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@TheDesertLynx How are they not newbie friendly? They’re way easier than those mouse jiggling tools when I got started

Crypto seed phrases aren't going away for a while. Yes, many complain that they aren't newbie-friendly, and so manynew wallets brag about "no seed phrases." Doesn't matter, they're here to stay. You know why? One word: INTEROPERABILITY. Almost every single crypto wallet solution that deviates from this industry standard creates a product that only works with its own tiny ecosystem. This is especially a problem when you're talking about recovering funds: most modern backup solutions create a critical dependency on a single company, which is a centralized point of failure. On the other hand, seed phrases are universally supported in almost every wallet imaginable, can be backed up in limitless ways (hand-written, typed, copy/pasted, screenshotted, etched into metal, memorized, etc.). This is why even wallets like Tangem and Vultisig that brag about making seed phrases obsolete have had to add in support: because otherwise many would never trust their money to these products. Funny enough, most modern backups use basically the same kind of backup: either encrypted key shares or a physical NFC device. But they make a critical mistake in not making them interoperable with their competitors. This is a key economic issue in the space: most companies don't want to truly innovate and collaborate because they don't want customers to be able to use their products with competitors. That shortsighted approach is why so many peddle useless products while giving up massive market share to their biggest competitor: seed phrases, which are free. So yes, we should have been able to evolve past seed phrases as an industry standard, and we will eventually. Just not for a while, until the space can decide to work together.

That was some laundry fire huh

@Rickardo66 @ClarkeMicah Do you know what a mentalist is

@ClarkeMicah Peter Hitchens clearly doesn’t understand the difference between a democracy and an unhinged bunch of mentalists who openly support the annihilation of a Nation.

Is anyone else struck by the way in which Israel's nuclear weapons, which we all know to exist, are implictly deemed not to be capable of deterring Iran, should Iran obtain nuclear weapons of its own? So, er.......

@StephenFleming @WolfSchwarzMond I found it, the dumbest thread on Twitter

That’s for a GOOD nuclear weapon. For a crappy one? Stuff 30 kg of a U-235 into one end of an old artillery barrel. Then a bunch of cardboard to add three feet of spacing. Now the other half of the critical mass. Top it off with a wad of C4 and a detonator. Weld a cap on the open end of the barrel. Hide it in a shipping container under a bunch of vegetables. Drive to Tel Aviv. Detonator goes boom, the sliding half of the enriched uranium makes friends with the stationary half, critical mass achieved, big BOOM. Inefficient as hell, but enough to destroy the core of a city.

If you have enriched uranium, you can make a Hiroshima-scale “gun-type” nuclear weapon in a decent machine shop in a weekend. (Note that the USA didn’t even bother to test the “Little Boy” design… we KNEW it would work. Trinity was all about the “Fat Man” implosion design, which is more complex.) So trying to draw a line between “allowing enrichment” and “allowing a nuclear weapon” is just meaningless yammering. It doesn’t relate to the real world.

@Tr0llyTr0llFace @Polymarket Slow down Gödel

Hey @Polymarket I want to watch the world burn. Please create the following market: “Will the odds of YES fall below 5% at any time until April 30th?”

But enough about the Israelis

Isn’t JD pretending to be a CATHOLIC?!?

@energy_blogger @NickSzabo4 Good luck getting an oil tanker through the Omani side

Wow! Wow! Big clarification from US Central Command US WILL HAVE NO BLOCKADE for vessels using Omani water to transit Strait of Hormuz US BLOCKADE is only for Iranian ports and transits via Iranian Waters. #Iran

@C_Harwick @keccers Pikachu sometimes just says “pika” or “pi” so I think your Pokémon name could just be every word in the dictionary

Borges Pokemon story where each of us is a Pokemon whose name consists in all the words we speak over our lifetime

@JohnnyNash77 🇮🇷🚀💥🇮🇱

I don’t believe there are any mines as of now in the strait of Hormuz. The regime is rattled on the strait of Hormuz and Trump. They know this is the only real card that they have. It is just blackmail again.

@MerruX Since when does the losing side get to dictate terms

Vance has proposed their final Terms to Iran. Likely we are headed back to war!!

No deal between Iran and US!! Vance is flying back to US. Talks have failed!!!

I feel personally attacked

@krystalball If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of those dominos will fall like a house of cards.

NO CARDS! (Other than that one card that pretty much instantly checkmated us)

@infinite_jaz @gaijingirl2004 You don’t understand Jasper! His eyes were narrow! Like an Asian’s!

It's all very funny, but to state the obvious, Olivia fabricated a detail in her story from whole cloth to portray El-Sayed as a nefarious, antisemitic Muslim. It is straight-up Islamophobia and quite dangerous, too

@tify330 @neeratanden Maybe that’s cause they got expelled and or deported

They told us it was because Dems were in power but now that Dems are out of power they have gone silent. Not surprising at all.

@RaniaKhalek @DanMKervick I mean at this point Lebanon is just a client state

From now on I’m going to interpret silence from Lebanese officials about Israeli massacres across Lebanon as support for the destruction of their country.

@sunraysunray Yknow I’m pretty sure this is actionable defamation. This is the first thing we learned in J-school

If Dana Bash took her responsibility as a journalist seriously, she'd be apologizing to Hasan Piker right now.

Do they not know who lives in Texas

Found it lol

Guys where are the good right wing meltdowns?