Apart from Bolt12, one more feature of this week's release deserves to be highlighted:

👉 "Any amount chain swaps" 👈

What this means is: you can now send any amount into a chain swap and as long as it's within our min/max range, Boltz will process the swap.

This is nice for flexibility (just send vs. decide how much first) but also fixes a major UX issue of boltz.exchange users:
- if you accidentally sent too little: your swap still processes with the actually sent amount (instead of failing) and
- if you accidentally sent too much: your swap processes with the sent amount (instead of you losing out on the overpaid amount)

Two of the most common reasons for failed swaps and support tickets 🤓

DISCLAIMER: only works for chain swaps, not for swaps with Lightning involved

Also, we just pushed out a new Boltz Client release implementing Bolt12 and any amount chain swaps.

https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-client/releases/tag/v2.2.0


The guy that made this meme (like actually took the picture) has been publicly enjoying the fact that it has gone viral on multiple platforms lately.

nostr:note1ymmryc3jfv3r0sqvlklxauekyq338yr3gq37qk0jl04m8wjynmsqz72zvt


nostr:npub1psm37hke2pmxzdzraqe3cjmqs28dv77da74pdx8mtn5a0vegtlas9q8970 is one of my favorite tools in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Not a week goes by that I don't use it.

What a great job.


How Nostr scales according to nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240

https://youtu.be/GA8z7f7a2Pk?si=5_u_A9Tx6oPriHu7


Another round of nostr:npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4  signs. LFG!!!  🫡

Waiting for the movie to start? Then learn about Bitcoin!

———————————————
#bitcoinrocks #btc #knowledge #signs #freedom #proofofwork #knowledgeSpam
https://m.primal.net/LrxJ.jpg


When your friend asks you for the 69th time “is now a good time to buy #bitcoin  or do you think it will go lower?” https://v.nostr.build/9OjhT6OSQFsvk8qg.mp4


And thank you Jeff


Well said

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Use multiple browsers


Stay humble & stack sats, may end up being the greatest advice I ever received.

https://fountain.fm/episode/XCJzob9JrOr5AHfima0d

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👍

https://fountain.fm/episode/Vr7NfU0BS5J72dlAUxw9

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzpmfdtx4s9agg4ng2m7m0lcvd6r09sxnswcu3tyyc2nuj9p03hlnts4krlz


Der nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc was one of my early bitcoiners who inspired me to stop lurking on bitcoin and actually create my own videos…

I had no idea how to start so he gave me his webcam and told me… just fucking do it.

I visited Gigi on his secret citadel and it’s still one of my favorite videos 😂😂

Thanks for all the inspiration and guidance.. you’re truly one of the people who made a big change in my life. Fucking love you my friend 🧡🫡

https://youtu.be/X8PpCZoquvM


Danxia, the heart of Zhangye National Geopark, is renowned for its strikingly vibrant rock formations, which are smooth, sharply defined, and rise hundreds of meters high. These unique colors and shapes formed over 24 million years from layered deposits of sandstone and various minerals.

https://video.nostr.build/4fff0469bad8e3ea034a9d19b01dad8b5127ab49bd49cb9ebc3566992a60efd5.mp4

#bullishbounty


"The national debt hit $1.2T in early 1983. It then took 26 years to 10x from $1.2T to $12T in late 2009 and has only taken another 15 years to triple from there to $36T "

Everything is going to be fine😅

https://www.tftc.io/treasury-auction-us-election/?ref=martys-bent-newsletter


We're about to see some really weird games!

nostr:note1jg4n5rcp87yvq8494ucdrz4mhcn325wddqz04tkumy8nuqa362zsug88gs


It's not just the US considering Unrealized Capital Gains

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/denmark-to-consider-unrealized-cryptocurrency-gains-tax-next-year/


So people think that they should get infinite free support from paid employees that crowds out people who actually bought the product when they made a custom device and downloaded a free, open source, secure, custom OS that took years to build and get working properly and they think they are entitled to someone else's time and assistance because... why exactly?

 nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll you guys should change it to $100 a year honestly. You really want to keep the communists out of the group. Just sayin.


From the  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx told you so X files:

When X unveiled its newest terms of service, which go into effect on November 15, users quickly picked up on one change.

“By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to make your Content available to the rest of the world,” the terms of service said, which includes the right to analyze any of that content “including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type.”

Basically, by continuing to use the platform, users will agree that X can use their data to train its AI models.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/21/tech/x-twitter-terms-of-service/index.html
#data #privacy #technology #ai #artificialintelligence


Calling self-custody "crypto-anarchism" oversimplifies what Bitcoin accomplishes.

It's about freedom—freedom of speech, property rights, and protecting your right to own what's yours.

We must not dismiss it because freedom isn't promised—it must be fought for and protected.

As I said at the end of the clip, I love Saylor. He's a friend. This is the only free market in the world being free.

In any free market, especially something as revolutionary as Bitcoin, people are going to have different views. That's not just normal, it's necessary.

It's all love from me. My goal is simply to defend the principles that I believe make Bitcoin powerful: freedom and the ability for anyone to engage with it however they see fit.
https://m.primal.net/Ldqf.mov


Good morning!

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


War is utterly retarded.

No one who wants it dies and no one who dies wants it.


Every time I see one of these rockets land I am completely blown away. What an amazing feat of engineering!

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I made zaps posting videos about paying for coffee in zaps on Nostr

So I can share videos about paying for coffee with zaps on Nostr

And the circle shall continue if you also zap this on Nostr

#MetaNostr #ZapCircle

📍 maia, Funchal 🇵🇹

PS - kudos to the few regular clients of Nostr who visit this coffee shop!

https://m.primal.net/LSLF.mov


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


Mining again for the first time since 2011. This thing is adorable. https://i.nostr.build/N52I6UyrDukOHP0P.jpg


You’re not a Bitcoiner until you…

Buy Bitcoin.

But then you’re like wait, I need to get these coins off the exchange.

So you get a hardware wallet.

But then you’re like wait, this is a ledger.

So you get a cold card.

But then you’re like wait, it isn’t using a passphrase.

So you use a passphrase.

But then you’re like wait this isn’t multisig and multisig would be better.

So you buy 4 more coldcards and set up a multisig.

But then you’re like wait I can’t just do coldcards I have to guard against supply chain attacks.

So you buy a ledger again and probably a bitbox too.

But then you’re like wait, I haven’t geographically distributed these.

So you disperse them throughout the country.

But then you’re like wait, what about jurisdictional risk?

So you disperse them to multiple countries.

But then you’re like wait, what if I was tracked as I was placing the hardware wallets?

So you…

There’s actually no end.

It just keeps going like that forever.

Congrats you’re a Bitcoiner now lol 😂


Experience the “Art of Revolution” live at the artevistasgallery exhibition, open till Oct 20.
https://m.primal.net/LJoB.jpg


NOSTR FIXES THIS.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/a5ad48db241f3f77e8336329fa8f6281be2613363414968ae5d097231854ed54.png


Good morning.

US debt now stands at $35.3 trillion. If we were to return to 0% interest and make payments of $1 million per hour, it would take approximately 4,023 years, or until the year 6,047, to bring the debt back down to zero.

Have a great day.


"We can't entrust our primary communications network to a handful of corruptible humans. And now we don't have to."

I had the pleasure to work with Reason on this Nostr explainer video this summer

Happy to see it in the wild!

https://m.primal.net/KsvE.mov


GM and good luck to the Samourai folks in today's hearing. 🌀

https://image.nostr.build/a17d43b69d5a76cc00f0ae58d511c8125310f6330a1e9486bd8625f7edebab52.jpg


Tomorrow marks the beginning of the end for the DOJ's campaign against privacy & open-source devs.

All the best to the Samourai Wallet team. Kick the tires and light the fires, guys 👊

Support their legal defense fund: https://p2prights.org/donate.html


If money is information and it is manipulated, then “misinformation” is whatever those most empowered by the manipulation of money determine it is.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr


Clown world!

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This is a work of art plain and simple. It evoked emotion in me. I’d hang it on my wall. https://i.nostr.build/fbssvwMKb91bn1zE.jpg


When will they learn?

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This might be the truest meme I’ve ever seen 😂 https://i.nostr.build/b8Kf7BkySldfOLik.jpg


THE X ACCOUNT OF THE RECENT TRUMP SHOOTER WAS IMMEDIATELY SUSPENDED LEAVING PEOPLE TO SCAVENGE THROUGH UNVERIFIABLE SCREENSHOTS TO INDEPENDENTLY RESEARCH HIS MOTIVES AND CONNECTIONS.

NOSTR FIXES THIS.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/145c390b885d50604c662d73f98b46248136c662553e1a2506551cb97d4cfff5.jpg


A Madex Manifesto...

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


A must-see documentary on Netflix that explains how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook to seriously influence voters in the 2016 US election, Brexit in the UK, and many other elections around the globe

https://www.netflix.com/gb/Title/80117542


Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see and write about the Edward Snowden files. Check out his really good intro to "Why Privacy Matters".  It's only 15 minutes long

https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare


Another power company using wasted renewal energy to mine #Bitcoin

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/japans-largest-electricity-provider-explores-bitcoin-mining-with-surplus-renewable-energy/


House approves $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas and now the US wants to ban Russian Media worldwide!

https://rumble.com/v5exrqd-u.s.-pushes-to-censor-russian-media-worldwide-while-funding-own-propaganda-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp


Stacking sats on a note then spending it is on things you can hold in your hands is WILD ⚡

Shout out to nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg for making it so damn easy

📍 multitronics, Curaçao 🇨🇼
https://m.primal.net/KqBL.mov


protip: If you are seeing spam in your notifications, you can enable this option which hides notifications from those who are not friends or friend-of-friends. Its a bit subtle so you might have missed it 😅 https://image.nostr.build/c27cbdbcec5ca6680b796e53fef0c02ef94ae76c36616c4e2728488ec537afc8.jpg


Today I learned that the new Surat Diamond Bourse in India is the biggest office building in the world in terms of square meters of floor space.

Until this was built in 2023, the Pentagon was the world’s biggest office building. More floor space than any skyscraper. Now this one is bigger.

But my first thought is, “why the hell does a diamond exchange have to be so big!?” Like, I can’t imagine what they need so much space for.
https://m.primal.net/KqKZ.jpg


And it's so ugly!


Lol the days of loading up a tutorial wallet with a full coin. No one, myself included, realized how precious those sats were.

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


The most punk thing that you can do right now is be happy.

The mainstream wants you exhausted, unhealthy, doomscrolling, angry and pathetic. It drives more clicks and advertisers. Finding true joy has become edgy.


I will be adding the Gamma to my collection of #Bitaxes

nostr:note1zp6kmwtntn4f5sw665kyz3qr4dfdzs3c97fa47h0lspukjpeqr7qxz5gd8


It's amazing that bitcoin exists, and that it continues to work. It's amazing that nostr exists, and that all the stuff that we only dreamed about a few short years ago is being built out before our eyes.

Zaps and splits and eCash and self-sovereign infrastructure and streaming sats and swarm highlights and zapraisers and marketplaces and secure chat and and and. And this is just the beginning. "It's as bad now as it will ever be."

Grateful to be part of it all.


Government censorship around the world is becoming very obvious. Brazil has banned X and Rumble. France has also banned Rumble.

https://rumble.com/v5eqay5-fcc-commissioner-brendan-carr-on-escalating-censorship-and-motives-behind-t.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp


Major new feature I've been working on non-stop: Cashu.me now supports Nostr Wallet Connect.

https://void.cat/d/LjD41hSkFKNGsxmhRwizJT.webp
https://void.cat/d/TtGSw7TYzMH4Zxo99KziR8.mp4


A zombie tarantula.

Actually, Ophiocordyceps caloceroides infecting a tarantula. The fungus keeps the host alive as long as possible and directs the spider to the place where assocarps can spread the fungi spores more effectively

[📷 Ian Suzuki] https://image.nostr.build/7fb7dc371387ee38b134704a2a3f71cc239d0f1422abcaa97aee07b4a28e8d57.jpg


6 more days until the first Mining Monday Meetup at Bitcoin Park. Stop by if you're in Nashville and interested in Bitcoin mining.

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/302996672/?recSource=group_search&recId=b4d9a5cf-e514-43b1-9001-1085348fbaec&searchId=a79c7803-2566-4cd9-8d3a-28fd26675249&eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events


“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”

- Buckminster Fuller


"People already pay unrealized gains taxes, it's called a property tax."

Property taxes should be abolished. Using property taxes to justify more unrealized gains taxes is not going to sway a lot of voters. People hate property taxes.

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These stories will continue to happen within our circles of friends and family. The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.
nostr:nevent1qqsqcyxp4fc8h7gks7uhkkhv7g6qzpjfu43fxpn5m2tplrp0xjgyavsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcrqsqqqqqptcpev2


Welcome


If you don't already, now is a good time to follow the #introductions hashtag, to welcome the many new nostriches that arrive. Who knows, maybe some of them will build the coolest stuff or provide the best content :)


You should join  nostr:npub1jfujw6llhq7wuvu5detycdsq5v5yqf56sgrdq8wlgrryx2a2p09svwm0gx instead. Reddit is dead.
https://i.postimg.cc/13KWb5cT/SN-vader.jpg


I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡


nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg crushing it at #Nostriga
https://m.primal.net/KHpZ.jpg


Can't wait to get mine

nostr:note1gucsjvq9daghhng24ttkp0vpaj77r92kkudku5p6xkxh4zts5p9s2vyrfa


These Bitaxe open source home miners are getting so good, a Bitaxe found a block recently!

I have the Ultra, Supra and will be getting this one too.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitaxegamma-5th-major-revision-with-bm1370-asic-from-antminer-s21-pro/


DSmith

Bitcoin + Open Source Software + Privacy = Freedom. Stay humble and stack sats🤙


TENNESSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL JONATHAN SKRMETTI JOINED US AT THE PARK A FEW WEEKS AGO TO DISCUSS THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT FOR OPEN SOURCE DEVS IN AMERICA.

HE WILL BE ON CITADEL DISPATCH TOMORROW AT 2100 UTC. JOIN US IN THE INTERACTIVE LIVE CHAT. 🫡

https://citadeldispatch.com

https://cdn.satellite.earth/b0c070df8cd4ae93737026b65e7c652c65557e3ff890f6ed6f3b01a51e6dafbb.mp4


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There is a lot of censorship going on in the UK right now. Social Media companies are being forced to delete posts, deplatform accounts which are deemed to be spreading "misinformation" and "hate speech".

Of course the UK government is the self appointed Ministry of Truth.

If you are an Englishman, please advise your fellow citizens to join Nostr.
We should be using this platform to return people their voices, other than shitposting/cringeposting and being nerds.

Personally, I am in of the opinion that western governments have become too big and wield way too much influence for the level of competence they display. We need to get it through people's head that Bitcoin is how you defund these parasites with dictatorial aspirations.


Police use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and other marginalized communities

Government use of FRT needs to be banned or it will be abused

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/why-weak-guardrails-police-face-recognition-use-may-actually-make-things-worse


A great talk filled with unrefutable examples of how Bitcoin is being used globally. 🚀🚀🚀
nostr:nevent1qqst8420ru79qpuw3d2xpt8tawfe3qwq8wkacjfhcgehz92dhr98nhgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygzccaq65ccv9k3454480sws2wqepz73q5z0m5kckslhyhh6d533jcpsgqqqqqqsrfskd2


If you would like to see a Nostr panel at SXSW next year (one of the world's biggest normie arts, culture, and tech festivals, tens of thousands of attendees, mostly C-level folks) then you can vote here to make it happen!

https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/155651


I have not. What would you recommend?


It's not a reddit clone but I use Primal mostly on Desktop and Amethyst on Mobile


Move to Nostr people

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/07/reddit-paywalled-subreddits/


Up until November 2021 Meta was scanning the face of every person in photos posted on the platform.

Glad to see Texas is fighting back and stopping companies from capturing biometric identifiers for a commercial purpose

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/texas-wins-14-billion-biometric-settlement-against-meta-it-would-have-happened


Bumble, a dating app, selling customers private date. Why am I not surprised!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/eff-and-12-organizations-tell-bumble-dont-sell-user-data-without-opt-consent


130 lines of code: nostr:nevent1qqsfry0u0d9drcdf0xtz03ahtzrv72xargxhd956ya9jvcuujl760vcpr3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw33k76twwpshy6ewvdhk6tcdane6j


Can’t hit “sell” if you can’t access your brokerage account.
https://m.primal.net/JoqG.jpg


Loving Craig’s website right now.

And it stays like this for 3 months.

https://craigwright.net/
https://m.primal.net/JSxk.jpg


Japan and Korean stock markets hitting circuit breakers. Bitcoin tapping below $54k.

Basically it’s goblin-land in terms of western liquidity on a Sunday night as eastern stuff blows up.

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Stuck Transaction?
Mempool Accelerator™ fixes this

Launch of open beta starts today!

Click Accelerate from the transaction page and pay with lightning or fiat.
No sign up necessary.

Initial mining pool partners make up 40% of Bitcoin’s global hashrate: Foundry USA Pool , MARA, SBICrypto, SpiderPool and  nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze

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


CENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA IS A PSYOP. AN ADDICTION TRAP.

X IS THE NEW MAINSTREAM MEDIA. BLUE CHECKS THE NEW CNN HOSTS.

FACEBOOK IS A SURVEILLANCE BEAST. MILKING BILLIONS OF DATA SLAVES.

EVERY THOUGHT TRACKED. EVERY NARRATIVE CONTROLLED.

NOSTR IS FREEDOM. INDEPENDENCE. THE FUTURE. MOMENTUM IS STRONG. KEEP PUSHING FORWARD.

LIVE FREE. 🫡


#Mullvad #VPN on #Mac now supports split tunneling

https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/mullvad-vpn-on-mac-now-supports-split-tunneling/9375

#privacy #cybersecurity


Go follow this account.

What’s happening in Venezuela right now will barely make the news in the west given the Olympics.

This is important. And heartbreaking. nostr:note1cgphmz3z2yqc30vxvn4w5a50xhk8x4z62tq5ej227l4ylx3fk02sfc2jd3


Here’s the YouTube link to the nostr panel for anyone who wants it! nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s thanks to the nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu team for having us. https://youtu.be/XyZVTzfcUKU?si=z9lJ311I8ZEbKLsZ


WOW FRESH ATH CONGRATS EVERYONE https://i.nostr.build/AiSErzfAYzQWL5Qn.jpg


they were spamming common hashtags, so if you follow any common hashtag it will show up in the feed. muting doesn't work because they are creating a new pubkey and profile for each note.

I am blocking them based on content now, but I am looking forward to them getting around it so I can keep improving noteguard :]


I already feel that riots are crossing the not turning back point, so many deads and these will not be for nothing

https://video.nostr.build/f09fe9de8c82c92f40ff699d2d99615b6e52804bad0e1843f91908f36f63e857.mp4

#venezuela #plebs #plebchain


Great episode  nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev &  nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr.

Guy and Mechanic talk about the current state of Bitcoin, pure signal!

https://fountain.fm/episode/lgzLn14ZspAyW1Lbq0ZK


Good morning!

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It's time for Lightning⚡ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
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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


It's time to stop being defensive and start suing the government.

This is how gun rights have been successfully defended for decades.


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


Is there a recommended wallet to receive the stable coins?


The banks are pretty sure they have our money

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


It's unfortunate that the US government is so tyrannical on financial services.

Lots of overseas banks don't even want US customers because of the regulation and bureaucratic headaches.

Sadly it looks like the parallel is happening in Bitcoin world too.


The wallet in my pocket is not a Money Services Business. Neither is the wallet on my Lightning node.


Why?


Introducing Top Zaps

We just released an update to all Primal clients. You’ll notice that we now render several top zaps at the bottom of each note. The top zapper gets their zap message displayed. Brevity is enforced: we only allow room for 4-5 short words. Anyone can zap any note and include any message. Note author can mute abusive users and keep their sats. Let’s see how this goes!

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


Our latest on Freedom.Tech breaks down the indictment of Samourai Wallet and actionable next steps for everyone:

https://freedom.tech/doj-tightens-strangehold-on-bitcoin-privacy/

In addition, I worked with  nostr:npub1txwy7guqkrq6ngvtwft7zp70nekcknudagrvrryy2wxnz8ljk2xqz0yt4x and  nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx to write a guide helping users migrate from Samourai Wallet -> Sparrow Wallet, including a video tutorial:

https://freedom.tech/samourai-to-sparrow/

Full video here on Nostr:

https://v.nostr.build/4oMGr.mp4


As an explanatory note of why the traceability with sideswap is broken (because some have asked) when performing peg-in and peg-out is because they use a temporary hot wallet, therefore when performing peg-in there is no link between your btc and the l-btc issued and the same happens when performing peg-out.

If you exceed the amount of the temporary wallet you will know it because you will get 102 confirmations instead of 2 and in the same way when performing the peg-out the time will be longer than two confirmations, between 20 and 60 minutes.

You will know all this before confirming the transaction and you can check it in the liquid mempool to make sure there is no linkage.

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If you were a Samourai Wallet user and confused about how to restore your funds elsewhere, we've got you covered:

https://freedom.tech/samourai-to-sparrow/

https://v.nostr.build/4oMGr.mp4


COPA coming to Samourai’s defence is what I expect to see announced next. This is a historic case that will determine the future of Bitcoin.

The high stakes Samourai case is no different to Bernstein v. United States, and requires a final, definitive answer to the fundamental (already answered) question, “What is the true nature of all cryptographic operations taking place in computers?”.

And Bitcoin is simply math being performed in computers, and it is literally nothing more than that. The same arguments for Bernstein, and Phil Zimmerman’s case (http://www.skypoint.com/members/gimonca/philzima.html) apply to Samourai, and the same defences should work if The Constitution hasn’t changed. And it hasn’t.

If COPA do not rise to this challenge and defend the underdog, then the floodgates will be opened for the missapplication of money laws to all Bitcoin operations no matter what they are.

At the fundamental level, Bitcoin is speech. This is not “Semantics”; this is a plain statement of fact, established in law.

Everything you do in Bitcoin is protected speech. If you believe that this event applies only to “mixing”, you are mistaken.

The simple act of “moving” Bitcoin from one address you are known to control and are registered with, to another address that is an “unregistered Bitcoin address” could be construed as a criminal act in the future if COPA don’t kill this.

And I hope they kill it. With fire.

 @opencryptoorg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States


https://i.nostr.build/Z5E0Q.jpg

#grownostr #DoItRight


When Central Banks and Governments print money it causes #inflation. Inflation destroys the money. #Bitcoin fixes this!

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Privacy is normal and good.

There has been an effort among authorities to make “money laundering” and “financial privacy” the same thing. That is, the mere act of moving money privately itself becomes a crime. That’s not okay.

Money laundering is when money that is obtained through crime is concealed by obfuscating it with clean money. The actual crime is the initial non-financial crime (say, mob stuff), and historically money laundering involves manual activity to work with the criminals.

Now that open source tech can make certain transactions private, authorities increasingly equate all private money transfer with money laundering, even if the developer of the open source tech had no direct involvement with criminals. Authorities target them regardless, and sanction the technology itself. Financial privacy becomes synonymous with crime in their minds, and in the minds of the public.


Privacy is not a crime.

But apparently if you dare to earn money by helping others improve their financial privacy, that's a crime. 😐


Money used to be private by default.

Once it became widely surveilled in the 20th century, attempts to make money more private again were generally criminalized. nostr:note14csdgnum2xkte2d46n2ru6e30eshfvncldqf6vvnp88kj0xf5x3qfwsh7a


In a FPPS pool miners don’t actually interact with #Bitcoin but rather they are treated like employees of the pool. nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze takes a different approach by giving sovereignty back to the miners. #MineWithOCEAN
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Might change the title to ‘Coin Mixing Is My FUCKING Right’. Will see what the owner thinks…

#bitcoin #privacy #freedom https://image.nostr.build/b2c574c43d2a5a30590f04656558a78f0c04ccc8ed8926dd05bd9ba969fa333b.jpg


huge

(small)

https://www.mining.build/latest-updates-3nm-system/


Announcing Strike Europe

Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers

Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.

We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.

When EU?!? Now 🫡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cboYEHuXwbc&ab_channel=JackMallers


fight for bitcoin. care deeply about customers. build beautiful products. stack sats, always.

make no mistake, this stuff has been so hard at times and that’s putting it lightly.

so thankful for everyone that’s supported us and myself. my Bitcoin journey started as a college dropout in my room on r/Bitcoin in 2013. this community has helped raise me into the man i am today. beyond grateful. can’t believe i get to be a part of this chapter of humanity with you all.

we will never stop. UK is next. give us a month or so
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EU Parliament Adopts New Financial Surveillance Rules for Service Providers

The EU Parliament approved a new AML package that will come into effect in 3 years. The new rules contain enhanced customer surveillance measures for financial institutions and EU wide limit of 10000 EUR on cash payments for obligated entities.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/eu-adopts-new-financial-surveillance-aml-rules/


Strike Launches Services in Europe

"I’m thrilled to announce that today, Strike launches to eligible customers in Europe, giving millions of people access to buy bitcoin with free, instant, and unlimited deposits, sell, send and withdraw bitcoin, global payments, bitcoin and lightning wallet features, and more," announced  nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/strike-launches-in-europe/


RHR AT 1800 UTC TOMORROW.

https://rhr.tv

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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. 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.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes

9 March 1993


BREAKING: Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

- The charges include conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitting business.
- The Samurai Wallet website has been confiscated, and a seizure warrant for Samurai's mobile application has been submitted to the Google Play Store.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-and-charged-with-money-laundering/


The more you reinforce a system based on theft, the more it steals from you, divides you, and then controls you.

From that system, war is inevitable because it is a requirement that you believe it is someone else’s fault to retain its power over you.

With the chaos from the existing system bound to expand over the next number of years, it will be easy to get pulled back in.

The more you reinforce a system based on truth, the faster the world changes to hope and abundance. We are early, but our actions matter more than we realize. Every node (we) matters.

Keep the higher ground, and help others see it.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr
And soon….#Fedi


Lets, try this again. Check out this video I’ve been working super hard for it. Hopefully you enjoy it as much as my team and I did making it 🙏🫶

https://v.nostr.build/Enm4n.mp4


A single custodian now controls the coinbase addresses of at least 9 pools, representing 47% of total hashrate.

It's time to consider a different type of mining pool like Ocean.xyz

Ocean is a non-custodial #bitcoin mining pool. It was relaunched recently by  nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk  nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr with support from  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m

https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1777686545715089605


Thanks to nostr:npub1lrjgpa9m2dl6esdah5pq7m005ymwh4glq4aet76q2zlz2f83esfsa2zvrj  I’ll be staying warm this winter.

#spaceheaters #plebminer #winteriscoming #bitcoin #AUStriches
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Scary and so wrong!
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/


one of these gave me an answer, the other one just started talking about some authorities and didn't actually respond the question

one belongs to a bitcoiner, the other one to a dude that wants to scan your eyeballs for shitcoins

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https://image.nostr.build/06c3d8bec9f54b89a4ebe56e1fe7a664501907765c4908c8e7eefd8a293cdd3e.png

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We're getting to the 'and then they fight you' stage. It's going to get messy, but we're going to win!

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Almost all of finance/investing can be summed up as shorting abundant things and going long scarce things.

And yet, many people spend the vast majority of their effort trying to go long abundant things and short scarce things precisely during the 10% of the time when that works, instead of going to therapy or something.


In case you missed it! Load this up for your coffee break ☕

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And just like that I have my own simple, non-custodial, entirely self-hosted LN stack in seconds.

Bravo, amazing work Phoenix and 1f52b_xyz

https://sethforprivacy.com/lnurl

If you want to test it out, don't tip me, tip the creator of this awesome LNURL tool 1f52b_xyz!

https://1f52b.xyz/lnurl

Once we finalize the Docker image + publishing for this and phoenixd, you will literally just register a domain, create a text file, run a single command, and have self-sovereign LN, LNURL, Zaps, etc.

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


I'm building the best long-form curations reader I can for nostr

https://highlighter.com/f7z.io/Nostr-Deep-Thinking-1gbu4j/rev-share-slavery

https://cdn.satellite.earth/4285aa5b7162f328079f10a464a460d8462bbd97e5a76f6987be1ba9303468eb.mp4


THE XZ UTILS BACKDOOR IS A STARK REMINDER THAT IF YOU RELY ON BITCOIN IT IS IMPERATIVE TO SUPPORT THE OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS THAT MAKE THIS MOVEMENT POSSIBLE.

GOOD MORNING.

https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/


PSA: “Inscriptions” are exploiting a vulnerability in #Bitcoin Core to spam the blockchain. Bitcoin Core has, since 2013, allowed users to set a limit on the size of extra data in transactions they relay or mine (`-datacarriersize`). By obfuscating their data as program code, Inscriptions bypass this limit.

This bug was recently fixed in Bitcoin Knots v25.1. It took longer than usual due to my workflow being severely disrupted at the end of last year (v24 was skipped entirely).

Bitcoin Core is still vulnerable in the upcoming v26 release. I can only hope it will finally get fixed before v27 next year.


Great episode  nostr:npub1hghnjjpnvkz8t6gkszuf37d7puwc2qtxc65rnklqsngzv6kkug9qhhfyz2 with  nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr, @giacomozucco & @leo_haf.

Very informative discussion about SPAM on bitcoin. If you are on the fence about this issue it's time to pick a side and support filtering out these types of transactions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDHx8XyIsxA&t=522s


Still my favorite bitcoin chart.
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Release time!

In our biggest update yet, we've completely redesigned the home screen, added a nostr-based profile setup walkthrough, and have finished our initial fedimint integrations by adding a federation discovery & recommendations!

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

Most lightning wallets these days are what we call "invoice-oriented." We want to go back to the basics to solve what people are really trying to do: paying a person. We've added a new wallet creation flow to make the wallet about you!

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

The new version of Mutiny now allows you to create a new nostr profile, or import a nostr private key from an existing profile. From there, you can now DM other mutiny & nostr users to send or request money directly from the app. No more copy / pasting invoices!

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

To double down on social, we've redesigned our home screen to put people first. We now include a row of recent profiles for quick access. We also now have tabs on the home screen for looking at your payment activity, your friend's zap activity on nostr, and your payment requests.

Next up, better fedimint support!

Mutiny has had beta support for the fedimint protocol for a couple of months now. Instead of opening a lightning channel on your first receive, with a minimum of 100k sats, you can get started on a fedimint with just a few sats.

This new update adds a way to discover available fedimints to join. Naturally, the discovery process is powered by an open protocol built on nostr. You can see who recommends a federation, and add it with one click.

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

You'll automatically receive funds to that fedimint, as long as the amount is smaller than 200,000 sats, and you'll automatically spend out of that fedimint, with a fallback to your regular lightning balance. You can also swap from fedimint to your lightning balance at any time.

Coming up shortly after this release, we'll be adding federated lightning addresses that lock incoming payments to your key, which you may redeem at any point by coming back online. We'll be rolling this out to Mutiny+ users first, stay tuned!

Let us know what you think! We're excited about this new direction and need feedback to help us continue driving forward.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-new-design-people-oriented/


#Bitcoin #Mining is not decentralised, the hashing is but only about 12 main mining pools construct the block templates and decide what transactions go in the blocks.  That is way too much power in too few hands!

Listen to  nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr explain the problems and solution to  nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uql43yYa4Bs


HYPERINFLATION.

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NO TIKTOK.
NO FACEBOOK.
NO LINKEDIN.
NO TWITTER.

LEAD BY EXAMPLE.
NOSTR ONLY. 🫡


GM https://image.nostr.build/495c6ce7f9210baa5afed5b16adfe9d1af4e9225f88281f956e1a11ab580981a.jpg


Someone paying $389 to move $1.94.

547,000 sats to move 2730 sats.

Why?

Because this has nothing to do with Bitcoin and doesn't make any sense from the network's perspective.

People who take comfort that behaviour will remain predictable thanks to economically rational decision making need to know it goes both ways when you start taking in external factors.

You have to do it with miners too.

If a miner can make more money in ways that have nothing to do with bitcoin then you can no longer rely on simple assumptions like "miners will do X because if they don't then they will make less than a miner who does"

The simple example I've used many times is compliance.

If you have a choice between expensive legal battles and exclusion informed by government blacklists (i.e censorship) then it's economically rational to do what's economically irrational.

"You left $500 in TX fees on the table! Why?"

"Because our lawyers advised us that this would save us several million dollars."

We have a case-study of this exact scenario with Wasabi Wallet.

So if this is true, what does it have to do with spam? From a miner's perspective, spam is simply a free lunch.

What's the downside?

The issue is we've been standing on shaky ground when it comes to the assumptions we've made about the choices of miners. Myself included.

It turns out there are instances when economic rationality works *against* the interests of the wider network. It's obvious, but apparently we're all surprised that this it the case, or straight up in denial about it.

Spam is that exact scenario. Blocks are far larger than was ever supposed to be possible with the introduction of witness-discounted data. We see block after block at what was meant to be a theoretical maximum of just under 4MB.

There is no room for interpretation. This is simply harmful and the result of a nasty attack.

The entire basis on which the blocksize wars were fought was that encumbering nodes with way more data would lead to centralization. (Along with a host of other issues, like centralization of mining & pools).

The simple solution is that it needs to stop. Blocks cannot be stuffed with arbitrary data placed there by ambivalent miners.

The way this stops is as a natural extension of a bitcoin community that recognizes attacks and responds accordingly.

It means using node software that isn't designed to hurt its users which is already happening with migration away from Core to Knots. The most popular plug-n-play nodes have all begun offering this.

They did not this time last year.

It means miners choosing pools that at least give them the option of not participating in the attack -> currently well under 1% of the hashrate, 6 months ago not even an option. Hard for me to talk about because obviously I'm employed by the pool in question.

It means people who never mined doing it for the first time.

And mostly it means maintaining an understanding of what makes bitcoin bitcoin. That in itself has always been enough to evict crypto scammers to something other than Bitcoin. Those who wanted to turn it into "paypal 2.0" with the same disregard and contempt for nodes that the spam apologists display now forked themselves off to bcash and craigcoin.

The one thing that will *not* solve this problem is high transaction fees. This is an argument made by those who at least understand an attack when they see it, but are in denial about what surviving it actually involves.

Throughout the last few months the conversation has rapidly progressed and the tide has been turning.

I am under no illusions that this is an easy fix, but that is because of the nature of politics and how much larger the ecosystem is now.

But it's also just history repeating itself.

Bitcoin keeps having to fight the same battles again and again. Always in service of importance of being able to run *and use* a node, affordably and trivially, by complete noobs.

To maintain decentralization.

To resist the corrupting of what we have.

Bitcoin is money. Other features cannot come at the expense of that.

OP RETURN wars, bcash, segwit2x, shitcoins, coloredcoins, hostile BIPs, malicious devs....

We've done it a million times before. Every single time the "laser-eyed toxic maxis" win.


Well done for speaking out about this. After listening to you on  nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx &  nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z podcast I think you are 100% right, we must fight this SPAM. I'm pointing my miners to Ocean today


GM Nostr community! 🤘
There is a new fun job opportunity for a social media manager: Super part-time, super flexible. Must know dead-bird app (Twitter/X) and bonus points for knowing a purple-bird app (💜)
Must have some experience in social media, but not like super senior, so this is ideal for a career-starter who wants to get into the industry.
Spanish language desirable but won’t be a deal breaker if you no puedo hablar.
There is a possibility of going full- time eventually.
Shoot me a dm if that’s who you are or know the right person! And please share this note! 🫶

#bitcoinjobs #jobstr #bitcointalent


Check out @preston podcast where @GrassFedBitcoin explains how bad it is for Bitcoin to have only 12 main mining pools deciding what transactions go into blocks and how important new mining pools like Ocean are for keeping Bitcoin decentralised and censorship resistant.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXccoOlmtMY


Check out  nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z podcast where  nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr explains how bad it is for Bitcoin to have only 12 main mining pools deciding what transactions go into blocks and how important new mining pools like Ocean are for keeping Bitcoin decentralised and censorship resistant


NEVER FORGET.

ROGER VER CAN GO FUCK HIMSELF.

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


More people should read The Blocksize War. Roger Ver and many others were high on their own supply. Ego is a hell of a drug.

Btw the whole is book is free on bitmex’s blog.

https://blog.bitmex.com/the-blocksize-war-chapter-1-first-strike/


⛏~~Stats~~⛏

Since launching in November, OCEAN has mined 28 blocks consisting of 175 newly generated coins and 9.29785518 BTC in transaction fees - a total of 184.29785518 BTC.

Those mining with OCEAN since launch are sitting at around 112% of the rewards they could expect from the well known alternatives.

Prior to OCEAN, almost all block rewards went to the same dozen addresses under the control of just a handful.

OCEAN added 33 more addresses to this as miners started choosing to get paid directly by the Bitcoin network in OCEAN blocks.

OCEAN's overall luck is 101% and 106.5% since the start of the year.🎰

Happy mining everyone💪


When people ask me what bitcoin is going to do next week. https://image.nostr.build/782ab411ac8322868db4d653678b19c182b0e330c2b0c89696b88edb5a20e78b.jpg


ELON CAN TAKE HIS BLUE CHECK AND SHOVE IT UP HIS ASS.

NOSTR ONLY 🫡

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HRF is teaming up with nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 to roll out a quarterly webinar series training Nonprofits and activists on Bitcoin.

You can learn more here: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/hrf-fountainhead-announce-resident-artists-290687?e=fe905d4797

You can sign up to join here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfx0b3C1ld9vb4_YIW15as--ElDEVW5xbdOvtuSrlNoEAh5zQ/viewform


It's time to wake up...

The political “Right” & “Left” in America are both ideologically inconsistent and morally bankrupt.

The “Conservatives” are not conservatives.
The “Liberals” are not liberal.

They are all charlatans and profiteers; propagandists all feeding the same beast.

One side vocally supports War_A, and calls for peace in War_B.
The other side vocally supports War_B, and calls for peace in War_A.

Each side claims the other side is evil. Each team blames the other for anything bad that happens, and takes the credit for anything good that happens. Around and around we go, the slow degradation of our society measured in election cycles.

But it doesn't matter which party is in power, because nothing ever changes. Not really.

There is no red.
There is no blue.
There is the State.
And there is you.

The only constant is war.

Forever Wars made possibly by a broken monetary system that makes it extremely profitable for the Anointed.

Our elected political actors create cover for the unelected class of bureaucrats who float effortlessly through the revolving door between government agencies, Wall Street, and defense companies.

The people are kept distracted with ideological outrage porn and manufactured crises.

We are shown "problems" and given "solutions," but none of their solutions ever solve anything; they just create more problems. They are naught but brightly-colored bandaids meant to distract us from the fact that there is a deep cancer metastasizing ever more rapidly.

No one in power has any desire to cure the disease, they only treat the symptoms. Why? Because they feed on the disease; they cannot exist without it.

Nihilism creeps in as people start to realize that the partisan bread they're fed at the political circus is rotten.

Some dig their heels in deeper, desperate to believe that this contrived charade is meaningful. After all, the rotten lies are still easier to stomach than the cold, hard truth. These people are lost.

But all is not lost. Not everyone is too far gone.

Slowly but surely, more people start to wake up. And when they open their eyes, they begin to search for real answers. They realize the cancer exists, and they want to find a cure.

But first the cancer must be diagnosed. What is the real disease that plagues us?

The answer is simple: our money is broken.

Your time and energy are being systematically stolen from you by a system that exists to benefit those closest to the creation of new money.

When money breaks, everything else breaks with it.

You know this on a deep level, even if you have not fully acknowledged it yet. You can feel it.

The only solution is to fix our broken money. Everything else is a distraction.

But this solution does not come from the top down (it can't). It must come from the bottom up. It must start with you.

You can make the choice to opt out of this broken system, to begin starving the disease by defunding the system that allows it to propagate.

There is only one way to do this: save the value of your time and energy in Bitcoin.

You may think this answer reductionist, but I challenge you to really think about it. Take the time to study Bitcoin. Take the time to study our broken monetary system.

Bitcoin is a peaceful revolution, a revolt without violence.

Bitcoin is a choice, but it is up to you to make it.


Significant ETF inflows are back, noticeable pressure on price, and people are still bearish.  Also, BlackRock reached 250k BTC in AUM.
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Orange is the new Gold https://image.nostr.build/c6ff2b40930a4269f1d01cf4178c581422396089398d58069cb2e00113359b8d.jpg


I SALUTE CRYPTOGRAPHY ACTIVISTS.

YOU ARE SAVING HUMANITY.

#cypherpunks https://image.nostr.build/90432656d2da24ad00ac63a777d7d25760e10a6db50d9ecfa157eed65a3c241a.jpg


FUCK THE BANKS

FUCK THE POLITICIANS

FUCK THE CENTRALIZED NETWORKS

BUY #BITCOIN 🧡

USE #NOSTR 💜


“What’s at stake is the ability to publish the truth and expose crimes when they are committed by States… it’s about the right to be able to speak freely without being put in prison and hounded and terrorized by the State.”— nostr:npub1xw7h0efeg5s8gla2uyu55jh4lfrlgppcjemrwkmdc7lgvhkcz3fqpvumsa in February

Pay attention…
#FreeAssange https://v.nostr.build/LeQ7W.mp4


Gets about 450GH


Not many, better for solo mining and supporting the network


Forgot to mention Bitaxe is Open source


Bixaxe - The small bitcoin miner for home that is decentralising the mining industry

I got mine setup and I love it!

https://www.thesolomining.co/post/the-rise-of-bitaxe-how-this-platform-is-revolutionizing-global-mining-decentralization

https://youtu.be/f2CNs3iYBb0?si=0R9wuyI5KZJ4OvpY


Today marks 25 years since my country was bombed, in the operation called “Merciful angel” or “Angel of Mercy” - whatever.

In 78 days of air strikes:
- 420k bombs were dropped on us
- 4k died (81 child)
- 25k homes destroyed, plus:
- 14 airports
- 18 kindergartens
- 39 hospitals
- 69 schools
- 176 historical sites
- 500+ kilometers of roads
Etc

I was nine. I remember my nose bled from fear. I don’t know how me being scared caused my nose to bleed, but it happened.
I remembered the duffle bag packed next to the door, with a few cans of food inside of it, some clean clothes, passports, and all gold jewelry we had- cuz we didn’t know if it would get worse.
I still have ptsd triggered every time I head air strikes sirens. Luckily, I don’t hear them much- only when they are testing if those still work, or when are paying tributes to the casualties.

Anyway, for years to follow, my father would use any opportunity to gift us gold jewelry. Why? Because: “If it gets bad again, money won’t worth much. We learned that in 1994. You exchange these ear rings/bracelets/necklaces for food or anything you need.

Nowadays, I don’t have a run away bag prepared. But trust me when I tell you, I could pack one in jut a few minutes.
Nowadays, I don’t buy my kid gold jewelry, I stack sats.
It could be one of the reasons why I’m bitcoining. It gives me a hope. An escape plan, among other things.

As for the first part of my note, let’s stop for a second to think about all kids around the world, their traumas, bleeding noses from fear and sleepless nights. Let’s pray for their beautiful souls and innocent lives.

🇷🇸


Why nostr:
- You own your identity
- Your speech stands on its own
- You can run your own everything
- You own and control your social graph
- You are free to say and do anything, but you are not free from consequences (non-repudiation of cryptographic signatures)
- You can proof realness via proof-of-work, either directly or indirectly
- Proof-of-work is what allows you to successfully combat bots, spam, and trolls, as it brings real cost to destructive actions
- Ownership and realness allows you to build and curate webs of trust, which allows for canonicality without central authority


Our mission is to make it easier for you to orange pill people!

Each week, I mail a batch of free #bitcoin resources to those who request it. This week, I mailed:

151 Bitcoin Sticker Packs
20 Bitcoin Business Kits
5 Bitcoin Accepted Here Stickers
2 Bitcoin Postcard Packs
+ more in Canada thanks to nostr:npub1xleppu5g9sphvup4yqv8dzru37qwga3607mnxs7cjr29ytuzykaszzknv2
+ more for nostr:npub1kns8r25ppwc2vpsv5cvhlpk94nfad76k64pkdzfnn704th2hmcksgq3582

Thanks for getting involved! 🫡

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Giant GBTC outflows, 9.5k #BTC.

Since ETF approval, 250,000 BTC have flowed out of Grayscale. This substantial sell pressure was mostly offset by other ETFs' inflows. We were overdue for a pullback, and yesterday, and likely today, outflows are in charge.

Nonetheless, large inflows to BlackRock!
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"The world is frightening to the average citizen living in hives, drab and hideous cities, dirty streets receiving culture as pills and messages that have not been proven to be perfect. Our era will be remembered in a happy future, if ever, with real terror. Man needs freedom, the countryside, the sky, time not to do things... and to learn and imagine. Today he can't do it".

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente
https://m.primal.net/HmPH.jpg


GM Nostr 🧡⚡

$64k Bitcoin is a gift. Get yourself some KYC free sats today.

https://bitcoiner.guide/robosats/


HodlHodl and Peach are also good


Robosats is pretty good, I've used it many times


Yes, but protecting the Proton account with a Yubikey or similar would be better.


🏆 ⚡Let's make #bitcoin  history NOSTR PEOPLE 🏆 ⚡

If Tinder and Taco Bell can do it.. we can too 💪 🧡

Please like, RESHARE, quote vid, do whatever you can to get as MANY signatures as possible:

⛓ ⤵ 🖊 the link is here:

change.org/bitcoin-emoji

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


50 years ago.
https://m.primal.net/HlbT.mp4


Nostr only


Primal on iOS is getting Multi-account support, can't wait for this to come to Android.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/primal-ios-v1-3-6/


Starshield will enable the US government to spy on anyone on earth!

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#tiktok https://i.nostrimg.com/0327aac61b8aa5e77fada99bc8416e7520c0b2d14dfc4df5da26683c86427af8/file.jpeg


Cc nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx https://image.nostr.build/3412fc35fb86e5aee157a091f2e304d176b2793553d917656c2f988e1ee9efb6.jpg  nostr:note142g0q29xn5jyrr7m5u9jyzpwense57cm823p2mjnmhcd6we5fl0sp5ckcw


For those that are new to Nostr, hello!

What’s cool about it is that Nostr it is an open source protocol. It is not a centralized company, but rather is a protocol that individuals and companies can build upon.

This means that you can use many different applications to access it, or even build your own. And it means that there is no central authority that can take down posts or delete accounts; there are different servers operated by different entities that are storing the data. And there is no central algorithm for determining what posts people see or don’t see.

You can hook up a bitcoin lightning wallet to send and receive tips (“zaps”) on posts. Nostr itself is not a blockchain or crypto and has no token, but the Bitcoin blockchain does complement it well via zaps.

Nostr is still relatively small, and a bit rough around the edges. But the community here is great, and familiarizing yourself with the technology and concept is useful in a world of centralized social media. It is a new method of decentralization that balances various trade-offs in a novel way, and the protocol can be used for a lot more than just social media.

Welcome!


to all the tiktok’ers

set up your zap wallets. fastest way to feel nostr.

primal client on ios or android is probably the easiest way to do so at the moment.


Remember to support those who care about quality and community, usually local farmers and shops are a good place to start.

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GM Nostr.

Please take a moment today to put down the bull pipe and read through the insanity of this.

Chainalysis vermin are helping imprison humans based upon closed source, questionable 'evidence'.

Precedent is being set right before our eyes.

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Bitcoin Jungle in Costa Rica, nice!

nostr:note1xv6mxvcddnj8zl797nm50xqp80arcp57aga8gucr3mj09rrg9w6s9ke6n4


WTF!


Well said!


Ever wondered what the true cost of printing $6 trillion is?

https://v.nostr.build/eJJ0.mp4


Looks really good in dark mode!


A bit of a long shot but would there be any way to link this to a custom domain?


Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce: Koja. Koja walked all the way from Hamburg to London - a remarkable 1,200 km on foot to raise awareness of the dire situation of Assange. X shadowbans such stories. That's why I want to retell some of these outstanding actions.
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### Part 5 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.
As the digital world continues to evolve, the future of online privacy finds itself at a critical point. With growing awareness among the populace and the advent of new technologies, there's a burgeoning shift towards a landscape where privacy is deeply ingrained and universally respected. This article explores the pathways to achieving a more secure digital ecosystem, highlights the pivotal role of consumer advocacy and demand, and outlines a vision for a world where digital services prioritize user consent and minimize data collection.

### Adapting to Emerging Trends in Data Privacy
The landscape of online privacy is gradually being reshaped by a mix of technological innovation and evolving user expectations. While encryption has become more commonplace, offering a robust layer of protection for digital communications, the real change lies in the shift towards systems that emphasize minimal data collection and enhanced user control.

Though regulations like the GDPR and CCPA have set new benchmarks in privacy protection, their effectiveness is often seen as only a first step. The limitations of these regulations highlight a crucial lesson: the best way to protect privacy is to avoid unnecessary data collection from the outset. As such, the focus is shifting towards developing digital practices and technologies that inherently respect user privacy.

### Consumer Advocacy: Shaping the Privacy Landscape
User awareness and demand are increasingly becoming catalysts for change in the digital domain. As individuals grow more knowledgeable about the potential risks associated with personal data collection, they are beginning to seek out and support platforms that offer greater privacy assurances.

Privacy advocacy groups are at the forefront of this movement, championing the cause of digital rights and pushing for a future where privacy is not just an option but a default. Through education, advocacy, and public campaigns, these organizations are pivotal in fostering a digital culture that values and protects personal information.

### Envisioning a Privacy-First Digital Ecosystem
Imagining a future where online services are both innovative and privacy-respecting involves several foundational elements:

- **Privacy by Design**: Adopting a privacy-first approach in the development of new technologies and services ensures that user data protection is not an add-on but a primary consideration.
- **Transparency and Consent**: Companies commit to transparency in their data practices, clearly communicating how user data is collected, used, and shared. Consent mechanisms are simplified, making it easy for users to understand what they are agreeing to and to opt-out if they choose.
- **Empowering Users**: Individuals have full control over their personal information, including easy access to view, modify, or delete their data. The principle of minimal data collection becomes the norm, with services designed to function without extensive personal data.
- **Innovation in Privacy Technologies**: The development of new technologies that enhance privacy by default is encouraged. These innovations support a digital infrastructure where personal data is protected, and user consent is paramount.

### Conclusion
The trajectory towards a more privacy-conscious digital world is paved with challenges but driven by a collective realization of the importance of personal data protection. By prioritizing minimal data collection, enhancing transparency, and placing control back in the hands of users, we can navigate towards a digital ecosystem that respects privacy at its core. This future is not only desirable but necessary, to ensure that digital advancements serve the interests of all users, fostering an environment of trust and security in the digital age.

The Future of Online Privacy: Steering Towards a Consent Driven Digital Landscape

The future of online privacy centers on enhancing user control, reducing data collection, and increasing transparency. Driven by growing awareness and advocacy, the push for privacy-first services emphasizes default privacy settings and clear consent processes

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzde3xqcnjvfexu6rxvf3qgstnsye2sdgdjjgvcff0svyphglxru786lrstqcny5wxqjus9wnqtgrqsqqqa28m3tpjd


Part 4 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.

### Previous Articles
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### Practical Steps and Tools
In the vast digital landscape where free services are entwined with personal convenience, protecting one’s privacy often appears as a daunting task. However, the digital age also offers a plethora of tools and strategies designed to safeguard personal information. This article outlines practical steps individuals can take to enhance their privacy online and introduces privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) that can significantly reduce the footprint left behind in the digital sand.

### Strategies for Minimizing Personal Data Exposure
The first line of defense against privacy invasion is minimizing the amount of personal data shared online. This can be achieved through conscious data sharing, utilizing privacy settings on social media, and understanding the terms of service and privacy policies of platforms.

- **Conscious Sharing**: Think twice before sharing personal information online, whether it's on social media, online forms, or registration pages. Question the necessity of providing detailed personal data for the service offered.
- **Adjusting Privacy Settings**: Dive into the privacy settings of online accounts and adjust them to the highest level of privacy comfort. Opt out of data sharing and tracking options wherever possible.
- **Understanding Terms of Service**: While often lengthy and complex, the terms of service and privacy policies provide insight into how data is collected, used, and shared. Tools like "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" (tosdr.org) can help simplify this information.

### The Role of Encryption and Secure Communication Tools
Encryption is a powerful tool for protecting data privacy, ensuring that information is readable only by the intended recipient.

- **Secure Messaging Apps**: Opt for messaging apps that offer end-to-end encryption, such as Signal or WhatsApp, to protect the contents of your communication from being intercepted.
- **Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)**: A VPN encrypts internet traffic, hiding your online activities from ISPs, advertisers, and potential eavesdroppers. It's particularly useful when using public Wi-Fi networks.
- **Encrypted Email Services**: Services like ProtonMail and Tutanota offer encrypted email communication, adding an extra layer of privacy to your email exchanges.
- Head over to https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/ to see the recommended tools and services to use. Also have a look a https://alternativeto.net/ and see if you can find OpenSource alternatives to the services you use now.

### Legal Protections and Rights
Familiarizing oneself with the legal protections and rights concerning online privacy can empower individuals to take action when their privacy is compromised.

- **General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)**: For residents of the EU, GDPR offers some privacy protections, including the right to access, rectify, and erase personal data held by companies.
- **California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)**: Residents of California can leverage CCPA to request businesses to disclose the data collected about them and opt-out of the sale of their personal information.

### Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Beyond individual actions, numerous technologies have been developed to enhance user privacy automatically.

- **Privacy-focused Browsers**: Browsers like Brave or Firefox with privacy extensions can block trackers and ads, reducing the amount of data collected by websites.
- **Search Engines That Respect Privacy**: Switching to search engines like Brave Search, DuckDuckGo or Startpage can prevent search queries from being tracked and linked to your identity.
- **Data Anonymization Tools**: Tools that anonymize data, such as Tor Browser, can obscure your online activities, making it difficult for trackers to build a coherent profile.
- Head over to https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/ to see the recommended tools and services to use. Also have a look a https://alternativeto.net/ and see if you can find OpenSource alternatives to the services you use now.

### Conclusion
Protecting your privacy in an era dominated by free services is both a right and a responsibility. By taking proactive steps to minimize data exposure, utilizing encryption and secure communication tools, and leveraging legal protections, individuals can significantly enhance their online privacy. Moreover, adopting privacy-enhancing technologies not only shields personal information but also sends a clear message to service providers about the value users place on their privacy. As digital citizens, we have the power to shape the digital landscape into one that respects and protects our privacy.

Protecting Your Privacy in a World of Free Services: Practical Steps and Tools

The article provides strategies for enhancing online privacy amid prevalent free services, emphasizing minimizing data sharing, using privacy settings, understanding service terms, and employing encryption and secure communication tools

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzde3xqcnjvfjxccr2wf4qgstnsye2sdgdjjgvcff0svyphglxru786lrstqcny5wxqjus9wnqtgrqsqqqa28alluvk


"In most people’s minds, inflation is somehow a natural phenomenon that we can’t do anything about. In reality, an elite class is stealing everyone else’s time at an unimaginable scale." -Knut Svanholm

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Part 3 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.

### Previous Posts in the Series
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### The Trade-off Between Convenience and Privacy
The allure of free online services, from social media to news platforms, has undeniably transformed the way we interact with the digital world. These services, while offering unparalleled convenience and connectivity, often come at the cost of personal privacy. This trade-off, frequently overlooked or underestimated by users, underscores a critical dilemma in the digital age: the balance between convenience and the protection of personal information. This section explores the nuances of this trade-off, examining consumer behavior, the illusion of control, and the long-term implications of prioritizing convenience over privacy.

### Understanding the Convenience-Privacy Paradox
At the heart of the digital economy lies a paradox: while users express concern about privacy, their behaviors often suggest a willingness to sacrifice it for convenience. This dichotomy is not born out of apathy but rather a complex calculus where the immediate benefits of digital services overshadow the abstract and often distant risks associated with data privacy breaches.

- **Consumer Behavior**: The ease of use, immediate gratification, and personalized experiences offered by online platforms encourage users to overlook the privacy policies and data collection practices of these services. This behavior is further compounded by the 'privacy paradox,' where users' stated concerns about privacy do not translate into privacy-protective actions.

### The Illusion of Control
Many digital platforms offer users privacy settings and tools purportedly designed to give them control over their data. However, these measures often create an illusion of control rather than providing substantive privacy protections.

- **Complexity and Ambiguity**: Privacy settings can be complex, difficult to navigate, and not always as comprehensive as users might believe. This complexity can lead users to think they have more control over their data than they actually do.
- **Default Settings**: Platforms often set privacy controls to be more permissive by default, relying on users not to take the initiative to change them. This design choice significantly impacts the amount of data collected and shared.

### The Long-term Implications
The preference for convenience over privacy has long-term implications for both individuals and society.

- **Erosion of Privacy Norms**: As data collection becomes normalized, there's a risk that societal norms around privacy will erode, leading to a future where privacy is undervalued and unprotected.
- **Vulnerability to Data Breaches**: The accumulation of personal data in centralized databases increases the risk and potential impact of data breaches, exposing individuals to identity theft, fraud, and other forms of cybercrime.
- **Surveillance and Autonomy**: The extensive data collection practices support a surveillance infrastructure that can be exploited, not just by marketers but by governments and malicious actors, threatening individual autonomy and freedoms.

### Navigating the Trade-off
The path to reconciling the convenience-privacy dilemma involves both individual action and systemic change.

- **Individual Action**: Users must become more privacy-savvy, taking proactive steps to understand and utilize privacy settings, and supporting services that respect user privacy.
- **Systemic Change**: There's a need for stronger privacy regulations and policies that prioritize user consent, transparency, and the minimization of data collection. Additionally, the development of technologies that enhance privacy without sacrificing convenience can help shift the balance.

### Conclusion
The trade-off between convenience and privacy is a defining challenge of the digital age. While the benefits of free online services are immediate and tangible, the costs to privacy are often abstract and only felt in the long term. Bridging this gap requires a concerted effort from users, service providers, and regulators to foster a digital ecosystem where convenience and privacy are not mutually exclusive but are integrated into the fabric of digital interactions. In doing so, we can pave the way for a future where digital services enhance our lives without compromising our fundamental right to privacy.

The Trade-off Between Convenience and Privacy: Finding Equilibrium in the Digital Age

The article examines the trade-off between convenience and privacy in free online services, noting how users often prioritize convenience despite privacy concerns. It highlights the limited effectiveness of privacy settings and the risks of data collection.

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Part 2 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy

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Here is Part 1 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.

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Here is Part 1 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.

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Part 2 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.

Goto [Part 1 ](https://habla.news/u/dsmith@vlt.ge/1709986892458)

In an era where digital footprints are as indelible as ink, the collection and analysis of personal data by free online services have become a cornerstone of the digital economy. This seemingly benign exchange—data for services—masks a labyrinth of privacy implications that affect not only individual users but also the fabric of society at large. This article delves into the risks associated with data collection practices, their broader consequences, and the psychological impacts of living under the digital gaze.

### Understanding Personal and Sensitive Information
The term 'personal data' encompasses a wide array of information. At its core, it includes any data that can be used to identify an individual, ranging from names and email addresses to more sensitive data like health information, political opinions, and religious beliefs. The collection of this data isn't inherently malevolent; it underpins many of the conveniences and personalizations of the digital age. However, the line between use and misuse is thin and often blurred.

### Risks Associated with Data Collection
- **Identity Theft**: The aggregation of personal data in databases makes them ripe targets for cybercriminals. A breach can lead to identity theft, where individuals' information is used to commit fraud.
- **Profiling and Targeted Manipulation**: Detailed user profiles aren't just used for advertising. They can be exploited to manipulate behaviors and decisions, from influencing purchasing decisions to swaying political views.
- **Surveillance and Loss of Anonymity**: The omnipresence of data collection tools translates into constant surveillance, eroding the concept of anonymity. This has implications for freedom of speech and can foster self-censorship.

### The Broader Consequences of Data Collection
The collection and exploitation of personal data don't just affect individuals; they have societal implications. The capacity to monitor, track, and influence large swathes of the population raises concerns about democratic processes and social autonomy. In extreme cases, it can lead to a form of digital authoritarianism, where control over data equates to control over populations.

### Psychological Impacts
Living in a state of constant surveillance has subtle yet profound psychological impacts. It can lead to a sense of powerlessness, anxiety about being watched, and self-censorship. The knowledge that one's data can be collected, analyzed, and possibly misused without consent can alter online behavior, stifling the freedom that the internet once promised.

### Navigating the Minefield
- **Awareness and Education**: Understanding the nature and scope of data collection is the first step toward protecting oneself. Education on digital literacy can empower users to navigate the digital space more cautiously.
- **Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)**: Technologies such as encryption, secure browsers, and privacy-focused apps can provide layers of protection, making it harder for personal data to be collected and misused.
- **Regulatory Frameworks and Legal Protections**: Legislation like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the US aim to give individuals more control over their data. Awareness of and advocacy for such protections can help in the fight for privacy.

### Conclusion
The collection of personal data by online services, while facilitating unprecedented levels of convenience and personalization, introduces a myriad of privacy concerns. These concerns extend beyond the individual to affect societal norms and democratic principles. In this digital age, vigilance, education, and the use of privacy-enhancing technologies are essential for individuals to protect their digital selves. Simultaneously, robust legal frameworks and regulations are needed to ensure that the collection and use of data are conducted ethically and transparently, safeguarding the digital rights of individuals and the integrity of our digital society.

Privacy Implications of Data Collection: Navigating the Digital Minefield - Part 2

The article underscores the privacy risks associated with free online services' data collection practices, including identity theft and the erosion of anonymity. It emphasizes the societal and psychological effects of pervasive surveillance and advocates for increased awareness and the use of privacy technologies to safeguard personal and societal digital rights.

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Part 1 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.

The digital landscape is awash with free online services, offering everything from social connectivity to endless information repositories, all without explicitly charging the user a financial fee. This model of "free" access is underpinned by a less visible transaction, where personal data becomes the currency of exchange, rather than traditional money. This article explores the economic foundations of these services, revealing how they monetize user data through advertising, and how this practice intersects with government surveillance efforts.

### Data Collection as Currency
The cornerstone of the free service economy is data collection. Every click, search, and social interaction generates a trove of data, which these services harvest to construct detailed user profiles. This information ranges from mundane browsing habits to precise location data, painting a comprehensive picture of an individual's online life.

### Advertising Models
Advertising, tailored through the meticulous analysis of user data, forms the financial backbone of many free services. These platforms leverage the insights drawn from user data to offer targeted advertising spaces to businesses, creating a highly effective and lucrative advertising ecosystem. This model not only fuels the service's operations but also entrenches the practice of pervasive data collection.

### Third-party Data Sharing
The revenue streams extend beyond advertising, with many services engaging in the practice of sharing or selling user data to third parties. This ecosystem includes data brokers, other businesses, and sometimes, government entities. The opacity of these transactions often leaves users unaware of the extent to which their data is commodified and circulated.

### The Intersection with Government Surveillance
The vast repositories of data collected by these free services present a tantalizing resource for government entities. In an era where digital surveillance has become increasingly sophisticated, governments can, and do, leverage this data to monitor citizens. This surveillance might be justified on grounds ranging from national security to the enforcement of laws, but it raises profound privacy concerns.

- **Social Media Platforms**: These platforms have become a focal point for government monitoring, where public posts and even private messages can be scrutinized for various purposes.
- **Search Engines and Free Apps**: The data collected by search engines and applications—ranging from search history to location data—can be requisitioned by governments, providing them with detailed insights into individual behaviors and movements.

### The Value of Personal Data Revisited
In light of these practices, the value of personal data extends beyond the commercial sphere into the realm of governance and control. The economic models of free services, while facilitating unprecedented access to services, have also created a surveillance infrastructure that can be utilized by governments to monitor citizens, often without their explicit consent.

### Conclusion
The interplay between the economics of free online services and the potential for surveillance paints a complex picture of the modern digital ecosystem. While users enjoy access to a variety of services, the cost comes in the form of personal data, which is not only monetized by companies but also potentially used as a tool for government surveillance. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for navigating the digital world, prompting a need for greater transparency, user consent, and legal safeguards to protect individual privacy in the age of free services. This awareness is the first step towards fostering a digital environment that respects user privacy and minimizes unwarranted surveillance.

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The Economics of Free Online Services and the Shadow of Surveillance - Part 1

Free online services monetize user data through advertising and share it with third parties, including governments for surveillance, posing privacy risks. This highlights the urgent need for transparency, consent, and stronger privacy protections in the digital ecosystem.

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EU and US Near Deal on Police Access to Online Data

Discussions are advancing between the European Union and the United States regarding access to online data for police purposes. This development is crucial as it involves cross-border data sharing between law enforcement agencies, potentially impacting user privacy on a global scale.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-us-near-deal-police-access-online-data/