Perfect timing. Right as the shitcoin market implodes, the Ledger folks destroyed their reputation in the one market that cares most about self custody in an effort to appeal more to the shitcoiners.

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Looks like Ledger's Operation Self-destruct has been an unequivocal success... #BTCPrague

For people wondering what Zapervisements in Damus look like, here’s my zap on this note: View quoted note →

I never thought I’d live to see the reductio ad absurdum end game of the ERA arguments I had to listen to as a kid growing up in the ‘70s play out in high definition technicolor, but here we are. Women wanted this and insisted on it for decades, at some point they’ll have to decide what they value most. History tells us they will, and when they do, the fallout will be ugly.

There is now a potential reason for self-zapping (fapping). If someone has the top zap and you don’t want it to show up as such, you can fap+1 to get rid of it. I’m ambivalent about it but it should be an interesting experiment, if nothing else.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when a majority of women return to worrying more about getting robbed, raped, and/or murdered in public than they worry about tiny minorities of people getting their feelings hurt. The whiplash is going to be something to behold.

I disabled DCA on Swan a couple months ago. The idea of having a months worth of DCA trapped in Prime Trust at a time became more than I could stomach. Glad I got ahead of it this time. Last fall I got complacent and about shit myself when Prime Trust started behaving very sketchy and I had too much corn in two Prime Trust accounts via Swan and Strike. Hope nobody gets rugged by them, but if you have a Prime Trust backed account, you should probably assume they are close to freezing it.

How it feels to compete with an entire sector filled with software companies that are run by non-software people when you have a team of the best software people you have ever worked with.

Peter on his bank fraud adventure in December ‘20: “I cringe as fuck.”

The Strike withdrawal limit got cut in half not long ago ($6K -> $3K). It will be interesting to see if we get more of that.

Will they cry again?

If Solana is an unregistered security and I go on my podcast with 3 of my billionaire friends and brag about dumping that unregistered security on retail after being air dropped that unregistered security explicitly so I could promote it, do I have any legal liability?

Broadcasting to the world what makes you cum is creepy. Making it your entire personality is a sign you have an untreated mental disorder. Everyone understands that, sometimes.

If your hobby is flexing on the Pours at 2am in the city in 2023, it probably is best to give that up unless you also wear a gun and want to use it.

Them: “We need more women in bitcoin. We need more progressive bitcoiners.” Progressive women bitcoiners: “Don’t say anything that hurts my feelings, bigot.” 🍿

Median sats/vB went from ≈15 to ≈60 and some of the noisiest bitcoiners responded with an offer that is hard to refuse.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Balaji *wants* the West to fail.

The reason the AI vendors are in such a hurry to bring about maximal regulation ASAP. They need their moat.

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So @a16z talked about why AI apps have low retention before https://t.co/JPJWiyyNTy

Learning about Lighting this weekend. Core Lighting is definitely going to be my jam for my first implementation to try. I should have known that if there is something cool to play with, #[0]​ would have already been there and done that. The cammando plugin is one of the first things to jump out at me and there is a great video of Will demonstrating his lnsocket library.

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GitHub - jb55/lnsocket: A minimal C & js library for sending messages to lightning nodes

A minimal C & js library for sending messages to lightning nodes - jb55/lnsocket

Fees were lower when there was more vBytes/sec in February and March. We’re hungover from the panic a few weekends ago. If you don’t *need* your transaction to clear for a couple months, make sure you have RBF enabled and bid 3-5 sats/vB. You can always adjust the fee later if the current trend reverses again, but you’ll very likely get your transaction committed at a steep discount relative to current rates if you can be patient.

#Nostr is full of people building stuff and Twitter is full of people bouncing from one pointless argument to the next. 🤷‍♂️