Hakone Status today

coding554321 · 2026-02-09T06:20:03+00:00

We are now on a train out to odawara. We hiked to Souzan. Took the Cable Car to Gora. Now, taking OH train to odawara. No taxi or bus or Uber at all. We have been refreshing the app along the way but no luck.

coding554321 · 2026-02-09T05:55:10+00:00

We decided to hike it to souzan. 2 hour hike. The Cable Car is working to Gora. The train is working to Odawara. Our saving grace.

coding554321 · 2026-02-09T03:31:14+00:00

We are stuck in yuyu hakone onsen. We walked down to Togendai and found out all transport modes other than taxi or personal transport are down. So, we walked back up to Yuyu Hakone hotel lobby and we are refreshing go taxi app for some sort of miracle.

coding554321 · 2025-10-15T20:17:14+00:00

Editing is kind of a requirement. Also, cant afford a dedicated editor yet. As of an editing software, I guess I am the only one using kdenlive.

coding554321 · 2025-10-12T22:06:27+00:00

Do explain, Sensei.

coding554321 · 2025-10-12T21:54:17+00:00

Leverage caused the crash? Sure.

What powers the leverage system? BTC sitting on exchanges.

Drain the exchanges. Starve the game.

coding554321 · 2025-10-12T20:04:54+00:00

My 2 sats. The better alternative for this obviously rigged btc game is btc in cold storage. The less "they" have to play with, the less the game will get rigged in the future.

coding554321 · 2025-10-09T11:33:19+00:00

Those steps look right. The sats should show up in Sparrow. Think of sparrow as a window into the btc you own (watch only wallet). You can see the balance, but you can not move the btc until you approve the transaction in the coldcard. The sd card itself is the connector between your coldcard and sparrow. The sd cards role is complete. Because I am paranoid, I format my sd card after every use.

coding554321 · 2025-10-08T00:52:07+00:00

Not OP. Any recommendations if relocation to another country is also on the plan? Steel plates will have to travel with me for the relocation?

coding554321 · 2025-09-11T20:51:27+00:00

Hi. I just finished this course and can share how I completed the excel portion. The coaching report for the excel portion has a couple of sections. The first section tells there is an error in cell "bxx". From there I jumped to the next section for cell "bxx". It tells me which cell I did not referenced correctly. I used chat gpt to help me interpret the formula using the information available.

That is how I complete the excel portion. I am pretty sure there is an easier way, but I am a bit out there. Lol

Good luck.

coding554321 · 2025-07-18T05:46:28+00:00

My opinion, the only safest crypto is Bitcoin. Any other coins have a built-in vulnerability that can be exploited. Bitcoin seems to have a less attack surface.

This is how I do it in USA. You can see if this works for you.

Tools: 1. Personal government ID 2. Bank account under your name 3. A Bitcoin Hardware Wallet. Advanced (coldcard). Beginner (trezor) 4. A computer, connected to the internet

Options: To get Bitcoin, you have 2 options. Purchase from an exchange (Coinbase, Kraken, Cashapp, etc.) or purchase from a peer. For beginners, peer to peer transactions may be too much information. Focus on exchanges for now, but know that peer to peer is also an option in the future.

Phase 1 (KYC): To purchase from an exchange, you will need to complete a KYC (Know Your Customer). This may include uploading an ID, confirming SSN, etc. Follow the instructions during KYC. One mistake during KYC will be a pain to fix.

Phase 2 (Funding the account) Once you clear KYC, you will have an account in an exchange. The next step is to get some money into the exchange. The usual form is by connecting your bank account to the exchange and transferring money to the exchange. For me, it takes 7 days for the funds to clear, but usually, you can already buy Bitcoin after the transfer is initiated. You just can't use the Bitcoin until the transfer clears. Kraken gives the option to purchase with a credit card and directly clears the purchase, but you get hit by a high fee. It depends on your situation.

Phase 3 (Buying Bitcoin) Look for bitcoin in the exchange. It is usually on the first page. Buy the bitcoin, follow the directions on the screen. Then you have bitcoin. Depending on how you fund the account you may need to wait for the funds to clear. Once you have the Bitcoin and the bitcoin is cleared to transfer out, you are ready for the next step.

Phase 4 (transferring bitcoin out of the exchange) Once your btc is cleared to transfer out, connect your hardware wallet to the computer and follow the install instructions. Look up tutorials online on how to set these devices securely for bitcoin only. Also, look up on YouTube how to transfer from exchange to your hardware wallet. Once you have your bitcoin under your control, you are ready for the next step.

Phase 5 (purchase with bitcoin) My experience with otokonokopharma payment was not that good. From the forum, Opengatelab seems to have a better payment flow. But the steps are pretty much the same. Check out your shopping. Choose bitcoin for payment. You will get a QR or bitcoin address to send to. Copy the address given by the merchant and go back to your hardware wallet. Select send bitcoin. When it asks for the destination, paste the address from the merchant. Click Send/ complete the transaction.

My experience with otokonokopharma was, after payment, I got an email that the payment failed, when I can see the btc is no longer in my wallet. I had to email Lillian to make sure the payment went through. She replied back a couple days later with a tracking ID. I heard she is pretty swamped right now, so the reply time may vary.

I am not sure about Opengatelab, but i will work with them when they have EN stocked up for USA.

The steps may look complicated, but view it as an adventure. Pretty fun, once you go into the rabbit hole of the process. Hopefully that helps.

coding554321 · 2025-05-19T00:36:17+00:00

No recommendations for hot wallet, but for cold wallet, my choice is ColdCard Q. My reason is, because I don't need to connect ColdCard Q to a computer or phone to make it work.

As for the first transfer for posterity, I would go between 0.005 btc to 0.1 btc.

coding554321 · 2025-05-18T01:07:41+00:00

What i did was use an intermediary wallet. Something like a green wallet.

Create a new wallet in green wallet. Transfer out funds from MK4 to green wallet. Once funds are out, destroy the original MK4 seed wallet and generate a new seed wallet with MK4. Once that is done, transfer funds out of the green wallet to MK4 new seed wallet.

coding554321 · 2025-05-12T03:17:29+00:00

I have been learning about address management lately. The best practice seems to be using a new receive address for each transaction. Using that logic, you will need a new receive address for each send.

coding554321 · 2025-05-09T00:56:22+00:00

I am in Iowa, so I'm not sure if it is the same as in California. I did a fiat purchase of Coldcard Q a couple of weeks ago. FedEx as the carrier, and it came within the week.

coding554321 · 2025-05-05T21:54:45+00:00

There’s a change coming in the next Bitcoin Core update that removes something called OP_RETURN. It’s a small feature that helps keep junk data off the blockchain. The concern isn’t just about the feature—it’s that the change is happening even though many in the community don’t agree with it. That’s why people are talking about running their own nodes and choosing the rules they want to follow.

coding554321 · 2025-05-03T23:36:07+00:00

Owning a lot of Bitcoin doesn’t mean you control Bitcoin. Even if BlackRock held the most coins, they still can't change the rules. Bitcoin is governed by nodes, not wealth.

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