chucklangstrumpf
Chuck Langstrumpf

Sounds good, but seeing it for yourself on the ground is a bit different.
Literally everybody is using custodial lightning wallets, that means:
- not your keys, not your coins, dependent on a third party to spend your money
It also means no privacy, full surveillance through the lightning app providers which log everything and of course give all your transactions to the government if asked.
Having been to El Sal three times and spent quite some time there with BTC people, i have strong doubts if this is going in the right direction, sadly.

2024-09-26 20:10:11

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great job holding the mic for such a long time Vlad! :)

2024-09-26 18:29:52

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me too, damn it reddit!

2024-09-22 12:29:36

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true

2024-09-21 13:42:01

interesting to see the narrative on bitcoin changing every few years. energy grid balancer token is great to take us to $250k+
#note184g…wgys

2024-09-21 13:24:20

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like companies which store their data in "the cloud". i have never thought that people will be that stupid - but here we are.

2024-09-21 13:17:10

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Yea, imo financial privacy is a no brainer. Bitcoin Maxis are afraid of stating that obvious fact because BTC "decided" not to compete in that field.
The more people realize this, the less attractive BTC gets for normal people. Also as a store of value.
XMR is an incredible opportunity at the moment.

2024-09-20 18:28:42

Watch Bitcoins core values dying - one "freedom project" at a time...
#note148x…r5e8

2024-09-20 17:15:47

Jack obviously thinks about Monero
#note1zan…tzrk

2024-09-20 17:14:39

Monero does not give a fuck about the state. Think about it.
#note1nzy…6sft

2024-09-20 16:57:14

Wow, i will never use Geyser again and i am in the top 5 of all time donors on the platform. Fuck off @npub1kmw…xqk9
#note1c5u…h7ky

2024-09-20 16:52:36

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Custodial Bitcoin is just Paypal on Bitcoin and its sad to see El Salvador going down that path.

2024-09-20 16:42:18

Why does it say p2p electronic cash system in the title?
I thought its a custodial NGU hodlhodl never sell laser eyes technology?
I am confused. Pura Vida!
#note1fa9…uy4w

2024-09-18 19:28:01

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Monero support would be awesome, seriously.

2024-09-18 13:55:51

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Fucking climate change!

2024-09-17 15:22:58

While being mostly right, the name Bitcoin Cash is retarded and if it is Cash, why is there no onchain privacy by default?
#note10sl…qens

2024-09-17 14:09:12

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The moment they hand me a gun to force me to kill some "enemy" i will blow the head off the guy who gave me the gun and tried to force me.

2024-09-17 14:07:08

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i bet michael saylor also took that shit :)

2024-09-17 02:32:37

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i listen casually when i have enough time to follow a full episode. you do the best, unbiased, thought provoking bitcoin podcast i know.

2024-09-17 02:28:22

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no shit, sherlock.

2024-09-17 02:24:46

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i like orange man, orange man good

2024-09-15 22:19:46

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did it hurt your feelings?

2024-09-15 21:59:34

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Learn about Monero, you will not regret it.https://m.primal.net/KZHI.jpg

2024-09-15 21:54:39

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i did not know i need proof for posting shit on nostr 😉
The last one was staged, no one ever stands there "fight fight fight" when there is an active shooter. And no security personnel let you stand there doing your little rebel thing just to catch a bullet between the eyes.
I dont know anything about the new one - but i know the trend is your friend :😄

2024-09-15 21:48:25

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He will stage as many assassination attempts as needed until people vote for him :)

2024-09-13 03:10:21

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rainy season for the next 1.5 - 2 months on the pacific coast

2024-09-13 03:06:59

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pura vida

2024-09-12 15:20:36

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I can clearly see it:
Buy Monero because you gonna need privacy!

2024-09-12 15:18:32

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my body is ready

2024-09-12 15:17:30

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Ok, welcome to Nostr to explore new horizons 😉
Whats your opinion about drinking water with celtic sea salt to get minerals, electrolytes and hydration?
And - do you think a completely transparent ledger where anyone can see all your transactions and how much you own is a good idea to store value on?

2024-09-11 20:55:18

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All the people here are already aware of the benefits of the carnivore diet.
And of BTC too.
Do you have something new?

2024-09-10 21:06:08

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Pura Vida Dr. Berry!

2024-09-10 03:19:54

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I have the same suitcase as you. I am so incredible bullish on Samsonite!

2024-09-08 23:12:53

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so you would send your coins to a trusted third party in order to get large string tokens which only work at this one mint in order to pay streaming services by the minute, which have to support the same mint?

2024-09-08 23:08:49

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so, where do you see the use case?

2024-09-08 22:50:23

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so, where do you see the use case?

2024-09-05 12:11:33

Having bought the XMR/BTC bottom and being up 100% vs BTC already within 3 months makes me feel good today 😉 Monero FTW!

2024-09-01 16:08:01

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where do you use ecash micropayments? i do not see the usecase yet

2024-08-31 14:48:04

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Especially at this point, you need money to GTFO. In that situation, i rather have some money they dont know i have, can not censor and can not trace.
That will be either Monero - or a private version of BTC if it will ever exist.

2024-08-30 00:39:44

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Likely you spend a couple weeks in jail, maybe get out and as soon as you move it, you go to jail again. Whats the difference between funds you can not move or funds you do not have?

2024-08-27 14:49:55

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yo. https://primal.net/e/note1mr8y602d7ljrlngthpcvgtufpya5ljcd887laq5r92dtjzsvg9tqjfgez6

2024-08-22 16:24:59

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

2024-08-22 16:21:58

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i get 564 sats/byte when i try to transfer with cake wallet, https://feemultiple.bullbitcoin.com/chart/index also shows a huge spke

2024-08-22 15:05:07

Pura Vida Bitcoiners, 564 sat/byte transaction fees again on BTC, such a great form of money, just costs me $50 for a transaction, good we never increased the blocksize.
This is how we win, hodl hodl, never sell, laser eyes!

2024-08-17 13:31:33

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whats the name of that guy?

2024-08-12 23:30:34

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do you support users from costa rica?

2024-08-09 17:06:14

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Arrived at XMR after years of using lightning, seeing how its used in El Salvador and Costa Rica and realizing that it is complete bullshit.

2024-08-09 17:02:37

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Hear me out.... BTC is a shitcoin now and the Bcashers were right...

2024-08-09 17:01:55

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Nostr is not preventing the cops showing up at your door...

2024-08-09 16:59:55

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The self custodial UX on lightning is just terrible.

2024-08-09 16:52:31

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UX is still terrible if you dont want to use a custodial wallet. Fees are way higher than a few sats if you dont transact within the same wallet ecosystem.
Lightning has promised a lot and has not delivered on its promises at all. Relying on Lightning to scale BTC was a huge mistake and it has set back BTC development for many years.

2024-08-09 16:17:10

Funny to me that Walker does not get that Bitcoin is communication and it needs to be private too. Bitcoin Maxis and their cognitive dissonance....
#note1njg…x9es

2024-08-08 18:28:12

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as tainted coins are a thing, the more businesses use AML tools like AMLBot, the more you need to check the coins you are going to buy p2p in order to be able to spend them later without problems.

2024-08-07 20:00:24

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i see missing privacy, chain analysis, tained coins and the trend to scaling through custodians as a clear path to a system where you can not transact freely and also may not even hold your own keys. Therefore you depend on third parties to use the system.

2024-08-07 16:49:55

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AML tools for chain analysis do not work on Monero. On BTC it is already a problem

2024-08-07 12:56:24

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IMO the switch is inevitable. People will realize that BTC is not usable as money without custodians, AML and KYC.
Will take some time for sure but i am confident that people who invest in privacy tech now will be the big winners in the end.

2024-08-07 12:52:03

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welcome to the club

2024-08-07 12:39:03

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Technically XMR is not in a uptrend against BTC yet, so i bettter DCA.
Also, i have not given up hope that BTCers will wake up, see and fix the flaws of BTC.

2024-08-06 16:45:54

I will convert BTC to Monero every day until i either run out of BTC or BTC evolves into something which can actually liberate people instead of enslave them.

2024-08-06 16:43:13

Good thing we do not build privacy into BTC so they can arrest and punish us easier, build graphs on who we transact with and go after our friends and family as well. Freedom money, fuck yeah!
#note1epq…ddrd

2024-08-04 13:07:40

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The word privacy appears 1x in that article, in a quote from somebody else.
Seriously i can not take any Bitcoiner serious who does not address this issue.

2024-08-02 12:46:13

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she got fat and unfungible.

2024-08-01 21:08:12

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IDK what you are talking about, they have their printer and its running great. There is nothing which forces governments to use BTC - and they will surely not do it for stuff you should not know in their opinion.
Monero keeps an incentive for miners to mine blocks with its tail emission. BTC will sooner or later switch to that too, wait for it.
BTC lost almost all properties which made it revolutionary. It will lose the 21m cap too.

2024-08-01 21:04:22

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Made me sad too, then i started buying Monero with BTC, now i feel better again ;)

2024-07-31 17:31:26

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As it is not Bitcoin, it is a shitcoin. Its owned by some corporate entities which get all the fees and they can censor you. If they have that possibility, they will use it when the Feds ask them to. Maybe not now but in a couple of years when Liquid infrastructure is built.
To me it is just unfathomable why BTC Maxis simp for Liquid. It is the most anti bitcoin thing i can think of.

2024-07-31 17:12:40

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Sure there is not one "we".
But how many people do you know which want to dca $3 a month into BTC and think they will escape extreme poverty that way? On a ledger where a transction costs you often more than $3?
I think thats all just made up stories to justify crappy, corporate scaling solutions, so crappy that i rather use cash and a credit card instead.
Same for FEDI. If dont even have custody of our funds, we can dump that whole idea of freedom money immediately, embrace the CBDC and get some vaseline so the state can fuck us better.

2024-07-31 17:05:40

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There i no noncustodial L2 solution which a normie can use in a private way.

2024-07-31 16:59:49

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Thought so too for a long time. I think i was delusional.
BTC without privacy onchain is the most retarded idea we ever had.
Would you store your value on a public transparent ledger with no privacy if the government would mandate it? Hell no.
But somehow people think this fundamental flaw of BTC is a advantage.
People just hodl and do not use BTC. As soon as they start using it, they see that it is a crappy medium of exchange.

2024-07-31 16:55:40

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So, BTC is now something for governments and institutions if i get you right.
BTC for the Feds, Monero for the people.

2024-07-31 15:24:23

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Are you talking about Monero?

2024-07-31 15:15:49

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Isnt Liquid just a corporate Shitcoin?
They own your BTC, you own their L-Token. They can censor your transactions on their network. It is not decentralized, the network is owned by a couple coporations.
Why should we go that path at all?
Whats the big difference to using WBTC on Ethereum?

2024-07-31 14:59:18

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had it 2 times already. not frozen but straight closed.

2024-07-26 12:40:23

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It is because BTC is transparent and not fungible.

2024-07-26 12:38:40

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Tell us how to sell 700k worth of BTC without Kyc?

2024-07-26 12:37:36

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Sure, a fully transparent ledger with no privacy has nothing to do with surveillance.

2024-07-22 20:06:31

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Yet another great reason to swap your BTC for XMR and let the NPCs circlejerk with Trump about their "freedom money".

2024-07-22 16:25:07

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Bitcoin is being taken over by the system. My bet for freedom is on Monero.

2024-07-18 06:52:53

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It is permissionless but if you risk going to jail for using it, how does that help you? Who will accept it?
Whats your plan when the gov bans bitcoin?
IMO the chance they are banning is relatively low. BTC is no problem for the state, it does not work as money, it is a "store of value" now. There are numerous stores of value, no problem for the system.
It was a p2p currency once, that is a serious risk for the state. A store of value is not, just like Gold.

2024-07-18 06:38:47

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Why can they not stop thier people from using it? A 10 years prison sentence on using it will stop it immediately. It is a transparent ledger, easy to find out who transacts with whom and to prosecute it.

2024-07-15 06:11:02

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We do not need it long term, we need it now.

2024-07-11 07:55:32

Would be nicer to see them coming to the correct conclusion, which is Monero - but anyway, great girl!
#note1c93…g9fn

2024-07-11 07:53:11

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So we are two already who wonder why HRF and @npub1trr…hdpu are promoting BTC as freedom tech, which offers no privacy at all and chose a path clearly against self custody.
They are either stupid or malicious.

2024-06-29 16:27:37

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Really sad but that is how it is.
I was also waiting for onchain privacy for 13 years, now i convert BTC to Monero and the more i think about it, the less arguments i find why is should store wealth in a open public ledger at all?

2024-06-23 12:44:13

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ecash is a trusted third party

2024-06-23 12:29:48

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The headline of the whitepaper says p2p digital currency, that wasn't some accident either...
If we rely on trusted third parties, we will have monetary debasement.

2024-06-23 12:26:51

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When only BTC rich people can use it in a self sovereign way, we just recreated the banking system.
Why should everybody suffer high transaction fees, even for lighning onboarding, because some dude with a shitty internet connection wants to run a full node out of his moms basement on a raspberry pie?
What does that do to the cost of a transaction?

2024-06-23 06:24:56

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Your answer has nothing to do with what i wrote.

2024-06-23 05:46:47

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That is just not true. Monero has adaptive block size and works very well. Even BCH works well and has low fees.
I am not proposing scaling on chain only, but sticking to the 1MB limit while technology progresses is just stupid and in the end, will make BTC a failed project.

2024-06-23 05:39:58

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Repeating things does not make them true though. Also nothing was settled, we never voted for a "forever 1 mb limit" in 2017. And a lot was promised in 2017 but very little was delivered.
The 1mb limit is ridiculous, a 12TB hdd costs around $100, if one wants to run a node and does not want to spend a few hundred bucks for that, he should not run one.
The result of that limit is that fewer people can afford onchain fees, self hosted lightning also gets unattractive due to high fees and most people are pushed into custodial lightning wallets, which offer zero privacy, zero sovereignty, full dependency from a third party and soon KYC and AML.
Without offering sovereignty and privacy, BTC gets integrated into the banking system and we win nothing

2024-06-22 20:05:40

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shit just gets more and more complex and more and more trust in third parties is needed. Increasing the blocksize regularly and adapting to technological progress seems like such an easy and elegant solution in comparison...

2024-06-22 20:00:07

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How do you know there is no other way? Which ways have we tested on a large scale already so we can be sure this is the only way? Serious question

2024-06-21 13:21:12

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Please Sir, make number go up!