Protein bought with Sats 🤙🏽 First time buying anything with Bitcoin, and orange pilled a homesteader couple that’ll likely be the first attendees at my very first meetup! I also lent them a copy of the Bitcoin Standard and sent them some links to help them get set up with a basic self custody setup, and an exchange account at @Bitcoin Well . (My fav self custody by default exchange). They never hold your Sats and @Adam O’Brien ‘s team offers a great service, in addition to being great ambassadors of the Bitcoin community. Exciting times. Turning thousands of hours of study into spreading the revolution at last!

My egg supplier’s first ever Bitcoin transaction. In fact, my first ever outbound transaction other than zaps and consolidations. She said she has lamb, ducks, turkeys and chickens ready now too. You should have seen the lights go on when I explained to her that the money I sent her has never touched a bank. #btccirculareconomy

My wife is trying to put me into a protein coma. It’s going to take me 2 days over 3 meals to eat this! Baked Salmon, fried eggs and sautéed shrimp. #carnivore

The feature wall in the new office lobby is nearly done. Check out the scribing around the woodpile on the stainless. They’re going to do a test piece with an acid wash and see if it’ll possibly look good distressed. #interiordesign

I orange pilled my first small local supplier of farm fresh eggs and raw milk today. They know ranchers in the area too. I gave them a link to the educational Bitcoin website I built last summer and suggested a few basic wallets for managing smaller amounts for day to day trade on their phones. We briefly discussed exchanges, signing devices and cold storage for larger amounts. They will likely trade goods for some tutoring sessions on self custody and security once they realize the possibilities. I’m so stoked! #btceducation #btccirculareconomy

I have put so much time and energy into studying bitcoin because it is one of the few things that represents hope for those like me who are deeply sick of seeing their life energy, their time, and the pursuit of their dreams stolen or permanently paused. Every time I do find myself with a few extra re$ources and tim€, I am always blown away at the number of productive things I make happen compared to the regular day-to-day grind. Good things for me, and for those around me. I think the amount of human flourishing and goodwill that are suppressed by fiat theft and overt taxation would be staggering if we truly knew its extent. #studybitcoin

The Debian/Ubuntu update of Sparrow appears to work OK. As a new Linux user I just had to learn how to purge the old debian package install and replace it. I couldn't just install the new package from App Centre without getting rid of the old one first. It took me a while to figure it out. But all of my wallet db files were still intact and everything connected to Tor and private Electrum on the Start9 just fine. And the Windows version appears to be operating equally well. Thanks #sparrow

Ubuntu 24.04.1 install complete on an encrypted volume with long term support till 2034 🤙🏽 Wish me luck connecting to my node and my Start9 file server. I shudder every time I see the acronym SSH or have to import a root cert. Goodbye Windows #linux #ubuntu #sovereigncomputing #windowssucks

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Man I am so impressed with Ubuntu so far, in my journey to ditch Microsoft. I ran it briefly on my miniPC back before I ran my first full node using Umbrel, but have since switched that miniPC to a dedicated Start9 box with a full time node and a Electrs instance for wallet connectivity to the node. Now that I have a standalone Ubuntu installation on a separate bootable external hard drive connected to my main Windows PC, I am so impressed with how smooth it is and how seamlessly it is working with files on all of my backup drives. I’m also impressed at how easy it has been so far to replicate the functionality, app availability and user experience I’ve grown accustomed to with Windows, going all the way back to the mid 90’s. I’ve got a VPN and Tor access figured out, SSL terminal access to my node that just works using the same certificate, and Sparrow in Ubuntu even recognizes my USB ports for air gapped signing, with no messing around. I will say a few things for those considering ditching Windows or doing a Linux install alongside your regular Windows OS. Image your whole system prior to starting, set a Windows restore point, and have a couple of external drives to save critical stuff on during the transition. The install process is easy on a standalone machine, but the current documentation on how to create and manage partitions on a parallel Ubuntu install on an external drive is not necessarily what you’ll see in real life. For some reason I ended up with the bootloader on a separate drive that had a lot of important stuff on it. And it rendered that drive unrecognizable by Windows and Ubuntu for a handful of heart stopping hours till I realized I had the most critical stuff saved elsewhere. The biggest panic was when I realized that 650GB my image files for my primary system were on that drive. Usually I have two full sets of those images, but the drive I was using for tertiary back has since been deployed as a backup to the Start9. So there was a time when I had to fall back to Windows Restore to rescue my ass. Not a good feeling. I pictured spending the next two weeks reinstalling Windows and everything on that box, including restoring SSL connection to my nodes. Once I got that drive talking to Windows again and had knocked 25 years and 650GB of stored files I had accumulated down to about 5GB, my last step was to re-image the whole primary system…..chkdsk error while creating image. All of the forced stops to get past stalled Ubuntu installation attempts had corrupted something on my main Windows drive. Three hours to run a chkdsk, biting my nails. Then everything imaged properly. TLDR: - Ubuntu is a capable replacement for Microsoft products with better options for privacy and security - storage is cheap. Back up your stuff before you attempt a parallel dual boot installation alongside Windows. The documentation sucks and skips a few key details. - if budget permits, just get a dedicated laptop for Linux and start your journey there. Then transition your main machine over time if you feel like it. #ubuntu #windowssucks #linuxmasterrace #linux