I see, maybe I have some minor disagreements but it makes sense to me. In my case I really learned a lot by doing transactions directly with btcd, the golang library. Also I didn't read it until the end because I was busy with other things, but the book of Jimmy Song is quite good. But I guess your focus is mainly on the hardware part. If this is the case, sure I agree by generating keys and doing transactions with a software which doesn't hide too much the complexity, you learn the naming and other stuff. So in this respect I agree this is beneficial.

To be honest I did some trading 4 years ago and read a book about trading but I stopped almost immediately as it was stressful and couldn't focus on work and other things more meaningful to me. Now I am in Bitcoin mainly for my pension and to save money, so like you I think, I stack as well.

I totally agree about the necessity to try offline payments, however I think other hardware wallets providers all bring something interesting to the table. Blockstream provides also the software to build our own hardware wallet. With this firmware for example we can use the camera and keep the device stateless (the private key is removed from memory after power off), and we can use it with Green to send money from L-BTC to lightning. In my case I use it this way, if I need to top up Lightning I have my L-BTC ready to be changed into sats with low fees, whatever the current state of the mempool on mainnet. And the rest of my stack, my future pension when I will be 60 yo, is on mainnet.

Thank you for the guides! Maybe just one thing, it looks to me like in the second link we install Ubuntu persistently, so any time you would use it the data would still be there after power off. So if someone is worried about what people refer to the evil maid attack, I would be careful. In my case I like to use encryption with a simple pin code when installing Linux, it allows me to have some piece of mind if my hardware get stolen (not just for Bitcoin). My DIY wallets at the moment are only the Jade firmware on a M5 stack and the seed signer on a raspberry pi zero. Never tried USB stick for Bitcoin yet (although I played with some others for curiosity in the past)

Sorry if you didn't appreciate the "joke". I should have called it black humor instead but sorry anyway if you felt it was not appropriate.

About the tribal behavior I agree, however similarly with the act of killing I think this is something we can avoid. At least I try to. I must confess when I was a kid I have beaten someone with the influence of the group, but I regretted it afterwards. In the Bitcoin community I try to avoid being pro-Coinkite or other respected companies to avoid following the group (I rather try DIY versions of wallets and show it to friends for example).

Just curious, what kind of witch hunt did you have a problem with on SN? I didn't observe this kind of group behavior on posts I participated, except for posts related to hardware wallets (everyone is always pro-Coldcard).

I will reply with humor.

Some people say that killing is a lack of respect. I would reply that death is life, war is peace, heil to the Victor.

Let me end the joke here. I think I am more optimistic about mankind than you, as I don't think that we are murderous species. I have never killed animals or humans, so I am a counter example to your statement.

That being said I agree people can act in a barbarian way. I am not gay and I think homosexuality is a psychological problem but it surprises me that we can lynch and beat them in public and take pleasure to look at it. Or also kill animals and still have pet animals, for me it is a paradox. In that sense I prefer canibals, I think they are more honest. But I respect everyone so happy hunting.

Do Russian people respect Ukrainians when they kill them? How the act of killing can be a form of respect? Please note, farming is ok, hunting is ok and killing is ok. What I disagree with is the relation between killing and respect.

I can understand that killing might be ok if someone is suffering. However I am pro-life so I would still be against killing even if someone suffers. I would then rather be in favor of medical treatment.

This was not my point. I don't think I have ever met someone who eats meat and don't print money at the Federal Reserve. It doesn't make people who eat meat bad people.

I agree with your statement because it is aligned with what I think. However you should not respect animals if you eat them.

I kill mosquitos, I don't respect mosquitos. If I respected mosquitos I wouldn't kill them. I think you should also kill dogs because they are animals. Hence saying they are human's best friends is very hypocrite (fortunately you eat dogs too since you eat meat, so you're not a hypocrite).

I like people in Africa because at least there is no hypocrisy. People can eat animals and humans and everyone is happy. Sometimes a war can happen but this is good for demographics.

This is quite a poor way to state things. Most people who eat meat are against Bitcoin. This must be because of meat that people are not able to use their brains. It reminds me a book I read about how to lie with statistics.

I see, this makes sense also

The first chart is particularly interesting. Do you know what is the unit in the ordinate axis? It looks like it is in percentage, but then I was wondering why base 100 was not used from 1993, why it starts from 75. Also today I was listening to someone who brought the same kind of discussion about Germany and was also saying that the competitiveness of German cars lowered because of the Yen devaluation. I am not knowledgeable about this so I wonder, do you have any idea? Is it 100% because of climate propaganda alone or is there also a lack of competitiveness because of the currency, or another reason, or many causes put together which led to this?

Recently I have been to the German part of Switzerland, I must say that the roads were better than in Japan, and the food was good enough. Also nice toilets on the highway with multiple functions packed together, and beautiful mountains. Ah, and of course German bread is the best! I wonder how the roads compare to Germany, if even entering in the country from Switzerland we feel a decline. Have you tried?

Political topics are quite divisive isn't it? Sometimes I see people pro-Ukraine or pro-Russia on Stacker News also, I just keep being pro-peace and that's it. And if people want to kill Russian, I am still ok with that. I would just advocate then to kill less, and if it works, then less minus one, until zero hahaha.

Instead of chasing confrontation I try to dodge triggering wordings or similar things. Even the dumbest things I just let it go, because I strongly believe that we are free to think and have different ideas. So my priority is freedom, and then every other thing becomes secondary to me. Based on that for example, during the corona virus story I was never wearing a mask but my best friend was (although he stopped afterwards, as I lead by example hahaha). And yet never had any friendship problem. If we respect each other I am pretty open to anything and don't say anything. So I quite relate to your post.

Peace!

hahaha. I remember having seen advertisements with people showing how they set up solar panels in shadows of trees in a big city. To be honest I am quite a solar panel proponent as I used it for camping and my battery has been useful after an earthquake as well. But sometimes I see houses with solar panels with a shadow from the neighboring house... And I know that when there is a small shadow on a cell, the whole row produces negligible electricity, so their installation must be bad.

I have a watched one or two US documentaries in the past about this, so I understand what you mean. I don't remember having seen it in East Asia and South-East Asia. I am in Africa now, and the sky is "normal" (blue, clouds, colors in the evening). But indeed I visited Europe recently and I could see in the sky many persistent lines (I think you call it chemtrails), the sunlight was very weak, the weather depressing and in shops I heard people talking about floods and climate propaganda. Maybe for the sunlight it is normal but at least for the chemtrails in the sky it is quite striking as a difference when coming from a different continent.

Ah I see. I have been to Europe recently after not being there for 10 years, and a lot of times I was looking at trails in the sky that I think I never see in Asia. Good point, thanks.

I think it is hard to know. Although I have been thinking intuitively the same thing when I heard about multiple floods at very different points of the planet in the same period. But there are also once in a lifetime earthquakes, like in 1923 in Tokyo. Or like in 2011 in the Northern part of Japan. I have heard in the past that bad agriculture (removing forests, using pesticides in monoculture, etc) causes landslides. So many landslides seen in TV could be human made. For floods I think it is hard to know, it could be news which emphasize events which were occuring before but we just notice now because of propaganda. It could be artificially created like landslides. So I am curious, do you have any information about human intervention which would have caused floodings seen this year?

So you would not recommend to go Bitcoin conferences organized by Bitcoin Magazine? How was your overall experience? I have just watched recordings but the 2019 conference seemed better to me, compared to the conference of this year with Trump.

I would be interested to know which conference you went to. In my case it was more like show-casing a new application or new protocol. Sometimes it was really bad, like someone clearly interested in Ethereum which tries to port what he does to Bitcoin. Most of the time though, show-casing were ok, sometimes fun.

I have to admit though I didn't socialize or went to the parties as I have zero interest in this (just interested in Bitcoin), so can't talk about it.

And the stands in my case were good, plus zero people waiting for it.

I would agree though that for learning, rather than conferences, the book published by O'Reilly by Antonopoulos has been far more effective for me. Other books, articles or podcasts as well. So I totally agree that to learn about Bitcoin, it is better to do it alone. However to see what is happening with Bitcoin, some practical feeling about it, to try the Lightning network in the real world, to see what people interested in Bitcoin actually are, I think conferences are good. For the rest, I think meetups are a better way to learn new things.

Post scriptum : never been to American or European events so maybe this is the reason for my different experience.

I see! I didn't know either about 8BitDo controllers, thanks!

I use Flycast for Dreamcast games and PCSX2 for Playstation games. On Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast) however there is a bug which makes the keyboard unusable without an analog stick able to send a non binary state. I need to send a Down signal in-between center and down to continue hahaha. So I am thinking about buying a controller or two, eventually also to play Mario Kart on mupen64plus.

That being said, Steam Deck looks nice, I am considering it too. Just have some hesitations because of the small screen size, if it would still be usable by 2 people.

Thank you for mentioning Lutris, I didn't know this one!

Spreading fear must be good for there business.