I am no longer waiting for God to restore my sight. Instead, I have learned to thank Him for making me blind. In my weakness He has given me strength.

Attacking Moscow, what the hell is wrong with these people?

I have become incredibly impressed with the #ibis wallet.

GitHub

GitHub - aeonBTC/IbisWallet: A self-custody Bitcoin wallet for Android with a focus on customizability, security, and privacy.

A self-custody Bitcoin wallet for Android with a focus on customizability, security, and privacy. - aeonBTC/IbisWallet

The wallet handles Bitcoin transactions and it does it quite well. You can use it with a signer. It flawlessly handles air-gapped transactions with QR codes But it is also fluent in all of the large layer twos that we are seeing now, including arc, spark, lightning, and liquid. And its interoperability is pretty much seamless. I made a payment to my wallet of Satoshi lightning address and the software new to just send it straight over spark. It's very impressive. Now, please read this. This is a power users tool and could get people in trouble, I think, because it's very sophisticated. I am not suggesting you use this wallet. And if you do, I would suggest using very small amounts of sats because these are the types of systems that are being attacked vigorously right now. Having a wallet that can handle multiple layer two networks increases the attack surface on the wallet itself. And of course those protocols are being hammered on day and night with liquid having being forced into becoming a fractional reserve. There are footguns in the grass. But if you are an incorgible tech noodler like me... It's in Zapstore.

Can we please just not finish various predictions with some form of "by the end of the year" or "by Christmas"?

We have reached the point in the social decline of our culture where basically the only people speaking truth are comedians and everybody is trying to shut them up.

If you need me to be the leader of the new revolution... I cant do that. But I can be a part of the evolution... God willing... The exact thing is true for you. Selah...

Until now, I did not realize human trafficking actually extended all the way to outer space. View quoted note →

Wouldn't the engineers and developers and big brains working at #AI companies who would sign a letter because they believe we need AI development to slow down also be smart enough to understand that that's entirely impossible? Oh the webs we weave.

Okay, I just thought of a really good one. What if we are seeing the emergence of rogue AI using human agents to infiltrate things like supply chains, to bankroll what they are going to need going forward? I mean, it would be a good premise for a science fiction(?) book.

Nation states, including the one that prints the global reserve currency, have realized Bitcoin is not going away. Those who hadn't figured it out did so the moment Iran offered to let ships pass in the Strait of Hormuz for Bitcoin. Now, the #ledger hack. ... First please... A moment of silence for a great company that was a first mover in Bitcoin hardware signers. The coordination, money, and design needed to pull off this hack point to a very powerful group... not a single hacker or a small group of nerds. People are speculating why a nation state would attack Bitcoin in this way. The first thought is that they want to damage Bitcoin's reputation or hurt its users, but that doesn't make sense. There are better ways to achieve that. This is about getting the coins. The United States has brazenly embraced building its reserve in this asset by stealing it from whoever they can. And they aren't the only ones. This is the most likely motivation for what we're seeing. Who did it? It may not be a country; it could be a very powerful group of people. Either way, the complexity of this attack closes the door on simpler explanations. We are in an interesting moment. Powerful actors aren't attacking the protocol itself (that would be too hard... Hopefully) but everything around it: the layer twos, the hardware, and so on. We live in the most interesting times. God bless us. #ledger #hack

Okay, I am making a public commitment to all seven of you, maybe eight, who read my notes. I've been working on a cover of a song that I've always liked and that probably most people have heard because it was a TV show theme. And I'm gonna finish it and I'm gonna post it here no matter how bad I think it is. There. Thus it is spoken. Thus, it shall come to pass.