#GrapheneOS uncovers leaked documentation for smartphone exploits by Cellebrite.

XRY and Cellebrite say they can do consent-based full filesystem extraction with iOS, Android and #GrapheneOS. It means they can extract data from the device once the user provides the lock method, which should always be expected. They unlock, enable developer options and use ADB.

Cellebrite's list of capabilities provided to customers in April 2024 shows they can successfully exploit every non-GrapheneOS Android device brand both BFU and AFU, but not GrapheneOS if patch level is past late 2022. It shows only Pixels stop brute force via the secure element.

 https://image.nostr.build/8e893edfdc5699a979ca586def3e2b20e0179013da3e4cc5b57522870e2982c6.jpg

 https://image.nostr.build/3ef47e97cddad7dc02cdbf6778e484aac415be896ee86053aa7452db791d2934.jpg

Cellebrite has similar capabilities for iOS devices. This is also from April 2024. We can get the same information from newer months. In the future, we'll avoid sharing screenshots and will simply communicate it via text since to prevent easily tracking down the ongoing leaks.

 https://image.nostr.build/17f7e488f9093601c0dff65bdb1274509a91d26362669decc0b006b39e132e58.jpg

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Pixel 6 and later or the latest iPhones are the only devices where a random 6 digit PIN can't be brute forced in practice due to the secure element. Use a strong passphrase such as 6-8 diceware words for a user profile with data you need secured forever regardless of exploits.

Pixels are doing a bit better on the secure element front and iPhones are doing a bit better against OS exploitation, but not by much.

As always, this shows the importance of our auto-reboot feature which gets the data back at rest after a timer since the device was locked.

Our focus in this area is defending against exploitation long enough for auto-reboot to work. It's set to 18 hours since the device was locked by default, but users can set it as low as 10 minutes. Since around January, we massively improved security against these attacks.

By default, our recently added USB-C port control feature disallows new USB connections in AFU mode after the device is locked and fully disables USB data at a hardware level once there aren't active USB connections. Users can set it to also do this in BFU or even when unlocked.

Users with a high threat model can fully disable USB including USB-PD/charging while the OS is booted to only allow charging while powered off or booted into the fastboot/fastbootd/recovery/charging modes.

GrapheneOS on 8th gen Pixels is ideal due to hardware memory tagging.

Consent-based data extraction (FFS) is not in the scope of what we're trying to defend against beyond shipping our secure duress PIN/password implementation to replace insecure approaches via apps. Data users can backup is inherently obtainable with consent, which is nearly all.

Within the past 24 hours, there has been an attack on GrapheneOS across social media platforms misrepresenting consent-based data extraction as GrapheneOS being compromised/penetrated. The person doing it is pretending to be multiple people and falsely claiming we covered it up.

GrapheneOS is the only OS having success defending against these attacks. We could do more with a successful hardware partnership such as having encrypted memory with a per-boot key instead of relying on our kernel memory zeroing combined with auto-reboot and fastbootd zeroing.

New versions of iOS and Pixel OS often invalidate their existing exploits, but devices in AFU are stuck in AFU mode waiting for new exploits.

Random 6 digit PIN is only secure on a Pixel/iPhone and only due to secure element throttling. Use a strong passphrase to avoid this.

If you wonder why duress PIN/password is taking so long, it's because we aren't doing it for show like existing implementations. It needs to work properly and guarantee data will be unrecoverable with no way to interrupt it. Slowly rebooting to recovery to wipe isn't acceptable.

See https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1775305179581018286 for our thread covering the firmware improvements we helped get implemented in the April 2024 release for Pixels. It doesn't currently really help the stock Pixel OS because they haven't blocked the OS exploits that are being used yet but it helps us.

Our hope is that our upcoming 2-factor fingerprint unlock feature combined with a UI for random passphrase and PIN generation will encourage most users to use a 6-8 diceware word passphrase for primary unlock and fingerprint + random 6-digit PIN for convenient secondary unlock.

Cellebrite documentation and has stated they'll upload future versions of it if you want to look at the rest of it:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12848-claims-made-by-forensics-companies-their-capabilities-and-how-grapheneos-fares/4

We have info on XRY, Graykey and others but not the same level of reliable details as this.


We need open source portable esim routers with anonymous esims changed regulary on a day by day or even better on a connect basis.


Either side would be their enemy


Wreck it Ralph?


Agreed. Most of my opinions are perfectly reasonable.
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I can't believe Mastodon has had completely arbitrary follower counts determined by whoever is serving the profile all these years:
https://cdn.satellite.earth/0036df056c37b3aac944cf97ae0565987e97741cc6e73dbeb4bf00205c19669d.mp4

So basically on Mastodon each user can basically pick a number and decide that's it and the entire network will just accept it -- or perhaps "question it", but just accept it most of the times.

And people say Mastodon is better than Nostr or has "solved" that side of the UX while Nostr is awful because follower counts are different depending on how you look.


Chickens can only save someone's ass when they are in a Chicken friendly zone only either physically/virtually.


Unless the collective can solve via barter the coincidence of wants for the recipient through a complicated set of trades.


Reddit requires that I create an account in order to read this


If I run a server, I am more likely to go to jail, compared to someone who provided software than runs a protocol with no central point of failure.


If I run a website, I am more likely to go to jail, compared to someone who provided software than runs a protocol with no central point of failure.


It's not that simple. To get to the point where a difficulty adjustment occurs, you have to mine X blocks at current difficulty. Your little miner would take years to reach that block height.


I agree that UX is bad but decentralization implies no central point of failure. If your expectations implies a website, you just introduced a single point of failure.


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


It's been about a month since we launched Lightning Addresses and we're excited to see so many people using it already!

We took some time to explain our unique privacy-preserving fedimint-based approach with our new Blinded Authentication system.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/blinded-authentication/


In light of the recent takedown of the #samouraiwallet project I published a little tool to locally archive git repos of #freedomtech projects in case they get taken down in the future.
It can do versioned archives using borgbackup and also saves the releases (compiled binaries) and the release page as html (for hashes, changelogs etc.)
This is my first code project out in the public so please don't take my shitty scripting as a personal insult!

Happy to hear feedback and improvements!

https://github.com/systemling32/gitsnap


Thank you for your feedback.


Let's all ignore the fact that most of the people hiding behind their nym aren't using TOR.


What about counter counter MEV?


He obviously has everything already figured out. God forbid he has to use his brain one more time to figure out bitcoin.


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I only have a small amount of followers so if you think it would help please make a post or just help spread the word please do.

Meshtastic is the missing peace, a free open source mesh LORA network with open  source hardware. Cheap too, I bet most of us have hardware that  could already run it.  The HAM radio/off grid communities have really been pushing the development  this year.

https://github.com/BTCtoolshed/MeshtasticBitcoinCore_Bridge

#plebmesh  #meshtastic nostr:npub1j4u5gjzjyggr3h96x3gjy4akdgwxuk7mgvumv72gym2qyje7fn5s47d6x9 #bitaxe nostr:npub13dk3dke4zm9vdkucm7f6vv7vhqgkevgg3gju9kr2wzumz7nrykdq0dgnvc nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 #nostr nostr:npub1wu4aye7ll0lnrrg638e90sehzsgpzx5t39t3mwl05aa0d0ap08esdz3vw0 nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq nostr:npub1eequz6v23szzyx9utphsh8kg6kll50wte6sfh4vah8gdjtplcz6qg7at9s nostr:npub15klkdfx9sh3y096a5jf895rcvkmkzvly2fm9dgxq6huqhp9576jsav4m73 nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n nostr:npub1v7kvu9msvksdujxj7ln65qwkrr59g05rxtnhxx28lru54au9tcjsutyggw  nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle nostr:npub1hrctsg2qwu5gsp65gvj29968z460g0th755jq92c8uaz620lewmq6qk525 nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p nostr:npub17tlh448s3tfdfgymehqdkdn52as59qsrax0n9h58pk54wcmqyc2qklzsxj nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm nostr:npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3 nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 nostr:npub15h5n4muwsgxtc74hkcs9lp2ts7hdfdyvta4np7a7hfwfneqdeuls5qtl4k nostr:npub1wpm0vkfduxz0n6gjcctugmj7swadj8fm07yt0d2vcual3jjfxvssm3cml9  #bitcoin #btc nostr:npub1dllf8wmj6jk83r7chck6madmfgh3fges65ctpe5t6ueujazvvcvsh20tz5 nostr:npub1rzg96zjavgatsx5ch2vvtq4atatly5rvdwqgjp0utxw45zeznvyqfdkxve nostr:npub1lrjgpa9m2dl6esdah5pq7m005ymwh4glq4aet76q2zlz2f83esfsa2zvrj nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk  #FTP #Freedomisntfree nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z nostr:npub1jarwfqtul03falfefkkpzjmrhepqw9ff0nvdemrf2mxkggv8n3psv59pjz nostr:npub1lrj3lsskez59qu68v5fpnur7ythe7s5e4qcelclha6t6r9q5pqgsl2mzx2 nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac #coinjoin #mesh #lora nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp nostr:npub1l3ssk0hawh6s062zrkp2mmyd57n3ezyc8wggjvrzn5lqxmqyd4pqnszlxl nostr:npub1sn0rtcjcf543gj4wsg7fa59s700d5ztys5ctj0g69g2x6802npjqhjjtws nostr:npub16eumpaxffppswucpeysysrya9uk39j06d5gr2tsnf6cupq3f4jdqyft6jc
https://m.primal.net/IBSU.jpg


We are all criminals anyway.


It's way worse than that. Expose your IP once and you are doxxed


You need to KYC harder


Use Amber

https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber


Introducing Boardwalk Cash - the first dollar-based Cashu wallet built on top of #bitcoin and connected to #nostr.

https://BoardwalkCash.com

We now have stablecash on bitcoin - completely interoperable with the lightning network.

Share your lightning address or invoice to receive dollars. Paste a lightning address or invoice to send dollars.

Boardwalk Cash connects to any nostr client via NWC. Zap dollars on nostr apps like  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg or on Discord with our Zap Bot.

This is a very early product and there are not many public mints, so use at your own risk. Yet, we’re excited to show some of what ecash and nostr can offer for advancing #bitcoin payments.

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


JUST IN: Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma signs HB3594 into law.

This historic step makes Oklahoma the first state to formally recognize and protect the rights of its citizens to run a node, mine, and self-custody #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/296bb602e39327ce1807e5fc2d75df2a35894175bb65c86b170010070858558c.jpg


Check the fine print


Dutch central bankers working on unstoppable fiat cash paper money willingly providing excellent privacy even though it is used for criminal purposes are probably shaking right now... right?


For what it's worth, I can send zaps from nostr over TOR which wasn't possible before NWC. It's just a huge pain and requires multiple devices.


That worked however, after I send the SATs in amethyst, I have to navigate to cashu.me to let cashu.me execute the transaction. If I want to use TOR then this won't work because the browser clears out the cookies when I close the browser. So like LNC, NWC is useless over TOR.


I'm trying to find a trustworthy QR code generator that I can install on another device, and scan from there.


I wonder why nobody can answer this simple question


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

Demand is the mother of all inventions.


People who trash talk bitcoin don’t even know there’s a rabbit hole.


If you haven’t figured it out yet, actual laws, definitions, intentions, etc do not matter. If you compete with the state on their racket, they are coming for you. They are THE mafia. Accept this framing and try to navigate accordingly.


Why would anyone not advocate for personal privacy? If you can't trust people with freedom, how can you trust people with power? Obviously privacy grants you freedom. When did freedom become the enemy?


#asknostr #cashu

Anyone know how to add your NWC credentials from cashu.me in #amethyst? It just copy & pastes the entire string, but I need to break it up into three (3) separate parts;
1. Public key
2. Public relay
3. Private string

 Can anyone share how to do this? Where exactly do I break up the copied string and place it in amethyst?

nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 didn't respond back to me, he prob doesn't know how to either tbh (nbd)
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A ratchet can only turn in one direction.

The double ratchet means two types of ratchets: a KDF ratchet (the small ratchet in the diagram) and a DH ratchet (the large ratchet in the diagram).

KDF stands for Key Derivation Function. A hash function is the simplest KDF because it is one-way. K1=hash(K0), K2=hash(K1), K3=hash(K2), K4=hash(K3)... K1 is used to encrypt the first message, K2 to encrypt the second message, and so on. Once used, the key is deleted. If an attacker obtains the latest encryption key K5, they cannot reverse-engineer K4, K3, K2, or K1, ensuring the security of historical messages. Thus, the KDF provides forward secrecy to the encryption protocol.

However, the attacker can derive K6, K7, K8..., which means there is no backward secrecy. This is where the DH ratchet comes into play.

The Diffie–Hellman (DH) key exchange is a mathematical method for securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel. Alice, using her private key S1 and Bob’s public key P2, can compute a value. Similarly, Bob, using his private key S2 and Alice’s public key P1, can compute a value. These two values are equal.

Alice and Bob continuously generate new DH key pairs for new messages on the client side and attach the public key in plaintext to the message. The message recipient can then use this public key and their private key to perform the DH computation. This DH ratchet effectively resets the KDF ratchet with the DH ratchet. Because the attacker does not know the latest DH private key, they cannot derive future encryption keys, thus providing backward secrecy.

Therefore, in the double ratchet algorithm, the KDF ratchet ensures forward secrecy, and the DH ratchet ensures backward secrecy, together achieving both forward and backward secrecy.

We recommend the following video, which provides a more intuitive animation demonstration.

https://youtu.be/9sO2qdTci-s?si=BXLU33BRANWAJKMz

https://youtu.be/7uEeE3TUqmU?si=jpPOR_O61IppgJxl

(We hope users can understand the basic principles to judge for themselves which chat applications are good.) https://image.nostr.build/02cf8185e461b3ce03d84397debf4901724f5ed4d1198f83913fa2303e3a0214.png  nostr:note1ffgsgvkltl96wzwe6lakv2ntjfkq2u48msx57mrvnnhtyde5s2js8antlr


I have ungracefully shutdown raspiblits for years due to power outages and such. So far so good.


If I use TOR in amethyst and TOR in cashu.me, and use nostr wallet connect, will it somehow expose my ISP provided IP address somehow? Sorry, this looks like magic to me.


I never thought the day would come when I become the dumb end user. Here I am though


For what it's worth, at least bitfinex does not operate in the US.


Internet structure is lame:

a) Domain names are the government's opinion of your identity

b) SSL Encryption is not even based on these flawed domains, even worse than that, it's based on locations, so the cloud host owns everything

c) Even worse than that, not just the cloud host owns it, but on top of that Cloudflare sees everything.  You submit your password, Cloudflare's CDN sees it.  They own every account you thought you owned.

d) Even worse than that, Websites won't even let you JUST have a password.  You need to email to verify, which is completely insecure nonsense that is now having a different 2nd cloud company own your account on the first one's servers.

e) Web browsers are running whatever code they want.  You're a bitch that just has to accept their code.

f) Web browsers are dominated by Google & Mozilla, both left-leaning anti-privacy companies.

I reject this.
Instead, I promote the idea of Agnostic Encryption as Identity.  And what this means is:

1) Using Encryption as Identity with open source clients.

2) Empower the end user with choices among both clients and protocols.

3) End users have all the power.  Servers are an irrelevant commodity

4) Avoiding tying identities to particular servers

5) Communication between keypair systems to reduce the number of clients or extensions the person has to download.  We assume disagreement, if you curse me out then you prove my point.

6) Cross-communication to increase the access and availability of content, and the network effect of all encryption as identity.


That is nearly unreadable in jpeg form


As greatful as I can be for something like this, their UI is terrible. I get mad just trying to use it.


#Robosats v0.6.1-alpha released:

> Android app comes back stronger than ever!

> After we skipped several Android app releases in order to focus on the decentralization, now the Android app comes back with all the strength. The Android app is now THE BEST WAY to use RoboSats. The It's a full RoboSats self-hosted client, it connects to all RoboSats coordinators and can generate robot identities fully locally.

https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/releases/tag/v0.6.1-alpha


So when does this majority start going after those who do have something?


A random thought.

-blackmail is a common control mechanism
-blackmailed individuals all have a fatal flaw like perversion, addiction, criminality etc that is severe enough to be exploited by blackmailer
- over a few hundred years blackmailed individuals are assisted into power and in turn hire as they are told.

Wouldn't this lead any empire to be top heavy with pervs, addicts and crimibals after a few generations?


Yawn... My family is justifying genocide for whatever reason. Nothing will wake these people up.


TOR or without TOR it doesn't load. It happens all the time with random images. I just wanted to share in case it's a bug in amethyst.


The market should tank somewhat if miners centralize, but that hasn't happened because nobody cares. All these NGUs only care about NGU, and don't care about decentralization. There is no incentive to decentralize.


https://protos.com/new-research-suggests-bitcoin-mining-centralized-around-bitmain/

I guess it depends on your definition of decentralization.


The market should tank somewhat if miners centralize, but that hasn't happened because nobody cares. All these NGUs only care about NGU, and don't care about decentralization. There is no disincentive to decentralize.


Good info about #lightning #privacy

https://www.musclesatz.com/articles/the-world-needs-lightning-network/#security-and-attacks-on-ln


Yeah, if I click the image link it loads fine on my browser.


This didn't load without TOR

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It's more common on TOR, but not limited to TOR. This didn't load, and I was not using TOR, for example:, but it doesn't have a file extension so bad example

https://blob.satellite.earth/08aa367d873d22f63a16b8e96a568ad82e8d0a04dd05e72cde5761c9c781f867


It seems pretty random.


nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

Why are a good percentage of images not loading in amethyst? It fails to load and just shows the link.


nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8

Why am I not seeing the latest version of SimpleX on zap.store? v5.7.2


He was protecting property rights from those exploiting them


Think of the children!


The speaker is the Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari. He wrote this book. How does he not get it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_Tomorrow


The problem with good UX is that it is more often then not used for evil.


The bane of my existence is the bottom quintile.


My friend once posed this question to me…

“What if we can’t have a libertarian society unless everyone is 130+ IQ?”

I didn’t have a good answer, because I think he’s right. https://image.nostr.build/396426b206d69fdc7bfaa21019b7bd23f0b7d5d885f09473b0e66fbde4b900be.png


I see that now thanks. The app didn't pick that up because I have the pre-release installed.


Please publish to zap.store


esats


It's not about how good bitcoin is. It's about how bad fiat is. This video made me realize my whole life was a waste.

https://youtu.be/iFDe5kUUyT0


I wanted to make a shareable overview video that people can point their family and friends to about money, banking, and bitcoin.

“Read this 500 page book” doesn’t always go over well, but “watch this half hour video” is more approachable.

So, hopefully it’s helpful:

https://youtu.be/jk_HWmmwiAs?si=-8Okyee-gqeaPdvm


Why should I trust the published version of signal that I see in zap.store?

https://github.com/tw-hx/Signal-Android

This branch is 4783 commits behind signalapp/Signal-Android:main


Adversarial realities:
- 1T SSD nodes about to max out
-Need to consolidate small uxtos with lower fees
-Deep addresses from whirlpool may not load on other simple electrum not fulcrum nodes, hardware wallets
-Fresh seeds are good for consolidations, opsec
-Derivation paths could become target given recent bill proposal
-Your setup needs to change with environment


fdroid sucks, but not for those reasons. How about it uses fdroids signing key, unlike obtainium, which uses the developer's signing key.


NOSTR vs. Farcaster is a perfect reflection of Bitcoin vs. Ethereum.

The latter is a bastardization of everything the former was built to achieve.


I don't see why TOR can't do this also


There are both optimists and pessimists building on bitcoin.

Optimists build the plane.
Pessimists build the parachute.


This all sounds like a great feature for my grandma.

Sorry, I don't trust VPNs.


I’m of the opinion that many young people who disrespectfully demand you do this or say this have never really been punched in the face.
I mean a good, square shot, with both feet planted, and hips swiveled.
When you have been punched in the face as a consequence of not correctly estimating or respecting your surroundings it has a tendency to cause you to be more reflective in the future.
More reflection is generally a good thing.


That's a lot of paper


Unlike transacting in fiat, transacting in btc is a chess move. You have to worry how your opponent will retaliate.


How do I know that LNC isn't exposing my IP? Where can I find more docs on this?


He is clearly an NPC


Maybe the strategy is to build rails for people to opt out in masses to another country.


All eyes on El Salvador. Bitcoin gives you the ability to grow an economy in a sovereign way.


The whole fiat system is one giant social engineering campaign


Easy come, easy go


Normies think in terms of false dichotomy


A decentralized eBay

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction


I am a nobody. You might as well call me a troll.


Pioneering devs are discovering the real-world utility of Ecash in real time and it's happening on Bitcoin. It's what David Chaum was always dreaming of but was never able to see materialize.

This is also why we aren't just building a wallet or an app, but an open protocol that empowers others to build on top of it. None of this would make even the slightest sense if it wasn't built on Bitcoin.

Keychat is one of the most exciting things happening in Cashu right now. It's almost the perfect fusion of Cashu and Nostr. Keep watching!

nostr:note1pshpwanp7xy6whxxvxzdehl3dgsm24p5zl7t9szt6cjvxv6nxkuslusz32


There was a comparison


Because I listen to what people do, not what they say. Talk is cheap.


Have a look at nostr:npub1h0uj825jgcr9lzxyp37ehasuenq070707pj63je07n8mkcsg3u0qnsrwx8

None of these platforms are sustainable if they depend on donations.


It feels like nostr is enabling a decentralized protocol renaissance. nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 added this torrent NIP recently: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1175 what if we utilize bittorrent for discovering and sharing files via nostr? This is not a new idea but the network affects could have huge benefits on seeding:

Imagine someone reposts a torrent and says “please help me seed this”. Then clients could integrate bittorrent and start helping out right away. Then you could zap people who helped seed.

nostr can fix many decentralized protocol incentives problem just from its network effects and embrace of open protocols.


nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc has eyes on the source code, and is implementing a solution to integrate the protocol into nostr. Maybe he is in on it too. How many eyes are on the Signal source code vs SimpleX? Why isn't Jeff copying SimpleX source code instead?


Why? Is she the head of a platform capable of censorship?


To all those worried about this must be forgetting that signal is open source


KYC/AML policies kinda flip the script on innocence until proven guilty by treating everyone like they're suspicious until proven otherwise.


Signal's reply. https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1787958712595784166?s=46

https://m.primal.net/IEUI.png
https://m.primal.net/IEUJ.png
https://m.primal.net/IEUK.png


Kind of like the IRS agents and money printers, oh wait.


Go feds!


At least with lightning, I can say I am using it to save money on tx fees. Any time I say I am doing something to save money, it can't be disputed. Converting to #monero, I can say I thought the price was going up.


It really highlights why just making easy to ppl it's a disservice, you need to learn what all the parts are and what they they or you will just give your seed or password away.

Stop just peddling "easy", if they are not ready to take self custody for real, maybe they are not ready for bitcoin.

nostr:note1wkajnxem3j84hg60zmahsyn0jwq0uymyxmk5dwvv6g0rcxdn0zcqed4vn4


Make sure you folks KYC so you can keep people like this in business.


The IRS could be the next attack vector

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787496601058971666.html


Oh no! LocalMonero is closing.

“After almost 7 years of operation, due to a combination of internal and external factors, we have made the difficult decision to close our platform.”

https://localmonero.co/blog/announcements/winding-down


Why am I getting a conflict in obtainium?

I'm upgrading to version 2024.4.2

#asknostr
 https://image.nostr.build/6c9cfff49067aa31c4796747e94e6db8ec99314915de14de55867ba28036464d.jpg

This is the hash of the apk file:

33eb90cb4847ccf1cd7ffe8d0a4ff607cf99b72596c53b12ba0fb5a7ccb97b32


Whenever a service or person asks you for feedback, always mention what you wish it was and the tools that could get it there.
#Nostr #Bitcoin #Lightning #Pears

Canceled my Medium subscription and this was my reason:

"  nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x.com (on Nostr protocol) has free hosting, while it and all other services on Nostr let me pay in sats on an individual basis and without subscription, I can also very easily tip authors and receive tips in sats (bitcoin). I made more in sats from just one article than I have ever made on this or any other platform (I'm not an avid writer, but that only makes it more meaningful that I earned real money, imo). In addition, I don't have to create a new profile or username/password for any of the different services, my profile simply travels with me and logging in or paying doesn't put any of my data at risk. I can also easily highlight and post to Nostr natively because it all has the same profile connected to the same network.

Seems a lot harder to justify paying for Medium. Thanks, good luck!"


The attack can most effectively be carried out by a person who has administrative control over the network the target is connecting to.


How cypherpunk. /s


What a brave new world


Yes, you are all wrong.

https://video.nostr.build/26af606e11465371da2533b07765f4f8e53c5751baae4228305d7026b132e04e.mp4


Yep, still early.
https://image.nostr.build/948e3ebe564ae84a098f347396f075e93efd795e1fb37c363f91cdd350304de5.jpg
https://video.nostr.build/0b90cf42ecff7e2122f2e6ab2be9c80a219d6a0077f205a67c6508297a478244.mp4


Bond market = Seagulls nostr:note1q4hmt9frm0h5g3vayhp0gfkcrmakpe5dcatse4uz7890xxtht4us3knm72


Movies, tv


My latest invention is Emessbee 🐝: Unstoppable Coinjoins with No Coordinator

https://stacker.news/items/529905


Did you buy your phone and/or computer anonymously?
Do you subscribe to your ISP anonymously?
Did you buy/register your SIM anonymously?
Do you pay your bills anonymously?
Do you have an anonymous record with a credit reference agency?
Do you travel anonymously?
Do you vote anonymously?
Are you anonymous on the electoral roll?
Are you paid anonymously?
Are you banking anonymously?
Do you have anonymous insurance?
Use an anonymous driving license?
Registered with a doctor anonymously?

Just a short list, but you get my drift.


Do you got anything that provides plausible deniability?


There's a lot of truth in the way technology has made the sexes less reliant on each other.

One layer I'd add is that some of the independence is less reality and more illusion. The single man might not need a woman to cook for him, but he probably still relies on women (or men) to do a lot of his cooking. It's just abstracted away from a wife at home who doesn't get paid in money, to cooks and Door dash drivers who he can just pay as a one off service. The single mom might not need a man to grow her food in the form of a husband on the farm, but it's still a man somewhere growing that food, and a man paying the taxes to provide the food stamps she uses to buy that food. Since men are net tax payers over their lifetime and women are net tax receivers, there a lot of support still happening, just in an abstracted way that's not transparent.

I don't know if there's a solution, but I do know that if there isn't and demographic collapse continues its trajectory, the complex civilization we have that allows this illusionary "independence" will collapse, and men and women will go back to depending on each other for basic necessities of life.

nostr:note16qln9l3zf873e3s4pu9s8vt4cuflwdcp9h3vcfhvs8p7fjpsw5gs0j9w2q


Did you know?

You can create an offer to Buy/Sell Bitcoin on Bisq v2.0.3, stipulating the utilization of the Lightning Network ⚡with your prospective trade partner. Simply express your preference for LN ⚡using the custom payment method during the offer creation wizard.

This can be tried out until the Lightning Network ⚡ trading protocol is fully implemented.

#dex #decentralized #bitcoin #btc #lightningnetwork #bisq2

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

Download Bisq v2.0.3 here to get started: https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq2/releases/tag/v2.0.3


Try site:wikipedia.org


I'm sleeping on it until I know how it works, or I can get an assurance that it won't expose my ip


Lightning Node Connect is a new mechanism to smoothly establish a connection to your Lightning node, even if it is behind Tor or a NAT.

How does this work? Am I exposing my IP if I connect to my own node when my phone is not connected over TOR while my node is?

#asknostr

https://terminal.lightning.engineering/


if you build a #nostr thing, LET ME LOGIN WITH AN NPUB - view-only is all I need sometimes


Binance still allows withdrawals.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-delist-ant-multi-vai-xmr-on-2024-02-20-f73b083ba6834771b07dbe5319917ae5


Really? Then how can I get on legacy social media with TOR, and not get banned?


What ever happened with that? I am not in prison, and I don't know why.


Privacy is a harder problem to solve. If it ever gets implemented, it better work first try.


"it would be the quickest death to the [Monero] network...it's about *efficiently* achieving such a large amount of privacy"

Watch the full Space to learn more about Monero's privacy, its future, scalability, and more—Luke killed it!
https://youtu.be/Br_pbyX4YUw


You can save some money if you are good with hardware. Start9 will run on these:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=hp+elitedesk+800+g4+sff&_trksid=m5467.l1311


https://amzn.to/43QhR1Y

https://www.amazon.com/915MHz-LoRa-Antenna-Indoor-Cable/dp/B0CTXL61LY/

https://www.amazon.com/3000mAh-Rechargable-Protection-Insulated-Development/dp/B08T6GT7DV

https://www.printables.com/model/561389-heltec-v3-case-for-meshtastic


That only covers the SMP server


Roger Ver is a case study in why you shouldn't get cute and try to fuck the government behind its back. You should fuck the government directly in its face, by the book.

This is why I give away a lot of bitcoin during bull markets to registered charities. I pay for appraisals, fill out a bunch of bullshit paperwork, and explain to the IRS why they won't be benefitting from my gains.


So assuming they follow everything they can trace in fiat, what remains can raise suspicion in just the same way. Also, the elephant in the room is that none of this scales if you want to benefit from large amount of coin.


So assuming they follow everything they can trace, what remains can raise suspicion in just the same way. Also, the elephant in the room is that none of this scales if you want to benefit from large amount of coin.


How can you pay ANY merchant with that logic? How do I know my merchant isn't doing exactly that? How can anyone pay anyone P2P with that logic? I guess that's it for bitcoin. We all need to switch to monero.


I know how capital gains work. What am I missing?


Yeah, but they are in the general vicinity of each other, and run off the same power outlet.


No more than I have to defend my food from thawing out in my freezer.


I buy btc, I then immediately send it into a coinjoin, I pay taxes on the ten cents gain. You're right. They got me.


GM Nostr. 🌞

A morning message from nostr:npub19gkq7g42cmlrk4t72d2dvs6e3vnrt2pve43uxsk4g8a9w9zkktdqn5zyra (who should spend more time on Nostr).
https://m.primal.net/ICfD.jpg


Sure, but they only know that I sent them into a coinjoin. I may or may not have sent them back to myself.


Right. I am working out the hashes with pen and paper, and my computer hardware isn't doing any of the work.


Holy shit, I just bought and sold Bitcoin into and out of my self-hosted  nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg via my self-hosted  nostr:npub1kdkl4prkt7jmy8cdzdutqv8988vekl93nj4r25zpqpa5uacm9jkqnsjzq5 on my  nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll

Wild stuff.

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


There is a common phrase: “he/she woke up today and chose violence”.

I like it. It is funny. But it is imperfect.

“Violence” is now a verbal defensive phrase that means too much. To “wake up and choose violence” in the modern parlance of people who know zero struggle means to choose public verbal opposition. Okay, sure. But not really.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. Not violence.

I spent years doing mixed martial arts competitively. I know violence. I am trained in a dozen ways to choke someone out, and have been choked out in’s dozen ways. I have had a 200 pound male fireman try to beat me unconscious and fail to do so. Even that wasn’t really violence, since it was controlled. Assholes on my trailer park bus stop in my teenage years were violent.

Verbosity isn’t violence. It is rhetoric.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. I woke up today and chose to defend noncustodial privacy tools with language and resources. Coordinating messages between entities shouldn’t be a crime per se.

Bitcoin is anti-fragile and will continue to be so, thanks to all the people who work hard for it. But it is not without a fight.

Privacy is necessary in a free society in the digital age. A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto made this clear three decades ago and is still true.


This is the signal 🤝

nostr:note1rs5xrjzfrm08t8zccnk0xyay33qcat060e7tqcq8na0nyxmadjrsuun0h6


Where is orbot?


How can some be so naive to seek #privacy in #Bitcoin?

It has become an institutional investment product and that means an increase in regulations in the coming months.

Invest in Tesla, Micrsoft, commodity futures or #BTC, it's the same thing, they are Wall Street products.


You could always ask chatgpt/unleashed.chat and learn along the way.


many such cases #wtfhappenedin1971

innocent people are being thrown in jail for made up, fiat-era crimes https://i.nostr.build/nWv5E.jpg https://i.nostr.build/0jPMn.jpg https://i.nostr.build/2RQV9.jpg


The real issue is the centralized coordination service who takes a fee.  JoinMarket could work, but I still think the future is #PayJoin.

Normalize building PayJoin into typical spending patterns which has no distinct on-chain fingerprint, and which can result in reduced tx fees (afaik).  Break the heuristics, improve everyone’s plausible deniability.


Quietly released over the past few days, nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a has a new narrated animation video summarizing her book, Broken Money. It’s beautifully done, and a great start to her new YouTube channel, Lyn Alden Media. Thank you for all you do. Your work is having a positive impact on people around the world.

https://youtu.be/jk_HWmmwiAs?si=VmbFLCXGcHkbSTUi


–Samourai Wallet developers arrested and accused of conspiracy to commit money laundering and operating w/o money transmission license (1)
–Roger Ver arrested and accused of tax fraud (2)
–Binance's CZ will do a 4-month jail stint for a lax AML program (3)
–Tornado Cash developers on trial in the US for "facilitating" money laundering (4)
–Another Tornado cash developer awaiting sentencing of up to 5 years in Dutch prison for money laundering (5)
-An alleged founder (not proven) of Bitcoin Fog mixer found guilty on money laundering charges (6)
-Privacy services now shutting down completely or cutting off access to US users for fear of future prosecutions (7)
-Silvergate and Signature Bank face liquidity crises and bank runs when various government agencies begin probing around their AML programs and connections to the cryptocurrency industry (8)
-New US legislation aimed at surveilling crypto transactions and lowering the bar for Suspicious Activity Reports (down to $2,000 for bitcoin and crypto)(9)

What binds all of these accusations, cases, and prosecutions that have flooded out in a manner of months and even weeks?

They all deal, in some way, with the next-generation of cryptographically secure money outside of government control.

Beyond Operation Chokepoint, the significant amount of government resources dedicated to sinking businesses and criminalizing otherwise decent individuals offering tools for citizens to use peer-to-peer digital cash demonstrates there are powerful forces at work here to quash the parallel crypto economy.

The undoing of FTX and SBF came not at the hand of his future jailers, but rather the journalistic work of a few sleuths who caught on to the actual scam that is easily one of the largest crimes of our time. All the the while, SBF and his platform were the toast of the town: Silicon Valley, Washington, and among New York financiers. His crimes compare in absolutely no way to any of the previous cases mentioned here.

For the independent developers, financial entrepreneurs, and activists mentioned above, they empowered people to handle better versions of code and money.

As national debts balloon, and governments offer no solutions on fixing their fiscal positions, they weaponize different agencies and law enforcement to stamp out the system they cannot control.

Cynics might say this is just an effort to squeeze the population and innovative industries out of the need to fiscally sustain government largess. Or perhaps cutting off the ability for an alternative monetary system to develop that would endanger the Central Bank fiat monetary system.

What is overwhelmingly true, however, is that financial freedom is at stake more than ever. And that goes hand in hand with economic freedom.

Will we allow this to continue? Or will be resist the anti-progress kinetic forces that are denying us the ability to freely associate and exchange value how we see fit?

There has to be true moral clarity on what is at stake here, and how we can steer the forces that wish to deny us financial and technological autonomy.

I know what side I'll be on.

(1)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/04/24/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-and-charged-with-money-laundering/

(2)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2024/04/30/roger-ver-known-as-bitcoin-jesus-arrested-and-charged-with-tax-fraud/

(3)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/binance-founder-changpeng-zhao-cz-sentenced-to-four-months-in-prison-.html

(4)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/doj-counters-roman-storm-s-defense-in-tornado-cash-case/ar-AA1nLicc

(5) https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/03/27/dutch-prosecutors-seek-64-month-jail-sentence-for-tornado-cash-dev-alexey-pertsev/

(6)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/jury-finds-russian-swedish-operator-bitcoin-fog-guilty-running-darknet-cryptocurrency

(7)
https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-is-discontinuing-its-coinjoin-coordination-service-1st-of-june/

(8)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fed-orders-silvergate-complete-wind-down-while-protecting-depositors-preserving-2023-06-01/

(9)
https://www.theblaze.com/return/the-feds-are-trying-to-stifle-bitcoin-and-crypto-with-draconian-new-regulations


Larry Fink lets slip the REAL reason for the Climate Crisis hoax...

There will not be enough power for you, and what the globalists want to do. So how do you take from people without an uprising? Convince them they are being morally superior by giving what is theirs, to you for free. Convince them they are saving the planet by giving you everything.

https://youtu.be/PoRVYFHNc6k?t=2787


CUSF is the only thing we have now.


They could be running software like this:

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/amboss-launches-reflex/


US House has just passed HR 6090 to expand the definition of antisemitism to include the criticism of Israel. This is a massive chilling of free speech and makes no sense.

Subscribe to my human rights project “Let’s Address This,” to help counter media bias and instead demand universal human rights: https://substack.com/@qasimrashid

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/368/510/526/571/163/original/0be2bfd307f17161.mp4


The attack continues
 https://i.nostr.build/mlWXv.png
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/feds-probing-financial-transactions-at-jack-dorsey-s-square-cash-app-report/ar-AA1nZo2o


# Five #Israeli army units found violating #humanrights much before #Hamas raid

https://cdn-i.pr.trt.com.tr/trtworld/w664/h374/q70/19722132_0-0-1022-576.jpeg

https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1227061943?-14432:11


I really hope that guy falls flat on his face


I'll stick with SimpleX


I hope nobody is buying into this shit


Sure, but you still have to trust the federation. Who knows what code is running on their back end.


Bisq and bisq2 have no centralized server. Robosats is a centralised server on TOR, as far as I know.


I know right. I don't understand why people are so willing to trust, especially with FISA going on.


If everything isn't open source, then how do we know you aren't running compliance software like this?

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/amboss-launches-reflex/


Bolt 12 comes to LDK.

https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/bolt12-has-arrived/


The new Robosats Android App compatible with the federation is open for beta testing, give it a try! We think it's the best way to use Robosats!

https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/releases/tag/android-ea3ff1c


They arrested Roger Ver. CZ  (CEO of Binance) gets 4 months in prison. Samourai wallet CEO and founder arrested and app taken down. Ross Ulbricht about to be silenced. It's war.

Clearly they are going after the big, visible players to send a message. With history as a guide, how far will they take it on the march to totalitarianism? All the way to the individual?

nostr:nevent1qqstlz5rf2z5g5ng6le7nurmz0yck2egkdp2d5e2slsqs4fa72tpzucpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyrgda0ulkyk7lq05847xjs5mk7zgz2kpunfd2w3q9km243l2fdrxcqcyqqqqqqgarqqaw


What is $10,000 to you?

nostr:nevent1qqsrd6wayk6wl7nxcpe30ren67celuzpghvdx9xz7zfm9jxf2vge2lqpgdmhxw309akxxmrrd9m8ymtdv3k8yaej0p3xwmnvvyekvc3nwa6kx6rcxakhz6mr0f4hw7tzvdhrycn0v3uk7drcw35hw7r509jzummwd9hkuq3qceu8epzdnsj5hm6uh9k5t3nh22r59j6dtcxjynhwmrkaj0q2jl8qxpqqqqqqznwr456


If you are off on your taxes by $10,000 then you go to jail for 3 years and get a $250,000 fine.

If I enter my gains in one reputable tax software and do the same in another reputable tax software, they are easily off by $10,000.

Anyone getting a #CP59 let me know. They could be sending people to jail arbitrarily for using bitcoin. #taxes

https://youtu.be/6snF6JyvXtc


#Monero evolves #privacy
New developments

While rings have offered sender privacy to Monero since it launched, they're vulnerable to attacks such as the EAE attack, have difficulties upon chain reorganizations.

Full-Chain Membership Proofs, as a concept, is a replacement for rings within the Monero protocol.

Full-Chain Membership Proofs prove the output spent is one of any output on the chain, effectively removing all of these risks. This means every input goes from an immediate anonymity set of 16 to 100,000,000. 👀

https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html


It's time for Lightning⚡ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
 https://image.nostr.build/a1432b1a98f5b8b541b4fcf13cc3f38e8fc6b4f93ba1fec9d7da3ce636c707c7.jpg

As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!

BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.

Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.

Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.

This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!

Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.

https://ocean.xyz/docs/lightning

https://newsdirect.com/news/ocean-innovates-bitcoin-miners-offered-first-ever-lightning-payouts-using-bolt12-946331135


Is it all open source?


Even if you put your stack in an ETF today, tomorrow you might want to self custody, but that option won't be available to you unless you voice your concern. Because today the battle is over privacy, but tomorrow will be over self custody.


Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat


Privacy implies you are allowing them to use coinjoins. Maybe you can be more specific?


Privacy would allow them to sell paper bitcoin without actually buying the underlying asset, and take everyone's money.


When a country has jurisdiction over another country then who is in charge of that other country?

#FreeAssange

https://www.youtube.com/live/Ir_RMY9OTz0


Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Keonne Rodriguez Pleads Not Guilty, Released on $1M Bond

Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez pleaded not guilty to two criminal charges tied to creating and marketing the privacy-focused bitcoin wallet in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-wallet-co-founder-keonne-rodriguez-pleads-not-guilty/


And we thought they would need a cyber 911 in order to pass these laws


LE no longer perform investigations. They specialize in capturing your equipment and breaking into it.


This 100x. I see this shit every day and it makes me sick.


First they came for Tornado cash

and I said nothing

because they were shitcoiners

…


Pretty much all Bitcoin wallet apps are banned in China but not our PWA.


All the hammer manufacturers need to hide their identity because an undercover agent might use a hammer in a violent activity, and then prosecute all hammer manufacturers.


E2EE DMs are coming to Nostr 🔒

After being nerd sniped by hearing  nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 mention OTR for the millionth time on the Bitcoin Review podcast, I spent the last few weeks digging into OTR, the Signal protocol, and a grab-bag of other cryptography.

The end result is that I (am pretty sure at least) that I found a way to do E2EE (end-to-end encrypted) DMs on Nostr in a way that is both forward and post-compromise secure AND doesn't require any centralized servers.

Demo video: https://share.cleanshot.com/nMKk6cn0

Live demo app: https://drdm-demo.vercel.app

And finally, the NIP (for those of you with bikes in need of a shed): https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1206

Huge thanks to  nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft for the chats while I worked out the details.


A concept for an entirely offline communications *and payment* network.

Meshtastic peer to peer mesh networking using lora radio devices

A cashu mint which allows for ecash to be sent peer to peer over the mesh

A client application in the style of Primal, but for Meshtastic nodes and ecash tokens

Internet and power go down and the mesh network still works, and the ecash can still be sent via the mesh.

Would this work? nostr:npub142t785ujh97zzvnss8xm8jm8fhage8rxxjfaksmenfq8j4266xcs7ds6ue nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg nostr:npub1dqepr0g4t3ahvnjtnxazvws4rkqjpxl854n29wcew8wph0fmw90qlsmmgt


Tell them to rebrand to dash.fi


That has been my perception of the matter too.


Paying taxes and watching your money inflate as the cost of everything go up, and being the last to get a pay raise is very similar as not getting a reward for your work, especially when all the work you do is for the counterfeit class used to better enslave you and everyone else.


Paying taxes and watching your money inflate as the cost of everything go up, and being the last to get a pay raise is very similar as not getting a reward for your work, especially when all tje work you do is for the counterfeit class used to better enslave you are everyone else.


Source available vs open source. Also, how do you know their source code is the same code that was used to build the app you are running? Especially if they aren't even providing the build, and are just providing the source?


Can you download their builds directly from github and check their signature?


Reminds me of dark coin. They had to rebrand to Dashcoin for obvious reasons.


Let’s review:

https://youtu.be/epWbaeuGICc


Privacy is a property right. By owning property, you control its use and access. This inherently includes your personal data and information. This establishes a fundamental right to privacy. Protecting property rights equals protecting privacy.


**Trigger warning**

Many parents seem to have this romantic notion that they would die for their children. They espouse this ideal most fervently when confronted with the question of what material things they are doing to unfuck the world we are currently living in and they have brought more human life into.

What seems to happen far more often in practice though is that they really aren’t willing to sacrifice anything for their kids. They just tell themselves (and others!) that they are willing to fight and die for their kids, that things will surely get better soon, or that other people who are actually to blame will soon “see the light” or get theirs. Rather than doing anything of consequence, I also see many retreat into non-logical self-soothings like “this is all just part of Gods plan”.

Anything and everything is done to avoid and distract from the harsh possibility that they have created lives that will most likely be even more miserable than their own.

When it’s all said and done, they believe their children of course will only carry on with the “correct” and “true” principles that they, as all knowing and wisest of parents, have imparted. Someday, someone else or some God will surely come along, since their own efforts are already maximized (they would die for their kids, remember?), that will finally fix all the things they complain about.

So I ask you, parents (who are all apparently willing to die for their kids), when will you start actually living (or maybe dying?) up to this lofty ideal??

How bad do things have to get? How much surveillance, propaganda, and exploitation do you have to witness your children suffer before you ACTUALLY do anything of consequence to protect them?

I’m sorry but until then, I’ll continue to see you as the impotent cowards that you probably are. Keep telling yourselves that Bitcoin, god, nostr, whatever, is going to fix this shit. Anything to avoid putting in any actual effort or suffering yourselves, right?

#grownostr
#thinkdangerously
#getoffended


They are too busy fighting amongst themselves over power.


Sure, but they can't do it without setting a precedence. Bitcoin can't be a security and a commodity at the same time for example.


Does this mean we can claim to each authority that they don't have the power of enforcement because it's not a security, or not a currency, etc? The power actually lies in the hands of the other authority?


Their definition is literally insane:

This is *literally* the criminalization of #Bitcoin  in its entirety. Running the software in any form means you are committing a crime. nostr:note1sy3fgdthmkjvezja07f3xldjcrd87xskljdwnthfawpqghur8n0sger6q8


The only reason people are alarmed is this ongoing trend of kangaroo court going on.


We also need WoT to mitigate against things like the xz vulnerability. If I delete my github account for example, I loose all my credibility.


It's quite interesting to see how tech has completely changed the work of the common cop against the common thief/murderer/gang member in the last decade. Especially in developing countries.

Before smartphones, cops had to work disproportionately hard to assemble evidence against "simple" crimes. These days, all they need to do is to get the murderer's phone and the hard evidence they are looking for will reveal itself. Almost all common criminals use their phone to organize and manage their heists.

And, what's even more interesting: this is not a secret. Cops know low-level criminals do not have other means of organizing. So, even if everyone knows cops are looking at phones, criminals can't help themselves but use it.


GitHub apps that I maintain full synchronized repo backups of:
- Zeus
- Mutiny Wallet

Too late for Samourai, although I have a partial from last year

Apps I will add to that list:
- Bitcoin core
- Lnd
- Core lightning

Will include all gists, pull requests and discussions


Blockstream...


Always has been, at least since WW2. Maybe even WW1.


Sounds to me like LSPs are just centralization of lightning. Why should we be promoting them in the first place?


He’s not one of us https://image.nostr.build/e66ba2eae3f7586a5f0a877f9ebb10eac6d3f0c03628aed2cc8ea406d481f55c.jpg


Some essential characteristics of Mutiny Wallet.

Non-custodial:
- You are in control of your keys
- The node runs on your device
- Any critical data that exists is saved on your device and encrypted remotely for backups

Not an LSP:
- We do not run a node or LSP, we interface with others
- You may open channels to any node
- We never process any lightning channel, payments, on-chain txs, UTXOs, etc.
- Our lightning address server is built with blinded auth, and we can't link payments to your node

Open-source:
- MIT
- The web app is available in case app stores go down
- Self-hostable, already bundled with start9

We strongly believe in building software that gives users the most control and least dependence upon us. It's not easy; centralization brings a much better user experience. However, for the longevity of ourselves, our product, and our users, this is what we believe is the correct path to take.


You are right. If I want centralization within the lightning network, then I want an LSP.


I use this to find a channel to open with https://bolt.observer/explorer/

The only differences between you and I, is that you gave up where I didn't.


Phoenix and ZEUS are practically identical. One company was in it for the money, the other for freedom. Can you tell which is which?

 https://image.nostr.build/2b700cef3b726d4e430c269bd3f3a6887e241a4d145f41a94fc96faed1e2b3e0.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/566b7975bc4c21d7411f3825fcb033d95297feebd356549ed722c3155459b95f.jpg


It's easy to tell who is in it for the money, and who is in it for the freedom. Phoenix vs ZEUS


I use lightning without an LSP, and it works just fine. People just have to use their brain.


I always thought the LSP model was a bad idea.


Shit so weird, I don't even know what I am looking at.


How crypto-anarchy of you to say that.


What happens when the problem is the people, not the software?


This is the way


How about you just sell all your coin and move it into stocks. You don't belong here.


Phoenix Wallet vs ZEUS

https://image.nostr.build/2b700cef3b726d4e430c269bd3f3a6887e241a4d145f41a94fc96faed1e2b3e0.jpg

 https://image.nostr.build/566b7975bc4c21d7411f3825fcb033d95297feebd356549ed722c3155459b95f.jpg


Exactly. Everyone is panicking over the wrong thing.


Agreed, but we gain a greater advantage if we can get everyone to self custody.


OK we will tax you first, and gradually more and more just for holding it. We will tax anything that doesn't move.


Phoenix wallet is obeying in advance, teaching power what it can do.


ReasonTV is a good YouTube channel IMHO


Any interpretation of this noise is teaching power what it can do


How is @SamouraiWallet a "money transmitting business" if users never surrender their private keys? How is there a "transfer" if users retain custody?

Otherwise, why isn't an ISP a MTB? Or a miner? Or a node operator?

Announcing new law by imprisonment is disgusting. https://image.nostr.build/2ab1f7b29ab44eede4d5c3b9afca07071617c1e4c6832413c45077d8593d6729.jpg


* KYC on-ramps
* No protocol level privacy improvements in bitcoin-core
* Wasabi collaborating with Chain Analysis
* TornadoCash arrest
* Roman Sterlingov arrest
* ETF
* Monero delistings
* KYC all miners
* Samourai arrest

Are you sure we are winning?


We need more tools for using gitea over tor


I agree with you 100%. I just want to point out that if these so called 'money launderers' were caught then the mixing service was ineffective. The government can still do their job to catch this victimless crime, and everyone else should continue maintaining their limited privacy on the platform. The real attack isn't against people exercisesing their right to privacy. This is yet another attack on free speech.


"Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. "

#privacy #cypherpunk #manifesto

https://activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html


We already know banks are corrupt and can do whatever they want


There was a line in Broken Money by nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a that was something to the effect that governments eventually add so many laws and regulations that the system eventually grinds itself to a halt because it becomes impossible to both navigate and enforce. We are right at that point. Absolutely everything is met with a lawsuit and trial now. They are trying to make some high profile examples to keep you fearful and thinking that the system is still functional. It is not, and don’t be afraid. Live your life.


So after my initial gut reaction of holy shit, fuck the government. The whole samurai thing brings to mind a good point.

Unless you are self-hosting Dojo You were still pretty much reliant on samurai servers still being up.

If this isn't a good argument for why you should be hosting as many things for yourself as possible, I really don't know what else is.

Also, while I'm at it, as much as I liked what Samurai was trying to do for privacy, you could have avoided the need to use Whirlpool or anything of the like if you just avoided KYC to begin with. If anything else, this is an even greater argument to avoid KYC so you don't really have to break some sort of identity link between yourself and your coins as shit starts to hit the fan.


If samurai uses servers in order to operate, would you really want to use those servers being that the government is now in control over those servers?


If samurai uses servers in order to operate, would you really want to use those servers being that the government is now I'm control over those servers?


This is related to free speech so I think it belongs here #nostr

https://youtu.be/gmuj5gDsxJI


"We conclude that tracking and blocking the use of Open-VPN, even with most current obfuscation methods, is straight-forward and within the reach of any ISP or network operator,
as well as nation-state adversaries. Unlike circumvention tools such as Tor or Refraction Networking [8, 74], which employ sophisticated strategies to avoid detection, robust ob-
fuscation techniques have been conspicuously absent from OpenVPN and the broader VPN ecosystem. "

nostr:nevent1qqs2xx0xaakng730zgu072v7jdyj2dnz2wnv9ulksfajr3td88g5fmqppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzp4y6jq36y8d6rv7gxpk2x6dlxfpa3dzt3u9k6yvkvplhkzvsl2xlqvzqqqqqqy7qq0x0

Robust obfuscation doesn't exist in the OpenVPN ecosystem.

Snitching fixes this! (For the paid operator. Its not like you can sue them for it.)

For the regular user, Tor fixes this.


End Central Banking Power

https://youtu.be/FtpChQJPFXI


I thought most people who own monero also self custody. Wouldn't that make exchanges have a hard time suppressing the price? The lower the price, the less fiat is needed to accumulate xmr and move them to cold storage.


Wouldn't the best way to measure this be the market price? I haven't seen the price in monero go up.


I was having trouble flashing my #meshtastic device. This fixed it

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/solved-flashing-failing-immediately-on-linux/567332


I guess that means they know that we know


This is the quietest election cycle I’ve ever seen and we’re just 6 months away.

No debates, no policies being shopped, no celebrity endorsements, no new vision for America— makes total sense to drop the facade when the oligarchs no longer actually need votes, they’re win-win no matter the candidate, no matter the current war, no matter the current crisis


My very existence becomes more criminal every day. If the crowd moves to monero, I will follow. All I know is they can't arrest us all.


Windows is already malware


The united states government is a criminal organization. Don't forget.

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I can't find a way to have 100% financial privacy without breaking the law. For example, just making a payment is a taxable event requiring me to provide my financial information to the IRS. So in order to take advantage of monero I have to be a criminal. If I don't want to be a criminal, then I have no need to use monero.


Bitcoin mining pools should issue rewards in ecash so that participants can mine without an account and remain private. Miners can withdraw their ecash balance to Lightning or on-chain whenever they feel like it.

Nobody needs to know who you are and how much you've earned while mining. This is more important than most people realize.


What does FIFO have to do with bitcoin taxes when you self custody?

#asknostr

Let's say you bought two UTXOs: one five years ago at $10,000 and another today at $20,000. If you sell the newly purchased UTXO a year later for $30,000, FIFO would require you to consider the cost basis of the newer UTXO ($20,000) when calculating your gain or loss. According to FIFO, the oldest UTXO (the one from five years ago) has not been sold yet, so it cannot affect the calculation of the gain or loss from the newer UTXO.

I don't know why they call it FIFO unless you are a dumb end user who keeps their crypto in a exchange.

Simply put, each utxo has a purchase and sale price, and your profit is solely dependent on that. FIFO is just there to confuse you.

#taxes


My husband recently observed to me how important conditioning is for people to accept things as normal.

He said that when he first began reading my articles, he was like “Okay but I mean, fiat currency censorship isn’t really *that bad* as you describe”. But then in the years that followed, he was like “oh shit, it actually is. The fact that we have to ask permission to access significant amounts of our own money at banks and say what we will do with it is fucking insane. Why is this normal now?”

In Europe especially but also elsewhere, it’s increasingly common to make cash transactions illegal above a certain threshold value. Above that value, you have to go through centralized, surveilled, corporate/government systems, or you’re doing an illegal transaction.

That seems absolutely insane if introduced out of nowhere, but instead it has been introduced gradually through conditioning and so people are like, “well I don’t use cash anyway so that’s okay I guess, in fact I don’t even know that’s a law now”.

The same is generally true for social media. Filtering communications through centralized pipes is actually a radical position but it’s increasingly the new normal. In fact, the centralization of banking and communications in the hands of the state were two of their ten steps proposed in the Communist Manifesto. https://image.nostr.build/50bd5a957af0e91062c8a68c0848242fdf10e0c7207215b37d5845ff67843152.jpg


Save the Devs. https://video.nostr.build/83069ca8fcee397832ff900315033b9ec63199bc16dd33ef562c715822710096.mp4


nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm I understand that you are a CIA employee, I can't find any other reasonable explanation, you are not a dumb guy.

nostr:note1wvm687cunjdn4rq7fchz27s7xh9y3jl40hckrqa4dpwqvsdzjyess05euw
https://m.primal.net/HvKK.jpg


I would use it more if I could generate a 12 word seed offline with a hardware wallet, and could use it more like a hardware wallet to sign/encrypt.


A one size fits all?


Well then it fits most people I know


Which coin is more sovereign? #bitcoin vs #monero

#asknostr


Ooof this is bad. A 144 GB database full of personal information about adult El Salvador residents was leaked. There are unconfirmed rumors that this leak stems from Chivo, the bitcoin wallet offered by the El Salvadorian state. Always remember that KYC is the illicit activity.

https://protos.com/hacker-doxxes-nearly-every-adult-in-el-salvador/


#monero

https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno


In a world where financial privacy is illegal


Look what address is in my profile! #silentpayment for #bitcoin!  Yes it works in nostr:npub1j9qyxka5lck4tw50v7qfrs6gdwczz5ydt7ugqy6nhuva9p6dpy5q8rs2yg
https://m.primal.net/HrsQ.jpg


I don't even use Strike. Nobody is forcing you to use it. Run your own node if you don't like it.


Can bitcoin miners active soft forks without asking permission from full nodes?

#asknostr

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z-pM3M3vik


This is just part of Apple's framework that allows you to opt out. Just say no.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102420


never underestimate the ingenuity of fools


Ask App not to track.


Every tool or strategy created can eventually be turned against its creator.


"no one can ban you from farcaster, but we can ban you from warpcast, which is the only app anyone uses"

"but it's fine, if you have a million of followers you can always create another app -- which requires running a server that syncs the entire farcaster network -- and telling them to install that instead of using ours"

turns out farcaster is exactly like bluesky


Why waste your time on fiat?


Energy drives civilizations, without energy there is no civilization.

The environmentalist lobby in the service of the intelligence agencies has made you believe that nuclear energy is bad, when Russia, the USA, China and India, the main powers, are investing in nuclear energy as if there were no tomorrow.

Of course nuclear energy is not perfect, but we know of no better form of energy that works 24 hours a day.

Europe has fallen into the trap and now Europe is nothing, Europe has sacrificed its locomotive, Germany.

nostr:note1d7zacj2nfcn7dwurk494gc88487h7t03v0eae9f8xmt3etkw0gnqq6w8ul


Many people are unaware of BSD systems.

BSD is an authentic Unix, Linux is a clone. I will tell you that part of the success of Linux was due to the legal problems that BSD faced in the late 80's and 90's by AT&T.

If BSD had not faced these legal problems, perhaps Linux would not exist today.

The BSD operating systems are excellent, the main branches are:

- FreeBSD, the BSD system par excellence, is where more innovation in all aspects, to consider its magnificent integration with ZFS (the best on the market), its virtualization system and isolation Jails that predates docker and derivatives and its ports system (package manager). It also stands out for its performance, where in some aspects it surpasses Linux as in web servers.

- OpenBSD, the most secure operating system in the world, as it is the one that reports the fewest vulnerabilities, only followed by AIX.

- NetBSD, one of the systems that supports more architectures. Pioneer in integrating certain technologies such as IPv6, a great quality, a very well written and organized code and compliance with standards and a great file system such as BSD FFS.

- DragonFLY BSD, a great unknown but a great operating system, many FreeBSD nerds have switched to it. Hybrid kernel like Macos, Hammer file system (snapshots, compression and deduplication), LWKT (Light Weight Kernel Threads) implements lightweight threads in the kernel for better concurrency management, native virtualization in the kernel with vkernel and native swapcache.

Some fun facts that will interest you.

BSD licenses are more permissive than the GPL, allowing your code to be included in other projects and the resulting code to be licensed under other licenses, including proprietary or closed licenses.

Macos is a derivative of FreeBSD and uses many parts of it, although the core of Macos called Darwin is opensource (APSL). Macos on the other hand is a certified Unix.

Other systems that use FreeBSD are Playstation 3, Playstation4 and Nintendo Switch.

Netflix, WhatsApp and FligthAware are other examples of companies using FreeBSD in their infrastructures due to the incredible performance of their TCP/IP stack under high loads and web servers.

When Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft, they were using FreeBSD servers, no need to tell you what an ordeal it was for Microsoft to migrate their architecture to Windows Server.

Finally, the integration and cohesion of BSD operating systems are due to their development as a complete system, with the kernel and user space designed and maintained by the same team. This contrasts with Linux, which is primarily a kernel around which distributions add software and tools to form a complete operating system.

Long live BSD, the UNIX.

nostr:note1wgvhmxzrvkry2sr4yeyemetfy3uy3neqjxd74f5339zjv2ke7vaqyg6lvm


+ owning kyc free coin


In before: Only criminals use monero. Because if you want financial privacy, you have to break the law.


WASABI SHILLS CRAWL OUT OF THE WOODWORK WITH THE SAME OLD SAMOURAI FUD

MEANWHILE WASABI OPENLY ADMITS TO  BLACKLISTING UXTOS VIA THE VERY CHAIN ANALYSIS USED TO LOCK DEVS IN PRISON

https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-blacklisting-update/


President Roosevelt signing Executive Order 6102 banning gold, on April 5, 1933, 91 years ago

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


When did nostr get creepy?


Never give a bank free money. They don't disserve it.


I DO NOT LIKE
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All I could find is an archived repo

https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-calendar


Where is the source code to Proton Calendar?

#asknostr


Never forget that SBF's campaign finance case was quietly dropped.

https://image.nostr.build/4fe36d37a4a06cc6d0360ede4905268f234b8d4aa8142a0a554d3fa358fa200d.jpg


That we know of.


The chances of you winning the lottery is reduced as more hashes (players) enter the game.


LocalSend - An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

https://github.com/localsend/localsend


We remove the counterparty risk, and the coin with the largest counterparty risk (via BTC ETF) is where all the money goes. Looks like we are heading back where we started. What ever happened to rules without rulers. KYC put a stop to that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtyRN4YFRFI


I then wonder why you are not openly supporting Monero, which is attacked from all sides, while BTC gets its bags pumped by Saylor and BlackRock.

I know plenty of people that live on Monero, while most Bitcoiners if they at all pay with their coins use connected credit cards to their custodians.

And who is even running nodes these days? Monero with its price being 1:500 of BTC sees more active nodes than BTC.

Monero got delisted from all major exchanges being forced to bring decentralised exchanges and the circular economy to life.

Talking about choosing the hard way, is talking about Monero.

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So if you disclose responsiblely then they squash it, if you disclose unresponsively, then you could go to jail for hacking.

https://image.nostr.build/bd81ac3f60cdf95c278dfcae1fba40767375da08f998f1ddbfceac2588ed6f7b.jpg


My npub is all you need


by all appearances, a group of black hats did a 2 year operation to slide incomplete pieces of non executable code into Linux distro test branches, which were eventually merged into an exploit by a ‘trusted’ maintainer

the game has switched from checkers to chess


“ Grandpa, what do you mean Internet data used to not be signed?”


BQQM
🌄🌅🌄🌅
UK judge issues a World Wide freezing order on Craig Wright’s assets.

 https://image.nostr.build/997fbb6ca5cad226011b5783c37a119be8d1980d94c909f589504696c7ad1956.jpg

#stackharder #bitcoin #zap
#btc

https://x.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1773476694172561506?s=20


FREEDOM MONEY - EPISODE ONE - GIGI |  nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc

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


Source? Also, in what way?


nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

What happened with CD122?

#censorship
 https://image.nostr.build/20d63a5357ee9af004e325f4ae6742d4f04fb5f30babefd0dc4d71c13079ac36.jpg


Bring back Roger Ver


In 3 hours I'll be interviewing Roger Ver live on YouTube.

There will be a live chat and I will be sure to ask him when he plans to return to Bitcoin (and maybe debate John Carvalho once again).

https://www.youtube.com/live/DMxx6O9_9nQ?feature=shared


I remember a little over a year ago a ton of ACKSHUALLY reply-guys telling me that AI photos and videos will always be easy to spot and will never fool someone with a trained eye.
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Here's a list of URLs I have in #Obtainium if it helps anyone save time adding things. You may be able to import this list directly and just remove anything you don't want or need.

I'm gradually pulling apps from F-Droid and using Obtainium to update them. Thanks to nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z for pushing me over the edge on this.

https://github.com/nunchuk-io/nunchuk-android
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
https://github.com/ente-io/photos-app
https://github.com/cashubtc/eNuts
https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery
https://github.com/rt-bishop/Look4Sat
https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Music-Player
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps
https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app
https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail-android
https://github.com/ProtonVPN/android-app
https://github.com/simple-login/Simple-Login-Android
https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat
https://github.com/standardnotes/app
https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-flutter
https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus


Tragedy of the commons


happy sunday https://image.nostr.build/6d9b373290af34fd5a4e1b0a19593cdf96af14e50e7115352d70a75ad0e16cec.jpg


FINALLY! Someone who has actually read it properly. nostr:note1tl2fw4h2ysypcm2h7j9xc0x9c6ujwtsgqvtjun8f06c6yrzsuc3qu38cgn


And they are going to keep taking and taking and taking and taking and taking and taking and taking... It's standard divide and conquer. And then they came for me..


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https://8333.mobi/


you know what...
I am all for orange pilling people, and teaching them about how corrupt the financial system is.
But right now I am looking at bills passed in the U.S. and Europe this last week, and what people need to be shown is that the governments of the western world are not 'misled' or 'stupid' or 'incompetent'.
They are literally the enemies of the people now. They no longer act in your best interest. They actively undermine it. and they are dead serious about silencing you, disarming you, and brining you under their control.

This doesnt mean that we let them turn us into alarmist, fearful, reactionary people, obsessed with how corrupt they are. That would be giving them even more power. What it does mean, is that we approach things from the realization that the State is an out of control monster seeking its own power above all else, and we adjust to that reality.
Its not fun or pleasant to talk about, but its very real, and its happening. It has already happened. We need to begin to think differently.

We dont need to become enemies of the State, we need to become advocates of Liberty, and the People. We need to fight for the good, and right, and fight for freedom. But we need to be aware that these people and institutions are intent on enslaving us without remorse.
We need to understand they are set on evil.
This kind of thinking is extreme or fringe anymore. Its actually happening all around us, and maybe its just me, but it feels like we need to come to terms with this on a deeper level even if its hard.


And Then They Came for Me...


Bitcoiners who collaborate with the government and establish KYC-compliant businesses are not advancing the cause of freedom tech! You just profit out. The only excuse I can see is that the money being made are being donated to someone who have a balls to build the real thing! https://image.nostr.build/30084989fc5931fb85b2ec926196728599dee5d4c520c4f456a4ee262b3b4066.jpg


Having 12 words in your head is not a crime.
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There you go. Now everyone is a criminal.


Which is why any moderate quantity of uncaptured (kyc free) property/money can only be acquired via money laundering.

Only rich billionaires are allowed to launder money through the banking system.


Send me your bitcoin and I will make a number go up on a screen for you. Trust me bro.


Unfortunately there isn't one.

https://superuser.com/questions/1603064/can-xlsx-contain-a-macro-virus

Best you can do is host it on github or something with a message that says something like: trust me bro...


Being loyal to relationships that no longer serve you is being disloyal to yourself.


Unfortunately spreadsheets can contain malware. I don't mean for that to be a reflection upon you, but maybe you look into using something that can be inspected without execution.


DYOR. This URL looks like a scam. I've never heard of it. Find a reputable software platform (if there is such a thing in this space)


#privacy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0RhCrb8OCjw


You could get an Anker SOLIX F2000 Portable Power Station if you can afford it.


Many do not understand the power of not voting.

What if only 1% voted in a democracy?

You would delegitimize the system.

In the worst case scenario, what the 1% voted for is taken as valid, uncovering the farce of modern democracy.

In the best case, the system cannot continue since it has no legitimacy and must be re-founded.

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It's your keyboard. Find an alternative keyboard that you trust. Use it just for tagging someone.


Same thing exists, to some degree, in the US. Coming to a cryptocurrency near you.
 https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/form-8300-and-reporting-cash-payments-of-over-10000


#Bitcoin
https://gifdb.com/images/high/bitcoin-mining-area-repermmnjeb2f3c3.gif


Say there is a family emergency, or I'm suddenly homeless, the list goes on. Why would you think there is no reason to sell for any given situation? Maybe I wasn't smart enough to acquired said coins kyc free. I'm on the list now. You tell me where to go from here. Finish this story.


And Then They Came for Me...


If your coin isn't kyc'ed then you are a money laundering criminal. Eventually, all coins will be on a whitelist if more and more people start complying. KYC coin is a dystopian future.


Does this make you a product?

https://nips.nostr.com/90


So is monero banned? The availability of monero in exchanges in very limited. I guess it depends on your definition of banned.


This just passed in the US (see link below). They tried to apply it to cryptocurrency, but it looks like they are testing the waters in the EU. The only way defeat this kind of thing is to become a criminal unfortunately. This is essentially a ban on crypto one way or another using a standard divide and conquer approach. The more that comply, the more they conquer until there is nobody left.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/form-8300-and-reporting-cash-payments-of-over-10000


The fact that nobody will tell you the truth proves that bitcoin is a cult. I hate quoting CSW here, but it's true in this case.

https://image.nostr.build/65e2fd4272b8d4be374851381f639dd21dd19462239e4b490dcae9607e5cd0d9.jpg


Coming to a Cryptocurrency near you. Yes, I know, it is impossible to comply with. Businesses have to become an agent of the state to operate. While an individual may not comply, you can't ask every business to shut down. They won't.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/form-8300-and-reporting-cash-payments-of-over-10000


Any moderate quantity of uncaptured (kyc free) property/money can only be acquired via money laundering.

Change My View

#asknostr #privacy

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Do you have a reference to the original document?


The signs were there all along. 😂
 https://image.nostr.build/4c08d4853dc8a79ed8e879059085f4d60db12bc34fd3f04f41afa1c26bd2e058.jpg


Funny how the answer is conveniently excluding fungibility as an attribute of money. Why is that?


Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.


FYI

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Read this as an example of how things can go wrong.

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/unproven-proprietary-chainalysis-software-jails-bitcoin-user/