It's a 3-tiered solution:

If this is your setup, just like the scenario you proposed, a blunt-force attack can only realistically steal what's in your 'wallet.' Additionally, you can setup your 'safe' and 'vault' with passphrases and decoy accounts just to be extra cautious.

Yeah, that's the last line of defense.

No, I don't believe so. So long as you have your seed, you can always restore back into the device under a different config, or a different device entirely. Actually, now that I think about it I believe you can still access the device without the QR even if you set it up that way. I may be wrong on that, I'll have to double-check...

Update: resolved -- turns out the VM on the server ran out of memory. Simple reboot fixed the issue facepalm

As Kratter said, we're in a race against time to prevent a war over the matter. Only when enough people are onboarded and integrated into owning and using Bitcoin in their daily lives does the government face a huge obstacle in making Bitcoin usage untenable. If that threshold is not breached soon, we may see some very dark times ahead.

I'm relieved to know this was sarcasm. When I read the tweet thread, I actually had no idea.

I've been thinking about starting up something similar here in the US. Could use someone with knowledge in this area. Let's keep in touch!

Ah yes, this was a while back. I still don't know if there is an update there, perhaps to can fill me in. Essentially, someone claims to have found a serious vulnerability, but we still don't know exactly what it is? Maybe I got that wrong. Anyway, for this post I'm specifically thinking of something more recent in which a dev stated that he was quitting LN and focusing elsewhere. I believe it was a different L2 like Ark. Does that sound familiar?

It was a quasi-Bitcoiner. Someone very much on the libertarian/Austrian side political/economically, but has an ETH node, too. I'd say he's 80% maxi, 20% crypto-bro. 100% anti-fiat. Oh interesting, didn't know and hadn't heard that before about WBTC. He didn't mention that in our brief discussion...

Yeah, this is what perplexes me: LN works, so I don't understand the reasoning leading to someone saying it has 'failed.' It works, it's relatively decentralized (compared to any other payment rail on Earth, at least), it's fast, and it's cheap. I'm just trying to understand the logic.

I agree with you, totally. With this particular individual, I didn't really get a solid chance to pick his brain, and I don't know when I'll have the opportunity again to do so. Just trying to figure out on what basis one would even possibly make the claim that it has "failed."

Spot on, as far as I know. I hope this helps noobs and NPCs understand it better or at all.

We'll see... Until he's sworn in, I don't trust the state won't do something to stop him

State powers will never allow something like this to happen after Trump.

Your father clearly cares for you very much, so much so that he feels your pain for you.

Wondering if he wants to compete with CashApp/Block, et al... that's what it sounds like he's going for here.

Good call! I love this concept and I can't believe I didn't know about it for so long.