Random health hack, take teeth grinding seriously. I foolishly ignored my wife’s kind concern on my super bad teeth grinding for years. When I finally got a mouthguard to sleep with I slept noticeably better and my neck, jaw, and head all felt surprisingly better. Not a game changer, but helped modestly for very very little effort or cost.

I’m all for lessening our environmental impact, but “renewables” are still stupid. Nuclear is the answer.

GM! as the crackdown on free speech and thought increases normies will increasingly realize the need for an alternative. Nostr is here for you.

Unless your name is Satoshi or Adam Back, then the @OpenSecret guys have probably contributed way more to Bitcoin than you ever will. All Bitcoiners must deeply accept we have collectively chosen shit base layer scalability to strong ensure decentralization and security. This has created the soundest money ever, but it does make Bitcoin RIDICULOUSLY hard to build on in a way only technical folks can truly understand. Shitting on devs for trying hurts us all and reduces the future pipeline of technical talent and startups we desperately need if we want Bitcoin to be money and just a store of value for the rich. It also shows very few folks truly understand the practical implications of Bitcoin’s current scaling trade offs.

GM! If you trade or leverage your Bitcoin you’re probably going to lose it at some point. You have to abandon fiat games.

Your laptop is owned. Thinking otherwise unless you’re a very sophisticated person who has perfect execution is laughable.

I love the Block team and they’re making reasonable trade offs on the Bitkey for a totally noob user with small funds. However for anyone who has a decent sized stack and is not a noob I believe it’s the wrong set of trade offs. In the Bitkey model effectively you have two hot keys (phone and key server) which is a big trade off even if it’s source viewable (it is not FOSS), and your hardware wallet has no screen so you could easily approve a transfer to an address other than you intended if someone has hijacked your phone and what appears on its screen. The Bitkey is a $150 glorified yubikey. This is fine for noobs and small amounts, I would not trust with large amounts. It’s great for mitigating some basic theft and loss of key scenarios, but beyond that is quite limited. Hopefully in future iterations we get FROST and other enhancements.

GM! I’m pretty sure late at night my IQ drops by 30+ points(and I don’t have that to spare). When I’m tired I feel like I can barely function. Getting to middle age means you just have to aggressively prioritize sleep. Before it was the smart choice, Now it’s the mandatory choice.

GM! Free Ross Day 1!!

People need to lighten up. Only bitcoiners could complain so much about winning this hard.

Rasberry pi is not only closed source but intentionally has little documentation. Use it, don’t use it, idgaf. But stop calling it an open source project. That’s 100% a lie. If you want truly open source cheap Bitcoin hardware check out Krux.

No Bullshit Bitcoin

Krux v24.07.0: Maix Cube, BIP-85, BBQr Support, Speed & Security Improvements

Krux is open-source firmware that enables anyone to build their own Bitcoin signing device via off-the-shelf parts. It runs on Kendryte K210 device...

“Perhaps the biggest challenge to an open-sourced alternative to the current firmware is the fact that the hardware itself is also closed source and largely undocumented. This is of course not an ideal situation, but has become a widely-accepted tradeoff judging from how many have been sold.”

Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange

What's firmware parts are needed and closedsource for RPi 4?

What parts of the Raspberry Pi 4 require closedsource blobs? Does RPi 4 require big gpu blob to boot as previos versions?
In other words, which...

GM! I say this as a lifelong finance professional: be very skeptical of companies where the leaders are mostly MBAs, consultants, and lawyers. Companies where most leaders are engineers, product, tech, operations, manufacturing, etc have a much higher likelihood to succeed. The exception can be where fiat money services are the core product like banks.

GM! Me running a lightning mode again. @Nodestrich ♾️ making it much easier this time.

GM! If anything this week is a reminder that the government is at best incompetent and perhaps malevolent, and it’s often hard to tell which. However, it doesn’t really matter as incompetence and malevolence effectively mean the same thing to the common folks.

#Bitaxe tip: updating the firmware fixes most issues

I know I’ll never win a block solo mining with a Bitaxe, but it’s a very fun learning experience.