Nice touch on the warm QR code so the eyes don't get blinded

Yeah if you load the Ian Coleman site and then turn off your internet you can use it offline although I'd likely still throw away the wallet after sweeping it. I've seen it referenced around as a useful tool.

Otherwise, it's a cool tool for learning.

Correct on the last part re the aezeed. Because it has the start date of the wallet encoded into it, it will not return a valid BTC on-chain wallet. So either you would just reseed an LND wallet with the aezeed backup, which would then presumably let you ask any peers in channels.backup to force close. Then you can retrieve the funds from doing an on chain transaction through ln-cli (lnd-cli?).

In a case where you know all the funds have arrived back on-chain (i.e., all channels have closed and funds confirmed on-chain) and you want to access it using a standard BTC mnemonic (note: bluewallet accepts aezeed words), I believe you can use Iancoleman.io to get the on-chain key from the aezeed. (Remember to follow the security cautions!)

Search around and see if you have anything not too far away. Maybe you could volunteer on weekends.

Otherwise, look around for anything nature related! Hikes, kayaking/canoeing, etc.

Getting in nature is the goal!

I find that volunteering at a farm is the best way for the mind to defragment. The virtual world is chaotic and it's easy to diverge in all directions. Nature is a chaotic system and farms are a labor of love in getting fruit out of the chaos. No joke, go look for a farm and help them to harvest, weed, build stuff, be out in nature and get your hands in the dirt.

Which is the best point phone (pro} distro?

Make the move and install it

Restaurant menu application https://emporium.atitlan.io !

MEVN stack. Invoices with BTCPayServer Been live for about a year, please don't make an order as it will print to the kitchen. Donations are certainly welcome 👾 (check the bottom of https://atitlan.io )

Feel free to inquire if you're interested!

Ready to scale for the most part, just have to add a few features and improve the menu builder

Thanks :)

I ultimately agree with this. I ordered some Blockstream jades and based on their locations I figured they would arrive in a couple days, but it took over a week. Sorry, but where the duck was it then? When it comes to being sovereign with my money and taking into account the desperation of governments to not lose control, how do we ever truly know what lengths they are capable of going or who they can corrupt.

Coldcard has quite a thorough tamper evident system but regardless, catch the wrong mood and your mind can get the best of you with what if's 😅 SeedSigner seems to be the way!

I agree also though with @gmd that while "easy", the non-tech savvy will tune out immediately. You know what else is easy? Taking the integral of a polynomial of any order, yet the sound of it still scares most people away immediately... "Oh I've never been good math"! Who knows though, maybe we're in another era of evolution where survival of the strongest doesn't refer necessarily to physical strength anymore.

P.s. I just paid for 2 meals and groceries in Guatemala today 🚀🚀🚀 suck it first world!

I installed bisq, but never ventured too far past there. Robosats is great but as @gnilma mentioned there is still a KYC record happening when sending/receiving between two parties based on whatever banking app/service they use. I've hear someone who received from a Venmo handle or whatever called like "SatStacker9000" which is just like why would you do that on a privacy focused app 😂 Nice thing about Robosats is it's all on lightning so it's fast! Bisq seems to be on-chain.

yeah agreed... Thanks for the tip on NIP-46. I have to do more research. It's tough because PWA's seem to be the easiest entry point into creating an agnostic app. I think in the interim I will simply make it clear that the nostr key, being stored in a browser, is to be considered a throw away while a solution like NIP-46 or similar is implemented. This message on damus.io/web summarizes at least one of the inherent dangers pretty well :

Its good to look at the broader perspective! I like to think of Bitcoin's technology being a much better substrate or "soil" that allows everyone space to grow.

AI might be a hype. It has provided me value in the time it saves and the doors it opens. Regardless if it's useful in the end, hype can still serve as a meaningful motivation to building open-source tools that can be applied to a greater set of applications!

The current paradigm for software as a service is the whole "if you're not paying for it, you are the product". There has to be a meaningful and frictionless exchange and currency provides a common ground of value for that. L402's seem like a promising bridge.

If this singularity occurs at least Bitcoin will provide people the hope to maintain sovereignty (if they wish!) which opens up the playing field to fair competition instead of being at the behest of tech giants.