I'm the BTC tech guy in my IRL circles. Knowing what I know about me, that's kinda sad. I mean... I know what I know, but I know what I don't know too. They have no idea how far behind they are if they're looking to me.
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Last Notes npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool "It goes without saying....", is the mother of self refutation. Oddly enough, it's one of the things that could mostly go without saying. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Yes. It's all been said. But not everyone has heard it. Be patient. It won't really hurt to hear it again. It won't hurt... you. It may hurt the person who didn't get to hear it. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool By clowns. Yes, like the ones who don't make me laugh. Yes, the ones from the circus... the ass clown circus. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool sweet! npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I gathered that after I posted. lol Nostr needs that delete button. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool You also plucked your private key (nsec) into whatever client/app you used to post this. Now they have it.... and the next app/client... and the next... Many of the apps/clients are new, experimental and buggy. They could get hacked or sell or leak your private key/nsec... the password to your identity in the nostr world. This is what Alby or another 'key signer' does. They provide proof that you own your public identity without handing over your private key. Seems trivial at first, but it's important. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Just started playing with private rooms yesterday with 0xChat. https://www.0xchat.com/#/ npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Test from 0xchat. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Thars a 'g' in War-shin-ton? mmm whoda thunk npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Building would be great. I'm doing my part but... The number of nodes and channels are at three year lows and falling steadily. Capacity is still okay. This shows consolidation among fewer and larger nodes who seem to channel more with each other than with smaller nodes. It's a market. I get it. It's plenty diversified and decentralized for my comfort.... for now. Like many, I hope my node earns a useful spot among the survivors enough to support the network and at least it's own expenses. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool @npub152v…uta2 's point as well as @npub1h8n…rpev 's response made me think. I started a longer response, but it was too much. I was left with this. What, most certainly is comming, will be very painful. I can't stop it. I've found my best shot at getting thru. Im headed that way. I can't save many, certainaly not everyone. I can point at the tidal wave with one hand and at the life boat with the other. Beyond that, me and mine take first priority. I will remember sadly those who drown. I will not feel guilty for what I didn't/couldn't do for them. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool @npub1h8n…rpev | |In a recent BitcoinAudible I recall you saying you were tempted to reproduce your voice with AI on an episode to see if anyone would notice. While listening to the book I had to wonder. At one point in the book the topic of Mt. Gox was included. I noticed it was pronounced EmTe Gox, every time. I found myself asking, is that a Guy/AI voice, was it a pun you introduced for 'empty gox' or was it maybe spelled that way in the book as a point of humor. Or, heaven forbid, did you just pronounce 'Mt.' (mount) wrong? LOL It would be funny if you or the book did 'empty' on purpose, but I'm just curious. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool @npub1h8n…rpev Anyone else expect the bumper music to start at the end if every sentence? Thanks Guy. Great read! #note1kds…c9gv npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I was going to figure out how to set this phone app up for zaps so I don't have to keep track of who I owe thanks and zap at home. Thanks for the heads up. Zap you in a few hours. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I was reading how micro-dosing could help Alzhimers (my Mom). Not a cure. but emotional help. Problem was, it's not my thing and certainly not hers. She would not approve of an all out trip. Plus, she is advanced enough that it could be a bad experience. However, I/we have no experience and no way of knowing what a "micro-dose" of shrooms would even be. Then, not being connected to source.... there is prison. Something so effective and so simple yet so far out of reach. It's criminal. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool They've done the same with micro-doses of Psilocybin. Doses so small there was zero hallucination. Folks barely even felt any effect. But, they opened up and talked more in group and private therapy. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Okay! That's what I'm talking about. I started on the free stuff. Will do some more then probably sign up. Again, thank you so very much. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Yes, a hard fork is different than a 51% attack. A 51% attack would use the current rules of Bitcoin Core (including the 21mil cap) to gain the majority of hash rate. This would allow them to validate fraudulent blocks to the chain, but under the current rules so other nodes (not part of the attack) would validate them. They could only steel or double spend coins in recent transactions as they include them in the new blocks they mine. Older transactions could not be changed. The chief defense against this in BTC is cost. Unless one hacks into 3-5 of the largest mining pools at the same time and controls them long enough to write fraud blocks of value to them, the last estimate of cost I've seen is above $7billion dollars worth of miners plus the operating costs of them. Next it would ruin the value of the coins they are steeling. I'd say, while technically possible, it's practically impossible now that the network is so large and robust. A hard fork on the other hand can be done by just one person and cheaply. However, you have to sell that idea to the world and hope people (and miners) follow you so much that the idea of what Bitcoin is changes. Good luck with that. Miners have to think your new idea of increasing the cap will make them more money. Developers, users and node operators have to operate and build upon the new network you just created. Gaining a cap increase would be a very hard sell. None of the hard forks of BTC to date have even tried to change that rule and there have been many. Most go to zero quickly. Few have held on, BCH, bitcoin gold, bitcoin SV come to mind, but they kept the cap. For my FIL, I would try to ask how he thought this would be done so he could discover, as we discussed the scenarios, that he didn't know what he was talking about. All in a nice way of course. My dad for instance trusts me to understand it for him because he knows I'm not pulling what I have taught him out of my hat. Thus, when the explanations get too deep for him, he believes me when I say, "trust me, it ain't happening." Incidentally, that's why I've learned what I know about this. Telling this to strangers that are just obstinate have made me a bit cynical and eventually I just give them the 'have fun staying poor' line and move on. With my dad part of my 'trust' defense is, "Look Dad, this is where my money is. Your money is my inheritance. I don't wanna screw that up either. Plus, you're my dad. If I'm wrong, I bare the cost by having to take care of your needs if you go broke. I'm that confident." npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Diluting their holdings. Yes and No. They have a wallet with the current rules as would everyone. It has addresses with balances. New rules are applied by any miner as a hard fork. He has created a new chain with a new wallet. The wallet he has on the old chain still has exactly the same amount of coins under the old rules. He now also has that exact same amount of coins under the new rules in a new wallet. Effectively doubling the total number of coins. Theoretically, the value per coin is split in half but the volume is doubled. Time and the market will decide if his total holdings on two chains are worth more or less than the original value on the original chain would have been. Note I called them old chain and new chain. The market will also decide which one is 'real' Bitcoin, not simply the longest chain. Yes my opinion is the longest chain should be called BTC and Bitcoin. In the fork, my number of coins double as well. I would probably pretty quickly sell my coins on the new chain and by more coins on the old chain. This mass action is what will make the longest chain, show where the value is considered to be and determine who is best and is BTC. A new chain with more coins would dilute that value, on that chain, as your percentage of the whole would be smaller. Lets say they doubled the 21mil market cap to 42mil while the price was at $10 but, people loved the new chain and it's price quickly went to $20. I have that smaller percentage but my $ valuation remains the same, plus I still have my coins on the old chain. The old chains coin value should go down in this scenario but the over all market could expand with new money and keep them both up in price. Not likely but possible. The miners biggest disincentive is the wasted electricity and downtime on what is historically a loosing proposition. BCH did okay for a while but look at BSV and others. They quickly lost a lot of hash power and turned out to be a pretty big waste of miners efforts (money)... but some do still mine them. Further if there is a hard fork. My node does not just look for the longest chain. It looks for the longest chain that complies with the rules of my node. The new chain's blocks simply would not be validated by my node as it didn't follow my (the old) rules. I either update my node to the new rules or I stay on the old chain no matter how long the respective chains are. I could also fire up a second node for the new chain and have both two wallets and two nodes while the market decides the winner. Lastly, a 51% attack can do a host of bad things and cause a lot of major problems. One thing it can't do is change the core set of rules simply because they have the majority of hash and thus require new rules like some kind of hostile takeover. That would require a hard fork whether 51% went with the new chain or not. My confidence on this reply is fairly high but I could have some details wrong. Also, sorry so long. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool What a coincidence. My Dad chose the same thing. It's really a bull market. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Looks beautiful. Is that epoxy on top? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool BTC OG and truck driver here. Good ole fashioned (but we'll read) hick. There are many of us. I think we just tend to read more and follow what we're interested in. We take action on our smaller scale, in person where it will have more impact on the life of our communities. Head down, get it done. Nature will take its course. I know my place. Good things sell themselves. I talk to my locals more than anything. They aren't here.... yet. Of course, this is just my perspective, preference and experience. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Not at issue for me. Neither side is good on BTC, finance or economics as a whole. Trumps opponents want me dead. Trump does not. Can't spend anything if you're dead. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Had never heard of him. Just listened to a bit of an interview and read a couple of book summaries. We would agree about recognizing reality for what it is and living in the world according to it. That's a big deal to me. I would say our approaches or sources of data about reality are probably different and we might often come to similar conclusions from different premises and axioms. I don't know how he would view freedom/liberty vs binds/slavery from his axioms. I just know that the idea that we are either literally free to do anything we could wish or we are somehow a slave, doesn't reflect reality in myriad ways. Liberty, freedom, ownership, property etc... aren't (as most people casually think of them) reflective of reality. I often use basic language to reflect on these things to get at reality. For instance, "freedom isn't free", is nonsense to me. It's in the very words themselves. If it isn't 'free' then it isn't FREEdom. Now lest examine, 'nothing is free'. I can find a 'cost' to just about everything, no matter how small, so that seems to better reflect reality. If so then, 'there is no freedom' in that strict sense, seems more accurate. Then I make the finner distinctions between 'freedom' and 'liberty' to see how they apply. Finally I asked myself (for a reality check), does anyone actually want (highly prize) freedom or liberty? I don't think either is in most peoples top 10 even. In reality, we were taught in the Western Enlightenment World, that freedom and liberty were the necessary means to achieving all the things we really value. Thus, the means have come to be the ends. So, face reality. What do we really want? What are those close to universal desires that we all seem to share? If we could have them without any liberty or freedom, would we care about liberty and freedom so much? Would our lives be 'better' without placing those two things at the center as an end in themselves? I've concluded they would. I've discovered that pre-Enlightenment thinkers approached liberty and freedom from a different place. F&L were tools granted to those who are able to use them for their best good and the good of the world. Those not capable of using them properly were not granted them, for their own good and the good of the rest of us. I'm blathering again. GN npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I think I was captivated most by the description of it as a prison more than a question of ownership/property and economic value. My point was basically that this view is fairly relative and subjective. Relative to the amount of wealth one has. Relative to how much one values 'things' individually, and both tangible and intangible things. How we view all this interwoven mess is according to our preferences and our choices. Let us say, I live in an apartment and I'm a multi-millionaire. I have a dozen classic and exotic cars that I love. In this scenario, the cars are the prison. Or as I said the record collection that's too big to 'escape' with. Plus, the cars are taxed as property as well in many jurisdictions, so do I really own those either? Their value also varies somewhat based on where I try to sell them and how quickly. Now my kids. They're grown. Lets say they don't agree with me about escaping. I'll not leave them behind. I don't think they are a prison. They are a chosen priority based on my preferences. In conclusion, all our priorities and choices act to bind us to something, to some degree. A place, a law system, a community, culture, family etc... The idea that this binding is imprisonment is simply an attitude or state of mind.... a choice about how to think about it. It ceases being a prison the moment we stop viewing it as a binary of free as a bird or bound as a prisoner. The truth is somewhere in between and differs for each person. The real estate is bound to a location, by physics. You are only bound to it by how much you value it and what goes along with it. Your value of it is always going to be different than the economic market value of it because part of the value you place on it is personal, or not I guess. For me, there is no escaping my 'home', real estate or not. What I value there binds me to it more than any market value. If I can't be there with the irreplaceable family, friends, community, geography, climate, culture etc... because I must escape, my refuge becomes my prison as I am kept from what I value most in this world. But, I agree. Choosing to be anywhere to some degree binds one to a place and all that comes with it. Even the nomad is, at a minimum, temporarily bound the moment they stop for the night somewhere. Sorry, I get long winded. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Your car, toilet, or record collection (any property) could be spoken of the same way. What makes real-estate special in this regard? Anything could be an obstruction to escape if you value it enough to not leave it behind. Yet... I don't think of my children as a prison. There is something wrong with the proposition. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I was going to say, 'you don't want to know'. Looking at other responses, I'll modify that to, I don't want to say. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Liquid is a federated and mostly automated trusted third party (Blockstream and their federation partners in this case). Lets pretend they are me. Give me your bitcoin on the main chain or through lightning. Me and the federation will keep it safe. We'll give you our asset (liquid) in exchange. It has cheap tx fees and is faster than the BTC main chain. You will own your keys and assets will be in your control... on our chain and within our federation/partners. Oh, we have other assets on the Liquid network you can trade for as well with very low fees. We're a lot like a shitcoin exchange in that way except don't think of that. We like to call it investing, "in companies you believe in without relying on a broker or bank." We'll preserve your privacy. You can't spend your Liquid assets in as many places as BTC or lightning but we're working on that. Not saying it's a bad idea. Just describing it in simple terms. Lightning? Run your own node, process your own payments. But, manage your channels yourself to keep liquidity balanced enough to spend and receive. Or, trust another third party (lightning service provider LSP) to keep good liquidity for you at a small fee by running a giant routing node that'll get your BTC anywhere quickly. In short they are complementary in some ways and competing in others. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool The 80's flashback for me included a permanent scar. It wasn't a wheel. I dropped my wheelie too soon and the sprocket caught on the ledge.... face plant from 6 feet or so up with the leverage of the spinning bike .... 5 days in the hospital... 80's so of course, no helmet. Us latch key kids are so lucky to be alive. lol npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool No.... you should say anything you like. It helps identify you and make distinctions of morality and character. It's good to know who might want to eradicate others. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Cute. "try to describe" vs what you actually said which is how to get there, by eradication. How exactly do you think the average person thinks the eradication of humans you hate happens? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Turns out the question should be for you too. But, I found my answer, "If Elon Musk is your idea of a sovereign individual, then our goal as a society should be to eradicate all sovereign individuals." You too are a murderous hater of those you disagree with. https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqap52rqkld36p6ts3k0flzv9vqxncr07meg6e58fszwh9yyjgcw4qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqst7ylvhk9lzay0vs99zatksdf7c69h484v7nr6hqutt745pxe4efsqrvqph npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Reporting news and advocating action are two different things. Trump is Hitler is not news. It isn't even true. Maga means Nazi is not news. It isn't even true. Yet it was reported on over and over again for years. They chose which pundits to give air time to. They choose which of the things they say to feature. Perhaps they 'call what they see'. If so, they are part of the problem. Ethics discussions for decades have often centered around the question, "If you could go back and kill Hitler in the cradle would it be ethical to stop what happened?" The overwhelming answer is usually, 'of course. It seems to even be a moral imperative.' Who does not know what we are being told when people call someone Hitler or a Nazi or a Fascist. "Punch a Nazi", meaning any political conservative (of which I am not one). When 'news' shows aired pundits who wished the knife attacker (assassination attempt) openly and publicly wished he had succeeded. Who does not know what we are being told when simple normal people are referred to as 'domestic terrorists' because they like a political candidate. These things are not news. They are advocacy. Saturday someone did what they've been suggesting for YEARS. They killed one heroic father in the process. They, the reporters, the pundits, the leftist mud slingers. I'm old enough to remember when "right wing radio" was criticized for talking as they did because it 'could' cause violence. Shoes on the other foot except it DID cause violence and death. Even though a heroic father is dead, and a president shot, pundits are still lamenting he didn't kill Trump and "news" is still giving it air time. That's advocacy. Leftists want their political and cultural opponents dead. They talk this way for a reason. They don't get airtime if 'the news' doesn't think it's a good idea. Maga's president is shot and look at all the riots in the streets. Oh wait..... there were none. While on the other hand the rhetoric leads to violence, riots and murder and the left calls it 'mostly peaceful' and some openly call for more of it. "Take it to the streets." "Get in their face." "They must be given room to destroy." Knowing full well that 'destroy' includes killing people. It's okay, the dead are folks they hated anyway. Of course you have no idea what I'm talking about. Because it's the truth. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Sounds like he learned well from the leftists tactics durring the long march. Almost every description of his activities sounds like the leftist of the US.... except they don't hate their people and call them Nazis, terrorists, or a threat to their country and wish them dead, like the left does here. Curious, do you advocate what the press and pundits advocated for that resulted in the assignation attempt? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I wasn't a Trump supporter. They (not he) shot at me and millions of people like me. They've been 'aiming' for years. "Ultra Maga", 'The Red Speech', "Domestic Terrorists"..... etc... on and on it goes for years now. They hate me and mine. Trump was just to be the effigy of so many of us. That's the ONLY message you should get. That's the only message and lesson to be learned and shouted from the roof tops. They hate us and want us dead. When will we stop picking at the edges of conspiracy and competency crisis and just say, "I don't want my family, community and culture killed. That is the goal and I've had enough." I don't give a crap about the logistics or speculation of any conspiracy or competency crisis. That misses the point completely and gets us doing anything but looking at the truth. Telling the truth. THEY WANT YOU DEAD. FULL STOP. WHAT ARE YOU OR I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Complain? Discuss, debate? Divide over speculative versions of details? That's all equal to doing nothing. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool The media and pundits and the left have been calling him Hitler for years. Calling normal people Hitler for years. THEY did this. Ethics classes for decades have asked and discussed the question, 'if you could kill Hitler before he took power, should you?' The most prevalent answer has always been, 'it seems like it would be imperative to kill him.' Why oh why!?!?? are we discussing such details. They want us dead. He is just the image of someone who doesn't hate us. They shot at you. These details about conspiracy, competency crisis etc.... DO NOT MATTER!! Remember "The Red Speach" and those terrible, dangerous "Ultra Maga Republicans". They want us dead. This was inevitable. That is what maters. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Had to put on your reading glasses to take the test..... 1 point npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Congrats! .... and thank you so much!! npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool All kinds of ideas here, plus testing and comparing methods. https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnWoodsMousetrapMonday/featured npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool The US Gov is hinting that creating and/or using a self custody wallet may just be operating as a money service business. This is a self custody wallet with privacy features. If you keep one in your back pocket, watch your literal ass. https://m.primal.net/ICNB.jpg npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I did the deal. I also watched the whole thing. Great extemporaneous flow, especially for a first shot! When you think he's ready, I have a gift. It's in great shape and I never use it anymore since I upgraded. Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. It needs a home anyway, and if it inspires dedication, I think grandpa knows how it feels to receive gifts from listeners. All he'll need is USB 2.0 and a mic (maybe some earbuds depending on production style). The Focusrite is basic but pretty darn good quality. Let me know. We'll figure it out. Shipping is on me too. https://image.nostr.build/83497ffed605a63836698bb4abc2f4a8484e3c93184972bf56f11f3924597f2a.jpg npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Sometimes these days sophistry feels like it might just be an upgrade in many situations. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Not a new key. A new address. Yes in the same wallet. Just click on what ever button is for receiving. If there is another button for 'new address' click that (most good wallets give you a new address each time anyway). Copy that address to the clipboard. Then go to send, select all the BTC you want to consolidate and paste in the 'receive address' you just copied. (check the first and last few characters to make sure you have it all)Pick your fee and hit send. This is also called a self-send. Most consolidate UTXOs within the same wallet unless there is something wrong with the wallet. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Is there new news or did you just switch wallets? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool As he said toward the end. The legacy actors have shareholders. If they can and do cause a fork and THEY choose one for THEIR customers, THEIR customers ONLY get only one coin. I get both. They can pick one for their customers because they have custody. Not your keys..... They don't have custody of my coins, nor should they yours. My node, my rules. They don't just need a bunch of coins, they need a bunch of miners and a bunch of nodes to change the rules. Sure, some or even many miners will follow their lead until it becomes less profitable. The difficulty will adjust and tick tock next block will continue for BTC. It's not like this is something new. The Block Size Wars showed us how this will end. They'd fail at their fiduciary responsibility if they chose one fork, but that's not my problem. He also repeated that everyone he complains about is only interested in NGU. Many of us on 'team orange' as he calls it aren't in it for NGU. That's just a byproduct. A price crash from a Legacy system dump only benefits HODLers in the long run while it will weaken team legacy. I will have more of what will always be BTC and they will have legacy's version which will eventually fall as it will basically become a fiat. Over 50% of the total supply is in the hands of HODLers. If team legacy finance dumps it, they'll have even more. The volume in stable coins matters little as they are all fighting over the small % which is for sale. The volume is high because of traders and speculators. As the trading supply reduces even further due to ETFs (which by definition will move toward Hodling status as well) the all important (to some) volume of stable coins will drop as well except as it correlates to the rise in price of the assets it's chasing. I don't know anyone who holds stable coins for anything except trading. It's the only place it makes sense. You either have stable coins to trade with a goal of increasing fiat or increasing your chosen crypto. Winning and loosing will depend on your end game goal. Mine would be increasing BTC but I don't trade anymore. So, lets say the new system won't let you buy real BTC on their system or without stable coins. What becomes of their new coin and the volume of stable coin trade? There are already markets outside of the legacy (regulated) systems. They'll just grow and multiply to meet demand. Yes things will become more difficult. But, we always knew it would. Regulation always promotes black and grey markets. Hundreds of attempts at various prohibitions have shown this for thousands of years. You can't stop an idea or product who's time has come and is in demand. Rough waters ahead? Probably, but what's new. 'Then they fight you....' has always been on the horizon. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Yes that is consolidating. Although another wallet is not necessary. Just a new address. It doesn't matter what wallet it's in. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool https://stacker.news/items/414232 npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool He did changed his profile "custom message" at Amboss to reflect that we should force close at least a couple of days ago. I was giving him time but that's when I knew. "5/Feb/2024 - need to close down, please force close your channels, sorry" "see (stacker.news/ite... for more info suffered penalty tx, pls see this to return funds to me" npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Progressive ideology has its roots in Enlightenment philosophy. That was the beginning of "progress". How deeply are we willing to look for the source of the problem? Because now we are talking about The Founders and their ideological roots. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I'm on the other end.... GN Nostr. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Poor fella. I'm watching a short 'bad cop' video. The guy is in cuffs in the car and they're going through his wallet on the body cam and out comes a paper wallet (BTC) then I see a list of 24 words with "Ledger" written in the lower corner. They just basically doxed this guy's Ledger wallet. I hope he moved his funds before the video was posted. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool This is why we loose sight of the sun. The swarm will get you if you go outside. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool It's kind of like @nprofile…h5g2 talked about once and is a common phrase in that community now: 'You don't want a drill. You want a hole.' Maybe a drill isn't the thing to make this hole. Maybe Enlightenment principles aren't the things that bring; health, prosperity, happiness and safety. At least not for everyone. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Humans don't even want freedom/liberty. They want health, prosperity, happiness and safety. The assumption is that liberty gives us all of that or at least that it can. All the things we want are down (world wide aggregate) since The Enlightenment told us we wanted liberty and we began to reach for it. The truth is if you don't have a basic minimum of those four, you'll trade all you liberty for as much of them as you can get. The more a society has libertarian freedom, the less health, prosperity, happiness and safety it's members have on aggregate. Bigger winners, more loosers. BTC is merely the hope that I get to be a winner in this cycle. Be optimistic. Because BTC will fix a lot of things. It won't fix them with Enlightenment principals. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Repeat: I sous vide almost everything these days and get more of a steak than a roast. Did a London Broil about a month ago. It was awesome! I think I had it in the Sous Vide water for about 12ish hours to make it as tender as possible then seared it in a pan with either bacon grease or ghee, can't remember. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I sous vide almost everything these days and get more of a steak than a roast. Did a London Broil about a month ago. It was awesome! I think I had it in the Sous Vide water for about 12ish hours to make it as tender as possible then seared it in a pan with either bacon grease or ghee, can't remember. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Perhaps show her a TX in the mempool with the fee set at 25sat/vB? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I see lots of people using the term 'grok' in ways that are foreign or just counter to its meaning. Language evolution both fascinates and frustrates me. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool ps found you on the orange pill app.... npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool It'll show up soon after entering the mempool as 'unconfirmed'. You'll get at least one notification on the first confirmation when it is included in a block. You'll see a circle on the line item for the TX. It's a pie chart with six slices, one filling in for each confirmation. It will remain until you have 6 confirmations, then it's a done deal and the pie chart will go away. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool The individual states have always been free to declare themselves countries and join other states in a federation.... or should I say Confederation.... oh.... that's been tried. Still free to try again though. It was legal then, the ConUS didn't protect them. It won't protect any one next time either. Either the Fed has the POWER to stop it, or they do not. The Constitution had/has nothing to do with it. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool It's metal, plastic and/or wood. I'm not bothering to justify the form it's in. It's property. If I've harmed no one, I should be allowed to own any piece of property..... and I will own said property. even if it resides at the bottom of a lake near where I fish. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Puussshhhhinngg zap button. Nothing happens. Get your wallet set up. lol Welcome. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Yay!! My node forwarded it's first payment today. Look out world! npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Translation: Hi. My name is Sybil. Vote for us. We have you covered. Depending on where we are and who's in charge that day. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool ..... Just figured out how to repay him the kindness. His birthday is coming in May. Ordering a Coldcard soon to wrap it in. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I really want to say, "Just stop that! For God's sake buy some bitcoin for yourself and your family!" npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Just a passing thought about one of my best friends. It feels a little odd that I'm grateful that he didn't get me ANOTHER gun this year for Christmas. Anyone have a friend that is just so generous that it makes you feel a little guilty when you know his economic level is similar to yours? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool My kids are so used to their phones and using computers. Neither of them have any idea how they work. One doesn't even have anything but his phone. Tech savvy is moving backward for some as convenience and taking the tech for granted is taking over. Perhaps it's just me and mine. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Anyone know what the longest block time record is. That last one was 2hrs and 25 minutes? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool These are facts. Here is a possible ending somewhere down the line. (think gold): The custodian, who is very close to the money printer (if not conspiring with it), sees the looming collapse. The cantillian beneficiary goes to the spigot for one last huge draw, meets the market and basically buys out your paper and splits the BTC with the money printer. They legally own the BTC now. You think great!! What a huge leap and look at the price they bought me out at! Next morning you go to the grocery store to find that your money won't even buy breakfast. Translation: When she finds another fool. She signs over the house you paid for to the boyfriend, wipes her ass with the marriage certificate and goes about her merry way while you console yourself by befriending the guy she cucked you for. You're just happy he'll let you move back in the house till he sells it. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Dead Pool. Who's the last one standing? 1. Ethereum 2. Dogecoin 3. US Dollar 4. Honey Badger 5. Keith Richards That last one has you worried doesn't it. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Run Bird! RUN!!! npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool This is the way! Been getting this prepared recently. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Tip for ya. I do use Ancestry dotcom. However FamilySearch.org is free and easier to use once you get the hang of it. I use them both. Now.... guess what? Both are owned and operated by the LDS church (the Mormons). They run on a very large percentage of the same data bases. One notable difference. FamilySearch runs one global family tree and everyone is free to work on it. Therefore you might, from time to time, find that the tree is tweaked a bit on one of your branches by someone else. They may be right... they may be wrong. In general it improves with time like wiki. Because of this method, you might just enter in a couple generations back and suddenly a connection is made and the entire tree from there back is pretty much complete. Please for the sake of others though. If you make changes to any part of the tree, please be pretty sure you are correct. There are places to add documentation and reasons you made the change etc... like a change log so everyone can see new info and reasons. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Plus if you eat a proper human diet, don't poison yourself and use natural holistic medical practices, you're very unlikely to ever have to fight cancer to begin with. An ounce of prevention.... npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Having quit all corporate social about 5 years ago, I'm the more engaged here than I've ever been anywhere else. See what I did? I don't even know you and I just engaged. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool It really does kill on one end and cripples on the other. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool A small zap to get you started on uploading your podcasts. It costs 10k sats for permanent 2gig of storage. I couldn't find where you could host your own videos as he said in the his presentation. I assume that is coming or it's tech that's over my head at the moment. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Oh... let me know how you like the Jade after you play with it for a while. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I think it has potential if it catches on. When fees get way too high for you and me to operate on the main chain, we can move large spending chunks into LBTC with only one TX fee. There is some trust involved with the node federations backing 1:1 with BTC, but if they do (verifiably), then our value would be maintained while getting lower fees in spending. Much like gold backed paper that should be easier to audit and verify. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Oh... one last thing.... Don't set up any wallets in the Green mobile app to 'play' with if you plan on deleting them later. You can't. You have to uninstall the wallet to get rid of them. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Just experimenting? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool PS. Just experimenting? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I'm looking into lightning on Green now so I looked around a bit for that too. 1. Set up a LBTC wallet in Green. 2. Go here: https://help.blockstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000630846-How-do-I-get-Liquid-Bitcoin-L-BTC- You'll see that the easiest way is to buy it on an exchange that will let you withdraw it as LBTC. There is a tutorial for SideSwap there. That's what I would use. SideSwap is available for ios, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux. It'll be another wallet but if you are only using it to swap it should be empty most of the time. Be aware of fees. Like lightning there is a BTC onchain fee to peg in and out. Also like lightning the fees are lower while using LBTC (which currently has pretty low adoption for regular use.) npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Oh and technically Paynyms are not 'from Samourai'. It's a payment protocol already within BTC but as far as I know only Samourai and Sparrow have implemented it in a wallet so far. https://samouraiwallet.com/paynym npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Craig Raw gave us Sparrow wallet. It's free and open source. It is BTC only. The best desktop/laptop wallet out there, period. It will connect to public nodes, private nodes, TOR nodes, Electrum nodes, YOUR NODE... It is coded to work with Whirlpool and Paynyms from the Samourai team. Works well with almost all hardware wallets. Links where you can read to get caught up. Feel free to ask questions as well. https://sparrowwallet.com/ Samourai runs Whirlpool (sorta... mostly). Samourai has an awesome Android wallet but no desktop. Sparrow is desktop but no Android (IOS is just out at this point). You can have the same wallet in both Samourai and Sparrow so problem solved. Whirlpool is a CoinJoin system where the ownership of your BTC can be obfuscated better than anywhere else. https://samouraiwallet.com/ https://docs.samourai.io/whirlpool Happy learning!! npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool As long as I don't use it with live, I'm good right? It secures a well mixed stack in sparrow right now that I don't want to move? I began a cold card stack a while back in Sparrow just after the 'backup' feature, but the Sparrow/Ledger will be basically good forever, yes? npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool It's a self licking ice cream cone and self fixing problem rolled into one. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I don't pay fees. @npub1cn4…3vle does. Thanks Jack!! Fees go up. More hodling. More hodling? Less circulating supply, supply and demand. NGU, more incentive for good projects like liquid, fedimint, lightning, nostr etc.... EVERYTHING IS GOOD FOR BITCOIN! npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Still so many people that I've told before: 'No really, remember whe I told you at $3k and 7k, 10k, 20, .... and remember when it was in the upper 60s and I said maybe you should wait? Remember when it was back down in the mid 20s and you gave me shit later cause it got to the mid teens? Member when it was back in the mod 20s again and I called you? Then again in the 30s and now in the 40s?' God I love them but COME ON! DO IT ALREADY!! 40s is still cheap. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Silly me. I figured out how to turn on the experimental features just after fees went sky high. LOL npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Your health is not my business, however a lipid specialist is one who deals with cholesterol and such lipids as they effect coronary artery disease. If this is the only basic health concern, I'd do some research about whether or not there is really anything to worry about. But for God's sake, DON'T TAKE A STATIN no matter what without doing your own research. Please. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Solo mining at that? Looks fun at least. Would be really cool to see someone find a block with one of these. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool I bet it was Ragnar Danneskjöld reclaiming his tax money. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Everybody's got a plan till they see the fees on mempool. We need to evangelize UTXO management. If you know them and you orange pilled them... you kinda owe them a check in. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Trying primal now. So far it looks better than Iris on the desktop. Will install the android app later. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Heard some podcasts and watched some videos of people talking about and using Blockstream Green with Lightning. Was so excited. Downloaded the wallet. Oh.... that wasn't for the peons yet. When do I get lightning on Green!! I want my.... I want my.... I want my blockstream green. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool Classical Liberalism wasn't the beginning of, "it's someone elses fault." It was however the acceptance, codification and reinforcement of it. From there the responsibilities for your failures were desiminated to the rest of us because the enlightment told us that we could fix you or prevent your failures with enlightenment. What a tangled web we weave. npub1956zhstqunsq2x3yjh4cnt6hgrww06m2ekja5x5m0kqwg82flc5seeng3s NoeBoties_Fool #FreeRoman has other info on Nostr.