If I'm not mistaken @Wilder from liberation travel should have this kind of solution:

Open a bank account in Georgia or Kirgystan remotely and with minimal kyc. They give you a visa or Mastercard that works worldwide (or you can connect an Amex to this bank account) so that you can use it everywhere.
If you need fiat, use a local exchange (local in Georgia I mean) to deposit and sell btc, and withdraw to the Georgian bank account). There they should not harass you for this kind of thing.

Correct me if I'm wrong anybody, not sure I got it 100% right myself

But not all projects are available on opensats to directly donate to (for example seedsigner that has been discussed lately).

As any organization for sure there will be some reasons for them not to list a specific dev or project, I'm thinking of ways to fix this

1) Also interested in hearing from the board about this

2) we need a platform where ppl can directly donate to dev/project, the middle man (in this case opensats) will become a problem like any centralized space

Is there a single place where someone can see all the devs/projects and directly donate to them?

For example I do not donate to opensats because I don't like the way they give grants (and like all organizations it has its nepotism problems), but I donate individually. I think we need more of this, direct donations from ppl to devs/projects without middle man in between

I think that a hardware wallet manufacturer can have a massive overlook like this, horrible and grave but is not the end of the world.

What's way worse is that coldcard was advertised as THE #1 hardware wallet, the bomb, the one you get if you want to be super safe. And it was advertised like this by all "major"/"more respectable influencers" in the business (the bitcoin way, daily session, Odel etc).
I think this is way worse because now there is a loss of trust that goes beyond 1 hardware manufacturer.

How is it possible that not one of these businesses/influencers took the time to seriously review the code? If you advertise it like that you must be sure of the product.
Non technical user must rely on reliable sources that they came to deem as trustworthy. And if all of them have failed like this the trust is out of the window now, who the hell are they supposed to rely on now?

This is huge because without non-technical users getting into self-custody bitcoin will become fucking useless and controlled as gold

Shitty times indeed, let's get out of this stronger but this goes way beyond a single manufacturer imo

- Inventing bitcoin (great to better understand how it works technically)

- the big print (Lawrence Lepard)__to better understand how the current system is fucked

- the price of tomorrow (Jeff booth)__ to better understand structural forces at play

Enjoy !!

Bravo for admitting you were wrong 👏🏻👏🏻 much respect to you man

Who gives a shit about the "the trade" of for stablecoins, we all know what they are come on

The only section we care about is the 604 about developers protection!!!

Feel you big time man, as a huge lover of people watching the smartphone really killed this hobby of mine...
But we need to keep the torch alive and be an example, especially to children.

Yesterday while I was eating at a pizza shop there was a family of 4 were everybody was on their phone except the little girl. Everybody else in the pizza shop was also on their phone. And it got me thinking how this little girl would look around and see everybody on their phone, not making eye contact or connecting with strangers, thus thinking that is normal to do that.
I also wanted to check something on my phone but I decided to eat the whole time there alone just looking around and making occasional eye contact with the little girl. I wanted her to see that you can also stay without phone and that making eye contact/connection with strangers is possible and a lovely thing!

Might be a drop in the ocean, but gotta do what we can !!

I think he is referring to this one?

Question: when will we know the success/failure of bip110? Couple of weeks after the signaling date of the 8th? Or do we have to wait for the activation date in September to know?

Also, what I don't understand is how the 2 "factions" have absolute opposite perspective of what is happening.
One side is: "bip110 has 0% signaling and clearly has no chance".
While the other is "bip110 is clearly winning"

I only have 3 explanations for this:
1- they are looking at completely different data (or analyze them differently)
2- one side is clearly missing something important
3- one of the 2 factions is outright lying

I can't wait for this bip110 to activate and finally try to get some answers!

I got "suspiciously easygoing", nice!