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"A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight."
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
I'd be more worried about exploding fish finders than bird drones 🀣
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
Bureaucracy gonna get someone killed
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
Would it be possible for a smartphone OEM to release an update that intentionally caused a slight degradation in the accuracy of the touch panel so users get frustrated and upgrade to the newest model? πŸ€”
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
I suppose a lot of it depends on whether they were using Coldcards themselves and not just flashing the freebie they may have received as part of the sponsor deal because if that was the case, they were as much at risk as their followers were. As Jeff Booth so often says, the problem is us. We can sniff out superficial or outright paid reviews on Amazon but just assume that a chiseled bitcoiner with a blonde streak could possibly have enough time to deep-level inspect every single product they review (the editing of which by itself is probably an enormous time-suck). We all got got. View quoted note β†’
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
Another possible dangerous assumption is that muh institutions that people like Cardone and Saylor have so much faith in were/are using little more than Coldcards.
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
Too bad they couldn't have gotten John McAfee to declare the Coldcard 'un-hackable', it might not have taken so long for this vulnerability to be exposed.
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
Random probably retarded thought: Any chance this whole BIP-110 push is some Art of the Deal thing where you ask for more than you're willing to accept? Ex: insist everyone flip the bit but the acceptable win is everyone just stops running Core?
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
Self custody is what it's gonna take to keep the rehypothecation wolves at bay. Without it, Bitcoin is just digital paper gold. You didn't get lazy and leave your stack on an exchange. You put in the work and got a big shit sandwich for your troubles.
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PaulAllen 2 weeks ago
Me when coworkers tell me how much they spent for 1 week at the beach 🀣
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PaulAllen 3 weeks ago
If your bitaxe was mining to a coldcard address don't forget to change it.
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PaulAllen 3 weeks ago
Is lightsats.com broken for everyone else?
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PaulAllen 3 weeks ago
Low priority question but what the heck are we supposed to do with these 24 washers? πŸ€”
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PaulAllen 3 weeks ago
A while back, maybe a year ago, there was a video of an arrest and the suspects list of seed words was caught by the arresting officer's bodycam. Someone suggested the guy's stack might still be safe if he also used a passphrase. Someone else recommended against using a passphrase but I can't recall the reason given.
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