San Diego Bitcoiners

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday May 8th, 2025 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Phileas Fogg's (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

An interesting conversation is around the costs of setting up a secure (possibly airgapped) cold storage. People usually bring up the do-it-yourself Seedsigner (<$50) and Blockstream's Jade ($80 plus shipping). The conversation often includes usability (tiny screens and few buttons for both) and tinfoil hat aspects of security. What people don't usually mention is is the Coinkite Tapsigner ($20 plus shipping), probably because it's not a device per se, but an NFC card that signs transactions...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday April 10th, 2025 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

Hello everyone! I've exposed some of tools from my Start9 node over clearnet for the community to use: mempool.sdbitcoiners.com - fee estimator, blockchain explorer, transaction broadcaster, and API (please don't abuse the API) searx.sdbitcoiners.com - more private internet searches. Don't give up your data to google, bing, duckduckgo, etc. Also, we are 1 week away from the next cete. Hope to see you there! Corey ...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday March 13th, 2025 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP Event Details No presentation planned, come hang out! Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

Our support page has been updated with testimonials. If you'd like to harden the security of your bitcoin storage, check it out! Hope to see you at tomorrow's cete. ...

Date: Sunday February 16th, 2024 Time: 4pm - 6pm Location: Coronado, CA (exact location and other details sent after payment) Admission: $50 in Bitcoin. Pay here. Contact with questions: Signal @corey.21 Email workshop@corey.lol As a followup to the February Cete, Corey San Diego invites you to an educational presentation on Bisq with the objective of informing you how to make and complete an offer to buy bitcoin. Bisq is a tool to buy and sell bitcoin privately and securely using a pee...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday February 13th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Lu.ma Orange Pill App Signal Message @corey.21 Event Details 6:00 - Mingle 6:45 - Presentation (Bisq Trade Stats) Bisq is a decentralized platform for buying and selling bitcoin peer-to-peer. The software is open source so we can track trade trends. Be on the lookout for another event in February where Corey will show you ho...

Merry Christmas everyone! A few days ago this tragic post was made to Xwitter: These posts come up from time to time and they're always heart breaking. Sometimes, it's a rugpull of some centralized service that gets hacked or runs away with user funds. Sometimes it's self custody gone wrong. Often, it shakes the foundations of people in the space who are new, not 100% confident in their wallet setup, or aren't comfortable with the growth in the value of their Bitcoin. This leads to controve...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday January 9th, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Lu.ma Orange Pill App Signal Message @corey.21 Event Details 🚨 Special Event! 🚨 This will be our 50th event! To celebrate, a special guest sponsor will be covering your first beer. We will also have a couple important announcements and special guests. Come through and celebrate an important milestone with us! 6:00 - Mingle 6:...

cete /sēt/ (noun) - A group of badgers. Date: Thursday December 12, 2024 Time: 6pm - 9pm Location: Quantum Brewing (OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps) RSVP (select one) Lu.ma Orange Pill App Signal Message @corey.21 Event Details 6:00 - Mingle 6:45 - Demos Coinjoin with Jam. Border wallets with Sparrow. Subscribe to this blog via email or RSS ...

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 ...