I was very pleased with my choice to purchase ledger hardware wallets in 2021. I was not pleased with the ledger live direction, and now ledger recover takes them even further in the wrong direction (for me at least). Looks like they admit that if you use their recover option you are vulnerable to government ordering Ledger to reveal your information

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Ledger CEO, Pascal Gauthier, explains that Ledger Recover would give the state the ability to recover your #Bitcoin private keys in the event of a ...

I've been looking at #coldcard - even got a gift card to use there, but now that I'm ready to buy the the discount code I'd gotten earlier expired. Anyone have a current promo code I can use to buy 2 coldcard MK4s with my gift card? #coldcard #ledger #ledgerrecoversucks #promocode

I may be a novice / minimally motivated gardener, but I’m still trying. Most of my first seedling batch died. Planted too early I think - We had a cold snap and seems like they didn’t make it. Next batch growing under the lights will be planted this weekend. #grownostr #gardening101 #keeptrying

One of my favorite tools for my desktop computer is my Stream Deck.

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Stream Deck

Stream Deck gives you 15 fully customizable LCD keys to control your apps and tools. Trigger actions, launch social posts, adjust audio, play sound...

It seems their primary target market is video streamers and gamers, but I find it really helpful for my personal productivity. It gives me physical shortcut buttons that I use for everything from text replacement, timers, coding, clocks, web shortcuts, and yes - games too. The best part is that they have support for community built plugins, so anyone can code custom buttons too. I'd love to hear if anyone else is using this, and what they use it for. I also have some thoughts for a custom plugin I'd love to have, so if you have coded for stream deck or are interested in learning DM me, perhaps we can collaborate. #grownostr #streamdeck #plugin #productivity

While not as important to me as other topics I am a long time fan of the Houston Texans football team. Actually a season ticket holder starting with their very first season in 2002. Just renewed my tickets for another year and am looking forward to their season ticket member gift: Any other NFL / Texans fans on nostr yet? Looking forward to growing the nostr community in many varied directions #grownostr #nfl #houstontexans #football #seasontickets

Bitcoin fee estimation can be very tricky. Someone paid 34,146 sat/vB for a transaction - $1,222 ?!?!?

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Why would anyone overpay by so much. I took a deeper dive and discovered it was a CPFP transaction pulling a 2.8sat/vB transaction along. So effectively they paid 52.8 sat/vB, which is about right for the fee at the time. What's CPFP? It's child pays for parent - a fee bumping technique that allows you to add extra sats to a fee for a transaction (child) that depends upon the original transaction (parent) and thereby get transactions in a block sooner. Miners look for combinations of transactions where even if a given transaction has a low fee, by including it and higher fee transactions that depend on the 'parent' low fee transaction they can earn more total fees. So much to learn about Bitcoin!!! #bitcoin #bitcoinfees #mempool #cpfp #rbf

In addition to running my private #nostrrelay on my #start9 server, I'm now also running #iris.to there as well. Now I am self hosting the web site I use for my nostr client. Thanks to the #[0] team for making it so easy to do this. This event is being sent to nostr relays from my selfhosted iris. I think it's pretty cool, but I'm not sure how much benefit it really gets me in terms of privacy, self sovereignty, etc. Please chime in and tell me what you think!! #privacy #selfhost #personalserver #grownostr