Whenever I ask tax questions in BTC spaces I'm usually met with political screeds than actual advice.

Haha, thanks for the sats!

Going to Church and treating that a necessity is essential to my well being lately. Setting aside Sundays for rest is a useful practice I find.

I was raised Christian but by 13 I was mostly atheist and my parents were fine with letting me skip out on most religious activities. I was pretty apolitical and irreligious for most of my teens and early adulthood.

I threw myself into leftist political organizing around the 2016 election (I had just graduated HS). I embedded myself in the local Democratic Socialists of America but after a few years I became very disillusioned with it. Members viewed it as college social club and would have the pettiest squabbles over identity politics. I recall the founders being driven out over grammar they used to refer to Black people. Eventually COVID “radicalized me to centrism” and I find my current politics pretty neutral at the moment.

That sideline to politics is to say, I’m familiar with faulty organizations and I can spot when people aren’t genuine and more interested in a social club.

After my employment changed in about 2022 I started attending church with my parents again and was baptized in 2023. My conversion was driven by reading the Bible, as one would expect, doing a lot of research online (The atheists I embraced in my teenage years would often argue in bad faith I found.) but also by engaging with the church. It was made of people from many different walks of life and different outlooks but they were all unified by a belief in Jesus Christ and a mission to serve their wider community.

Are you personally doing this? I think you're underestimating just how institutional and refined bitcoin mining is. It's big business.

Enjoying some drinks with my friend I orange pilled this year.

Yup this is it. Just a fun Bitcoin holiday.

I was having a drink with my buddy waiting for it- so cool 🥳

I find it hard to justify when the shop nearby does it for $35. I've done it a few times with a friend but that's pretty much it.

Love a good stogie, favorite summer treat. Pretty miffed 45 made importing Cubans illegal illegal again, I was in Aruba and had to pass up bringing any back.

Pretty cute way to orange pill people. I gave one to each of my cousins

Do you have a Cold Card? You could buy one with the sats and then consolidate on the Cold Card.

I think it's semi-annoying it doesn't have a proper XPUB so Sparrow wallet can't view the balance.

Not sure why you'd be worried now though, fees only 8 sats on mempool. How many UTXOs are we talking?

It couldn't be they thought it was cool?

That's what companies like StarLabs and System76 allow you to do though. I'd prefer if AMD natively shipped with Coreboot but that seems unlikely to happen unless we keep supporting those companies.

I’m not quite sure how you would make an easier method of changing the bios that didn’t open up the gateway to some very nasty malware.

I've been enjoying some new Linux laptop makers using Coreboot like StarLabs https://us.starlabs.systems/

A radical one would be making Linux phones truly viable.

It can be hard at times but I have to accept the person who knows what actions are best for themselves is the person themselves.

I wanted to learn more about mining and it was honestly easier to find resources for Monero than Bitcoin. Surprising to me but I guess everyone has siloed their own mining solutions since Bitcoin is so cut throat.