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21 sats \ 7 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 29 Nov \ parent \ on: Why do you eat meat? food_and_drinks
When you kill an animal you can respect it if you have hunted it fairly or farmed it with care and you give thanks to it for its life.
Us humans are a murderous species and almost unique in the extent to which we kill each other- not sure if you can respect human opponents you kill in war- perhaps in some cases- perhaps not in other cases. I hope I never have to.
Have heard some cases reported where the victors kill and eat the vanquished and that eating them is seen as an act of respect....
I will reply with humor.
- you can respect animals by killing them,
- You can respect Iraqis by killing them to bring them Democracy,
- You can respect and save people from terrorism in Afghanistan by killing random people (families, kids, journalists, etc).
- You can respect women by killing foetuses (in this case, killing is not only respect, it is a right).
Some people say that killing is a lack of respect. I would reply that death is life, war is peace, heil to the Victor.
Let me end the joke here. I think I am more optimistic about mankind than you, as I don't think that we are murderous species. I have never killed animals or humans, so I am a counter example to your statement.
That being said I agree people can act in a barbarian way. I am not gay and I think homosexuality is a psychological problem but it surprises me that we can lynch and beat them in public and take pleasure to look at it. Or also kill animals and still have pet animals, for me it is a paradox. In that sense I prefer canibals, I think they are more honest. But I respect everyone so happy hunting.
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Your position on the global resource hegemony chain is definitely derived from murder/war.
Whatever nation state you live under it has been either victorious or vanquished by competing nation states and this generally involved killing of 'enemy combatants'.
Rather than making flippant jokes I am being serious as this is a serious matter.
Humans are demonstrably one of the most violent toward other members of their species.
Yes life is competition for resources and that often involves taking the life of others for food or territory- or both.
I agree gay people do not deserve to be lynched or beaten but again that is a fairly typical expression of human tribal behaviour where members of a group will happily scapegoat/punish/ostracise anyone that can be identified as different in order to strengthen their own insecure position within the group.
This exact witch hunt type behavior has been observed by yours truly in SN in my time here and seems to go almost unobserved by the majority who would not dare side with the one being cancelled....
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Sorry if you didn't appreciate the "joke". I should have called it black humor instead but sorry anyway if you felt it was not appropriate.
About the tribal behavior I agree, however similarly with the act of killing I think this is something we can avoid. At least I try to. I must confess when I was a kid I have beaten someone with the influence of the group, but I regretted it afterwards. In the Bitcoin community I try to avoid being pro-Coinkite or other respected companies to avoid following the group (I rather try DIY versions of wallets and show it to friends for example).
Just curious, what kind of witch hunt did you have a problem with on SN? I didn't observe this kind of group behavior on posts I participated, except for posts related to hardware wallets (everyone is always pro-Coldcard).
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IMO always better to learn how to build your own cold storage rather than be reliant upon third party HWs.
Use a usb Linux OS that never goes online for your cold wallet.
The witch hunt behaviour is something we can be vigilant to as it is easily overlooked...pointing out examples would not help you be more vigilant.
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Thank you for the guides!
Maybe just one thing, it looks to me like in the second link we install Ubuntu persistently, so any time you would use it the data would still be there after power off. So if someone is worried about what people refer to the evil maid attack, I would be careful.
In my case I like to use encryption with a simple pin code when installing Linux, it allows me to have some piece of mind if my hardware get stolen (not just for Bitcoin).
My DIY wallets at the moment are only the Jade firmware on a M5 stack and the seed signer on a raspberry pi zero. Never tried USB stick for Bitcoin yet (although I played with some others for curiosity in the past)
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You can encrypt any Linux installation if you want to...including usb ones.
You can also just destroy it once you have the seed phrase as seed phrase is all that is needed to regain access to the wallet.
You can use a view only wallet and make deposits without the usb.
Far safer than being dependent upon a third party HW wallet...because in the process of using usb OS to create offline wallet and Electrum cold storage you learn how it operates whereas most HW users remain ignorant as to how it works and dependent upon the gadget.
Only possible advantage with Jade or other HWs is ease of outgoing payments transactions and so if you are trading as opposed to stacking maybe useful- good luck with trading.
Even then any competent trader would probably be better off learning how to generate offline payments without dependence on third party HW and software gadgets.
ie HWs are a waste of time and create greater risk exposure and dependency.
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I see, maybe I have some minor disagreements but it makes sense to me.
In my case I really learned a lot by doing transactions directly with btcd, the golang library. Also I didn't read it until the end because I was busy with other things, but the book of Jimmy Song is quite good. But I guess your focus is mainly on the hardware part. If this is the case, sure I agree by generating keys and doing transactions with a software which doesn't hide too much the complexity, you learn the naming and other stuff. So in this respect I agree this is beneficial.
To be honest I did some trading 4 years ago and read a book about trading but I stopped almost immediately as it was stressful and couldn't focus on work and other things more meaningful to me. Now I am in Bitcoin mainly for my pension and to save money, so like you I think, I stack as well.
I totally agree about the necessity to try offline payments, however I think other hardware wallets providers all bring something interesting to the table. Blockstream provides also the software to build our own hardware wallet. With this firmware for example we can use the camera and keep the device stateless (the private key is removed from memory after power off), and we can use it with Green to send money from L-BTC to lightning. In my case I use it this way, if I need to top up Lightning I have my L-BTC ready to be changed into sats with low fees, whatever the current state of the mempool on mainnet. And the rest of my stack, my future pension when I will be 60 yo, is on mainnet.
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