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It is self custody only if you run the lightning pub yourself. For all your friends and family who you sign up you are a custodian. Also, I found nostr messaging not a reliable channel of communications. Sometimes it was frustrating...
Justin, in all fairness, a lightning pub is a way to give CCs to friends and family. If something goes wrong, they will blame the pub owner for losing those. Your node is indeed very easy to install, but one must be an IT expert for not to fuck up running it. ))
I agree. A Bitcoin node should be run headless, and this UI cannot connect to one over LAN or VPN. But what is an alternative to command line if I want to control UTXO selection and fee rate below 1 s/vb?
How do you send 100 sats to somebody who has no wallet? I only know how to do it with Coinos, but they are custodial.
AI does have access to my API keys and can hallucinate. It takes me less time to actually do what I want by tapping the buttons then by typing the instruction in the chat box. Sorry, but I personally stay away from any and all AI agents on my phone or PC...
I bet people will exit that crap to cash asap, remembering how credit cards fared in the blackouts. So the state must abandon cash soon after.
I do hope we can trade BTC/CBDCs in a non-custodial way, like BTC/USDT currently at SideSwap. The problem will be if those CBDCs come programmed to expire or to be spent only on food etc. We shall see and adapt. One thing is clear, CBDCs are coming, because the governments are running out of buyers of their debt. #1429176
But about Digital Euro they say it won't be blockchain based. Sounds like a KYC account at the ECB. So they can treat all the incoming transfers as taxable gain unless proven otherwise.
By what metric is it dying? Number of onchain transactions in the mempool? Did you hear about L2? I use bitcoin to store wealth in self-sovereign way and to buy stuff under the radar (to avoid wealth tax, aka theft).
Some energy is waste energy with no other use. Bitcoin is value you can send to anyone across the globe electronically, and no one can stop you or freeze your account. Name one alternative way to do this?
You look at the price chart of the last few months only and think that Bitcoin is useless because of that.
All shady business, like sanctions evasion, is done with USDT or A7A5 nowadays. No one likes value uncertainty when they pay to a business partner. The merchants I spoke with hated the idea of CGT accounting for every coffee cup. The only room for Bitcoin is off-the books retirement fund, but then again, few are motivated enough to learn self custody.
Same. As a person with NO social media handles in my real name, will never visit the US.