Thanks for sharing those guides!

Question for you, what do you think about ecash? Particularly for 'cleansing' coin history?

It seems to me the tradeoff is that you lose custody but it has great privacy. So would it be wise to, for example, send 100k sats to an ecash mint and then over lets say 1 day or so withdraw the 100k sats in chunks back to my self custody?

don't trust, verify.

this is ultimately my issue with doge. it is elon touting all of these alleged savings, all of this alleged fraud and alleged abuse and alleged criminal activity and he has the largest mouthpiece of anyone in the world. but there is no way to fact check him in real time. and once he has shouted these things from the rooftops, almost all people from his party and many from the opposing one will believe them because "why would he lie"

When (or more likely IF) he every issues a correction, its too late and the damage is done.

But ultimately, I think this is a feature not a bug. When asked about this specifically, he said, "I will make lots of mistakes, no one bats 1000" and he presented no solution. The point is to sow distrust and he is doing an effective job so kudos

I think that moron Doc Kruger (think thats his name) said he was going to do the same when the ETFs were launching. turns out he was both a moron and a scammer (released some shitcoin that he pump/dumped)

he lives in a jurisdiction that doesn't have capital gains tax. he said as much in his twitter post :)

By privatize, do we mean reduce quality of care, go back on the promises we made to people who paid into the programs and inserts tons of leeches into the system that will profit off the system?

I'm all for reforming these systems, but the answer can't be let donald's healthcare billionaire friends make billions off it while americans suffer.

Donald said we spend the most per pupil and have the worst education results amongst 1st world countries. He said the only solution is the nuke the system.

Well, healthcare is even worse.

have FU money or at least an FU money attitude prior to the interview.

I've always done really well in interviews when I didn't care about the outcome. I was more relaxed and willing to say what was on my mind. I didn't have concern about "saying the right thing" or giving the traditionally correct answer to the question.

Elon's post has been community noted as apparently the government uses MySQL which surprise surprise he wasn't aware of when he posted his comment.

I guess he did tell us in his press conference yesterday "I will be wrong many times"

Only issue is he says things so assertively and it reaches such a broad audience that even if someone else bothers to correct his statement, the original was already in the wild and hundreds of millions of people took it to be correct

So how do I buy my gasoline today?

is there anything meaningful that can be done about it? i understand some individuals who believe this (i am one of them) can choose not to use it.

but what, if anything, can we do to try and fight this battle more proactively? I guess there are the sayings: "anyone can use bitcoin as long as they follow consensus rules" and that it is "money for enemies". both seem to be true with this announcement

I'd recommend perusing the content at: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpatFIRE/

Also I like this youtube channel, he has some videos on top destinations that are relatively inexpensive around the world in both a ranking type format as well as individual city deep dives: https://www.youtube.com/@VagabondAwake

I take it you're not american? they certainly like to bleed their cattle dry

I've always paid for mullvad with lightning using: https://vpn.sovereign.engineering/

They also have a tor site: http://soveng42aj6ynynkqeyut2dwnmwou45epfpuwvjy2t45fpxn3dk2ymad.onion/

Sigh, its all so tiring

Some companies "pre-comply". I believe Wasabi wallet is an example of this. US law enforcement did not tell them anything, but they were shaken up by what happened with the Samurai guys so they shut out US users and shut down their coinjoin service.

Same thing with Phoenix wallet I believe pulling out of the US.

I agree with you, this is a fungibility attack, some companies with a more bitcoin ethos choose to follow the actual letter of the law (start9, mynode) while others like umbrel who aren't really bitcoin companies but rather I'd say great at UI and marketing are being overly compliant with what they think the government wants so they don't get in any trouble.

I found this video very interesting, seems to imply that fear of snakes is something we learn from society vs something we are born with. I wonder how baby primates would do around snakes:

Very cool chart! Can you provide a little more detail around the assumptions?

Is there a particular % increase annually you used in the model?

I see the note of 50% power law regression, is there a place we can see the annual % increase or bitcoin price assumed in this regression model?

Also, is the assumption that one sells bitcoin equal to the stated "Annual Living Cost"? Is that a pre/post tax figure?

Thanks for sharing this, very interesting!

Yeah, I loved how easy Mint was to transition to. I made the move years ago and there was almost no learning curve whatsoever. I've heard good things about Zorin as well in terms of ease of transition, but never tried it myself.

The folks over on the graphene forum did seem to like Fedora Workstation for day to day usage and security. I gave it a go for a few days but ended up back on Mint.

Do you feel Linux Mint is 'secure' enough for a daily driver computer? I've been using it for years but when I read the grapheneOS forums, I sometimes feel I need to make a switch as they generally bash it (and most linux distros) as quite insecure.