Quote from: OutOfMemory on April 13, 2025, 04:47:07 PM

Spent my last Merit
Too ~~soon, too much~~much, too soon, some might say
This may earn me some

I spent them early
Did not know what was to come
I missed out on some

This time was different
Next time i will be careful
Choose wisely, it says

#happyHaikuSunday

Personally I prefer the expression "too much, too soon," rather than "too soon, too much" to say the "what" before the "when" rather than saying the "when" before the "what"..

even though, I can imagine there there are times that we say the "when" before the "what". For example,

1) "many times, I have sold too many of my bitcoin too soon."

or maybe better:

2) "Many times, on Sundays, I have read haikus, yet rarely have I written any."

O.k... Let me try to say this in another way:

questions have been raised
do we say too soon, too much
or too much, too soon?

Sundays, what a days?
they used to be for relax
now, ~~reading~~ ~~writing~~ doing haikus

go figure it out
if you must do such a thing
"we" adaptening

Are you serious?
Sirius? Tongue

#3.5 sunday haikus.. (half of what AlcoHoDL does, per week)

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on April 13, 2025, 04:53:18 PM

Quote from: Richy_T on April 13, 2025, 04:39:14 PM

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on April 13, 2025, 04:15:25 PM

You can already do this to an extent with Bitcoin. After having a couple of friends be cavalier with the samples I gave them, when I gifted my brother some, I gave him a paper wallet to which I retained a copy of the private key. If he is interested enough to transfer the coins out of it, he can. If he loses it, I can restore it for him. This is not good for real-world usage, of course but you either lock in the transfer or you don't in my eyes (ignoring multi-key stuff for a second).

I have done the same. I hold the keys to all gifts I have given to family members.

And this shows where things like single mint e-cash schemes could be used.

Trust is NOT a bad thing. Being FORCED to trust is very bad. Especially being forced to trust vipers. But a family, for example, is a place where trust can thrive. At least a mostly good family... I know not all are. In this case uncle Richy the geek can run a mint/lightning node/whatever. He is the families "Central Bank" and can think up ways to offer ease of use, backups, instructions, vaults, mints, nodes, whatever... at the cost of trust. But uncle Richy is a good guy... and can be trusted by the family... so...

Does uncle Richy charge a fee for his services or does he do it for free?

Sure it may well depend on the value of the services and also how much work and/or costs it might be for uncle Richy to carry out such services.