I don’t know what was worse: scrambling to sweep funds immediately with no margin for error,  in a computing mega-session, on no sleep, while I’m supposed to be at work, with family commitments unrelenting, while rendering a couple thousand dollars of signers and steel backups useless, or having to wait a couple weeks before this shakes out and a person can fully commit to a new redundant distributed model, and all the accessories to support it. I feel like it’s the early days of my self custody journey. Feeling like I had to check my addresses every day to make sure the corn is still there until I gained trust in the math. I mean, how long before even stopgap measures, updated firmware and adding entropy by other means are even proven safe? I’m already reading at least one report about cold cards bricking themselves upon attempted entry of passphrases. I should be stacking like a maniac at these prices but what the fuck?  This is the bitcoin equivalent of doing 1000 skydives with your trusty rig, only to find out that your reserve container was packed with dirty underwear instead of a working parachute. 

I’m considering creative ways to use several sets of stamped seed plates that are now useless. Any ideas? #asknostr

River day

I distinctly remember NVK saying on a podcast that their competitors, including Ledger, have spent huge sums penetration testing Cold Cards, to no avail. Something stinks about this whole deal.

Things that didn’t happen today that could have been issues but somehow weren’t: - laptop didn’t act up or have driver issues on a poorly timed “forced” Linux update right before the SHTF - didn’t get called in for a bullshit managers’ meeting - didn’t have any critical customer calls for 3-4 hours - didn’t have any node or network issues that would affect Electrs connectivity - didn’t have to answer for bailing off work for four hours to do techy shit, thanks to having my work phone (and its gaytarded, GPS’ed anti-human timekeeping digital leash app) in an SLNT faraday bag. Track this motherfuckers 🖕🏽 Today made me realize the gossamer threads that hold up the technological architecture that we use to store and transact value. Being your own bank is no joke. It struck me that our setups and redundancy plans are what really need to be antifragile. I see more hardware purchases in our futures. Nodes, file servers and storage. Mesh hardware. Satellite services. I hope computer parts prices come back to earth soon.

When I got into Bitcoin, I thought they meant this Rolls

I can’t stop thinking about what would’ve happened to my inheritance plan today if I had died at work, while my best efforts at a treasure map and a succession plan were being rendered useless while I was fighting a million other fires. What’s next? For a short time today I found myself questioning Bitcoin’s value proposition. But then I gave my head a shake. And decided not to be a bitch. I’m not playing with anything I wouldn’t intentionally burn to stick it to the banks anyway. #bitcoin

I don’t know why, but today when I was doing some critical, time sensitive things for hours on no sleep, I couldn’t stop thinking about a families escaping evil regimes and war torn countries, on foot for days, for far greater stakes. We are pretty blessed to even have the worries that today brought. Peace Nostr ✌🏽❤️

God damn. It’s days like these I really appreciate @Start9

Well, I certainly know more about signers, entropy, passphrases and manual wallet recovery than I did 36 hours ago, the last time I slept. Can’t believe I didn’t make any mistakes. I can hardly see straight right now lol.

This kind of feels like an op with its proximity to the “don’t move your coins for a couple weeks” RDTS signalling window coming up. Especially in light of NVK’s recent disparaging of plebs and BIP-110.

GM dawgs

Great rip once again, and well reasoned takes from @Matt Hill and The Bitcoin Way. View quoted note →

It just struck me that there’s a great analog for our own lives comparing these two results lol. Another reason why I love growing things. View quoted note →

Pretty stark difference. Identical tomato seedlings. Four in three and five gallon pots. One in a deep, open-bottomed bed with no limits on root growth, and the temperature moderation of being in a wood enclosure, versus rootbound in a hot black plastic pot. I’ll never use pots again, except for maybe Cherry Tomatoes. #gardenstr