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Last Notes npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine It's got some mad good book smell to it. Top quality scent. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I'll definitely be looking at them side by side. Thanks for letting me know I should keep them separate, I would've been completely ignorant to that. I'm looking forward to seeing this next one come in. I really liked the display you showcased a few months ago, and may do something similar. I want to frame the declaration and the white paper, and I think putting one of the two Leathermint Bitcoin Standards next to them on a shelf would look great. I've been really enjoying my belt as well, but haven't taken the time to snag a picture for the review yet. 🐂 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Couldn't be more excited!! 🐮🦬 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I appreciate the message you're trying to spread. I think you took my initial note as it being something very important to me. It's minor, all things considered. It was hours of gameplay over many years, before kids. My second response to you was teasing you. It was meant to come across as a ridiculous idea. If you should know anything about me, it is that my time with my family and friends is the most important and valuable thing to me. My wife and I have been through Hell, and we've lived a lifetime in less than a year. We lost our first born to cancer in under that time. If you don't come away from an incredibly harrowing and humbling experience like that with a deep understanding of how important every moment of life is, you missed something. Respectfully, you're preaching to the choir. Many blessings, friend. #nevent1q…tls5 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Really great looking fence. I always enjoy seeing your work! 🐮 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine You shouldn't keep your grandma shut in like that. Freedom for Grandma! #LiberateGrandma npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine That was my most recent order plus the orange tallow. Should definitely give that one a shot, it's bomb. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Snagged a hat. 🦬 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine 🦬 #nevent1q…7u8k npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine #Lego #nevent1q…wuw0 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I used to think there were "breakfast" foods or "dinner" foods and that it was wrong to eat "dinner" foods for breakfast. It was fun to do "breakfast for dinner" like panckaes and sausage or eggs. I'd never have considered a "dinner" food like chili for breakfast. Then I married my wife. I quickly learned food is food, and no longer have a working concept of breakfast or dinner foods. My new favorite is bún bò Huế all day. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine What a handsome chap there. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I feel for people globally, but I tend to think that you have to be able to take care of yourself before you can help others. For me, that also means you should keep your charity to your own town. I know there's plenty of people in need locally for me. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Yeah, the scripting on that one isn't as good as some of the ones I've seen here. Embarrassingly, I got into a mutli-note exchange with one named JohnnyCrypto before I realized he was a bot. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I'm pretty sure my first purchase was a "Nostr or Nowhere" mug from @nprofile…qnef. Then the Bitcoin Standard from you, and soap from @nprofile…d5tl. Several other purchases since then. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine It certainly is. He's got two older brothers. We've had quite the journey together, with many more adventures to come. 🐄 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Thank you! 🐮 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Thank you! 🐮 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Thanks, Bullish! He was a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. 🐮 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine https://blossom.primal.net/3bde22a79bdbd8a87880ed04e183fd8c1ce77f224d55d91413a7483e27e84453.mp4 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I was going to do a response to this, decided it wasn't worth my time. Then was curious about why you felt so inclined to continue to poke fun at a stranger on the internet. Thought something clearly isn't going well for you in your life, and maybe you're just taking it out on others. I took a look through your past notes, and actually came away feeling like you'd be someone I would really enjoy getting to know. We've got quite a bit in common. Married, kids, pets, learning Viet, reading, quitting fiat jobs that were draining us, and a shared hope of the change Bitcoin can bring to the lives of our loved ones. Congratulations on all the wonderful things from your Christmas note. It was beautiful and inspiring to read. I pray you, your wife, and your little one are all happy, healthy, and enjoying life. The time we have with our children is fleeting, appreciate every moment of it. I also hope that your dog is feeling better to the extent that he can be. Age comes for us all. Many blessings, Stranger. You're family is in my prayers. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine What a great way to look at it! This does give me a new life. How often is one able to provide oneself with a completely fresh start to an old game? I should be able to sink another thousand hours into my new adventures before the end of the year. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine It's a bit disheartening. It'd been a while since I'd been on them, but it was always nice to pop in for a bit here and there. The saves lost span gameplay from almost ten years of play. Any good single player boardgames you'd recommend? I've got another several years before my kids are old enough to play boardgames with me. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I bought a new micro SD for my Switch 2 yesterday morning and transferred a bunch of games over to it that afternoon. Last night, I saw that the transfer failed. Not only did the transfer fail though, but it corrupted my software data on both my Switch and the SD card. I tried reformatting the SD card from my PC hoping that would work, it didn't. I couldn't even check storage anymore. It would either not launch at all, or it would launch and immediately crash back into the menu. The one time it did work it just showed the corrupted files without icons and "????" In place of their names. Last ditch effort, I decided to factory reset my switch. After all, we've got a Nintendo plan so my games' saves should be backed up to the cloud. Well, most my stuff is in tact, and it repaired the microsd card. I'm pretty devastated though, because my Animal Crossing Island wasn't backed up and apparently neither was a single one of my Pokémon games. I just lost 240hrs of Animal Crossing, and 100s of more hours spread across my Pokémon games. Probably a bit more than a 1000 hours of total gameplay and progress lost... npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Got the ball rolling. Are there even 1k Nostriches though? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I'm broadcasting notes on mobile too much xD npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Earnestly looking for feedback on my understanding of the network. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine That's why I broadcast this note: #nevent1q…ur2h npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I felt that this was a really good explanation of BIP110 game theory from a BIP110 supporter. He concludes it has failed, and does a very thoughtful breakdown of why he doesn't think the hard fork is right at this time. https://www.youtube.com/live/4rZoo1PJi2A npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Rockin a new NIP-05. #nevent1q…vgef npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Updated to this one. Thank you! 🐂 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine 37aa4437c780c5db8d398340a56eca29d03b1a704a0074b3658bfdc0b3d71f85 Always a pleasure. 🦬 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine It's something more. From me, a happily married man for seven years and many more to come. Been to Hell, through Hell, and back from Hell with my wife. Fall in love with her more every day. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Let's go!! Nip-05 inbound. 🐮 #nevent1q…vtva npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine No one personally. I also don't know anyone personally who has seen the USA's atrocities in the middle east. Nor do I know anyone personally who has been or seen the crimes of Epstein. Nor do I know anyone who saw our politicians taking briges or colluding or molesting children. That doesn't mean it isn't happening. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Those are all good points, but it should not go unnoted that the Chinese government is persecuting Uyghurs Muslims. Which includes forcing them into labor camps, forced sterilization, internment, and other atrocities. I do think the USA has done quite a bit to propagandize its people to be anti- China. The USA has plenty of issues itself, and I don't think they should be throwing stones. I love the personal freedoms we have in the States, but I despise the world policing, endless wars, corrupt political uniparty, and morally bankrupt social elites. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Wonderful selection method! npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine #nevent1q…ur2h npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine #BIP110 didn't fail because of "corrupt" miners, nor did it fail due to miners "colluding" with one another. Although I do agree that miner centralization could pose a risk, I don't think that the bippers are correct in calling the miners corrupt over the failure of BIP110 to activate. The failure to activate was a due to a lack consesus among the broader node community. I'm a pleb. I'm not a cryptographer, nor am I a software developer in any way. This post is mostly just testing and articulating my understanding of the Bitcoin network. If I'm correct in my understanding of the #WhitePaper and how the #Bitcoin network operates, then the following is true: 1. Nodes provide the rules for the Bitcoin network through reaching an independent agreement (consensus) of what is and isn't allowed. They communicate these rules to the miners. 2. Miners try to brute force guess the magic number to mine the next block for the timechain. They also create templates for what information they want to put into the block. Generally being monetary transactions based on fees, but also "spam" or other inscriptions (“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” inscribed by Satoshi). Miners can also choose not to include transactions, spam, or inscriptions based on their own criteria. Which is why controlling enough hash to assure your transactions get through is important. 3. If 51% or more of the nodes are in agreement of what the rules of the network are, they have consensus. 4. A miner who tries to submit a block that violates the consensus will have that block rejected by the nodes with consensus, and therefore rejected by the Bitcoin network. If there are nodes that would otherwise accept that block, the minority nodes fork off. Or vice versa, the majority network with consensus accepts a block, while the minority nodes may reject a block, causing the minority to fork off. BIP110 forked off because they didn't have majority node consensus. They composed a minority consensus with one another rejected a block that was considered acceptable to the majority of nodes, and forked off. I don't think changing the #PoW (proof of work) of #BTC is the correct solution. For BIP110 (or any other BIP) to succeed, I think they need to: 1. Acquire majority consensus with the nodes all signaling for an upcoming rule change. 2. After acquiring consensus through signaling for the change, they need to put out a specific block height for the change to go effective, and broadcast it to as many node runners signaling for the BIP as possible. 3. After step two they should notify the miners of an upcoming consensus rule change, and warn them (miners) that blocks submissions that are not compliant with the new consensus will be rejected by the network after the specified block height. Is that all correct? #AskNostr #AskBTC npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Audio is missing for some reason. Playing fine on the device I uploaded it from, but not in the nostr client. Luke (forward) makes a face when the other guy mentions changing the proof of work for the Bitcoin network. https://youtu.be/rHKXKR-jXPg?t=5061 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine https://npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a.blossom.band/d9495f9cf8e50152d8a159c702134110069f8b80f02c90331efcfc5f8a26cb89.mp4 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I was taught that six block confirmations of an on chain transaction solidify it. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Tick tock next block. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Rad. I hadn't considered that. Thanks, I'll have to look into the math on that. I agree, that would be two birds with one stone. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine The paralysis is in finding the "right" hardware solution. I'm very comfortable and confident in restoring a seedphrase. My discomfort comes from ever being able to trust a wallet has been generated with proper entropy. Even with the dice roll, or coin flips, how do I know that the hardware is taking that into account or properly hashing a key from the input? Best I can figure is separate devices all tested 2-3 times with the same inputs against each other, until using them to finally generate a key. Since they should all generate the same mnemonic seed given the same dice roll input. Or hashing it out myself, but that introduces its own potential risk of human error on the mathematical end. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Have you talked to @nprofile…d5tl about your BullishMarket? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Bullish 🐃 https://npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a.blossom.band/602b570dd12df1e57c358e597041341e2c5267c21f00d41b37a2e99b590924d8.jpg npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine This Coinkite failure has seriously left my faith in hardware wallets in a shaken mess. I don't even know where to start over. Back to analysis paralysis. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Honestly though. So unfair. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Gotcha. I still haven't run into anyone in the wild accepting Bitcoin. Only used Sats for e-commerce so far npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Is this for square terminals? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Thanks, @nprofile…2vnl , I had already moved it off though. I wasn't sure what happens to Sats on layer twos during a chain split, so I figured it was best to just move it on chain to a hot wallet. If I understand aqua properly, it is a fediment of signers forming a multi-jurisdictional multi-sig. They run a side chain to Bitcoin, and issue liquid Bitcoin as a 1-1 peg per Bitcoin in their fediment. So not really my keys, not really my choice in a chain split. Right? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I guess #Aqua is down because #Boltz is down. This is the second near miss for me. I had a small amount of Sats on Aqua to use for fun money, however I moved it on chain last week because I wasn't sure what would happen to those Sats in the event of the impending fork. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Prayers for your stength and your little one. NICU is extremely wearing. Those teams are top tier though. Best place she can be for care. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Happy anniversary, @nprofile…dvhj! I love you. We've been married seven years now, a little more than a quarter of my life. I can't imagine life without you. We've accomplished so much together, we've grown together, and you've helped me grow as an individual. It feels like we've lived a lifetime together, and in some ways we have. I am incredibly blessed that I have had the opportunity to share these past seven years with you. Through all the hardships and happiness. I wouldn't want to do it with anyone but you. Earlier today, our eighteen month old son ripped off his shorts and diaper during nap time, and flung his poop outside his crib. While also getting poop all over everything in his crib - including all over himself. I cleaned the poop covered child, and you took care of the room and crib. We worked together as a team, jumping into our respective roles as if we'd done it a thousand times. That is the strength of our relationship, that we always lean on eachother for support. I felt that the poop incident was a pretty good allegory of our marriage. A little something like this: Life is beautiful. In the middle of what should be a calm moment, life goes to shit. We see the shit, we lean on eachother to clean the shit up. Then life is beautiful again. Thank you for always being there to enjoy the good times with me, and also for working to clean up the shit life throws at us as well. I love you now, and forever. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Is that a relay issue? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine My heart is heavy for all those who lost any of their precious time and energy to the ColdCard entropy failure. It's devastating to see people talking about losing the entirety of their time and energy from the past X years - long before I found the Bitcoin space. So many pioneers that forged the path ahead and built amazing educational platforms and spaces. They provided me with all the tools necessary to enter into the Bitcoin space with such a strong conviction in the future of what Bitcoin could bring to society. This is my first Bear Market. The falling USD price hasn't really bothered me. Thanks to the amazing Bitcoin Pioneers' tales of how bad things had been in the past Bear Markets combined with the lack of changes in the fundamentals of Bitcoin. I have stayed grounded in "∞/21M" and, to paraphrase @hodl, leverage won't magically make you an OG." This current ColdCard debacle is the first time I've been extremely uncomfortable to be a part of the Bitcoin community. To preface the next part: I have zero, zip, zilch, prior experience in cryptography, coding, or other software skills. I, like many others, spent a significant time trying to educate myself on different hardware wallets before we took our Sats off an exchange. To be honest though, much of the technical jargon was lost on me. One thing did stand out to me though, ColdCard seemed to have the best (anecdotal) hardware wallet. I particularly liked the Q for it's QR scanner and full QWER keyboard. Knowing that most Sats are lost due to user error, I felt the Q provided ample tools to help verify, send, and receive Bitcoin transactions while minimizing user error. We're all told, "Don't trust. Verify." I did the best I felt I could, short of learning how to code myself to review CoinKite's code. I reviewed as much as I could on the reputation of the devices and feedback from people that had used them. For all intensive purposes, the Q felt like it would provide the best user experience for my wife or heirs if something happened to me, and give them the highest chance of success. I did not expect that I'd see ColdCard have a failure so catastrophic as to screw up the single most important part of the security, generating a secure 128bit private key. When I saw the warning go out from some of my fellow Nostriches that there was a vulnerability in the MK3 series my heart started racing. Did it go beyond the MK3? Were my wife and I affected? I started reading as much information as I could. Keeping up with every detail as more and more UTXOs were drained and more info was breaking. Then I saw it, MK4, MK5, and Q were all sub 128bits of entropy. I had accidentally exposed my wife and I, and all our future generations, to the vulnerability. To say my heart dropped into my stomach would be an understatement. I didn't know how long it would be before the hostile attackers were finished with all the MK3 wallets and started on the MK4/5/Q. I did know that I needed to update things quickly but smoothly. A problem quickly arose as I realized our security setup was so difficult to access in the event of a true emergency, like this, that I may not be able to move a single sat in time. The amount of time from the initial incident to when I was first able to even look at the public addresses of our sats took far too long. I felt more and more sick the more time passed without knowing if we'd already been rugged. When I was finally able to check our UTXOs, there was not a Sat out of place. Not yet anyways. I knew we weren't out the woods yet. Even though I'd accessed our Xpubs for the Sats, it would still take quite some time before I could gain access to our keys. The only things keeping me calm was that we had used a passphrase (that I later learned was too weak), and my wife. As soon as I had access to our private keys, I wrote out a checklist. The checklist provided myself a step-by-step guide to make sure that I did things as cleanly and orderly as possible, to minimize potential missteps in a complete migration to new keys. I rolled 100 independent dice to generate our new wallet. It took me 32hrs from the time I learned of the vulnerability to the time I was actually capable of accessing my cold storage and generating the new seeds to sweep our sats to. The only reason I managed to do it in 32hrs was that my emergency contact was able to meet me half way. Without the emergency contact, our sats would've been exposed for at least another 12hrs. I'm incredibly humbled and grateful that our sats are safe. I understand how incredibly fortunate we are to have been able to keep what small amount of Sats we've been able to stack, because it may not be a lot to most people, but it is a lot to us. I feel like I'd prepared for all the attack vectors, but I never expected that the entropy of a non-tampered with hww would be the one that got closest to compromising our sat stack. What a sobering and panick inducing experience. As a pleb without a background in cryptography or technology, I really took the generation of seed phases for granted. Never again. Rolling my own entropy, and diversifying our hww from now on. Which will be difficult, because the Q was a big purchase, one I thought would be worth the investment. Oh how wrong I was. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine This is where I'm at. I've lost any faith in the honesty of HWWs'. I am going to be multi-vendor, air gapped, generating my own entropy via dice, and cross checking/validating the dice entropy using each device against eachother before I put a seed into use. The last place I expected an attack vector to be was a reputable HWW's entropy generation. The entropy for seed generation is the most important aspect of an air gapped HWW. I figured that at the least, I could rely on a HWW to manage seed creation. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine So it would be unwise to use the device even as a signer? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine #nevent1q…yxza npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I'm more curious about the technical side at the moment. This is not a long term solution for myself. I'm already working on moving away from it. My only other option was hot wallet or exchange, and neither of those seemed great either. It's a damn shame because I really appreciated the full keyboard and qr capabilities for verifying address ownership, sending, etc. It was a very user friendly HWW. Anyhow, I'm going to be doing a separate note with my thoughts about all this. However, I wanted to keep this one focused on the technical end for plebs like me. I can at least compartmentalize and understand the attack vector comes from the entropy failure, and not from any other angle that has been revealed. An attack vector has not yet been revealed for the device as a temporary seed manager/signer. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I got the impression you were a software developer, so you would probably have a better idea than me. Thanks for the feedback. 🐮 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Disclosure: I'm a pleb with no technical background (software nor hardware), and I am not a cryptographer. As far as I can tell, using dice input to generate a seed phrase on a ColdCard Q bypasses the coding failure that causes the low entropy seed phrase generation. I tested this by rolling dice 100x independently, then inputing the results into the CCQ, the python script provided by CoinKite for the independent verification (I didn't trust this one as much), and https://iancoleman.io/bip39. The CCQ produced the same HexString as the python script. The CCQ also produced the same seed phrase as iancoleman. I performed this test three times. Am I correct in my understanding that the provided cross-verification means that if you use the CCQ to process 100 dice rolls then you have a seedphrase generated from the appropriate amount of entropy? I believe @nprofile…42km already confirmed dice generated keys were safe, but I thought it best to verify myself. I also wanted to provide other plebs a way they could check their own devices. #ColdCard #MK3 #MK4 #MK5 #CCQ @nprofile…w55v @nprofile…tkue @nprofile…tpxn npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Admist all that is going on in the world, a baby was born. My wife is amazing, and recovering wonderfully from giving birth to our son. Hug your loved ones, and remember why we're here. I love you @nprofile…fsej https://npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a.blossom.band/356c492d1b4f25571bbf77d757ad492f23c8e0879c34455a8a6ec15f4cf3ed97.jpg npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Congratulations! Glad your family is doing well. My wife just gave birth to our third. According to @nprofile…xhfz's wife Sophie was saying when the Bitcoin babies start being born it signals the end of the bear market. So that's the bottom signal. In all seriousness though, enjoy this blessed time with your family. There's very few that can understand how valuable that time is in the way we're able to. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine That's good to know. Mostly just curious from a general hardware wallet standpoint. Would've been beyond brutal if their customer base couldn't use their devices anymore. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Is this something a firmware patch would fix? Or are all coldcard customers' devices good as a brick? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Primal seems to see it. Amethyst not so much. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Working right now. For how long? I don't know. It has been rather unreliable as of now. Don't know if it's my machine or tailscale config. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Fixed this for a few years from now. https://npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a.blossom.band/59805848bf24509b909320ca0c215f0d9e64f438c267396a8ef735fc4d6f0a9c.jpg npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Did you make an apk for it? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Zap is failing, but I think it is on my end. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Bullish. 🦬 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Very excited for this! Plan on rolling out NIP-05s? I'd consider grabbing a new one. 🐮 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Everytime I see the US National Debt swing another Trillion up, an unexplainable sense of excitement courses through me. Just saw we are almost at $40 Trillion. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Definitely ended with enough of a cliff hanger that I'd consider reading the next one. When I read Dune, I liked the way the author ended it so much I didn't feel a sequel was necessary. My sister read the following book(s) and enjoyed them. Not sure if I'd ever get around to reading any more in that series. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey last week. It was a very enjoyable read. I appreciated the brief chapters, which made it very easy to pick up and read admist my busy day. Excited to watch the movie soon. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine @nprofile…9n82, I updated my Lightning address. For some reason Amethyst couldn't find your DM relays for me to respond to you directly. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Thanks! I spun up a nostr-rs-relay temporarily. I'll keep yours in mind for sure. The system I'm running it on is a temporary home server. Messing around/exploring self-hosting many things. If I'm happy with my solutions, I'll invest in something with better hardware. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine On Amethyst, primarily. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I'm struggling to get emails via my Nip05 and I want to setup my own relay for the inbox. @nprofile…2szn npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine What is your favorite relay implementation? Does it have a GUI? Also, what is your favorite service to use to acquire and manage a domain address? #AskNostr #Nostr #Relay #SelfHost #Domain npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Which time zone is this for? npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine "So it begins." #Lego #LotR https://npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a.blossom.band/d1e193a681eb16239791a2fc5940d1bded3c21fe1b16509f65298d493311e4ac.jpg npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Sudsy. 🐃 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I've been active on Nostr for more than 100,000 blocks of the Bitcoin timechain. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Sure thing! Strike actually let it go through first time this month. Mind blown. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine a559770bd61e3c09352f62fb8dcc341dbb2828ccc5afef62bc3e20e92896688b npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine PSA: Your Club Orange wallet is a self-custodied hot wallet. I lost generational wealth due to my ignorance of that fact. Thought it was a custodied wallet. My fault. Don't be like me, backup your Club Orange Wallet. PSA over. #ClubOrange #OPA #OrangePillApp #OrangePillApk npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine God bless American idealism. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine You're a real G. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Best tutorials for new and aged Bitcoiners alike. #nevent1q…cyt6 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Thank you so much for your tutorials. You've helped me navigate a whole new world, and I'm incredibly grateful for you. May you, your family, and your crew be blessed and free from overreaching governance. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine This note is from @npub15yp…mpcx's nostr client, Circl. :D npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine That's awesome! I think it's great when generations are able to pass down skills. I've never tried leatherwork. Seems very interesting to me. I may consider it when I have my shop put together. I made some pajamas for our kids too! npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I really love this shirt. It's one of my favorites. Badgers remind me of Coinkite's badger logo. The orange floaties/life vest remind me that Bitcoin is a financial life preserve. I used a gold thread and orange buttons too. Very low key Bitcoin shirt. Not sure anyone else would see it the same as I do. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I make casual button ups for myself. #nevent1q…myqk npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine There's some sats for encouragement. I always find it extremely frustrating when something I've done before isn't going as well as it did the previous time. Happens when I'm making shirts. The bloody collars drive me up a wall sometimes. npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine I'm very excited for these to come in. 🐂 npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a BlessedBovine Let's go! https://npub1c4n25pm4tcvc9u4uamld60gmz3cv0vy5vq9q9gmzvlttp8ym5j3q7j559a.blossom.band/447a1ab48a54a0e1349ba6586cd893276a353d9eeeab3132f988d86193c6def3.jpg