Really struggling to see the attraction of eCash on Bitcoin… The Bitcoin itself is custodies by the mint, so there’s standard custodial counterparty risk. Mint rugpulls = money gone But also, I have to keep my eCash tokens secure and not lose them, just like Bitcoin self-custody. Lose tokens = money gone So surely eCash has the downsides of both custodial and non-custodial Bitcoin/Lighting? Saying the mint would be run by trusted local people is a cop-out, still relies on trust and being able to kneecap someone if they try rug…

I wrote a thing about Ordinals:

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The Subtil Genius of Casey

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Any Advancing Bitcoin-ers going to the Real Bedford game today? (Tagging #[0] because the pirates 🏴‍☠️ don’t seem to be on Nostr (yet))

Argh, why is setting up LUKS+btrfs such a pain in the ass on Debian but a breeze on Fedora! Anyone got a good guide for doing it? Seems like you’ve got to manually poke around in the shell or jump around the installer to get it to play ball 😫 Want to play with #[0] on a spare machine, but IMHO disk encryption is a must and btrfs snapshots make backups easy