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 As we move through another cycle of people and new wave of “experts” coming to understand #Bi... 
 And thank you Jeff 
 Update: Brave is worse than Firefox. 
 Use multiple browsers  
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https://fountain.fm/episode/Vr7NfU0BS5J72dlAUxw9

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 "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 
 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

 
 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
 
 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 
 Hello World 🤩

#introductions 
 Welcome  
 What’s up Nostr! Was inspired to join after seeing Durov arrested in France. God bless you all!... 
 Welcome 
 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/ 
 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 
 #nostronly

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 It's not a reddit clone but I use Primal mostly on Desktop and Amethyst on Mobile 
 I have not. What would you recommend? 
 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 
 Great episode  @TheGuySwann &  @GrassFedBitcoin. 

Guy and Mechanic talk about the current state of Bitcoin, pure signal!
 
https://fountain.fm/episode/lgzLn14ZspAyW1Lbq0ZK 
 The banks are pretty sure they have our money

https://m.primal.net/IAMa.mp4 
 
 When Central Banks and Governments print money it causes #inflation. Inflation destroys the money. #Bitcoin fixes this!

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 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  @Luke Dashjr  @GrassFedBitcoin with support from  @jack 

https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1777686545715089605 
 A long conversation with friends just starting their journey down the rabbit hole last night remi... 
 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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 Great episode  @Princey with  @GrassFedBitcoin, @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 
 #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  @GrassFedBitcoin explain the problems and solution to  @stephanlivera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uql43yYa4Bs 
 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  @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 
 Someone paying $389 to move $1.94.

547,000 sats to move 2730 sats.

Why? 

Because this has noth... 
 Well done for speaking out about this. After listening to you on  @petermccormack &  @preston podcast I think you are 100% right, we must fight this SPAM. I'm pointing my miners to Ocean today 
 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
 
 Forgot to mention Bitaxe is Open source  
 Not many, better for solo mining and supporting the network 
 Gets about 450GH 
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I saw Proton Pass... 
 Yes, but protecting the Proton account with a Yubikey or similar would be better. 
 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/
 
 How tf can I even get non kyc bitcoin? And does this really even matter? 
 Robosats is pretty good, I've used it many times 
 HodlHodl and Peach are also good 
 Day 2

I can see the potential, but I need to find my friends if this is going to work

If you're... 
 Nostr only 
 Today is a bad day for Bitcoin

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 WTF! 
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 We ARE the same 
 If you are a Bitcoiner, yes 
 Bitcoin changes your mindset 
 Part 2 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy

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  @verbiricha how to I get a static page on hable.news? like habla.news/smith 
 Great, thanks 
 A bit of a long shot but would there be any way to link this to a custom domain? 
 Here is Part 1 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.

Different link this time

https://habla.news/u/dsmith@vlt.ge/1709986892458 
 Here is Part 1 of a 5 part series for beginners about the importance of online privacy.

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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/ 
 The Ethiopian Government to start bitcoin mining. The West is being left behind!

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ethiopia-to-set-up-250m-bitcoin-mining-operations/