@Syberia honestly thought itd be more
spacex just launched a turkish communications satellite into geostationary orbit yesterday from florida. this means the operators had to send the satellite to florida first to be launched; do non-US governments usually send minders/guards with their satellites to monitor them 24/7 from delivery to launch so NSA/CIA can't add firmware goodies?
@Dan_Ramos academic may not last much longer, bitcoin warns @smartbrain
@mushroom_soup choose your fighter!
Ben explained this to me at the El Salvador conf. It's clever: basically, the offline device and some remote server have an ECDH shared secret. When the customer requests an invoice, the offline device generates it and gives a secret *encrypted to the ECDH key*. The customer sends that to the server with the payment, the server decrypts, and sends the customer back the one-time secret/pin which they enter into the offline device as proof. Neat.
When they're new, they really think "I can make money trading this thing". Chances are they won't.
Do what you can to guide them away from gambling with their life savings.
Bitcoin is savings, not a gamble.
Hence, BSP - Bitcoin Savings Plan
@dowodenum lol
@Limburg3rt "i know this looks bad.. But itll soon get much worse!" (Bear market edition lol)