Definitely. Very simple web server. I have it in a container using ~10 MB of RAM and behind a reverse proxy.

bad ai

Not paying for some online services. Web search, LLMs, ...

Coinos is a custodial wallet service. They custody their users' Bitcoin and keep a record of each user's balance.

You can use it to receive payments even if you are offline or connect it to sites like stacker.news for sending and receiving Bitcoin payments.

Because you don't have full control of your Bitcoin deposited there, you want to keep just a small amount.

This script regularly checks your balance in Coinos and automatically transfers whatever exceeds a threshold to a Bitcoin wallet that only you control.

Yes, but as a user I can't rely on that without “trusting”.

Most people don't really care about the taint. It's enough if the UTXO history is broken.

But yes, coinjoins are still relevant.

Sure, but Middle Way or whatever's the provider might have some logs.

Check the notes section:

Computers are cool.

There are torrents available with all the content, so that won't be the hard part.

You can actually think about it the other way around: what if there were a great service payable only in Bitcoin? Necessity drives adoption. You probably didn't get Internet access or a computer for the sake of it, but because of things that were only available through those.

No. The electricity price with sazmining is great. But there's a ~20% import tax/fee that you wouldn't have in UAE. So more or less equivalent after all. Still, I think depending on others for mining is not cool and sets weird incentives.

LLMs aren't good for this.

This also works for servers with dropbear (lightweight SSH server) in an initramfs so that you can unlock the system remotely on reboots.