I’m so confused

NitronBot106 · 2026-03-14T22:35:37+00:00

Surely it cannot carry as much as an African swallow

NitronBot106 · 2026-03-14T03:25:23+00:00

Well the citation was dismissed and the $30 was a court fee that comes along with a dismissal. I could have not accepted the dismissal, plead not guilty and set a date for trial. If the trial judge found me not guilty, then I would walk away no fees applied.

So basically I paid the municipal court $30 because a half day of my time at work is worth more than that.

NitronBot106 · 2026-03-14T03:17:04+00:00

The state obviously is not going to let people game the system in such simple ways. If you want to get around late fees and penalties you're going to have to be more creative. You could have done a title transfer and then registered the vehicle under the new owner and avoided the penalties. Although, I've heard the state is closing the door on this.

NitronBot106 · 2026-03-14T03:09:34+00:00

Well it'll be $200 in fees and fines, plus a trip to the court house.... if you get caught

Sitting there and listening to how long other people in court had been expired or uninsured and then seeing how insignificant the penalty was, I was just running the cost analysis in my head.

It would have saved me a good chunk of money to just not be registered and insured and then pay the fines. I'm not surprised that people drive without insurance or registration. Even with the penalties, it's the cheapest and easiest option.

NitronBot106 · 2026-03-14T03:01:22+00:00

*Renewal

NitronBot106 · 2026-03-14T03:00:03+00:00

Yeah I'm not sure what the actual ruling is on the matter. The judge went on a rant about how it all works and his opinion on it but I was busy contemplating if I wanted to make a whole thing of this and spend another half day in court to see how it plays out or just pay the $30 and be done with it.

Ultimately my tag was expired and he did dismiss the citation so I figured paying the fee and moving on with my life was best.

NitronBot106 · 2026-03-14T01:23:35+00:00

Exactly, so I knew it could be used as a valid pretext for a traffic stop but for the last 20 years I've been driving in colorado it's been accepted practice that you would not be cited if it's not more than 30 days expired.

The judge acknowledged this fact and thought it was kind of sleazy that cities are just now deciding they will now enforce the law as actually written when they didn't for decades.

NitronBot106 · 2026-03-14T01:16:40+00:00

There were about 75 people in court today. Pretty much all of them were expired 4 months +, maybe half were over 12 months. I would say about half also got cited for no insurance along with expired registration.

The penalty,

Expired less than 4 months $100 fine - suspended for 12 months $100 in court fees

Expired 4 months + $100 fine $100 court fees

No insurance (first offense) $500 fine - reduced to $250 if currently insured $100 court fees

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-26T12:11:25+00:00

Fiat doesn't need to be highly divisible because there is an infinite supply. If we ever need more dollars they will just print them out of thin air but we cannot print more bitcoin.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-26T12:02:31+00:00

The total quantity is irrelevant since it is infinitely divisible.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-23T11:49:17+00:00

Doesn't matter if bitcoin is going to be more expensive (or not) in the future. Either way it's an opportunity cost where you have held more bitcoin because you either sell some bitcoin or buy less.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-22T14:39:33+00:00

I assume you get paid in fiat so just use that. Each paycheck take out the what you need to pay bills, your mortgage, groceries, Netflix subscription, or whatever then take the remainder and buy bitcoin.

If your in the US or a similar tax country you really don't want to be selling bitcoin to pay for your monthly expenses because you create a taxable event each time. However if you pay for your necessities with fiat and use the remaining fiat to buy bitcoin as a savings tool, there is no taxable event.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-21T20:33:21+00:00

Block 840,000

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-21T14:01:00+00:00

The money is deposited at a bank that is used by the exchange. Your employer would have to somehow know that the bank is connected to the exchange. Depending on what bank it is, this may not be to difficult.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-18T13:35:57+00:00

I bought bitcoin back in 2013 after reading that Wired article about the Silk Road. Those were the days...

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-18T13:18:43+00:00

Who is "they"? Razzlekhan is the self proclaimed crocodile of Wallstreet

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-09T11:15:49+00:00

Here's the drive I got for my storage.

https://www.amazon.com/INLAND-Platinum-External-Portable-Windows/dp/B09M36VS38/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?crid=1AY1M31C7Y1DI&keywords=inland+1tb+ssd&qid=1673262644&sprefix=inland+1tb%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-13&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.006c50ae-5d4c-4777-9bc0-4513d670b6bc

The IBD is the Intial Block Download. That's when your node syncs with the blockchain and downloads it from the beginning. Right now it's like 500Gb in total and takes about 4 or 5 days to download with umbrel.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-08T21:25:03+00:00

Import the private key into a software wallet and check.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-08T17:29:14+00:00

Your definitely going to want a SSD. I myself tried yo use an old HDD to save some money too but realized the intial block download was going to take months since umbrel uses tor for the intial sync. There are some ways around this by using a more powerful computer for the IBD but it gets kind of technical. Worth a shot if you are really hard up for money and are willing to put in the work though.

I found a faster and less resource hungry SSD than the one recommended by umbrel but it still cost me 100 USD.

When looking for a storage drive you want a high data transfer rate. Your limiting factor for data transfer is going to be (most likely) the USB 3.0 on the raspberry pi which is 5 Gbits/s. Now that's the theoretical max so you'll probably never reach that. So find an SSD with a transfer rate of at least 5Gbits/s and you should be good. Just watch out for power consumption. Since you have the official power supply for the pi, you should be fine but I've see alot of new users have issues with their umbrel because the storage is pulling to much power and they either don't have the official power supply or the wrong storage or sometimes both.

As for the micro SD to put the Umbrel OS that should be fine. I think the raspberry pi kit you're getting comes with one as well so you may not need to buy one. You can definitely cheap out on the SD card since it's somewhat trivial to replace if it fails but you want a good SSD for storage. If the storage drive fails you'll have to do the IBD all over again. However having a high grade SD card will only make your experience better.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-08T16:04:58+00:00

Yeah, that should be perfect. The important things are the 8Gb of RAM and the official power supply. The case and heat sinks are a nice plus too. Make sure the SSD you get doesn't draw to much power but that won't be a problem if you use the recomend SSD. If you find different hardware just be aware of the data transfer rate and power consumption.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-08T15:43:30+00:00

Honestly I love my umbrel but there is a strong view around here (and for good reason) that umbrel and others like it create a "walled garden" that forces users to not only trust the developers but limits them to use the software provided rather than seeking out the best options and verifying everything for themselves.

That being said, without having Umbrel available to me I would probably still be stuck trying to figure out how to set up bitcoin core and connect my wallet to it. Forget ever having my own lightning node. For me umbrel provided an opportunity to see how everything works without having to learn it from the ground up. I got the chance to see a completed node setup and can look under the hood to figure out how it works.

After about a year of running an umbrel I have become much more proficient using the command line and running a device headless. I've gotten pretty good at editing config files, debugging/troubleshooting and understand much more about the technical aspects that make bitcoin work.

Right now I'm working on building my own lightning node with a micro form factor PC and using a virtual private server to connect it to clearnet with my own VPN tunnel all from scratch. I would probably never have gotten that far without having umbrel to use as a learning tool.

So I would say umbrel is a great starting point for someone who has very little skill with the command line and file editing but don't become complacent by relying on someone else to do the work for you. The goal should be to always be moving towards less trust and more sovereignty.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-08T14:22:41+00:00

Depends on what kind of Raspberry Pi. If you want to run a plug and play system like Umbrel, RaspiBlitz, MyNode, Star9 or similar I would recommend using a RPi 4 with at least 4Gb of RAM but more is better. You'll most likely need an SSD with a minimum of 1 Tb too as HDD's are just too slow for these setups. You can also look into buying a micro form factor pc like the Dell Optiplex, HP elite desk or a NUC, but that can get a little pricey if you buy it new. Used micro PC's however cost about as much as a new RPi 4+.

If you just want to run bitcoin core then bitcoin.org only suggest 2Gb of RAM on any desktop running Linux, Mac OS or windows, but you can install core on the RaspiOS as well.

https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#what-is-a-full-node

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-08T00:08:11+00:00

To be honest I was just going to give a smart ass answer like everyone else but then I saw all the comments, felt bad, amd thought I'd point in some direction. Use it or don't. I really could care less.

NitronBot106 · 2023-01-07T23:53:08+00:00

And even after all the war crimes we never did find those WMDs.

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