### For the past 7 days I have
* Run self-custody tech support for 12 people trying not get sat-gaffled by ColdCard Mk3, including my wife
* Migrated UTXO's originated by a seed PROBABLY generated by a Mk2 in 2019 to a new dice-rolled seed, because I just couldn't sleep. No logic. Pure animal-backed-in-a-corner chemical fear.
* Upgraded and stomped the macaroons for my meetup's node+btcpayserver
* Throughout all of this, entertain visiting family
* Watch a bunch of venal fucksticks charge for what I did for free
I'm gonna need Core Lightning to hold its shit together for the evening.
Two years from now, we are going to forget half of the bonkers stuff that went on in this bear market. We are gonna sit around and try to reconstruct the timeline and have to do shots with each other just to deal with the PTSD.
Turning Bitcoin into a lifestyle accessory shopping experience was a fucking mistake.
View quoted note →This one time, my wife and I joined a "Warriors" gym. It's basically a lot of jumping around and lifting free weights. It wasn't dangeorus, and we were enjoying the benefits of more exercise
Then came "the challenge month". It was optional, and we thought maybe we wanted to maybe get a little more committed.
The challenge month was a bunch of bullshit. They made us cut a lot of shit out of our diet and take pictures of our meals; post them to the group chat. Our "teammates" for the challenge were dicks, including the coach who would constantly vaguepost in the chat about how some people weren't pulling their weight.
We quit the gym entirely, disgusted with how weird it was. It made going to the gym feel like going to a cultish,, toxic work environment.
Anyways, that's also what Bitcoin self-custody feels like to normal people.
Facts:
1. Chihuahuas are mammals.
2. Chihuahuas bite ALL the time
3. The purpose of a chihuahua is to flip out and bite people.
Shit, half the time I ever mashed the buy button during a bear market, I had to drink first.
View quoted note →Where am I wrong:
1. At some point, in a Bitcoin success scenario, Bitcoin will be owned as a normal thing by normal people
2. Normal people do not play with board game accessories and study for like 100 hours in order to safely store their money
3. Normal people will not store Bitcoin the way that early adopter psychopaths do
4. Constantly focusing on what works for nerds who lead rich, internal, intellectual lives and bullying each other to do things "the right way" just turns off normal people, and makes us part of the problem rather than the solution.
BitKey is actually more hardcore than your average maximalist LARPer.
BitKey is multisignature. Are you?
BitKey seed generation is multi-vendor (AWS Nitro, App's host mobile OS, and the BitKey itself). Are you?
I cannot wait for us to stop being scared and depressed and start getting mad. The fucking software is the only thing that matters, and we, along with the software, need to start getting hard.
Maxi smoothbrains will immediately go back to recommending all the other hardware wallet toys "they like" and also blindly trust.
Similarly, they will immediately begin the search for new, venal influencers that they can farm their brains out to.
Magically, in the past 3 days, AI has emerged from its stupor and can trivially identify the vulnerability.
View quoted note →The maxis rekt each other fetishizing electronic lifestyle accessories.
Don't ever feel obligated to take these people seriously.
People like NVK are proof there is no such thing as assassination markets.
