Why I'm going to buy Cowboy Credits. \ stacker news ~meta

548 sats \ 29 comments \ @SimpleStacker 8 Nov meta

I had a harrowing experience today. My home computer, which hosts my attached wallet, failed because a Windows update was incompatible with my hard drive drivers. At the same time, I was on my work computer in a position to win a 3,000 bounty from today's Crossword Puzzle.

I couldn't post my answer for hours because I had zero sats in my SN wallet, and I was at work, unable to fix my home computer and fix my attached wallet. I couldn't post my Crossword Puzzle answer for hours!

Good thing when I got home and finally fixed everything, no one had posted the crossword answer yet :)

Still, this lesson taught me that self custody is still difficult and prone to failures. Some trust-based custodial solutions are still useful in small amounts to keep things running smoothly. So I'll be keeping some sats in my custodial SN wallet from now on, and when that option is removed I'll be holding some Cowboy Credits at all times, exactly for situations like this.

Also, FWIW, I can't believe Windows rolled out an update that literally caused me to BSOD on startup... due to a driver incompatibility.

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138 sats \ 4 replies \ @Lux 8 Nov

still using windoze and blamin it on bitcoin, NGMI ;)

31 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 8 Nov

I deserve that. Windows sucks.

In my defense, I am a gamer and still prefer having a Windows machine than not. I also run a command line only node on Linux; but I don't want to attach that one to SN.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

Keep separately games from bitcoin. Thank me later.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 8 Nov

me too, still keep my old windoze pc for the same reason

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 8 Nov

^^ what he said! :-)

44 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 8 Nov

Did you try to disable your attached wallet and so you get a QR code you can pay with any lightning wallet?

Or was your home computer your only way to pay lightning invoices?

47 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 8 Nov

I can only pay lightning invoices from my home computer. I don't have anything set up for that on either my phone or work computer

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

There are many wrong things in this post...

Why in the hell you still use a Windows OS, especially with Bitcoin ?
Why you do not have multiple LN wallets, ready to use and rely ONLY on a single one?
SN is a pay to post, not a pay to earn.

17 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb 8 Nov

Fun fact: paying that bounty didn’t work with my attached wallet and I had to make and pay an invoice.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 8 Nov

I wonder why it might have failed. I think my wallet was working after posting the crossword answer.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 8 Nov

After I posted this, I realized it was because I had insufficient funds in that wallet… I earned my first cowboy gun in my most irresponsible moment on sn. Haha

51 sats \ 1 reply \ @IamSINGLE 8 Nov

It's what it is. I don't want self custody for SN for the same reason.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sangekrypto 8 Nov

So how do you save it if that happens to you?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 8 Nov

Are we going to end up creating a shitcoin?

52 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 8 Nov

self custody is still difficult and prone to failures.

Here it seems that you had a hardware failure.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 8 Nov

Yes, though technically it was a software failure caused by a bad update. But these things happen and can throw a wrench in your self custody setup. To avoid this you need to build in redundancy. But all that is quite a lot to manage for one person, which is why self custody is difficult