@Judge Hardcase
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Recent Notes
I think you're just not thinking big enough:
6-day weeks; with 10 6-week months; plus *5* public vacation days at the end of the year.
The campaign platform writes itself:
"Everyone hates Mondays, right? So, I'm going to ban Mondays."
"Under my plan, your monthly rent pays for 6 weeks; not just 4".
How could you lose?
6-day weeks; with 10 6-week months; plus *5* public vacation days at the end of the year.
The campaign platform writes itself:
"Everyone hates Mondays, right? So, I'm going to ban Mondays."
"Under my plan, your monthly rent pays for 6 weeks; not just 4".
How could you lose?
Sorry, that's cherry picking...
1980: 20 ounces
2020: 30 ounces
Good point. Gold price in 1970 was fixed by law... i.e. not a particularly good baseline from which to measure progress.
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Interesting round-table conversation on @BTC Sessions .
Perhaps most interesting is that all but one of these signing-device spokesmen seemed more interested in not scaring off 'grandma' from self-custody than they are in "don't trust; verify".
Coincidentally, all but one of the corresponding signing-device projects stand to directly benefit by offering to sell their devices - including to 'grandmas'. 🤔
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolz8EI6eYc
Perhaps most interesting is that all but one of these signing-device spokesmen seemed more interested in not scaring off 'grandma' from self-custody than they are in "don't trust; verify".
Coincidentally, all but one of the corresponding signing-device projects stand to directly benefit by offering to sell their devices - including to 'grandmas'. 🤔
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolz8EI6eYc
HOW TO BE YOUR OWN BANK:
Step 1: Do your own due diligence. Get a really good safe. This step is not simple. There is a bottomless pit of things to consider. And ultimately, there is no perfect safe.
Step 2: Do your own due diligence. Don't be satisfied with using a combination that the safe manufacturer provides you. Instead, generate your own combination that you can verify by yourself has in fact been generated as randomly as can reasonably be achieved. This step is very simple. So simple it's not even worth considering skipping. In fact, it should be viewed as borderline malpractice for safe manufactures to be offering to choose a combination for you in the first place.
Step 1: Do your own due diligence. Get a really good safe. This step is not simple. There is a bottomless pit of things to consider. And ultimately, there is no perfect safe.
Step 2: Do your own due diligence. Don't be satisfied with using a combination that the safe manufacturer provides you. Instead, generate your own combination that you can verify by yourself has in fact been generated as randomly as can reasonably be achieved. This step is very simple. So simple it's not even worth considering skipping. In fact, it should be viewed as borderline malpractice for safe manufactures to be offering to choose a combination for you in the first place.
Good morning
Perhaps it's easy to move on from coldcard if you didn't personally get rugged, but we must never forget our fallen brethren... Good honest bitcoiners saving for their futures and famil...
Also, even if you didn't get rugged by a fat, stupid asshole this time, make sure you're taking the proper precautions to not just get rugged by the next fat, stupid asshole.
video from about 50:25 -
I know that a hardware wallet should be required and expected to provide great randomness for seeds. But how do you validate that? So, you know what I mean? Like, if there's no way to validate it, then what's the point? What is the point?
And so, this is again, if you're learning the wrong lessons, the wrong lesson would be, "Thank God I didn't trust NVK. That guy was a dickhead. You know, pat on the back. I was smart not to trust him and so I'm good."
No, that's the wrong lesson.
Or, this is, okay, you know, yeah, this is isolated to this one thing, and if you didn't get taken by this one thing, you're good.
That's not the lesson.
The lesson is, do you actually know that you're good? And how? And I'm sorry, but if you're trusting a hardware wallet, random number generator without seeing like a robust review, I think you're fooling yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la63ROwLCnU
video from about 50:25 -
I know that a hardware wallet should be required and expected to provide great randomness for seeds. But how do you validate that? So, you know what I mean? Like, if there's no way to validate it, then what's the point? What is the point?
And so, this is again, if you're learning the wrong lessons, the wrong lesson would be, "Thank God I didn't trust NVK. That guy was a dickhead. You know, pat on the back. I was smart not to trust him and so I'm good."
No, that's the wrong lesson.
Or, this is, okay, you know, yeah, this is isolated to this one thing, and if you didn't get taken by this one thing, you're good.
That's not the lesson.
The lesson is, do you actually know that you're good? And how? And I'm sorry, but if you're trusting a hardware wallet, random number generator without seeing like a robust review, I think you're fooling yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la63ROwLCnU
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If you're using Bitkey, it's probably because you don't wan't to know or care about that. How does Ledger do RNG? Who knows? I never asked when I first bought one.
That said, my understanding is it's...
Fair. I guess my thinking is that (as many say) 'being your own bank' responsibly requires caring about such things. i.e. get a device that allows you to bring your own seed that you manually created (which is simple enough for just about anyone to learn to do safely) and avoid the otherwise unnecessary risk introduced by an RNG altogether.
Of course, it's trade-offs all the way down, though. I guess Bitkey could makes some sense for someone who understands the risks that come with making those trade-offs... or even for a normie who just doesn't want to be bothered with understanding them. (though, personally, for those people, I think I would be recommending they just stick with CashApp).
Of course, it's trade-offs all the way down, though. I guess Bitkey could makes some sense for someone who understands the risks that come with making those trade-offs... or even for a normie who just doesn't want to be bothered with understanding them. (though, personally, for those people, I think I would be recommending they just stick with CashApp).
Worth playing with. I semi-bricked one because GrapheneOS things, and an update coincidentally fixing the odd bricking path appeared in the Play store a couple days after I contacted support.
It is s...
I know bitkey abstracts away the seed phrase; but, at some level, it must be relying on an RNG for key generation, right? How do you validate that? Or, is the thinking that its multi-sig (albeit, not multi-vendor) is in itself a good enough mitigation against a potential coldcard-like fiasco?
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using device entropy should,
a) NOT be the default, and
b) should be buried behind aggressive warnings NOT to use it
💯 I'm having a hard time coming up with a use-case that even justifies it at all. Maybe for testing purposes only? Regardless "*** Advanced! For EXPERT use only!!! ***" ought to be flashing all over the place.
I'm still just annoyed they bothered to give it an easy button to begin with. And then said that it required more trust, but that you should use it anyway.
Same. I know I never would have used this easy button myself anyway; but, I could easily have led others to a recurring potential for danger (even if I had the foresight to initially warn them).
Now, I don't think I would feel comfortable recommending any signing device that even offers this easy button at all... which is seemingly like all of them. 🤷
Now, I don't think I would feel comfortable recommending any signing device that even offers this easy button at all... which is seemingly like all of them. 🤷
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Gm!
What are your favourite free bitcoin tools?
For me it’s BTCMap, blue wallet, wasabi’s coin join (not technically free but basically), BitKit, stacker news and here
Sparrow wallet by far - even though it's desktop only. For mobile: Nunchuk or Bull Bitcoin depending on the task.
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