Oh don’t forget to set up shop over at Bluesky as well. Just don’t say anything that could be considered unkind!

Nice list. I’ve used all except bitkey but I keep seeing it brought up recently. I think blue wallet is a good option for an on chain hot wallet.

Next comes the invention of the Tommy gun, I agree we need open source or we will hamstring ourselves

Genuine question, so a dice cup is a no go? Some point I need to sit down and do more research about paper wallets and dice rolls and the like. Just really not interested in rugging myself lol

Well put, and I agree. The sentiment of this post was the exact reason I switched to Knots support early in the debate. At this point now I’ve lost the plot because I really don’t know the technicals well enough. It’s always in hindsight when things become clear, I can’t believe how easily I was persuaded into buying and using the cold card while having a general understanding of the importance of open source software. I don’t know how this bip-110 will pan out but I do know it’s important to have developers and maintainers in the space that are decentralized, node runners that are decentralized, and miners that are decentralized. I worry about the future of mining decentralization. When the difficulty becomes so hard that only massive conglomerates are able to solve a block what happens then? Similar to housing now with banks and firms buying up the block inflating the market where only the most affluent can own. Fiat debasement is much to blame but that’s a different topic all together.

Thank you Ben. Really appreciate the work and time that you put in. Looking forward to the dice roll video.

My e46 running great 24 years later

I’ve got a random learning story for you. I had a wallet with a pass phrase through sparrow wallet. One time I opened my wallet with a typo in the pass phrase. The wallet still opened but with completely new addresses. I should have seen that there was no past activity on any addresses but I was too new to the space. I sent over some utxos from an exchange and then closed out the wallet once I had a confirmation on chain. Days later I opened my wallet with the correct spelling of the pass phrase and that bitcoin was nowhere to be found. It took me a few days to realize what had happened, weeks of attempts to recreate the typo. Turns out my keyboard or finger didn’t pick up on the first letter of my pass phrase. Incredibly lucky save but also very silly mistake. Anyways, good luck on your learning I feel like lots of people will start using pass phrases and hopefully I can help you or someone from making that mistake!

It all just depends on the type of cooling the center will use. I don’t know anything about the aspect of temperature regulation in a data center, assuming that’s what the water is for. In residential applications there’s Geo thermal open or closed systems, probably involving cooling towers? I doubt that the cold water is taken in, hot water dumped. It would just take way too much water, I don’t think any ground water could support that type of operation for very long. You see this type of head line a lot though with little to no information on the actual water usage.

You know that slug of water at the end of the video absolutely slapped tho