Ask yourself how many of your daily services would still work if you were in Iran. Add Gmail to Odell's list. Oh and yes, all my services.
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Did you ever watch a fly (of the 1-day life expectancy group) and wondered whether they would engage in a healthy lifestyle? Stretching after landing. Low sugar diet. No high speed adventures. To live 1.01 days? That fly is us.
There is so much interesting stuff that I read, experiment with, try out, and debug that the day is over before I share any of that here. In addition I have a lot of options (both informed and otherwise) which age/wisdom 😇 prevents me from sharing. And then I have accumulated technical user-level Nostr debt like relay mismatch, embarrassing incoming payment failures, etc. All leading to a busy SILENCE 😁
Bitcoin is the best chance to get our lives back into our own hands. People here probably know this. But then, people in control surely know this too, and they will try everything to steal your Bitcoin. Buying, selling, and owning Bitcoin, while ethically and morally clean, may become illegal at some point and for some time. True system change will happen only if we are prepared to hold on to our Bitcoin in such a scenario.
Die Re:set (aka Re:sat) Episoden mit @markusturm und @DerPhiL kratzen schwer an meiner Souveränität: Die sind jetzt die einzigen im Bitcoin-Podcast-Universum, die ich unmöglich ohne meine Freundin hören darf; würde sie mir nicht verzeihen.
I finally configured my first Liana wallet after listening to the episode with npub1c2d9mjwwfq0gw9jya6zesywuzzs4ngzp06wf9dcl0kdtmks706dsv6kxar : high quality software extra strong Bitcoin security:
Pilled a restaurant and also let them use my infrastructure. Populating BTCmap one store at a time takes time but that is one basic building block of adoption.