I really just want the self-hosted bitwarden to be clearer how to use. I've spent a lot of time futzing with it, to no useful result. just looking for either clearer/current instructions on how to use it with desktop and mobile or an update that makes it easier/possible to use.

I should also add that I am currently running umbrel on two raspi's, one for bitcoin core node and a small number of related services like lightning node, mempool.space, etc, and the other is for all the random stuff like gitea, nextcloud, etc.

you can absolutely sneakernet nostr messages, though there are not yet a lot of tools for this.

in your work on damus, what's your view on the health of the nostr protocol? that is, in trying to get your arms around the protocol, do you see any obvious weak points we should be shoring up before the sclerosis sets in?

1 stay humble 2 stack sats 3 goto 1

not at all, it's one possible future in which those wallets are reclaimed like gold from a spanish galleon. that's very different than "redistributing" by act of network fiat. whatever protocol allowed that would no longer be bitcoin, and would carry satoshi's curse to it's grave.

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an important note: the afore mentioned rivers are not "naturally navigable". at least not in all seasons for all types of cargo. there is a series of locks and dams built to allow heavy freight traffic to get much further up river than would otherwise be possible, or only possible by portage of cargo from one basin to the next. there is also a channelization accomplished by dredging, jetty construction, and levy construction that keeps the shipping lanes open. this is all largely managed by army corps of engineers. so whatever you think of these inland waterways, they are currently propped up by fiat. it may well be that they could be transitioned to honest funding sources, tolls for example. also, many of these rivers represent borders between states, eg Missouri and Illinois. this is not currently a problem as fedgov redistributes from all to pay the bills, but if Missouri and Illinois were no longer in the same political union, it could get confusing and dangerous really fast.

the answer has already been said, @sb "absolutely not".

there's no good reason to destroy bitcoin by introducing fiat redistribution policies.

if you are stuck on the notion of lost coins, you can at least tell yourself a story about the future of computing power catching up with wallets frozen in time. the network is forced to evolve over time, and you can imagine a point in the future, due to mythical quantum computing becoming reality or some other unexpected attack on the algorithm, where new users will move to better secured keys, but the wallets of lost keys, the currently dead bitcoins, could be brought back as technology catches up with them. I don't find that a likely outcome in the next decades, but over the next 100 years, seems at least possible.

if I can buy a split of your sats flow from SN, I'm in.

not sure about that title, but "When Money Dies" by Adam Fergusson is a solid account of the Weimar hyperinflation. https://www.amazon.com/When-Money-Dies-Devaluation-Hyperinflation/dp/1586489941

@fiatjaf what's the best platform for building decentralized / customizable solutions to centrally controlled social media and why is it Nostr?

it's the world's most valuable, decentralized, and trustworthy DPKI implementation and has the potential to be the root of so many other forms of digital sovereignty