i just helped a 70 year old setup up: Sparrow & Aqua. doing so made me realize how many barriers there are to Matthew Kratter's desired adoption front ----short unrelated rant ---- jade problem---- on the bitcoin orange/transparent Jade device the "enter" button is the same color as the rest of the device. when i instruct the user to press "Enter" he's like "where's enter?". i realized i only know where enter is because i've used the older Jade devices where the button is clearly a button. aqua problem ------ Aqua: i instructed him to make a receive address and type in a quantity in dollars. he starts typing in and we realize it's set to "bitcoin" by default. so he's trying to send me 2 bitcoins instead of 2 dollars. the button to convert from BTC to USD is so tiny that when he finally sees it, he can't actually tap on it. 3 tries later i try tapping on it and it finally flips to USD instead of BTC. fix: -->default Aqua to Satoshis, not to bitcoin. i also cannot remember how many leading zeros after decimal point, and my default aqua spend is not over 1 bitcoin. especially on the Lightning network. --------where this connects to Bitcoin University--------- the 70 year old desperately wants bitcoin and is daunted by cold storage. so he went with Aqua. but the amount he's putting in is much smaller than he actually wants because of all fears. so isn't Aqua just as centralized as an ETF or a stock? so, why not onboard people thru their stocks and brokerages as they get more comfortable with their computer setups. and i don't think retirees are getting more comfortable with computers. if anything they are getting more uncomfortable and needing to trust third parties anyway. it's probably better to trust 3rd party financial institutions than that computer geek in their family that uses the jade box as a coffee coaster .

How i feel about Matthew Kratter and Bitcoin university MSTR FUD: ~~~~enter at your own risk~~~ there are trapdoors & pits covered with rotten branches covered in palm fronds i plan to catch at tiger or two establish a circus. ~~~~ i used to feel like, why did Matthew make so much money before reforming and then preaching to the rest of us not to do that. now i feel like, OK, Matthew has a good point. We should follow Matthew. and Strategy is a net negative for Bitcoin. Saylor was very positive thing for bitcoin, but his influence is starting to feel like a it's turning the opposite way just like his stock price for any latecomers. ~~but hear me out~~~~ what if Saylor is the only institutional decision-maker i trust in the case of a bitcoin hard fork? he's always been pro-ossification & wanted to starve the funding of bitcoin developers making new-fangled things. let them go to NOSTR and make new fangled things instead. in the case of a hard-fork, ETFs might dumbly sell the right branch, trapping their users in BSV 2.0 Strategy could sell the wrong branch, dealing a final blow to people who would attack bitcoin, and enriching their shareholders even more. so, i still have a positive view of Saylor until he starts attacking the integrity of the software itself. maybe he's just collecting unwitting users onto the ark--the right ark, while the degenerates mount one last attack...

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indulging in a luxury complaint right now: i dropped a firewood on my sneakered foot 2 months ago. my big toe still hurts when i push off to walk. so i've been sort of rolling my foot over my smaller toes as i push off when walking. i love walking so it's cramping my style. i'm also getting some varicose veins, so i'm feeling seriously like i'm getting older and falling apart. it also makes bending the big toe for pushup or yoga seem like a bad idea-- even more dark clouds of sadness. i'm finally looking up podiatrist... closest one 2 hours away. i have CrowdHealth, but i'm still pushing off stuff until the inevitable day that bitcoin goes a little higher. but i'm going to have to bite the bullet on this one. this is not a big deal compared to the health events that some people on here have had, so i'm grateful. claude says "classic turf toe" or metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint problem and recommends an x-ray. i don't know what they do for that... maybe a boot for a few days?

Lucy woke up feeling the 90s vibe. It was going to be a good day. She wandered down to the local bakery to scribble in a notebook before a late shift. She might even paste a sticker on the telephone pole.

"I clean cluttered houses" the flyers wavy font hit just the right empathetic note. It was Sam's new business opportunity. He had always hated cleaning so he knew there was a market. Cleaning a cluttered home, one must be so careful. "Would you rather I just leave this pile in the corner", he asked the house owner? Better yet, after mapping out houses on an initial visit, he could just sit at home and make phone calls. "Is your hypertasking pile still on the kitchen counter?" "Yes," the owner confessed. Ok well I'll just charge a check-in fee and postpone cleaning for this week. " Oh, thank you." ....

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A guy (Ryan hogue) on Twitter explains how to make 10 million dollars in 2027... I can't even find the time to listen for 30 minutes. I wish YouTube had a "summarize" button already. It's so much faster to copy transcripts for any and all videos I want to watch and then get Claude just to tell me anything important. But copying transcripts doesn't work on a smart phone. 10 million dollars is riding on getting a little more patience and discipline

---not real, no one panic--- Directory of Lost Bitcoin Oops I consolidated my bitcoins and sent them to the wrong address. I was clicking thru mempool and must have copied a random someone else's address. A text distracted me and I forgot to check the last 4 digits. Right before sending. Sending this out on Nostr: bc1...xyz has my entire balance. Does anyone even control this address anymore? Do they even notice someone sent them their entire life's satoshis? Could they just send them back to the address that sent them?...( I think that would work-- I need to test this). --- The npub Directory of Lost Bitcoin replies: "Dear person that sent their entire satoshi balance to someone else's address, you clearly can't be trusted with your savings. So the directory board of Lost and Found Bitcoin is going to trickle them out over ten years to your Npub. So don't lose your Npub now." --- Inspired by my own UTXo consolidation attempt in which I forgot to double check what address I pasted into Sparrow.. My heart fell 10 stories when I realized it could have been any address that I had clicked or copied while browsing mempool. Thankfully it was the right one... But if had been the wrong one...would be funny if someone sent it back.