When someone objects to bitcoin because it won’t allow for big government or harms the environment don’t address the objection. Instead...
Simply explain that their opinion doesn’t matter anymore. They have lived in a world where mob might makes right so they assume their opinion of something has an impact upon it - because for things not government hard this is true at this soviet moment in history...
But #bitcoin only needs a small percentage of the world to choose to hold it for world dominance to become inevitable in spite of the opposition. Indeed it’s already happening at an accelerating rate.
They have become obsolete. The mob has been dethroned...
Then if they have any other objections like “what about stimulus in a disaster like covid” don’t explain that the disaster is government power. Instead say “yup, too bad there is nothing anyone can do to save that - it’s dead now.”
It’s lots of fun.
Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
“Yeah, did you know at the current rate of adoption it’s going to use maybe half the worlds power. I wonder if that will kill off all the elephants. Too bad, I kinda like elephants.”
(Pause)
“Pass the rolls please.”
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Proud to announce that YetiCold.com 2.0 is released!
Thanks to the great work being done by @bitcoincoreorg we are most proud of the code we deleted.
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Descriptor wallets are now supported by Bitcoin Core. This means all of the send and receiving features, everything from selecting a destination address to dealing with change, is no longer a Yeti thing.
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With offline signing in bitcoin core Yeti no longer creates raw transactions and moves them to the offline device - the bitcoin core UI handles everything with PSBT!
Techn gets adopted rapidly and in very unpredictable ways.
Text based search (google) looked lazy and sloppy and many expected “topic maps” to be the killer app of the internet.
Social media in many ways is a poorly designed email system merged with digital scrapbooking
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Merged with a dynamic and super sloppy mailing list.
The iPhone was a super obvious upgrade to the early windows phones as soon as high fidelity touchscreens existed, but the App looked completely backwards when all was going “web app.”
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So we should expect the #bitcoin tipping point to be equally unexpected and strange. Even a killer gaming experience, or a “like” = a “sat” seems like a very reasonable possibility so we should expect something much weirder.
Why Greg Maxwell thinks #bircoin hardware wallets are a bad idea (even for noobs).
Greg is a legend that, among many other heroic accomplishments, discovered covert
ASIC boost - arguably the worst security flaw ever found with bitcoin.
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“I don't think very highly of hardware wallets. They're opaque, largely unauditable. Most are crapped up with sketchy altcoin support that forces them into objectively less secure cryptographic code and makes them harder to review.”
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“They're an extremely attractive target for supply chain attacks. An old laptop that never goes on-line is a lot better IMO, except where space/portability are a concern...”
We appear on a fast track to global socialism and we are living through the most destructive economic policies conceivable.
Truth has become a joke and almost everyone is participating in a cult of lies and government power
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And I must admit that I am not sure we can get out of this. I am hopeful bitcoin will survive this and be the tool that helps us escape future attempts to destroy the productivity of the world, but an Internet shutdown or global censorship of it is no longer insane.
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However this is not the first time things have been near or completely hopeless.
In fact one of the earliest stories that humans posses is of a centralized government established through violence that created a powerful cult based on epic propaganda and a false religion.
"The badness of the supply chain vulnerability is so severe that I just cannot recommend a hardware wallet except for casual low/moderate value use where it doesn't really matter what security properties you use."
-Greg Maxwell
"At the moment I think the best option at the intersection of security and usability may be a linux laptop/desktop that never runs any software other than your wallet. This doesn't require being a super-security wizard..."