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#krux v24.11.0 released!

- Tamper Check Flash Hash and Tamper Check Code (Experimental)
- Flash Map
- Japanese Translation
- BIP85: Allow Export Base64 Passwords
- Vulnerability Fix: Block Import of Python Modules from SD Card
- Add Compatibility to Partial Text Mnemonic QR Codes
- Multi-keypad Position Indicator
- WonderMV Simulator
- Krux Ethos
- Minor Bugfixes and Refactor

Special thanks to:
@jdlcdl for consistent contributions as code, insights and reviews of all new features and improvements.
@tadeubas for the contributions, insights, reviews, and the discovery on frozen modules import from SD cards behavior, crucial TC Flash Hash solution to work.
@qlrd for constant improvements on Krux-Installer, which can now aid on air-gapped firmware updates.
@3rdIteration for the precious insights on TC Flash Hash possible vulnerabilities.
@BitCoisas for the Japanese translation.
@kkdao for spreading the word about Krux around the world.
Krux community for the great ideas, tests and feedback.

https://github.com/selfcustody/krux/releases/tag/v24.11.0


#Krux quicly becoming my favourite signing device: https://selfcustody.github.io/krux/


Heads up! We're rebranding zap.store to Zapstore.

The premium domain renewal is too expensive, so I'm moving it to zapstore.dev for years to come. The middle dot is also confusing for pronounciation.

Website, relay, CDN will all be moving to the new domain in the next release, coming this week.

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Please share! 🫂


HODLudek

8/21, noderunner, miner, fringe minority, paranoid crypto anarchist


I smell OGs here


From my experience this is at the moment the only sane choice.


Are you all ready for 58k? It is coming.


LibreWolf, Firefox without BS. You may give it a try.


I do not ask you to like it. Far from evangelizing anything to anybody.


#Gentoo without systemd


Bitcoin does not need Trump. He or Harris are irrelevant.


Good one, one of the few worth listening to.


"It's About Individual Adoption" from Ungovernable Misfits "There Is No Institutional Adoption | The Confab 11: Fundamentals"

https://ungovernable-misfits.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/chapter_11_its_about_individual_adoption.mp4

Listen on Fountain
https://www.fountain.fm/episode/jG0IDd55yG5J9XzIH1Kf


Relay list to discover the user's content


Relay list to store private content from this author


What a monster?


OSMU is the reason why I love working in #bitcoin nothing less than impressive work!
10TH/s at 170W ish https://image.nostr.build/31791546d3799080876b53b7c5fa9bd2abba545648161a37d62c0240ab22a4f1.jpg


Devuan, Debian without systemd.

At the rate we are going systemd will reach AGI first than chatgpt 😂 .

https://www.devuan.org


It should be mandatory to post recipes with great food pictures. Looks great, I expect tastes even better.


In the early days of ecash a common narrative was that it provides "theoretically perfect anonymity", but there's more nuance to this.

It's correct that when the client presents an unblinded signed message, the mint cannot link this to any specific blinded cyphertext that it signed previously.

However, there is still three pieces of critical metadata that the client does reveal:

1. The number of inputs and outputs of the ecash transaction. Transactions with many inputs reveal that the same user got paid many times in the past. Transactions with many outputs reveal that one user is making many payments.

2. The value of each input and output. The mint uses a different key for each denomination value of the tokens. Thus a token worth 5 units is easily differentiated from a token worth 10 units. The anonymity set of a token depends on the number of tokens generated, so if a user is the only one with that specific denomination he has no privacy.

3. The IP address that connects to the mint to send the transaction api request. If the same IP address makes multiple payments, it's likely the same user, and his geolocation is also revealed.

Problems 1 and 2 can be mitigated on client side, but this adds substantial complexity in utxo management and transaction structure. If these mitigation are not specified and different clients have slightly different solutions, this opens up additional client fingerprinting attacks.

WabiSabi is designed to solve problems 1 and 2 on a protocol level. A WabiSabi transaction is required to have exactly two inputs and two outputs, and homomorphic value commitments hide the amounts of each input and output. The tradeoff is that the mint has to issue 0 value credentials, a user needs to make more transactions to prepare his desired amounts, and the proof size and creation time is larger.

Problem 3 is addressed by a client side networking anonymity layer. A VPN at least hides the actual users IP address, but if only one client uses this VPN to talk to this mint, it's still one IP per user. Tor is incredibly useful here, as it allows the creation of anonymous onion routes through the network with different exit IP addresses. A client can get a new IP for each api request! This does however increase bandwidth and latency cost.

We should assume "everyone knows what the mint knows", and so we need to be hardcore about privacy protections best baked into the protocol. If the protocol doesn't ensure the security of the user, client devs have to do an exponentially larger amount of research and development to fix the issues client side.


Mining with nostr:nprofile1qqsq9k04vahllseell55m74n3047y88pzlr0z5yany32st29fapqmgsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctc87ckyu using Datum. If you mine, give it a try, you will not be disappointed. I can only hope the protocol will be adopted by other mining pools. You can also solo mine with Datum.


Instructions for those wishing to switch to Knots on nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq5xamn8ghj7dnvv45xs7tywde8g6rpvakkjuekw46nvar4vdhxgan6wumkxatzwpckk6rk0puhjdm2da5k7ce5x4kkkumjx3jkzepwdahxjmmwqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wd9hxvmckqw0xz from Core:

If running Core < 27.1:

Go to the Community Marketplace
Update Bitcoin
Configure and save (Bitcoin may get stuck shutting down - known bug in StartOS - if so, restart the server).
Services that depend on Bitcoin *may* complain about RPC becoming inaccessible. If so, enter config and hit save in the unhappy service so that it grabs new RPC creds from Knots.

If you want to switch to knots and are on Core v27.1:

Go to system tab
Click "Manage" 5 times to enable developer mode
Go to Community Marketplace
Click on Knots and "Reinstall" it.
As above for everything else

If you have already installed DATUM and it's not working correctly since switching to Knots, enter DATUM's config and hit save so that it grabs what it needs.


How many of these is paper bitcoin?


DATUM
Available Now

• Source Code: https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway
• Linux Binaries: https://launchpad.net/~ocean-xyz/+archive/ubuntu/datum-gateway
• StartOS Package: https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum-gateway-startos/releases/tag/v0.1.0

The Future of Bitcoin Mining starts now.

ocean.xyz
https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway
 https://video.nostr.build/7ade9d54abf2e91456384ea66c0e8b70d54bd6abb3d4bfdad047e53f288d9008.mp4


Comfort kills


The wait is over, the Datum Gateway from nostr:nprofile1qqsq9k04vahllseell55m74n3047y88pzlr0z5yany32st29fapqmgsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctc87ckyu is released: https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway/releases/tag/v0.2beta


Mining Bitcoin with nostr:nprofile1qqsq9k04vahllseell55m74n3047y88pzlr0z5yany32st29fapqmgsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctc87ckyu :-)


About coinjoin coordinators.

There is a difference to be made between privacy on-chain and privacy at the network level.

Even if you have chain privacy you can tag the addresses with their respective ips and trace the user. Obviously this can only be done by the coordinator.

This is why Samourai and Whirpool have always sucked.

Whirpool:

- If you used the mobile wallet without your node, the coinjoin was useless because your public keys were exposed to the backend and with them all your past, present and future addresses.

- If you used your own node or sparrow it was also of little use, since both samourai and sparrow reuse the tor circuit, they only generate a new one if you close the application, and therefore the coordinator can tag the incoming and outgoing addresses at the time of registration and ruin the coinjoin. Whirpool has never been zerolink, the coordinator knew everything.

Wabisabi:

- It creates new connections for both input and output addresses, so the coordinator sees distinct identities, although I think it has flaws in its design due to the delay. We can consider it to be zerolink, at least they tried and were honest.

Joinmarket:

- Since there is no centralized coordinator it is much less important to create new tor circuits for each connection, still the coordinator (the taker) will know the ips of the incoming and outgoing addresses. I don't know if they are mitigating this in any way.

Joinstr:

- Use Riseup VPN for logging, everyone uses the same VPN, there is no possibility of tagging inbound and outbound addresses across relays.


List of non-kyc services.

https://kycnot.me/


"If you know the enemy you need not to fear the result of a hundred buttles" Who are "they"? Who is the enemy? The enemy must be named first. We can not win our lives back fighting ghosts. Would love you to go into this rabit hole.


Introducing: 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗠

𝗗ecentralized
𝗔lternative
𝗧emplates for
𝗨niversal
𝗠ining

Read the Press Release here:
https://url-shortener.newsdirect.com/5pu4AhQL

It’s happening.
https://video.nostr.build/a05b3c70a1b6cb9f9089feef6d38fbb2cd8a87baceed57f091692b771bdcf723.mp4


You are the voice that is much appritiated, high signal nad low noise. Hoping it is worth doing and your voice is heard. Never been to any Bitcon conference and I'm in Bitcoin since 2011.


Putting aside laptop use. Is it worth going at all? Is it not waste of time and money? You can see and hear the same "talking heads"  on countless number of podcasts. Not to mention these are tipicaly the shitcoin shows.


I gues this is all about short vs long time preference. Curently short time preferencw has the priority. And maybe it is fine for some interactions.

At the same time I also noticed myself that very often I would like to preserve some notes or complete conversations, give myself time to think and come back to them and that is not easy. I agree that it would be great to make it possible to preserve some of the content you see here for longer. This could possibly be another measure to take to indicate value of quality notes or interactions.


The free market doesn't solve everything. It is about time bitcoiners recognize that and ask the question what would make free market to work. How free is "free" and what constrains are needed to be put in place for free market to work.

Countless podcast repeating the same message of how Austrian school of economics is the magic silver bullet that is supposed to solve all problems. Is it?


⚡hodludek@fountain.fm


- NEVER FORGET AARON BUSHNELL -

 https://image.nostr.build/65be3bc4d73ab6a4d8182e531bad93f048260e9e151aab50cc89aeb8dbf0493a.jpg


Chart of who "owns" the Federal Reserve

Published 1976
Chart 1 reveals the linear connection between the Rothschilds and the Bank of England, and the London banking houses which ultimately control the Federal Reserve Banks through their stockholdings of bank stock and their subsidiary firms in New York. The two principal Rothschild representatives in New York, J. P. Morgan Co., and Kuhn,Loeb & Co. were the firms which set up the Jekyll Island Conference at which the Federal Reserve Act was drafted, who directed the subsequent successful campaign to have the plan enacted into law by Congress, and who purchased the controlling amounts of stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1914. These firms had their principal officers appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council in 1914. In 1914 a few families (blood or business related) owning controlling stock in existing banks (such as in New York City) caused those banks to purchase controlling shares in the Federal Reserve regional banks. Examination of the charts and text in the House Banking Committee Staff Report of August, 1976 and the current stockholders list of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks show this same family control.

N.M. Rothschild , London - Bank of England
                                 ______________________________________
                                |                                     |
                                |                           J. Henry Schroder

                                |                             Banking | Corp.
                                |                                     |
                          Brown, Shipley - Morgan Grenfell - Lazard - |
                           & Company        & Company       Brothers  |
                                |               |              |      |
            --------------------|        -------|              |      |
            |                   |        |      |              |      |
 Alex Brown - Brown Bros. - Lord Mantagu - Morgan et Cie -- Lazard ---|
 & Son      |  Harriman       Norman     |    Paris          Bros     |
            |                   |        /      |            N.Y.     |
            |                   |       |       |              |      |
            |            Governor, Bank | J.P. Morgan Co -- Lazard ---|
            |            of England    /  N.Y. Morgan       Freres    |
            |            1924-1938    /   Guaranty Co.      Paris     |
            |                        /    Morgan Stanley Co.  |      /
            |                       /           |              \Schroder Bank
            |                      /            |              Hamburg/Berlin
            |                     /      Drexel & Company         /
            |                    /       Philadelphia            /
            |                   /                               /
            |                  /                           Lord Airlie
            |                 /                               /
            |                /     M. M. Warburg       Chmn J. Henry Schroder
            |                |      Hamburg ---------  marr. Virginia F. Ryan
            |                |         |               grand-daughter of Otto
            |                |         |                Kahn of Kuhn Loeb Co.
            |                |         |
            |                |         |
Lehman Brothers N.Y -------------- Kuhn Loeb Co. N. Y.
            |                |     --------------------------
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            |                |       |                      |
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            |                |       |                      |
Lehman Brothers - Mont. Alabama   Solomon Loeb           Abraham Kuhn
            |                |     __|______________________|_________
Lehman-Stern, New Orleans   Jacob Schiff/Theresa Loeb  Nina Loeb/Paul Warburg
-------------------------    |       |                      |
             |               | Mortimer Schiff        James Paul Warburg
_____________|_______________/       |
|            |          |   |        |
Mayer Lehman |     Emmanuel Lehman    \
|            |          |              \
Herbert Lehman     Irving Lehman        \
|            |          |                \
Arthur Lehman \    Phillip Lehman     John Schiff/Edith Brevoort Baker
              /         |             Present Chairman Lehman Bros
             /  Robert Owen Lehman    Kuhn Loeb - Granddaughter of
            /           |             George F. Baker
           |           /               |
           |          /                |
           |         /           Lehman Bros Kuhn Loeb (1980)
           |        /                  |
           |       /             Thomas Fortune Ryan
           |      |                    |
           |      |                    |
      Federal Reserve Bank Of New York |
           ||||||||                    |
  ______National City Bank N. Y.       |
  |        |                           |
  |   National Bank of Commerce N.Y ---|
  |        |                            \
  |   Hanover National Bank N.Y.         \
  |        |                              \
  |   Chase National Bank N.Y.             \
  |                                        |
  |                                        |
Shareholders - National City Bank - N.Y.   |
-----------------------------------------  |
  |                                        /
James Stillman                            /
Elsie m. William Rockefeller             /
Isabel m.  Percy Rockefeller            /
William Rockefeller          Shareholders - National Bank of Commerce N. Y.
J. P. Morgan                 -----------------------------------------------
M.T. Pyne                    Equitable Life - J.P. Morgan
Percy Pyne                   Mutual Life - J.P. Morgan
J.W. Sterling                H.P. Davison - J. P. Morgan
NY Trust/NY Edison           Mary W. Harriman
Shearman & Sterling          A.D. Jiullard - North British Merc. Insurance
|                            Jacob Schiff
|                            Thomas F. Ryan
|                            Paul Warburg
|                            Levi P. Morton - Guaranty Trust - J. P. Morgan
|
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Shareholders - First National Bank of N.Y.
-------------------------------------------
J.P. Morgan
George F. Baker
George F. Baker Jr.
Edith Brevoort Baker
US Congress - 1946-64
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Shareholders - Hanover National Bank N.Y.
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James Stillman
William Rockefeller
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Shareholders - Chase National Bank N.Y.
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George F. Baker

http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html


The Story of BkackRock’s rise. Well worth a watch. Especially with their tokenisation of the Natural World vision ahead

https://rumble.com/v3iukoy-how-blackrock-conquered-the-world.html


It is doubtful that a person who does not have children can look beyond his or her own self-interest.

Only those with offspring can look beyond their own death.


You are only an adult if you have your own children.


Anything that has true value in life takes time, effort and sacrifice. This is the best measure one can take to value anything.


Some people celebrate that more and more banks are offering Bitcoin services, but it's not the same. You lose important characteristics of Bitcoin, such as permissionlessness.

Not only do banks, as state-regulated institutions, require full KYC, but the wallet you have there does not belong to you. And if you want to transfer your BTC assets from there to a self-custodied wallet, your transaction is still subject to scrutiny by the bank. For example, I wanted to transfer Sats worth only $8, and the bank promised a transfer time of about 60 minutes. Due to their 'internal review,' the entire process took over 48 hours. And the self-custodied wallet you transfer to is also doxxed through the KYC.

So it's best to forget about buying Bitcoin through banks; they are absolutely not suitable for that. Anonymous P2P, into self-custody, is still the best option.


The point of completely exiting this fiat economy and living solely on Bitcoin will come when CBDCs and the associated social credit system are introduced and widely adopted. Supported and brought to you by banks.

Then you will have only two options: either a complete exit or the struggle with like-minded individuals in rejecting this new economic order. In the latter case, you will be faced with a bunch of clueless NPCs who will just stupidly mumble, "but it's the legal tender."

Think about it. Do you really think you will exchange your Bitcoin wealth for fiat someday and become fiat-rich? Or shouldn't you get off your ass and bet everything on a circular Bitcoin economy? It will come. The question is not "if" but "when."


Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury by E. Michael Jones


It is not about the "corrupt East European Country". It is about using it as a tool and sacrefice its people to destabilize and break Russia, make it dependent.


Bitcoin can and should be used to create parallel economies that are build on the sound foundation of it.

But the fundamental problem that needs to be addressed is the state enforced usury based system we are living in. Every economic aspect of our lives it rooted in this system. This is the core of the problem.

There is no doubt this system will try to hijack Bitcoin and water it down with paper printed Bitcoin. Look at ETFs and the herd of self proclaimed bitcoiners NGU crowd cheering for it.

I guest the way is to go back to the roots of Christianity and Islam and together build an alternative where usury is outlawedd and focus is on family, comunity, etics, morality and labor first and money last.


https://m.primal.net/KdVL.jpg

- Endless wars at the expense of debt and economic deficits

- Diminishing personal freedoms and free time to fully realize one's potential (two-income households just to get by)

- Broken families with divorce rates of up to 50% (for comparison: 100 years ago, a divorce rate of 2.8% was already considered a catastrophe by Western psychologists and seen as a temporary anomaly due to urbanization)

- Aimless and unmotivated youth indulging in hedonism well into middle age

- Broken, unhealthy diets and a symptom-treating, expensive healthcare system

- Worship of money (money takes precedence over all meaning and purpose)

- Unrestrained public sexual acts with more than four witnesses

- Lies and devaluation of the concept of personal honor (in the past, one would lose all respect for just one lie - see hadith sciences; today, it is a foreign concept)

- Leaders completely unfit to rule, with up to 80% exhibiting pathological mental disorders (who should actually be in treatment in a mental institution)

- Miserable aesthetics and quality in engineering

... all of this and its consequential damages are caused by riba (usury) and unhealthy money as a foundation. One only needs to draw the chain of conclusions.

The straight path has not been bending for 1400 years. Human values do. Always stay on the straight path, even if you seem "strange" to everyone else.


I repeat this in more detail, because it is essential for Muslims to understand this.

Often riba is translated with "usury" or "interest", but it's more than that, it has a wider meaning.

We said that the basic philosophy behind riba in Islam is:

A way of making money, that's guaranteed and doesn't require any effort on your part.

Note that it is not enough for just one of the two to be the case. For example, you can enter into a purchase or service contract that guarantees you an income that contains profit when you provide a service. The written contract is binding, that's where the 'guarantee' comes from. That alone is not haram, because you make an effort to deliver value.

You can also potentially make money from something without effort. But the expected profit should not guaranteed. For example, if you invest in something (like Bitcoin or company shares), but the investment can also go wrong. This is effortless (you are just handing over money to someone), but not guaranteed profit.

Only when BOTH come together—effortless investment AND guaranteed profit (like in a loan agreement)—it is riba.

Stay away from riba at all costs, don't earn it and don't pay riba. And also don't be a signing witness to a riba contract, that's also haram and punishable. You don't need a bank loan to buy a house, you don't need to own a house. You need to stay away from riba. Stay within your means. You can pay rent until you die, no problem with that. Allah ﷻ is Ar-Razzaq and will provide.

Riba is no small matter, it's one of the 7 biggest sins and a heinuos crime in Islam and will be punished in the most severe way in afterlife, if you don't make tawba while alife.

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God bless you!


I struggled with this for a while @HODL

I was an atheist / agnostic before I was very close to dying in 2015. I spent 7 days unconscious at the hospital. I didn’t have a “near death experience” hallucinations of the after life etc. Just darkness / nothingness. This is what I believe “hell” is, literal oblivion, it’s terrifying but it also brought extreme clarity that our actions in life matter and I connected with something that is not of this world while I was there.

After I came back and since then I can tell you without a doubt in my mind. 1000% certainty, God / Christ is real, It all happened, it’s all true, heaven is real, good is real, evil is real, the soul is real, being a good person is important, honesty / truth is important, integrity is import. Even when no one is looking.

Sometimes you’ll be hated for doing the right thing but things we’ll always end up working in your favor at the end. It’s like a cheat code to life to follow the “narrow path”.

He will always have your back and he hasn’t let me down once even in the darkest times you’ll see that it was for a reason at the end.

What you do in the mortal realm is what you’ll be judged for when it’s all over. Cannot explain it or show proof but I know it to be true in my core.

Also, once you feel it. It cannot be unfelt, it’s so obvious in your face but that’s the hardest part for most people because all the things you use to determine truth in the flesh (vision, hearing, logic) doesn’t apply. It’s a matter of the heart only and it’s extremely personal. You can be shown the door but only you can open it.

All that being said I don’t push my beliefs to anybody or try to convert people. Nor do I care what they do with their personal lives. I know if I do good, good things will happen to me and when I die (hopefully a long time from now) I will be alright. I do not fear death, it’s become clear to me that it’s a feature of being human, not a bug. Those who do evil or justify things in the name of God are larps because it’s extremely personal and only within you

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They play with fire disrespecting human lives and think they are immune to the consequences.


hal


Good luck! Looking forward.


I started out with 9 relays when I created my profile here. 4 are dead now and Nostr is a lot bigger. I don’t think it’s fair to say that there will be more relays as it grows and not have a clear incentive you can point to for why people will suddenly run more.

I think all the recent events with Telegram and Samourai should be a clear indicator of where things are going.

Having many relays doesn’t help if they all have nice URLs and the operators can be easily identified.


Trump's slogan should be: "Make Israel great again"


The reason Christianity is endlessly attacked and mocked in the media is because it is the single greatest threat to the communists’ new world order. https://image.nostr.build/2f26f9058fdc7c19b2ca1dd248dc649cb608b80dde985af7602bdb5659605444.jpg


Mutual admiration society cheering up for NGU promises by a politician who is not even representing their country peoples interests. Painful to watch. Wonder what Satoshi thoughts are looking at this circus.


Bitcoin 2024, summarized: cheering on politicians wanting to confiscate private property and build Billion dollar bitcoin reserves financed by your tax money. Who's the communist now, dumbfucks.


Bitcoin journalism is fucked.

I started The Rage because I'm tired of investors and advertisers telling me what to do for below minimum wage compensation.

What we need are publications willing to let journalists investigate the crap out of the companies, representatives and people enabling the building of surveillance tech behind the scenes.

What we get are publications selling out to corporations, startups and politicians writing public relations puff pieces to keep their returns on track. The point of journalism is to hold power to account, not to become its bedfellow.

There is no lack of talented, experienced, investigative journalists covering bitcoin. The problem is that they write what the powers that be don't want you to hear – so many are out of a job, dabbling away at the next press release for mainstream media, or doing below-minimum wage contract work to pay the bills.

I'm incredibly overwhelmed by all the positive feedback we've been getting for The Rage. In just 8 weeks we've scooped major publications and drove discussions around AML, Samourai and Tornado Cash together with your help. We've even made enough to cover operations with almost 400$ raised, thanks to all the zappers out there.

But here's the thing. I didn't come here to write a good piece every once in a while leaving stories untold left and right because I can't afford to focus on investigations full time. I came here to fuck up the financial surveillance complex. That's why The Rage now needs your help.

We're trying to raise 0.25BTC so we can contract the best investigative journalists in the Bitcoin space to tell the stories that major publications can't afford to print.

If you value your financial freedom, please consider donating via our Geyser fund. We cannot do this without your help.

https://geyser.fund/project/therage

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Many years ago, there was a Bitcoin exchange called MPEx, run by the late great Mircea Popescu.

The design of this exchange was brilliant and radical on a technical level, an expression of the genius of one of the greatest Bitcoiners; a man who is sorely missed by all true Bitcoiners.

This exchange had many users, one of which was infamous altcoiner Erik Voorhees.

Mircea Popescu was approached by the US government's SEC to reveal details of Erik's use of MPEx, and Mircea instantly lept to the defense of his client, refusing in the most scintillating and scathing terms to aid the SEC in any way, shape or form.

https://archive.is/Qcll3

You can read his responses for yourself

https://tinyurl.com/msduxfn2

eye opening, inspiring and highly instructive.

This, my dear readers, is exactly how all CEOs should approach any attack from the State, or its infiltrating Apratchicks who have snuck on to the staff.

If all CEOs behaved like Mircea Popescu, then many of the problems you as users of Bitcoin experience would vanish in a puff of smoke.

All the users complaining and posting screenshots showing Gemini asking weird questions that make absolutely no sense in reference to how they use "their" Bitcoin, that in this or any other universe are considered insane, and all the other "power over" abuses you've seen would not be happening.

And Bitcoin would have spread further into the world than it has today as a result.

The role of the CEO is not to Virtue Signal by patting the needy on their heads and other showy things that whilst good in a normal world are absolutely bizarre in the real world, where users are under attack and their rights are daily abused and the Bitcoin ecosystem itself is under constant pressure from enemies.

If we had more Mircea Popescu types, the Bitcoin ecosystem would be far better off than it is today; more resilient, more widespread and more useful at any scale, since it would not be mediated by cowards and weaklings.

Mircea Popescu cannot be a model for anyone I'm afraid, and there is no factory that can produce more of them.

Why is that?

The reason why, is that what I'm talking about in Mircea Popescu is a man of character. A man who understands what power is, and how to wield it justly.

Mircea bailed out OpenBSD

https://tinyurl.com/2xfn7j7h

and did many other things in secret that have changed the course of history for the better; that is what everyone should expect, not Virtue Signalling, pandering and being a willing cowering prisoner in a gaol of your own making as a way of life.

It should be obvious to everyone now that when the right man is in charge of something, amazing things can happen that can change the world rapidly.

Elon, for all his many faults, has radically shifted the overton window in the matter of free speech, and caused millions of users to breathe easier by having the threat of their speech cut off removed.

Imagine if this happened in Bitcoin services!

Imagine for a moment, that Bitcoin has no restrictions on how it can be used, and that you can use many services in whatever way you want without any fear that anything can go wrong.

Using Bitcoin like using an iPhone to browse the web at will.

This is unimaginable for anyone inured to the cancerous adversarial culture that has metastasized in "The Bitcoin Community", but for those not infected, the very idea of this makes goosebumps break out all over your skin.

In order for this to come to pass, well designed tools and services that can touch the public are an absolute prerequisite. This is what has been missing for many years for different reasons, but now there is no longer any excuse, and it is a matter of character and will.

You've seen how paradigm shifting services have been launched before from different companies run by fearless mavericks. The world is better off when CEOs are fearless mavericks like Mircea Popescu and Steve Jobs; they are the ones that make the great leaps, and they're sorely needed and will always be needed.

And in case you can't understand this, this is not about starting a very successful company after the groundwork has been done by mavericks; this is about being a groundbreaking maverick.

It's easy to pivot to a keyboardless phone design after Apple have broken the hypnotic Emperor's New Clothes spell of "ALL PHONES NEED KEYBOARDS".

Someone had to do it first.
Someone had to show some guts.
Someone had to reject bad advice.
Someone chose not to run away from imaginary problems.
Someone chose to take the commercial risk.

Bitcoin is going to win. It is a question of when and not if.

We know from the death of the AOL era, that all business models that don't conform to reality are destroyed in the end, and that it doesn't matter how big you are now; you will be destroyed by the market and by entrepreneurs with guts and character.

Bitcoin is no different. The people who are willfully and ignorantly choosing to serve people in ways that are sub optimal, because some pig ignorant Ambulance Chaser told them to, are going to lose in the end.

Losing in this scenario doesn't mean not making money; in 1999, AOL’s market capitalization soared to around $222 billion.

But look at them now. Not only is AOL no longer a standalone entity with its own market capitalization; it is now a mere element in a portfolio managed by Apollo Global Management.

It's dead.

This is the fate of all businesses that are not run by mavericks who embrace risk. Apple is what it is today precisely because Jobs was a risk taker.

If you think Apple is big, just wait till the "Final FinTech Unicorn" emerges that will be built on Bitcoin. Nothing like it has been possible in the past, because Bitcoin did not exist.

In the "Final FinTech Unicorn" future, Bitcoin regulation will be a thing of the past, just as regulation of the web today is a fantasy of EU witches with short haircuts. The web is an unstoppable force for good. Most people know it and nothing can stop it.

The same will be true for Bitcoin, only the changes it will unleash will be far greater than many people can begin to imagine.

"Do you want to be remembered as one of the people who helped make it happen, or not?"

That is the question everyone needs to ask themselves.

I asked ChatGPT to, "List ten of the most revered and beloved tech CEOs of the last 40 years".

It returned...

1. Steve Jobs (Apple Inc.)
2. Tim Cook (Apple Inc.)
3. Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, X)
4. Reed Hastings (Netflix)
5. Jack Ma (Alibaba Group)
6. Shantanu Narayen (Adobe)
7. Marc Benioff (Salesforce)
8. Meg Whitman (HP, eBay)
9. Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)
10. Daniel Zhang (Alibaba Group)

Yikes. That's quite the list isn't it?

And you can't buy your way on to that list by Virtue Signalling. You've got to earn your place on it by doing real things that serve other people, without fear or favor.

Quite the task, isn't it?!


Dream flow: buy new phone, enter 12 words, done.

Everything's set up, including my config, apps, contacts, etc. The 12 words are my nsec in this case ofc.


Great! :-)


He is risen!


Do not let anyone know how good you did is the best you can do.


People will forgive you for being wrong, but they’ll never forgive you for being right.


And dump you iPhone for Pixel running Graphene OS

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The underlying goal of feminism was to make men and women the same (rather than merely equal) in all aspects of public and private life, and to push women from the home or other sheltered place into the public sphere and into positions of leadership.

The state was required to facilitate this, as women need male protection and provision to leave the home safely, and they now receive that from the "collective male" of the state, rather than from any male head of house. In return, the women are now "collective females" for that same male populace, rather than being attached to some particular man.

Any woman who disagrees with this will tend to be more exclusive with the company that she keeps, even if she is not a recluse. Otherwise, her views would be incoherent (as to be feminist is to be less exclusive), and she opens herself up to persecution because she belongs to a beleaguered minority.

And that is why she is difficult to find. She is difficult to find by design.

https://www.superprof.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/830_orig.jpg


Primal for Android build 0.91.2 is out. Check it out and let us know what you’d like to see next! 🤙

Features
- Latest with Replies feed
- Profile tabs for notes, replies, follows, and followers
- Feed: long press to save images

Fixes
- Default zap selection now persists correctly
- Added following self when creating account

https://primal.net/downloads


Android time! 🚀

We just released Primal for Android build 0.90.1, featuring a built-in lightning wallet. Android users can now enjoy the integrated Nostr experience; where zaps, wallet transactions and Nostr content blend seamlessly within the same app. Try it out and let us know your thoughts!

Features:
- Primal Wallet
- NWC support for external wallets
- New zap settings

Fixes:
- Improved feed performance
- Images uploaded through Amethyst
- Posting a new note with attachments only
- Improved trending hashtag rendering
- Stability improvements

https://m.primal.net/HYub.png

https://primal.net/downloads


Few understand: There is no such thing as “tax revenue” at the federal level.

Every dollar that exists came from the State or its agents (banks). The State doesn’t need your money. The State creates currency in whatever supply it wants.

What the State needs is your labor, which it compels through taxation. When you pay taxes, you’re paying with coupons the State made for that purpose. Every dollar is a get-out-of-tax-jail card.

You are a slave. Fiat currency is blood money.


Capitalism is state-sponsored usury


Congratulations! The most beautiful Christmas gift.


Merry Christmas


Christmas is ment to celebrate birthday of Jesus. Look around, do you see him in any public space? I do not. I see consumers running around like mad people and spending. It is a sad picture. The west is lost following false gods and hopeless.


#HODL


Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury


Primal for Android is now available on Google Play Store in open testing mode. Starting with today’s release, we will offer Play Store, APK, and source code downloads for each release. Please note: due to the way Play Store app signing works, upgrades will only work if you use the same install method.

This is a big milestone for us, as we march towards the full v1.0 release in the coming weeks. 💪

New Features
- Feed: link previews
- Feed: image media gallery
- Feed: video thumbnail previews
- LUD-06 support

Fixes
- Improved CDN handling
- Removed shimmer from avatars when loading
- Fixed highlight color in note content
- Various small fixes

https://primal.net/downloads


Are you going to let Apple and Google tell you how to #Bitcoin? 😂

Come join me on #GrapheneOS when you're ready to stop being a slave.


If it's not noncustodial, I'm not interested.
If it's not free and open source, I'm not interested.
If it's not #Bitcoin, I'm not interested.


Remember that time when the biggest bitcoin mining jurisdiction in the world banned bitcoin mining, and the Bitcoin network was like, “lol, hold my beer and watch this”? https://image.nostr.build/e3f2fe34f5642c78ff209572fe5de128fc9ca5e95205b092c87582662d4b6200.png


Women have a right to be the light of their households. Men have a right to lead it.

#MasculineFrame


Terrorist attacks are hard problems, primarily because nation states have a strong incentive to manufacture them. Attribution is practically impossible.


We don't know who owns the Federal Reserve.
We don't know who owns Vanguard.
We don't know who owns BlackRock.

My guess? They're the same people.


Do things without permission.

Use money without asking, speak without restriction, trade without authorization.

We live in a society that is increasingly afraid to do anything without permission.

If we don’t think for ourselves now, soon we won’t be able too.


A man can be content at any amount of wealth if he knows how to discipline himself.

A man can't be content if he doesn't.

#MasculineFrame


Yes!

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Usury, is a sin.

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Privacy is not secrecy.

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/be9f4dcbaaec1c1257099eea44742bfb9da520663d26eb49e6350709e231f58b.jpg


Wars benefit central banks the most.


“Bitcoin is our peaceful weapon of choice against central bank driven time theft.” — Ross Stevens

https://video.nostr.build/3c7c4c82a0b12b2ee528babde6f0c72a144c1bb9ffa41bf800a82cd61ec85267.mov


1. Get Pixel phone
2. Install #GrapheneOS
3. Install Amethyst

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Still alive

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The high cost of child care is crippling family finances.

Here's my tip:

Moms, quit your job, sell the extra car, donate your heels and pantsuits, prepare home-cooked meals, and care for your own family.

The financial savings will add up.

And you and your husband and your children will be happier.


In a single day, the US added more than half of #Bitcoin’s entire market cap in debt. That’s something like 10 million BTC. And yet there are still people that are unsure if $27k is a good price to buy. https://image.nostr.build/02e8d0900a5c2c2f9704b1758a2bf1b67e0eea125429e37f8de7e67a4dc79413.jpg


Beef, bacon, butter and eggs is all you need, kiss


nostr:note1y7p366h7f08jywng2qlzze556n0nvmccj3kug2f0yadwlk3l6xfsapr73p this was one of our earliest ideas when we started talking about doing Mutiny on the web: what if you could onboard someone to bitcoin with a gift link? wallet AND sats in one click


Hands off #Bitcoin protocol!


#Obtanium allows you to install apps directly from source code, circumventing app store gatekeepers.

Where we are going, you don't want an app store telling you which apps you can and can't install.

#Android #GrapheneOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFz57zNR_M0


Yo nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy,

I think our huge nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl v0.7.0 release fell through the RHR software update cracks (was released just as everyone was descending on nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha for Grassroots and the HRF event).

Six months of work. Record number of contributors. REPRODUCIBLE BUILDS!!! Incredible quality-of-life usability improvements.

So proud of this release! 🎉🔥🔥

Shout out to nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl! Shout out to nostr:npub1rfd0hxdzcze6pzj29thuz34vur57wm9quje7w3edxjgusq6m47csnl7wrt! Shout out to myself 🤣!! And especially to our growing list of awesome FOSS contributors!

ps - we wrote the "Highlights" part of the release notes specifically for RHR!

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The bitcoin circular economy is not just about transacting in bitcoin, it’s also about transacting with people who share a similar set of values, which inevitably influences the products and services which they offer, and the manner in which they do so.

@RemnantMd is one such example. A medical doctor & bitcoiner, he is pushing back against ‘fiat medicine’, by exploring an approach to health which is more consistent with ‘bitcoin values & principles’.

He was also on the front lines during ‘the hysteria’, and shares with me his take on the many ‘shenanigans’ that took place, the distorted incentives that led to the misrepresenting of facts, treatments which harmed rather than helped, and his arc from hero to villain at the hospital where he worked, ultimately being dismissed for his resistance to mandates.

It’s a wild and important story / perspective to hear.

https://fountain.fm/episode/tszRpbYuyKqEUhGzuuL3


Bitcoiners who stays on X and ignores nostr is just natural selection.


Two years ago German police murdered JStark and dumped his body in front of his parent's house.

https://m.primal.net/HLyC.mp4


You can be deplatformed, but you can't be deprotocoled.


Bring back the guillotine.


Bitcoiners who liked The Creature From Jekyll Island and want to deep even further back into history should read into Barren Metal. One of my favorites.

https://www.fidelitypress.org/book-products/barren-metal


Obesity is a plant-based disease.


People still really haven't appreciated how bad the car thing is. Or the phone thing. They think they do, but they don't. The full range of capabilities has yet to be used routinely — companies and states are both trying to keep it beneath the waterline. The public is intended to be unsure what it is that they're looking at, and why it matters. It is the news report playing in the background of a disaster movie. It is the half-glimpsed monster from a horror reel — implied, but never fully shown.

History is still going to look back at this period with enormous bewilderment that we did not do more to stop what is coming. The signs were there.

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Really happy to report that it looks like we're going to be able to make these new precision-milled aluminum enclosures more widely available. It will take several weeks to get things in place, but it is being actively worked on. 🧡 Another big thank you to @MoneroTime (Twitter) for his work on these.
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Have you wondered what it takes to be a long term HODLer? nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs rejoins me on the show to talk about HODLer psychology, bitcoin culture, and what to expect going forward:

Adoption waves
Living on Bitcoin
Overconfidence
Mainstream culture
Bitcoin Fixes This
Jurisdictions
Thoughts on next cycle

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/515/


There is no reason for a child to ever wear a COVID mask. That is cruelty.


Oooofff. Going to have to figure out how to get more of these into people's hands, they are just too good. https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_3587185080450089961695148832.webp


Multiple people have privately reached out about the latest RHR -- just so it's out there publicly, I don't agree that SEs are always additive, and I think there is a lot more nuance to this subject than most people appreciate.

Someone in our community designed this sticker and it generally sums up my feelings.

Given different life experiences, people are going to have different opinions, and that's OK. 🙂

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_6353054554249250621695042057.webp


🥩 New Carnivore Video Out 🥩

What happens if you only eat meat?
Together with a couple of friends, I tried the carnivore diet to see how our bodies change.

Watch the Results below 👇🏼

https://youtu.be/LUE0Ta8ynMk


PSA: If you permanently remove ALL carbon from the air you'd end up killing all trees on earth, and consequently most life on earth—including us.

https://video.nostr.build/1d4cd9d86f22fa22d15cd104446cdd2be26d981c377d9c3502656927a8879e02.mp4


Great one

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This really is the worst. Instagram started the trend with their hideous "log in or else" flow. Then Twitter and reddit went to insanely privacy-hostile API changes instead of simply requiring a proof of work or anon payment. Even some major nostr relays seem to be doing Tor blocking now (damus? Not sure, but I get a ton of errors connecting to certain relays via Tor.)

Platforms have become so fearful of bots/spam/scraping (or rather pretend to be fearful, so as to justify blatantly commercial and anti-social decision-making) that they've totally destroyed the open access model that a functioning freenet depends on.

This is the main reason I want to see "unowned" protocols succeed. Jack has it right: we're at a turning point.

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You should consider degoogling yourself