but why would they purchase a new unit from the same company that sold them the previous shitty one?

Based on this, by 2040, -10% of payments will be using cash 😱

They should all watch the mighty ducks 2, that's how I learned the difference.

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It was never the most secure wallet on the market. People just thought it was.

Correct key derivation can be verified across multiple devices that use bip 39 & 32. There is a standard.

Creating the seed is something you can only do once, and there is no way to verify you did it right.

Yes, exactly. Dice and a paper wordlist gives you a device independent seed. Or coinflips, or even just cutting up the wordlist and pulling words out of a hat.

You absolutely can roll directly for words.

e.g. https://github.com/sarpulhu/dicebip39

It's safer and easier to verify than imputing the rolls into some device.

Just because the device shows you a valid seed after you input 100 dice rolls, doesn't guarantee the device actually used those rolls to generate the seed.

1,500 coins Vs 800,000

After it's too late to matter, and when the tide has already turned

Like anyone will trust their seed generation now...

Presumably only available in the US, since they don't bother to mention

is immediately converted to US dollars

It's not converted into anything, it remains as bitcoin.

Getting rid of the witness discount would be great.

The original purpose of the witness discount was to incentivize UTXO consolidation

It's had the complete opposite effect in practice, utxo set has blown out with dust txs embedding data. Any space saved through CISA will just increase the number of inscriptions.

CISA is one of the best things we could get to improve Bitcoins monetary properties. So maybe overall increase in use as money could price out spam even if the discount isn't removed.

Why would blocks be smaller and fees cheaper?

The fact that Bailey is trying to fight bip110 signals to me that it is on the right track

Modern tvs can phone home, send screen captures, you have no control. They have independent internet connections

Articles like this are designed to incite intergenerational conflict. It's the standard divide and rule strategy the powers that be have used for millennia to keep the masses distracted and harvest their life energy.

You are wrong,

Like that time an inflation bug was introduced into bitcoin core v0.14 and not discovered until v0.16.2?