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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aeneas 42m \ on: Bitcoin Beginner Saloon #1 bitcoin_beginners
You think Wasabi Wallet is worth learning? I noticed your guides focus mainly on building a payments infrastructure that anonymizes through Lightning rather than fuddling about with mixers.
Because they still do not know how to separate the public from private.
This is one of the smartest things you mention in your guides, by the way. It would go a long way toward stopping incidents like the OP if people implemented it.
Suspicious or not, it is completely true that the "mind has no firewall." Bad actors want to catch you acting without thinking—and how the fuck can any security protect you from pressing send yourself?
Everyone thinks they would "never" do that, but people will do anything if the narrative in their mind makes it the logical conclusion. The point of social engineering is precisely to weave that narrative so that you fuck up irreversibly.
That said, this is easy to avoid when you control who can access you and where: it would be kind of weird for "Mom" to be writing to you from Nostr.
Once upon a time, in a different time and place, we might have heard things like: "Access to clean water will fix the world."
The movement from dirty water to clean is indeed a BIG DEAL. It's monumental for the people making the transition, who no longer have to see their kids getting sick and dying from diseases preventable with better hygiene. But after you live in a world where clean water is normalized, it just becomes another part of the necessary infrastructure everyone takes for granted, and then no one cares until something breaks.
Just like that, sound money is necessary infrastructure. We haven't had it, so we've been very obviously missing something. For us, it's a BIG DEAL—but someday it's going to be whatever, and people will look back on our degenerate financial panics with the same level of passing pity we have for our ancestors that tolerated regular typhoid epidemics.
Unhosted wallets
This is a fake phrase from the pit of Hell that we all need to hammer down.
They want to call normal self-custody wallets "unhosted" to imply self-custody is defective because it's not "hosted"—by Coinbase or whatever custodial exchange they approve of.
These people are the worst of the worst.
Hmm... 🤔 Remember back a few years ago, when everyone said digital books were going to overtake physical books and there'd be no more bookstores? Clear case of the tech nerds getting ahead of themselves.
To answer your question: Absolutely not 👎 , but if you read a lot, ebooks are very helpful. They can expand your library far, far beyond what you can physically contain. I'm sure every bookworm would like to have the castle library in Beauty and the Beast, but a library of EPUBs will have to do for most. For the books you love, though, there is no substitute to a hardcover.
Just like the grocery checkout, a hybrid system is best, I find.
Because they, more than anyone, are reeling under the effects of constant distraction, and wish to red themselves of it. Very sensible.
Thanks for presenting representatives from both sides of the issue—that's helpful!
About this:
*Companies sometimes claim a CRQC is likely before 2030 or well before 2035, but publicly known progress doesn’t support those claims.
There isn't incentive everywhere to keep QC developments public; and, presumably, great incentive to keep it private enough to execute Zero-Day attacks on vulnerabilities people don't know are vulnerable. That seems to be the major fear (and it is a fear, though always written in sanitized language) behind recent QC articles.
But is that just an irrational superstition, based on completely ignorant views of the technology?
Or—in the spirit of December 7—is it more like someone in 1936 saying, "You know, the Japanese could attack Pearl Harbor."
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A great writer. His son went missing in action during World War 1 and the Kiplings spent the rest of their lifetimes trying unsuccessfully to find where he lay.
The grave was finally identified fairly recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kipling
Simple: people want to use the internet less—not fucking move into the internet or wear goggles around their head all day.
17 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aeneas 7 Dec \ parent \ on: Bitcoin is complex; people are busy mostly_harmless
The paradox for me is, you think you found Bitcoin too late but you meet the majority of people in life who have zero idea of what it is, so you think, am I early or am I late
I've been to a college that is, allegedly, focused on economics and finance: no doubt about it, you are stupidly early.