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Dr. Hax
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Cypherpunk. Infosec veteran of about 15 years (vulnerability research, exploit development and cryptography). Cypherpunks write code. :-) Signet maintainer. Self-custody your passwords... in hardware! https://hax0rbana.org/signet Want to see wider adoption so Bitcoin can be used as digital cash and not just an investment vehicle. XMR: 44RDkTFmTeSetwAprJXnfpRBNEJWKvA5dBH5ZVXA4DofgoZ9AgjyZdSa2fo7pMD3Qe3pdKga8X22y3Lyn1xYde5kPQPzVUu
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Dr. Hax 5 months ago
My lightning node is messed up, likely due to some chamges I made last night. If anyone wants to try to zap me and let me know the error message they get, it'd be appreciated. There's nothing obvious in the logs and I don't have time to deal with this right now, but having some pointers for when I get back to this would be helpful
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Dr. Hax 5 months ago
I'd rather ride in the shade. These are from my town and the neighboring town, which is only different in terms of lines on a map (and governence, obviously).
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Dr. Hax 5 months ago
I'm going to have a fun story to tell about getting a bike shop in Chicago to accept bitcoin. I just have to wait until the story is over before I tell it. Things could still go wrong at this point...
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Dr. Hax 5 months ago
Just put my 4th batch of #fruit in the #dehydrator. Three and a half dehydrators full of #peaches and a half load of #pears. Each load yeilds about 3 quarts of dehydrated fruit. How much goes in varies from one fruit to another, but for peaches, I'd estimate that to be about 14 lbs of peaches (¼ bushel). Plus about an hour and a half of labor per load. Oh, and it took two hours to bike over and pick them up from the orchard. And that, my friends, is why I don't sell dehydrated fruit. The math doesn't work. There's no way to compete with the mass produced stuff. To process a bushel of peaches, we're talking about 8 hours of labor, $54 in peaches (at $1/lb), and probably about $6 in electricity and some wear and tear on the dehydrator/knife/cutting board/mandilin/chef's glove (which I'm ignoring). All that to yield 12 quarts. At minimum wage, that's $15/quart (which is about ¼ pound). That's way more than what you'll pay in the store. There's no way I'm going to fetch that price and even if they could, I'm not interested in **marketing**, packaging shipping, etc. So if it's such a bad deal, then why do **I** do it? Because I don't pay for my own labor. That puts the cost at about $5/quart for me. That's cheaper than most things you'll find in the store, I build valuable skills, I know my dehydrated fruit has only one ingredient, I support our local orchard, we have AMAZING snacks all year long, and I get my exercise in the process. And for those doing the math along with me, yes, I am saying that a bushel of peaches (54 lbs) dehydrates down to about 3 lbs. It's crazy. #homesteading #business #diy
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Dr. Hax 5 months ago
Just saw someone post something that inspired me to add another tool to my toolbelt in getting businesses to accept bitcoin. My current strategy is to ask if they accept bitcoin. I already know the answer will almost certainly be no, but it let's them know that there is interest. Most of the time they say I don't know, we use this and point to their credit card reader. But the new, additional method is to already be buying something and wait for the sales person (who may also be the store owner) ask you if anything else catches your eye. Tell them "not unless you start accepting bitcoin". Again, don't bluff. If they say, "OK", be ready to slap down the coins on more merch.
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Dr. Hax 5 months ago
Do any registrars accept bitcoin?
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Dr. Hax 5 months ago
It seems like, over on Mastodon, there are bots that will automatically boost anything that has a particular hashtag in it. I don't get it. What is threw point of this when you can just follow that hashtag? Who would follow those bot accounts? Make it make sense to me.