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Oshi · 10h
The Coldcard incident made me go back and relearn a few things. In a way, that’s a good thing. We all need reminders like this from time to time. When it comes to Bitcoin security, I think the fund...
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very much pro seedsigner
i also think the reasons he who shall not be named was not fan are worth reading he has a nostr article written not long ago
TLDR: you have to keep the seedqr or words locked down - can you do that?
and when using make sure there's nothing around that might accidentally record or leak the private key
but better to read it yourself

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did anyone comeup with some kind of inscription-esque hack around bip110 filters amd is there any of that type of junk sitting in the bip110 transactions?

those peppers would be be ultra rare ultra valuable no πŸ€”

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modern computing and modern inernet is effectively a deep state project

yet here we are

humans are complicated

maybe before we separate money and state we have to start with ourselves separate our money from the state and if enough people do that... so don't stress if not enough people got it

maybe we can still operate peer to peer on a system that we see as messed up if it ticks enough of the right boxes


sunday evening thoughts

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markets are expecting rate hikes and that the Fed is going to be so corneredit will have to raise 'were going to get tough on inflation'

is that similar to sentiment that was expressed at start of Trumps term with Elons DOGE 'were going to get tough on spend'

but.. are things so cooked that eventually reality sets in... the only way 'out' is to ease? how will the dude who has set himself up with bit of rep as the guy against huge balnce sheet going to handle it? what tricks will he pull out of his sleeve?

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back in the day the Bank of England was the gorilla in markets and 'who would bet against them??'

is that logic now going to play out again with Treasury and it's Yen shenanigans?