🚨 For the first time, a government is being overthrown by 3D-printed weapons 🔫

The longest-lasting civil war today took an unexpected turn... when the resistance adopted plastic weapons and cryptocurrencies.

You NEED to know what's happening in Myanmar 👇

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Myanmar has never had political stability since gaining independence 76 years ago.

The latest coup was in 2021, banks were drained, and the local currency lost 60% of its value in the following months.

Rebels have since been using CRYPTO to finance themselves.

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They declared TETHER as the official currency 🏅

They launched a stablecoin and a crypto bank on the Polygon network that accesses Uniswap pools for buying and selling currencies.

They even created a digital lottery and boycotted the national Myanmar lottery, which saw its revenue drop by 80% 📉

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The rebels have raised about $100 million in recent years.

They even auctioned "revolutionary bonds": buyers could receive a share of a deposed general's mansion, for example.

But this $100 million is nothing compared to the nearly $1 billion that the junta has invested in the war since the coup.

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This ASYMMETRY of resources suggests a protracted conflict with no end in sight.

The junta is unable to eliminate all the decentralized insurgency hotspots... but it can exhaust them financially.

However, the asymmetry is decreasing, thanks to DISSIDENT TECHNOLOGIES...

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JStark would be proud.

In recent months, there have been reports of FGC9s in use in Myanmar.

FGC9 is one of the most popular models of self-made firearms.

FGC = Fuck Gun Control

No one conquers a city with FGC9s.

But it is certainly possible to...

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... defend a mountain pass or a village surrounded by forest with them.

Moreover, the resistance has mastered the art of producing and piloting homemade patrol drones.

Check it out 👇

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The insurgents have already liberated ~50% of the territory.

The military junta controls the most populous and economically significant areas.

China supported the last coup in 2021. The West never had enough incentive to confront Beijing 🇨🇳

But in 2024, everything starts to change.

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China's interest is economic.

They need to be on the side of the "winner" to ensure access to Myanmar's strategic pipelines and ports.

But in March of this year, Beijing lost its patience.

Hold on to this:

😳 44,000 CHINESE were in Myanmar as "slaves"...

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...and they were finally discovered and "returned."

They were working in "ONLINE SCAM CENTERS" operating in the northern part of the country. They were lured with fake job advertisements.

This is a scam center on the border with Thailand, packed with Chinese workers, scamming people worldwide 👇

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Think about this 👇

You’ve probably been targeted by some online profile trying to scam you, operated by one of the THOUSANDS of trafficked Chinese people working in centers like this.

What year are we living in, folks?! 😳

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The fight against tyranny still seems far from over. But the end appears to have already begun.

The balance of power is shifting.


Them too. Drones give you some nice capabilities though. Like integration with fixed cameras (I.e. go to the location where motion was detected) and force projection (use a weapon outside the range of where you can personally shoot).


+ Autonomous defense drones. As humans we can’t be vigilant 24/7.


BREAKING: U.S. Bankruptcies jump to highest level in more than 12 years. https://image.nostr.build/c3bb077612c7226480b1f9e757c4c562a5cf6e69a30495db1d510934cca9ac20.jpg


Source: https://x.com/beeevolved/status/1819482624240255429?s=46
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Alcatraz escape plan?


Bouncing between $58k and $69k has been a pretty stable pattern for a while. Both memes win.


The TLDR is that they basically lock down certain parameters to prevent them from being fine tuned. You might call the resulting model “partially open weight”. It also reduces overall accuracy.
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They call it a “new trick” but this essentially just comes down to restricting AI model releases to closed and censored versions. https://www.wired.com/story/center-for-ai-safety-open-source-llm-safeguards/


Don’t forget the telling someone to leave/stop what they’re doing and launching tear gas if they don’t comply use case.


This is the type of thing that just shows that protecting you isn’t the goal… You would never accept this stupid thing as a bouncer at a club to keep customers safe.

This only makes any real sense with the goal of control and surveillance. This will be 1x as useful for selling data on what people do in the park and tracking everyone’s whereabouts than it will be for keeping someone from being raped or stopping a thief. nostr:note1qqemsr5svzy0dx4snqlr283k3x7akqlrjmcluglt5a43930gzq2s74mrn4


A better name for ‘deep state’ is ‘permanent bureaucracy.’

When people think ‘deep state,’ they imagine super capable elites planning painstakingly effective psyops.

A more accurate visual is thousands of mediocre DMV employees doing the bear minimum yet never getting fired, but rather, getting more funding each year, until it swallows up the entire private sector and a reset occurs.


I believe these have tear gas or pepper spray dispensers, IIRC.


Meanwhile somewhere in California, Robocop 1.0 enters the room.
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Bitaxe lottery FTW


Sounds like it could potentially be pretty powerful if Confidential Transactions can hide the amount of LBTC on a Lightning node.


Doesn’t liquid integrate with Lightning?


Interesting times for Bitcoin are ahead.


I also suppose it’s fortunate for them that Bitmain is a Chinese company.


OK, apparently they do see the writing on the wall. The Foudry U.S.A. mining pool (with 32% hash rate) will receive a ton of pressure to censor transactions once Bitcoin is used for Russia-China trade at significant scale.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/30/russia-considers-legalizing-crypto-as-a-form-of-payment-amid-sanctions.html


I guess two tyrannies trying to trade with each other won’t risk their citizens more widely using freedom tech.


How does the US manage to block direct trade between China and Russia? Anyway, why they aren’t using Bitcoin for this yet is beyond me as well. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-china-yuan-payments-delay-months-bounce-back-sanctions-2024-7


Seems nobody should give a shit about US sanctions anymore.


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Got a doppleganger there!


Luckily, thanks to gun control, everyone in Venezuela is at a very low risk of being killed by an assault rifle… see guys, tyranny is good. nostr:note1eaf2ufws33kaxelfvrm2ekwntk2ur0r3v0mq8uma25hwjxtm63rqvwtquz


It’s not peaceful. When the people have guns and shoot back it’s civil war. But civil war is better than tyranny.


No.


Open source AI appears to be safe from federal regulations - for now. https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-white-house-says-no-need-to-restrict-open-source-artificial-intelligence-at-least-for-now/


Do you think open source AI will end up losing to the proprietary models?


Is restoring a valid option for switching to a new hardware wallet?


Are there any guides for migrating cold storage, I.e. from a Coldcard to SeedSigner or something? #asknostr


If democrats win, rich people (asset holders) will see their net worth shrivel like a bare scrotum in a january breeze

If republicans win, poor people will see rich people get richer and become more angry

I’m just gonna keep stacking legit utxo’s until this all blows over (and then stack some moar)


Does Foundry not have dangerously too much hashrate at 32%? #asknostr


Chalk up a win for #Nostr that this can be posted.


In retrospect, the chance of there not being at least one was extremely low.


How feasible is it to make an FGC-9 in Venezuela?


I just put together a browser-based tool for splitting and reassembling eCash for sending over the Meshtastic mesh network. It's super handy for breaking down large eCash tokens into smaller messages without losing track of the order. Each message is capped at 150 characters, making it perfect for mesh networks.

The Meshtastic app isn't great for copying message content at the moment so its a little hacky but its better than nothing I think.

🔹 eCash Text Splitter: Easily chop up your eCash into manageable chunks, each with a sequence number and a hash for verification.

🔹 eCash Text Reassembler: Put those chunks back together and check the hash to make sure everything's in order.

🌐 Check it out: https://ecash-text-splitter.netlify.app/

⚠ Heads up:
- This hasn't been tested extensively yet. Make sure to back up your full eCash token before you start splitting it.
- Needs more thorough testing, so any feedback is appreciated!

GitHub repo is linked on the site if you want to dive into the code or contribute. Let's make eCash transactions easier! 🚀💸

#eCash #Meshtastic #Bitcoin #Cashu #Fedimint


Having a home gym, along with various workout programming apps, has been one of the greatest money and time saving investments we’ve made.


#Venezuela is a great reminder:

You vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out.


Those of you who have paid close attention to Trump's speech at Bitcoin 2024 may have noticed that the former President – accidentally or intentionally – appears to have given away a lot more on his plans for the future of Bitcoin than meets the eye.

Despite his assurances to protect open source development and self-custody in the US, Trump is first and foremost a national security president, highlighted by his remarks on terrorism and immigration. A loosening of AML/CFT laws, which currently see several open-source developers under indictment, seems unlikely (though a democrat law enforcement officer in the White House may arguably not do us any better).

During Trump's past presidency, the US passed the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which increased penalties for AML/CFT offenses and established beneficial ownership requirements for LLCs to FinCEN.

While Trump vetoed the NDAA, it appears that he did not do so due to the AMLA2020, but rather because the NDAA kept Trump from his crusade to repeal Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, which protects Internet Service Providers from liability for information hosted and transmitted.

According to Trump, Section 230 is a "national security risk" which "will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct".

If you had hoped that a Trump presidency would reduce the risks of developers being held liable for "illicit activity", you may do best in thinking again – "Broadcasting" 'illicit transactions' is precisely what Samourai Wallet currently stands accused of, which would hardly be arguable under the striking of Section 230.

Between incoherent ramblings on god, AI, and electric cars, Trump essentially used his 50-minute speaking slot to introduce The Bitcoin Dollar between the lines: a CBDC alternative to expand US hegemony beyond the petrodollar system directly into consumer wallets across the planet.

Don't forget that the vast space between your ears is intelligence's field of play. For Trump, Bitcoin is merely a tool to "extend the dominance of the US Dollar to new frontiers all around the world", and if his speech showed us anything, its that you are nothing more than another pawn at the end of the identity politics chessboard, where a banner hangs that reads: Congratulations, you’ve been played.

This Rage Weekly is out featuring a full opinion on the much anticipated Trump speech at Bitcoin 2024. Subscribe for free or read all issues online:

https://www.therage.co/strap-in-for-the-bitcoin-dollar/


A key part of this is the FOSS movement -- please DIRECTLY support open source projects and devs.

If billionaires, VCs, and for-profit companies provide the majority of the funding, you're just going to get the tools that billionaires, VCs and for-profit companies want you to have.

And if you donate via donation bundling orgs, you are going to get the tools that the bundlers want you to have.

I will say it one more time: DIRECTLY support the tools that are important to you.

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How Open Source AI caught Proprietary models. Mistral Large 2 enters the arena.

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Exciting move!

BOLT 12 offers reusable/static #lightning address/QR code that helps increase receiver privacy and censorship resistance.

Read more here: https://bolt12.org/ nostr:note1srdca6hlh030tsll49wumeh3ydrvn9sxun3zy6qfzgvq5w4htdgqnfwzt0


Not that it will matter much for Bitcoin if people use it as it was intended.


A reality check against some of the pro-Trump optimism here: as long as the economy doesn’t take a large turn for the worse, Harris (or whoever the final Democrat nominee is) is going to win.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/07/25/what-recession-us-economy-shatters-forecasts-for-quarterly-gdp-growth/


This is pretty cool. https://youtube.com/shorts/rz-MiuM2Lw8?si=l2bx3F-Xaw_fj1xk


“Don’t worry, you can keep your Bitcoin! All we want is a 1% crypto wealth tax, KYC for all transactions and a ban on privacy tech. Common sense!”


If you had to bet, who’s going to blink first?
OpenAI + large LLM corps (open source AI keeps up in capability, forcing the OpenAI et al. business model to be unprofitable and unsustainable)
or
Open source AI devs (compute hardware requirements become too demanding and/or regulations make open source dev too legally risky so they throw the towel)


That could be true.


I don't need your stablecoin, thanks.

I have Bitcoin, ecash, and this guy's stable Lightning channel to maintain the peg on his mint.

I can use this infrastructure with 20 people or 20 thousand people. It works. It's free. It's private. And it's good.

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Lots of coinjoins happening.


How did they get the number of Lightning transactions?


I’m glad the occasional demand spike for the Bitcoin network, including via ordinals and runes 💩, sparks L2 scaling development on Bitcoin.


I’m glad #monero exists to put a bit more privacy pressure on Bitcoin.


Blocks like this fill my heart with joy. #privacy #coinjoin
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Privacy tech


Wouldn’t that actually help Harris in the election? Assuming running as a third party candidate takes more votes from Harris than Trump.


In the mean time, set your Wasabi wallet to connect to one of the other coordinators. https://wabisator.com/


Free and open source. We will always win.


California is trying to place liability on AI misuse on model developers. This would essentially ban open source. https://a16z.com/sb-1047-what-you-need-to-know-with-anjney-midha/


EL-TOR, run a tor relay and get compensated via ln-payments: https://stacker.news/items/609498


This horror short with AI generated scenes is pretty good! https://youtu.be/e2RT79khjvI?si=Fs_SuRyVw-aD2E_-


They probably would, but being able to run the most capable models locally every couple of years would still be huge.


Two of them have more followers than me. Embarrassing for either myself or Nostr.


Meh, I’m still not convinced that LN’s problems have to be solved by scrapping it and replacing with new blockchains/sidechains. We’ll see.


I wouldn’t rule out consumer LLM focused cards with tons of VRAM


Or open source breaks via successful lobbying by OpenAI to effectively ban open source with onerous KYC regulations and training data restrictions (you get sued if it can make naked Taylor Swift, even via fine tuning)


With open source models like Llama 3.1 somewhat keeping up, OpenAI won’t be able to charge enough for their little bit of better performance vs open source to be profitable. Something has to break. Either they develop a secret sauce that can’t be replicated without massive compute for even inference (open source breaks), or they throw the towel and open source themselves or shut down (OpenAI breaks).


I’m relieved that we live in a time when left bell curves like myself can be made whole with AI.


I would think that if forest critters could eat them then we could too, but I wouldn’t test it. 😅


With 64GB RAM I’d guess you could locally run the 70B version just fine with a 4000 series Nvidia GPU. Not sure about the 405B version. Supposedly the 5000 series GPUs are releasing beginning of 2025. I wonder if they will have LLMs in mind in their design.


What are the system requirements for the 405B and 70B versions? Having trouble parsing the website myself.


I'm trying to understand how to replace my not-very-private but useful ChatGPT 4.0 subscription with Llama 3.1.

ChatGPT translated the system requirements for https://llama.meta.com/ into slightly less confusing versions of "your beefy desktop is by far not enough".

So if I still need a compute cluster that would sit idle 99% of the time if I ran it just for myself, I'm kind of back at square one. I'd have to find a way to share these resources efficiently and privately.

Where can I use a powerful AI in a privacy preserving way? I want to pay with eCash and use it via TOR without any email or other accounts attached.


Are those all edible?


I've been experimenting with writing a Meshtastic compatible client in Rust on an STM32WL chip, as a learning exercise and it's been quite a pleasant experience. I can transmit and receive text messages, user info and can receive and display position messages. I can retransmit packets, but haven't yet properly implemented the retransmission based on signal strength logic. Next step is to do this and then tidy up the code to make it presentable and configurable.

#meshtastic #lora
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You can't have dignity during your human life without being able to own the fruits of your labor.

Private property is fundamental.

#Bitcoin


So much for Musk’s free speech pitch huh? They must have received a “talking to.”


Haveno is cool, but I don’t see how they get around the fiat liquidity issue where people just can’t Zelle or cash-by-mail $100k.


Or even better yet, find someone who accepts BTC as payment. Assuming you are buying something that is like $100k+, which I assume is what you’re doing if you need to sell 10 BTC quickly, it might be less headache to find an acceptor of BTC.


Wouldn’t selling that much Monero ona centralized exchange also result in KYC hell? Sounds like the problem is with the P2P exchanges lacking liquidity.


Wouldn’t selling that much Monero also result in KYC hell? Sounds like a problem with the P2P exchanges, not Bitcoin.


ETH got hit harder 😂


Yes…exactly. https://civitai.com/models/257749/pony-diffusion-v6-xl


16GB of RAM barely cuts it these days huh?


Have you tried SDXL with the Pony Diffusion checkpoint?


MORE

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Why did they do it? Fear of getting sued.
Why does it suck at drawing humans without porn? 🤷♂ my guess is that they went overboard with scrubbing the training dataset of any human who isn’t wearing loose clothing out of fear that it would take little fine tuning to turn it into porn.


But yet ones that try hard to exclude porn can’t draw any human that isn’t a deformed sci-fi mutant.


I still don't understand what kind of specs I have to have to run the new Llama 3.1 models. RAM, GPU, diskspace, etc. Any good setup guides for AI noobs like me?


My latest invention is StatechainJS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24pNIs6M7qo

Basically it's like ecash but if the operator goes down you can recover your sats. Being like ecash means transfers are fast & free, but the operator can rob you, so be careful! Try it here: https://github.com/supertestnet/statechainjs


Damn! The majority are custodial wallets :/
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Cash will likely be banned within a decade.


Imagine you had to verify your social media profiles in order to get a bank account. This is what the world's biggest banks are proposing in order to combat the complete ineffectiveness of their own AML programs as found in a statement by the AML/CFT consortium Wolfsberg Group.

Full story: https://www.therage.co/banks-aml-inefficient-access-to-social-media/


I’ll take it.


How long before we can ask an AI to “make Half-Life 3” and it will output the classic sequel we’ve been waiting 20 years for?


Why The Llama 3.1 Announcement Is Huge

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/07/23/llama-3.1


Open Source just became the SOTA in AI.  This is HUGE.  This means that free and open source software has just become the future of humanity.  Nostr was created to accelerate this.  Few.

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“If you don’t register you clearly have something to hide and should be investigated.”


What could possibly go wrong...
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https://m-focus-de.translate.goog/experts/vermoegensregister-geplant-eu-will-umfassende-datenbank-zum-vermoegen-aller-buerger-aufbauen-was-dahinter-steckt_id_260158959.html


Looks comfortable.


*person


I refuse to take the bait at “hello, how are you doing?” Which no reasonable would say to me.


Yuge


Apparently the next one is 400B.


Still don’t understand what you get with a stablecoin that you don’t get by just denominating your BTC amounts in dollars. Stable value of the total supply? 😂


The difference between bitcoin as a tool for freedom and bitcoin as a surveillance apparatus is the privacy of your xpub.


Hope we see affordable hardware for doing inference in reasonable time on a 400B parameter model soon.


OPEN SOURCE IS THE PATH FORWARD

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Is Auraflow a viable alternative to SD3? nostr:npub1kade5vf37snr4hv5hgstav6j5ygry6z09kkq0flp47p8cmeuz5zs7zz2an


I’d vote for Harris if I knew it would cause Texas to secede.


Would a contribution as small as a Bitaxe fall above a threshold that gets you regular payouts?


Is it possible to get regular payments using a #bitaxe miner from a pool that allows Lightning payouts?


Too early to say if he’s right.


Wow this is great 🔥

“Sending and receiving Lightning payments is great, but our Liquid implementation also supports more advanced features we all need and expect: interoperability with the Bitcoin blockchain, LNURL-Pay, LNURL-Withdraw, LNURL-Auth, and fiat on and off-ramps (coming soon). Also on the near horizon, the Liquid implementation will include multi-device and multi-app support, allowing users to interact with the same balance across multiple apps and devices.”
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Bit of a grey area I think. He simply did what was suggested by the people around him. I’ve heard that there was at least one “threat” involved in the form of whether he gets a presidential library.


Probably the craziest week in Open Source AI (yet):

1. Mistral (in collaboration with Nvidia) dropped Apache 2.0 licensed NeMo 12B LLM, better than L3 8B and Gemma 2 9B. Models are multilingual with 128K context and a highly efficient tokenizer - tekken.

2. Apple released DCLM 7B - truly open source LLM, based on OpenELM, trained on 2.5T tokens with 63.72 MMLU (better than Mistral 7B)

3. HF shared SmolLM - 135M, 360M, & 1.7B Smol LMs capable of running directly in the browser; they beat Qwen 1.5B, Phi 1.5B and more. Trained on just 650B tokens.

4. Groq put out Llama 3 8B & 70B tool use & function calling model checkpoints - achieves 90.76% accuracy on Berkely Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL).  Excels at API usage & structured data manipulation!

5.  Salesforce released xLAM 1.35B & 7B Large Action Models along with 60K instruction fine-tuning dataset. The 7B model scores 88.24% on BFCL & 2B 78.94%

6. Deepseek changed the game with  v2 chat 0628 - The best open LLM on LYMSYS arena right now - 236B parameter model with 21B active parameters. It also excels at coding (rank #3) and arena hard problems (rank #3)

There's a lot more; Arcee (mergekit) released a series of LLMs, each better than the other, and Numina and HF Numina 72B (based on Qwen 2) and Math datasets, Mixbread with embedding models (english + german) and a lot more!

It's fun to see so many releases next week with L3 405B


One possible plus of a Trump presidency would be less foreign adherence to extradition treaties, out of spite. Hopefully also combined with a weakened FBI and IRS.


Open source AI models being widely considered important is great, but what about affordable hardware that can do inference with a model where the bleeding edge is getting into the trillions of parameters? I’d like to see more interest and effort there.


EXCLUSIVE: Here's the Cellebrite Premium 7.69.5 iOS Support Matrix from July 2024.

404media recently published an article based on the same April 2024 docs we received in April and published in May. Many tech news sites including 9to5Mac made incorrect assumptions treating that as current.

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Here's the Cellebrite Premium 7.69.5 Android Support Matrix from July 2024 for Pixels. They're still unable to exploit locked #GrapheneOS devices unless they're missing patches from 2022. A locked GrapheneOS device also automatically gets back to BFU from AFU after 18h by default.

https://image.nostr.build/6c2c963377aa75af248e5c4ce646df70f50e1d5eedb2184e4b27f63faffd44ee.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/33551de196f545a14b82051aa2a4a826fb84577821c60f4b9841508fb73af375.jpg


I personally believe that Bitcoin would eventually increase its block time and become what’s described as “Solcoin” in Part 2. Having all the mining done on or close to Earth would be seen as unacceptable centralization to citizens of a solar system wide or bigger civilization. https://unchained.com/bitcoin-astronomy/kardashev-money


Shame he went down without a fight given all the firepower he brandished.


UPDATE: Someone has shared a newer version of the iOS table indicating Cellebrite caught up to iOS 17.5.1 or higher along with the iPhone 15 for the OS exploits.

It's common for them to fall behind by a few months for new iOS and Android versions. Android and iOS have no secure way to automatically get devices back into Before First Unlock from After First Unlock as GrapheneOS does so attackers can simply wait until they have an exploit.

We're currently waiting for one of our several sources to provide us with the new Android and iOS documentation. We aren't going to post the leaked iOS table in this thread because we can't confirm that it's authentic yet. We should have the new documentation quite soon though.

It's unfortunate that there was a whole bunch of secondary news coverage where it was misreported that Cellebrite was unable to exploit current iOS based on documentation from April 2024. It's July 2024 now, and they've had months to restore the capabilities broken by an update.

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Get that shit tied down
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I can’t find any info on either of those.


Anyone use Blender for CAD?


Has anyone fucked around and fired up a massive Lightning node entirely managed by CLBOSS? #asknostr


I was 95% there anyway. Dual booted with Windows only for some games. After upgrading my PC I should be able to handle the Proton overhead without issue.


#linuxonly from now on.

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Hasn’t El Salvador finally moved theirs off Coinbase?


the windows computers holding the BTC price down at coin base have crashed, sources


Year of the Linux desktop?


Yes, but I’m not sure if it’s successfully seasoning the pan. Eggs seem to cook fine without sticking much if I heat some oil first. I rub oil on the pan after cooking.


Does olive oil count as a seed oil?


🚨🚨Tether freezes $300,000 to Colombian Citizen for “illicit or suspicious activity”, remember, everything that is not bitcoin can be frozen, censored and confiscated


Best way is to have Bitcoin obtained without KYC so they simply don’t know you have it. If it’s (largely) KYCed, it basically comes down to your preferred way of refusing to pay a large tax demanded of you that they will come to you to collect. Assuming compliance is out of the question, some may choose to leave the US for a non-extradition country, others may choose violence. Depends on your circumstances.


Japanese company unveils three-wheeled electric mobility vehicle with customizable design & max speed of 40 km/h for enjoyable travel on public roads. One can change the shape & function of this raptor by simply swapping out its design unit.

https://s3.poster.place/poster-media/028f02d3de5f69e61acd12c0d21ce2f1ab6c41b653645be82836e687d2fa04cb.mp4


I don't think the profundity of being able to host a web application on  Nostr that can connect to HTTPS without a DNS dependency can be  overstated.

Nostr is so much more than a protocol for social media.

https://www.tftc.io/nostr-web-services/


Some of you noticed that I tested a new custom BOLT12 powered "Lightning address" yesterday and had asked for a guide. Here it is!

How to setup a BOLT12 "Lightning address"

I used phoenixd, but you can also use Phoenix Wallet for this too.

1) Download and extract the phoenixd wallet server daemon. You can download it from their GitHub page here: https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd

2) You don't need to configure it. You just need to launch the daemon. It will automatically do everything else for you, generating seed words, connecting to the ACINQ LSP, providing you with 2M sats of inbound liquidity to get started, and creating your Lightning offer. You can run this on your existing Bitcoin and Lightning node, desktop computer, etc. Launch it with the command: ./phoenixd

2a) You need to decide on how to make this process always run in the background. You can be lazy and setup a screen, you also be lazy and pipe the output to /dev/null, or you can setup a systemd service.

2b) I setup a systemd service. It's easy and the best way to handle the management of the node, IMO.

3) You will need a domain that you can edit the DNS settings. You will need to enable DNSSEC. This usually requires working with the domain registrar and where your domain records are being hosted, coordinating together and copying and pasting a few fields. It's not hard.

4) Next, you need to add a new DNS record entry. Choose the TXT record type. Configure the TXT record with the following information:

NAME = yourname.user._bitcoin-payment
CONTENT = bitcoin:?lno=your_lno_offer

For example:
derek.user._bitcoin-payment

bitcoin:?lno=lno1zrxq8pjw7qjlm68mtp7e3yvxee4y5xrgjhhyf2fxhlphpckrvevh50u0qv269gw5jl4r3tzduka09pps9rufy7dw8rjl957m6g3t5d5e8gyhcqsrxaemp0q929hz2869l23tgrftggk7wry08aptcu2ccey93xhesefqqvev8d3kh0yk2m3w7xc5fn3h9pkvmj20u53rhakpzuge5e7ccy52gcq7hpf5y866vlkpculf38mn4lyrqkyvqtmrz3hy0desrnzrpvjgm6d57t5y24h97ls2xme3nwk8rrz4dqp52qqsy25a00kv770lqyd9qdj3nu7665

This would give me derek@mydomain.com as a BOLT12 Lightning address.

That's it. Good luck!


I find it very interesting that YouTube decided to pull El-Tor video just 3 days after it was first shown and announced.

Literally a project in its infancy stage.

https://image.nostr.build/d87b80b68c078da0666c27c4a7dd6412d03e64102c165f38ca7812d99d259e73.png


Nice!

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Zig had ‘let’ and ‘let mut’ at one point, then removed them in favor of just ‘const’ and ‘var’. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/181


If you think your bolt-action hunting rifle (aka a SNIPER RIFLE!!) is safe from restrictive regulation after AR-15s are banned, read this. Relatively easily achieved accuracy is apparently something “nobody needs.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/trump-shooter-gun-thomas-crooks-ar-15-expertise-military.html


Huge milestone: First demo of Nostr Web Services (NWS) bringing TCP to Nostr. With NWS, you can host any existing web application on Nostr without having to use DNS or even announce your public IP to the world, simply by sharing your service's npub (or nprofile).

Try it out the demo yourself. Here is a Cashu test mint running with NWS. Let's use curl to retrieve the mint's information. The request travels from your computer to the public NWS entry relay, then through nostr to the service's NWS exit relay. At the other end is a Cashu mint with HTTPS encryption.

```
curl -s -x socks5h://relay.8333.space:8882 https://nprofile1qqs8a8nk09fhrxylcd42haz8ev4cprhnk5egntvs0whafvaaxpk8plgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuwpnxvejuumsv93k2g6k9kr/v1/info --insecure | jq
```

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

I can't stress this enough: THE MINT RUNS BEHIND HTTPS!

The NWS entry relay can't read your traffic. It's encrypted. We can host public entry relays that can be used by anyone.

This means we can plug the entire internet to it 🌐.

Let's plug it into Cashu for now. Nutshell wallet supports socks5 proxies (that's how it uses Tor). By setting the public entry relay as the proxy, the wallet can now connect to a mint's npub/nprofile and communicate with it via NWS.

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

This is going to be so freaking cool. And it's going to be a lot more useful than just for Cashu. There are still bugs and issues that need to be ironed out but the code is coming out soon. Watch this space.


Today, we welcome nine new members.

This expands the  nostr:npub1nyyhnqahf3cgqzcc927x7eqyd2msgplfe27ddn6hpgu2m200wh2s0s7gan Federation to a total of 73 Bitcoin-focused members, which now includes major P2P platforms, Lightning companies, and leaders in the digital asset space.

Let's meet the new members.
https://blog.liquid.net/liquid-federation-growth-alby-breez-and-peach-bitcoin-among-nine-new-members-raising-total-to-73/

Enhancing bitcoin payments,  nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm integrates a non-custodial Lightning wallet and browser extension that also enables seamless interaction with Liquid web wallets and apps.

https://getalby.com/

Bulgaria's oldest football club  nostr:npub19jfsjxx7gtw2t52qepx93ek57fdstfwszct3qqwzns4zxmvsc5gswf8rx0 uses Bitcoin and Nostr, offers discounts for bitcoin payments and is the first club to adopt Liquid to power payments in their own  nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q mode.

https://botevplovdiv.bg/en/botev-accepts-bitcoin

Non-custodial exchange platform Changelly supports LBTC and Tether (Liquid), allowing easy swaps between Liquid assets and over 700 altcoins.

https://changelly.com/

Solving real estate market issues,  nostr:npub1zwne90qpp0g20u99gcr44ukc42vhyg9yfw2tuc8kv9r00er9xwlqm5tult RESIN platform uses Liquid to offer rent-to-own models and Bitcoin-backed investments, for greater market transparency and accessibility.

https://blog.liquid.net/press-releases/daedalus-labs-revolutionizing-bitcoin-with-real-estate-integration/

Based in El Salvador, Ditobanx is creating a Bitcoin circular economy across LATAM, offering #Bitcoin services like payment processing and tokenized assets. They plan to issue a variety of tokenized securities on Liquid.

https://ditobanx.com

Focused on developing new capital markets on Bitcoin, eNor Securities, plans to leverage Liquid and Blockstream AMP to create a secure environment for digital asset issuance and management.

https://enorsecurities.com/

Swiss P2P exchange  nostr:npub15369wu3wzzar5fclhecyqfv683x69n6nhlg7rxqnsg2dydgxflpq3apswl offers private, secure Bitcoin trading. Their Liquid integration allows users to purchase P2P LBTC, with future plans for Lightning<>Liquid swaps.

https://peachbitcoin.com/index.html

The most Bitcoin-focused LLM in the world,  nostr:npub1tayp5jjjfqx4ufukxqamsl28wd5pggvteqe6u9n3svjn62lfr0hsp89l42 technical assistant offers comprehensive guidance for Liquid and Elements developers. See it in action.

https://www.spiritofsatoshi.ai/

Please read the full blog post for further details and feel free to join the Liquid Telegram group to learn how to integrate Liquid into your business and how to become a Federation member.

https://t.me/liquid_community

https://image.nostr.build/02d2bfcc28d050fe34203816f55efbc54aa66cc94be387bf8026f74a77804f7e.jpg


And Twitter too . . . this isn't looking good for Cali.

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

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Shouting “national security” is all it takes to get that whole document crossed out.


The Tornado Cash trial against Roman Storm is not a trial against one person. It is a trial against us all.

Is the right to financial privacy protected by the US Constitution? And will code remain classified as free speech? Will we turn the law on its head by arguing that those seeking to keep their private life private must be guilty until proven innocent, and that any person aiding in such undertaking is deemed guilty of conspiracy to commit a crime, because criminals want privacy too?

Who is criminally liable for the anonymizing of funds taking place via Tornado Cash today? Does money equal speech?

The questions posed by the Tornado Cash trial are as broad as they are significant and will define how the US Constitution is applied to the digital age.

Full rundown of the case by David Z. Morris 👇

https://www.therage.co/why-your-rights-are-at-stake-in-the-tornado-cash-trial/


El-Tor: High Bandwidth⚡Tor Network Release!

https://stacker.news/items/609498


Is rollkit already functional with Bitcoin or does it require protocol changes?


Why does the “train” have to be so cold?


MAGA wouldn’t disappear in that universe. There’d probably be a widely popular Vance-Ramaswamy (or vice versa) ticket to carry the torch. Aggressive political polarization would be even higher.


Starting to look more like an intentional lapse in security. The explanation on how it’s a mistake has got to be a bit gymnasticsy at this point.
https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/alleged-trump-shooter-spotted-by-law-enforcement-nearly-30-minutes-before-shots-fired-sources-say/Q6GIK5RP6RBY5PHIMYBNXRTEBI/


That said, it’s probably 90% a regulation problem and only 10% a tech problem. Even with affordable and capable personal/family flying vehicles, the regulations around such would probably go painfully beyond the necessary traffic control (timing, altitude, location, weather-based restrictions) and make that a pain as well.


Between the uncomfortable seats and the centralized, overly-regulated airports we must pass through, Air travel is miserable in every way right now. I hope the personal flying vehicle/flying car tech goes somewhere.

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If you can’t pay thousands for first class, air travel is just miserable in every way now.


I just saw a young couple trying to pass airport security and being forced to throw the home made jelly from his grandma out the trash because the jelly recipient, even if small, had no size markings, so there was no way of knowing it was under 100ml (it definitely was). Police was called to assess the situation and they ruled in favor of throwing it out.

iT cOuLd hAvE bEeN a bOmB!!

Seriously, how did we get here? How in the world is this normal or acceptable?


Wish it wasn’t a gaffe. Would be way better than ballots.


Long term, we need private money or it just gets traced / taxed / seized by the state anyway.

But truly private money makes for a bad store of value. You can’t audit the ledger, so a bug could create unlimited inflation that would be hard to detect.

So privacy is how you move money, not necessarily store it.


A hero died yesterday 💔. RIP to this heroic father 🙏

https://i.nostr.build/QoOCdXyXn2ephkk9.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/Ept6HMWnGTrWJp7y.jpg


This article has a lot of good reminders

" We are just now entering the phase of “then they fight us.” This is not going to be a walk in the park, and it’s not something that this ecosystem should get complacent about. "

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/running-the-gauntlet


I don’t think they’d have any problem finding people who’d love to strap on boots and go bully some Texans. I assume Texans would know that they’d lose all federal subsidies, which is the bureaucratic penalty.


Texas can secede peacefully and even without formal declaration. Just stop enforcing federal laws and taxes. Unfortunately the response from the feds won’t be peaceful though.


GM!

Many "ecash not self custodial therefore bad" posts without bringing up the question of the amount.

Nobody is saying put your life savings in ecash.

Keeping pocket change with a custodian is not a problem - the opposite actually, it brings insanely better UX and privacy.


lot's of excitement about Pablo's invention and I'm excited too!

quick reality check: Cashu is an improvement of custodial Bitcoin. Beware of the custodial risk you're taking. Don't trust unknown random mints. You have the option to use only a single mint that you trust. you have the option to use WoS or Alby. you can use fedimint for a more resilient ecash setup. you can use liquid. you can use non-custodial Lightning on your phone. or you can run a node on your own server. it's all about the fact that, with Bitcoin, you do have the choice.

be careful. use custodians with great caution. make your choices consciously. not your keys, not your coins. self-custody is always king.

🥜🫡


Probably not a conspiracy, but I’d call it a massive failure for the Secret Service. The shooter was spotted by multiple bystanders, was in the sights of the Secret Service, yet got off a shot that was an inch away from a successful assassination.

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Questions remain on the Trump attempt. Secret Service allowed the gunman to fire before shooting him. https://video.nostr.build/516b81ea7fd35f060cedba88c0c1855ce1fcf42e2e85ac50d5c0b5d13f84acec.mp4


The t-shirt machines have got to be brrrring full steam with that photo at the moment.


OK, not a 22.


Probably a direct hit with a .22 that didn’t penetrate the skull, if I had to guess.


Okay, so where you guys buy none KYC domain names with #bitcoin ? 😁


👀
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Today we are excited to release "Autoswap", which fully automates liquidity management for your Lightning node using Liquid  🚀

Dive into our guide, walking you through how it works and how to set it up 👇

https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/guide-how-to-use-boltz-clients-autoswap


Was it flagged because it has coinjoin history?


https://i.nostr.build/kFUw3MSxmOKWqipS.png

This right there should be challenged in court. Politicians might be corrupt and leading monitoring software producers might enjoy questioning Bitcoin's fungibility but this "99% high risk" drops right out of their software and they willfully allow it to be taken for something that it is not.

The transaction in question was by Giacomo Zucco (is he not on nostr yet? I'm confused.)

Nobody has or should have a right to know the full history of a coin or bill and the same should apply to Bitcoin. Privacy is a right and using privacy tools doesn't make your money "high risk".

Every day, hundreds of users - users that happen to not have a giant following on social media - get their transactions flagged and confronted with some "99% high risk" bullshit while probably 99.9% of them eventually get their money back.

How would it look if their software was forced to accurately label this transaction as a "0.1% high risk" transaction? How much would they sell their product if they were forced to accurately label stuff? How many people would get forced to jump through hoops to proof their money was theirs if these bad actors could not keep their false claims?

Who can challenge them in court once and for all?


FedEx trucks are now spying on you.

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


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 https://i.nostr.build/Mxohcp2esDmxTHN4.png


Is it still useful to have a swap partition when formatting a drive for Linux installation?


Using AI technology to recreate old photos.

 https://t.co/Lkkc4tShXM https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1808798263950127104/vid/avc1/720x960/7yYmTjzvTEHUcs7k.mp4?tag=16


Apple privacy is garbage:

Vulnerabilities
The following potential privacy issues exist in Apple's iOS and iPadOS.

1. Traffic to Apple services can bypass the VPN tunnel. This includes iCloud, Maps, Siri and notifications.
Solution: None. Apple does not make it possible to send this traffic through a VPN.

2. Connections that were established before you connected to Mullvad can bypass the VPN tunnel.
Solution: Connect to Mullvad, enable Airplane mode, turn off Wi-Fi if it’s on, then disable Airplane Mode.

3. Apps on the device can be designed to bypass the VPN tunnel by routing traffic over cellular/mobile data.
Solution: Disable cellular/mobile data when you use Wi-Fi.

4. A malicious Wi-Fi network can instruct the device to send Internet traffic outside of the VPN tunnel. This is known as the TunnelCrack LocalNet attack.
Solution: None.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/using-mullvad-app-on-ios


password managers generate a unique password for each website. this means if one of your passwords leaks it won't compromise any of your other website logins.

nostr-login is a regression: if you leak your nsec then they have access to every website that you've ever logged in to.

using your npub for logging into everything is a really bad idea security wise, please be conscious of this before implementing or pushing this as a login solution to websites which may contain sensitive information.


Pelts too. Same longevity benefits of tallow and could have faced supply inflation that threatened the megafauna.


Expect that eventually you’ll need to get decent open source AI models and data sets from torrents and the dark web. https://www.securityweek.com/california-advances-unique-safety-regulations-for-ai-companies-despite-tech-firm-opposition/


+ a concoction of opioids and strong alcohol


What the?

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5819317/nixos-commits-a-purge-of-nazi-contributors-forces-abdication-of-founder


💰 Over 110 businesses are now building on Bitcoin in Africa 🌍

💰 #bitcoin

https://image.nostr.build/2adf4bffda00d0566c130ffcba2ef19d51c3a8b611c454bc427d1c9f99c46cca.jpg


In the hypothetical situation Russia and China were to take out US satellite constellations at a massive scale, how even in military capability would the US then become with its rivals?


Is there a way zaps could work with Bolt12? #asknostr


Yup. Planning to have Linux only. I’m fairly pleased with Arch, except for the occasional headache with package signatures and corrupted packages during updates. Debating whether to switch to Debian, but leaning towards sticking with Arch.


*Via Proton for the Windows-only games.


The only time I ever use Windows in my dual-boot PC is to play certain games, including VR. I’ve heard that even those games run just fine on Linux if you have modern hardware.


Not surprising. They desperately want “misinformation” restricted. The left actually started hating the 1A at least as far back as the release of the first 3D printed gun files.

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Want to contribute to #Bitcoin FOSS development

But don't know where to start?

📢 Introducing Bitcoin Good First Issues!

A tool designed specifically for devs just entering bitcoin development.

https://bitcoindevs.xyz/good-first-issues

🤔 We know it’s hard to guess which projects to start with and what issues to tackle.

Bitcoin Good First Issues gathers beginner-friendly issues labelled Bug, Help Wanted, and (heh) Good First Issues.

It pulls them live for your from vetted Free Open Source Software projects.

🛠 Why Give It a Go?
-	Vetted Projects
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Whether you're just starting or already a developer, Bitcoin Good First Issues is built to accelerate your contributions.

Give it a roll and make a difference! Let’s build the future of bitcoin together.

👩💻 Check the image below to learn how the data flow works:
https://image.nostr.build/d06ce33d05df50add214ae4fc481b8cfb6d81c32616cfae6c364d8deb16f3b58.png

🖤 Biggest thanks to our team!
- Vision: Theo
- Ideation: Emmanuel, Solomon, Abubakar Ismail
- Design: Theo with thanks to paperpsych
- Dev: Theo, Solomon, Balogun
- Product: nostr:npub1a6n3dmwmluswq30uxrf7st6rpz6chlewyahg4dzxsyfm9mq7rmdqmjs58k

📃 Examples of vetted FOSS projects in Bitcoin Good First Issues
- BDK
- Core LN
- Eclair
- Fedimint
- LDK
- Polar
- Stratum Mining

We're looking forward to your feedback!


Can any gamer here give me any reason not to completely abandon Windows?


Cybernetics starting to advance from the other direction.


GM
https://m.primal.net/JEnL.jpg


Hawaii eliminates license to operate with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
The authorities of the American archipelago will not require a money transmission license to operate in the state.
https://image.nostr.build/3fe2f12edacc5a3ce900f123b317ab2ea917a73afa149a9e142919bc82edc47d.jpg


Operation: Siphon - example  nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

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


I expect this to increasingly happen with AI. Eventually the big providers like OpenAI and Google will have to recoup the costs paid for their massive data centers by raising prices for their API access.  The benefits of local hosting and open source models will become even more attractive.

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd114lllyp6o.amp?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1&cap=swipe


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So my GitHub has been suspended with no explanation, no warning, no emails.

I guess the development of blowater.app will stop for several days before I have an alternative code hosting solution.

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was right for wanting a decentralized code hosting software. Are there anybody still working on it?


Won’t matter much by then.


Unpopular opinion around here: Hate Biden all you want, but what matters most in November is the economy. As long as it doesn’t take a massive shit (even if Biden literally does), Biden wins.


Same people who would likely sell their Bitcoin after privacy improvements because “regulatory risk.”


Blinded Authentication Tokens in Mutiny
Mutiny's unique privacy-preserving approach to solving lightning addresses with fedimint and blind authentication tokens.
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/blinded-authentication/

Mutiny has an informative blog post on exactly how they managed to add privacy to LNURLs.

They use a Fedimint gateway and issue ecash to the user to redeem using their public key, but they go further by blinding the addresses themselves! The privacy aspect is looking less like a nice-to-have and more like a necessary part with the DoJ starting to crack down


What is a “non custodial broker”?

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If I ever rent out a Cybertruck for a robo-taxi service it’s mandatory that this guy is in the driver seat.
https://m.primal.net/JCXc.jpg


OpenAI is a part of the US military industrial complex now.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-16/openai-working-with-us-military-on-cybersecurity-tools-for-veterans

https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2024/06/28/tech-war-escalates-openai-shuts-door-on-china/


Not that I know of. You’d probably have to set it up as a stand alone container. I’d guess that’s what the Umbrel app essentially does anyway though.


I suppose you could make a system as advanced as you want, but potentially just the cost of a low-end computer and a couple cameras (+ configuration time). I believe there’s an Umbrel app for Home Assistant.


Would it be possible to make money with an open source game?


A home security system can be self-hosted with Home Assistant and accessed remotely if you set up a SSH tunnel. It would take a very sophisticated attacker to make that into a liability against you, IMO.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/camera/


Non-KYC for sure. Multisig is nice for making it harder for them to come away with a haul, but it won’t save you from getting tortured. “I can’t give you the coins” is the same as “I won’t give you the coins” when it comes to whether/how they retaliate. Means of defense (firearms + training) and vigilance (surveillance system) need to be at the top of the list of safety items.


Would be a shame if some people work together to have a decentralized book of p2p exchanges for a p2p decentralized cash  available in an uncensorable decentralized database, right?

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Photographer uses a gyroscopic camera to capture a video of the earth’s rotation..🌎 https://t.co/C1af8ArE2G https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1806033565546684416/pu/vid/avc1/720x720/S3RrB---ypc8vikH.mp4?tag=12


What do you mean by tips? Having a portion of an LN payment get routed to an employee?


In my latest piece for Forbes Crypto, I highlight the whirlwind of events following the controversial finance bill, the protests and its success, the resilience of the youth and their view of Bitcoin's role in Kenya's future 🇰🇪 ❤

Noelyne Sumba, a stellar Kenyan Bitcoiner and Machakura team member, put it best, "Many young Kenyans see Bitcoin as a way to escape the restrictive monetary policies imposed by international financial institutions, which have contributed to the country's economic challenges. Integrating Bitcoin into the financial system could reduce reliance on foreign debt and offer a way out from oppressive government policies that hinder economic and individual growth."

Very proud of—and inspired by—the resilience shown by fellow Kenyan Bitcoiners and the youth on the ground in fighting against this bill and winning.

Here's to amplifying the voices of those we've lost over the last week and those who continue to fight 🕊

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/26/kenyan-youth-embrace-bitcoin-amid-deadly-protests-over-finance-bill/


FUCK KYC

http://www.techmeme.com/240626/p27#a240626p27


My man nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqscamnwvaz7tmzwf3zu6t0qyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn6v43x2er9v5hxxmr0w4jqjkkkq2 educating Dan Held. https://i.nostr.build/Ge40a.jpg


That’s a long evening.


1 sat/person


THE NEXT WIKILEAKS WILL PUBLISH DIRECTLY TO NOSTR.

GOOD MORNING. 🫡


Piece of history: Julian Assange's 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum talk, delivered the last time he was a free man

It's a remarkable talk, I suggest watching it

He gave it right after releasing Collateral Murder, before his ability to travel was frozen

Six months before the banking blockade, one year before the Bitcoin fundraiser began

But most of the points remain fundamental

"The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency"

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


5090 is supposedly 6 or so months away.


It appears to be a form of meditation. I’d definitely like to try it.

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Block 849436
https://image.nostr.build/9506c365b98db84c59f421c06ce10642f57f09b8f7edd3b692966b9971c6369a.jpg


🎯 Programmers will be able to make bigger things faster. Less time spent on referencing libraries, writing small functions, etc.


People really think "AI" will replace programmers.  It's like the same argument that 4GLs and drag and drop app development would make coding no longer required.  Erroneous.  Any improvements gained by tech advancements just let us do things faster, and any freed up tech labor is then freed up to work on other new endeavors.

Meanwhile, simple math is hard.

https://i.nostr.build/O4QOY.png


How to look great, feel great and live longer for FREE.

Five simple things literally anyone can do right now…

1. WALK

Literally just walk.

It’s easy.

It’s free.

It’s good for your body.

It’s good for your mind.

People who walk more live longer.

Just walk.
—
2.

SUN

Sun is good.

Sun is good for YOU.

It’s literally the only reason anything is alive on this planet.

Without the sun we all die.

People who spend more time outside in the sun live longer.

Plus, everyone looks better with a tan.

Get sun.
—
3. WATER

Your body is mostly water.

You should drink more water.

Water is the essence of wetness and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Zoolander.

Your body works better and your mind is sharper when you’re hydrated.

Your metabolism is better when you’re hydrated.

Drinking water is good for you.

People who drink more water live longer.

Drink water.
—
4.

LIFT

Just lift stuff.

Stuff is everywhere and you can lift it.

You don’t need a gym.

Literally just pick stuff up and put it down then do it again.

If you don’t have stuff just lift yourself.

Your body is heavy.

Lift it off the ground or hang from stuff.

Lift stuff.
—
5. FAMILY

Family is the best.

Spend time with your family.

People who spend more time with family live longer.

Make babies.

Hang out with your babies and your spouse and your parents and your siblings and your relatives.

Family is everything.
—
To recap:

1. WALK
2. SUN
3. WATER
4. LIFT
5. FAMILY

That’s it. It’s not complicated.
#healthstr (idk if that’s a hashtag people use but I’m doing it)


So DNS registrars can just easily shut down fedimints?

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"Compulsory licenses for AI training data could make AI model development economically impractical for small startups like Udio and Suno—and judging by the aforementioned open letter, many musical artists may applaud that potential outcome. But such a development would not preclude major labels from eventually developing their own AI music generators themselves, allowing only large corporations with deep pockets to control generative music tools for the foreseeable future."

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It’s always “Think of the children” when they try and deny us capabilities that they of course retain for themselves.


Previous block on mempool.space:
45 minutes ago


If I’m not mistaken it’s the Hungarian government pushing for the Chat Control  surveillance laws.


Drivechain?


Yup, I’d call that a rugging (with heads-up). Hopefully the sats that were left were split among several people who left small enough amounts they just didn’t care.


Nice. Have any e-cash mints actually rugged yet?


BRÆKING: Greenpeace continues its SEXIST anti- #Bitcoin  campaign, releasing new video about “Bitcoin BROS.”

NEWSFLASH to Greenpeace misogynists: there are WOMEN in Bitcoin, & Bitcoiners will not stand by while you ERASE them.

Please repost if you think Greenpeace is sexist. https://v.nostr.build/8G8mv.mp4


Canaan requires KYC for Bitcoin miner purchases. 🤮

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What if I believe I’m the low wit?


👀

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Unfortunately “I can’t unlock my wallet because it’s secured by multisig” would probably just as likely get you stabbed as “I won’t unlock it.” In both cases they don’t get what they want and they retaliate. The answer is self defense. Self defense is vigilance, which can be assisted by surveillance cameras, and a means to act, which is firearms.

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Wealth taxes are almost assured to arrive in the next few years. Allocate your net worth accordingly. #Bitcoin #noKYC


Curious to see where Valve is headed with the next iteration of the Index.


Just another day in Los Angeles.  https://youtu.be/mU80YymKIVM?si=cHA9fBYkDGulmf1Q


Never build your house on anyone else's land. Never build your platform on anyone else's servers. Own your own domain(s). Leverage privacy-first communication protocols, both online and off. Host your own media. Disseminate your message on your own terms. Be truly sovereign.

#cybersecgirl


Don’t let the State, or anyone, define Bitcoin for you. Just because the State says that Bitcoin isn’t a security, doesn’t automatically make it a commodity. https://image.nostr.build/b842a840e06e97577f334be22a7c4586c42a63cbd8485cde4cb86a3d79812d34.jpg


What’s the most recommended Bitcoin rewards card these days? #asknostr


As boot kissing as Stability AI seems to be, they probably did a separate training for the government models using data sets that are not censoring human anatomy.


Presently, no KYC P2P Bitcoin services might seem like a novelty option, but for some, it is a lifeline, and soon enough, for all, it could be the last resistance against total capture.

Plan ahead, stay safe 🦡


The developed world is modern slavery.

You pay >50% tax and don't understand what inflation is and how it works.

The fiat system is the biggest ponzi scheme in the history of mankind.

Study #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/0e69151e2fa03967086876f36534a5937e01497bfc163be91fddf873dcb8ac53.jpg


Expedient counter-surveillance
https://youtube.com/shorts/a3qlKgaYi7E?si=8vl3pwRPDrgGGw43


Gee, why would they need to do that?

I thought chat control scanning would only violate the privacy of child abusers...

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What cashless really means:
https://m.primal.net/IoxK.png


In the mean time, coinjoining with Wasabi is alive and increasingly decentralized. The feds created a hydra. https://wabisator.com/


I wish I enjoyed sports. They’re designed to mimic activities that we are hard-wired to do - run, jump, lift, track objects, use fine motor movements, dexterity, coordinate with others, etc. I enjoy weight lifting, so my brute strength is OK, but because I neglected sports my whole life I have horrible dexterity, reaction time and spatial awareness for my age at 43. My kids are all involved with sports and I press their importance.


crypto LinkedIn be like: "I'm passionate about compliance"

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I believe that at some point we will see privacy improvements come to the protocol level, and it will cause a civil war + chain split. Pro-privacy/cypherpunks on one side and institutions/Wall Street/regulation-fearful on the other. My node would run the privacy fork. Not sure which side would win the “Bitcoin” label by general consensus and market cap. 🤷♂


#bitcoin #nostr #memes #zaps

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


I don’t believe Bitcoin has ossified yet. Changes are just VERY slow and conservative. Base layer privacy tech hasn’t been ruled out. I think the devs just want to make sure auditable supply isn’t compromised. No dev worth respecting is holding back on privacy tech because of fear of the suits selling and regulations getting worse.


It will probably take an event that scares people into caring about it. A Tesla vehicle automatically pulling over someone who has a warrant, refusing to go to a location that is somehow restricted (a natural disaster area for example), refusing to drive at all during a mandatory curfew in a time of social unrest. Etc. Sometimes a fire needs to be lit. 🔥


😂 To stability AI:
https://m.primal.net/IoWV.jpg


Happy Father’s Day to all the #nostr dads! 🫡


Any open source alternatives to SD3 on the horizon?


How did Stability AI get such a fear of pr0n that SD3 has trouble recognizing any part of a human? nostr:npub1kade5vf37snr4hv5hgstav6j5ygry6z09kkq0flp47p8cmeuz5zs7zz2an


Major downside: without it being open source it can’t be considered actually yours. Fully expect it to be remotely controllable by Tesla and law enforcement agencies against my will. Hopefully we’ll see an open source self-hosted equivalent at some point.


Full self driving’s potential is underrated, IMO. It potentially becomes full robot mode where it can come to pick you or someone else up, deliver supplies by itself, etc. And of course there’s the robo-taxi service for which you could rent it out.


This. nostr:note1xu7vl8kvrzthzajz9zcy8086xy8j8r2tf8ff9w6qn3022pasjy2qaawann


'The EU's 'Going Dark' wants to backdoor encryption, but lacks fundamental data to back up its claims that more surveillance does equal more security.'

https://www.therage.co/eus-going-dark-takes-aim-at-self-custody-mixers-and-the-lightning-network/


So Rivian or Silverado if going with an EV truck?


The >=5 inputs and outputs heuristic might miss JoinMarket coinjoins, which I believe are intentionally designed to be harder to detect. Maybe a good starting point nonetheless.


Locally run models only.


Corporate wants you to find the differences between OpenAI and NSA
https://m.primal.net/IkaA.jpg


Not sure. Mempool.space tags likely coinjoins somehow, but IDK how.


nostr:npub15n94rarp3n7dz6edx9cugeshn0kcuxtugwu9nzprkpx7yekw7ygqplqru4 It would be cool to see a general coinjoin panel to get an idea of the volume at a glance.


It’s nice to see lots of coinjoins continue to show up in blocks despite the feds’ attempts to scare them away.
https://m.primal.net/IlKS.jpg


We’ll probably see AI-based ad blockers as a response. Sounds like a model that wouldn’t need to be too big.


The slimy politicians are trying to slip unpopular cryptocurrency regulation into a funding bill, hoping no one will notice until after it’s passed. 🐍
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/06/10/senate-bill-could-open-crypto-to-us-sanctions-but-industry-trying-to-head-it-off/


nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx right again…
https://m.primal.net/IkCd.jpg


Are they really that far behind? Got a source on their having trouble catching up?
https://amp-scmp-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3265845/alibaba-says-new-ai-model-qwen2-bests-metas-llama-3-tasks-maths-and-coding?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1&cap=swipe


https://www.krakenrf.com/
https://m.primal.net/IieJ.jpg


Using something like a Kraken SDR for direction finding might be a useful way to detect these.

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Preaching to the choir here, but…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13513957/Plant-based-ultra-processed-foods-heart-death.html


NFTs

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

#cybersecgirl


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/ad3d44a600efe71b9a9b91d14fec4ab6171b6ae4143d6a39a1825b1f012abc12.jpg


If you're part of the EU, what is even the point of having your own country?


It took 220 years for the U.S. to accumulate 11 trillion dollars in debt. This is the same amount of debt that the U.S. just added since 2020. Mind blowing 🤯 https://image.nostr.build/27808604831ceddba19c502aee66177f08f14d33cf7eac584c6cdc62461d2b03.jpg


El único camino es #bitcoin
https://image.nostr.build/5da3e6a44859595d1c3ad8411e8c7c6d260d94d82ebc30995832333d827d46cc.jpg


“Far right” = not socialist


I suppose that would be one the costs of renouncing. Drastically limiting the nations of the world that you could visit.


Move all your net worth into Bitcoin and pick a jurisdiction without an extradition treaty with the US? Seems the latter is where Ver went wrong.


The US builds its wall out of taxes and international enforcement agents to keep people in.

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+A


🔀 FreeSabi  🔀

This account will publish liquidity status of free WabiSabi coordinators advertised on Nostr.
You can connect to those coordinators by entering their advertised URI in Wallet Wasabi under Settings -> Bitcoin -> Coordinator URI
Remember to download Wasabi only from official sources: https://wasabiwallet.io/ or https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases

To run your own coordinator and help bitcoiners regain their privacy, visit https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Wabisabi/.
Bootstrapping a coordinator directly from Wasabi Wallet will be improved as the software is undergoing a transition towards FOSS.

Disclaimer: This account will list all free coordinators without any distinction nor control.
A mention isn't an endorsement. It is the responsibility of the coordinators and their users to ensure that they are compliant with AML laws applying in their jurisdiction.


I suppose there could be some stocks that were “unacceptably discounted” that aren’t identified as such until later. Banks and centralized exchanges would for sure reverse transactions on behalf of the NYSE so one would need to get the funds completely out, as in into physical cash or self-custodied Bitcoin in time. Would be tough but the NYSE could be late in identifying some.


They didn’t stop at the Berkshire Hathaway shares either. Anything “heavily discounted” got revoked. I wonder if anyone who saw it coming managed to sell, withdraw funds and move to cash or Bitcoin in time. If so they’ll probably get legal threats.
https://m.primal.net/IZtN.jpg


The so-called Corporate Transparency Act is a slow-roll attack on financial privacy for ordinary people

Thankful that Cato Institute + others fight back for our financial freedom and privacy.

👉 my write-up on what this means for us all in  nostr:npub1mznweuxrjm423au6gjtlaxmhmjthvv69ru72t335ugyxtygkv3as8q6mak's The Rage

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

https://www.therage.co/corporate-transparency-act-privacy-at-risk/


Bitcoin trades don’t get cancelled. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/traders-scooped-warren-buffett-berkshire-105754520.html


Looks like you were right. They just reversed them. 😂 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/traders-scooped-warren-buffett-berkshire-105754520.html


5 reasons miners benefit from Stratum v2:

1. Authentication and encryption. Don't let your hash rate be stolen. Even if you aren't concerned about this, your auditors and investors likely will be.

2. Less bandwidth-intensive protocol (binary vs. JSON); reduce stale shares and works better in poor internet situations

3. Ensure your pool isn't inserting transactions and not sharing out-of-band fee payments. It is becoming more topical with the increase in usage of transaction accelerators and non-standard transaction inclusion. Eliminate the requirement to have to monitor your pool.

4. Ensure you're selecting the transactions that provide the maximum fees. Don't leave it to others who may censor certain high fee transactions. Eliminate the requirement to have to monitor your pool.

5. Take charge of the bitcoin software you run and consensus rules. Don't leave it to others to determine whether or not to signal for support of a particular change or to take the risk of falling out of consensus. Eliminate the requirement to have to monitor your pool.


#bitcoin is the diffrence between #sovereigns & free-range chickens.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/nostrcheck.me_6296239271172863901717520447.webp


This AI-generated Satoshi movie trailer is pretty rad 🔥 https://v.nostr.build/vGLG5.mp4


In the meanwhile, Wasabitor can be helpful: https://wabisator.com/
https://image.nostr.build/e5a261d3c1f869b5f88aeef68bc0fb1e58501d344188bc3e4452861fccb61da2.jpg

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Why is that coming down? Looks nice on the outside.


I guess share amount is what they’d have to adjust. I.e. you bought 100 shares at an incorrectly cheap price, so we’re taking back 90 shares leaving you with 10. 🤷♂


I wonder if anyone managed to buy at the “glitch” price and instantly 10x’ed after they fixed it.


Didn’t see much of a dip.


🤯 Nice work!


I thought the new Wasabi release was just a coordination switching feature. It's way better than that.

Wasabi coordinator discovery based on nostr. Talk about unstoppable coordination.

Well done  nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and  nostr:npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad

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I feel for these artists but ultimately they’re not going to escape AI picking up their art with any method short of not displaying it at all. Unless they can manage to keep getting fulfillment via their current type of art despite AI copying it, I believe the best thing they can do is pivot their efforts to a “higher layer,” more complex form of art like game development.


Suggestions for desktop clients?


More info on howto become a coordinator: https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Wabisabi/


Which one is Zksnacks?


There are currently **five** Wasabi coordinators:

```bash
echo '["REQ", "coordinators", {"kinds":[15750]} ]' \
    | websocat -n wss://relay.primal.net \
    | jq 'select(.[2].tags[] | .[0] == "network" and .[1] == "mainnet") | {content: .[2].content, endpoint: (.[2].tags[] | select(.[0] == "endpoint") | .[1])}'
```

https://image.nostr.build/365fdc5a7db36548c071ea100017a77661ab8d40c1ea4ec02b376bebf4d84653.jpg


When they couldn’t yet open their own fruit snack bag, I charged a 20% fee for doing the service. I.e. 2 fruit snacks out of the bag of ~10.


Most likely scenario: a “new Trump” emerges to tap into the anger of his supporters and takes his place.


LFG

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This administration is conducting an all-out assault on privacy.

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“Force Unhosted wallet providers to collect user info for taxes”

How would that even work? Devs forced to add it to the GitHub repository?


Insanity
https://m.primal.net/IRpa.jpg


Wanna see some fun MSM bias? Look up news on the Tesla Cybertruck and the Chevy Silverado EV.  Both ~$100k EV trucks. With the Silverado you’ll see your standard reviews listed, but with the Cybertruck it’s nothing but articles about idiots slamming their fingers in the doors and driving into rivers.


We are stoked to finally release Chain Swaps today🙌

Chain Swaps let you swap directly between Liquid and the Bitcoin mainchain and lay the foundation for more chain-to-chain pairs in future.

Learn all about it in our blog post 👇
https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/dispatching-chain-swaps


Wow, imagine still using Windows. https://youtu.be/2-z-iwfPslI?si=JoeM3SruXUOPK5ZK


Any way we can get service providers that simply give the government the 🖕? Maybe not until there’s a secession or US national divorce of some sort. Then your service provider might have to report to your local State, but it’s smaller and weaker, and probably more aligned with your politics.

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Probably why they are trying to frame self-custody as something “no reasonable person needs.”


Bitcoin will be absolute torture for people who wants to tell other ppl what to do with their money or their node.


Since we seem to be suffering from early onset dementia

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


A Biden win could accelerate secessionist fervor, but whether any of the jurisdictions threatening it have the balls to carry through, I’m doubtful.


It will be glorious when he dumps all his Bitcoin after protocol privacy upgrades.


This could set a precedent that games can’t include realistic guns anymore. They want even digital guns on the chopping block.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-families-sue-makers-ar-15-call-duty/story?id=110548748


The delete button is one of the greatest lies by every big tech company. None of your data is ever deleted by any of them, they just flag it as deleted in their database so that it doesn't show up on client applications.


1. What


Maybe they had to go down for more decentralized and resilient replacements to eventually emerge.


I don’t believe I’ve seen that argument except by the “privacy is bad for muh regulatory environment” suits. I’ve only seen ecash recommended for small amounts, even by the most pro-privacy people.


How it started
How it’s going https://image.nostr.build/da288597f7f0f9cf0fbf4f4f3a370714b6cafb5e150afff081350a85eda558b3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a07eaeff1650e0e87a85556f328aa03f89a965018bd4a0115c8b4ebbc0922ef3.jpg


It's very early days for eCash on top of bitcoin, but it is showing a lot of promise. The beauty of bitcoin is that it is opt-in. If you don't want to use eCash you don't have to. I think it is misguided to write eCash off while it's still in the cradle.

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-fixes-ecash/


It's #Bitcoin Pizza Day 🍕, not Shitcoin Pizza Day
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Hahahahahahahah, chat control deez nuts you fucking morons nostr:note1hkxvfu3wzksgfdvfdg04jsmyhtfderpusazdlapajkkxfjuwqlgqywkza0


Still believe it’s critical we have a credible permissionless alternative to GutHub (ideally based on nostr). One that bitcoin-core and all nostr devs would trust.

Moving my bounty up from 120 million sats to 1 billion sats.

https://bountsr.org/code/2023/01/19/nostr-based-github.html


If your doing extremely "sensitive" stuff and your threat model involves the likelyhood of forensics, a second laptop + tails is a very good option for those activities. It's not really designed for daily driving like Qubes.

It is best OPSEC practice to always turn off and OS, including a hardened one like QubesOS when not in use. Qubes sys-usb VM protects against evil-mail attacks and the like, but as with any OS...

If an adversary has the ability to perform forensics and has access to your daily driver, compromise should be assumed.

Use Luks for encrypting QubesOS drive with a strong passphrase (remember though people could torture you or family members until you give it up).

Store sensitive files using Veracrypt + hidden volume (you could even go so far as to bind folders that leave forensic footprints to this volume) to provide "plausible deniability". Veracrypt works on both QubesOS and Tails.

It's all about layers and multi-layered encryption (i.e. encrypt the encryption decryption with layers of encryption). The more layers you can put between an adversary and your data, the more time and money or criminal risk it will have to be worth for them to get to your data.


Not inconceivable. Unlike California NY is still getting business immigration.


Yes, and I would say that again.

Join us.

#Bitcoin
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I can’t help but read that in Wallace Shawn’s voice as Vizzini.


They have no choice but to adapt. One possible option - move to a form of art that you might call “a layer up” in complexity, like games.


Coastal Southern California, where non-HOA non-tract homes are rare and it costs a fortune to have anything larger than a 1/4 acre.


The legal defense fund for Samourai Wallet is now open and accepting donations: https://p2prights.org/

This particular fight is important because the precedent set in this matter will either reinforce the principles that non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters or it will put targets on the backs of all wallet developers.

If you really came here for the freedom tech then get in this fight and show your support. There will not be a second chance to repair the damage done  if the DOJ is not stopped here and now.


Lightning is not meant to be? Seems to be gaining usage and development.
https://m.primal.net/IJJY.jpg


Proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit the federal government in interfering with an individual’s right to grow or purchase food

I wonder what the founding fathers would think of a world where that obvious human right would need to be explicitly protected…

https://image.nostr.build/42b7c53bf98f0b5ce6e4c3baa96dd47deea1df386209f15ec988ec8acee169d6.jpg


BITCOIN POLICY INSTITUTE IS OPERATING THE OPEN SOURCE DEV LEGAL DEFENSE FUND. THEY ARE LEGIT AND DOING GREAT WORK.

YOU CAN DONATE ANON USING BITCOIN IF YOU DO NOT WANT A TAX DEDUCTION: https://p2prights.org

https://cdn.satellite.earth/998d1728f9c9547c8b75395030383462f6be5b773ec42dae90b362ee127bb4b4.mp4


The surveillance state being brought down by the homeless problem it manufactures on purpose. Sometimes irony is sweet. nostr:note1mvjax7h3zjvtnh9z06c5k8mzu3w2d4d8953h85ywfkszhlfxncts659mna


A legal defense fund for non-custodial tools. Very cool:
https://p2prights.org/


Are you seeing any misdirection into runes/shitcoins? Feels like a lot of people end up on either side of a thin line between completely avoiding cryptocurrency and falling for the shitcoins and getting burned, then lumping Bitcoin into “crypto.”


I think we’re moving to a world of geo-federated ecash (and cold storage). Lightning to mostly be used between the federations and exchanges.

I’m hopeful that large federations that are geo-distributed will be difficult for any country to shut down.


There’s a relatively small number of Bitcoiners with their necks out on the line in the latest privacy/regulatory battle—with real personal exposure and risk. You know who you are.

I appreciate you, and I respect the hell out of you. 🙏🏼


Learn Bisq and Robosats to build your NoKYC Stack.

It’s not the most convenient way but it’s Proof Of Work.

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Say hello to https://silentpayments.xyz/

Wanting to learn more about Silent Payments, see which wallets support them, or find out how to integrate them into your wallet?

I've built out a website with all of that info and more to do what I can to speed up Silent Payments adoption. https://i.nostr.build/EnGDG.jpg


Added to my list of things to look at. If your are a bisq user and have feedback, drop it below 👇 nostr:note1848zy0danwg73zwegkhp8vvcf7ezml77w6yz2ax8myvyzhr0m83q8evsd5


Pretty close to the same. I believe America will have to secede from “America” to win.


One of the most powerful messages we could send would be transacting and communicating throughout an outright ban on #Bitcoin and/or #Nostr in the US or similar jurisdictions. Building the tools to do this, and building them as neutrally and modularly as possible, is how we win. nostr:note1646k3yu8tumqlakrach2epreavxqkrdase6h59p76vjx08dqczds3jzmux


From Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito: "In short, there is apparently nothing wrong with a law that empowers the Executive to draw as much money as it wants from any identified source for any permissible purpose until the end of time."

This is why we’re here, plebs.


"They are too big to fight.."

..GFY!


Lots of good stuff there. Only minor suggestion to organize it based availability. “Currently available” and “Proposed” or something like that.


https://youtu.be/xdC_cnCN-uo?si=QDuBSJSdgbul_CqL Great explanation here. They go over all the common FUD/FAQs


CASHU PRIVACY-PRESERVING STRATUM V2 BITCOIN MINING POOL REWARDS - FUCK YEAH THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT. THIS IS WHY ECASH TECH IS A CLEAR WIN FOR EVERYONE.

(I'M NOT WRITING IN CAPS LIKE nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx TO SPEAK CLEARLY, I'M JUST REALLY ECXITED)

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Idk who needs to hear this, but you can't fight criminals via the channels they set up for you to fight them.


“Wtf happened?”
https://m.primal.net/IHAi.jpg


It’s now very important to use a nym if you’re a dev for privacy tech.

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Keep your coins private with no-KYC exchanges like Bisq, coinjoin, spend and replace.


This is the alternative to digital cash. nostr:note1n8zxgp0p0kfk9uqjxcqc9gaeu6ugzs8p0j6xu3s8qr5yh5v6flpqhwr49y


Over at the bird app, nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g asked why we don't all work on lightning and play with ecash. I think this answer might be interesting for many:

1.) Not everyone wants to work on LN. One of the important parts of Bitcoin is people often do things just because they are fun or they don't were not done yet. This is the most important reason. Bitcoin is a decentralized movement and people play and tinker with various ideas.

2.) Both Fedi and especially Cashu are also improving lightning, they are tightly integrated. You can pay and receive lightning invoices without having a channel yourself. You can use a mint even to route lightning payments!

3.) They are both custodial, but it's  decentralized forest of custodians. While custody might be dangerous in some jurisdictions, it is completely unregulated in others. So it's good that millions of custodians around the world can flourish in the future just by installing open source software and still have some nice properties:

- an uncle Jim custodian without sticking his nose into transactions, he does not know which nephew is more successful, does not know about balances
- in many jurisdictions, the need for license is only for entrepreneurs. If someone does not offer the service on an open market and does not collect fees, they don't need license for example. So you can provide the user experience of a custodial wallet, free transactions within the mint without being harassed for offering this service to your family
- especially Fedi can be part of scaling solution. Imagine one utxo costs 500$ to send. If 20 families have shares custody of the utxo for lightning, it's basically a channel factory. 25$ per family (10$ per person) is quite ok. And they have to only trust that more than half don't cheat. Which is very safe assumption in many communities. Other people would either pay 500$ or use custodians. Here, privacy is also preserved.

4.) you can do many things that you just can't do with lightning.

- Sender and receiver do not have to be online at the same time. So podcasters can have lightning address that sends them ecash notes over nostr as listeners stream and they can claim it over lightning as they become online. Or my toy project - sending SATs over LoRA long distance radio, allowing to store the notes on a propagation node using the Reticulum stack:

https://youtu.be/HAX8GFn5uCI?si=h4ohHX0ZtiTU1Xj_

- with some preparation, you can do safe completely offline transactions

- you can pay for API calls (age of AI, here we go) by just including an ecash note in request headers, there's no back and forth like with lightning

- the paying device (wallet) can be super dumb. It needs to be able to send strings and do very basic arithmetic (to pick the right notes). No digital signatures are needed, everything is presigned, so payment really is "here's a string"

5.) many things are easier. For example nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg from Cashu project is working on dollar balances. Contrary to USDT on Tron, you can send it over lightning and it has ecash anonymity properties. There are many ways to do it and I hope more can be tried. You can have tokens based on conditions, which enables prediction markets, value stabilization, etc. All with tradeable and transferable balances (you basically create a pair of ecash notes, one or the other is valid based on a condition).

I have written a paper with Rene Pickardt on how to do this on lightning:

https://hackmd.io/@lpQxZaCeTG6OJZI3awxQPQ/LN-DLC

Then nostr:npub1c40rwav67rtl4pmy56wa8vhh8cynlm0zvhr96mcnd5xat74ldxmsm8ttqy implemented a similar idea in DLC channels. With ecash, a lot of complexity just disappears, because it is theoretically not limited to Bitcoin script

6.) we don't know what we'll need in the future. Betting on one solution is not a good idea. Given the tight integration with Lightning, it's only good we can experiment and we'll see what works in the future

7.) ecash tech was used in privacy tools. Not sure about Samourai, but Wasabi coordinator is basically a per coinjoin ecash mint, so the coordinator does not know the link between inputs and outputs. So tinkering with this tech is a good idea. Fedi can be used as a coinjoin in this way, but don't tell the feds!


Me, when I see someone advocating for ossification on the timeline https://image.nostr.build/639ba2ddcfc76bd7d8602f6e7a583ac6729901f2c9665bebcaea6feeb4b463e4.jpg


🤠
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If Lightning Labs doesn’t do it someone else will, so it’s probably not worth getting worked up over. Get worked up over who bends the knee and complies when the KYC hammer comes down.


Tasks to take back control of bitcoin and privacy in general.

- create a decentralized git
- boost trading on decentralized exchanges such as bisq and robosats.
- push bitcoin privacy by default in the protocol.
- encourage initiatives such as joinstr

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> "Tornado Cash does not pose any barrier for people with criminal assets who want to launder them," according to the translated verdict seen by CoinDesk. "That is why the court regards the defendant guilty of the money laundering activities as charged."

I wonder if automobile and knife manufacturers will be jailed next:

- Automobiles do not pose any barrier for people with murderous intent who want to drive over pedestrians crossing the street.
- Knives do not pose any barrier for people with murderous intent who want to stab people with them.

These analogies aren't even very good, because "money laundering" is not analogous to murder, it is a weasel word term for a benign victimless activity of moving money privately.

Law enforcement needs to figure out how to investigate the original crimes without "following the money."

This idea that privacy must be sacrificed in the name of law enforcement is a kind of extremism that I think We The People always and perpetually need to push back against.

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According to the Tornado Cash verdict we’re all required to be AML compliance spooks.


I do not want to live in a world when most Bitcoin jobs are AML compliance spooks

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


We may see the capability gap between closed and open models expand for a while, but I think the investment in the closed models will actually drag the open model capability up as well, even if it lags. Engineers quit and start their own companies, advance open source models in their free time, etc.


Why are you predicting difficulty with open source models? Is it the massive investment in the closed models?


Three Cashu wallets with USD ecash support launched in 1 week.... ok. 🥜🫡


This tyrannical level of KYC/AML is causing more market demand for privacy.

Demand is the mother of all inventions.


This is completely fucking insane.

https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1790367445720445421

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Here’s a spicy one. If she becomes president would she consider abandoning Suriname’s extradition treaty with the US to protect privacy software devs?


Talking with nostr:npub1h0fd5xu8rfhwdkkjr78ssdhm7rdjyf97hhjqr9acwv77ux0uvf8q23kvcg in a few hours on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8

She’s running for president in Suriname, and I have a good feeling she’s going to be the next #Bitcoin President ⚡

Let me know if you have questions for Maya 🤙

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to get notified when it drops 👇
https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast


The precedent is being set that a tool must KYC its users to be considered legitimate, else the devs go to prison. If you’re a dev who doesn’t have a nym yet, make one.

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In other words: “A tool must KYC its users to be legitimate.”


Man, not sure why someone would work on cryptocurrency at all in the Netherlands with these words. nostr:note12l82q3dvj0rm528ukyfqzauzv0ytsdfu9a9kkk2kv6kp9rqyhkkslktlly


I have a feeling that at some point there will be another war between Bitcoiners on the scale of the block size war. These will be the two sides:

1. Add the bips to improve Bitcoin’s privacy. Institutional investors and some centralized exchanges will nope out and send the Bitcoin price spiraling in the near term but it’s worth it to fix the one glaring issue that prevents Bitcoin from being used as private investment and cash.

2. Bitcoin doesn’t need that level of privacy on the base layer. If you want privacy go to layer 2 ecash mints or swap for Monero or Zcash on Bisq and do your dark web stuff there. We can’t lose the suits or risk the inevitable bans by govt.


Yes


LFG

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki


An introductory post from our lead dev explaining the tech behind our Agent Store launch this week, including Nostr & NIP-90 integration

https://stacker.news/items/538366/r/AtlantisPleb