Bitcoin in Africa is the revolution 🧡 nostr:npub1zkr064avsxmxzaasppamps86ge0npwvft9yu3ymgxmk9umx3xyeq9sk6ec

https://youtu.be/bKtiov-KDoE?si=4MlX-DCO9fen-NNy


Thank you, I really enjoyed watching. What beautiful engineering. We stand on the shoulders of giants.


Congratulations


Could someone write a set of browser plugins which would add a 'share to nostr' button to twitter etc. Popular twitter feeds could then selectively post their content to nostr and be incentivised by zaps.

Automatically tagging these posts with a filterable tag would enable people to either block them (I would) or deliberately follow the tag (people onboarding from centralised social media, looking for the type of content they are used to).


The hardest part about all of this is is getting a person to care, in the face of convenience, about a thing that is being gradually taken from them.


Sell it all on KYC exchange, then re-buy non-KYC?


Pharma: 'We have faith in our products, and you should too.'
Also pharma:

https://v.nostr.build/RmVMM.mp4

#memes
#BigPharma
#Pharma
#Health
#Medicine
#Medication


I have a musical crush on the bassist she's awesome


I've been staring at next block info on mempool over the last few hours,, particularly regarding fee rate distributions.

Seems to my untrained eye that as soon as a block is mined, a load of 5X - 10X overpaying transactions immediately arrive for the following block.

Having a wide fee rate distribution might give the impression that there is more competition for block space than there is. Maybe this is to game fee rate estimation algorithms?

Boring waiting for the moment a block is mined, but I'm scratching my head what this means - if anything.

https://mempool.space/mempool-block/0


I've been staring at next block info on mempool for an hour or so, particularly regarding fee distributions.

Seems to my untrained eye that as soon as a block is mined, a load of overpaying transactions immediately arrive for the following block.

Could some software have a faulty fee rate estimation, or is something trying to game fee rate estimation? Or more likely am I misinterpreting https://mempool.space/mempool-block/0 ?

Hoping an expert can explain this to a simple egg.


Everything is going to have to be cryptographically signed, and the source of the signature will be what’s important. Reputation will become paramount.


Average social media users are going to struggle with looking after their keys/reputation/identity.  So that UX is going to be a challenge, but I completely agree


Optional: What happens if you don't take action right now?

This could be spelled out in the copy to create urgency or scarcity, and that works...

But if you communicate well enough (implied or explicit) the value of what you have to offer IN TERMS OF BENEFITS TO THE END USER/client/customer etc. then it's better left implied.


"If you build it, they will come"

https://i.nostr.build/Q7WaJ.jpg

...sounds good in the movies, but the reality is that if you don't promote it, rarely will people come.

Don't be afraid to promote the things you create.

You don't have to sound like a douchey used car salesperson. Just communicate the value of what you offer in terms of benefits to the end user.

Use this formula in your copy:

Here's what I've got (the thing, service etc)

Here's what it will do for you (benefits to end user)

Here's what I want you to do now (take action)

#cybersecgirl #marketing #101


Very helpful info. Thank you for all you do ava


i exit
https://m.primal.net/HyNS.mp4


The overpaying transactions are at least 5X - 20X the median fee, and are labelled as first seen 'just now'.

Looking at random transactions, many of them look like pointless consolidations to me, often with fees higher than the consolidated output.

WTF?


David Bowie's advice to artists, 1997

https://video.nostr.build/2cfa6e43d626f75d680139993102fdf05b100c675cf8c4e8601ec22e65c1c223.mp4


Múa  Jazz Funk | Soso LaoShi

Caro Emerald 🎶 Paris https://video.nostr.build/8520290cc2bf708f511c02a7ea8c54ecd8a446dd75ff0ed3eab7ef4a078386c8.mp4


Little bitcoin technicals/Script quiz:

How many things can you find to criticize about this transaction?

Full credit: why is it surprising that this transaction is in the blockchain at all?

Hiring for a bitcoin engineer? This might make a great interview question :)

https://mempool.space/tx/66a2905f6a26c47f9632c5b93db7cd9f31f47df22fa2c18d1f42933f565421ef


#siamstr https://image.nostr.build/297bfecac551e94bbc519e360bbf06e6b3c69886f502f3e01897c9bf0844c417.jpg


my two sats #bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/HtUy.mov


There is an urgent need for a global stance against the use of technology for oppression. Our latest blog post delves into the impact of Israeli surveillance technologies in Palestine and how localized instances of its use contribute to widespread acceptance and global adoption of such oppressive practices.
📰🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/surveillance-as-a-service-global-impact-of-israeli-defense-technologies-on-privacy-human-rights/


Mind your thoughts, they become your words, mind your words, they become your actions, mind your actions, they become your habits, mind your habits, they become your character, mind your character… it becomes your destiny. -Lao-Tze


Julian Assange Wins Temporary Stay Against Extradition:

https://linked-out.me/news/7b8ede04074c459eb7eb


Julian Assange is a Saint. I mean that whether you agree or disagree with his ideals. He has paid a very heavy price, mentally and physically. He needs to go home to be with his family. None of us can even begin to understand the suffering he has endured. I pray for his release. What a remarkable man. 💜


I’m not sure nostr needs the generation of “flip phones” to succeed.

The bigger question is how do we get kids to value privacy again, to value owning their data, and to value not being censored and in control.

The pendulum has to swing in this way right? At some point? If not, why would they bother to put up with the perceived imperfections?


Gm 😎🤙💜
 https://image.nostr.build/6f8e3e6f872635734e7b3e63ed2727bc3e7a1405a3f4bc80286296755c4a8577.jpg


Random thought.

Can't we just give the fiat overlords a handclap and an attaboy, call it a good game. They played really well. Give them all the fiats.

But then can we go play bitcoin instead? Am sick of fiat game. Too much murder and cheating.


#Farnamstreet #BeOG
https://image.nostr.build/f634f196e3b2db2ae6a8df26de8d57f7a592d65b841853fd2bb0450c036eac7f.jpg


#zap #zapathon #art https://image.nostr.build/dba7dbc6cb2ec86762f859ce15fa462aa0f4915d48ec43caa434e85331b40f64.png


https://image.nostr.build/40e13bc7cce3486369df27e9d6886c3cb0c5d781554bb6461566fd119dfe348f.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 820,051 🤙💜


Seems like corruption as usual.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/julian-assange-judge-previously-acted-for-mi6/

#freeassange
#grownostr


Billy had 5 albums by The Cure. He just bought 2 more. What does he have now?...

#cybersecgirl #thecure #tunestr

https://image.nostr.build/9237a92e5328d7f1f2085f18ea22caa0699ea06f92e24dd63d8c16299af8b042.jpg


WE STAND WITH YOU nostr:npub1xw7h0efeg5s8gla2uyu55jh4lfrlgppcjemrwkmdc7lgvhkcz3fqpvumsa 🫡

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


Julian Assange Appeals in Most Important Press Freedom Case in the World

London’s High Court has scheduled two days of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may appeal a United States request for extradition to stand trial on espionage charges. Assange will not attend court due to illness.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/julian-assange-appeals-in-most-important-press-freedom-case-in-the-world/


#Brucelee #BeOG
https://video.nostr.build/e1af8094ce98e4b393bc42208d805fb2c25e346a4d60343328364bbe66eec7fc.mp4


# Taproot didn’t cause Ordinals ❌

I've seen the view that "Taproot caused/enabled Ordinals" commonly mentioned across Twitter, and it's one that can be extremely harmful. Many in the space would love to further ossify (prevent change) in Bitcoin and use Ordinals "spam" as the reason for doing so, but I'd argue that that would be the worst possible outcome from this situation.

This needs a lengthy explanation to properly grasp what's at play here, though, so let's get into the fun details.

## Arbitrary data in Bitcoin has always been possible

Something most people don't understand is that a system like Bitcoin is built for data storage, it's just intended for monetary data. This design made it possible from day one to include arbitrary (arbitrary) data into the blockchain, either through methods like OP_RETURN (a good place for storing arbitrary data as it can be easily pruned) or in tweaked pubkeys (a bad place for storing arbitrary data, as it cannot be pruned).

Some examples of this:

- Satoshi inscribed a newspaper headline in the genesis block coinbase (https://mempool.space/tx/4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b)
- Luke Dash Jr. used his pool to inscribe Bible texts and prayers in 2011 in the coinbase (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38007.0)
- Someone added the entire Bitcoin whitepaper to the UTXO set in 2013 (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35959/how-is-the-whitepaper-decoded-from-the-blockchain-tx-with-1000x-m-of-n-multisi)

All of these happened before both SegWit and Taproot, and there are many more cases of this type of data storage on Bitcoin.

## But I thought Taproot enabled this?

Unfortunately, there is a common misunderstanding (thanks for the troll name [@TaprootWizards](https://twitter.com/TaprootWizards) 😅) that Taproot enabled this type of data storage, thus opening the way for Ordinals "spam." In reality, this type of arbitrary data storage on Bitcoin has always been possible, but was made much cheaper to do with the introduction of SegWit in 2017.

SegWit was a major upgrade and bug fix for Bitcoin that enabled the Lightning network to be built and included a 3MB "witness" data allowance within each block w/ reduced fees for data to incentivize spending UTXOs (therefore making them prunable). More on SegWit in a fantastic post from [@River](https://twitter.com/River) here:

<https://river.com/learn/what-is-segwit/>

This incentivized portion of each transaction (called "witness" data) is intended for things like Bitcoin scripts, but can be used to store any data as long as it's done the "right" way. Specifically, Ordinals store them in an "envelope" between two opcodes, allowing the data to count as witness data and get the discount. This storage method was possible before SegWit, but now saves on fees in comparison to pre-SegWit usage.

While this of course was not the intent of SegWit, it underlines the simple fact that if someone wants to store arbitrary data in a blockchain, they will find ways to do it.

## Does that make SegWit bad?

If your first reaction is then to want to raise a pitchfork and campaign for no more changes in Bitcoin, remember this -- without the SegWit soft-fork there would be no Lightning network, no discount for users consolidating UTXOs, and instead users would be incentivized to create more un-prunable UTXOs as it's cheaper to create than to consume UTXOs w/o SegWit.

Additionally, Ordinals being stored in witness data allows those who run a node to easily prune them and not store them in RAM, unlike any method that leverages pubkey tweaking or other types of stenography to include arbitrary data on-chain. This means that the actual impact of Ordinals on those who run a node is drastically minimized versus other arbitrary data storage methods.

## If we didn't have SegWit, Ordinals would all use the UTXO set

It's extremely like that if we had never included the SegWit soft-fork into Bitcoin that the Ordinals craze would still have happened, and along with it a drastically worse outcome for the blockchain. In this alternate reality, Ordinals (and all similar NFTs) would likely be inscribed directly into the UTXO set, similar to how Stamps function today.

Some within the Bitcoin community have been asking for a removal of the SegWit witness data discount to force Ordinals to pay the same fees as all other users per byte. Unfortunately, this would have two extremely detrimental side-effects: it would disincentivize healthy UTXO management (consolidating UTXOs vs creating new ones) and incentivize Ordinals to be put in the UTXO set directly.

While putting the data into the UTXO set does cost those creating these NFTs drastically more, it also means that those running a Bitcoin node cannot prune the data, no matter what. Bitcoin relies on nodes being able to retain the entire UTXO set in order to verify transactions properly and prevent double-spends, and any data within that UTXO set must be kept in perpetuity.

That would be drastically worse for those running a Bitcoin node, and makes the Ordinals in SegWit witness data pale in comparison when it comes to negative impact on Bitcoin nodes.

## So what can we do about it?

The solution to reducing the cost of using Bitcoin is not censoring Ordinals (something that isn't even technologically possible, BTW), but rather is finally building solutions to Bitcoin's long-term scaling. Ordinals have highlighted something most of us knew would happen -- base-layer fees would become untenably high, as they have to for Bitcoin to be secure long-term.

In order for the average person to use Bitcoin, we need powerful scaling solutions like layer twos, and unfortunately Lightning in it's current form isn't the final solution. Lightning relies on every channel-owner (and thus user when done in a non-custodial manner) being able to settle back on-chain to resolve disputes, something that isn't economically feasible in a realistic fee environment.

## The solution? Covenants

Enter covenants, an improvement to Bitcoin that has been a long-time in the making and is finally picking up the steam it deserves in the space. Covenants enable both improvements to Lightning that make it drastically more scalable, and new layer two networks to be built that have different (often better) trade-offs compared to Lightning.

As this post is already getting a bit too long I won't dive into the details of covenants, but instead ask you to spend a few minutes going through this fantastic set of resources on covenants to better understand what they enable:

<https://covenants.info>

Have questions? **ASK THEM!** The best way for the broader Bitcoin "rough consensus" layer to work is for more people to step up, learn, and ask questions as they go.


Ross Steven's Bitcoin section in his annual Stone Ridge investor letter is too good not to share in full.👇

A BLACK BELT IS SOMEONE WHO GETS HIT AND DOESN’T CARE

“If I was the government, I’d close it down.” — F̶D̶R̶ Jamie Dimon on g̶o̶l̶d̶ Bitcoin, A̶p̶r̶i̶l̶ ̶1̶9̶3̶3̶ December 2023

In April 1933, FDR gave Americans less than thirty days to “turn in” their gold or face up to 10 years in prison. The price of gold is ~100x higher today. And legal. Governments are persistently incompetent capital allocators and always impotent, eventually, against the will of their people.

In 1933, what caused the leader of the greatest country in the world to fear a yellow, inanimate object? Perhaps the same thing that 90 years later causes the greatest banker of his generation to fear digital, inanimate “blocks” created every 10 minutes.

The power to create money – via printing (central banks) or credit creation (commercial banks) – is simply too intoxicating to relinquish for anyone not named Milei. To bitcoiners, the hysterical wails “ban it!” or “close it down” are as boringly predictable as they are, Conute-like, irrelevant. It’s hard to point a gun at an idea, or at a passphrase in my mind, especially one I may have forgotten.

The “close it down”-crowd should know better. We do not get our rights from the government. The Constitution limits what government can do, not what the People can do. We fought a Revolution and founded a new country based on decentralization, free markets, property rights, and individual liberty. Quasi-anarchistic, the Revolution was, most of all, against strong central government, the exact kind that would seek to ban something worth far less than 1% of the national wealth and chosen freely by the People.

In contrast to bitcoin, fiat represents government-sanctioned counterfeiting. Printing little pieces of unbacked paper and trying to pass them off as money? Fiat is an economic paradigm premised on the plunder of time from the unfavored many not directly downstream of the State’s monetary spigot. No wonder those in charge love it.

Counterfeiting should be illegal regardless of whether the Xerox machine is government or privately owned. The only monetary difference is the size of the confiscatory audacity. The US Treasury estimates $70 million in counterfeit bills are in circulation. Since 2020, the Federal Reserve has Xeroxed a fresh, crisp $6 trillion.

“If I buy bitcoin…are you buying air? No underlying asset backs it up, it’s simply a matter of belief.” — Elizabeth Warren, 2023

Bitcoin’s security is enforced by far more power than most entire countries produce. That’s not a matter of belief. Buying bitcoin is buying what bitcoin is backed by: an almost incomprehensibly vast amount of stored energy in its blockchain, more than a decade of 24/7, decentralized, Proof of B̵e̵l̵i̵e̵f̵  Work. Not air.

The free market only buys power for what it finds valuable. Right now, that’s about $811B of bitcoin. Like an innocently naïve six-year-old on Christmas morning, our nation’s first federal crypto law – from FinCEN in 2013 – called bitcoin virtual and S̵a̵n̵t̵a̵  fiat real. Reality doesn’t care if you believe in it. Fiat is credit. Bitcoin is money. When FinCEN gets older, they’ll figure it out.

In a battle between the claws of the State and the invisible hand of the market, we can forgive the confused who believe they’re in power. The State excels at being certain. Certainty is different than truth. Once, the State said the sun revolved around the earth. Today, bitcoin is air. I wonder if wet streets cause rain?

“E̵v̵e̵r̵y̵t̵h̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵t̵h̵a̵t̵ ̵c̵a̵n̵ ̵b̵e̵ ̵i̵n̵v̵e̵n̵t̵e̵d̵ ̵h̵a̵s̵ ̵b̵e̵e̵n̵ ̵i̵n̵v̵e̵n̵t̵e̵d̵.̵  We don’t need more digital currency.” — C̵h̵a̵r̵l̵e̵s̵ ̵D̵u̵e̵l̵l̵  Gary Gensler, Chairman of the U̵S̵ ̵P̵a̵t̵e̵n̵t̵ ̵O̵f̵f̵i̵c̵e̵  SEC, 1̵8̵9̵9̵
 2023, questioning why the US needs a̵ ̵p̵a̵t̵e̵n̵t̵ ̵o̵f̵f̵i̵c̵e̵ bitcoin

Government officials wield tremendous power. They should be respectful and restrained. The ethics of the job demand personal “we don’t need”-like opinions be kept to themselves, and never infl uence their official actions.

The propulsive tentacles of the SEC Chairman’s extralegal agenda – yes bitcoin, but also share buybacks, corporate disclosure, private markets, securitization, security lending, predictive data analytics, much more – have ceaselessly sought expansion beyond legitimate boundaries. Taken together, in the public words of a heroic fellow Commissioner, his agenda reflects a “loss of faith that investors can think for themselves.” We can.

Fortunately, we live in a Constitutional democracy with an ingenious system of checks and balances on government power. They are working beautifully. In the past year, Courts have repeatedly defeated the Chairman’s agenda:

“Unlike regulatory treatment of like products is unlawful.” “Treating similarly situated parties differently is at the core of unfair discrimination.” “You cannot have it both ways…it is illogical for the rule simultaneously to accept and to reject the reasoning underlying the… benefi t.” “Your actions are contrary to Constitutional right, arbitrary and capricious, and without observance of procedure required by law.” (Note: “arbitrary and capricious”, legally, means “without consideration or in disregard of facts or law” (Black’s Law Dictionary).)

The Chairman’s personal opinions regarding what the entire country needs, or does not need – including bitcoin – do not matter. More SEC defeats are likely. All will be ok. In the meantime, black belts, and bitcoin, don’t care.

Bitcoin is not risky. Fiat is risky.

Over the last one, three, five, and ten years, long-term fiat savings (20Y+ US Treasuries Index) has cumulatively returned 2%, -33%, -8 %, and 24%, respectively. Over the same time-periods, long-term non-fiat savings, bitcoin, has cumulatively returned 156%, 46%, 1,052%, and 5569%, respectively. Which one is risky? Which one is “backed by air”? Which one should we “close it down”? Which is the one “we don’t need”?

Since 2017, bitcoin has been Stone Ridge’s treasury reserve asset because of my extreme aversion to risk. We run net short USD – which is fancy way of saying we net borrow fiat – to pay bills and make investments. We save in bitcoin.

It would be impossible to overstate the corporate advantages of being on the Bitcoin Standard. Since 2017, we’ve doubled our franchises to ten, more than 10x’d our trading profi ts, and delivered 25% annualized ROE for our shareholders. Our firm compensation, rent, and total expenses are up 89%, 119%, and 69%, respectively, in fiat, and down 36%, 26%, and 43%, respectively, in bitcoin.

The more fiat we make, the more bitcoin I buy. You cannot print bitcoin.

“The first rule of Fight Club bitcoin is you do not talk about Fight Club price.” — Tyler Durden, Fight Club, instructing new bitcoiners that we do not talk about bitcoin price

In a world of State money increasingly debased, censored, and surveilled, bitcoin represents optimism, fairness, justice, truth, and beauty. As the People’s money, bitcoin is unstoppable by borders, devaluation, censorship, or mass surveillance. “Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age,” once wrote a very wise man. Please re-read that sentence a few times. Better yet, read the whole essay, increase your resolution on why Church Money and State must be separate, and the reason for the first rule of bitcoin then becomes obvious. I don’t mind if you come to bitcoin for the price. I just hope you stay for the principles.


If You don't speak your #truth, if You don't express your own uniqueness of view, then You are not You anymore, You are what others say You must be.
Don't conform, You're too valuable for that! 😉

https://image.nostr.build/4d01cba5c8837f2df6d3556a3a15f3782d5884a0a50dcd928388b7061586210f.jpg


Julian has been granted honorary citizenship by the city of Naples. This Thursday and Friday I will be there for the celebrations. #FreeAssange https://image.nostr.build/0a72a93a42c0df4d0133ec9abbac70e04e3d137874e8753c3b36fccded3ec3fd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6d8896477acb2d5c277cf4de17836fba90098f01e4f1cffbbd7b955500abcee2.jpg


#Animation #silly #art #digital #digitalart #artstr #plebstr #tryagain #zap #zapathon #zaparoonie #flipaclip #arty https://video.nostr.build/ec0f65ee22ada4d6c749206772ae442fb580ae173feedf2c8e1f3f5cc6ffa716.mov


I will keep hold of my bitcoin!!! (If i get can some)  #meme #hodl #whale #bitcoin #investment #zap #zapathon #learning #drawing #art #memers #money #hardmoney #fish #sea #bubble #pixel https://image.nostr.build/8c816e5a6da2424671d9597db8faa737c70084bb8748e650436e6ec147575d82.png


#bitcoin #michaelsaylor #BeOG

https://v.nostr.build/wwxA.mp4


La bohème reloaded

 nostr:npub1hrctsg2qwu5gsp65gvj29968z460g0th755jq92c8uaz620lewmq6qk525 🧡 nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m

#plebchain
#zap
#bitcoin
#coffeechain
#zapathon
#nostr
#einundzwanzig 🧡 https://video.nostr.build/aaf6e24443f14cbb01a9705f7b715645a2a4db0fa263b17c0cbc0543d87aeb49.mov


Accidentally 🤔🤔🤔#asknostr #catstr #dogstr #petstr #BeOG

https://v.nostr.build/XQ2z.mp4


No but aside from that your artwork is actually so fire and unique, I love seeing those biblically accurate angels they always amaze me


Send me some zaps And I will draw something for you just ask me what to draw And pay me, however much you think my art is worth… No Amount too small,  Sadly, I can’t do over over complicated stuff  But I can draw silly animals and people and creatures. I might need a reference image for something a bit strange though 🤨 Here are some examples anyways #zap #zapathon #art #valueforvalue #creativity #innovation #artist #artistic #Commission #Creatures #People https://image.nostr.build/3b174bdccc54e7a8313c6a2b72ae47a427fbca71944cf847b033cf7b74e9964b.png https://image.nostr.build/f23ad1c62cecd0e806f0838da2c868dd07b74b1af7a4664aa7e20eb25bd28fcb.png https://image.nostr.build/81ebdf79626a0fb2076a0fc8d56744a6592d961fed3f2c772891b81dc1013f1c.png https://image.nostr.build/446d928cd976e72ed6bc11970421538574ca95c522afbda55afbdbed3356ea96.png https://image.nostr.build/508e9914d8104e7a55dc333fc276d66d148124d462a5049d30090ed3a039a93a.png


Want to send #bitcoin on chain to your friends with no fee miner fee?

Seems many are sleeping on the Whirlpool “mix to” feature in Sparrow Wallet. You can have any post mix uxto set sent to any xpub for free when your post mix uxto is selected for “remixing”.

1. Ask for Postmix XPUB of your destination, better to be use a new wallet to not share personal information
2. Freeze ALL of your UTXOs, but the one you want to send
3. Add the XPUB as a watch only wallet (Ctrl/CMD + N) -> Watch only -> XPUB
4. From your wallet, configure it to Mix to this wallet
5. Let your destination do whatever they want. Use it or Whirlpool it.

this is also how you can send your own stack to a different wallet key pair you own with no transaction fees

operating inside the self custodial Whirlpool ecosystem is going to continue to develop very interesting opportunities

just imagine the fun of free mix to BIP47 paynym!

credit to Samourai Wallet, Sparrow Wallet and their teams! https://image.nostr.build/c92e923e087f07406903037ae30561e539deb3fcdcb9e99339f653dd06213966.jpg


a thread on keeping it simple 🧶

your #bitcoin is important, you got this far and now you don’t want to fuck it up

so keep it simple and run FOSS

never in the history of bitcoin has there been better or more accessible off the shelf tools

1) get your hands on some dirty cash and go buy an unlocked pixel 6 or above

2) use cash to buy a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad from a repair shop and flash it with Linux Debian, just ask and they might do it for you

3) install Tor

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install tor torbrowser-launcher

4) install Sparrow Wallet & verify

www.sparrowwallet.com

5) use your Thinkpad to flash Graphene OS onto your Pixel Phone

https://blog.ronindojo.io/grapheneos/

6) install Samourai Wallet on phone

https://samouraiwallet.com/download

7) buy a plug n play RoninDojo Tanto full node

www.ronindojo.io

8) open Samourai Wallet, connect to Tor, pair to your own node, create a new wallet with a passphrase and wallet pin

9) write down your seed words in order, write down your passphrase and pin

10) confirm your seed words and passphrase in the wallet

11) write down your paynym

12) secure erase wallet and then restore from backups you just made to confirm

13) confirm paynym is the same

14) punch seed words and passphrase onto separate steel plates and store in a safe hidden place

15) save an encrypted copy of your wallet onto a sd card via wallet and store in a separate safe hidden place

16) exit wallet and reopen to double check your pin, that Samourai Wallet is connected to Tor and your node

17) open tor browser on laptop and pair Sparrow Wallet to full node

18) open Sparrow Wallet and add the Samourai Wallet seed and passhrase to confirm paynym is the same

19) write down the fingerprint of the wallet as another means of confirming the wallet has the correct passphrase

20) close and reopen Sparrow Wallet to confirm you can access wallet with correct passphrase, that the fingerprint and paynym match, that your node is connected and tor is running

21) Now write a very simple plan for your family to find and restore your seeds and passphrase in the event of your death

You now have:
an anonymous phone
an anonymous laptop
an anonymous mobile wallet
an anonymous bitcoin full node
an anonymous desktop wallet
an anonymous set of backups

Don’t over complicate it or use too many programs

Don’t create multi sigs or cold storage until you understand the trade offs

Most bitcoin is lost because YOU lose your seeds, not because of scams of hacks

Keep it simple!


No matter how badly humans treat each other, we are living in a wonderful natural world. Look at flowers and bees, marvel and keep up.


"Hope is being able to see the light despite all the darkness"

#Bitcoin #MichaelSaylor

https://video.nostr.build/52639296e6db3861aafb75596723b8b09e917e89a631ff71ff38039362a401d4.mp4


I’m new here, give me advice or else 😡 https://image.nostr.build/db30c05c18a7ab7ead6bca504ed80970837202bd7335664884443e696f261f4a.png


Assange: "Nearly every war that has started in the past fifty years has been a result of media lies"
https://video.nostr.build/53052de950430274d48285da4145c1569a1e87cea14882dfe40c1fdc069cb993.mp4


#Snowden on #Bitcoin 👀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fQ7i8q5C8


We, the people, have an opportunity as humans to stop donating our life energy to vampiric agents that feed off the productivity of the working class.

The greatest daylight fraud ever pulled was normalising a compound 2% inflation on our unit of account.

We are presented with a unique opportunity to leverage our knowledge and means to ensure individuals to flourish again.

Thus, it has never been more important to focus on the fundamentals of #Bitcoin and how you can take back control of your lifetime and start being the change you want to see.


#Bitcoin evangelism may be preaching to the choir, but it's also ignoring the masses. The complexity of our economic system has created a knowledge gap that's hard for 'normies' to bridge. We need to focus on education and accessibility if we want #btc to truly make a difference. #cryptocurrency #economicjustice


Before anything,

I will keep repeating this,

After studying everything that I have studied,

my conclusion about #BTC always ends the same:

#Bitcoin is the single greatest technological invention of our lifetime.

Hear me out,

It's a decentralized, peer-to-peer electronic cash system, first adopted by individuals with internet connections.

The ramifications of this innovation are hard to imagine and put in to words; it literally changes everything.

#Bitcoin is the single most resilient technology in the world.

Humans have never built a stronger, more secure computing network.

We have never seen a decentralized, open-source software project grow so big and so fast.

I believe there will only be 1 globally adopted digital store of value, and my answer is #Bitcoin.

Everything else in the crypto "industry" is attempting to be a company, an app, or a "cover" on the fiat system.

Bitcoin is the true 0-to-1 innovation.

What is your conclusion? 🤔


I'm not going to lie, it feels good to be a #Bitcoin Maximalist https://image.nostr.build/91e719c03081f2056071f29f5b7fc527a6b4d8ec25d6e82ae9b49a853698cd60.jpg


Then they wanted to break encryption to monitor people they accused of being Nazis. But I was certainly against Nazis, so I said nothing.

Then they wanted to break encryption to expose the degenerates, queers, trannies, and uppity coloureds. By this point I was getting scared, but I wasn't kinky, gay, trans or a PoC, so I said nothing.

So when they broke encryption to catch people who criticise the govt, there was no one left to speak for me.

(2/2)


How google spies on you:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/googles-surveillance-the-shocking-truth/

1) Saving all your Google searches, tied to your identity across devices [1] [2] [30]

2) Reading all your emails.  Even if you don’t use Gmail directly, but you’re sending email to someone who does.  [5] [6]

3) Saving all your web traffic if the website uses Google Ads, Captchas, or Analytics (and over 85% of all websites use some of their services).  Even if you aren’t signed in to a Google account, and you’re using a VPN, they can still use past cookies and browser fingerprinting to identify you.  [35] [1] [25] [26]

Google’s reCaptcha fingerprinting includes mouse movements, response time, timezone, screen dimensions, IP address, and any cookies.  ReCAPTCHA uses the google.com domain instead of one specific to ReCAPTCHA, which allows Google to receive any cookies you have directly, instead of the website you’re visiting. [35] This concentrates the vast majority of all traffic data in the hands of a single company, which can then be used to de-anonymize users.

4)  Everything you do in Google’s Chrome Browser is recorded, including even how long you are idle on a page.  [7] [8]

5) Tracking and Saving your physical location, via Android’s GPS and Wifi triangulation. [12] [13]

Even if you turn location features off or set the phone to airplane mode, it still saves your location via Wifi triangulation, which is the process of pinging nearby Wifi hotspots to identify where you are.  [9] [10] [11] Wifi triangulation can figure out your real location, even if you have a fake IP address from a VPN. [14]

As intelligence expert and ex-law enforcement Michael Bazzell says, Google is one of the first places law enforcement goes to for information because Androids track everyone’s location so accurately. Bazzell points out that even if you’re not directly involved in something, just owning an Android that was near it, can get you involved in answering police questions.  Bazzell’s experience serving in law enforcement and intelligence motivated him to completely cut Google out of his life even though he’s doing “nothing wrong”.  [11]

6) Keeping track of who you know to identify new phones or email accounts as you.

Rob Braxman
Privacy expert and phone operating system designer Rob Braxman points out that, by synching everyone’s phones’ contact lists and who they are physically standing near, Google (and therefore governments) can identify unknown devices or email accounts as you.  [30] [31] [32a]  Braxman further points to publicly available websites made by Google’s Jigsaw division and their partner Moonshot CVE, which openly sells services to governments to track and manipulate search results for targeted users.  These users targeted by Jigsaw & Moonshot CVE’s government clients have their search history, location, and identifying fingerprint stored in a database. [32b]

7) Recording and saving audio of your private conversations [16] [17] [18]

Google’s Android has the microphone constantly recording and saving your intimate personal conversations against your wishes for their profit and power.  As an extensive academic study of tech patents by Consumer Watch Dog points out, Google will claim this is only to find out if you said the words “Google Assistant,” but yet they have publicly filed patents to scan audio conversations and any available visuals on a variety of home smart devices to identify who is speaking, what you’re interested in, and what you’re doing for the purpose of targeted advertising.  [15]

Tracking what you say, what you like, when you sleep, and even when you go the bathroom, goes well beyond Google Assistant helping you do a quick search and would instead be considered an all-inclusive surveillance. [15]

In addition, they’ll allow 3rd party apps to record you without your knowledge because of poor permissions control. As University of California Santa Barbara cybersecurity researchers presented at a BlackHat European conference, 3rd party apps like Silverpush can play high frequency audio, which is invisible to the human ear, on another device like a television ad or mall kiosk.  Then your phone’s mic picks up the frequency, to rat out your real identity or location. [34]

Silverpush’s advertising system is embedded into many “free” apps on the Google Play Store.  These doctoral researchers warned of the dangers this presents by being connected to wide-spread platforms like Google Ads.  To demonstrate this, they played video of their lab experiment, which de-anonymatized a laptop through Tor Browser, because of an Android’s mic next to the laptop’s speakers, which was signed in to a Google account. [34]

Is the Data Sold?

Google has marketing propaganda which claims that they are merely selling advertising space on your devices and not selling the data itself.  However, this claim is misleading in a number of ways.

First, not only is advertising sold by demographics or interests, but in addition, Google also allows its advertising customers to target users by name, email, or device ID and reach them almost anywhere. [1] So advertisers can target you specifically and then serve you anything on your specific device by name.

Second, while it’s true that Google technically doesn’t  sell your actual name to the advertiser, when your device interacts with an ad, the third party advertiser can easily use your IP address, cross-site cookies, and/or browser fingerprinting to identify you.   For example, suppose an advertiser runs an ad for an ebook on how to get out of debt.  The advertiser could collect the IP addresses of anyone who clicks it, and so they’d know whose indebted.

“I think the big problem is that we give much more data to Google than it needs,” said Guillaume Chaslot, former Google engineer who worked on YouTube’s recommendations algorithm. [4a] Chaslot’s first-hand experience with Google’s spyware and manipulation inspired him to create the non-group AlgoTransparency.org, which openly says in it’s manifesto, “algorithms don’t have your best interests at mind”. [4b]

Play Store and Chrome Extensions Leak Data

Third, the Google Play Store and their Chrome Browser Extension Store leak application and user data directly to the app’s developers.  This is sensitive private information, and these third party app developers are NOT carefully vetted, as almost anyone can put an app in the Google Play or Chrome Extension Store with minimal screening.  Examples: [21] [23] [24]

Mental Outlaw
“Mental Outlaw” is a cybersecurity Youtube video influencer who is constantly having his videos about torrents flagged by Google as “dangerous content”.  He points out how ridiculous this is because Google does so little to stop real dangerous content.  One of the numerous examples he’s given is the Chrome webstore featuring extensions that are malicious hacking malware, which does URL injections to force online shoppers, without their knowledge, to use the malware creator’s affiliate links when they shop online. [22b] These 5 popular extensions got over 1.3 million downloads, which got the attention of McAfee Labs, the research department of the respected anti-virus company.

From McAfee Labs’ articulate research, this is huge security risk because not only is your personal data, like name and location, sent to malicious actors, but the attacker can forward the URL to any site they want.  So you might think you’re going BestBuy.com, but it’s really the attacker’s bullshit site to get your credit card info.  [22b]

Youtuber Mental Outlaw points out how ludicrous it is that not only did Google allow 1.3 million people to download these extensions, but they have featured status on the Google Chrome store. [22a] And not only does Mental Outlaw find similar malware in the Android Play Store, but Google has changed how apps disclose permissions to remove themselves of liability.  Starting in mid-2022, Google has the app developers themselves disclose what permissions the app uses, so Google does not have to do any research.  This is a conflict of interest, since app developers are self-reporting what information they get access to, and the end user may not properly be able to evaluate it. [19] [20a]

Sell it via Cookies

Google’s defense to these types of criticisms has always been that they don’t “sell your data” directly.  But as laid out in research from the tech-savvy lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google allows advertisers to connect their cookies with Google’s in order to process data on the customer.  This process is called “cookie matching” and essentially allows Google to sell the advertiser your information through a cookie. [1]

In the European Union, if Google were caught selling this data directly, it would be illegal.  [27] [28] [29] So instead Google finds sneaky work-arounds such as the cookie matching, which allows them to appease the regulators and make statements like “we don’t sell data, we just use the data.” [1]

Conclusion

The more influence that Google has in our society, the more difficult it becomes to avoid their fingerprinting.  If every website has a Google Captcha and everyone you talk to demands you talk to them on Gmail, then Google has become the gatekeeper for overseeing all human behavior.  They can use this power to influence who sees your messages and what information you are able to find.

By using Gmail or Google Docs, you’re forcing and enabling Google to fingerprint your loved ones or friends.  Even if you think you’re doing nothing illegal, you assume that Google will give you and those you care about an equal opportunity for your business to thrive.  They can reduce Google’s search traffic to your website, or bounce your emails to potential employers or customers.  They can buckle your business at the knees if they think it fits its agenda and by giving them so much information you’ve completely surrendered your freedom.

Well what is their agenda?

In our next article, we’ll discuss Google’s censorship ability to shape society and how affects you.

The Sources for this article can be found here.

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Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37743567 )

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14556


Gm everyone! Thanks for the shoutout nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va ! #freeJulian


Thats inspiring to read. Well done strengthening your ability to choose.


🎙b/notes #810021

Any business, company or organization  begins with registration. Namely, with the execution of papers, first of all, the statute, a document that describes and regulates how the organization and its owners will work.

This paper does not work. It does not regulate the human factor. It does not correct the causes of human errors. It does not eliminate emotions that destroy alliances. And if you do have to return to it in a dispute between partners to resolve it, you probably won't be able to resolve anything without the help of a court.

This is not the way it should be. Trust in an organization is something that people write into the statute. Trust does not work on paper, but it works in code.

The digital statute, which is built as a system of smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain, is a solution.

It would be interesting to do some research and ask people, businesses, and developers. nostr:npub1jac0kj928psa6wf7hpt7ws8jmah33c826sa668fsce09cxvzqznqprc8yd  what do you think?

Therefore, the development of #starwee started with a #Bitcoin based #digitalstatute. It will be published soon.
So it will also be #opensource.


A few code 👨💻 orders that helped me with troubles on my Umbrel when mempool got stuck with ordinals:

1. When channels not opened or closed till 2 weeks, they need to be force closed:

umbrel@umbrel:~ $ ~/umbrel/bin/lncli closechannel --force … //(channel point with a space instead of “:” )

2. Bumping pending channels till 2 weeks from opening:

~/umbrel/scripts/app compose lightning exec lnd lncli wallet bumpfee 8ae8ae07cf8e38b53a01e93b05210b493b6c84547c651a69857651dd8db5514a:0 --sat_per_vbyte 21

3. Bumping bitcoin TX:
sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/app compose bitcoin exec bitcoind bitcoin-cli bumpfee……

#bitcoin #nostr #zaps #plebchain


This week, SBF is going to trial for defrauding investors & retail to the tune of billions.

Meanwhile Ross Ulbricht is still in prison 10 years later for creating an online #Bitcoin  marketplace.

Free Ross. https://i.nostr.build/jBXr.png