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2024-05-15 17:04:47

"Vanguard Adds New $100 Account Closure and Outgoing Transfer Fee"
Just a coincidence that VG never had an exit fee for decades, in Jan 2024 blocks bitcoin ETF buys, then in May 2024 announces steeper exit fee than all of their competitors, right?

2024-05-01 23:38:50

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Shadowbane can always sniff it out though...
https://m.primal.net/ICFw.jpg

2024-04-28 20:46:06

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I'm an advocate of not asking questions that imbue an aspect of social pressure to do a certain thing or tacitly imply that one's timeline should be hastened.
ie if in a relationship, "when are you getting engaged?"
if engaged, "have you set a date yet"?
if married, "when are you having kids?"
These are plans for the partners to decide on their own timelines...or not if that's their prerogative.

2024-04-28 15:33:03

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original Ocean's Eleven, Sammy Davis Jr?
that one gets stuck in my head sometimes too

2024-04-25 00:10:25

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if you were using their coordinator & they go down, just means there won't be any collaborative txns. your utxos will stay as-is.

2024-04-24 23:55:57

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the bitcoin is always in your custody, never the coordinator. they never have/had the ability to stand between you and your sats.

2024-04-23 17:24:06

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If the transaction itself pays to a certain pool's address, that might be out of band in the context that it's not calculated in the txn fee...certainly more transparent than using a credit card to pay a pool to include a txn.
I have wondered about that...if pools currently monitor the mempool for transactions that pay to their own publicly known addresses. One could pay a small txn fee and have one of the outputs be a certain pool's address, so that pool's incentive to include it is much more than other pools'.

2024-03-30 16:50:59

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the physical limitations of gold are what allowed the legacy financial system to insidiously deviate from the gold standard to the debauchery that currently exists

2024-03-06 16:14:15

Sparrow wallet continuing to wipe the floor with other wallets...
#note1uy4…4t2g

2024-01-22 18:56:59

https://image.nostr.build/d1485322b9cfbd128b435bfb3b8b513c1ad6e4c979f1afe60de286d9629c8aca.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=524x499&blurhash=%7CMDJ-Z%3Fv%3FctRM%7CRjV%40j%3Fj%40*0D%25o%23WYozj%5Baej%3DWAyEDiRjt7xuxuaeRjRj%25io%23bIj%5DWCWBWAWAof%25N%25Mt7ogbIWUafoLofRjMxIAWCbIj%5DofV%40ayE1IUM%7Bj%5Bt7ofayWBay%25NtRWBflWBRjofj%5Bj%5B%25MogaeaeWBWCozoff6&x=1233d2b1aa0bff6bf1b6ad483c9d66afd4766c701b9a90d3a21168a999fbd9f1

2024-01-11 22:37:48

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A reminder to those affected that value in your brokerage account isn't actually yours...what you hold, buy and sell is at the pleasure of daddy custodian.
When your value is in sats, it's been set free, to do with whatever you wish.

2024-01-11 22:34:44

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What a coincidence! I also sold some dollars today.

2024-01-07 00:54:31

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Is there any other way?

2023-12-22 16:31:44

For anyone wanting to gift on-chain sats to multiple people this season, a way to decrease your transaction fees is to batch the payment into a single transaction. Electrum, blue wallet, and especially Sparrow make this process straightforward.
For Sparrow, when in the "send" tab, just click "+Add" on the right, and you can input the additional addresses and amounts in the new tab.
If you were to gift sats to 5 people, with a fee rate of 150 sat/vbyte, sending to each of them with their own transaction would cost 21k sats per person...sending as a single batched transaction would cost 8k sats per person.

2023-12-21 22:40:29

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Might help you grok this if you mess around with a SHA256 calculator, like https://xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator
Paste in the first paragraph (the description under the calculator, starting with "The SHA") and it'll give you a hash that starts with ae8b.
If I told you to make changes to that paragraph until you generate a hash that starts with 0, you should hit that target once every 16 modifications on average, regardless of if you start adding letters to the beginning, subtracting from the middle, or changing punctuation at the end.
Instead of that paragraph, hashers are using block templates and nonces as inputs. Both can change every time, or just one can change, and the odds of finding a hash below the target isn't affected by which one is changing (or if it's one or both).

2023-12-21 21:53:58

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You have to keep iterating changes, then hashing with SHA256, to keep trying to find a hash under the current target.
A few of these levers are to include/exclude a transaction, reorder transactions, or iterate the nonce.
All hash attempts are equiprobable in finding a valid block, irrespective of which levers you're pulling.

2023-12-20 03:04:56

https://image.nostr.build/9f62c9bddcd970281f874bc97e49c312e0589a0838063c98f8b56ca7f85a3c3e.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=500x635&blurhash=_EEL%3FD%2510058E1%24%24%252%3D%7BWBI%3BIoRixaRj%3FwozDi%250enM%7CkCJ%3AxZw%5DxaNHELt6tmRjV%3FxaM%7BWBofoyI%3BRis.xuxaR-Q-of%25MIpNHt6WB%24*s.IoNGt7oLxt4oWB%25MocxaWXj%5B&x=5ec2afe3c1b6d38536ccac80a768484496c8ed7d58a0d77ee8d732102fd2742f

2023-12-02 15:54:09

I don't listen to a lot of top 40 radio. Hearing some today, and amazed by the lack of original songs.
Almost every song is a rehash/remix of another song from the past few decades.

2023-11-24 11:26:57

some things you can do with any sats you might happen to have in WoS...
(1) Send the sats to another lightning wallet...since WoS was the easiest (and most cucked) mobile lightning wallet available, there's gonna be a learning curve if WoS is the only lightning experience you've had. Breez and Muun are probably now the easiest mobile lightning wallets available. Muntiny can run as a webpage, a cool feature...make sure to keep that seed phrase safe though. The self-custodial lightning wallets will require either your node or a LSP's node operating in the background, and these are the most bulletproof options, with the greatlest amount of logistics required. Bitbanana (previously known as Zap), Zeus, and Blue Wallet are some mobile options here.
(2) Send the sats to yourself on-chain. WoS will send on-chain txns as long as your balance is great enough (probably 10k sats of so). An interesting note is that in order to use WoS to receive on-chain, they charge a 0.5% fee (which is very uncommon for wallets to do and demonstrates that they held the keys the whole time).
(3) Buy something with the sats...some options are Bitrefill, extending your VPN term, or swag from lightning.store.
(4) Donate the sats to your favorite cause.

2023-11-13 17:56:00

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WoS should be considered to have comparable security to the mesh pockets in the waistband of bathing suits.
Could the $5 bill I put in there get swept out to sea? Yes. But I might want a sno-cone, and taking the risk is worth it.
Knowing the risk is indeed important.

2023-11-12 23:38:16

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I say go, especially if they're screening the short film "Stranded"

2023-11-08 18:54:24

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If you can find a place to make bulk purchases of your meat, that can reduce cost considerably. You will probably have to invest in a standalone freezer, however I'd wager it'll pay for itself in under a year.

2023-11-08 17:59:29

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Wicked from Cafe Bitcoin, Rustin from Simply Bitcoin, and Rick from Cryptocloaks

2023-11-05 12:40:22

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@npub1u70…tqna weekly panel on Friday was really great this week

2023-11-03 18:02:29

Stop calling our charade a charade, please.
https://image.nostr.build/69beacbe6b783510d6f45b2b3e6ba82d4a75b5162a181b7f0544c11617016262.jpg

2023-09-17 00:20:10

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Great to have you! Your contributions to the meetup dialogue were awesome.
Cheers to building local communities of bitcoiners.

2023-09-07 18:55:28

#cafebitcoin Sept 6th 2023
"Saving for the long term is really hard in the fiat world. You have to gamble, because you don't know what share of the future you have."
Tomer Strolight

2023-09-06 23:20:47

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If there were a malicious soft fork that still follows current consensus, has majority of hash rate, and many don't agree with it, some nodes would have to be a bit more involved.
Let's say Foundry, Antpool & F2pool all have dominion over the machines running on their pools (which they don't, but let's say they do). They collude (well over 50% of hash), and say they're not including txns that spend from addresses starting with bc1. That'd be allowed by all our nodes, since it's not breaking any existing consensus rules, yet the economic nodes would be highly incentivized to scrap that new more restrictive rule.
There would already be fat fee txns in the mempool that spend from bc1 addresses, and minority miners wanting to include them in blocks. Economic nodes could enter the command "invalidateblock" and use the hash of the first block of that lousy softfork. Once a block is mined by the minority miners that includes a bc1 txn, it would be included in the first block of the chain the nodes want and ignored by the malicious miners. The malicious majority miners could keep mining on their softfork chain, but it includes that block that you invalidated, so you don't care about it. To keep with consensus (and make money instead of bleeding it) they'd have to abandon their soft fork and jump on your chain. You don't ever have to worry about their chain overtaking yours, since it includes that invalid block, however deep down it is.
You could slip into a coma, come out of it 10 years later, plug your node in, and it'll give you the consensus history like it always does.

2023-09-06 22:48:57

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Also, if you're buying a safe from a store, employees with potential backdoor access shouldn't know that one of their safes are in your house, right?
That's one item you probably don't wanna fill out the owner's registration card for...

2023-08-31 15:24:04

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Name
Ph#
DOB
Address
Bank statement
Utilities bill
SS# (which has become de facto national ID in the US)
Pay stubs
W2's
Photo of gov ID
Selfie
Selfie holding gov ID
DNA sample
Photo of taint
Selfie including taint and holding gov ID
???

2023-08-28 20:18:24

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https://nostr.build/av/1a372ea2070e4867b282c13de8d602b85f8e8b8640e1a097e0eaf020df7f0597.mp4

2023-08-28 18:57:49

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Check out open source fitness...dude was talking about it on Blue Collar Bitcoin pod in past few weeks.
Walking 10k steps/day and having an 8 hour eating window are free and promote great health and discipline.

2023-08-28 13:49:18

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Great idea...question about standards/technicals when signing a message proving knowledge of a pubkey associated with a bitcoin address possessing UTXOs of a certain value...
For single sig, it's easy. One privkey-->one pubkey-->one address. Verify the UTXOs on the ledger, here's a signed message corresponding to its pubkey, done.
For multisig, it's more complex. I can give you an address and you can verify the UTXOs, that's easy. But I'd need to give you all of the pubkeys that combine to make the address, so you can calculate it yourself, and then sign however many messages with those individual it would take to reach the spending threshold.
It'd take more effort to create, and more effort to verify. I wonder if there are already standards that exist for this, or if there are any in the works.

2023-08-27 15:38:06

Self-custody does put a lot of responsibility in your hands...all the responsibility, in fact.
If you feel like you're getting in over your head, zoom out, and practice some reps with smaller amounts. Get your coldcard (or whatever cold storage you're using) set up, send 50k sats to it, then back out. With a relatively small amount of sats on it, and with seed in hand, wipe the device, then go through the process of restoring from seed. Keep increasing the amount that you're storing on it as your comfortability level increases.
All these things take time and may seem tedious...it's time well spent. Once you've developed familiarity with these processes, it becomes to feel natural to trust your hodl to your own setup.
Make sure to keep that seed safe...keep it secret, keep it safe.

2023-08-26 17:07:29

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Sly, roundabout way...love it

2023-08-21 19:11:18

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You're spot-on about the debt rolling over being the impetus for more massive QE (aka sanctioned counterfeit of USD)
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/f5feea62f4da11a9262c2d7427bc46f525cddbf9c12e38ef97fca6dcf1f0e5c6.jpg

2023-08-21 18:51:02

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Let's see...that's all the new supply, plus 1,584 more coins, gobbled up per day. If carried on through the current halving epoch, that'd be all new supply + 428k coins. If the same demand remains through next halving epoch, that'd be current supply + about 3m coins over those 4 years.
So call it 3.5m coins over next 4.5 years.
Haven't looked at liquid vs illiquid supply in a while...I think liquid supply is only 1-2 million coins.
The only way that this can carry on is for long-term hodlers to become more enticed by what they can trade their sats than they're enticed by hodling them.
Hodlers are very enticed by holding sats 😎

2023-08-18 19:37:40

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"You're the exit liquidity for their token scam"
Sucks that normies are oblivious to this

2023-08-16 23:07:19

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TIL that inflation is a right-wing talking point.

2023-08-11 15:44:02

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She enjoys enunciating ex-trod-in-ory

2023-08-09 16:13:43

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Sustainable 2-5% daily yield...makes sense.
You could start with $1 and own all the world's assets in under two years at 5% daily return.

2023-07-19 17:10:13

I regrettably am going to discontinue using #orangepillapp. I dig the idea and was able to connect with some bitcoiners, however their marketing has become really sleazy. The bar keeps getting lower. Hopefully they'll change their approach and can earn my recommendation and subscription again.

2023-06-02 18:34:46

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Good source of signal, and Twitter made my account read-only when I wouldn't give them my cell phone number.

2023-05-04 17:06:09

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How does one monetize stolen CC info these days? Not by ordering online and having it shipped to your house...

2023-04-19 18:12:13

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Realistically, you'd need probably 60-70% of hash rate to pull off a sustained 51% attack.
144 blocks/day...having 51% means you would on average mine 3 more blocks/day vs the other chain. Luck comes into play here too...the minority HR chain might have slightly less than 50% of HR, but over the next hour maybe they find 5 blocks and the majority HR chain finds 1.