Not quite cloud mining. I own the ASICs. I can sell them any time I want. I can direct my hash to any non-KYC pool I want. The most important thing to me is that I'm acquiring new, pristine bitcoin.

I can only answer this question by looking at the rearview mirror. Create this topic again in December 2024, and I'll be able to tell you what the theme of this year was. Lol.

"Bankers". Aren't those just low level employees? Didn't Milei appoint as his finance minister someone who worked at the IMF and was the chief trader at both JP Morgan's and Deutche Bank's LatAM division? Hasn't Milei softened his stance on abolishing the central bank? Saying instead that it needs reform?

I mine bitcoin via hosted machines. In the span of about five months I had mined 0.1 bitcoin to an address that I did not know at the time that I had lost the keys to. Lol. It wasn't until I tried to withdraw a little bit of it to sell that I realized that I somehow failed to write down the seed phrase. Welp, my donation to bitcoiners everywhere. You're welcome. Lol.

It seems that a lot of gaming related hacks and leaks happen at the end of the year. Insomniac Games had a whole ass unfinished game leaked (Wolverine). There was that Playstation Network hack.

It sucks. I'm still learning a lot about how bitcoin works. The Ordinals crap earlier this year was a wakeup call. There was a lot of attendant discussion about UTXO management. As a result, when adding corn to my stack, I try not to add anything less than 0.025 bitcoin.

I @BraiinsMining on Twitter regarding this post. Not sure if anyone will notice. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm starting to feel like I'm helping to fund this shit by subscribing to Bitcoin Magazine and going to the Bitcoin Conference. Haven't renewed my Bitcoin Magazine subscription. Not sure if I will.

Already got my ticket. Will be my first Bitcoin Conference. Glad it's in Nashville and not Miami.

Lol. There's multiple meetups every week if you include Round Rock.

MeetUp.com has been helpful in finding local meetup groups. Have not used OPA or Flockstr. I'm checking out Flockstr now.

Well, that whole narrative of bitcoin bringing property rights to billions of people is not possible at the current state of things.

Alien Aliens Hellraiser I & II The Thing The Silence of the Lambs The Lost Boys Fright Night An American Werewolf in London

Are there any advantages of getting this over the Steam Deck other than price?

My. This has been a very sobering morning on the current state of bitcoin and L2. Bitcoin itself is still experimental. It's not ready to on-board the world, let alone lightning.

Well, according to this site, there's been a dramatic drop of active daily users very recently.

A decentralized, censorship resistant, communication protocol doesn't have mainstream appeal in and of itself. I don't think it's going to catch on till the digital ID/CBDC's start rolling out in the EU and elsewhere, and even then I'm not even sure.

Hope you don't mind, but I think I'll use this thread to vent, too.

Re: using Primal

I don't know happened, but Primal desktop and mobile are no longer in sync. Even inputting my NIP-O5 ID doesn't restore my profile on the desktop version. It'll show a few of the people I'm following, but not all of them. My desktop profile is a blank canvass. As if I were starting from scratch - no avatar, no profile banner, no notes.

So, these are nostr clients that run behind TOR?