I am buying Bitcoin Lightning Liquidity
Using my PGP-Monero deposit as collateral.
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Simplified Privacy steps to the market to buy Bitcoin Lightning liquidity under the following conditions.
If you want to put money upfront (loan) it to open a channel, I will pay you half AFTER the opening of the channel, half at close.
Step 1.
You give me your UID.
I evaluate your node's liquidity.
We agree on price
Step 2.
I give you my public key and IP/Tor
Step 3.
You initiate, You fund the channel, you are long Bitcoin, and earning interest.
I am borrowing inbound liquidity with no spending ability.
Step 4.
I pay you half our agreed fee upon completion of the open. Simplified Privacy is regulated by XMRBazaar. Bound by a 2 XMR deposit, locked into an immutable Arweave contract with the PGP key found on SimplifiedPrivacy.eth
Step 5.
In 3-6 months, you come back and demand more fee or threaten to close the channel. If it's good, I pay you more to renew.
Rules:
1. I am NOT sending you money before the open
2. No premature closure threats
3. If you threaten me with closure because I wrote about Monero, I will use this as proof why Bitcoin is worthless. You'd be proving why Bitcoin makes you lose freedom of speech.
SimplifiedPrivacy.eth PGP signs this, then Nostr sign on top of that, as true and legitimate binding law.
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Monero up to 156.89. Bitcoin up 67.1k
Good time to get a DeGoogle Combo Pack!
GrapheneOS Pixel 7a + a VPS with Email, chat, & docs
Damn how much?
Well abusive Google's official store charges $499 for the 7a, and then your name is on the hardware that connects to cell towers
While Simplified Privacy charges only $399 PLUS you get a VPS with email, chat, docs, AND a domain.
And on top of that it's got the SnappyMail web panel client. Unlike Protonmail which bogs down your speed with bloated javascript, SnappyMail is so lean and fast, you'll forget you're using Tor. You get all of this:
-GrapheneOS Pixel 7a
-VPS setup with:
-.com domain included
-Open Source Email Backend
-Use any mail client you like, Thunderbird has a new FOSS mobile app
-SnappyMail web client
-Your pick of XMPP or SimpleX
-Cryptpad (replace Google docs)
-3 month warranty on the phone. 1 year warranty on the VPS.
-Help on use
All for just $399. (plus crypto's up so you're banking some)
Reject Google's telemetry, and embrace freedom.
Learn more about our PGP crypto deposit, submitted for binding-arbitration, burned onto Arweave as immutable law:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/how-pgp-insurance/index.html
We've made it very easy by setting up everything for you. The phone will feel like a regular android. And you won't have to do any work for the email server, it's all setup, plus we offer support if you have any issue.
This is a great way for a beginner to skip past any technical problems, and get really good privacy with open source solutions. The only work on your end is changing the passwords for the logins we give you.
btw is your name ayn rand?
It's amusing that I'm being called a fed for having a SimpleX link,
when in one of the SimpleX groups, I was called a fed for promoting XMPP
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It's a different model. XMPP assumes you trust the VPS operator (or it's you).
SimpleX assumes you don't, but also that not everyone is self-hosting among friends
I like simplex, but your messages are split, so you don't pick which relay the person you're talking to picks.
also there's issues with phising and proving identity. He's going to add PGP verify within the app, so hopefully improvements on the horizon
I believe you would benefit from the educational materials on our website. And I'm excited to share this knowledge with you.
XMPP is the gold standard for the darkweb, known for OMEMO and OTR encryption.
Nostr metadata is out in the open. The clients don't all have the gift wrap, only a few do. And the new gift wrap v3 isn't audited last I heard. Also without the gift wrap, there's no rotating keys, so then you might as well use Session which follows a similar model with relays and encryption as identity.
Japanese Monero tracing MIGHT be propaganda.
English translation of the article:
The group attempted to launder money by MISUSING the cryptocurrency "Monero," which is considered to be highly confidential, but Kobayashi was identified by tracing the flow. According to the National Police Agency, this is the first time that a suspect has been identified in Japan through analysis of Monero.
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I'm a Digital Agora
My core positions:
1. Don't waste time with politics. Vote with your actions.
2. Don't buy crypto, Earn it. Start accepting it.
3. Transcend locations with Encryption as identity, over protocols with redundancy
4. Physical locations are bad, because they are censored and controlled by a political thugs.
5. If you CAN'T transcend locations, such as Email, then self-host it, to a VPS you control. Everyone should have a little digital home. You can team up with 2-3 friends to get a VPS for 2-3 bucks a month. Are you trying to bullshit me that you don't know two people who want email?
7. Centralization is harmful. Beware of systems that promise privacy, but encourage centralized authority, such as Protonmail and Custodial Lightning.
8. Anything can stop inflation, even tuna fish cans. The real purpose of cryptocurrency is peer-to-peer cash. If you're only saving in Bitcoin, you've lost the plot.
9. It's okay to be pessimistic about society, but you've got to stay optimistic about your own life.
8. Big Banks and Big Tech need you to culturally accept their authority. Anything outside of voluntary cultural obedience is violence. But pure violence is not effective to hold power, over vast amounts of the population, over long periods of time...
So: reject it until they point gun
And then: it strips them of their power
Rights come from the individual, and not the state.
The state is nothing but a monopoly on violence. And we as a society tolerate this, to (in theory) stop other violence
Therefore,
They may voluntarily choose to seek the protection of the state from violence.
But, there has to be an opt out.
For life and liberty, the individual has rights no matter what. You can't give it up. You can only change who is enforcing it.
For property, you have to put in work, to make it your's. If it's for example uninhabited land.
Morality is objective, as there would be no purpose in it if it was subjective. You could kill and say "to me it felt right"
Morality is a survival mechanism, as we can't survive without basic rules.
Morality dictates you can't kill or enslave others (which is how I'm defining liberty here)
Therefore,
An individual's unconditional objective rights are derived morality, which is an emotional experience in the human mind, that should be governed by objective rules, derived from reason.
This could be also be phrased,
Rights come from mankind's ability to reason.
Start9 says "self-sovereign computing"
But they use Gmail
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/start9.png
What's being promoted is to buy hardware to host your own Bitcoin node, which means spending money on SSDs, to confirm OTHER PEOPLE'S transactions. But then letting corrupt third parties run YOUR email and instant messaging, which if you were to self-host these would actually dramatically improve your life.
Today, I flip the script..
Get a self-host email & XMPP/SimpleX WITH your Bitcoin node!
Start9 charges $599 for their node hardware.
For that same cost, you could get over 3 years of a VPS with a Bitcoin node, Lightning, Email, and your pick of XMPP & SimpleX.
If hosting web traffic in a residential home was any good, then Start9 wouldn't be hosting their website on Digital Ocean, the largest and most centralized provider. On top of that, residential homes can't do email, so their MX records go to Google. In 3-4 years, will start9 discs be any good? Bitcoin wears SSDs to the bone. But with a VPS, you pass that onto the provider to deal with. Plus you get great cloud services.
Email is misunderstood. Corrupt Protonmail spews propaganda from their holes about privacy. But they are weak clowns receiving the emails in plaintext, and then they claim to do encryption to hide it from themselves, which is a conflict of interest. Then to decrypt it, you enter your password into their web app, which nobody inspects the source code for each time.
Proton doesn't even fight the THOUSANDS of court cases a year. They will let you be jailed to save money. And speaking of money, these bitches don't even accept lightning. They couldn't even setup 1 BTCPay server!?
On the other hand, with the system I'm proposing to you, you would truly be in control of your life. For just $120 in circular economy btc, you'd be getting the most of your VPS, and become king of both your registered accounts that require email, and the privacy that comes from any lightning payments you do. We hand over all VPS accounts to you to change the passwords, but if you need us, you get a full YEAR of technical support from our team. AND that $120 even includes your domain name!!!
Recap:
$120 in BTC, gets you:
--BTCPay Setup, with help on Channels
--Email
--Your pick of XMPP or SimpleX relay
--A domain, which you pick
--A full YEAR of support asking questions.
--First month of VPS included.
You pay the provider after, 14 euros (or less) a month.
Are you going to let Start9 and Proton urinate on you, or seize control of your own destiny, as a self-sovereign king? Reach out.
I wish I was making this up bro
Kamala Harris in interview on Fox, was asked if she supports transgender surgery for illegal aliens, with taxpayer money, while awaiting being deported.
She replied "Trump allowed them (the surgeries) to happen also!"
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now back after cyberattacks, as read-only
This is after losing the copyright lawsuit against them.
This is why Arweave is so important, to not trust a single company/organization with all of humanity's history.
Just think how corrupt and distorted Wikipedia is? Do you really want them to control your legacy in the history books?
Here's my take-away:
Nostr protects one against the censorship of TODAY.
Arweave protects against the censorship of TOMORROW.
My daily routine:
Debate Nostr BTC-Maxis on Monero
Debate Monero Redditors to come on Nostr
Debate Farcaster web devs to ditch IPFS, for Arweave
Debate BitcoinTalk buyers to accept my XMRBazaar Deposit
Debate ETH Forums Guys to ditch Telegram for SimpleX
Debate SimpleX mob to self-host XMPP
Debate XMPP fediverse guys to ditch socialism, for capitalism
Debate Libertarians to ditch Big Tech and voting, for Crypto-Agora.
The Libertarians then reply "ok so bitcoin only?" And then the cycle repeats.
How are you getting Anonymous Layer 1 for your Lightning Channels then? You'd have to mix it with drug dealers and hackers, which degrades the value.
But if you use Monero to at least get your setup going, then you can store your wealth in Bitcoin.
So it's reverse, 99% of Bitcoiners would benefit from XMR, and only 1% are insane enough to urinate on the value of their own coins such that they would get seized on the KYC exchange
Man, I wish you were right. Unfortunately, I have had bitcoin stolen from me by exchanges. I can’t get too deep into the details because it would doxx the situation.
You are correct that 99% of bitcoiners keep it with the exchange or custodian, which defeats the purpose. It's supposed to be a circular economy, to replace dollars. Even popular maxi-nostr users say this
ohhhhh, nice one =)
I wonder if satoshi would have stuck around if nostr was around back then, as he could have easily stayed anon.
With emails and forums, not so much
Russia blocked Discord,
Simplified Privacy sat down to interview the lead dev of Bastyon, aka "Russian Nostr"
As it specializes in penetrating Russian and Chinese firewalls, by having all nodes host all messages, so that only the node-servers have to traverse the firewall, and never end-clients.
With end-to-end encryption, and even decentralized audio calls (using nodes), this is easy to use for n00bs.
We summarized the dev's wisdom, into an easy to comprehend and fast read:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/bastyon-works/how.html
Note: I did not recieve any compensation for this article. So go ahead curse me out bro, but think of the people behind that firewall that got nothing else.
Bitcoin is flawed on both the layer 1 and 2.
On the layer 1, it's not money. Because when someone pays you, there's a good chance that it's mixed, and you can't bring it on an exchange. Now you're saying F the exchange, but even businesses you buy from dump on exchanges. So it creates mad tension when you pay people, and then later their funds are seized.
On the layer 2, you need $500 bucks or it's a custodial bank account. It's not logical to say it's decentralized, when there's a high barrier to entry for new people. Under high taxes, it becomes a bigger deal that these custodians can see you're not paying.
Also, if the Bitcoin Core team is selling layer 2 solutions through Blockstream, that's a conflict of interest. They profit from the failure.
Bitcoin is flawed on both the layer 1 and 2.
On the layer 1, it's not money. Because when someone pays you, there's a good chance that it's mixed, and you can't bring it on an exchange. Now you're saying F the exchange, but even businesses you buy from dump on exchanges. So it creates mad tension when you pay people, and then later their funds are seized.
On the layer 2, you need $500 bucks or it's a custodial bank account. It's not logical to say it's decentralized, when there's a high barrier to entry for new people. Under high taxes, it becomes a bigger deal that these custodians can see you're not paying.
Also, if the Bitcoin Core team is selling layer 2 solutions through Blockstream, that's a conflict of interest. They profit from the failure.
The word vaccine was changed by the CDC/FDA for this.
Step 1. This isn't a vaccine, it's a treatment. Treatments don't stop spread.
Step 2. If it's a treatment, why do you care if I take it, only those who want it should.
Step 3. It's only effective against certain variants, which are always changing
Step 4. This would require constant drugs, which surrenders your privacy and freedom, to the government and drug companies
Which part of the logic are you not seeing?
Session messenger devs switched from Australia to Switzerland.
They got a dummy legal entity in Swiss, and now all stuff is legally coming out of there.
My response:
That's great, good for you. The bigger issue is the devs promised onion-routed audio calls, which they failed to deliver on after 3+ years. And now even regular audio calls don't work.
However, from a censorship aspect, Session is stronger or equal to Nostr w/ Tor relays. So I guess this Swiss move is good, but ultimately it's not solving the real issues.
Source:
https://getsession.org/blog/introducing-the-session-technology-foundation
tomorrow we're dropping a guide on:
Privacy Techniques to Avoid Getting Flagged by your Bank buying P2P crypto
(Both Monero & Bitcoin)
Legal Disclaimer: This is on buying for personal liquidity, and NOT selling for profit, which is more controversial. I am drinking moonshine and can not be held legally responsible for my typing. I am speaking only to my fellow residents of Cambodia. I never take custody of funds for mixing. I never coordinate trades.
c ya tomorrow
If the purpose of Slack is to discuss business within your company internally... why do you need Nostr relays for that?
If the purpose of Nostr is censorship resistance over relays, why do you want Nostr keys without relays? Wouldn't that increase attack surface for the CIA?
Therefore, I'd recommend using existing tools like Matrix or XMPP on a self-host VPS. And NOT using some random web app
How many people in the group chat? like 20 or 200?
If it's 20 people, you can try simpleX. If it's 200, you want matrix.
Are people outside the organization contacting you for support? If so, that likely rules out simpleX and nostr
Are you trying to hide the metadata? If not, could use someone else's matrix server, one of the public ones
Mozilla disabled & hazed uBlock Origin Lite off Firefox's extension store
This is surprising given that Mozilla is supposed to be in favor of privacy. And it's among the most popular extensions, which then raises the question of what the purpose of Mozilla's store is.
According to the dev (Raymond Hill), they wrote pages of "baseless" complaints, including:
"For add-ons that collect or transmit user data, the user must be informed and provided with a clear and easy way to control this data collection"
Now Raymond Hill had to move it to Github for updates. As far as we can tell, the original non-lite extension remains.
You can learn how to use uBlock Origin from our tutorial:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/ublock/index.html
Source:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issuecomment-2377395301
Well that was easy, I'm literally sending the first result from one search on Bill Gates Bing
Medical news today:
The COVID-19 vaccine does NOT stop a person from contracting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/does-the-vaccine-prevent-you-from-getting-covid
So this is a change in the definition of the word "vaccine", when its really being promoted as a treatment.
Nostr is the best thing going on right now
But it's not the ONLY thing going on.
So it would help our case if you'd be a little more tolerant to other ideas, because those other groups/protocols/ideas/causes will be more welcoming to come here
Our nostr account was hacked.
The attacker posted the previous post about evading taxes. Our organization can not be held responsible for his horrible views. Everyone please pay your taxes, we are in full compliance. I am only leaving up his horrible post to aid our investigation.
Be honest
Which of these seems like a better pitch to a normie?
a)
When you spend Bitcoin, it creates tiny capital gains taxes, which nobody wants to keep track of. So to avoid this, when you buy Bitcoin on a KYC exchange, you should then mix it with hackers and criminals, which immediately lowers it's value, and can be seized if you deposit it back on the exchange. But this is just to then deposit it into a channel, which you might want to self-host with $500 worth, but it could be a smaller amount with the right non-custodial wallet. Make sure to backup your channels by saving that information, in-case the lightning wallet provider screws you over, which happened with a few US-based ones during the previous crackdowns. Now if the other person is online, you can send them layer 2 coins, which can't be traced. So you can argue to the tax authorities that you spent the original layer 1 Bitcoin when you mixed it with criminal coins. And then they should be will be willing to accept that you owe no tax, even though Bitcoin's price went to the moon. Just ignore the fact that they jailed other people for tax evasion, because those convicted felons didn't do it right. Those other people didn't separate their identity from the activity of the coins, but you're going to master this better than them, despite no experience. Because you can count on me to teach you. Next I'll go over how you can receive coins for your business, and then separate the fluctuating value from that business. Bitcoin is freedom.
b)
Use Monero. There are liquid global peer-to-peer markets with reliable arbitrators, so from the perspective of your bank, you're just paying some random dude. But even if you get it on a KYC exchange in your name, the moment you buy it, it becomes completely untraceable, and so you can say you spent or lost it, and effortlessly pay no tax. It costs 1 penny to send.
I do not accept factcheck are leigitmate. Let's take the issue of if the vaccines work... what defines work? Stopping the transmission? If I provide evidence of that not being the case, are you gonna say "yeah factcheck is wrong"
Yes I said it was possible to be “more resistant”, but people treat it like it’s a binary thing. Like SimpleX marketing and UI gives a check-mark next to it, as though it were something on a list to check off and be achieved, and then not have to think about.
It’s a scale or spectrum with infinite possibility.
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