In typical American fashion, the government once again uses companies as a proxy for what people fear government of having. People fear government surveillance, but then give even the smallest of details to a company for them to sell to government agencies.

Once again we have people who fear a central bank digital currency, and yet whole populations adopting a foreign nations company scrip which follows the regulations and laws of a foreign government, fully capable of the same things people fear in CBDCs.

PS: I'm just talking about the USDT users

Fair enough lol

Reading the article, this is about USDT.

Would you like assistance with non-API based page scraping? Captchas are just an extra thing you have to do in code you know.

I do agree that we have a shitcoins 2.0 problem that we have to think about how to socially defend against and I think Ark is not the best solution to our problems, but the idea that covenants are useless and give us nothing is a bit outrageous.

Dissect some of these neat proposals by JohnLaw2, and I'll reconsider.

Lets say to make this helpful for more people than my specific situation, that I'm free after work for a few hours before bed and then I'm not doing anything on weekends.

I just suggested what I thought would be easiest. You can import your wallet into the node software if you want.

and yes you can send them to a new wallet if you want, but it isn't any better or worse. The only thing you're doing by sending the coins somewhere new is defending against someone taking the valid signed transaction from one chain and broadcasting it on the other. I guess if you send to a new wallet there's less footguns to worry about?

To get into the weeds, you could also send the same UTXO to the same address, but just with different fee rates on each chain. As long as the newly created UTXO is different in some way, but I don't suggest that because of the higher chance of footguns if you do it that way.

Yup and the one that you're connected to at the time is the coins for the chain you're looking at in the moment.

Well the entire reason there is a chain split is because one chains follows one set of rules, and another chain follows a different set of rules which at some point caused a block to be accepted in one chain and rejected in the other.

NO do not, I repeat DO NOT "trust" a wallet to connect to the node that has the chain that you believe is Bitcoin. The WAR part of fork war is people trying to hurt each other.

If the wallet you pick has a different opinion than you on which chain is actually Bitcoin, you could be fooled into sending your coins into the void (the same address on the wrong chain which is effectively the void if you don't know how to do something simple like connect sparrow to a node)

Okay seriously, Sparrow doesn't even require you to install electrum server. Just run your node and electrum on the same computer and follow instructions

Here's a video from kahoob (a Bitcoiner I know from a Bitcoin discord)

In my opinion those software they recommend are over engineered.

If you've connected sparrow wallet to your own node you're already miles ahead.

Its then just a process of: spin up your node send your coins to another address in your own wallet

spin up the forks node (note it will look like your coins didn't move once synced, repeat step 1 if this is not the case) spend those coins to a different address

Once those 2 transactions are confirmed on their respective chains, your utxos are now safely independent of each other.

Vibes. Not even joking. It's all social consensus dynamics so you can try using hashrate or price as a metric, but ultimately vibes is how you figure out which one people will call Bitcoin.

The worst part, is if you have bias blinders on, it's more difficult to check the vibes because you probably surrounded yourself with people that think like you.

Insurance needs to die to begin with anyway. Its use case simply does not belong with a profit driven organization.

Fuck insurance. Make fraternal organizations popular again: https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/benefits-considerations-for-fraternal-organizations-described-in-irc-section-501c8

All good things in life are hard kid.

All traps set up to make your life worse are made easy.

Do more hard things.

For people who don't care to learn, anything and everything is complex.

But paid help exists https://wizardsardine.com/liana/#partners

Geo-disbursed timelocked multi-sig is a hell of a power trip

Hahaha we know. They made this up to FUD Bitcoin mining so people started launching it at AI because "the economy" or whatever likes AI and now business execs and politicians have to fight our FUD for us lmao