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Paying tax on your Bitcoin is the most degenerate thing one can do. Consistently seeking permission from your masters. You deserve nothing. You will own nothing. You will be happy.

Wow, finished checking out #Umbrel #node after a few years. Surprised to see how garbage it still is compared to other plug&play node stacks. Dojo server is years out of date. That's right 🤢 Can't use LNbits with Core-Lightning. In fact, pretty much no service at all can be used with Core-Lightning. 🤮 Many services are severely out of date. 😫 Umbrel is very likely putting its users into risk, and these are the sort of practices that made me leave it in the first place. Hugely disappointing, but at least the second chance was given. 😵‍💫 The UI is pretty and all, but functionally I can't even say it gives you is the bare minimum at this point... When you stack it against the competition, the bar is much, much higher than this.

A Russian friend recently got banned from Discord. Good thing I had onboarded them onto our Matrix server. Until Nostr is ready for such a demographic, It's the only way forward. They can get back to business as usual: - VoiP with friends. - Screensharing while gaming. - Able to engage with the wider internet by way of Matrix Spaces. - Sharing gaming guides. - Engage in gaming threads. Anyone still using Discord is enabling censorship and loss of freedom of information.

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Matrix 2.0 is a game-changer for the #Matrix eco-system. It works. It's fast. It's secure (with refinements being made). It's featureful - Now with native 1:1 and Group #VoiP (No more Jitsi). The new auth service also supports upstream OpenID providers making authentication a breeze for new users - Perhaps #nostr could integrate somehow.. In the clip below, would be way faster on first login due to no device to verify and nothing to sync. Disclaimer: Zero effort was put into editing this quick clip. https://v.nostr.build/CrikIbUsJGcudssi.mp4

Path Of Exile 2 #POE is GOOD. It's already set the bar, but I suspect it'll do it again for the F2P market when it fully releases next year. Lastly, runs OOTB on both Linux and Steam Deck. No tweaks, no issues - It just works. Can recommend for ARPG fans. #Gaming

If you're not constantly on the road, and have a house with an internet connection, you have no excuse. #umbrel & #start9 Over the years, Bitcoin has proved itself as an opportunity. An opportunity to take back control and with that, financial responsibility. If you hold Bitcoin, if you hold sats, you have a due diligence to YOUR sats, to keep custody OF YOUR sats. Otherwise they aren't yours. That's a fiat mindset - Borrowing/Using money that's not yours. This is why there's been a massive push for self-custody lightning, and most recently with Alby's excellent decision to sunset their some of their custodial services in favor of #albyhub. I've been outspoken against Alby's custody services in the past, not from a user experience PoV but because in the long-term it was prone to bring issues, and bring issues it did, bring issues it shall. One of Bitcoin's strength is in decentralizing money. Custodial services centralise money and identities. Take of that what you will. Look after your sats, or you've already lost them.

If you're still using custodial services, you'll likely learn the hard-way why they're not scalable in a #Bitcoin world. They function too much like banks. Banks function based on certificates which themselves create a chain of Trust all the way from the PoS terminals, to the bank's CA (yes, they don't tend to hold their keys, even central banks and leave it to a third-party company, I know this from experience). The "fiat mind-set" is an actual real thing in that its way of doing things was allowed to ossify over the course of many decades. Take custody, or else. And yes, that goes for your #Lightning sats also - From experience in previous cycles, as the value of your sats goes up, we'll see Lightning further cement itself as a payments highway, and protocols like #Cashu (which is custodial, but slightly different in that it has a few things going for it that allow it to break the traditional problem of third-party custody), #ARK, and even self-hosted Lightning takeover the end-user experience. Why do you think #Alby has chosen to move away from full custody services and into the self-custody space? It was a business decision, and a damn good one.

"CuStoDiAL Bitcoin iS thE oNlY wAY!" Watch them take what's yours. Just fucking watch. Oh, that's from the CEO of River btw. You're going to love what happens next.

If you do not self-custody your Bitcoin, you do NOT own Bitcoin. You are a nobody. You will own nothing, and you will not be happy. It is what it is. Are you going to deal with it? Or are you too cowardly to do so?

https://metadata.nostr.com is such a great go-to to broadcast your NIP-65 relay list (even though all clients should do this), but one thing it is sorely lacking is a DM relay list...