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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @2minutebitcoin 3 Sep \ parent \ on: Shutting down my routing node lightning
Agree it's not accidental, but also there's so much hassle on a societal level to pay with Bitcoin. Chicken and egg problems are not easily solved.
Fiat was effective precisely because it was by decree (i.e fiat) - do this or else.
Having it come up organically will take way, way longer. And in cases where you don't want to use fiat, the uneducated people there are happy to simply cash USD.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like Lightning is taking off... at all.
Lightning Network nodes, channels and number of BTC have all been steadily going down since peaking around 2022.
Check https://1ml.com/statistics under web archive for yourself.
Yes - that scare is why it's such a big deal right now. It's a theoretical risk and people have varying opinions on it.
- Some people believe it could be an intentional attack on Bitcoin (creating this attack vector)
- Some think that you can't get in legal trouble just because the data is stored in a more obvious manner
The way this is handled is the concerning bit. Discussions aren't being too productive. The pro OP_RETURN change side in particular seems to be resorting to mockery, name-calling and straw-manning. We really need to have a proper debate within the space and at a minimum hold off on this change.
The community literally gains nothing from rushing in controversial changes to the protocol. It only damages it. Even if one side believes the controversy is unfounded and dumb, they would be smart to pause, take time and unite/align the community.
It is extremely underrated. People don't know how bad it is and for how little criminals are ready to cut off a finger/kidnap you.
Even if you don't die - you don't want to suffer the experience of feeling hopeless at an armed gang set out to make you suffer.
See https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks for gruesome examples
The biggest concern is how easily trace-able it is, and will become, with AI-assisted tooling.
A sufficiently motivated criminal group can pretty easily:
- Collect publicly-available leaked exchange data (e.g the big Coinbase leak). They now know the rough size of your stack, as well as email/name (potentially address).
- 1a. they could also just bribe internal employees for data, this is an on-going concern, as your data is never deleted. Once you have bought off a KYC exchange, you can assume that data will leak in time.
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Cross-match email with any other data breach off any e-commerce website. They now know your personal address where you ship orders to.
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Further, the KYC exchange data (e-mail, name, address, phone) can all be cross-linked with various other breaches to get an AI-assisted similarity score to try and guess which details belong to the same person. In other words - it doesn't have to be 1-to-1. Maybe you re-used the phone on another website which has your same name but different e-mail - there's reason to conclude you own that e-mail too. Maybe they verify that e-mail in 10 other websites belonging to the same name, but also a new number in some places. Maybe they verify the email and new number consistently map to a new address.
It is safe to assume that sufficiently-motivated black-hat actors contain resources consisting of all of your online activity. The criminal groups don't even need to be advanced - they can just purchase the bundle of email/address off of the black-hat actors and then they have your information.
unless you're 100% carnivore, this cannot be correct. out of experience, we recommend you do regular check ups or at least look carefully yourself. oil pulling is a must if you won't brush
are you serious, the US or whichever government just accepts this letter and doesn't raise criminal proceedings?
I can't see this working. I know that in certain jurisdictions there is a threshold for unpaid taxes that turns into a criminal proceeding - e.g $120k - and at that point they'll put you in jail no doubt.
which country are you in, if you're free sharing?
eventually that income goes from the company to your personal name, no?
yep! good point. those are full of microplastics.
Another gotcha is kettles. Many electric kettles have plastic inside in various places.
I got a full steel quality italian kettle called Ottoni Fabbrica.
I like to put coconut oil, coconut milk, sea salt, turmeric, and cinnamon in my coffee.
Do you blend it?
Back in the days, I did bulletproof coffee. It was amazing.
One concern is the microplastics from the blender plastic touching piping-hot liquid - that's not good.
True. Strong wrists from heavy lifting will go a way longer way than an ergonomic mouse imo. But still important to protect the wrists - can't hurt both ways
I love the idea, but I haven't seen a good implementation yet.
I tried one and the DPI/sensitivity just feels off to me. My Razor Basilisk v3 looks like a child's toy, but is just so so much nicer to use digitally.
Physically, it's ergonomically good enough. But I wish it was vertical!
yep, this is the correct take. change is inevitable unless you believe in a fixed universe
what you should be discussing is what "change" constitutes Change with a capital C