that's ok, let me try to rehash this ## normie way: cash/card contractor comes, does work, gets paid, goes to next job. The risk of them knowing the layout and security of the home is unavoidable (they need to do the work within the house), but for them its just another job. If you did leave stacks of cash on the kitchen table or showed the conteactor you have a safe in the house then its the same as I describe below. ## bitcoiner way contractor comes, client spends time onboarding/talking about a new technology that they heard the name before. That one client become more memorable, they get sats or not (or refuse the orange pill) but the person is memorable. Fast forward some months, a new fiat ATH is reached/NGU is in the news/the contractor gets fired/owes money to bad people/tells his friends a fun story at the bar about how that dude tried to pay for the job with magic internet money (pick any one of these reasons). The incentive to enact violence increases, they may not do anything but when people are desperate they make silly choices. This can include just selling the info and address to some more criminally minded assholes, who might assume you are some bitcoin millionaire and worth the risk of getting caught. Please have a look at what is happening in France the last months. A tax employee leaked tax data of those that declared their coins to the state (fools) and there have been home invasions as well as street kidnappings of relatives so as to ransom them. These are legit criminal gangs who take a list and dont care to verify the data. If you haven't have a skim of this compiled list by Lopp: Hope this explains my logic and the reason why I don't tell me barber, locksmith, plumber or anyone in my neighbourhood that I got sats. I go to other cities and keep my address private AF, which is incredibly hard and inconvenient. As well as using nostr and socials with nyms. meow

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Moist 1 month ago
you have the perspective all wrong, I think. you're looking at it from your own point of view, not theirs. if they have the urge to steal then its never just 'another job' they will be wanting to rob you whether its on display or not. I used to hang out with bad boys and generally to them the loot was almost secondary to the thrill of actually stealing it. am well aware of the France incidents which were, as you say, caused by people being dumb enough to let the government know what they had. same issue if you're forced to register your guns and disclose where you store them. buy I think you're a bit paranoid. your average tradie has no interest in bitcoin and if you mention it they'll think you're a loony. I've tried to talk to a couple of mechanics and a sparky about it in my area. one showed mild interest but haven't taken it further
fair enough, you can disagree with me and call me paranoid, I will own it. good luck orange pilling your tradie friends, not my place to tell you otherwise.