Dim

Hodl BTC, train BJJ, eat MEAT. Preferably every single day.

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Dim@BitcoinNostr.com

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2024-08-20 22:57:53

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On a related note, have you ever heard of Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman? I think you might like it, especially the audiobook.
Good entry point to the "Oh no, I'm trapped in a game world!" genre dating back to Tron.

2024-08-03 15:50:20

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Several times. It's really good. Se are Neuromancer, Daemon, and Freedom(TM)! Can anyone recommend something similar?

2024-07-10 16:32:33

Weird line of thought last night:
I stacked ____ sats over ____ years. Now, if I spend ____ sats per week, my stack will last for ____ years. At current prices, that's $____ per week.
Holy shit!

2024-03-19 16:41:36

Let your bank regulate itself, and you'll get poorer if you use their services.
Let pharma test their own products in secret with no accountability ever, and your health will worsen if you use their products.
Let food manufacturers tell you what to eat and you will die young.
There's a part of the Bitcoin ethos that fixes all of this:
"Don't trust. Verify."
When enough people think way, the world will heal. That's just one reason I love saying, "Bitcoin fixes this."

2024-03-17 20:16:30

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Welcome to Nostr.

2024-03-12 23:34:31

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Sounds a lot like "Chain Analysis."

2024-03-11 15:43:25

While killing a few hours at the local mall last week, I thought back to what this experience was like as a kid, seeing hundreds or thousands of things I wanted but couldn't afford.
This time, I could buy anything in the mall. Anything at all. So I set out to find some new stuff.
Maybe I was at the wrong mall, but for hours I couldn't find a single thing I needed.
Until at last I did find something.
I found the contentment of knowing that I already have everything I need.

2024-03-01 17:36:45

Analysis I'd love to see:
When was the last time you could have initiated a $1/week DCA plan that gets you to 1 BTC by today?
Same question, but $10/week, then $100/week, then $1000/week.
Eventually, $10,000 per week won't ever get you to 1 BTC.

2024-02-20 18:45:32

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Not me. I'd worry about what they decide to exterminate next with their new toy...

2024-02-17 17:07:55

How long until the ETFs claim to custody 30 million Bitcoin?
What would it look like if the ETFs were running a fractional reserve?
I'd guess that'd look like big inflows without much price increase.

2024-02-15 21:56:51

@npub1cj8…rz4u I really enjoyed the Devon Eriksen episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast.

2024-02-12 15:28:56

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Some jokes last forever.

2024-02-03 17:33:21

Anyone else seeing weirdness with mempool.space API?
right now:
https://mempool.space/api/v1/fees/recommended
returns:
{"fastestFee":41,"halfHourFee":33,"hourFee":29,"economyFee":29,"minimumFee":24}
But if I go to mempool.space, I see:
22 / 46 / 327 / 375 / 418
So weird.

2024-01-19 16:14:38

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Pretty sure I already saw this story on TV..
So where are all the Mr. Robot memes? The meme lords are asleep at the wheel!

2024-01-18 18:54:25

Seeing an odd Moscow Time on your Orangeclock?
Something is up with the price check (mempool.space/api/v1/prices)
Which just now gave me back:
{"time":1705600800,"USD":-1,"EUR":-1,"GBP":-1,"CAD":-1,"CHF":-1,"AUD":-1,"JPY":-1}
Where can I buy this $-1.00 BTC at?

2024-01-18 16:39:41

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Still ok to trust the expired key, right?
>gpg --verify sparrow-1.8.2-manifest.txt.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'sparrow-1.8.2-manifest.txt'
gpg: Signature made 1/18/2024 2:35:34 AM Pacific Standard Time
gpg: using RSA key D4D0D3202FC06849A257B38DE94618334C674B40
gpg: Good signature from "Craig Raw <craigraw@gmail.com>" [expired]
gpg: Note: This key has expired!
Primary key fingerprint: D4D0 D320 2FC0 6849 A257 B38D E946 1833 4C67 4B40

2024-01-06 21:49:51

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Never used 'em, but I did shuffle my dad's stack once...

2024-01-06 21:27:57

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And double the normal ram (64kB)

2024-01-06 21:27:17

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Oh, and we spring extra for the 80-column-wide display driver.

2024-01-06 21:26:38

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You had TWO disk drives? Lucky! All I got was a stupid cassette tape drive.
But I did have a 300 baud modem, acoustically coupled.

2024-01-06 21:25:18

Is Primal Web just randomly refreshing itself every few minutes for anyone else?
Just now happened halfway through typing a note, now lost to oblivion.

2024-01-06 21:19:51

Hey @npub1a27…a5yp: You ought to Google this list of topics:
1) Bitcoin Lightning
2) Liquid Bitcoin
3) Transaction batching
Because you're asking for $11 in fees right now instead of ~$2.25...
Don't sell me on no fees/low spread and then hit me with 5x miner fees!
Sure, if I want to do $10,000 buys this would be a screaming deal, but if I wanted to buy that much it wouldn't be with you, sorry/not sorry.

2024-01-06 19:56:22

Bitcoin Dad Podcast is great. (In case you hadn't heard.)

2024-01-06 16:28:24

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Cool shirt!

2024-01-06 03:25:13

"Indeed, in deeply corrupt institutions, there is simply no way to make it to the top without participating in the corruption."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/how-pervasive-is-academic-corruption-5558217
Besides education and science, this got me thinking about politics, law enforcement, medicine, shit--basically everything?!?

2024-01-05 17:28:30

@npub16cp…edcd https://m.primal.net/HWgT.jpg
Messing around a bit with my clock. (Bottom row of fees is: reject / minimal / low / med / high.)

2024-01-04 22:41:46

https://m.primal.net/HWaw.png

2023-12-30 19:35:31

Aqua, huh? Sounds interesting... Anyone have more info than the basic teasers?

2023-12-25 16:43:36

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079T2FKN1

2023-12-25 16:41:54

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I got mine on Amazon.

2023-12-16 20:37:35

Some bitcoiners want to swim in a lovely river. Others celebrate their use of that river as a toilet and/or dump.
Different strokes, I guess...

2023-12-16 16:38:30

I guess transaction fees alone might just sustain future miners after all...

2023-12-13 16:28:16

Ordinals in the blockchain:
You're fishing in a lovely stream. All of a sudden, a turd floats by. Before long, 10,000 turds float by and the river starts to clog up. Upstream, a whole community of larping retards chant, "It's our stream, too! You have no right to ban our use case!"
Anyway, probably best to have something other than fish for dinner until the retards move on to some other dumb shit.

2023-12-02 19:10:22

"Don't you know, pump it up."
"You got to pump it up."
...
It's a musical morning at my place.

2023-11-27 23:11:50

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Yes. This one worked and is still working:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083JB5DDT/

2023-11-12 21:04:47

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Do you have a 3D printer? Could print a butter mold...

2023-10-19 15:40:39

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Nice update!

2023-10-19 01:20:24

Not to be outdone by X's new fee model, YouTube is starting a new crackdown on ad blockers. The message I just got suggests that maybe creators might get paid more (a lie) if i turn off my add blocker, and watch an ad or two every 2-3 minutes. That, or subscribe for ad-free.
-OR-
I'll go with, "Fuck You, YouTube. I'll find my videos elsewhere from now on."
I'll skip the security compromising, time wasting, never relevant bullshit, thanks.

2023-10-05 17:23:16

Some of my friends are just now looking back and questioning whether they were recently lied to by politicians, academia, media, and the medical establishment. Good, I guess.
But they're still doing and advocating:
-getting flu shots
-eating an FDA-recommended "healthy diet"
-sending their kids to "public" schools
-letting their pediatrician inject whatever they want into their kids
-saving in dollars
-contemplating their pronouns
-working toward a "greener planet" by reducing their "carbon footprint"
-voting as a solution to anything
As if the people that lied to us constantly for years about one thing haven't been lying to us about everything else all along.

2023-09-25 17:19:10

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Also really good advice for jiu jitsu!

2023-09-25 17:17:30

Almost all of them are corrupt. Almost all of us know it. Many of us are simply too comfortable to be bothered to do anything about it. Most people don't want to even think about it. Too uncomfortable.
I could go balls-out, convincing people to get on board. I could stand strong against the onslaught of ridicule so that my tormentors can protect their wealth too. But instead I went with, "Fuck 'em. I told them once, they'll figure it out eventually or they won't."
Am I a bad person if I just shut up and quietly stack more sats?

2023-09-22 23:39:35

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My thoughts exactly. I expect that pushing these things in front of trains is going to be really popular. I'm not endorsing this, but I understand it.

2023-09-22 23:33:27

We all knew China was never going to go along with this ESG shit, right? That they were just saying the things they thought people wanted to hear in order to get paid and avoid pain. Now that they (and others) are calling it unrealistic out loud, that's game over, isn't it?
Rejecting the plan gets you cheaper energy and cheaper stuff. Which is a HUGE economic advantage.
Over time one group grows richer, one poorer. And people will notice.
It doesn't help that none of the dire predictions ever come true. I am not presently frozen in an ice age, dying from heat, underwater, or dead, despite using plastic straws and gasoline daily!

2023-09-07 18:26:56

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Once upon a time Ver and Jihan were stuffing the mempool to try to convince everyone that we needed bigger blocks or else, I simply moved everything to cold storage and went away for a few years.
My pain as a bitcoin believer was from seeing that these guys were delaying the inevitable progress of bitcoin. From not wanting to wait so long for a future I still think is coming. Peace came from accepting reality, and finding patience.
Once I wasn't so angry, I could start to think about how I could help. I'm pretty lazy and have other interests, but I like to think I'm at least a slightly positive force in the space.

2023-09-07 18:18:44

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Eventually, those running this scam will run out of funds. In the meantime, more miners are deployed, more people get burned and learn, and second- and third-layer protocols advance.
I can personally wait, pay a high fee, or use lightning or liquid. The scammers have to pay, and keep paying, to keep the fees high. They can't do it forever though.

2023-09-07 01:42:10

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Careful, that might be a sleeping Ent!

2023-09-06 21:53:02

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Sometimes a "pso-rite" (https://pso-rite.com/products/pso-rite) can help. (These can be 3D printed at home for cheap.) OR sometimes, I'll use a lacrosse ball or softball instead of the roller. (More leaning into the pain spots and waiting, less moving around and smashing.) In the sauna, everything works even better.

2023-09-06 17:50:22

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(Sending sats via lightning from Strike to Phoenix worked just fine.)

2023-09-06 17:47:24

Ugh. Tried sending sats from Strike to Mutiny.
Strike popped an error: "Payment failed. Please contact support."
The sats are gone from Strike, but did not arrive in Mutiny... Has anyone else seen this happen?
Mutiny's receive invoice was a unified format (bitcoin: <addr>...?lightning=<addr>). Does Strike perhaps choke on these?

2023-09-05 20:42:06

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Yes. That and more.

2023-09-05 20:41:39

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Yes, that and more.

2023-09-05 17:56:36

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Someday, maybe they'll stream you sats while you wait on hold...

2023-08-19 19:17:59

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I think it's still rolling out. The easiest way would be to wait a few days and keep an eye on which version the Play Store is offering you. It'll magically go from 1.4.something to 2.0.1 once Google decides you are worthy. (probably a few days at most)
The harder way is to manually upgrade. Check github. I'm patient (lazy) so I didn't try this method.

2023-08-19 17:46:03

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Phoenix said (yesterday?) that they were rolling out the new update over the next week or so. I'm not sure how the play store decides who sees the new version and when, so I usually just check daily until I see the new version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.acinq.phoenix.mainnet
For me, I see v2.0.1 under "About this app"

2023-08-19 17:25:02

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I really liked Phoenix when I played with it a while back. Been waiting for v.2.0.1 to show up so I could try it again. Got the new version installed this morning, and so far I'm very impressed! (Currently playing with Alby, WoS, Mutiny, and Phoenix- anything else worth checking out at the moment?)

2023-08-19 17:09:45

Searched in the Google App store for "Phoenix Wallet" and what came up at the top of my results? "Crypto.com Buy BTC, ETH, Shib" Fuck you, Google. Fuck you, Crypto.com!

2023-08-17 19:30:39

Inflation does much worse than directly devaluing your dollar savings. When you sell non-dollar assets that "appreciate" in dollar price (even if they lose real value) you are taxed on these phantom "gains". It's a sneaky way to separate you from the value of your labor and savings over time. In as little as one lifetime, a family can easily lose everything they worked for to this form of theft. Over several lifetimes, all value usually goes to the state for redistribution. The people who perpetrate this will tell you it is "for the greater good."

2023-08-07 16:25:39

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+1 for no arch "support" and a wide toe box. These shoes are pretty good. Most running shoes are fiat.

2023-08-06 21:03:32

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You convinced me to take a serious look at liquid. Made for a fun afternoon setting up swap after swap! :)

2023-08-06 16:16:04

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Seems like this opens the door to all sorts of configuration options and settings! Also, with this, I can make clocks for less technical friends and family, now that they'll have a setup process they can manage. Can't wait to see what's next!

2023-08-05 22:53:34

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Walmart Vision Center hooked me up. Cheap, super friendly, great service. Last time I got a same-day full exam and new glasses in about 5 days. With VSP the exam was free and my glasses were $25 (copay).

2023-08-01 21:42:52

Softwar has done pretty well on eBay in the past few days! Getting unpublished did wonders for the price...
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=lowery+softwar&_sacat=267&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

2023-08-01 17:15:18

Anyone else getting heavy Cold Fusion vibes?

2023-07-31 00:57:03

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You can hunt them at night with a blacklight, if you didn't know already.

2023-07-31 00:56:17

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Bark scorpion. I was stung twice by these little motherfuckers in Phoenix. Hurts quite a lot for about 8 hours.

2023-07-30 13:46:25

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Qbert?

2023-07-22 23:39:12

#boobstr

2023-07-20 15:43:18

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I think I made the same mistake last week installing Ubuntu server. Did I miss an option during install, or was I supposed to manually expand the logical volume after OS install? I manually expanded (lvm lvextend ...) the volume after my first attempt to sync filled all available space and froze.

2023-07-12 22:56:04

Helped a friend set this up:
Umbrel node on an old laptop running Ubuntu Server
Cold wallet on second (dedicated) laptop with Coldcard+Sparrow
Watch-only access (for monitoring and deposits) on Android BlueWallet
Both wallets communicate with the node using Tailscale.
Setting this up was a pretty fun project! And that laptop synced up in a day and a half. So much faster then my RPi node (~7d).

2023-07-11 16:51:53

What will it be like when companies and nations that are 'holding' bitcoin at 3rd parties get rugged for hundreds of thousands of BTC? Will we still be assholes for saying 'not your keys, not your coins?' I'm also going on the record now to say, "Your rollback to reclaim your lost coins is just an airdrop for me on your fork. The BTC you thought you had on the actual blockchain (the one my node will remain on) was never really yours at all. So no, you can't get it back."

2023-07-08 16:32:33

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I hope that they all will soon, because it's a really good idea and a great product.

2023-07-08 16:30:04

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I did notice that I have to hold the card still and let it read for longer than I would have thought. It's not a tap like an NFC credit card, more like a prolonged conversation between card and phone. (Sorry if this is too basic and unhelpful.)

2023-07-08 16:27:07

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Just read the full interview you linked, it's really good!

2023-07-07 16:22:18

I've spent nearly a decade trying to get better at something I'm not really very good at: bjj. This pursuit has improved nearly every aspect of my life. There are physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, and even financial benefits I never anticipated.
If you're sitting there doom scrolling right now, find a local gym and ask about a free trial (most will give you at least a free week). Don't worry, you don't have to get in shape first, they'll help you with that. Just check your ego at the door- it's likely that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. In fact, that's the first and maybe the best lesson of all.

2023-07-07 15:35:36

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Just tried, and now it's working. As I was hoping, it did eventually fix itself. (I made no changes.)

2023-07-07 15:34:50

Good morning!

2023-07-06 17:10:26

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I'm using Chrome.

2023-07-05 15:42:18

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I'm having the same problem, and haven't figured out a fix other than switching to snort.social and waiting to see if primal fixes itself.

2023-07-01 22:38:00

I'm sitting here just clicking zap, zap, zappity zap.
Spewing out sats in exchange for posts that amuse me.
Really enjoying my weekend so far...

2023-07-01 18:16:19

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Lately, I'm using coracle.social and loving it!

2023-05-16 14:47:17

At least the AI doom porn is distracting the geriatric rulemakers from Bitcoin.

2023-05-13 14:39:41

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Recipe for slavery: Greatly increase the cost of health care, then tie it to employment.

2023-05-13 14:36:03

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Me too. I love Primal, and get sad every time I try zapping someone! Soon.

2023-05-13 14:35:13

Satoshi didn't lecture people much about what they ought to do. He built something and said, "Here, use this, it's better."
Next time I tell someone they are 'doing bitcoin wrong,' I hope I can remember this.

2023-05-13 14:29:42

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You are making at least one incorrect assumption about mine.

2023-05-13 14:28:44

In From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy, Hoppe put this in my head on the very first page: What happens when society allows or mandates ANY transfer of ownership (of anything) by any means other than mutual consent, even if 'legal' such as taxes or court order?
If a thief's cost of punishment is less than the value of the goods stolen: more thieves. 'Minor' crimes in very liberal cities, Banking, etc. Much worse if you're not even allowed to resist the thief!
If the courts can reassign ownership, the political class has a license to steal anything they want. Thieves will become 'lawmakers' and people who want free stuff will lobby for favorable new laws. (Ayn Rand explained the 'moochers' very well.) There will also have to be laws passed against self defense against such theft. 'Gun control' = only the takers can have guns.
People can be scared into supporting all this. 'Pass this law unless you want more children MURDERED.' More and more theft will be justified over time.
There is also the party whose property was taken from them against their will. What will they do besides complain or move on? Eventually, everyone has their own last straw.
And there are the people on the sidelines watching. What happens when you see that nothing you have is truly yours? What if you look around and see other people taking whatever they can get ahold of, with no consequence?
That's just what popped into my head at first blush, now I can read on and see how much better Hoppe fleshes this all out! :)

2023-05-11 22:04:29

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What would happen if someone else got into that safe? Could that person figure it out too? (Yes, I am super paranoid about my sats.)

2023-05-11 15:50:07

I'm not interested in paying someone to help me with my "bitcoin retirement planning," because one of two things will happen before I die:
1: My family will stop rolling their eyes when I mention bitcoin, learn to use it, and I'll explain to them how to access whatever I want them to have access to.
OR
2: They'll keep on ignoring my advice, and my sats will stay right where they are, forever.
I'm rooting for #1, but I'm good either way.

2023-05-08 19:52:35

Check out this tx from block 788826:
0c68fc4441a394ecf7d9f765a983f12b0e2730f71e045d77799543e8d106a62b
63k sats/vB for a 158vB tx = 10,000,000 sat fee, or $2,746.
Must have REALLY wanted a quick confirmation!
Think this was a mistake, or is there some other plausible explanation?

2023-05-08 19:40:38

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bjj

2023-04-22 18:01:36

I wish Fold would make one simple change to the app. After I spin and am shown my reward, there is a 'claim rewards' button. Please add a 'Fuck you, Fold.' button. Then I can just hit that and skip the part where I come on here and bitch about how bad the rewards suck now.

2023-04-22 17:59:17

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I dunno why I bother opening my app in the morning. Holdover from the daily spin habit I guess. Today I 'won' 5 sats on my morning spin. Soon I will switch to a dollar rewards card (that I don't have to tediously preload constantly) and just buy sats with those rewards. More sats, less braindead tedium. Fold, I loved you once, but right at the moment- not so much.

2023-04-22 17:32:46

Well would ya look at that. A cleared mempool in 2023. Wasn't sure I'd see it- was told I wouldn't!

2023-04-20 23:46:03

If you memorized a pin, passphrase, or seed words, you now have valuable, globally liquid secrets. So, when someone asks me what I do for a living, I think I'm going to say, "I safeguard valuable globally liquid secret information. It's pretty fun."

2023-04-16 15:38:36

Fold App nerfed their spin rewards hard. 10 spins just netted me 115 sats. A dick joke on nostr would probably take less effort and earn more in zaps! Trying to think of a good dick joke now...

2023-04-15 01:35:53

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Privacy is the compromise I didn't like making, but works for my "sats I don't send to cold storage and want to spend or play with" wallet.

2023-04-15 00:37:50

I set up Sparrow on my PC and Nunchuk on my phone, using the same seed and Tapsigner for both. I can track balances or spend from either PC or Mobile, but can't sign anything w/o the Tapsigner. Not exactly hot, not exactly cold; is this a warm wallet?

2023-04-09 17:33:06

Just had a 2.1 sat/vB tx confirm in 5 seconds. Big mempool, but virtually all at 2.0 and below...

2023-04-09 16:22:47

Has anyone set up a Coincorner Bolt card in a "restricted" region by using a VPN? Wondering if I should bother trying...

2023-04-06 23:58:44

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Looking at a note I left for myself on my desk:
"Nobody, NOBODY really cares what you think."