I have been anticipating a new plandemic for about 2 years now. I think it will come approximately on January 21st, 2025, during the morning, coincidentally when people will turn on the TV: At a random house, a couple will be drinking tea:

wHo wiLl pAy to moNiToR poLitiCiAns to aCtuaLly bUild the roAds and nOt bUy sWimMinG pOolS fOr thEmsElves ????

Have you tried? I thought this was still an experiment, I have heard and seen footages of a drone pilot I think 2 years ago going from Germany to Australia to do just that. In countries like India or Cambodia, I wouldn't need to escape holes in the ground anymore.

It does. Weird, bizarre. Chinese people or people from Chinese descent often have one Chinese character for their family name so pronounced in Japanese it can turn into something weird (pun intended).

It was in a dancing class with the teacher. She stared at me so I easily understood I did a mistake, furthermore everyone knew very well so I didn't have any problem.

There is "chinko", "chin chin", "chinpo", "chinpoko" and "penisu". The last one would be used more for serious situations (in a hospital for example), whereas the first three are used interchangeably. "chinpoko" sounds more juvenile. "chinko" and "chin chin" are, I strongly believe, interchangeable. Even though if you look at the dictionary it would be written juvenile word for "chin chin". So feel free to use any, for jokes I recommend you "chinpoko".

Hahaha! In the past I did the mistake to confuse kintama 金玉 with kozeni 小銭 for the money haha. In Japanese it is totally different but the meaning of the characters were almost the same meaning for me so inadvertently used it... 金玉ありますかー

Chin chin itself means penis actually. In the past at work there was a Chinese person whose name was Chin chin hahaha (陳 something in Japanese, can't remember the name).

Good one! it reminds me when I was at school. You should try next "manko chinko unko". It means "you are pretty" hahaha.

100% agree! Tucker Carlson with Roger Ver also, where he believes that Bitcoin is made by the CIA makes me speechless. As long as Satoshi himself didn't spell his name in Japanese, nobody can stop me from saying that his name could mean The Will of the village as in 里志 instead of Intelligence as in 聡.

Interesting, I wouldn't have thought Indians would immigrate to UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Myanmar. Particularly Myanmar, with civil war I would have thought the immigration would be low.

I definitely thought there would be something valuable at first in all the Altcoins. At the beginning I remember I struggled to even understand the difference between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. I remember also I mistakenly enrolled for a hackathon for Bitcoin SV because the scam was good enough to use the name Bitcoin everywhere but in a small place where the logo had "SV" in it.

In my case I began in 2013 by selling Bitcoin to a Brazilian marketplace to make money with the asymmetry of information there was at the time between currencies. I remember that with a Chinese friend we tried to sell bitcoins but the Brazilian market was too small so it failed (I was the middle man with international connections to use multiple passports for KYC).

Then forgot about Bitcoin until 2017, then again in 2021 where thanks to Terra Luna I woke up with all the lies. Fortunately I didn't lose much money because for me the ethical aspect was more important than the return so I could not invest in KYC platforms and was very hesitant with Terra Luna. The other thing which saved me is work, as I couldn't do trading as I wished.

I think there are competent people in Altcoins but everything is so much rigged that competency in a field can be a disadvantage because of the noise and the money flows. One day their project will fail or be repurposed and eventually they might come to Bitcoin. The other problem I think might be an ego problem for public personas and admit they were wrong. Hopefully over time people will use social networks in better ways than pee on Bitcoin and there will be more recognition for its value.

Nice, is it in Kumamoto? By the way, muryo is muryō, hence in Japanese it is むりょう with う.

I hope you enjoyed your coffee! Until now I think the best coffee I had in Japan was in Kyoto, at a place a bit expensive but relatively nice called About Us: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g298564-d19093703-Reviews-About_Us_Coffee-Kyoto_Kyoto_Prefecture_Kinki.html

Although I think chilling out while drinking coffee in Kamakura was better.

Just curious, have you ever tried oppai ice in an Izakaya? In English it is "tits ice".

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.