I believe it’s down again 😔


Great interview!


Yet Another Solar Meshtastic Repeater Node:

#meshtastic #mesh #solar #radio #amateurradio #hamradio #yasmrn #rnode #reticulum #sideband #nomadnet

https://youtu.be/ROzkbjWR8lw


Thank God for Nostr. It ensures that Hillary will never get her wish to censor the information she doesn’t like.
https://m.primal.net/LMeI.mov


Co-sign all the answers, but especially sleep. And get some sun if weather permits. Only things I might add is taking NAC and using a Neti Pot.


I collaborated with Sam Callahan to analyze bitcoin’s correlation with global broad money supply.

The result was that it had higher directional correlation to money supply than other asset classes, at 83%.

We also looked at indicators for when bitcoin is more likely to deviate from liquidity. In other words, what’s usually going on in that other 17%. The answer, generally, is that the asset is coming down after major periods of extreme sentiment.

You can check out the full report here:

https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-a-global-liquidity-barometer/
https://m.primal.net/LAnn.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LAnu.png


“If governments budget their revenues and expenditures, so must criminals. Where a government levies taxes; criminals extract their own brand of coerced levies.
Where a government issues fraudulent or fiat money, criminals may counterfeit. It should be understood that praxiologically there is no difference between the nature and effects of taxation and inflation on the one hand, and of robberies and counterfeiting on the other. Both intervene coercively in the market to benefit one set of people at the expense of another set. But the govt imposes its jurisdiction over a wide area, and usually operates unmolested. Criminals on the contrary, usually impose their jurisdiction on a narrow area only; and generally eke out a precarious existence.”

-Murray N. Rothbard
Man, Economy, & State


On Sept 11th 1973, the democratically elected president of Chile Salvador Allende was overthrown in a CIA back coup to install Augusto Pinochet's military regime that would go on to kill, torture, and imprison tens of thousands of opposition members – including the musician Victor Jara, who was rounded up in a soccer stadium and killed by 44 bullets in one of many of Pinochet's extrajudicial executions.

If the world was a just place, the US would be on every terrorist list that exists on earth. RIP Victor Jara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvGthike3-o


Scarcity fuels innovation!!

The increasing totalitarian control structure actually accelerates all
of the building of freedom tech by creating more value for it.

Celebrate that you are just early in the realization.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr


Not surprised.  You have a source on the article?  Thank you


Julian’s first birthday in freedom in fourteen years. https://image.nostr.build/fbe6bb8fade32607000b35a0595ccf65236935ca4e54c0823eeb5d8fd2593ad0.jpg


Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park

Not sure if this qualifies, but if you like campy low budget theme park weirdness, you love this.


PSA: The functionality of multiple Fedimint federations is significantly degraded due to severe DNS issues.

It seems to be the case that some federation guardians have an XYZ domain that the DNS registrar has taken over. Freedom One and Bitcoin Principals appear to have one guardian offline due to this.

Unfortunately, despite the server and keys for these guardians being intact, there is no way for the DNS of a guardian to be swapped out after the fact. We became aware of this issue last week and then became aware that multiple federations are experiencing this: https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/issues/5482/

Given the critical state of these federations, with one guardian out of four being permanently offline, it's essential that if you have funds in these federations, you should withdraw them immediately. Unfortunately, we're unaware of other public federations, so you must withdraw to another lightning or on-chain wallet.

From our experiences, intermittent/connectivity issues can occur with guardians, and this may result in errors if not all three remaining guardians are consistently online. No other guardian of these federations has XYZ or other domains like it. So, if you're having issues, please try again later.

Unfortunately, not much can be done on the Mutiny side, so we're removing the federation setup flow in the UI as a first step. Sorry for the inconvenience.


iBalls


People seriously rely on the public digital square, Twitter, and it WILL get more censoring, partisan and manipulative.

Because they don’t know of a better way, these people are fighting against someone with god-mode.

We must build faster, not just code, not just product, education, outreach and understanding.

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


I definitely feel that.  I’m in the security industry, but not the sovereign “don’t trust, verify” side of things.  A bit like going to a podiatrist when you need a neurosurgeon.  I work in cucked environments that rely heavily on third-party, closed source solutions.

So I’m still learning and need both nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 -type tutorials along with fundamentals.  He does provide a good balance of both most of the time.

Ex: Somebody asked about setting up a time-lock contract for their bitcoin yesterday. Was searching around. Found lots of resources, but a straightforward simple tutorial followed by fundamentals is not so easy to find. Somebody suggested GPT.

Have you experimented with Spirit of Satoshi yet?  Perhaps that could fill that void.  I wonder if it has been trained on Start9, Umbrel tutorials and the like.  Thinking it’s time to check it out.


Same experience about a year ago, but had migrated the first Embassy to a NASPi and the later migrated to an old Optiplex. I just restored my entire Start9 on it. Worked great, but your approach is probably better.

Now I’m learning my lesson and breaking my services based on performance and usage, and trying to leverage proxmox now.

The improvements have made for some struggles along the way, but I feel they balanced the move very well and I was able navigate.  Grandmas of the world can’t operate them yet, but hopefully they’ve got some Grandson Jim’s to host their Vaultwarden.

FOSS projects like nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll are essential if we want to avoid the centralized stockades. There’s an interesting parallel to the nostr:npub12pl4h7pk0svg8ug4mhu7a90hn6nf83eqadd94pccgsafn73s392qpt42wq avoiding the giant processors. In this comparison we are the cattle and our information is the meat.


Might fuck around and get this pie chart framed

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

https://disruptive-horizons.com/p/kyc-aml-destroying-world#footnote-18-133915966


I found it hard to follow, but only about halfway through. They started discussing some nuances of what sounded like one form, or example of a private city.  Then devolved into narratives and imagery of parades and a “black mirror” future.

I don’t know much about what Balaji is proposing, but I can’t begin to understand if they don’t clarify with definitions.
They mention something about bribing the police, but didn’t discuss the nature of the bribe.  There are types of bribes. Both licit and elicit. If this is private city, explain the structure of security and how the economy works. Then explain the transaction.

Doesn’t sound like Balaji did himself any favors though.  Conjuring images of a grey pride parade is surely someone’s black mirror episode. Perhaps let people envision their own map and just describe how the economy works.

As long as we’re putting our imagery out there, I imagined Balaji playing the part of Uncle Enzo from Snow Crash.


Summarizing my thoughts on ecash

For some reason this ecash trend seems to be gaining steam instead of going away, so I'll try my best to detail my thoughts on ecash into one post.

1. The incentives are broken

Ecash finds itself between a rock and a hard place. For users to trust the mint, they need to know that the people behind the mint are trustworthy. If the people running the mint reveal their identities (or even just nyms), they're a trivial target for regulators and law enforcement as it's clear a mint is an MSB.

If the people behind a mint don't reveal their identities or nyms, users of that mint are subject to trivial rug pulls with no recourse. Which do you prefer as a user? Mint operator rug pulls or government rug pulls?

If a mint had been targeted like Samourai Wallet was, instead of just a potential privacy loss, all users would have lost all of their Bitcoin.

2. Ecash is not "self-custodial"

For some reason this concept of ecash being "self-custodial" is a thing, merely because the tokens themselves are self-custodied (and require proper backups of seed phrases etc.) While the lines get a bit weird, it's important to separate two things:

1. The asset people want is Bitcoin, not ecash tokens.
2. The asset people give up custody on is Bitcoin.

The ecash tokens themselves are completely worthless IOUs without the Bitcoin behind them, so even if I can take custody of my ecash tokens, I have 100% given up custody of my sats to a third-party.

Because of this, talking about ecash as self-custodial is disingenuous -- no one wants empty IOUs, they want Bitcoin. When they use ecash they do not have custody of their Bitcoin.

3. Ecash still requires all of the hurdles of Bitcoin self-custody

The hardest hurdle for many people to adopting Bitcoin is the simple first step -- writing down 12 words and making sure not to lose them. With ecash you still have this single greatest barrier of entry as you must backup a seed phrase or secret in order to restore your ecash tokens.

4. There is no incentive for custodians to implement ecash

While a custodian could switch to ecash out of the goodness of their heart, the incentives are broken for custodians. Not only does ecash harm the UX their users are used to (not having to store a secret seed phrase), it also introduces additional infrastructure complexity. Instead of just running a database, now they have to run additional mint software to provide their users with tokens, and handle support cases where users lose their tokens.

In theory a custodian could just also store the seed phrase for their users, but then have we actually improved on custodians at all? They even have custody of the ecash tokens in that case.

5. Custody is a line that cannot be crossed

The core of what makes Bitcoin unique is that we can actually take custody of it ourselves, gaining immense freedom and self-sovereignty through a bit of personal responsibility. Even though I am a massive proponent of building better privacy tools, sacrificing custody to get better privacy is a non-option for me.

Surely we can do better and build privacy tools on top of Bitcoin (or directly into Bitcoin's consensus layer) that allow us to have both privacy and self-sovereignty via self-custody.

I will not give up custody of my Bitcoin, no matter what, and you shouldn't either. "Better custodians" are just custodians with extra steps, and still strip us of self-sovereignty and thus freedom.

6. Time is a more scarce resource than even Bitcoin

Even though I have been very outspoken on what I view as a pointless venture, I am not here to stop anyone from building what they enjoy in the space. Devs working on ecash are free to do so as of course I have no control over them, though I fear that time spent on improving custodians is time that we will not get back. It's clear that the US gov and many in the EU are seeking to ramp up their attacks on Bitcoin privacy and self-custody, and our time to build tools to route around them is growing shorter and shorter.

P.S. - None of what I write is a direct attack on any ecash dev, and I have immense respect and personal relationships with most of the people working on this stuff. Respect for an individual doesn't have to mean I agree with them on every avenue they pursue.

 https://i.nostr.build/oM0YW.jpg


Announcing: Harbor, an ecash desktop wallet for better bitcoin privacy.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/harbor/

Privacy for the common person is a value worth fighting for. When we see a lack of freedom tools, we must build them into existence. They don't appear on their own.

Much has been said about privacy at the Bitcoin protocol level. For now, we build it on higher layers where we can be more nimble.

Ecash is a tool available today that combines with Bitcoin to bring new levels of common privacy. Cashu and Fedimint are two existing implementations we're interested in.

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

Harbor Privacy: All communication runs over Tor. Mutiny is not in the middle of any connections or transactions. Funds in the wallet get a Privacy Score to show how the mints provide privacy over time. More to come on this in the future.

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

Harbor Multi-mint: Instead of relying on a single mint with your funds, spread the risk over dozens or more. Harbor manages this for you, showing you a single balance while connecting with mints for you. A mint can go offline with minimal impact on you.

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

Harbor Automation: Running as a desktop app unlocks ability to do long running processes in the background. Move money in and out of mints on your preferred schedule to maximize your desired level of privacy. Harbor makes suggestions, but you are in control.

Move money in and out of Harbor using Lightning or on-chain. We love Bitcoin, and we love privacy. We hope Harbor gives everyday people more privacy and peace of mind.


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


You all still in business?


nostr:npub16uvg7mx3l97z8phfesl8rxj2vf82vn82hp9daala0egj45ynr8mstn0vkc Anyone know if they’re still in business?  I’ve ordered from them in the past with no issues.  I placed an order 20 days ago and have heard nothing from them. I was charged, but they don’t reply to support tickets for status.  🦗 🦗


nostr:note12k0g3vshxkzs22acd64lcawckntc7a58dz36jjhtrhs642xryldsxla8x7

New nostr pleb!  Show him some love!
#plebchain


"Our Ice Machine is Broken" ? lol
https://m.primal.net/HYwT.jpg


Federated, private, multisig banks on top of the hardest money ever created. Interconnected by lightning, a mycelium-like cryptographic network of value. Tokens and zaps getting sent over uncensorable communication protocols, building up a bulwark of freedom and sovereignty in cyberspace. The future is weird and awesome.


“If you want to see nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m talk openly about what happened at twitter, he’s gonna do that on Nostr. If you want to see nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 openly riff with the plebs about his thoughts, that’s going to happen on Nostr… If you want to tune in to nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a  and get some of her less official takes and get to know her a little bit deeper, that’s happening on Nostr.”

Check out the latest #BitcoinTalk episode of nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 (THE #Bitcoin Podcast) with nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr , the creator of #Nostr client nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg

We talk about the story of Primal, the future of Nostr, the next wave of adoption, and a whole lot more. So it’s really a #NostrTalk not a #BitcoinTalk

Listen/subscribe to “THE Bitcoin Podcast” on:
Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/9L8l412fGcNz0FdkdFy8

Everywhere else: https://pod.link/1694392423/episode/14f349df743e3a486ad2390b2bd76acf

Website: https://bitcoinpodcast.net
#AntherFuckingBitcoinPodcast


Ouch!  shss


5% Lagavulin Warning!


Solana eating Ethereum's Ponzi lunch. Empty calories


The ETF is an attack on future rugged precoiners.


Alright fellow psychopaths.  I need your help.

For a few weeks now I've been drafting this turn-key response to FinCEN and their absurd proposal for CVC mixing, etc.

I want you to take action and use what I wrote in this proposal to post comments into the register - less than a minute to perform and all the links are in the document.

Accelerate.  Take Action.  #Bitcoin

https://egodeath.capital/blog/fincen-may-be-violating-your-rights-bitcoin


FREEDOM TECH IS HOPE 🫡
https://m.primal.net/HTCE.png


If you're in the St. Louis area be sure to make it out to #Bitcoin and #Nostr on Ice ⛸

We will settle this question once and for all

Who's better at Ice Skating, #Bitcoin ers or #Nostr iches?

Sun, Dec 10th 2:30 to 4:00

If you're good we will all go out to diner and celebrate after 🥳🕺💃

https://www.flockstr.com/event/naddr1qqyrzvmz8ymnxcf3qgsdk5r23xtlmhw20jp0qqmg77vm5pw5ay3lugt7ph3xuuhm47ccwccrqsqqql9nwnt7qx


Brought back memories I tried to forget. 😂 Some things haven’t changed though. 👍


For any plebs out there who are planning to orange pill their c̶a̶p̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ a̶u̶d̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶s̶ family and friends on Thanksgiving this year, here is an article to prime you with some Bitcoin talking points that are Thanksgiving focused.

https://loveisbitcoin.com/thanksgiving-is-bitcoin/


I know how to get inflation!? 😆


New presentation that I gave to over -1100 Real Estate investors explaining how #Bitcoin was transitioning us to a more hopeful abundant future.
Hope you enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn2H-XKEN98


Playing the Beyond the Crystal Cave module now. The party will love this image.


VPN Mistakes to Avoid

VPNs are a great tool for privacy, but they are often misunderstood and misused. Sometimes people believe that they are getting more privacy or anonymity than they actually are. Or other times, a user’s goals are possible, but were not executed correctly.

Who sees traffic?

First of all, there are many different participants who can view different types of information about what you’re doing online. These include, but are not limited to:

1) Your Internet Service Provider (ISP)

2) The website itself

3) The government

4) Microsoft or Apple (unless you’re on Linux)

5) Google if it’s an Android phone or you’re using Chrome Browser

6) Search engines

7) Cross Site Cookies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and more which can track you even on a different website.

8) Your router manufacturer, unless you specifically put open source firmware on it

9) Database brokers, such as Oracle, which get contracted to fingerprint your device by some websites and services and then resell that data to advertisers

10) Browser Add-ons may report data back

11) Your DNS or Domain Name Service. Often your ISP will pass this off to Cloudflare or Google

12) Many Websites use Denial of Service (DoS) from Cloudflare and Captchas from Google. These can be sources of tracking.

13) Companies such as Silverpush use ultrasonic audio sounds, which are invisible to the human ear, that are emitted from your computer desktop speakers and picked up on your smart phone, to track you across devices.

So now let’s talk about what a VPN does and does not hide (and what other techniques can be used to help).

______________

VPN Basics

A VPN forms an encrypted tunnel between you and the VPN company. Then whatever you do, is executed from the IP address of the VPN company.

A VPN does hide the following:

1) Your IP address from the website

2) Your traffic from the ISP

3) If properly configured, the VPN should have their own DNS, which will also hide your traffic from the DNS provider that the ISP uses, such as Cloudflare

______________

A VPN does NOT hide the following:

1) The Operating System’s company (e.g., Microsoft, Apple, or Google) phones from knowing the traffic and your true location (IP address)

2) Any type of cross site cookie tracking, such as Facebook

3) Any type of browser fingerprinting from the website or from its third party database broker, such as Oracle. Fingerprinting data include your timezone, your screen dimensions, and operating system version.

4) The government forcing a VPN company to track you in real time

How to Mitigate these issues

Now the cookies issue can be solved by properly modifying your browser settings (and using a good browser).

We covered this in this article.

The browser fingerprinting issue can be solved by Virtual Machines, which we covered in this article.

The Operating system issue can be solved by using Linux or degoogled phones. We covered how Linux works in this article. But if you are insistent on using Microsoft Windows or Apple, then a VPN on the router (instead of the computer itself), could help in some ways, such as hiding your real location.

______________

VPN on a Router

Putting a VPN on a router (instead of the computer itself) hides your IP address (and thus your real location) from Microsoft/Apple. But they can still see the traffic.

Now in theory if you never sign in to any account associated with your real name or known nicknames on that device, then it could potentially hide your identity. But in practice, this is highly prone to mistakes in execution, and it’s far better to just use Linux, using Windows or Apple only for specific software you need Windows or Apple for.

Also putting a VPN on most retail routers will slow down the internet connection, since the processing power on a router is less than real PC CPUs. However, there are more expensive ($500+) firewall routers that can match a computer’s speed because they have real CPU chips inside.

No Logs?

Now let’s talk about logs. Most VPN companies advertise a no logs policy.

This may or may not be true in practice. One can evaluate how the logs policy compares to their other policies.

For example does the company accept cryptocurrency? If the traffic data is tied to your real world financial identity, then the company is clearly less committed to keeping you anonymous.

Also, free VPNs that don’t cost anything to use should be avoided. They have no profit motive to protect you and usually store and sell data. Why else would they want you to use the service for free?

Not only should you only go with VPN providers who accept cryptocurrency, but also make sure they allow sign-ups through Tor. Do they process payments themselves or use a third party like Coinbase which blocks Tor?

Even though you may not use Tor to connect to the VPN, you want to see that they allow customers to actually be anonymous while in compliance with their legal department. This makes it much more likely that their legal structure is set up to resist third party attempts to de-anonymoize users because if the customer used Tor and cryptocurrency, then they can’t identify you.

What is the legal history of this VPN company? All of these factors can help you evaluate if you should believe their logging policy.

I hope you learned something, Subscribe on Nostr for more content!


Just stick with going theme and call it THEstr. 😏


Not for certain on this stock pic but I was running an Apple II+.
The + meant it had 64K of RAM instead of 48K.

The modem was internal AND external.  You’d have to call to the internal slot by issuing “IN#2”, followed by <Ctrl-A S A F A 2 A Q>, and the you’d get a dialing prompt. 😆

Everything was in CAPS so I’d basically be yelling everything. 🤦♂
We’d connect to multiple online modems, chat and play text games.


CompuServe account via 150/300 baud modem cerca 1982.
Lol. Looked something like this… https://image.nostr.build/0420c7f020d776ce68b18377832c8d56bff4f8211deb3a8d46d4c9c53146eaaf.jpg


From the band that brought us Money.
Bike (The Shitcoin Song)

https://youtu.be/POlaR26dD1Y?si=ZcMO4EbKT7htVyDX

Thanks for the analogy nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev !! 🤣
The song takes on new meaning now.

Guy’s Take_071 - But Bitcoin Doesn’t Innovate
https://fountain.fm/episode/iJQQOkQ5RxCAgYPvKZ4z


OBEY?


Join us for Adopting Bitcoin 2023, a celebration of the advancements made thus far and a catalyst for future growth and development in the world of Bitcoin.
Date: November 7–9, 2023. 8:30am
Place: San Salvador, El Salvador https://image.nostr.build/f12ef8bdbc490e17236ad8379ac98487979a6e7eb7c0546d2632d9b38c158deb.jpg


Coinbase Sued for Harvesting Customer Face and Fingerprint Data

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/coinbase-sued-for-havesting-customer-biometrics/


Lol. Waiting for the update. Also reminds me of trolls on 🐦 vs meeting in real life.


You’re a gentleman and a scholar!!
I’ll leave you with one of my favorite Rothbard quotes:

“If governments budget their revenues and expenditures, so must criminals. Where a government levies taxes; criminals extract their own brand of coerced levies.
Where a government issues fraudulent or fiat money, criminals may counterfeit. It should be understood that praxiologically there is no difference between the nature and effects of taxation and inflation on the one hand, and of robberies and counterfeiting on the other. Both intervene coercively in the market to benefit one set of people at the expense of another set. But the govt imposes its jurisdiction over a wide area, and usually operates unmolested. Criminals on the contrary, usually impose their jurisdiction on a narrow area only; and generally eke out a precarious existence.”

-Murray N. Rothbard
Man, Economy & State


Haven’t received any to date, but I’d prefer to earn them. Proof of work!
I’ll have to come up with something profound, or provide a Svc. 😆
Then you can ⚡ to your hearts content!