I don't know what a monero is, but I think it's basically a venereal disease that causes mental decline.

Executed a perfect upgrade of CLN, only to have clboss, with channel closing capabilities turned on, decide that my node being in --offline mode qualified as dead channel activities. So it greased every fucking one of my channels. Now I have to wait days for most of the funds.

I am just smart enough to know when someone is smart enough to pretend to be smarter than they are. Basically, I can sniff out a crank. But I'm too dumb to figure out how to tell the people that are being fooled by the crank. It's a useless skill. You just have to sit back and wait for the crank to crash out or piss off enough people.

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The only people these days who care or know how the internet works are either retired or furries. Everyone else just uses it. Same thing will happen to bitcoin. Thinking your grandmother is going to manage seed phrases from her personal Faraday cage bunker is beyond delusional.

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When you realize you're shooting a cooking show for a cult

"shocking but not surprising" -- Did Bessent slop up this clapback? View quoted note →

Claude: "Let me check rather than guess." Me: Muhfuh you been guessing this whole time unless I asked you not to?

You see a CLN emergency. I see 77 boosts of this note. I didn't even think nostr had 77 users. View quoted note →

The notion that Bitcoin requires "education" is almost always floated by some insufferable ancap or libertarian who is starved for attention.

Remember when they said investors weren't going to touch bitcoin until it had quantum resistance?

When you look at the maximalist community as basically a digital prepper community readying for immanent fiat collapse, their priorities and hardliner approaches to self-custody make sense. Preppers are: * insular * self-radicalizing * unconcerned with social norms * love gadgets and events where they can sell/buy gadgets * convinced collapse is likely Soon™ or a foregone conclusion within their lifetime