San Diego Bitcoiners

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday November 14th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Meetup.com Orange Pill App Lu.ma Signal Message @corey.21 Event Details New format. Short demos and breakouts so people can get hands-on or socialize. Demo topics: Receiving and sending your first chaumian eCash (specifically Cashu). Splitting a seed with seed XOR Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday October 10th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Meetup.com. Signal Message @corey.21 Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday September 12th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Meetup.com. Signal Message @corey.21 Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday August 8th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Flockstr Meetup Orange Pill App Event Details Steelmanning Bitcoin Is Bitcoin a good money? Is its development on the right path? Does it have a future for a large portion of the population? Does it have a use case besides a store of value? Or will it be dethroned by one or many other cryptocurrencies? Corey San Diego, a Bitco...

This post is in response to an interview on the One Hundred Trillion podcast, a debate between Ryan (the host) and Paul Puey (CEO of Edge Wallet). They discussed and debated a range of topics related to Bitcoin's value proposition and historical/current narratives around it. The following are some thoughts I have on certain points I think are worth commenting on. First, I'd like to explain the lens with which I observe and think about these tools. My Values For a system like Bitcoin, I value...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday June 13th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Flockstr. Flockstr is a Nostr-based RSVP platform. What is Nostr? Legacy meetup link. Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! We've migrated the group chat from Matrix to Signal. If you'd like to join the chat, let me know at the next meetup or Signal message @sandiego.21. Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday May 9th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Flockstr. Flockstr is a Nostr-based RSVP platform. What is Nostr? Legacy meetup link. Event Details We will be joined by Brian De Mint, Head of Marketing for Orange Pill App and Author of "Parallel: The Bitcoin Social Layer." From the Amazon summary: Parallel draws parallels between the Bitcoin Social Layer and historical revolutio...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday April 11th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Flockstr. Flockstr is a Nostr-based RSVP platform. What is Nostr? Legacy meetup link. Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! We've migrated the group chat from Matrix to Signal. If you'd like to join the chat, let me know at the next meetup or Signal message @corey.21. Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

If you didn't see my post on Xwitter, we're stacking the top. If you can prove you bought the most expensive sats this cycle, your drinks are on us! See you next week. ...

I received a bunch of Coinkite hardware. I will have it all available at the next meetup in March. 🚀    ...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday March 14th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Flockstr. Flockstr is a Nostr-based RSVP platform. What is Nostr? Legacy meetup link. Event Details Local bitcoiner Ben Dion will be presenting on Bitcoinization y Pura Vida: SINPE, Bitcoin Jungle App, and the Bitcoin movement in Costa Rica 6:00 pm Gather 6:45 pm Presentation 9:00 pm close We've migrated the group chat from ...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. Tips These are some tips from the Wiki and my personal experience. General It adds privacy from your peers and other peering eyes to coinjoin before and after trading on Bisq. It doesn't have to be immediately after, just before you send to someone else. Running Bisq Be patient with initial Sync. Bisq can be resour...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. Bisq has very specific rules that help set expectations and ensure a smooth experience for both peers. Sometimes, issues still occur. This can be due to bank, mail, or software issues. This post contains certain points from the Bisq wiki Trading Rules, Dispute Resolution, and Table of Penalties. It's a good idea to take a ...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. My previous post introduced fiat payment methods and their advantages/limitations. Other considerations for fiat payment methods include trading limits and reputation. For this post, I'll focus on the 5 most popular methods (Zelle, Strike, cash, Amazon egift cards, and money order). Bisq doesn't really have a reputation ...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. Background One of the good things about Bisq being an open protocol is that all the trade info is transparent. Anyone can download the entire history of trades and use that info to see where the liquidity is, increasing your chances of a successful trade. But that's only one of the things to consider when chosing a paymen...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. The biggest misconception about using Bisq (and other no-KYC platforms) I hear is that it's "too expensive." This is likely due to looking at the "Buy" tab and seeing most offers with at least a 5% spread: I don't blame people for coming to this conclusion. If you're used to using a large exchange, you don't usually see...

Second Thursday of the Month at Quantum Brewing Date: Thursday February 8th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Flockstr. Flockstr is a Nostr-based RSVP platform. What is Nostr? Legacy meetup link. Event Details Want to buy bitcoin in a more private, sovereign way? Come learn about Bisq, the best way to buy bitcoin. This is the third annual Bisq demo by Corey. Check out his series of blog posts posts with background to get some ...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. Seriously, Cash in the Mail? Yes, seriously. The most common question I get is Do you ever worry about losing funds?" My answer is no, after 100+ trades I've never lost a single sat or cent. This is after going through mediation and arbitration multiple times, losing my data directory, being ghosted by a peer, and f...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. The First Purchase (Taken from Wiki Introduction "In a Nutshell" with my edits) To complete your first trade on Bisq, I recommend the following steps, some will be detailed in future posts: Download from bisq.network. Verify digital signatures (instructions here). Add a fiat payment account for Zelle, cash by mail, or ...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. Selected Excerpts from the Wiki Introduction Components Bisq is a decentralized bitcoin exchange network best understood in terms of its major components: Bisq is a cross-platform desktop application that allows anyone to buy and sell bitcoin in exchange for national currencies or other cryptocurrencies. Bisq is a tra...

This is part of a series of posts on Bisq, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. This series will serve as a primer to a Meetup presentation planned for February 2024. From the Wiki Main Page Bisq is a decentralized bitcoin exchange network that enables secure, private and censorship-resistant exchange of bitcoin for national currencies and other cryptocurrencies over the internet. The Bisq application forms a peer-to-peer network by discovering, connecting to, and working with one an...

Second Thursday of the Month at Quantum Brewing Date: Thursday January 11th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Flockstr. Flockstr is a Nostr-based RSVP platform. What is Nostr? Legacy meetup link. Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! We've migrated the group chat from Matrix to Signal. If you'd like to join the chat, let me know at the next meetup or Signal message 855-774-8879. Subscribe to this blog via em...

Everything you do in ledger live is being tracked, the code is embedded in "critical logic," and most of it goes to third parties, not Ledger. This software is required to initialize and update Ledger hardware wallets. You don't need to use it for sending and receiving Bitcoin, you can use Sparrow for that. Still, you'll eventually have to update the firmware, so you're better off getting a different device. This company has graduated from insecurely storing your personal data to giving away yo...

I dont see many cited sources in English for this, but it seems that the country of Sweden believes it's a good idea to expose people's personal income and tax info for anyone to see. There has been a surge of Bitcoin holders being attacked and robbed. The root cause of these attacks, according to Wall, is Sweden's Offentlighetsprincipen laws, which allow public access to personal data such as residential addresses and tax records. He argued that criminals are misusing these laws and social me...

This article details how a parent wanted to leverage modern tech to show his toddler's medical issue to a tech savvy Doctor and google, in all their masterful omniscience, decided that parent was evil, deleted their personal and business data, and reported him to the police. ...

The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as banks, phone companies, internet service providers (ISPs), and e-mail servers—have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" in that information. A lack of privacy protection allows the United States government to obtain information from third parties without a legal warrant and without otherwise complying with the Fourth Amendment prohibition against search a...

Second Thursday of the Month at Quantum Brewing Date: Thursday December 14th, 2023 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Flockstr. Flockstr is a Nostr-based RSVP platform. What is Nostr? Legacy meetup link. Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! We've migrated the group chat from Matrix to Signal. If you'd like to join the chat, let me know at the next meetup or Signal message 855-774-8879. Subscribe to this blog via e...

A friend came to me and said "what if we celebrated the halving like a global holiday?" I said "yeah totally!" Well that dude came back to me a while later with a plan that I initially thought was crazy, then went ALL IN. Background If you don't know what the halving is, here are the nuts and bolts: Bitcoin is hard money due to it's supply cap and planned issuance That issuance is currently 6.25 BTC (currently worth $218k) every 10 minutes This is reduced 50% every 210,000 blocks (~ 4 years) ...

Second Thursday of the Month at Quantum Brewing Date: Thursday November 9th, 2023 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Private, self-hosted form. Legacy meetup link. Event Details Steven Penn from the Temecula meetup will be presenting on backing up your bitcoin wallet seed phrase cheaply and effectively by stamping it into metal. 6pm- Chat and drink 7pm- Stamping demo Join our Matrix Chat Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

I was in a conversation in the August meetup with a few attendees talking about the tax implications of living off of bitcoin and discussed some lesser-known facts: If you are married and living off of bitcoin alone, you can sell more than $116,950 worth of bitcoin in 2023 and pay $0 in federal capital gains taxes. This is due to the $27,700 standard deduction and $89,250 bracket with 0% rate. It's about half for single filers. "More than" is because you are taxed on earnings, not what you s...