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Tailscale. Based on WireGuard. This is nextgen VPN/tunnel/secure way to expose your service. Works out of the box and can be customized as you see fit.
Forget expensive cloud vpn to site, you can run 100 clients for free but I would recommend paid services if you are serious. I don't get a dime from them, just happy to share what I use and consider actually useful....
Day 425 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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Certainly.
Existing Bitcoin inheritance solutions roughly fall into 2 major categories:
- Key duplication
- Pre-signed transactions
The first one is relatively simple to understand (but not simple to implement), and probably the most common. Basically you would share all your keys and wallet data directly with the beneficiary, as well as the instructions to recreate said keys and wallet from scratch.
The problem with that is that this potentially creates a security vulnerability. You might be confident in your ability to safekeep sensitive key material, but it's hard to say the same for your family. The more copies of the keys you create, the easier you make it for a potential attacker. Furthermore, if the wallet is a multisig or uses a custom setup, the instructions can be quite difficult to follow, especially for someone non-technical. (You can perhaps "mitigate" this complexity by keeping your bitcoin in a singlesig wallet, but this comes at the cost of being more vulnerable to SPOFs).
Pre-signed transactions, on the other hand, require you to lock UTXOs. This technique interferes with your daily wallet usage. Every time you have a new transaction, you'd need to update the pre-signed transactions. You also need to pick transaction fees in advance, which may be problematic as we transition into the fees era, and the fee rate might become more volatile - the pre-signed transactions might get kicked out of the mempool. Last but not least, pre-signed transactions require you to pick the destination address/wallet in advance. This to me is its weakest point. The more time passes, the more uncertain we will be about what happens to the destination wallet. Will the beneficiary still have control over that wallet? Has any of its keys been compromised? etc. A lot can happen in 10-20 years.
Our Honey Badger solution solves this by having a dedicated inheritance key. The beneficiary does not need to know everything about the original wallet/keys in order to claim the inheritance. And we have tried to simplify the process as much as possible. The inheritance key is also time-locked, so you don't have the same vulnerability as the typical key duplication technique.
And of cos with that we are also able to sidestep all the problems with pre-signed transactions, since the inheritance claim happens on-demand on a future date, not now.
Hope this answers your question.
Nope. But I confess that I used to focus on the trending Hot posts because I thought doing so would help me get back my sats’ worth.
Now that I have a bigger bag (and withdraw what I think is my fair share from here), I’m not calculative about “breaking even”. Sometimes I zap new Stackers’ posts or “obscure” posts to give others a lift up. It’s okay - I have enough haha
No, then we'll complain about them using up liquidity on lightning and driving up fees.
The problem isn't so much that fees are high. It's why they're high.
Godzilla sounds poor
By chance, I picked out Atlas Shrugged off a bottom shelf on a Barnes and Noble trip. I had no idea what it was or that it was controversial. I just liked the cover art and the blurb.
At the time, I was living in motel room behind a Mexican restaurant in Los Banos, Ca, carless, bankless, and living paycheck to paycheck as a grocery clerk. I kept the copy in my apron and read it on my breaks.
It flipped my worldview upside down. Atlas Shrugged made it clear that I was choosing to be a victim and could, instead, choose to be a hero (or at least stop being a victim). I went pretty deep on objectivism, then anarchism and Rothbard and Mises.
At some point I decided to go to college (skipping some steps here ... I didn't graduate from high school), thinking I was going to do pre-med, but took an intro computer course and got hooked. I graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2012.
Being in CS, I occasionally saw Bitcoin mentioned on HN, but didn't make the hard money link. I'd also developed a healthy distance from politics and philosophy as I went through college, further preventing me from seeing Bitcoin's significance.
I bought my first Satoshis in 2014 to buy LSD on the Dark Net, and continued to buy small amounts of Bitcoin for similar purposes, still not having my Bitcoin epiphany.
Fast-forwarding a bit more, I was spending a lot of time on high-fat, low-carb Twitter in 2016/17 (I've always struggled with my weight) and eventually ran into Michael Goldstein, Pierre Rochard, Saifedean Ammous, and Jimmy Song. The dots finally connected between sound money and Bitcoin. I was hooked.
I moved to Austin 18 months ago and quickly dedicated the rest of my career to Bitcoin after attending a few Bit Devs.
Started from Los Banos now we here.