Nice progress!
Also minibits.cash wallet seems to be doing well.

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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312524242884/d878959ddefa14a.htm


Just had an exciting moment that my normie friends will never appreciate.

I bought a couple beers.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers with Bitcoin.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers in Lugano Switzerland with lightning, through Zeus wallet with my own lightning channel, connected to Alby Hub, running on my Start9 node, on my shelf in my office back home in Canada.

So yes, I just bought a couple beers. But it was fucking exciting.

https://image.nostr.build/49abde134e31b5a4d25b8d029402d771184a46a2699fe0ae45721acb1ad83d32.jpg


25% of supply is > 5M bitcoin. Possible? Maybe.

As for Saylor, he has to be acting this. I don't believe he is genuine. And it is triggering the reactions necessary to wake us all up!
How to live in a world without finance laws? What can you trust?

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X7.1, second strongest of this cycle.
This time aiming at earth, more or less.
Impact from Oct 5th (estimates).
Not a kill shot in my opinion, even at current lower magnetosphere protection, but hopefully enough to be a bit of a wake-up call ?

"SIGNIFICANT X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: Fast-growing sunspot AR3842 erupted on Oct 1st (2220 UT), producing the second-strongest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25. The X7.1-category blast caused a shortwave radio blackout over Hawaii and hurled a CME into space. A preliminary NASA model predicts it will hit Earth on Oct. 5th. Stay tuned for the geomagnetic storm forecast." via spaceweather.com https://image.nostr.build/5dc38e1f9ceea6b1801950ea32915d1829f5f7a0929b041a1f1fc5844e09f774.gif


Oct 25-26
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Good point!


that AE85 at the end of the vid, ah! :) The best "budget" rally car of the 90s?


Halp me understand double ratchet. What's the advantage over just periodically generating new keys and doing DH between them? Would be fairly simple to do on Nostr. Even if your main private key was stolen, your message history would be safe.

In addition to DH keys, double ratchet also has individual "message keys" and "sending/receiving chain keys". In what real-life scenario would they be compromised without also compromising all past messages on device?

https://signal.org/docs/specifications/doubleratchet/
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#Bitcoin price: $4. He knew 💫 https://image.nostr.build/928ad7f745c72152ec13c438106e6e0ceb4ba0dc40063562f4c760f85f46f92f.png


From a quick scan of the presentation, the only real success they have is pre-Dandelion when tx left the IP source and they were able to track one exchange due to that "leak".
Other artifacts left by the various wallets is interesting and could be improved (as in remove the fingerprints where possible.)


Chainalysis Monero (XMR) Tracing
https://odysee.com/chainalysis-monero-tracing:e


World is short #bitcoin.


Looks like the GrapheneOS community was the first to discover this issue. They investigated it alongside Mullvad and reported it to AOSP. More details here: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/3442
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The "real web3" / decentralized Internet will be built from nostr

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From what I understand, smooth L2 (as in 1 tx to start, stop, revert vs several tx) can happen with one opcode. Optional.
Without it, bitcoin l2 is very limited.
My nodes will likely run new opcode,.assume futures are in favor.


"Niche programmers" sounds a bit ad hominem.

Not sure what you mean by changing the fundamental nature of Bitcoin; adding opcodes uses a foundational principle of the protocol to extend its functionality.

Normal users can't be expected to understand the intricacies of protocol development; if that was a requirement then the protocol would have ossified long ago.


Get ready to taste Latvia! 🍴

Our unconference in Riga will give you the chance to try delicious local cuisine as part of our cultural events.

Make sure to check out our Cultural Guide to go to the best restaurants!

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https://ollama.com

https://github.com/10Nates/ollama-autocoder (other extensions are also available with varying UI and results)


Does this affect Graphene or other similar de googled OSes based on android?


Chaumian ecash is awesome.

That’s it. That’s the note.


Is GrapheneOS affected?

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Very pumped to be going to Riga in August.  If you’re attending, would love to meet ya!

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jack posted. Maybey pay attention?

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What are you most looking forward to at #Nostriga ? The workshops, the networking, or side events?

Let us know! We want to help curate the best possible experience by incorporating your feedback.

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New data added for Grayscale Bitcoin Trust!

Check out BitcoinTreasuries.NET for more details!

https://bitcointreasuries.net/_files/41ba319c-9d92-40f1-887e-46d18f42f1f6.png


"allowed" only if of foreign subject/nature or they can be part of the solution for optics.

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One day, it would be nice to see a well-capitalized challenge to the Bank Secrecy Act on 4th amendment grounds.

The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they saw that people need a license to transmit money, or that the government thinks it has the right to surveil and censor everyone’s money and transactions.

The default is privacy. To infringe on someone’s privacy should require probable cause and come with checks and balances. Ubiquitous surveillance shouldn’t be the default, since it enables tyranny. https://image.nostr.build/59d050b8cf8f75a3d469e83812a0be6681bcad506e63bc0bf4417cfece14d0b8.jpg


Did you ever stop and *really* think about what it means to "do a Satoshi Nakamoto"?

Context for my weird question: I have met many, many bitcoiners over the years. Many of them take a stab at keeping privacy by doing some combo of: not revealing name, not revealing location, not revealing face. Etc. So often, if I happen to meet them in person, they end up revealing the things that they were hiding online. Quite literally a mask came off (pre covid!) once we started drinking - a simple, funny anecdotal example of what I mean. Many complain about photos being taken, many focus on always using a pseudonym. I'm sure most people reading recognize these patterns of behaviour.

I can see the purpose, up to a point, so this is not criticism. It's a little like me doing coinjoin "here and there" - you don't expect to defend yourself against a hyper powerful aggressor, only against a casual criminal looking for an easy score.

But if you do want *real* defence against *strong* attackers, you have a huge problem. These half-measures will be useless, perhaps worse than that, if you get overconfident, because the determined investigator only needs *one* strand to pull on, and the measures I describe above, which are almost always rules only half-stuck to anyway, don't cut it, at all.

Which brings me to my point: is it even possible to "go all the way"? Clearly it is; Satoshi Nakamoto is not the only person who's ever done it, but it's pretty damn rare at the very least.

Imagine what it would mean. If you are engaged in a serious project, that takes let's say at least a year's worth of full time work, then you are going to do that for no reward. Not just, no money, people do that quite often when it comes to things they genuinely enjoy, but no recognition, no social context, not even "oh I won't bother you because I know you're busy with that project". Nobody will say that because nobody will know. Imagine doing a full, intense 8 hour day of work (more likely, split over many days) and knowing that there will *never* be a direct reward of any form, for that. And then doing it again, and again.

What's more, you don't just "not get a reward". You have to do almost double the work, to ensure that at every step, every pushed commit or technical discussion, does not expose anything at the network trace level, or the language, vocabulary etc. Managing tricky pseudonym accounts, handling the headaches of Tor etc. I'm not trying to say it needs super-genius level tech skills, I'm trying to say it's a massive amount of effort.

Could you do that? I daren't even ask the question of myself, because I'm almost sure it's a no. But to *imagine* where that kind of motivation would come from, that's what fascinates me.


Sorry, but I highly doubt Huawei's helping in anything here. But maybe, the 5G from China has not been "weakened" on purpose by the US. That said, it does not matter much nowadays, since most are communicating via E2E apps. Which, means, the "monitoring" has been force to happened at the app layer more than at the LTE/5G layer.


Excerpt from 'Permanent Record' by Edward Snowden.

#cybersecgirl #snowden

The Internet is fundamentally American, but I had to leave America to fully understand what that meant. The World Wide Web might have been invented in Geneva, at the CERN research laboratory in 1989, but the ways by which the Web is accessed are as American as baseball, which gives the American Intelligence Community the home field advantage.

The cables and satellites, the servers and towers—so much of the infrastructure of the Internet is under US control that over 90 percent of the world’s Internet traffic passes through technologies developed, owned, and/or operated by the American government and American businesses, most of which are physically located on American territory.

Countries that traditionally worry about such advantages, like China and Russia, have attempted to make alternative systems, such as the Great Firewall, or the state-sponsored censored search engines, or the nationalized satellite constellations that provide selective GPS—but America remains the hegemon, the keeper of the master switches that can turn almost anyone on and off at will.

				It’s not just the Internet’s infrastructure that I’m defining as fundamentally American—it’s the computer software (Microsoft, Google, Oracle) and hardware (HP, Apple, Dell), too. It’s everything from the chips (Intel, Qualcomm), to the routers and modems (Cisco, Juniper), to the Web services and platforms that provide email and social networking and cloud storage (Google, Facebook, and the most structurally important but invisible Amazon, which provides cloud services to the US government along with half the Internet).

Though some of these companies might manufacture their devices in, say, China, the companies themselves are American and are subject to American law. The problem is, they’re also subject to classified American policies that pervert law and permit the US government to surveil virtually every man, woman, and child who has ever touched a computer or picked up a phone.

(*paragraph formatting, my own)

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"As of today there is no longer a single hard coded Coordinator server that your mixing clients are looking for, instead Coordinator server discovery is automatic through the encrypted Soroban network. This means that even if a Coordinator goes offline unexpectedly, downtime and disruption will be minimal as clients use the Soroban network to find a replacement Coordinator server."

"Our Whirlpool Coordinator now has no static clearnet domain address (for non-Tor users), and communicates with Whirlpool clients via Soroban only. This allows us to run multiple Whirlpool Coordinators at any given time, and for example allows handover to Whirlpool Coordinator #B if Whirlpool Coordinator #A is paused for maintenance activities."

- March 20, 2024

https://blog.samourai.is/decentralized-whirlpool-stage-1/


Oh damn, this is fucked up…

“Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill Are Charged with Operating Samourai Wallet, an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business That Executed Over $2 Billion in Unlawful Transactions and Laundered Over $100 Million in Criminal Proceeds”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering

Website seized, too… https://i.nostr.build/vG294.jpg


The Reynolds Foundation is supporting OpenSats with a generous $1M donation, noting that they "warmly invite fellow philanthropists to join [them] in supporting this groundbreaking endeavor"
 https://opensats.org/blog/opensats-receives-one-million-from-reynolds-foundation


GO TO VANCOUVER BC AND EXPERIENCE THE #BITCOIN VIBE. TRULY UNIQUE.

•40+ MERCH TAKING SATS (🔥CIRCULAR ECONOMY)
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•PLEB WALKS / DRIVES
•ACTIVE COMPANIES AT EVENTS SHOWING OFF BADASS DEVELOPMENTS
•PARTIES THAT ARE A BLAST

👀 2ND ANNUAL BLOCK PARTY (WATCH FOR DETAILS)

WHENEVER I LEAVE I WELL UP WITH GRATITUDE HOW KIND, ATTRACTIVE & INSPIRING THE SHARED MOMENTS ARE. BITCOIN ONLY 🤙


Double Rachet is coming to nostr DMs 🎊 🥳 🎉


join us in Riga (Aug 22/23) for the 3rd Nostr Conference 💜 followed by the Baltic Honey Badger #Bitcoin Conference!

heard a rumor nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx will be speaking there! 👀 🧢

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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


this is a good comparison. X has been going for years. nostr has just started and has already completed V4V. #nostr+  #bitcoin is unstoppable.
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peak software design https://i.nostr.build/lLMJA.jpg


I've learned these last 5 years that bitcoin is attractive to many different types of people.
I met saylor and talked to him for a bit, he has his opinions and self interests like we all do.
I disagree with his opinions, but he is allowed to have them.  I don't want to speak for him but I get the sense that he's a "store of value" above everything else, and is very pro regulation.
I don't think an individual holding that narrative would appreciate the open source community and hearing his lack of support doesn't come as being out of character, just disappointing.
Hopefully it's just a misunderstanding or if not, he will have a change of heart in the future.


I just published Announcing Strike Africa

Today, we are launching Strike Africa, expanding our full suite of #Bitcoin services into Gabon, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia with more markets to come in the future.

LFG! 🌍🫡

https://strike.me/blog/announcing-strike-africa/

https://youtu.be/Oahb-XVYdDU


Greetings from Argentina, you freedom-loving Nostriches.

Anarcho-capitalist Libertarian President Javier Milei has achieved a fiscal surplus in 2 months as president.

Mull that one over for a minute. In a world where government cronies debase their people's currency to finance political pet projects, Argentina's new administration has effectively done a 180 in 60 days as president.

He's eliminated 50,000 government jobs, allowed another 10,000 contracts to expire without renewal, eliminated 98% of provincial discretionary spending (insisting that they stick to their own budgets), and created a special unit of attorneys tasked with investigating previous government corruption/theft.

Oh, and he's doubled down on his promise to eliminate the central bank while enacting a monetary competition (that will enact dollarization in the near-term, but inevitably embrace Bitcoin in the long-term as people realize the dollar's dying as well).

You're allowed to negotiate contracts in whatever currency you wish, Bitcoin included, and Bitcoin transactions are tax-free.

So yeah...when are you coming down? I'm here in Córdoba (where we voted 75% in favor of these measures) waiting for you. First asado's on me when you get here.  LFG

Boots-on-the-ground videos and content coming soon. We start filming this week. Saludos!


Greetings from Argentina you freedom-loving Nostriches.

Bitcoin-only content and interviews with Argentinians on living through currency implosion coming up soon.

I literally haven't been able to find any English content on this aside from the tired takes from armchair quarterbacks throwing in their 2 sats from the burbs in 'Murica.

If there's anything in particular you want me to be asking, let me hear about it in the comments.

Brainstormed with my video editor today who's 100% on-board and grateful to be a part of history, building out Argentina's first Bitcoin-only education initiative with the Mi Primer Bitcoin foundation.

LFG


It's amazing how ChatGPT can write code... amazing in the sense that it can refer to nonexistent API endpoints or refer to nonexistent json in such a confident way.


LoL, this! And it bit me in the ass quite a few times too, almost literally.


Comparison of Android ROMs

GrapheneOS
DivestOS
CalyxOS
IodéOS
/e/
LineageOS
"Stock" Android

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

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Final #COLDCARD Q tease before shipping.

None of the clients could take the 120mb vid upload 😅

Bird https://x.com/coldcardwallet/status/1755639690357510485


Organic adoption story:

So many psychopaths asked to pay in Bitcoin to rent surfboards on the beach during the festival and after...

Yesterday, the owner (who I see everyday) walked up to me and asked if I happened to know anything about accepting Bitcoin.

I said si 🤙

Great job psychopaths


Yesterday, I listed two smartphones for sale on Nostr via Amethyst's Shopstr integration. Today, those phones sold. No Facebook Marketplace. No eBay. Just beautiful decentralized shopping and decentralized payments. I'll ship them tomorrow. We are winning.


Nostr is the Linux of social media.


“You can't taper a Ponzi scheme.” —Max Keiser


There is absolutely nothing that any government or central bank can do about inflation at this point. We’ve passed the point of return for the legacy system.

Only three paths exist now:

1⃣ Hyperinflate
2⃣ Default
3⃣ Buy #Bitcoin


The most important thing with the #Bitcoin ETFs that most people seem to miss is the rate of accumulation.

The last few $MSTR mega-stacks (over 10k BTC) were 14.6k and 16.1k BTC.

IBIT’s average stack is ˜$200M/day or 4.7k BTC.
FBTC’s average stack is ˜$175M/day or 4.2k BTC.

So every 2 trading days, just 2 of the New Nine are hoovering up what MSTR does in a good month.

But more importantly, the IBIT/FBTC intake is ˜9k BTC a trading day. Mining only supplies 900 a day. So demand from 2 ETFs alone is 10x supply. Supply is going to get cut in half in less than 3 months, which means this demand will be 20x supply.

And this demand is just 2 ETFs. Don’t forget MSTR, Tether, and many more corps are also accumulating, along with nation-states, HNWIs, and plebs.

Plan accordingly.


From all my conversations recently, it is obvious that a deep awakening is emerging throughout society.

And while some haven’t completely connected the dots yet, it’s inevitable…and amazing to watch.

So much gratitude for being on this ride with all of you. 💜🧡🙏

#Bitcoin
#Nostr


This is insane https://youtu.be/Ahl1lexWxbM?si=qsKLaYjgbdsFiy_0


I think Monero being delisted by every major centralised exchange actually shows it has real economic value.

You only censor what you are afraid of.

I hope Bitcoin gets really good privacy tech one day so it gets delisted from exchanges.


JB. Thanks for all your wisdom. I will forever hear “prices always fall to the marginal cost of production” in my head for all time


1 person speaking the truth is worth 10,000 speaking lies, which is also why I am so humbled to be with so many high integrity people here.

Because, we already have the numbers!

Merry Christmas and wishing you the very best of 2024.

It’s going to be an interesting one!

#Bitcoin
#Nostr


A libertarian is an anarchist who became smarter but isn’t wise yet.


Behold the generation
From hyperbitcoinization;
Born from zoomers
Here are the Bitty Boomers. https://image.nostr.build/befff11111af94cfb262d8a52130f63e52182a97fe36e3056337aad356c57cc4.jpg


More progress on Unleashed.Chat understanding nostr towards better search. The data still a couple weeks old but live data capability coming very soon.

We are also working on a kind0 to npub table to you can ask about nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z or nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m instead of npub ids.

This is live btw, give it a go.

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


Bruh liquid is that fast holy shit why are we not using it again?


Helping to correct what I was a part of and learned. It’s not about Twitter. It’s about the corporate incentives.

A company can’t own the protocol, platform, and interface all in one. The protocol layer must be free.


And there you have it, Luke was right...

Thread with references here https://x.com/orangesurfbtc/status/1732799616335106255?s=46
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Strike started a blog. First post is about peerswaps.

https://strike.me/blog/peerswaps/


Balaji wasn't wrong about #Bitcoin going to $1M, but he was wrong on the timing and the catalyst.

My $1M call is based on a massive rapid influx of institutional capital while Bitcoin available for sale is at historical lows, compounded by the halving.

His $1M prediction was predicated on money printing and banks failing. Those two things could potentially be a driver for a rapid run to $1M but not likely. The money printing already happened and then dried up. It will take a few more years for the market to adjust accordingly. As for banks failing, normies will just look for a "safer" bank. They aren't at the stage where they realize no bank is really safe and Bitcoin is the only option.

TL;DR: #1MBitcoin is in play.


The run up this time is different from last time.

Last time there was a ton of easy QE money sloshing around.

This time, money is still tight and interest rates high, but everyone is allocating to #Bitcoin.

Pay attention.


We're about to see what happens when demand shock meets supply shock. #Bitcoin


The President of Colombia is now a #Bitcoin HODLer for sure. 100,000 sats to be exact. ☕🇨🇴 https://image.nostr.build/de26cab603f2492b0d68221b2fe0b4d7fae7df6a0891249664dcebda75dcb34b.jpg


I wonder if Silicon Valley venture capital would be willing to invest in a client on Nostr? In addition to the open source donation through opensats, will #[0]  be willing to make early investment in Nostr's startup companies through venture capital?

If Nostr related startups have access to multiple financing channels, Nostr's infrastructure will be stronger, no matter what challenges they may encounter in the future. Just like the development of Bitcoin's early exchanges and mining companies after obtaining venture capital, Bitcoin's infrastructure has become more powerful, which will give users more choices.   #Nostr
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Direct Message (kind 4) metadata protection is live on all of our 🍷 nostr.wine regional relays! DMs can now only be requested by the author or the intended recipient.

If your client doesn’t currently support NIP-42, you can no longer access DMs on the nostr.wine relay. You will not lose access to anything else. nostr:note1skl8rf5f4nzqrpp9am2xs62n2r5s8dz3r5tlx5aetu976t7ggtyqyf5j4g


Halp me. 🇬🇧

https://www.thebitcoinbugle.com/nvk-arrested-by-interpol-over-plot-to-convert-big-ben-into-blockclock/


I don't think it's ever ₿een this fun fixing the world.


My biggest worry in the next #Bitcoin bull run is I won’t have enough time and energy to tell all the people “I told you so.”


I can't believe that's already been 15 yrs.


I’m launching https://www.lnesim.com/ Instantly buy travel eSIM with Bitcoin Lightning ⚡ Network. No KYC or email required.

#bitcoin #nostr #plebchain #coffeechain #lightningnetwork https://video.nostr.build/5713c3800ee3392b9848630d0911717a6f07f31c65f94722044dae17497abfbb.mp4


The biggest challenges for human civilization to overcome in the next decade are:

1⃣ Relearning what money is and why sound money is so important.

2⃣ Understanding that energy is abundant and can be harnessed by our technology.

3⃣ Seeing other people as individuals, not as part of a country or ethnic group.

#Bitcoin will be a key driver for achieving these 3 things, and if we can achieve them, we just might have a future.


Everyday Nostr and Bitcoin renew my faith in humanity. 🧡💜⚡


This is also enabled in your account Search Settings by default (Privacy & Safety), not only the Files app.

https://image.nostr.build/048ef0fe49f0c6d26bcf0aad5b57c720710b2f2b65f18eb4313e4ade76a90b76.jpg


Here is one man’s nightmare: https://nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html – don’t let that be you. Turn this feature off if you opted into the beta for Google Files today.

Thanks to BasicCatBR on Twitter for alerting us to this new feature so we could let our community know.

Here's how to turn it off:

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/261/834/035/366/341/original/2e60198127f417b4.jpg


We thought Google hit rock bottom with #privacy.

Its new beta feature on Google Files for #Android called “Smart Search" is the trap door.

This creepy new feature on by default & scans every file on your phone. Why is this bad? Because it could potentially ruin your life. (1/3)

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/261/816/914/697/065/original/c8f54cf989790809.jpg


insane

but #protonmail gets funded by EU too right!?
what does the EU have to say or force protonmail to?

arent you you also play a little bit more the compliance game too
why i cant register a new protonmail account without giving an other email?

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Interesting points. I've tried both, with and without, and at the moment, I can't remember if it makes me talk more/too much or not.

There's one thing though, when my blood/hormones were off, it did make it worse. But afterwards, once everything was in check and healthy, I can't say that it made anything worse.

Now I am curious though l...


FinCEN’s proposal to outlaw all crypto privacy is a huge overreach. They apply a section of the Patriot Act on a “class of transactions” in a new precedent. Doesn’t matter if it’s custodial or noncustodial- merely using certain type of code can be an illegal act.

People are caught by the potential spot ETF, meanwhile this is proposed. Now they fight you.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fincen-wants-to-outlaw-certain-bitcoin-on-chain-transactions/


For the check privacy settings ones, it won't change much as you do not know the other party's settings.

SimpleX seems to be trending.


5 Messengers for Privacy

Concerned about your privacy in messaging apps? Let's dive into some options and why you should reconsider WhatsApp and Telegram.

1. SimpleX:
   - ✔ No IDs
   - ✔ No Phone Number Required
   - ✔ Decentralized & Encrypted
   - ❌ Smaller User Base
https://simplex.chat/

2. Element (Powered by Matrix):
   - ✔ Decentralized
   - ✔ Customizable
   - ❌ Learning Curve
https://element.io/

3. Session:
   - ✔ Decentralized
   - ✔ No Phone Number Required
   - ❌ Smaller User Base
https://getsession.org/

4. Threema:
   - ✔ End-to-End Encryption
   - ✔ Swiss Privacy Laws
   - ❌ Paid App
https://threema.ch/

5. Signal:
   - ✔ Strong Encryption
   - ✔ Open Source
   - ❌ Requires Phone Number
https://www.signal.org/

When it comes to WhatsApp and Telegram, exercise caution:

- WhatsApp:
  - Owned by Facebook
  - Collects User Data
  - Encrypted, but metadata shared
  - 🚨 Check Privacy Settings!

- Telegram:
  - Encrypted, but opt-in
  - Not Fully Open Source
  - 🚨 Carefully Review Permissions!

Prioritize your privacy and choose the messenger that aligns with your privacy preferences. 🤐 #PrivacyMessengers #PrivacyMatters


Lugano, Switzerland has the highest density of merchants accepting bitcoin in Europe with 350+ shops onboarded.

https://video.nostr.build/9d47aa1bd8a0144d1ff5bea8cb185802ba92cf291389f3e3d9bb54c03da28bb4.mp4


Wow - can’t wait to get my hands on some 😂 https://image.nostr.build/a8a66ca132c0c0690186e0e18c6ccd1be7893bd6d0e85f4bec1861a7587a1554.png


Ethereum whales don’t have Diamond Hands… they have Sweaty Hands.

Wondering when they should best offload their bags in order to
- pay for the lawsuits brought on by people they duped
- pay the variable mortgage on that massively overvalued property
- pay for their ex who divorced them

Etc, etc. Ultra. Sweaty. Hands.
(I’m still short ETH/BTC)


You can take the orange pill orally today or rectally in a decade. The choice is yours...

https://image.nostr.build/d9ea17ccf33ac0aac7f800948f92294930d1d484441c2d699845020378d575d9.jpg


Lugano?


ETH/BTC https://image.nostr.build/d66690c447b04651fad076c8ff858a8f63bac395c2e4a38fd734add1979522ff.jpg


Bitcoin Amsterdam was wonderful, I’m so glad I came. https://image.nostr.build/28cf45812e356fc4864cb619a47df27a689dd2d85f58da7590ae6d7ef6f51056.jpg https://image.nostr.build/af0657e12aa7f8178f9c68f99baadcb400508040e326cc8f7ebd0f4f201350df.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ca007806f50a76f8e9259df18df03f250afcc011f1aaccb8cdea2618f0a96f99.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2d8c4da0bb15f99f54a0386689112408adf681b264ca88b575d0c5726613ed0d.jpg


The only way to know that the #Bitcoin you bought really exists is to withdraw from the exchange or service to your own wallet.


Still using fiat? That's the real problem.


At this point, who the fuck is lending governments their money🤷🏻


COLDCARD Mk4 Firmware 5.2.0 release 🍄⏫

## **TL;DR**: First #bitcoin Singing-Device to store MULTIPLE seeds 🎉. Switch between them effortlessly. Ideal for custodians (think Grandma's stash), devs, experiments, and secure key handling (e.g., TAPSIGNER backups).

- **New**: #SeedVault - Encrypted multi-seed storage with easy recall. Supports TRNG, #DiceRolls, etc.
- **New**: #PSBTv2 - Enables advanced PSBT workflows and apps.
- **New**: #LockDownSeed - Compatible with all ephemeral secrets.
- **Name Change**: "Ephemeral Seed" is now "Temporary Seed."
- **New**: BIP39 Passphrase - Usable as a words-based ephemeral seed, supports encoded backups, and removes visibility post-activation for added security.
- **New**: Toggle between ephemeral and main secrets without a reboot.
- **New Shortcut**: Quick Batch Sign PSBT via Ready to Sign -> Press (9).
- **Cleanup**: Axed old code to free up space.
- **Improved**: Settings slots expanded to 100.
- **Fixed**: Off-by-one error in Trick Pins -> Login Countdown resolved.
- and more!

---

- Upgrade here: https://coldcard.com/docs/upgrade/
- Learn more: https://blog.coinkite.com/5.2.0-seed-vault/
- Temporary Seed Docs: https://coldcard.com/docs/temporary-seeds/

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


If Google isn't an issue: Google Speech Services

If Googlr is an issue: RH Voice

The above are the two most recommended by our community.


did you get my DM? I would like to plan Tokyo.


GrapheneOS is now based on Android 14. Most of our changes have been ported already but we still have a lot more porting work to do. It's all going to need to be tested before we can get it all merged, and then we can start making public experimental releases based on 14.

It should happen in under 2 weeks and we'll try to get it out as soon as possible. Don't forget to expect after internal testing to go through experimental releases, followed by an alpha then beta channel release being mindful we only had very limited access to the sources before October 4th.


all true! also:
sunrise+jump rope+coffee > coffee
coffee on it's own really sucks at waking up, I agree.


In a single day, the US added more than half of #Bitcoin’s entire market cap in debt. That’s something like 10 million BTC. And yet there are still people that are unsure if $27k is a good price to buy. https://image.nostr.build/02e8d0900a5c2c2f9704b1758a2bf1b67e0eea125429e37f8de7e67a4dc79413.jpg


Not having bitcoin is gambling.

(ZeroHedge chart) https://image.nostr.build/0fa1c83ca43ef7ea14ad4cda1e82c8a1090927fcb0bb62b8d9e3ed3770903fb5.jpg


Lightning payments


GrapheneOS Foundation Transition Clarification Update:

We're continuing to make progress towards moving stewardship of GrapheneOS to the non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation. We'll be replacing our previous announcement with more detailed info on our website. We removed the thread here since it was being misunderstood and misrepresented.

There has been a significant effort to spread fabrications and spin targeting our project members with the clear aim of directing harassment towards them. Our founder stepped down as lead developer due to extreme level of harassment including multiple extreme swatting attacks.

We explained in detail how we were moving forward by transferring responsibilities to the GrapheneOS Foundation and the new lead developer. We explained it would be a long process. We don't understand how what we posted was so widely misinterpreted as someone leaving the project.

We have a team of 6 full time developers that's growing along with people working on the non-profit organization. Nearly all have been involved for many years. We've avoided other project members being targeted with significant harassment by minimizing their public exposure.

Due to the extreme attacks on GrapheneOS, most of our project members aren't comfortable with a public facing role. It's why there are so few interviews with our team, and part of why it's so difficult for us to build up the non-profit since people don't want to become targets.

We have a substantial amount of funding available to the non-profit that's not yet being used because of the difficulty in expanding the team under these adverse conditions. We could have 12 full time developers or more, but we don't because of these attacks on the project.

The way we've protected our team led to increasingly more targeted harassment towards the only person who had a public-facing role. The attacks shifted from technical misinformation to bullying/harassment based on misrepresentations/fabrications referencing the past harassment.


So, is simplex.chat the new one vs Signal/Keybase/etc?

cc nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8


1,100 people have signed up for #Nostrasia.... so far!

Join us virtually or in person in Tokyo or Hong Kong, Nov 1-3: https://tally.so/r/meM1yx


I have to give them credits for coming up with a solution that appears to be solid and is standing the test of time so far. I can't say that I would know how to break it down to create ASICs for it, which is impressive.
Plus, they could iterate again, and again...


Excited to announce the release of the #Freerse App, I’ve been deeply in love since first joining Nostr on February 1stBeing fascinated by Nostr and meeting wonderful people, Nostr was just the place I was looking for. After using Nostr for a month,I decided to make my contribution to building #Nostr, I firmly believe that the combination of Nostr and Bitcoin will change the world.

Value Rewards Creativity

I believe in it, and I will build it and make it come faster.

Bitcoin lets you own your wealth,
Nostr lets you own your mind.
Bitcoin + Nostr = freedom

-Publish and browse posts
-Publish long articles and subscribe to browse long articles
- Preview function before publishing posts and long articles
-Zap connects to NWC wallet, Alby wallet, mutinywallet
-Notes and pinned chat functions for chat partners

download:
iOS TestFlight：https://testflight.apple.com/join/IbJTYBAa

Google Play：https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apps.freerse https://image.nostr.build/30075f55654188d45a8b2177266e8557a491d4761c0338437b7c5d959260af5c.png https://image.nostr.build/f6188546e0726ac914ed35d1ebf4f89d2c7d90bd1eaa143afab5c064204f6c59.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4a25c1bea2be12430d0efebac3bc841f5bdc9ddbb5a78e710748bc0a4881665e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/21d3256950b20aa81994ad70373a6e034dcf37f5520b4c0529744eab963c703b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/16e7d6552f32509ff64b49a924b152c791860cff9345855bc1b29c634b966307.jpg https://image.nostr.build/145affa268cb3a9724ca02fc0e938e8c73c4acb1234db86bf3c803facdb51061.jpg https://image.nostr.build/23fdcccd7eeb2a16b9256eaca51649503ef2f735e679f896e03ec639b40f2b55.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4d13b99c02deb08d5ba92e16eb9d105b766f1a7b0a7760689e9d4286fe37ddf5.jpg


only ETF I’m interested in is End The Fed


This.
I think at best, intel agencies get metadata off of the SGX enclosures on the contacts connecting algos. From there, with a #, they can target for full remote exploitation (via 0 clicks). Then simply collect while unencrypted.
I doubt Signal encryption is compromised.
For more secure comms, there's a new option around: https://www.numbersstation.app/
Colin's blog posts are right on spot.


This really looks like an attack on his whole phone (Pegasus-like attack) or an Apple backdoor (assuming he uses iphone) they are known to cooperate with three-letters ag**cies) not a signal issue per se.


beyond RSK? Spiderchain vs drivechain?
Bitcoin based EVMs will take over in the long run.
cc sovryn
https://www.botanixlabs.xyz/en/home


long distance mesh network over RF, for cheap.
https://youtu.be/EAQI2ZSmxPU


Looks cool, I wonder if there's a nostr angle here?
https://reticulum.network/


When does @woonomic theory break?

RT:
Preston, this only matters in margin spot markets. Shorting gold or BTC on spot requires someone to lend the underlying asset. Pull the asset off the exchange and nobody can borrow it to margin short.

But what I refer to is futures markets. I can put in USD collateral and sell near unlimited BTC futures contracts.

Some misunderstanding from the community here so let’s run through the mechanics with a thought experiment:

According to
@glassnode
 there are 2.3 million BTC sitting on exchanges today. Let’s say the public wants to buy ALL of them and to take custody. So how much USD would I need to prevent the price from climbing?

Well for every spot BTC that is bought I need to sell 1 BTC of futures contracts. These two markets are tightly linked via arbitrage traders who make money whenever they get out of step.

Remember selling a future contract is just a bet on the price to go down. There is no limit on how many bets I can lay down apart from how much money I have to back that bet.

5x leverage is the norm so I would need $12b USD and absolutely NO BTC in my futures account to stop  BTC price from moving upwards even if all the BTC available on exchanges were being bought up. (2.3m BTC * price / 5x leverage).

How much money is in the banking system? $20T of M2 money. $12b is a rounding error.

If we go into the math at more details, it’s slightly more than the $12b due to futures contracts being priced higher (called contango for those reading this), that price premium is captured as profit if you short BTC (this is called a basis trade).

In a basis trade you would normally buy spot BTC to protect from getting rekt if BTC price went up (short squeeze). But hell, if I had $12b of collateral why hedge. I’m the OG, I don’t need to buy spot BTC to protect from BTC going up as I have enough sell power to keep it down.

So in fact for an entity that has $12b of capital there is a profit incentive to short BTC on futures and keep price down.

Can this be done? Yes, because…

futures > spot

All you need to check is the daily volumes being traded on futures. It dwarfs the liquidity on spot markets. As long as this is the case, spot markets orbit the gravity of futures markets, not the other way around.

Hence you see the agenda by laid out to delay a spot ETF. For 7 years spot liquidity has been held back. While futures markets have flourished, vastly outgrowing the spot market.
https://x.com/woonomic/status/1705038126912340199


MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 5,445 #Bitcoin

The firm hodls 158,245 $BTC

Supply shocktober is going to be wild.  https://m.primal.net/HLxw.jpg


Looking forward to this one as we have some pretty cool things lined up!!
Join me if you can. nostr:note1s00vgn2twdn8pgush8893uzcwm546u4u6mvr7kv227drxl9hvgnqutkxx9


Something you should run if you have an iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212650


“Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards.” — Bill Watterson (of Calvin and Hobbes fame)


Self Sovereign Identity: There Is No Free Lunch?

It seems that any kind of self sovereign identity (SSI) verification mechanism must involve effort on the part of the user— because the lower the effort required, the easier it is to game. This effort—inherent friction—will be a challenge to adoption.

SSI’s necessary verification effort can be compensated for by making it worthwhile for the user; by making the SSI, once acquired, powerful and multifunctional. However, that in turn makes identity theft more profitable.

Unless I’m missing something, there seems to be no escape here.

Social recovery is often mentioned as a way to harden SSI. But if not done in the meatspace this can be subject to man-in-the-middle attacks. And eventually, as people’s bodies get more integrated with digital hardware (a la neuralink), the advantage of meatspace verification will diminish.

I’m not saying Self Sovereign Identity isn’t a worthy goal to pursue, just trying to identify what fundamental challenges we will be facing as this technology is rolled out.

Thoughts?


They can’t cancel you if you don’t use their money and don’t use their platform.

#Nostr #Bitcoin


What are your favorite hardware wallets, among the latest generation of them?

And are there any that you really don’t like?


Perfect spot for my haventent:)


too many messaging apps


True!


Two ghosts are circulating in the crypto world:

Satoshi Nakamoto

Nicolas van Saberhagen


wen muay thai gym in el zonte? can i put a bounty on this? 😂


how's the BJJ community there, if any? cc @mcshane nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va


Agree!
The "Internet" has pretty much moved its content behind Cloudflare (giving US Intel Community a vantage point?).
Agree, VPN and Tor endpoints are blacklisted and throttled. A real pain. (Even rented VPS IPs tend to be in blacklisted range).

The solution?
As mentioned, a new protocol or set of protocols has to succeed.


This really is the worst. Instagram started the trend with their hideous "log in or else" flow. Then Twitter and reddit went to insanely privacy-hostile API changes instead of simply requiring a proof of work or anon payment. Even some major nostr relays seem to be doing Tor blocking now (damus? Not sure, but I get a ton of errors connecting to certain relays via Tor.)

Platforms have become so fearful of bots/spam/scraping (or rather pretend to be fearful, so as to justify blatantly commercial and anti-social decision-making) that they've totally destroyed the open access model that a functioning freenet depends on.

This is the main reason I want to see "unowned" protocols succeed. Jack has it right: we're at a turning point.

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A couple weeks ago the Relay for Reddit app I've used for many years stopped working because the developer added a dependency on Google Play services to force paid subscriptions. GrapheneOS doesn't play well with that.

So I begrudgingly switched to the Infinity app. Well, this week it appears they started blocking all known VPN and data center IP addresses.

I hate this recurring feeling as a Cypherpunk that the walls keep closing in.


I will be glad to see the legacy VISA/MC card system go. They've indoctrinated multiple generations into thinking it's normal to have somebody else decide whether or not you can spend your money — and then charge you for the privilege.


The fact that Bitcoin isn't yet accepted everywheree and for everything really underlines for me how few people have actually used Lightning. Whenever I show somebody how it works, there's always that "wow" moment. But why was it a surprise?

The problem is that normal people still understand BTC from the one half-remembered opinion piece they read in 2017, and are operating under the belief that transactions still take an hour to settle, rather than being instantaneous and irreversible — money transmission without the Paypal Problem. The public mind needs a cache refresh.


Following exchange wallets is pretty insightful and joyful.

On my screen 25 plebs just withdrew a total of 3.39 btc. Those utxos belong to stackers w/o any doubt (reused)

Zealots silently accumulating and setting the floor. Exciting to witness.