I wish I had listened! I would have definitely bought bitcoin by then. Instead, It took me 3 more years for me discover it.


I don’t meet your requirements, but I think it’s awesome you are putting such a request here.
Can’t wait to read your book whenever it comes out!


It always has been that. (Insert meme of astronaut shooting astronaut)


I know! 😩


Congratulations, Ivan!


Indeed!


This boy SAVED the INTERNET… but couldn't save himself.

10 years ago, he was persecuted by his government, and ultimately paid with his life.

Aaron Swartz is a modern hero that most people DO NOT KNOW.

But they should.

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Aaron was creative, focused, and brilliant.

At 14, he invented RSS; He dropped out of Stanford; At 19, he was in the first Y Combinator class; He co-founded Reddit.

Most likely, if he were alive today, he would be involved with #Bitcoin.

But that’s not EVEN 1% of what he did for us 🙏

Let’s take a look 👇

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From a young age, Aaron believed in an OPEN INTERNET. In computers as a tool for LIBERATION.

"But wait, wasn’t the internet always open?"

No.

Believe it or not, there was a time when they wanted you to REGISTER your ID before you could browse or send an email.

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He believed that PUBLIC LEGAL RECORDS and SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH should be accessible to everyone.

But in the U.S.,

• 98% of scientific articles are behind paywalls; and
• ~80% of legal records are too.

Imagine being sued and still having to pay to view the documents?

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Aaron's war had 3 major battles.

The first was against PACER.

A legal records database.

PACER is PAID... but it was "free" in 17 public libraries.

With friends, Aaron wrote a script on a USB drive, plugged it into a USB port, downloaded 2.7 million documents... and SET THEM FREE.

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No charges were made against the group.

But the FBI began to take notice.

That had only been the beginning. That boy would still challenge the system.

The following year, Aaron would enter the biggest fight of his life — and the greatest battle in internet history against censorship ✊

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"SOPA/PIPA" 👉 if you're over 20, you probably still remember these acronyms.

A bill to "combat piracy"... which was just an excuse for the government to shut down ANY SITE, without warning.

Some companies loved the idea.

But those who loved the internet fought back.

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And then, something wonderful happened.

We still knew how to fight against online censorship.

In a coordinated response, the biggest websites on the internet "went on STRIKE."

Wikipedia and Reddit went offline. Google turned black.

Protests also erupted in the STREETS.

But...

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... but people have short memories.

This battle was won.

However, the NEXT one would be the LAST for young Aaron.

This MIT security camera was the final straw that ruined his life 👇📹

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JSTOR was Swartz's final target: the largest database of academic papers in the world.

Aaron wrote a script to download MILLIONS of papers, over the course of months, using his MIT access, in a small room.

MIT has a rebellious culture.

But the FBI could no longer tolerate the boy's defiance.

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With the video evidence, the U.S. prosecution charged Aaron with 13 crimes. Up to 50 years in prison.

In January 2011, he was arrested by undercover agents near the Harvard campus.

From then on, he was legally tortured.

Two years later, he would be found dead at home.

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"Aaron would be 38 years old today.

He was accused of 'pirating' scientific papers funded with public money.

Facing up to 50 years in prison, he took his own life.

Those he inspired continue to democratize access to science.

Let us remember him."

*These are the words of Susan, his mother.

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After his death, the charges were dropped by the government.

Aaron never considered entering a 'plea deal'. He would have faced millions of dollars in legal costs.

The father of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, published a short poem at the time that says it all:

“The world was a little worse for his passing,
But a lot better for his being.”

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Aaron wasn’t a unanimous figure. You may disagree with his methods.

But he was faithful to his ideal.

He was genuine. Firm in what he believed.

He was a person who used his prodigious skills not to enrich himself, but to make the internet fairer, and the world a better place.

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Aaron had worked with Virgil Griffith (former Ethereum, now imprisoned for "teaching about crypto" to North Koreans).

He knew Elizabeth Stark (from Lightning).

He was friends with Zooko.

And he wrote about #Bitcoin — on the DAY he was arrested (1/6/11)! 😢

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko

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Curious? To learn more about the story, start with this documentary (on YouTube) 👇

[https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ](https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ)

We’ll finish with an excerpt from the "Manifesto for Free Access," by Aaron himself:

"Information is power. But, like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come to the light, and, in the tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to the private theft of public culture.

We must take information, wherever it is, make our copies, and share them with the world."

RIP, Aaron ✊

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That’s not quite like you describe it in the Matrix. Both Neo and Trinity know the truth of all those lives in pods. The “widows with kids” thing is not really as we understand it today (unless we’ve not swallowed the red pill yet?).
There is still the pain of people being flushed down the drains when they are killed in the virtual world, and sure a tough choice to make, but I don’t see it as you describe it.


Incredible achievement!


Exactly my thoughts.


The squirrel effect.


Looks like the sky in Vancouver right now. 🌇


So much for equality! 😅


Always a classic!


WTF! They seem desperate.


There’s no such thing as enough stacking.


Very illustrative for normies. Thanks for sharing!


You are always free not to read it, why anyone should stop sharing something you personally can’t access? I can’t access the NYT either, that’s not a reason for anyone not sharing.


I think he understands. It’s just not in his interest to be concerned by it. For him they are just a nuisance.


Such a childish thing to do. Just because Kamala said she did that when she was younger. There is nothing to comprehend, just childish vanity. “I wouldn’t mind this job”. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.


Well, that settles it, then.


Congratulations, Colin! 🎉


And bitcoin is just for laundering money. 🙄

https://www.thebureau.news/p/us-case-reveals-td-banks-role-in


Transferwise is a joke nowadays. I used it a lot in the past, was very happy with their service and I even had my bank account in Canada linked to my TW account for convenience. But some months ago, to use it for Euros as I always did, they asked me to send them first a picture of my passport and a selfie. No f*cking way!


Totally!


I hate Trump too, but that was the dumbest thing I’ve seen this week. And brilliant! 😂


Let’s add Bitcoin to the metric system for value.


WTF!? The politics police, exactly what the world needs right now. Reminds me what happened in some European countries in the first half of the XX century. What could that be? 🤔


Brilliant. 😂


I just watched last Tuesday's episode of Tuttle Twins (why on Earth are they not on Nostr yet?!?), and saw this clip of next month's episode! 🤩🧡

Well done, nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8! 👏 This episode is going to be amazing! 🥳

https://v.nostr.build/EmIkNtBjIp5VO44t.mp4


Enjoyed reading this and learning more…Seems like there is a huge opportunity for community based development in rural Native American communities.

Comprising some the poorest Counties in the Nation, with a long history of economic oppression/barriers, it is essential these communities and individuals are engaged in the development and benefit of community based financial services and P2P transactions.

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This it absolutely brilliant!


Both.


Watched the video yesterday. I can’t even describe the rage flowing through my veins right now. The world needs a reset, but not the kind they want to impose on us. This is pure madness. Orwell must be turning in his grave.


Unfuckingbelievable! 🤬


I have the feeling this video will be taken down swiftly for mentioning the d-word (💀) so I’m putting it here for posterity and so that folks know what’s actually happening in East TN / West NC… https://video.nostr.build/57f5ab21ab06ced44df47126e9991bef4196e22c15c7cb2cd73c99e6f4f457fe.mp4


Are you telling me that I shouldn’t have paid?


To be honest, Daniel, I don’t know. This shouldn’t be happening because the fact that we never had this problem (assuming I’m right) in IOS before is because Apple handles this automatically in iOS.
I’m not an expert, but I’ve seen very similar problems in desktop apps like Photoshop. When you work the image in Photoshop in a different color space than the one used in the app in which the image is displayed afterwards. You see your image fine in Photoshop while you work in it, but when you display that image in the web, for instance, the colors appear different.
I wonder, then, if something has changed in IOS in terms of how it handles color spaces. Maybe they now have exposed them to the user,  for them to have better control like in Photoshop, but they have left confusing/wrong default settings? 🤔

Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can help you out better.


I don’t use iOS 18, but this seems a color space issue. Look in that direction.


Agree, nor should they parrot the ones they are fed with. The press should just inform of the facts, or about what we know and what we don’t about the issue at hand. And let people use their critical thinking from there.


“The press needs a consistent narrative”. Saying the quiet part out loud here. It’s obvious how often the press are fed narrative for them to parrot. And they obey.


Yep, that’s what’s so sad. They probably don’t think much of it, such a small thing. But I see it as a “frog in the hot water” kind of thing, if you know what I mean. So insidious!


I’m visiting my family in Barcelona and saw these imposed bottle caps for the first time. Nobody complains, they just accept it. 🤷🏻♂🙄


Let alone bottled in plastic.


Fantastic!


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

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

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

You can check out the full report here:

https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-a-global-liquidity-barometer/
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He’s awesome. Definitely will watch your interview now with my coffee.


Yep, and that’s why we nostr too.


He’s not wrong.


Can’t wait!


“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”

—Mark Twain


• Israel’s is promoting an initiative to abolish the 200 shekel bank notes as a first step to narrow use of & abolishing cash. Same as in India in 2016.

• Physical gold & silver may be forbidden to hold. 🪙💰

• Gaza’s population suffering from financial oppression via lower cash deliveries & bank notes physical erosion.

All explained in this video, please share! 🙏🏻

https://v.nostr.build/J3BiwP5FUjIpBKNj.mp4


Thank you, Steve! Awesome work.


And they want us to buy electric cars. 🤔


Same here. I’m back to Damus for the time being. Good to have both clients installed.


Totally!


This is politics nowadays. Never a single question answered. No matter the party, no matter the country.


Absolutely!


Awesome episode. Thank you Walker, and thank you Andy for all the fantastic Proton tools!


That’s what Satoshi did.


Listening to this guy is like putting your own brain in a blender.


Thank you, Mulvad. 🙏


Welcome! You are in good company.


I agree about the algorithmic feeds. The amount of shit X constantly tries to push into your feed completely unrelated to the kind of accounts and content you follow is mind blowing.


Indeed. The algorithms have taken away the soul of communities in X. Everyone is focused on making the algorithms happy (making money for Elon) and those who don’t find themselves talking to a void.


This is awesome! Any idea who made it?


The beautiful part of nostr is nostr:npub1lqs30x7466guvx6r2cek8z9d4hpucycy7j08wx58cwx70m206q3qrscejr didnt have to ask Will, Vitor, Miljan to add his find and delete stale npub tool to their apps.

Yeg made his own tool, without asking fiatjaf for permission, and his tool is interoperable with all the other nostr dev apps.

To put this in perspective think of how feasible it is for a non company dev to build something compatible with twitter, or any walled bigco. Also think of all the dev ideas that dont make it past the central planning committee.

Nostr is an unbounded sandbox where you dont need permission to play.

*Thump*

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56K is the new 58K.


Exactly!


“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”

—Bertrand Russell


Good morning, James!
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WTF?!!


And even if elected!


Exactly my thoughts too, it’s not about X but about people reading it. Keep going like this and soon we will have a North Korea in South America.


Morning, James!


Congratulations, Ivan!


As concerning as this indeed is, it’s also nothing but a promotion of nostr. That governments think that they have the right to eavesdrop on absolutely any conversation that people have peer-to-peer is so full on authoritarian that begs belief. Totally dystopian.


Inflation affecting gravity?


Get well soon!
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Congratulations, Vitor!


Yeah, same here with iOS. Can receive zaps but have to zap others from an external wallet, which makes the zap entirely disconnected from the nostr note.
Not happy about that.


Dystopian.


I guess that’s why you don’t own a gun either? 😅


Same here.


Blasphemy!


Fantastic.


True! But for a president, I rather have someone with the homework done.


Nocoiner. Hands down. He still can learn. An altcoiner will never.


That’s the point. The money is not wasted (for those who give it) because is given for nothing to change, to keep the status quo. Change is expensive to stop.


That’s stupid. The Workd Bank tells us, the World Bank tells us! Dam, if only the World Bank would stop keeping all those countries in a permanent state of poverty! 🤦🏻♂


In Canada they are a bit more subtle. This is Wealthsimple. 👇 https://image.nostr.build/3c2a2adac5bdcb6cd8864f76cd793f1e4ef61a425bfd0f02e7548fee78ee4d31.jpg


Fantastic!


I’m running out of boats.


La abuelita coraje! 💪


Dam. Tried from Canada and also showed news about Kamala first. VPN connected to Sweden shows the same as image 2.🤦🏻♂


No way! 😳


Of course they are going to do that. Maduro won’t let a mere election get in his way.


Utterly dismissive and patronizing. What a total moron!


This is awesome!


A Catalan here. We were onto something for sure.


Very insightful article on the state and pace of AI development by Leopold Aschenbrenner, who recently left Open AI.
Long read but well worth it.

https://situational-awareness.ai/


This is not having balls, this is having no shame. I would say.
No politician nowadays can be trusted during elections. They would go anywhere and say anything to capture some votes.


A place that I love to get food and smoothies at just closed their doors.

They said that the price of getting all clean, organic ingredients has become far too prohibitive and they refused to compromise on the very reason they opened to begin with.

Inflation is literally a fucking poison on society. This is why the quality of everything is complete shit.

The govt literally steals the substance and quality of our lives to fund their own greed and power.

Fuck the govt. Fuck the Fed


Have you ever been in Andalucía in summer? Not to discourage anyone, but it’s scorching hot. I mean above 40 C (104 F). It’s ok for a few days if you are visiting, but I wouldn’t spend there a whole summer.


Even better!
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Just watched the whole thing. Honestly, I still don’t know what to make of it. But I can’t stop connecting it in my head with this other fascinating chat 👇

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Some years ago, when I thought my 3rd hand, manual, 2005 VW Golf TDI was about to die (it wasn’t), I asked my mechanic which car would he recommend if I were to get a new one. He told me “whatever you get, get a Japanese one. Toyota, Honda, Subaru… Just get a Japanese car. You see millions on the streets, but I barely see them in my shop”.

Toyota seems like a good plan to me.

I’m still driving my Golf, btw.


Just watched it. Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing it.


#GrapheneOS uncovers leaked documentation for smartphone exploits by Cellebrite.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Made my day! 🤣


Not sure about this logic. Your container ship uses a very powerful engine to defy Nature which otherwise will crash it against the rocks. The ship might float, but would hardly get anywhere without a Nature defying engine. 🤔


Are bookmarks working at all in Primal at the moment?


LOL, you are right! 🤔


You are kidding, right? WTF?!


The fact that he doesn’t even ask himself why Bitcoin is a distrust money (of course it is!) tells me that, intellectually, he is losing it.


Same here.


Same here. I might casually mention it in a conversation and if nobody picks up the thread with real interest  I just leave it there and move on. They had the chance.


Planning to do that myself in a couple of weeks. 👍


Exactly 🎯
If we make running a server for decentralized services as easy as running a bitcoin node, this will be unstoppable.
I’m not very technical but found running a node on a raspberry pi pretty easy. I want to upgrade to something like a srtart9 to be able to run properly more decentralized services, like a nostr relay, but I fear my lack of knowledge/experience on that front will get in the way.
Make it easy and with easy to set up default configurations, and more people will join.


Yeah, thought of that too. I would set up that for her next time I go there. Unfortunately, we don’t have strike available in Canada yet, for some reason.


Fuck Fiat! I’m beyond mad right now.

I’ve been using Transferwise (now Wise) for years to send money to my mom in my country of origin once in a while. I was actually very pleased with their services, and I even used the Wise debit card on my last trip to Europe, and it worked very well.
But now, I was about to send just $500 to my mom again and they are asking me to take a fucking picture of my driving license or my passport and a fucking selfie “for identity verification”!!!

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK??!!!! Is this how it is going to be from now on? They already have all the info about me they need; I even linked my checking account to Wise a long time ago and have 2FA activated. They definitely know me. But this is now not enough???

Fuck that, fuck fiat and fuck banks. I don’t know any Bitcoiner in my city of origin to help my mom out. Otherwise, I would send her Bitcoin. I will have to find another way, but I definitely not going to go through all these stupid, unnecessary and DANGEROUS loops just to send a few bucks.

FUCK THAT!


Love this, Tomer. That’s the right perspective. 👍


Start9 is its own OS which is based on Linux. So, either you get rid of your windows os and install start9 os on your machine instead, or you will have to run it on a Virtual Machine in your windows computer. At least this is how I intend to run mine on my Mac, on a VM. Check their website, all the information is there.

https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/diy/index


Best and simplest might not be totally compatible, but connecting my sparrow wallet to my umbrel node was a piece of cake. Once this said, I’m thinking of upgrading to an start9 OS based solution, probably on an old Mac I have laying around.


Welcome! 🙏


Primal


Where is this clip taken from? Seems part of a longer video.


Who cares?


Spot on.


Definitely the best brunch in Yaletown! 👍


Oh, going to try that! Thanks, Nescio.


Such a wonderful human being! Big loss for mankind.


No reason not to do both, though.


Thank you for such an awesome work! 😄 I’m still have problems connecting properly my wallet from Canada (can’t receive but can’t send) , but will zap some sats your way as soon as I get that sorted. 🙏


“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

—Robert A. Heinlein


This is absolutely fantastic!

https://x.com/daniel_eckler/status/1778421669201093057


Brilliant!


The question is: why now?


TAKE IT!


I don’t know, but it’s worth a try! 😅 Probably it’s possible. If not now, soon, given the speed AI is advancing (I’m not an AI expert by any stretch of the imagination).


Good idea. Alternatively, someone should develop an AI to prompt gifs at will.


Bitcoin sunrise.
https://m.primal.net/HqpC.png


The U.S. government used #Bitcoin to transfer $2 BILLION and it cost them $1.47.

The best part? They didn’t have to ask the Federal Reserve for permission.

The worst part? This Bitcoin is from Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht is still in prison serving a double life sentence plus 40 years without parole for building an open marketplace website. https://i.nostr.build/zd5Oy.jpg


I did. It was awesome. I’m sorry for Bull Bitcoin because I think this feature was instrumental in the success of their business.


He might want to sit this one out.


Totally.


A sad day for Canada, and a step forward to a financial surveillance state.


Yeah, got that email too.


Yes, it was. As long as you didn’t buy more than CA$999 worth of bitcoin a day, you didn’t need KYC.


But tomorrow you will be back to Bitcoin. 😉


Nice try! ;D


Just that.
https://m.primal.net/HqFH.png


WTF!? La Caixa is doing that? 🤦🏻♂


Absolutely!


Ánimo, Ivan! Te deseo una pronta recuperación. Get well soon! 💪


The Great Taking.
Really worth a watch!

Bitcoin is the only escape, not because its undeniable properties but because is the only asset out of the system. Everything else will be gone soon.

https://youtu.be/dk3AVceraTI?feature=shared


Exactly my thoughts too.


Just watched The Money Masters. Not much was really new to me but it’s very well put together. Awesome documentary. Thanks for sharing! 🙏


When Strike in Canada? The reason I can zap people in Primal is because Primal has partnered with Strike, and it’s not available here.


« A secret RCMP report is warning the federal government that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation… »

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are
https://m.primal.net/HmrH.png


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

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


Wall Street.
We soon will erase that fucking smirk from their faces.

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


EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET https://video.nostr.build/3d56d12ea093cb65964b27246604e5c4fcb2e969324566b96ed261b5ace7f27c.mp4


And it’s not only those income taxes, it’s all the taxes you pay afterwards too, whenever you want to use the part of your money the government allows you to use.


Phone wallpaper.

Bitcoin spreading in fiat like blood in water.

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


Hi again, Walker. Sorry for all this clusterf*ck with my wallet.
Seems I can receive sats now, as some other people has already done. Thank you so much!


Ok, so I changed my location and for a moment looked like it went through and I was presented a screen to put my verification code. However, instead of a verification code, I got an email saying that Primal can’t activate my wallet based on the information I provided.
So seems I can’t use that route.
Interestingly, Trav zapped me some sats to my Blink wallet, which I added in my settings in Primal. So, even if I can’t zap in Ptimal, people still can zap me? 🤔
And even more interesting, I only could see who zapped me on Damus, where I never set up any wallet there! I only added my Blink address in Primal, but can’t see the zaps in my note in Primal.
I’m so confused now. 😅


Thank you, Ben! I’ll do that! 👍🙏


Thank you, Walker! Unfortunately, I’m having issues setting up my zaps in Primal, which is the app I’m using. When I try to activate my wallet, I get a message saying “Our apologies, we are not able to provide the wallet service in Canada…”. I even watched the video nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 has about primal, as he is in Canada too, and he didn’t have any issues. So it’s weird. I tried to connect a different wallet too but to no avail (although I might be missing something here). If anyone reading this can help, I would really appreciate it. Will let you know when I get this sorted.
In any case, zaps or not, I’m glad you liked my image! 😄


WTF!? 🤬


They were in Barcelona some days ago, Hundreds and hundreds of teens and people in need were lining up as they gave them 10 Euros for the scan. Many people that need money and don’t know better are falling into this trap. If they do this in every big city, the numbers can be significant.


Finally Chewbacca shaved!


spot on .


Doesn't  count, sorry.


Bravo! Más gente debería darse cuenta de lo que está pasando.


Bravo!


Agree!


The "first they ingore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win" also works from their end. I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to just ignore them and laugh at them. It's important to be vigilant and call their bullsh*t as soon as possible . IMHO.


In Vancouver that barely covers a two  bedroom condo.


Oh, they are going to try that too. Give them time.


Thank you! I’ll do that. 👍


Unfortunately, they don't seem to be available. I've been wanting to get one already for a while but they are always "sold out" and you can't even order one.


yep, I'm here too. Feel temperature is -21!


Love it!


LOL! just realized of the autocorrect shenanigans. 🤦🏻


Alternatively, they will approve the ETFs tomorrow hoping Aaliyah this mess will go away.


Elon would be more than happy to confirm whether that was the case.


I can picture Jamie Dimon and Elizabeth Warren, with hoodies, in front of their keyboards.


password


That makes two of us.


Happy Birthday, Bitcoin!
https://m.primal.net/HWSo.png


Totally. I actually did the same on hour ago. So bullish on nstr!


Believe me, we are!


And followed back! 🫡