The best time to call someone on the phone instead of sending a text is to not fucking call.

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When you send fiat to an exchange, use it ALL to buy bitcoin, then completely empty the account by withdrawing the bitcoin. Don't trade, don't fuck around. Then you'll have a UTXO in your wallet and its cost base is exactly the fiat deposit amount. Every fee in-between is irrelevant if you do it this way. One deposit, one UTXO - cost base is easy. Keep your withdrawal to over 500k sats if you can, otherwise do multiple small fiat deposits and they all are added to get your cost base (if you do a full withdrawal). Then if you decide to sell/spend any, you'll be in a good position to select the most cost effective UTXO to use, to minimise the tax that is being extorted from you. It's best to use the per-parcel accounting method rather than first-in-first-out (FIFO), and stick with that one method. If you don't keep track of your UTXOs properly, you'll have to default to FIFO method of accounting which is not great. None of this is financial advice, because Bitcoin is a virtual currency, it's not real! 🤪

New Parman Guide, it's been a while, sorry. "Large QR codes and how to capture them" armantheparman.com/largeqr/

Ladies, if your husband introduced you as "my current wife", what happens after that?

A node enforces the rules about a person's choice of money. For example, if you buy something from me, and my node says I haven't been paid, even if you had one million nodes saying I've been paid, my single node overrides anything your nodes say. I have nodes here for you, ready and synced (accepting bitcoin only for payment)...

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If you and a friend each bought a ParmaDrive, then you could back up data to each other's machine and never have to pay for cloud data storage again. You can access your data from other computers or your phone, even if you leave home. If you like Windows, eww, you can still use Windows, and access the ParmaDrive server. If you need help learning to use it, there is an option for that at checkout.

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Don't ask me who, but someone created this service where you can buy KYC free mined sats via hash rental. Nothing technical to do except pay sats and submit a fresh address to receive. The "fixed" option takes sats from a pool of sats that have already been mined - supply limited. Payment happens within 24 hrs. The variable options available are "slow" and "fast", where you have to wait 5 or 30 days for the sats to be mined for you. The returns depend on Ocean's luck. Sometimes you can get more sats than you put in, sometimes fewer. The slower option reduce wild swings in returns. The difference between variable and fixed is that with fixed, you know precisely how much you get back, returns are within 24 hrs, and there are caps on the amount due to availability (fluctuates). It's all explained on the site, and you can send questions by email. Oh, there's also a "private deal" option which requires email enquiry to discuss and initiate. All sats mined contribute to signalling for Bitcoin to be used as money (RDTS; BIP 110 via Ocean).

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There are no more cycles. You buy bitcoin because it's becoming money and you're disgusted using money others can create for free.

You can order a ready-made, fully Bitcoin-synced Laptop node (ParmanodL) which has the Parmanode software installed, configured, and tested, delivered to anywhere in the world (except Eptstein's Island, sorry Andy).

People don't understand you can buy mined #ƨats with your KYC sats.

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If someone were to be playing a racing simulation game like Gran Turismo, doing laps and honing their skills, a person watching might get insanely bored, but the person playing could be in the zone, forgetting all their troubles, and highly focussed, while having a great time... This is what I think it's like to hear someone playing Bach, vs playing Bach yourself. I promise, it's incredible. It's not just some melody you might like to hum along to or not - there is so much going on on so many levels. I wish for you to experience it.

I'm sorry to have to bring you this news, but you need significantly more bitcoin than you currently have today.

All opinions of people with blue hair, or who run a Core v30 Bitcoin node, can be safely disregarded without any negative consequences.

Once upon a time, someone exploited a bug and got 184 billion bitcoins. The VALID TRANSACTIONS were rugged by Satoshi to keep bitcoin going. Today, another exploit (that Core refuses to acknowledge or fix) is damaging Bitcoin. Similarly to the previous bug fix, where a malicious exploiter was rugged, should "valid transaction" be a reason to not fix Bitcoin? It requires consensus that fixing a life threatening bug overrides immutability. It's uncomfortable to talk about, but if you think about it, OF COURSE the survival of Bitcoin logically supercedes immutability. And so, the debate should be about if this is really going to destroy Bitcoin if left unchecked. That conversation is being drowned out by appealing to less important principles of money. I think we should first determine that, then encourage discussions about how to fix it, always remembering that the highest principle is Bitcoin surviving as digital sound money for the world. It's OK to entertain an idea, like rugging malicious spammers, perhaps deciding against it, or not, or finding an alternative. It was easier to fix when Satoshi was in charge and Bitcoin wasn't decentralised, now we all have to decide, all while the enemy is sending bots, and Adam Back, to muddy the waters and distract us from the most important conversations.

People no longer saying "bingo card" was not on my bingo card for 2025.

The problem with arbitrary data tolerance is that it doesn't contribute to Bitcoin being money. It's like promoting the electrical conductivity of gold as a reason for it to be money. You might think that's not so bad but... The problem it causes, having arbitrary data, is subjectivity, and various attacks - it's easier to stand for none of it, and remain objectively supporting Bitcoin as money. You don't need to define what spam is - it's a subset of arbitrary data. You don't need to defend Bitcoin being a free speech platform (it's not), and explain why CSAM can't be blocked - it's a subset of arbitrary data. You don't need to care that not all arbitrary data can't be stopped - your principles are what guides you, and with the right principles, if people concur, consensus is easy to achieve. Right now, we're fractured, because people who don't want spam feel like they have to allow it because it's hard to define (and because shitcoiners and fiat maxis are disguising themselves as one of us, muddying the waters, looking at Lopp and others). I'm saying this is unnecessary. Just be against arbitrary data; it's not part of Bitcoin's purpose. If you desire extra "nice to have" features from arbitrary data, in addition to Bitcoin's pure monetary features, then you have to accept spam and CSAM, and unwanted additional attacks, and also damaging infighting.

Life cycle of a DCA transaction... When your filthy bank releases your government tyranny tokens to your exchange after a malicious 24 hour hold (for your safety), the price of bitcoin pamps 10% moments before the tyrannical coins are shown in your Coinbase account. You then no-look insta smash yolo market buy bitcoin. But there's a problem... Your Coinbase account page shows a bitcoin balance, but you're not looking at bitcoin, you're looking at Coinbase's database entry of what they owe you. So the job isn't finished. You will withdraw, and then after you prove you have access to your email, and you're not using Tor, and you complete a captcha, and log in to authenticator and enter numbers, and then a phone text confirmation, THHHEEENN, Coinbase employees will go to their ParmanodL laptop and locate a UTXO from their watching wallet, and then make a transaction to your bitcoin address, and then export the tx to their ParmAirGap machine for signing, which then returns the signed transaction back to the ParmanodL transaction/node latop, and broadcasts the signed transactions to it's own bitcoin Knots server (on the same machine). The node then shares the unconfirmed transaction to other nodes, and they "gossip" share it to all the other nodes in the world. Eventually, your Datum instance on your ParmanodL machine will fashion from its filtered mempool a potential block and include your incoming transaction. One of your BitAxes will then mine the block and win. It will then gossip the winning block before other miners claim victory, and all the nodes in the world will update their "tip" block. All miners will then attempt to win the next block. You mining address will be paid a bit over 3.125 bitcoin which is allowed to be spent after 100 blocks, congratulations 🎉, but also in that winning block is the transaction that Coinbase paid your address. Your ParmanodL laptop that has Sparrow open, and syncing with your fulcrum/electrs server, which syncs to your bitcoin Knots blockchain (all on the same machine), will notice the new payment in the fulcrum/electrs database and Sparrow will show the new bitcoin in your wallet. Feeling deep and unshakable satisfaction, you then close all the apps, and leave the laptop open, connected to power, monitor dimmed, so that Knots running in the background will stay up to date, and go outside to touch grass, as they say. You know you can totally shut it down, but you prefer leaving it on as is ready instantly when you need it, and you will for your mentoring video meeting with Parman next morning. Tomorrow, you will do it all again.

Humanity is going to do just fine without an immutable database of arbitrary data, but is completely fuçk3d if we don't have Bitcoin as MONEY. We only get one chance. Run Knots, hurry up.

If bitcoin was highly valuable as money by the entire world population, and the block subsidy was zero, and fee revenue for miners was next to nothing, how much would an ASIC cost? Very little right? Does that make it easier or harder to get 51% of all of them and attack Bitcoin? The cheap machines would be attractive to attackers, but also to those with wealth wanting to defend their own wealth. What's important is not precisely calculating today what percentage of attackers and defenders there will be then, but acknowledging the fact that fees are not required for the competitive nature of mining to remain, and that being that case, it still defends Bitcoin, and all talk of tail emission should be stopped immediately.