Also...say you're using something like Blue Wallet on a phone, using it as a hot wallet and making transactions.

What are the privacy implications there - the differences between what a surveillant (interesting new word for me) can capture on Blue Wallet vs. say Sparrow using an public server.

Thanks for your comments.

And it doesn't help to use a VPN in this situation?

Thanks for the note, unfortunately it looks like it's Testnet, not Testnet4.

I just found this - https://github.com/testnet4/awesome-testnet4?tab=readme-ov-file#wallets.

But the only wallet I don't know about is Wizzwallet.io, which appears to be some weird ordinals thing, and I can't find any testnet4 settings.

So, still searching.

Not at age 3, just free play.

For instance, about swimming classes for kids. I'd recommend just taking your kids to the pool, regularly, in the summer, and letting them play around.

With 1 kids I did swimming classes, and it was a cold, damp, miserable experience. Not to mention the commute there.

With another, we just went to the pool or lake regularly in the summer. We had fun in the sun, played around in the water with toys, and they definitely learn enough to be safe in the water fairly quickly. If you give one or two hints and nudges about swimming technique, they'll learn to swim.

Here's what I think might be easier than pushing kids to pursue a certain path like drums.

Unpaywalled:

Hmm...I copy and paste from Brave all the time. But maybe it's different with the copy button?

Maybe you could have a text field with the invoice in it, and people could copy it directly.

Ah, that sounds right about Aqua. Their error messages are not great. This seems like a basic one to fix.

I'm not able to reproduce the ... truncation right now. As a matter of fact, I was able to pay it just now with CoinOS, which didn't work last night. And paying for a second one of the videos worked as well, with CoinOS.

It's possible that last night (I was messing around with a lot of things) I got the weird invoice, with the ... in the middle, from copying it after Aqua had scanned it in. So likely it's just the way Aqua displays it.

I tried popping up the invoice for another one of the videos, and copying the lightning invoice using the copy button. And it looks like the copy button doesn't work. I hit it, and it changes color for a second, but it didn't put anything in the clipboard for me.

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not really asking about the best/easiest way to set up a Bitcoin node. What I'd like to know is - without setting up a Bitcoin node, but WITH using Sparrow to manage your own key and transactions (say with Seedsigner) - what are the privacy tradeoffs, for beginning bitcoiners? Would you agree with this: https://sparrowwallet.com/docs/best-practices.html? They basically say that only with smaller amounts should a bitcoiner using sparrow connect to the public electrum servers.

And what about if you're running your own VPN?

Also - wouldn't using a hardware wallet like Ledger to manage your coins be exposing the exact same data that Sparrow does? And using a hardware wallet like Ledger that is what 95% of users do, I would guess (and that's the users that are doing self-custody).

You make a lot of assumptions that are not correct. I'm not asking for myself.

I used to believe in "superfoods". I ate whatever was promoted as a superfood, usually sprinkled on top of my morning oatmeal. Think almonds, chia seeds, blueberries.

Then I learned more about REAL nutrition from the book The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. It totally changed my way of eating. I eat carnivore now, and it's changed my life. This is the post I wrote up about it.

Also FYI - lots of "superfoods" are actually full of oxalates, a toxic plant chemical that over the years causes really negative side effects. Some of the worst offenders are almonds, chia seeds, and spinach - all thought of as superfoods.

I couldn't get it to work. I tried aqua wallet then coinos.

Aqua - it got scanned, got a lightning address, hit "continue" and then was stuck, couldn't input an amount (there was supposed to be an amount in the invoice, right). Couldn't proceed. Copied the lightning invoice off and tried to look at it, but only got this - lnbc1u1pnn4s...esjhcq5xll9h (exactly like that).

CoinOS - tried scanning, but it didn't get anything.

Maybe the invoice is malformed?

Tried ChromeOS and Windows/Brave.

I love the idea of being able to pay a lightning invoice and watch this, though. Let me know if you'd like me to test anything else.

Any questions, ask here, or on the robosats telegram channel (https://t.me/robosats, supposedly deprecated, but still fairly active) or the simplex chat (see the link pinned in the telegram group.

People are very helpful.

Interesting story, par for the course.

In the interactions I've had in a public school recently (judging a debate tournament) there were mounds and mounds of trashy food around. I think it was meant to be a reward for judging the tournament.

And it was INSANE, the type of food that was available. It was mostly bags of bulk candy (the "good" kind, too, nothing cheap), and salty snacks like fancier chips (gourmet, not budget chips) and then bins of the mega muffins and croissants from Costco.

It was appalling. The only thing I would have eaten there were the mozzarella sticks.

And that's the trash what kids are surrounded by, especially for any party, after-school or club events, or anything where school admins want to "reward" the kids.

We recently had a friend visiting with an 18 year old daughter. Sweet girl but she seemed depressed and down, was really chunky, and always on her phone. She believes red meat is unhealthy, fruit and veggies are the most healthy food, drinks red bull to stay awake, and in general has very unhealthy beliefs about food. I think, unfortunately, that most kids her age are similar.

I talked a lot about carnivore (I can't shut up about how great it is), hopefully I wasn't too annoying.

Congrats! And here's the advice:

Nice! You all have some great skills.

Thank you, this is great information, about forgotten passphrases being the #1 reason people lock themselves out of their wallets.

Very good to know, I wouldn't have guessed that.

I didn't think about the wallet configuration file (what I believe in Sparrow is called Script Policy Descriptor) being similar to the Multisig wallet configuration file. It makes sense.

What other interesting tidbits of info do you have from handling support tickets?