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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 1h \ on: When is the right time to buy a hardware wallet? bitcoin_beginners
well... a HWW is really only for spending/sending sats somewhere. it makes the signature for your TX, then you broadcast that into the mempools.
If you're not spending sats, then you probably don't need a HWW.
in terms of custody... the HWW can help you create a new set of addresses and keys, if you feel somehow that the ones you have aren't good enough. but you'll never use the HWW for receiving.
in terms of novelty, it's pretty cool to have one. and if you just want to try one out... see if you can find a used one at your most-local bitcoin meetup, and then create new keys on it... then send 10k sats to yourself and go around trying to spend sats with a HWW... (the joke here, it's not any better).
if you're getting a used HWW, for experimentation only, then you don't need to worry about it being pwnt. and you can just have a little fun with it.
it's probably >50x more expensive to prevent all states from protecting their constituents than it is to prevent the federal government from doing so.
I rent a house for the last 12 months. It's been listed for sale the whole time... started at $350k...
landlord called a couple days ago to tell me it's being re-listed at $180k
I might be buying a house.
Texas’s recent corporate-law reforms, offering expanded safe harbors for directors and officers of Texas-based or TXSE-listed corporations, further reinforce that business-friendly environment.
ooooooooh....
I perceive $1 as a tip as benefiting the individual (my direct service provider) more directly than $1 on the menu
sorry, I'm not gonna watch this... but I guess the answer to the question is:
they give you wifi devices and those wifi devices are used to triangulate position?
El Salvador gov (corporation) is owned by Tether/Bitfinex. Oh you don't know that? DYOR.
I did not know this. Not sure even where to begin with that research project.
100 sats \ 1 reply \ @itsrealfake OP 18 Nov \ parent \ on: So, Cloudflare is just a flakey MITM? builders
ah, point taken.
I suppose those are part of the cyberfunk future
100 sats \ 3 replies \ @itsrealfake OP 18 Nov \ parent \ on: So, Cloudflare is just a flakey MITM? builders
Why? The only thing that doesn't work well for me right now is when I want to fact-check a local LLM. Everything else I've been doing today is working.
okay, well... I mentioned several sites that weren't working, so do with that what you will.
since my post, I've discovered that my fiat credit union doesn't work, primal.net doesn't work, and x.com (which I haven't logged into for months, and I only learned about the outage via NOSTR) isn't working.
so... that's why.
aww, cute.
yes... I see your point, and you're correct. I've got a handful of nodes which I sometimes plug in to get latest blocks and then unplug before I nomad around the continent.
I suppose I could keep the nodes running on battery & starlink while driving, but jeez that's an education curve that I've not yet surmounted.
I appreciate your comment though, as it's helping to reenforce the obviousness of your message to me: that I should use the empty 1TB drive in my desk's drawer as the volume storage I'm looking for... it'll be easier with an LLM to support my efforts to mount that badboy by default on reboot, which was the challenge that prevented my success a couple years ago.
Do you think Bitcoin is destined for a different outcome?
I make it a point to hold multiple opinions of the future in my head, so... yes and no. On the one hand, yeah there are some incentives. On the other hand, as they say, the white paper is as good as the paper it's printed on.
If we get swarmed by NGU-only, or NFT-only, or MerchantAdoption-only brains, then I suspect the bitty is destined for the historical bin of squandered opportunity.
And then but so, what needs to happen for the bitty to thrive? Perhaps, a multitude of voices need to adopt it. Right now, the more densely connected (informationally) community of users is concerned with blockspace and what appears to be a well thought-out op.
e.g. WHY THE FUCK IS BITCOIN'S CENTRAL DEVELOPER HUB HOSTED ON GITHUB??
this seems like a major issue. and until we get something like NostrGit I think we're going to have centralization problems due to way that the tools we're using are using us.
So, yah... I think the centrality of the development efforts is a major issue for bitcoin.
Lkewise, we can consider capable software engineers as a priest class for modern techno-times. and what can we do about that? well, I guess that gets at why I posted in ~builders... because we need more of the builder types... more priests who can spread the gospel. And, behold, in my vision, it's supposed to be the good-minded priests who prevail... those informed by the great living philosopher priest, his sudo-holiness Richard Stallman.
e.g. WE NEED MORE EYES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CATHEDRAL
For my part, I'm some variant of one-foot-in-one-foot-out of the FOSS future that I envision. I'm capable or reading and writing in code, and was using Linux before I learned to code, but my brain's grasp of the fundamentals is still growing... and somehow I fell off the desktop linux boat a couple of years ago when I bought an M2 Mac for local LLM reasons.
it's admittedly getting better on my end.
and for the rest of you, I can recommend Chaincode's BOSS program. I learned SO SO much about how the system I care so much about is working through that program. (ps. hire me for projects or teams! (I've got 10+ years of software engineering experience at big and small companies and run my own consultancy now)).
So, as I wrote in #1285450, I wanted to know where people keep their nodes... and then I saw this... but then I saw that https://lightning.pub wouldn't load correctly...
come to find out, they're using tailwind's CDN... which appears to be using Cloudflare's CDN