esim) is totally possible and I would highly recommend trying it for a month or two.
I woke up to how terrible wireless networks were when my undergraduate research was to track people using only their phone number and a $600 device.
https://stacker.news/items/545646