arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/loss-of-popular-2fa-tool-puts-security-minded-grapheneos-in-a-paradox/

The article unfortunately leaves out most of the points we made in the thread.

#GrapheneOS supports hardware-based attestation and it's entirely possible for Google to allow it as part of the Play Integrity API. They choose to ban using GrapheneOS.

Play Integrity API has no minimum security patch level and nearly all these apps use weak software-based checks that are easily bypassed by attackers. The hardware-based checks rely on trusting every key distributed to every certified Android device, which are often leaked.

Hardware-based attestation can be used for security purposes such as verifying device integrity with a pinning-based approach without the weakness of being vulnerable to leaked keys from the whole Android ecosystem since specific per-app keys in the secure element can be pinned.

Play Integrity API is claimed to be based on devices complying with the Compatibility Test Suite and Compatibility Definition Document. We have irrefutable proof that the majority of certified Android devices do not comply with the CTS/CDD. Play Integrity API is based on lies.

Essentially every non-Pixel device has important CTS failures not caused by CTS bugs. OEMs are cheating to obtain certification. Google claims GrapheneOS can't be permitted because we don't have a certification where they freely allow cheating and don't ban non-compliant devices.

Since Play Integrity doesn't even have a minimum security patch level, it permits a device with multiple years of missing patches. Hardware attestation was required on all devices launched with Android 8 or later, but they don't enforce it to permit non-compliant devices.

The reality is that the Play Integrity API permits devices from companies partnered with Google with privileged Google Play integration when they're running the stock OS. It's easy to bypass, but they'll make changes to block it being done at scale long term such as if we did it.

It does not matter if these devices have years of missing security patches. It doesn't matter if the companies skipped or improperly implemented mandatory security features despite that being required by CDD compliance. Failing even very important CTS tests doesn't matter either.

Google can either permit GrapheneOS in the Play Integrity API in the near future via the approach documented at https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide or we'll be taking legal action against them and their partners. We've started the process of talking to regulators and they're interested.

We're not going to give Google veto power over what we're allowed to do in GrapheneOS. We comply with CTS and CDD except when it limits our ability to provide our users with privacy and security. Google wants to be in charge of which privacy/security features can be added. Nope.

Google's behavior in the mobile space is highly anti-competitive. Google should be forbidden from including Google Mobile Services with privileged access unavailable to regular apps and services. GrapheneOS sandboxed Google Play proves that hardly anything even needs to change.

Google should also be forbidden from participating in blocking using alternate hardware/firmware/software. They've abused their market position to reinforce their monopolies. They've used security as an excuse despite what they're doing having no relevance to it and REDUCING it.

Google is forbidding people from using a growing number of apps and services on an objectively far more private and secure OS that's holding up much better against multiple commercial exploit developers:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112826067364945164

They're holding back security, not protecting it.

We've put a lot of effort into collaborating with Google to improve privacy and security for all Android users. Their business team has repeatedly vetoed even considering giving us partner access. They rolled back us being granted security partner access by the security team.

As with how they handle giving out partner access, the Play Integrity API serves the interests of Google's business model. They have no valid excuse for not allowing GrapheneOS to pass device and strong integrity. If app developers want to ban it, they can still do it themselves.

After our security partner access was revoked, we stopped most of our work on improving Android security. We continued reporting vulnerabilities upstream. However, we're going to stop reporting most vulnerabilities until GrapheneOS is no longer blocked by the Play Integrity API.

This year, we reported multiple serious vulnerabilities to Android used by widely used commercial exploit tools:

https://source.android.com/docs/security/overview/acknowledgements

If Google wants more of that in the future, they can use hardware attestation to permit GrapheneOS for their device/strong integrity checks.

Authy's response about their usage of the Play Integrity API shows their service is highly insecure and depends on having client side validation. Play Integrity is thoroughly insecure and easily bypassed, so it's unfortunate that according to Authy their security depends on it.

If Authy insists on using it, they should use the standard Android hardware attestation API to permit using GrapheneOS too. It's easy to do:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

Banning 250k+ people with the most secure smartphones from using your app is anti-security, not pro-security.


First up, I want to recognize that this is an uncomfortable topic!  Bitcoin is inevitably changing towards user-pays, and that's not all positive.  But facts we don't like are still facts: can't engineer a solution if we can't think about the problems.

There are three kinds of bitcoiners.
A. Those who can afford any fee.
B. Those who can afford a UTXO, but not often.
C. Those who can't afford a UTXO.

Nobody worries about the A group (and in the early days, that was everyone).  Obviously Lightning (my area!) caters to the B group, and we want it to be as large as possible.  To do this we can (1) make lightning as resiliant as we can so onchain spends are rare, (2) make bitcoin as efficient as possible so we can cram as much as we can into what we have.

(1) Making lightning more resilient and reliable is engineering.  Lots of people working on this, even before we get soft-forks which could help further.

(2) More efficiency has two benefits: obviously if your own onchain spends are 20% smaller, that's 20% cheaper.  But if *everyone's* onchain spends are 20% smaller, that means fees are lower *for everyone* too (and it's non-linear).  So we really care about all Bitcoin usage!  Some things are obvious wins: Taproot so you can avoid even putting the script onchain in many cases, FROST so you can cram your 2 of 3 or other scheme into a single key and signature.  We know we want to get more aggressive with sharing one signature across multiple inputs (Cross Input Signature Aggregation), but that needs a lot more research, and a soft-fork.

But even with all these, the math is clear: some people, even if you somehow gave them their wealth in a UTXO, it couldn't afford its own fees to spend.  The C group is real.  Spoiler alert: we don't have an answer for this!  But let's look at some approaches people have tried.

Firstly, there are attempts to move these people into the B group: give them long enough that maybe fees will reach a point they can afford.  This seems unlikely to me:
1. As fees increase everyone will start doing the work to take advantage of low fee times, and that itself means that low-fee times won't be so low.
2. These schemes tend to increase onchain footprints, so they need fees to drop a lot to overcome that (typical is 2x the transaction size, so you need fees to halve to gain anything).
3. If you really can't afford the fee, you probably also can't afford to wait.
4. You still haven't actually dealt with those who really, really can't afford the fees.  Ever.

Another suggestion is that someone (e.g. a lightning service provider) will lock up funds which would cover fees, in case something goes wrong.  This doesn't work economically, because nobody is paying $100 for a $5 user (not at scale), but it doesn't even work mathematically: the reason some people will have small UTXOs is because there are not enough sats for 10 billion people with any realistic distribution.

There are two basic approaches left:
1. Group people, so they fall into the B category (i.e. onchain tx is possible, but expensive).
2. Trust someone, but rely on incentives.

1. Grouping people is possible, but they need to work together if somenthing goes wrong.  So grouping inside a community is probably better than grouping with randos.

For example, there are various tree-of-transaction schemes where you go onchain only if the coordinator fails/goes rogue, and how much it costs you depends on whether anyone near you in the tree pays to get themselves out.  These are basically free if nothing goes wrong (one UTXO required for thousands of users!).  But this is subject to ghettoization, where the coordinator makes sure all the C people are grouped together, knowing none of them can afford the transactions they need to get their funds back.  It's particularly bad because the coordinator can insert its own fake "whales" to make it look like it's not ghettoized.

You can play with incentives here, too: more research needed.  The details matter!

2. Relying on incentives.

As a simple example, lightning-connected e-cash mints.  They can't rug individuals very easily, they have to rug everyone together (or go fractional and rug the last ones to exit).   Maybe with enough anonymity and reputation, these would be Good Enough.

More ambitious would be a single UTXO held for multiple people by a coordinator.   Can we make it so that if a coordinator is dishonest, you can force them to burn your funds?  Maybe burn more than your funds (ie. a bond)?  Won't get your money, but it aligns incentives so they're not motivated to rug you.  The details here really matter!

There's a cute scheme which has been proposed where the coordinator pays a temporary bond, and asserts that they actually have everyone's signature to transfer the funds.  If nobody challenges within a week, they get the bond back and the funds move.  If someone challenges, all the signatures are put onchain, and if they're not all valid, the bond gets half-burned and half-given to the (successful) challenger.  This is hard to make work, though.  Someone needs to get the money to challenge (hard if you don't have the money in the first place, plus it's hard to prove to someone you *didn't* sign something!), and then make sure nobody gets the challenge bond before them (in particular, a dishonest coordinator, seeing the game is up, completes the successful challenge *themselves* and gets half their bond back), and make sure someone can't grief and delay the settlement indefinitely or bankrupt the coordinator.

More research needed, here, too.

Summary

A longer post than I had expected to write.  And it's buried in the middle of a thread nobody will read.  (I do this sometimes.  I suck at marketing I guess!)

Sub-fee bitcoin amounts will have tradeoffs, involving trusting someone who has more money than you (at least, in someone's competence, even if their *financial* incentives can be made to match yours).  This is difficult to build well, and not a very exciting thing to build today, so it hasn't really happened (custodial things are much, much easier!).

This is also a key reason I believe we need to make Bitcoin more expressive: if we can do *more* with our own UTXOs, we can build better solutions.  And by "we" I mean "someone smarter than me" of course!

Feedback welcome!


Their defeat in votes was obvious and since they knew that they were not going to hand over power, they took armed forces to the streets to intimidate and kill anyone who dared to go out into the streets.

They gave the results at 12 pm when people were already tired and everyone had already seen that they were basically patrolling the entire city

the elections were stolen from us

https://video.nostr.build/3a1a3b9d22cdb801cbc1addce03ee7549f2f7e16bcc912d2a3acb2c0b17d8b3d.mp4

#photography #photostr #artstr #plebs #plebchain


How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?

https://doubleagent.net/onavo-facebook-ssl-mitm-technical-analysis/


Memes threaten US financial system: RAND

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/memes-threaten-us-financial-system-rand/ar-BB1qz5PG#/

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🚨PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

Heather Morgan, AKA 'Razzlekhan' is a self proclaimed social engineer who pleaded guilty to laundering funds her husband hacked from Bitfinex (120,000 BTC) back in 2016.

I crossed paths with her in Nashville this week. After asking around I discovered she has been spotted at multiple Bitcoin events over the past year.

It's extremely suspicious that she is still walking free and hasn't been sentenced for her crimes.

I recommend that all Bitcoin event organizers treat her as a threat actor and DENY ENTRY.
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Woa! I just made the first atomic multinut payment on mainnet and it worked!

I paid a 10 sat Lightning invoice with ecash from two different Cashu mints at the same time, each making a (partial) multi-path payment of 5 sat to the destination.

Oh my god.
https://m.primal.net/JhWr.png


Holy shit, I think I just realized a direct and concrete way that I’ve personally experienced to how #Nostr completely changes the social incentives:

• Rage and hateful posts on Twitter get the most attention.
• Positive and happy posts on Nostr get the most zaps.

It really was just monetization all the time.

When attention is the currency, negativity and hate rise to the top because the platforms need people arguing.

When sats directly from peers are the currency, value rises to the top.

(Anyone else feel they’ve had this same experience?)


"As long as the final decision on the digital euro has not been taken, it makes little sense for the Eurosystem to launch a large-scale public awareness drive." - Deutsche Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel

I could not disagree more. People should know what their governments are doing.

The need for this transparency is precisely why I have been working with the Human Rights Foundation on the  nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as CBDC Tracker to document CBDC development around the world.

Furthermore, the need for transparency is also why I wrote my book to provide everything you need to get up to speed on CBDCs.

From the myths to the risks, this book will help you decode what "CBDC" means for the future of money.

https://cbdctracker.hrf.org/home


WE WERE TOLD ELON WAS ON HIS WAY.

TURNS OUT HE DOES NOT LIKE SPEAKING ON PLATFORMS HE DOES NOT CONTROL.


Regarding the "right" to self-custody: ask yourself, do you need a politician's permission to hold 12 words in your head?
https://dergigi.com/2022/04/03/inalienable-property-rights/


Good afternoon.

The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump headliner is front and center much to everyone’s joy or frustration depending on where you stand on that, but I’ll take a moment to highlight something that’ll get lost in the shuffle.

Today on the main stage, Jason Maier (author A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin) interviewed progressive congressman Rho Khanna. They talked about a lot of stuff but the TLDR headline takeaway statement from Khanna was “Bitcoin is about freedom. Bitcoin is about human rights.”

And around the same time, a bunch of Democrat Congress people sent a letter to the DNC chair saying the party needs to embrace this industry better, and basically that the Warren wing of the party isn’t the way to go here anymore. Whether it’s polling data, sheer numbers about how many Americans own this stuff, or more knowledge conversations about bitcoin’s energy impact and other things, being anti-bitcoin is a losing strategy.

Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic. And there will be shitcoinery. Politicians are currently in their pandering phase. But when I began writing about this industry nearly seven years ago, I would not have expected to see this much explicit support by 2024.

The builders, the educators, the advocates- all of your work does matter. At least when it comes to protecting Americans and others against some of the most potentially hostile government positions, the narrative war is working. We need more work on the right to privacy, and that imo is the harder battle, but given how successful things have been on other fronts, I think that front is workable too.

Immutable money. Unstoppable voice. Endless memes.


The Bitcoin 2024 livestream chose to not show the Nostr panel. Yikes.
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Bitcoin doesn't need governments to win. It doesn't need governments to stack it. It doesn't need to ask for help.

Instead, the bar is much lower. Bitcoiners, in their preferred jurisdiction, would benefit by not being hassled by their government. They'd like to be able to buy it without problems. They'd like to be able to pay for energy and equipment and mine it in peace. They'd like be able to write open source code without facing legal problems. They'd like to be able to operate reputable businesses related to it. If they can't, then some of them will move as necessary.

It's helpful for the ecosystem to have non-hostile jurisdictions in the world. And for those that can't move without great sacrifice (i.e. most people), it's helpful for them that whatever jurisdiction they are in, is non-hostile.

So it's good that bitcoin is getting into the Overton window. The industry has some power now. Bitcoin benefits from builders and educators and advocates. It benefits from those who do their best to prevent the worst legislative outcomes against self-custody, against privacy, against running a business, against mining, etc.

But Bitcoin doesn't need to pander to them to proactively support us, and bitcoiners should recognize the sliminess of politician incentives when they come to pander to us. While it's in their best interest to build national reserves if they actually figure this thing out, we don't need them to build reserves.

I think that's the helpful line. That's where the signal is. To the extent that we minimize how much we are tread on, and build multi-national accepting footholds to pivot around, we gradually build what we want to exist.

We ask to be treated fairly, we use our resources to help ensure that we are, and to the extent that we are not then we adjust as necessary.


Privacy is a human fight. Any encroachment by the State on an individual's ability to use the tools in this fight is nothing short of tyranny. Take a stand, this fight is worth it, chip in any way you can: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

Will have the full panel discussion out soon with Diverter, Tor Ekeland, & Zack Shapiro.

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


If Bitcoin is good money, then it will be adopted by governments. You cannot stop them, the same as they can't stop you. This is the whole point. Bitcoin is for enemies.

How you feel about the state embracing or attacking Bitcoin is completely inconsequential. Notes criticizing Bitcoin for being adopted more widely are nothing more than a virtue signal to the larp tribe.

It achieves nothing but demonstrating you don't understand what Bitcoin is.

Gm


👀 Self hosting people are the best people
https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling


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The remnants’ revenge

-	A pamphlet fuelled by hope

Trust

Scandinavia and in particular Norway is known as having a people that place a lot of trust in each other.

Many call this a valuable social capital.
Today I call it a liability.

Few ask where the trust come from and to whom trust was awarded.

Trust doesn’t appear by itself and it’s not something you own.

On the contrary, trust is something you have to earn and which you are bound to lose if you do the wrong thing.

It has been suggested that our harsh Nordic climate forced us to trust each other as this was necessary in order to survive.

This is in my opinion a crude and unsatisfactory explanation.

We know for sure that our tradition of trust predates the formation of the state.

And when we study history we see that the people, for good reason, had a fundamental distrust in people with power.

I’ve many times written about my ancestors in Trøndelag, the middle part of Norway, who had a legal obligation to kill any king who placed himself above the law.

This is the perfect example of distrusting the politicians as a matter of principle.

The Trønders probably knew that they would lose their freedom if they gave an ambitious king as much as an inch.

Instead these «resistance provisions,» as they were called, meant that the people built trust in each other, because those who abstained from hunting down the tyrant king would lose their friends and with that their security too.

“Join the fight against the state and we trust you. Be a free rider and we distrust you and despise you.”

I don’t know who came up with the idea that we ought to trust institutions such as the state or individuals such as politicians.

Those who succeeded with sowing the seeds of this idea in my culture must have had a hell of a marketing budget.

But the reality seems to be that someone where able to pull off this incredible feat – to make people start distrusting each other and instead trusting, or more precisely worshiping the state.

A Jens we better listen to

One of the best authors we’ve had in Norway, Jens Bjørnebo (1920 -1976), once said in a TV interview that:

“Power should be accompanied by chronic distrust.”

Bjørneboe was deeply sceptical to the Norwegian state’s accumulation of and use of power.

He was highly cherished by the people.
This included the gay community, which included Jens himself.

Sadly, no Norwegian author has been able to climb up on the throne that he sat on, being the uncontested Norwegian champion of anarchism.

Finally, some good news

All hope isn’t lost though.

We are still some remnants who are vocal about the ideas of individual liberty in this country.

And there are signs that gives us reason to cling on to our optimism.

The OECD recently published a survey on trust in government.

Reading that the share of Norwegian citizens who greatly trust the government dropped by 16 percentage points (64 to 48%) from 2021 to 2023 was highly satisfactory.

It might indicate that we see an awakening in my country.

When you read below what has been going on in Norway since World War II, you see my point about trust being a liability more clearly.

And the rapid decline in the trust in the government probably means that people begin to understand that the politicians gravely have abused what the people have given them.

FDR
Franklin D. Roosevelt, famous for his New Deal program, is probably the most socialist president that the US has ever had.

In the middle of WWII, on 16 September 1942, he gave a famous speech as he handed over the Royal Navy ship HNoMS King Haakon VII at the Washington Navy Yard.

Roosevelt said:

"If there is anyone who still wonders why this war is being fought, let him look to Norway. If there is anyone who has any delusions that this war could have been averted, let him look to Norway; and if there is anyone who doubts the democratic will to win, again I say, let him look to Norway."

Considering how ill prepared the Norwegian government was when Germany invaded us on 9 April 1940 as well as the widespread treason among highly ranked Norwegian officers, it can be discussed how honest the final part of the citation above was.

But Roosevelt was a trained liar, like most politicians, so what can you expect?

However, the problem with his speech was something else entirely, as «Look to Norway» would become a symbol that power-hungry Norwegians embraced as their own.

Egos on a cocktail of steroids and meth

Roosevelt’s punchy proclamation was  turned into a slogan that to this day continues to fuel the hubris of Norwegian bureaucrats, politicians and hare-brained citizens.

This has since long become their mentality:

"Look to Norway. We have the best 'model'. We are a small nation, but learn from us and let us save the world."

Foreigners of course laugh at our pretentious Norwegian government f***ups who travel the world and meet with people with real power.

Study what such creepy career politicians as our former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg (current gen sec of Nato, lapdog of the American deep state) and today’s foreign minister Espen Barth Eide have said and done over the years, and you soon see my point.

Postwar politics in Norway

Let’s take a look at what has happened in Norway since Roosewelt gave his speech:

In 1945 the allies won the war.
The Norwegian people, on the other hand, lost the peace.

With the support from the US, our new government kept many of the intrusive measures that the Nazis had installed during their five years of occupation of Norway.

Price controls, rationing, real estate zoning, central planning of medicine and education, harassment of the Sami people, sterilization of the Romanis, government appointed statisticians running the economy - you name it.

It was the whole shebang of socialist policies.

The government didn't just keep the Nazis’ road map, they perfected it.

A crazy health tsar

It's noteworthy that they installed Karl Evang as director of the national directorate of health.

He was deep into eugenics, promoted the use of contraceptives heavily and became one of the founders of the World Health Organization.

Evang once wrote:

"The idea of limiting the number of people with weak genes is a perfectly rational thought that always has been in accordance with socialism. In the socialist planned community, this will be a natural part of preventive health work."

He kept his position until 1972, the year I was born.

If Evang had known back then what I was about to become, he would probably have given my parents the Romani treatment.

For good measure, our government appointed his brother, Vilhelm, as head of the intelligence service.

I guess they were both cut out to do the work necessary to make the dream of a socialist Norway come true.

When the schools and media still to this day refer to the socialist policies of the post-war period as «the rebuilding of Norway» you begin to see the level of gaslighting we’ve been exposed to.

Oil riches

The new ruling class set out to capitalize as much as possible on their power grab, and when oil reserves were discovered in the North Sea, the state's revenue and influence on people's lives grew enormously.

Most of the oil revenue is being pumped into what has become the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.

As with our culture of high trust, everyone sees this fund, which is supposed to finance the government’s future pension obligations, as an important stock of public capital.

I, on the other hand, see the fund squarely as a liability.

Not only does it create perverse incentives for our politicians, see comments below.

In addition, it’s managed by billionaire Nicolai Tangen, who publicly has supported 100% inheritance tax.

More importantly, it makes the Norwegian state a perpetually growing attack vector.

The parasitic elite in Russia, the EU and the US probably lick their lips when they hear people speak about this fund.

I’ve since long argued that it should be divvied up and handed over to the citizens of Norway.

The result

Today we pay the highest taxes and have the highest debt to household income ratio in the whole world.

Due to the fatal EEA agreement of 1992, championed by “the mother of our nation” Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway and director general of WHO, as well as her protégé Jens Stoltenberg, Norway is bound by a steady stream of EU clown world legislation, but we don't have any voting rights in Brussels and Strasbourg.

As NATO member we bomb cities with dark-skinned people in the Middle East and Africa whenever the US military-industrial complex wants us to.

We still have our own currency, the Norwegian krone, but its value has tanked.

We now pay about 100% more for the dollar and 50% more for the euro compared to 2008.

Once again, we see public capital being transformed into a liability.

Even economics professor Espen Gaarder Haug, a former golden boy on Wall Street, has joined our rank of rebels and calls the krone a shitcoin.

The "experts” – read; rent seeking bank economists – are already whispering about adopting the euro.

Apart from the NOK that our politicians don't give AF about, my country has in practice totally lost its sovereignty.

How to corrupt a whole nation

Our parasitic class has introduced a complex scheme of redistribution of economic resources, based on taxation, oil revenues, bread and circus.

It's called «the welfare system.»
In reality it's a corruption system that doles out confiscated shitcoins to citizens and syndicates.

This corruption system has moulded the people into becoming selfish subjects who fight tooth and nail to be the government’s darling rent seekers, while they fear and loath change and independent thinking.

The politicians happily corrupt themselves with throwing a non-stop party financed by a combination of taxes and income from the oil-pumped national pension fund.

The so-called “budgetary rule” says they can spend 3% of the pension fund every year.

Because the fund is obliged to invest all of its capital abroad, the rule means that the politicians have an even stronger incentive to debase our currency, as this gives them more to spend.

As a result, the government spends about two-thirds of mainland GDP.
Our private sector has become a playground for stupid masochists like myself.

What we see is a bunch of rats who plunder the sinking ship.

Emigration spike

Rich Norwegians say they are sick and tired of watching Norway’s downfall.

Therefore they pack the proceeds of their successful rent seeking activity in the rucksack, jump in the life rafts and set course for Switzerland.

Even Polish expats have begun returning to their homeland.

Young Norwegians increasingly see no future here, and the most talented flee to wherever they can find freedom.

Immigration floodwave

I am not against immigration.

From 1836 to 1915, some 750,000 Norwegians fled to the escape hatch called North America.

Without this option, they would have been trapped here in Norway, with much fewer options to seek happiness.

They relocated from a continent that rewarded corruption and nepotism to a continent that rewarded meritocracy.

Today this script has almost flipped on its head.

We have a grave problem with immigration in Norway now, as hundreds of thousands of immigrants from countries that has been destroyed by NATO bombs come here to suck milk from our generous welfare program.

Many of them turn into passive robots who just vote for more benefits.

Meaning, they integrate extremely well.

A minority of our new compatriots struggle with adapting, as they instead resort to pushing up our rape, armed robbery and murder statistics.

Sweden paved the way, by creating war zones dominated by criminal gangs from foreign countries.

But look to Norway, because soon we will outperform our neighbours.

How would Karl Evang have evaluated the outcome of his gang’s project?

In just 15 years, our birth rates have dropped like a stone, from 2.0 to 1.4 per woman.

The Norwegian version of Anthony Fauci would probably have seen this as a tremendous feat and punched his chest while he said with pride –  “Look to Norway.”

The question is how he would have perceived the massive import of non-Aryan people.

Because immigration significantly outstrips emigration and outweighs the declining baby production, our public bureau of statistics estimates that the population grows from 5.4 million today to 6 million in 2050.

Considering that birth rates drop like a stone, the bureau’s numbers indicate a complete transformation of our society.
Being “Norwegian” soon becomes a nonsensical term.

Was this part of Karl Evang’s dream?

Or did he perhaps envision to on-board himself, Vilhelm and their friends on “Karl’s arch” and paddle to Atlantis?

The transformation

In my 51 years of having walked this earth, Norway has been transformed from being a relatively free society when I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s into becoming a dreadful socialist experiment, dressed up in drag queen costumes as some sort of “a modern democracy that embraces diversity”
In essence, a globalist form of woke socialism has taken over.

The proper description of this transformation is “frighteningly rapid and abhorrently ugly.”

The belief system

Yet, the biggest tragedy is that so many of my compatriots believe they are free.

Imagine that!

They still believe they are free men and women!

Or whatever they define themselves as, I can’t keep up with the multitude of pronounces they oblige us to use.

Without a doubt, they have become slaves to three masters, the state, the bank and their own brainwashed ego.

I don't accept it

The political class is 100% responsible for our tragedy.

But we, the people, are to blame for letting them do this to us.

We slept while the busy bees worked overtime to tear down our society.

We must repent, update our software, reject any attempt at creating new divides, find common ground, rediscover the value of cooperation against power-mongers and fight this evil before it’s too late.

Our kids should leave

I've told my daughter to go abroad.

She doesn’t have any responsibility for what we have let the ruling class do to our country.

Our kids should hand over to my generation the task of cleaning up this mess.

She understands how serious the situation is, and that picking up the bill the older generations try to send to her isn’t an option.

Therefore, next year she leaves, 19 years old.

I hope she finds happiness.

And I hope her generation has at least twice as many babies as my generation had.

That would be the most beautiful revenge imaginable.

I see hope

The OECD survey on trust in the government  is a catastrophe for the political class, but welcome news for the rest of us.

Who knows, with this speedy drop in trust the people of Norway might soon embrace my #RebelUp slogan and wave goodbye to experimenting with the social fabric.

Returning to our roots, where we despise ambitious people who seek power, is a much better option.

I solemnly pledge

In recognition of the fact that it is my daughter's generation who owns the future and that all of them have a fundamental right to freedom - I'll make the following vow:

I will continue to fight this battle of ideas against the parasitic class.

I will do what I can to cure my people of the socialist/globalist/woke brain virus which they unleashed upon us.

I will do everything in my power to restore among my people the spirit our ancestors used to have a long time ago.

And if many fight for the same cause and we succeed, I hope our kids and grandkids come back some day in the future and visit us.

Because Norway is a fantastically beautiful country.

And it belongs to us – the Norwegians.

Outro

Let me finish by recycling some of Roosevelt's own words:

If there is anyone who still wonders why this war is being fought, let him look to Norway.

If there is anyone who has any delusions that this war could have been averted, let him look to Norway.

And if there is anyone who doubts the remnants' will to win this battle of ideas, let him look to Norway.

---

If you liked this pamphlet, both the algorithms and I appreciate that you hit the like and follow buttons and redistribute it in any way you wish.

Make sure to include the whole text and credit the rebel who wrote it, so that we can avoid any misunderstanding about my intentions or who’s to blame for the ensuing rage it might provoke.

All the best,
Rune Østgård


eCommerce meets Community Farmers market,
In your Nostr DM's 🤯

TLDR Image:
https://cdn.satellite.earth/7a581e8d9c3d6d69cee5f6c1b4d4ecd618b374f402a4a307d8d582a1f3a01ff6.png

Explanatory Video:
https://cdn.satellite.earth/8c851c266ea0619996abefd9c65997a486c4295271a9880e52edbc64df45bc04.mov
#microapps #nostrdesign #communities #shopstr


TENNESSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL JONATHAN SKRMETTI JOINED US AT THE PARK YESTERDAY.

TOPIC WAS “CODE IS SPEECH.”

POWERFUL CONVERSATION WITH GLADSTEIN OF HRF AND ZACK SHAPIRO OF BPI.

RECORDING WILL BE PUBLISHED NEXT WEEK.
https://m.primal.net/JfFK.jpg


My final slide from my keynote today on the main stage in Nashville

Onwards! ✌
https://m.primal.net/JfXG.jpg


The Ledger presentation at Bitcoin 2024.  https://m.primal.net/JfTL.png


Due to attempts by local ISPs to block Proton VPN ahead of Venezuela's #election on July 28, we've added additional free Smart Routing #VPN servers.
We want to ensure everyone has free access to information.

If you experience issues connecting to #ProtonVPN, make sure to follow the instructions provided below.
Please share this with your friends and family in #venezuela: 🧵


The Linux Foundation is going to start shitcoining 😞

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Monero folks seem hyper sensitive, that makes me wanna meme on them even harder

I would be too if I bought something in 2018 and lost 70% of my purchasing power 💀

Congrats tho you can safely buy questionable porn on the dark web.


::taps mic::
::clears throat::

WE ARE THE FUCKING ALGORITHM.

Anyway, good evening.

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Whatever the content, the YouTube thumbnail is basically the soypog meme. 😂

https://m.primal.net/JePE.webp


Who's going to be in nostr:nprofile1qqsfc93uwdgl3qetpz6kewewp9vkp5w9qcxadv8yv85p8u8sw3v3r8sprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvqgewaehxw309ac82unpwe5kgcfwdehhxarj9ekxzmnyqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsrce5ph?

Thinking of submitting a "Sign your apps" workshop for developers who want to start self-signing their apps on nostr.

We could explore the (upcoming) dev signing tool and its options, publish CLI and Android apps, and go over the NIPs that power all this.


Introducing Automated Wallet Rollover with Advanced Coin Control

We are excited to introduce a significant update to Nunchuk: the new Wallet Rollover feature. This powerful tool provides a comprehensive solution for migrating from an old wallet to a new wallet while maintaining your preferred coin management strategy.

A Leap Forward in Wallet Management
Until now, migrating from an old wallet to a new wallet has been a largely manual process, requiring users to carefully manage transactions and coin control themselves. Nunchuk’s Wallet Rollover feature automates much of this process, dramatically reducing the potential for errors and saving time. Moreover, our advanced coin control management is unparalleled in the Bitcoin wallet space, offering a level of granularity and privacy preservation techniques previously unavailable to users.

Independent Rollover Feature
The Wallet Rollover feature operates independently and can be utilized in various scenarios that require fund transfers between wallets, including key replacement processes.

Key Capabilities:
1. Transfer between any wallet types (single-sig to multi-sig, vice versa, or between different multi-sig configurations).
2. Preserve coin segregation strategy during transfers.
3. Enhance privacy further through randomized broadcast of the rollover transactions.
Nunchuk is the first Bitcoin wallet to offer this level of automation and granular control in wallet transitions.

Advanced Coin Control During Rollover
This feature enables users to preserve their coin segregation strategy when migrating to a new wallet. Whether you segregate your coins for privacy, accounting, or any other purpose, you can now maintain this organization during a wallet transition.
Key Benefits Include:
* Preservation of existing tags and collections, maintaining the separation of coins based on origin, purpose, or other criteria.
* Enhanced privacy by preserving your original coin management strategy.

Important Details:
* To maintain your coin segregation strategy, the rollover feature may create multiple transactions.
* For enhanced privacy, we recommend broadcasting these transactions at random intervals rather than all at once. This practice obscures the connection between the newly created coins and the old and new wallets.
* Subscribers benefit from an automatic randomized broadcasting feature, further enhancing transaction privacy.

Why This Matters
1. Seamless Key Replacement: In case of a lost or compromised key, you can quickly transition to a new wallet setup while maintaining your preferred coin organization, minimizing disruption and stress.
2. Evolving Security Needs: As your Bitcoin holdings grow or your security requirements change, you can easily transition between different wallet types (e.g., from single-sig to multi-sig) without the hassle of manual transfers.
3. Privacy Enhancement: By preserving your coin segregation strategy and using randomized broadcasting, you can significantly improve onchain privacy during wallet transitions.
4. Flexibility for Various Use Cases: Whether you’re setting up an inheritance plan, adjusting business wallet structures, or simply reorganizing your funds, this feature adapts to your specific needs.
5. User Control: You retain full control over your bitcoin throughout the entire process, adhering to the principles of self-custody while benefiting from advanced automation.

It’s important to note that while preserving coin segregation strategy offers privacy benefits, it may result in multiple transactions, potentially increasing on-chain fees. Users can weigh this trade-off based on their specific privacy needs and cost considerations.

How to Use Wallet Rollover
To initiate a wallet rollover, navigate to: The wallet you want to migrate from > View wallet config > More menu > Roll funds over to another wallet.

Looking Ahead
At Nunchuk, we are committed to pushing the boundaries of Bitcoin self-custody. This update represents a significant leap forward in wallet management flexibility and user control. We’re excited to see how our users leverage these new capabilities to enhance their Bitcoin security and wallet management strategies.

Stay tuned for more innovations as we continue to evolve the Nunchuk ecosystem. Your financial sovereignty is our top priority, and we’re dedicated to providing you with the tools you need to maintain complete control over your bitcoin.

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Good morning, and welcome to HRF on nostr. We are thrilled to be here!

Each week, we'll circulate our weekly newsletter, the Financial Freedom Report, to help you stay informed about the latest news on financial repression around the world. We’ll also highlight the latest developments in the Bitcoin space. You won’t want to miss it.

Read our latest newsletter here: https://hrf.org/topic/financial-freedom/

Subscribe to the Financial Freedom Report here: http://financialfreedomreport.org/


There are so many awesome nostr apps already, and it's gonna get better still. https://www.nostrapps.com/


I really don't think you have to assume you lost your nsec, there's been lots of people who lost follows for just data inconsistency reasons, client incompatibility, things like that.


Ah right you're in northern Italy - I haven't been to either place yet (I live in German Switzerland), but AFAIK Northern Italy and Ticino are pretty similar in nature and culture. So the difference is mostly freedom go up, CoL go up. 😁

Anyway, you can do your own research and all but for what it's worth I think this country is pretty great. Not perfect, but pretty great. 🇨🇭


What do you see, anon? 👀

Global M2 monetary supply is trying to resume its upward trend after chopping sideways for approximately three years.

If the new uptrend holds... #buckleup.

#Bitcoin 🚀 https://image.nostr.build/daadbe4d99eba7d6cfa6043fd3661b9614e724c130d56bb2960694d233f612c7.jpg


The mulit-nut era has begun. As more mints adopt this feature, users will soon be able to make Lightning payments that originate from different mints at once.

Pretty nuts. It works great, improves reliability, and enables a truly multi-mint ecash UX.

NUTs and BOLTs 🥜🤝⚡

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You could try to get them back with https://follows.nostr.com/


Remember that there are likely to be many Bitcoin Whales in Nashville, making its prime target. Leave your keys at home. Assume your laptop will be backdoored if you leave it alone. Be aware.


IP privacy only AFAIK - Run the node behind TOR or a VPN and you're good.


Twitter fucks with your head. Saw a post saying the EU plans to create a registry for assets. Got stressed about that as I live in Portugal.

But you look into it, it’s one random source speculating on a law that might be passed over the next two years.

Don’t get me wrong, the EU would absolutely pass such a law, and steal everything you have, but if it got even close to getting passed, capital would flee at the speed of light.

In fact, if you want to see hyperbitcoinization, you should pray that law gets passed. Nothing would incentivize people to grasp hard-to-seize money than the communist apparatchiks coming for the easy-to-seize stuff.

The problem with Twitter isn’t that the information is bad — it’s actually great compared to corporate media if you cultivate the right follows — it’s that it forces you to contemplate every attack vector at once and turns you into a paranoid lunatic.

Everyone should be prepared to protect himself based on first principles — health, relationships, finances, property. But worrying about the demented dreams of every psychotic politician is a huge and unpleasant distraction.


I've lived in Switzerland for 3 years, I really recommend it!

Nature around here is beautiful - It's in the middle of the alps, so you have a lot of big and small mountains nearby. There's also many lakes between the mountains you can go boating or swimming in. In winter there's great access to skiing. Here's some photos from Lucerne / Lake Lucerne and Mt. Pilatus for flavor. 🤩

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Local life is extremely safe and crime free - Even the largest cities like Zürich feel safe at night, which is important to me at least.

Switzerland as a country is very Bitcoin friendly: Lugano has made Bitcoin legal tender. Zug is nicknamed "crypto valley" - Sadly that's mostly due to a lot of shitcoins incorporating there, but they do that because the legislation is very friendly and tax rates are low. Which is also something I appreciate.

Income potential in Switzerland is high by international standards - It's roughly comparable with secondary US cities, but the quality of life here is much better! I make a low six figure income working as a programmer here. For types of jobs it's mainly big corporate healthcare / finance / mechanical engineering. Although you can also find some cool Bitcoin and freedom tech companies such as Relai or Proton that are based here.

Switzerland has low taxes by OECD standards, although not quite the absolute lowest globally. I pay around 20% income tax and social security combined. There is no capital gains tax, but there is a (very small) wealth tax. You can sell your Bitcoin without incurring any taxes. But you do need to declare how much Bitcoin or other assets you have, as you're taxed on total wealth.

The only real downside I can cite is high cost of living - The largest cities are like San Francisco levels of gentrification. You spend the equivalent of $28 eating lunch out, and $3k/mo renting. It's not so bad if you have a local salary, I still feel like my income goes pretty far. But you're absolutely not remote working or something from here, that's for sure.
However you get what you pay for in Quality of Life. 🤙


THIS IS A BIG ONE FAM.

SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH THEIR TEAM DURING DEVELOPMENT. PRIORITIES ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACES. FOCUSED AND DELIBERATE.

https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch


Nuts.

History: registration => confiscation

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


Proton launches Bitcoin wallet and will hold reserves in #Bitcoin 👀

https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch


“… sending and receiving Bitcoin is now as easy as sending and receiving email…” 👀

https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch


GN Nostr 🌙 https://image.nostr.build/494c642764d5b69a2f0b690a018d96dae0c643648139d8b378d73f6ef7f2bcf3.jpg


BREAKING NEWS! KAMALA HARRIS is confirmed for the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville this week! Early reports indicate she may be speaking on the OPEN SOURCE STAGE!

https://i.nostr.build/a3mCodarfreC8NEk.png


GM Gigi ☕


Pretty close to releasing the biggest update to npub.cash so far.

Most changes are under the hood, optimising the way npub.cash handles token state in order to reduce the amount of requests.

Also I am adding support for nostr-based cashu wallets like nutsack 👀 Users will be able to withdraw their balance to their nostr-cashu-wallet. Furthermore you can setup a "redirect" so that all transactions land in your nostr-cashu-wallet automatically, essentially adding a npub.cash address to every nostr-cashu-wallet out there.

These changes do not only require a lot of work on npubcash-server, but also on the website and the SDK. I hope to get it out by early next week 💜


We're in uncharted territory and it is undeniable to me that we are currently living in a Banana Republic ruled by people with no regard for the American people or their political will.

https://www.tftc.io/reporting-live-from-the-banana-republic/


The #EU wants to build a database on citizens valuables and wealth. Get ready to register your clocks, gold and bitcoin.

https://blossom.oxtr.dev/6398e0f747a912cc07fd9ba74bc9952adcd5658515d6437d5271547324e43e0d.png


"Nostr is the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."
  —  nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
https://opensats.org/blog/fiatjaf-receives-lts-grant


This may be hard to believe but XKCD was clever and entertaining at one point. 🙄


what could go wrong?
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We are entering an era where both #Bitcoin and USD will play key roles in the average American's financial life. The coming years will see a fascinating interplay between Gresham's law, fiat protocol stickiness, and geopolitics. Hang on tight.


We lost freedom, because we lost responsibility. We want the next overlord to fix our problems. The next platform to fix all the issues that the current platform has. The next news cycle to wash our neurons clean of the last cycle; the next dopamine hit.


People aren't even aware that there is, could be, should be another way. They don't even entertain the possibility that THEY THEMSELVES SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK. To say whatever. To think whatever. To spend money on whatever.


After several weeks of persistent effort, I'm excited to share Nostr Web Services (NWS).

NWS makes your web service reachable without having a publicly accessible IP address or DNS. All you need is an npub and a set of Nostr relays. A wide range of existing services could be run on NWS without requiring any significant changes. NWS achieves this by establishing a TCP connection between client and server which can be used by these applications.

Please keep in mind, that the software is in a very early state and not even released yet.

https://github.com/asmogo/nws


Yes, we already announced a wave of grants in July. Yes, this is another one. There's no stopping this nutty train! 🌊🥜⚡
https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-july-2024-6th-wave


Kamala Harris literally said in the same sentence:

“We’re here to discuss the most pressing issues of our time, and my pronouns are she and her.”🤡

💀💀💀https://video.nostr.build/3e760f934995047b4980ec373ecec92ddc5d772e05038ee9e96f114566b98553.mp4


I also tried restoring my current Cashu.me wallet in https://v2alpha.nutstash.app/ and AFAICT it doesn't work? At least I put in the words and the same Mint (https://mint.minibits.cash/Bitcoin), and it didn't find any balance.


📢 BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 has landed 🚀.  This release includes the first beta version of bdk_wallet with a stable 1.0.0 API. The changes in this version include reworked wallet persistence, changeset, and construction, optional user provided RNG, custom tx sorting, and use of merkle proofs in bdk_electrum. See the release notes for all the details.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.1


Immutable money. Unstoppable voice. Endles memes.


Ok – so Signal is great. Good encryption, etc. Obviously, the main thing that we want to improve there is the centralized coordinator in the middle.

My original proposal was an adaptation of the Signal protocol for Nostr. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/2169fab971591d0b4a450ef08aeb6301c5d2a0da/104.md

But I got lots of feedback on that one that 1) group messaging needs to be first class and 2) multiple device support needs to be first class. Both of these are actually the same thing - supporting groups.

With the signal protocol, the way that the symmetric encryption works, when you're in a group, you're effectively creating a DM to every member of the group, encrypting it separately, and sending it out. Signal makes this feel like less of a big deal because they do some tricks on the server side to make it less heavy for the client.

In the nostr version of the signal protocol, you have no server to do work for you, so your device has to do all that work itself.

With MLS, because it's using a different data structure (binary trees) for managing encryption keys and users in a group, you go from a situation where group scaling is a linear problem (each new user in a group adds the same amount of work for all clients) to a log problem (where each new user in a group adds wayyyy less work for all clients).

There are also other benefits of MLS.

1) it's about to be an internet standard (like TLS, etc) so we conceivably get interoperability with other networks/clients
2) it's built to allow for the use of multiple ciphersuites and the graceful change/upgrade of the ciphersuites over time.

The only drawback is that it's very complex and very new. My work so far on getting MLS to Nostr has been focused on updating dependency libraries to allow for support of schnorr signatures over the secp256k1 curve (what nostr - and bitcoin - uses). I'm very convinced this is the right long-term solution for private messaging on Nostr but it's going to take a bit longer to get it probably ready for implementation.

If you haven't see it already, you can follow along with what I'm doing in my weekly posts. Also, if you're interested in working with me on all this, that'd be awesome.

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Gentle reminder: cashu.me supports nostr wallet connect (NWC).

Settings -> Link Wallet -> Enable Nostr Wallet Connect -> copy that thang and paste it in your nostr client

You need to keep the wallet open in the background to zap. I've been zapping like this from my nut stash for the last few months.
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These tools/procedures are widely used for other reasons including at border crossings. They get training to use it. Law enforcement also often uses them illegally for unjustified search and seizure targeting those who have done nothing beyond crossing a border or journalism. The groups of people using tools from Cellebrite or competitors are often the ones breaking the law or using them for criminal reasons. Many of the people using these tools are criminals breaking the laws of the land.

Even if they say it's only for certain governments and law enforcement clients, it doesn't and won't stop them getting out. There are likely militias, juntas, or criminals in the world with access to these tools as long as they are powerful enough. If Cellebrite isn't available somewhere, something else will take it's place. If we can get documentation, someone far more powerful could get far more.

Defending against tools like these being only valuable to the criminals is a narrative for authoritarianism. Don't let them attack you this way.

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It's funny that Twitter is so toxic despite all the moderation and censorship, while Nostr is always upbeat, constructive and friendly despite having none.


huh
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Biden announced he is not running for president on Twitter, a centralized company, via an account for which it is understood he doesn’t control directly.

When thinking about the future, this feels like such archaic technology in the present. This is a world where the SEC account was compromised not that long ago and posted market-moving false information.

If a president has nuclear codes, he arguably should also have a signing key for any important communications.


Aannnnnnddd it’s Kamala https://i.nostr.build/JzxLUlbL4ZbDGKN3.jpg  nostr:note1j0ftr5djegzkyt4u2jy0jhaftnra845vtana3th3cavwvysvw46syxlqte


Biden out.
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#Joe #Biden is pulling out of the election

https://blossom.oxtr.dev/e6ae2dce79894e5ba926f73328b77ae74b7f18e4181168477f0b8fec650ff5b9.png


sooooo who's the first Nostr client to integrate nuts in their wallets?


Good afternoon.

I published a new long-form article on Nostr on my homepage, to help inform people about all the cool things people are building here.

I'm going to go over it a few more times before I promote it on my other socials and email lists in the coming days (Nostr first!), so if anyone has any feedback, I can still potentially incorporate it.

Enjoy.

https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/


Huge Microsoft Outage leads to Global Closed Businesses

Banks, Airlines, Businesses Worldwide Shut Down.

London Stock Exchange’s news service was down.
In the US, many 911 and non-emergency call centers weren’t working properly.
Many television channels around the world have been hit by the outage, with Sky News in the UK broadcasting from a phone after its studio equipment failed.
The Paris Olympics organizing committee also said it had been hit by the outage, but that it had contingency plans in place.
In Europe, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport—one of the continent’s biggest connecting hubs—was shut to all arrivals due to the issues, according to Eurocontrol, Europe’s air-traffic-control agency. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said it had suspended most of its operations.

This story not only shows the horrible dangers of Microsoft’s operating system, but also proprietary software that constantly and unnecessarily monitors systems that otherwise could be offline.  CrowdStrike is a corrupt pro-Democrat firm that supposedly does cybersecurity.  And it’s their software going down has caused Microsoft operating systems globally to have the blue screen of death.  Thousands of airlines globally have delayed flights, and millions of people are being inconvenienced.

CrowdStrike’s bloated proprietary software is morally corrupt and forced upon workers.  The software monitors all activity on a computer, even when offline actions are performed such as copying a file.  Then this data is all sent back to CrowdStrike to be monitored for their supposed security purposes.

But what is never discussed is that CrowdStrike now has complete surveillance over all documents in organizations that could have otherwise been kept offline, and is now a centralized point of failure for incidents exactly like this.  Further, it’s a massive invasion of privacy for employees, and is often pushed on them for all their devices.

CrowdStrike’s invasive software is difficult to remove, and hijacks the system at the OS-level.  It’s not something employees can just toggle on and off.  While as if employees were just using Linux and end-to-end encrypted communication systems, this would not only save companies money, but has a more reliable track record for reducing security inncidents.

CrowdStrike is famous for lying about Wikileaks.  Even though they had no special knowledge, these supposed experts mouthed off malicious lies that Wikileaks was a hack, and not leak.  Their goal was to create trust in Hillary Clinton, which they failed to do because they provided zero proof.

Between Microsoft and CrowdStrike, they have invaded all corporate computers with surveillance of all OFFLINE activity, that has now brought corporations globally to a screeching halt.  Now is a great time to switch over to Linux, using our rich educational resources.


NIP-60: Cashu wallets
NIP-61: Nutzaps

You know what's even cooler than having a native wallet in your app?

Having a native wallet in your npub.

New NIP PR just dropped 👇
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1369

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I put together a checklist of actionable steps you can take to improve your digital privacy and security. Work through them as you get the time.

https://i.imgur.com/I0EE4hl.jpg


GM!


YouTube very recently started aggressively banning IPs, mostly non-residential and forcing sign-ins.

yt-dlp and many invidious, piped instances affected: 403 errors or "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community"

Google's concept of community is wanting you to swallow their sludge advertisement and control your speech.

I take this as a challenge.

Piped is great but it was obvious that proxying would be shut down one day.

Even though I'm busy AF, I started prototyping something to take back great Youtube content. Involves nostr, blossom and ecash. More soon

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128


Huge milestone: First demo of Nostr Web Services (NWS) bringing TCP to Nostr. With NWS, you can host any existing web application on Nostr without having to use DNS or even announce your public IP to the world, simply by sharing your service's npub (or nprofile).

Try it out the demo yourself. Here is a Cashu test mint running with NWS. Let's use curl to retrieve the mint's information. The request travels from your computer to the public NWS entry relay, then through nostr to the service's NWS exit relay. At the other end is a Cashu mint with HTTPS encryption.

```
curl -s -x socks5h://relay.8333.space:8882 https://nprofile1qqs8a8nk09fhrxylcd42haz8ev4cprhnk5egntvs0whafvaaxpk8plgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuwpnxvejuumsv93k2g6k9kr/v1/info --insecure | jq
```

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

I can't stress this enough: THE MINT RUNS BEHIND HTTPS!

The NWS entry relay can't read your traffic. It's encrypted. We can host public entry relays that can be used by anyone.

This means we can plug the entire internet to it 🌐.

Let's plug it into Cashu for now. Nutshell wallet supports socks5 proxies (that's how it uses Tor). By setting the public entry relay as the proxy, the wallet can now connect to a mint's npub/nprofile and communicate with it via NWS.

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

This is going to be so freaking cool. And it's going to be a lot more useful than just for Cashu. There are still bugs and issues that need to be ironed out but the code is coming out soon. Watch this space.


Not sure if this was already posted here:

https://germanysbitcoinregretmeter.carrd.co

#bitcoin
#germany
#hfsp


First thing I'm going to do when I get home is  finish up the next.noStrudel.ninja version and make a new release

Is anyone regularly using the next version and noticed bugs I should fix?

#noStrudel


EU says to verify harder.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/eu-says-elon-musks-paid-verification-deceives-x-users-threatens-big-fines/


At work, I introduced hivetalk to several people. But eventually we ended up going back to WhatsApp calls and zoom conferences.

70-something year old CEO asked me the other day, what's that conference thing you showed us?! And why are we using WhatsApp again? It's buggy, unreliable and shitty. Let's go back to that bee thing. It's way better quality.

Today he sends me a calendar invite with a hivetalk link. Pleb tech taking over.

#hivetalk #plebchain


Finally the judgment is here.

Craig Wright is now referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for Criminal prosecution, along with Stefan Matthews.

If CPS decided to prosecute (I have no doubt they will) we are looking at arrest warrants and extradition requests.

Oh… and the funniest part, Craig has to announce on Twitter, Slack and his website that he is fraud 😂😂😂

I told you guys, karma is real.

Welcome to law once again, Faketoshi.

#CraigWrightIsAFraud

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JE11zAFGa730F3slFxrK4DkyCNS_22Ha/view?usp=sharing


Someone just tried to assassinate Trump https://v.nostr.build/XFjm51ddiwu5bT2r.mp4


Do you remember that the dawn of the social web was information organized by users?

That was the innovation. Prior to it, everything you saw was chosen by an editor. A curator who decided for you using their judgment. It has its place, but it’s also expensive, and slow. And would never scale to user generated content.

The “like” or the “upvote” was a way of letting the “wisdom of the crowd” act like the editor. Small preferences aggregated to recommendations. It’s a way of distributing the cost of curation to many individuals. And it’s absolutely necessary when more content exists and is being created than any human can consider. *With that volume of content it’s literally impossible to manage and organize without an algorithm.* Things would just become a long list of jumbled content. And you would have to wade through the irrelevant and bad content to find anything remotely worth your time.

Algorithms enabled that. Likes enabled that. Zaps are the same, but louder, clearer than a like due to the cost. They both have a place as a tool to wade through every event to find the things worth your time.

The anti algorithm crowd Doesn’t realize what they are saying. Their follow list is an algorithm just a simple one that is transparent and in their control. But their hearts are clearly against manipulative algorithms and there we can agree. You should be empowered to use algorithms that you choose and control to find the stuff worth your time.

Some in The “zaps only” crowd would have you believe that likes are inherently manipulative, some tool in the attention dopamine industrial complex. It isn’t. Those algorithms are not using likes alone anyway, they are watching comments, and length of time on the page, and a bunch of other metrics. To maximize attention for ad revenue. The “like” is not evil, but they can be used for manipulative ends. So can zaps. #grownostr #nostr


I mostly agree, although I'd add that the only reason eCash works is because we had Lightning first. If Lightning didn't exist, there'd be no fast way to settle between mints or withdraw.


THE MONEY IS IN THE NOSTR!

👉 Create a new npub AND DOING NOTHING ELSE, no WoS, no nostr-wallet-connect pairing,... NOTHING

☑ receive zaps
☑ send zaps
☑ and most importantly ACCESS MY WALLET FROM ANY CLIENT ON ANY DEVICE

these zaps are verifiable, way faster -- they are immediate (since the sending of the ecash is the zap, instead of waiting for a LN node to, maybe, publish a zap receipt)

Just like our contact lists follows us around, just like our profile data and our shitposts pops up in any nostr application, now so does our sats.

the money is in the nostr!

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


yes, that's what I meant. I'm not the dev of this btw, my skills aren't sufficient for this kind of black magic.

the tool consists of two pieces of software, and entry node and an exit node. the entry node runs locally or can be hosted by many third parties. the entry node offers a socks proxy over which TLS is established with the web service. the exit node is run by the web service.

it all works similar to Tor. you'll be able to visit Google via nostr. you'll be able to connect to cashu mints. the traffic will be encrypted which means the entry and exit nodes won't be able to see it. it's going to be so sick.


This is really important work, thank you for doing it. 💜🤙


I’ve just dropped my weekly update on the MLS messaging progress. It’s a short one this week but don’t let that fool you, I’m feeling very bullish about the progress. 🤙

Huge thanks to nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft who spent multiple hours each with me on calls talking through ideas. 🙏

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq9eemymaerqvwdc25f6ctyuvzx0zt3qld3zp5hf5cmfc2qlrzdh0qqxnzdejxqmnwwpc8qcr2vectx9xjf


If Russell Brand is speaking about freedom of speech at the Bitcoin Conference, why isn't he on Nostr? 🤔


:rolling on the floor laughing:


🇬🇧 Is your government supporting #ChatControl? Do you want it to? Help change its position in time for the next vote later this year (it will be extremely tight)!
This is what you can do now to save privacy and encryption:
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/768/470/925/042/726/original/e3175d844827a309.png


Climate catastrophe peddlers pay nothing for being as wrong as can be.

“Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.”

-The Guardian, 2004.

via Alex Epstein https://image.nostr.build/689ae6bcb5ad2e4be80a4b17d5afc586b6da4c9db0d633823b0dfc213a0cc84d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3e969878c40e7582586e12118daae57b8cd7e1268661bb9aa83dc9c493a7dca3.jpg


I attended the hearing for William Lonergan Hill (TDevD of Samourai Wallet) in the Southern District of New York on behalf of nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu today.

Here’s what I learned:

#FreeSamourai #WhereIsTDevD #SamouraiWallet #privacy #freedomtech

https://v.nostr.build/GNOeS8XSjdCiiGYf.mp4


I'd also like to know this


Update: A small hotfix has been deployed restoring connectivity to all known federation guardians with this issue. A longer term fix is in progress and will probably be in the next major fedimint release.

Huge thanks to the team there! Remember, fedimint is still early but still very promising. We thank everyone testing out this software and providing feedback and patience 🙏

nostr:nevent1qqs07vzaf20nkacc3qp0j2hjzjyynfynf9q9qpa9d23uf7n7prt2cdqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygxlzue8wxp0x92ax7enqggm580y4q2spspdr90fvnu3hem5ajt8pqpsgqqqqqqsqjmpl4


I was able to withdraw from freedom.one finally, thanks guys!

FYI if anybody else is having trouble withdrawing, try on-chain sending. Lightning did not work for me.


#WasabiWallet Security Incident https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/discussions/13249


Bull market in Geneva real estate incoming


I wrote about the mainland Chinese who are using Nostr, educating each other how to use it, to talk about their daily lives and other uncensored thoughts.

Hattip to  nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s as always for his stories and anecdotes, and  nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8 for helping me carve a path to getting this data.

https://chinabitcoinbook.com/?p=181


Primal for Android 1.0 is here!

This is another incremental release of our Android app, but we finally reached the milestone where it is stable and feature-complete enough that we can call it v1.0 with a straight face. Here’s what’s new in build 1.0.3:

- Settings: ability to reorder feeds
- Media uploads: show upload progress
- Note editor: camera command added
- Network settings: enhanced privacy
- Network settings: set caching service
- Stability improvements

Please let us know how you like the latest release and stay tuned for more updates. There is A LOT more to come!

Enjoy! 🤙💜

https://primal.net/downloads


Collectively, unfunded liabilities are more than 6.2x larger than our national debt. When broken down to the level of the citizen, each US citizen would need to cough up $643,535 to cover these liabilities.

These unfunded programs are Ponzi Schemes.

https://www.tftc.io/the-elephant-in-the-room-unfunded-liabilities/


Google Censors Freedom

This post presents evidence that Google promotes an agenda of centralized control through systematic censorship on its search, email, video, app store, and ad platforms of ideas promoting decentralized personal responsibility and anything critical of government power.

Political Bias

Google directly promoted the US military’s bombing operations in Syria in a positive light on the front page of its search engine before the user even types in a search query, while Google simultaneously scores lucrative cloud contract deals with the same military. [1]

Google isn’t just lobbying for deals, they’ve literally become the corporate extension of the government. Over 53 employees have been part of a revolving door between Google and Obama’s white house staff, which is more than any other company in the United States. With Google employees joining white house staff, or transitioning the other way after Obama’s term.

Are we honestly supposed to believe Google search is unbiased? In analysis from data firm Gotcha SEO, in a study of 50 controversial terms, only 5% of the results favored conservative websites. [5] With 63.8% Neutral, 31.8% Left, and only 5% Right websites, we are expected to believe that conservatives are just “bad as SEO”.
77% of conservative emails are labeled spam

But yet this censorship and bias is prevalent even in Gmail. Research published by North Carolina State University found clear bias in how Gmail decides what is spam. Their study created 102 fake email accounts and subscribed to 2 Presidential, 78 Senate, and 156 House candidates email lists. These researchers found that under 10.12% of left-leaning politicians’ emails were marked as spam, while as 77.2% of right-leaning ones were “spam” that never made it to the primary inbox. [8]

Despite Google having such clear support for Democrats, they are exceptionally skilled at tax avoidance. The Irish Times reported on Google avoiding paying tax on $75 billion in profits through complex offshore money transfers that avoid both US and EU tax, and thus Google’s effective tax rate on these profits is 0%. [4a] Reuters reports on an earlier similar abusive transfer of $23 billion sent to the tax haven Bermuda. [4b].

Even left-leaning researchers find clear evidence of Google’s email bias. The Markup did a study with extensive statistical analysis of 5,417 emails from 172 different political groups during election season. They found clear bias in the treatment of which campaigns’ emails got labeled spam or promotions. For example Tulsi Gabbard got a mere 2.22% of her emails in the primary inbox, while other candidates saw 12, 46, or 63%. Elizabeth Warren who is highly critical of Google’s monopolistic power, coincidentally did not get a single email in the primary inbox. [9]

The Verge reports on presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who also promotes breaking up Google, faced similar censorship when her Google Ads account suddenly was suspended right as traffic to her website spiked immediately following a televised debate. This ended up depriving her campaign of millions of dollars in revenue from the organic traffic she was receiving. [14]

Tailored Propaganda

Google does not just censor equally for every user, but tailors their propaganda to the individual’s search and email history. Google through their Jigsaw division has partnered with Moonshot CVE to offer paid search engine manipulation services for the US government. If the Department of Defense is the client, then at a minimum using Google search to research anything related to foreign policy would be a direct conflict of interest. Moonshot CVE claims that this search engine manipulation is just to stop extremists which promote violence. [12]

However, from documents leaked to Wikileaks, we’ve learned that it’s secretly the US government that incites and strokes violent uprisings. For example the Syrian civil war, in which millions of people died, was sparked in part from the US government purposefully igniting tensions between Sunni and Shite Muslim ethnic groups to create instability that would overthrow the president of Syria Bashir Assad. According to leaked Wikileaks cables, William Roebuck, the US diplomat in Damascus, suggested the US should “stroke these tensions and play on these fears” when writing back to Washington right before the war broke out in 2006. [2]

But yet Google’s front page promotes an entirely different narrative on Syria as they put John Kerry’s statements below the search bar. And paints anyone who dares to question their narrative is labeled as a “conspiracy theorist”.

Not only does Google have an interest in manipulating the search results, but their partner Moonshot CVE openly admits to storing in a database the IP address and location of those searching for controversial information. These databases are then used to target redirection techniques to websites that the government has deemed to be “less extreme”. [12]

The idea of customized government propaganda administered through personalized monitoring should provide strong motivation for the use of a trusted VPN or Tor.  NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden called Google search completely unuseable because of it’s anti-privacy stance. While Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company will develop machine learning and A.I. to combat “misinformation” shared by “low-information voters” and conspiracy theories. The issue is who gets to decide what is true and what defines a “conspiracy”? This pretext could be used to censor true information that Google’s paying customers (governments and large corporations) don’t want heard.

One example of this is the Federal Reserve creates money, which causes inflation and your salary to be worth less. But this banking system doesn’t affect everyone equally, because the banks and their wealthy clients get access to the freshly minted money first at lower interest rates, while the poor can not effectively hedge against inflation with assets that rise from printed money like stocks or real estate.

This is the type of criticism which was laid out in James Corbett’s ‘Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve’, which got millions of views and rose to the top of Youtube’s search as the 1 video for the keywords “Federal Reserve”. At least it was on top of Youtube’s search, until MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeted out that this video was promoting “conspiracy theories” and the video was downgraded immediately from being the number one video for the search terms to not even showing up. [3] However, Chris Hayes did not provide a single argument as to why the video was wrong or inaccurate.

How much your content strays from Google’s view will determine how your emails are received. A different libertarian leaning news site found its email list delivery rate to be half for Gmail what it achieves sending to non-Gmail accounts. [10]

Cryptocurrency Banned

While Cryptocurrency offers a way to escape from the tyranny of central bank inflation, Google fundamentally disagrees. Forbes reports on Google overwhelming banning crypto apps and Youtube channels well beyond what it does for other industries. [15]

For example Google delisted apps for the popular cryptocurrency wallet Metamask from both the Google Play store and the Chrome web store. [16] Mobile App Daily comments on Google banning almost all crypto mining apps without any type of warning. [17] And industry leaders CoinTelegraph and CoinDesk both had their news apps removed from the Play Store. [18]

Many Crypto Youtube channels were suspended or banned even those that just promote basic Bitcoin education. Some of these had millions of views or subscribers and were done without warning. While some of these channels have been restored, it still damaged their fanbases to have outages. [19]

Locked Out of Accounts

Suspension can get you locked out of all accounts that use a Gmail. Jordan Peterson is a popular conservative Youtuber that some consider controversial including Google, who suspended his account without warning. While having his Youtube channel removed hurt his business, the real crippling part was his prior reliance on using the Gmail associated with that account. Peterson explains in an interview with the Daily Caller: “I’ve had that account for the last, say, 15 years. All of my correspondence is in that account. It’s hundreds of thousands of emails from people all over the world.” [6]

Not only did Peterson have a difficult time reaching out to his personal and business relationships, but all of his accounts like banking, medical, and other websites were linked to that email. This is the danger of using Gmail or other centralized email providers because then if they censor you, then you’re locked out of everything.

Cybersecurity Video influencer the “Mental Outlaw” points out that some listeners may think they are immune from censorship similar to what Jordan Peterson experienced because they aren’t public personas with a Youtube channel, but Google often suspends accounts for even posting comments and replies to videos that they deem inappropriate. Therefore Mental Outlaw warns it’s quite possible that you could get your email suspended over some comment or reply you consider to be relatively mundane and thus be locked out of all your accounts that used that email to verify. [13]

Conclusion

A reliance on Google products (including even Gmail) will curb your ability to access ideas, learn, and ultimately brainwash you to obey centralized authority which does not have your interests at heart. This trained obedience could lead to a direct decline in your finances, health, and ability to connect with others.

Sources:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/google-censors-freedom/index.html


Between that and a bit of metadata leakage, which would you prefer?
https://image.nostr.build/44857cfbf52a0c2946910a338964e96cbb3e8f554367c022cbe237ee46ed3666.jpg


⚡ Just converted the first couple Wikipedia articles to the Nostr Wiki format. Aka publishing to @`PABLOF7z`'s Wikifreedia.

Learning a lot about the Nostr protocol and client implementation in C#. I split the code into the mirror app itself and the FakeSpoon.Lib.NostrClient so I can later pull the lib out independently.

🔥  Challenges:
- How to scale to 30 million wikipedia articles
- Parsing wikipedia's 'wikitext' format to Markdown, it's hard!
- Building resilient C# Nostr Client library (working hard on this)

https://github.com/ArjenStens/fakespoon-wikipedia-mirror

nostr:note1tsze5t06lczfv6f4dwr37k8jrkthe2r2a6p4jnq2dwsj6esn888s6yf7zl


Oof
https://image.nostr.build/3a0d6185afceffc3f36aaf5edaf9072996ccc4f594e8129eb3e0ae8e2d5ac15f.jpg


Suno just released their mobile app. Now I understand why the music industry is going after them with guns blazing. It isn’t art, but it will be good enough for most.

Input: “alt rock song about escaping clown world”

Result, 10 seconds later:

https://suno.com/song/0752ca18-13ce-4be3-8cb9-0cfe4fdd07d2


Just dropped the second weekly update on MLS messaging progress.

There's a draft of part of the spec in this update that talks about how to publish prekey bundles. If you're interested in the technical weeds on how this will work, please have a look and leave thoughts.

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq9eemymaerqvwdc25f6ctyuvzx0zt3qld3zp5hf5cmfc2qlrzdh0qqxnzdejxqer2d3exycrwd342u5qhf


H.O.R.N.E.T Storage Nostr Relay Launch🐝

Live Demo of Panel 📟
https://hornetstorage.net/

Nostr Relay & Panel in Alpha 💾
https://github.com/HORNET-Storage/hornet-storage
https://github.com/HORNET-Storage/hornet-storage-panel

Toggleable Storage Support 🎛
- Unchunked files as Blossom Blobs🌸
- Chunked files as Scionic Merkle Trees🎄

https://v.nostr.build/BRQ0D.mp4


CW's rektucation continues, and I'm here for it


NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5819317/nixos-commits-a-purge-of-nazi-contributors-forces-abdication-of-founder


Isn’t it crazy how the movement for “inclusiveness” and “tolerance” has become the most excluding, hateful, selfish, and intolerant bullshit ever? 🤔🙃 nostr:note1xpf5gyg2c7wn448zwq38jqznkr6kjpfckk96266cs4t0ru9qwacq3ee85l


Linux distro NixOS kicked the founder out

They forced him to sign a letter giving NixOS "back to the community" because he supported treating everyone as equal.

The activists were furious he did not support Transgender rights, which means discriminating against non-trans for funding and power.

Source is Lunduke (which is behind Cloudflare btw, but I gotta link the original):

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5819317/nixos-commits-a-purge-of-nazi-contributors-forces-abdication-of-founder


New major release! Phoenix Android/iOS/Server now supports BOLT12:

- reusable, non-expiring payment requests
- contact list (Android for now, iOS soon)
- attach messages to payments

You can now receive payments to a static bolt-12 offer via Phoenix and keep a list of offers in your contact list! https://image.nostr.build/4e472eb1a795bcf9c5e0cf588c90864ce74cb952e900b209465751e4ca1882e8.jpg

See also bolt12.org


Julian’s first birthday in freedom in fourteen years. https://image.nostr.build/fbe6bb8fade32607000b35a0595ccf65236935ca4e54c0823eeb5d8fd2593ad0.jpg


Don't think so - I've heard the idea thrown around a couple of times, but that's all.


RFC: Cashu zaps NIP

https://wikifreedia.xyz/cashu-zap-nip/f7z.io

Proposal to make cashu zaps where the payment itself is the zap (instead of waiting for a zap receipt from the zapper)

The sender locks a zap to the recipient's pubkey, optionally sending to a mint the user has recommended before (kind:38000).

Cashu is a bearer token so the receipt IS the money and the money IS the receipt.

nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg


My Experience with  nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9

**TL;DR Strike is garbage.**

I started using Strike in the middle of March this year.

My first impression was that it was a great app. It had Lightning integrated, on-chain withdrawals were free, and the setup was pretty easy, even though I had to do a full KYC. After all, they are regulated and that is to be expected.

I began using Strike to send and receive BTC and buy gift cards directly within the app. I was pretty amazed at how easy everything worked. I loved the app. I even recommended it as an onboarding app for pre-coiner friends. Well, not anymore.

One day in May, about two months later, I wanted to send some BTC to an exchange or buy a gift card (which was basically all I did with the app in those previous two months). However, the app denied access to my BTC. All I got was a cartoon lightning bolt saying, “We need to review your account. Contact support.”

At first, I was shocked. I didn't have my life savings in the app, but it wasn’t a trivial amount of sats either. So, there it was, right in my face for the first time: Not your keys, not your coins. I got angry with myself and with Strike too.

I contacted support.

Support wrote that to comply with regulations, they needed additional information (remember, I already did full KYC), like a pay stub, signed employee agreement, or tax statement.

This was my response:

Hey, the Bitcoin with which I funded my Strike account are savings from the past. I don't work currently, and I also have no tax statement because I just moved to Brazil last year. What exactly is the problem? I didn't do anything illegal or wrong. I expect this issue to be resolved immediately or you will lose a customer. I already regret using your service. I'm very disappointed.

Yeah, I was really pissed because I couldn’t access my sats. They locked me out. Just like that.

Strike answered:

Dear User,
Upon careful review, we have determined that your account has engaged in prohibited use. We regret to inform you that we can no longer provide you with access to our service.
At this time, your account has been permanently disabled. Please withdraw all remaining assets from your account within one week from receiving this message, and confirm with us when the withdrawal has been completed. After this timeframe, the account will be closed permanently. Please be advised that this decision is final.
Best regards,
The Strike Team

Okay… So now Strike accused me of “prohibited use” of their app.

I asked them to be kind and specify what prohibited use I engaged in. Because obviously, I don’t want to get in trouble or do anything illegal.

Their answer:

This decision is based on an assessment of different qualifications. Our customer support team can only confirm that we sent this message and assist with technical issues only. Support cannot reverse this decision, nor can they share any more details related to this matter.

Thank you for that great answer. I can really see you care about your customers and their experience. But I guess at that point, I wasn’t their customer anymore anyway.

Still, I sent them another message and asked who I could talk to. If there was anybody who could clarify what I did wrong. Remember, all I did was send and receive BTC and buy gift cards.

Their answer? Well, they never answered again. Just like that. That was it.

After this beautiful experience, I posted about it on Nostr.
And guess what?  nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle answered.
Woohooo!
He said I should send him a DM and he would happily look into the issue.
Cool! Now that’s what I call customer service.
So, I did. No answer.
I sent him another one. Again, no answer.
I sent another one or two. Still no answer.
This was 5 weeks ago.
I guess he is very busy.

What a joke Strike is.


One of my main goals with zap.store is to help raise the quality bar of open source software.

Most FOSS is basically driven by programmers' passion – but on average programmers suck at UX.

We need better incentives for more professionals other than programmers (designers, product people, psychologists) to join open source projects and turn them into real competition to traditional high-quality closed-source applications.


Dear friends, part of getting developers signing their apps on nostr is giving them the ability to link their other cryptographic identities (for instance,  their Android keystore) to nostr.

For this I have submitted a PR to the NIP repo, to enhance NIP-39 with cryptographic identities. (It's been in stand-by for months.)

We will probably start using it regardless but if you have any input, please chime in. Or make some noise there so we can get it merged 🙏

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1335


Looking forward to watching this fat clown eat his own words like he eats pizza & seed oils.
https://m.primal.net/Iznv.jpg


🇬🇧 #Chatcontrol is on the agenda again: Hungary plans to find an agreement in Council of the EU by the end of the year.
We have to start preparing now. First step: find allies to be able to act together!
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11222-2024-INIT/en/pdf#page=30

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/683/685/665/129/498/original/764a280b23dd2e70.png


JUST IN: ECB announce first progress report on the digital Euro

Features:
- easier to surveil you
- easier to deplatform you
- easier to freeze your account
- “just trust us bro” level privacy
- limits on how much you’re allowed to hold in your account

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/progress/html/ecb.deprp202406.en.html#/search/Security/1 https://image.nostr.build/ec003014564668393e8d3278aaab1b974ab878ceda3929190004b1540b60905b.jpg


I want to send a big FUCK YOU to media organizations like NYT, the Guardian, and Der Spiegel for massively profiting from Julian Assange's WikiLeaks revelations - but ignoring and distancing themselves from him when he needed your help the most during his time in captivity.

🖕


PSA: The functionality of multiple Fedimint federations is significantly degraded due to severe DNS issues.

It seems to be the case that some federation guardians have an XYZ domain that the DNS registrar has taken over. Freedom One and Bitcoin Principals appear to have one guardian offline due to this.

Unfortunately, despite the server and keys for these guardians being intact, there is no way for the DNS of a guardian to be swapped out after the fact. We became aware of this issue last week and then became aware that multiple federations are experiencing this: https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/issues/5482/

Given the critical state of these federations, with one guardian out of four being permanently offline, it's essential that if you have funds in these federations, you should withdraw them immediately. Unfortunately, we're unaware of other public federations, so you must withdraw to another lightning or on-chain wallet.

From our experiences, intermittent/connectivity issues can occur with guardians, and this may result in errors if not all three remaining guardians are consistently online. No other guardian of these federations has XYZ or other domains like it. So, if you're having issues, please try again later.

Unfortunately, not much can be done on the Mutiny side, so we're removing the federation setup flow in the UI as a first step. Sorry for the inconvenience.


nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc is currently writing a NIP with MLS, which is kind of a upgraded double ratchet that can be used with larger groups. No clients have it yet AFAIK.


"Be your own Bank"

SPD party and parliamentary group vice-chairman Achim Post now wants to improve the leaky budget with citizens' savings. "Hundreds of billions of euros are stored in German savings accounts - with interest rates approaching zero," said the politician. This money could be used to fill a state fund.
https://apollo-news.net/haushalt-spd-will-sparbuecher-der-deutschen-fuer-investitionen-nutzen/


A couple of quick Cinnamon tips (the desktop environment in Mint): Turn on focus follows mouse, and set a hotkey to move and resize windows. Both are in the Windows settings. That makes window management really smooth.


🚀 BR069 - Cat is out of the bag? OP_CAT ft. @nvknvk , Andrew Poelstra, @Rob1Ham & Rijndael

Listen to the episode:
➡ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/yqj4ouCyEv6n24nIO7ej
➡ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/745hp9L2L7So9i9B3neDHB?si=E1s3hiSQSW-ZRH9BLsZeNA
➡ Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/2e6729fd-6d66-4d74-8cd7-6d7e8e036542/episodes/f55942a7-385a-4892-951f-e9c002bff030/bitcoin-review-podcast-with-nvk-guests-br069---cat-is-out-of-the-bag-op_cat-ft-nvk-andrew-poelstra-rob-hamilton-rijndael
➡ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/br069-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-op-cat-ft-nvk/id1632017958?i=1000659830876
➡ YouTube: https://youtu.be/4hfQYas5j8c

Full shownotes:
➡ Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/bitcoinreview/p/br069-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-op_cat

 Andrew lays out a comparison of OP_CAT to other opcodes, making the case for how it results in fewer conflicts with other opcodes which are designed for more specialised use cases.

(Client video upload broken, twitter link instead) https://x.com/bitcoinreviewhq/status/1804292590990430222?s=46


That's pretty nuts nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg! 😁


More long-term support. More utility. More privacy. More freedom tech. We're proud to support  nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg for the long term.
https://opensats.org/blog/cashu-calle-receives-lts-grant


Just dropped a big comment on the PR for NIP-104 (Double ratchet DMs).

Quick tl;dr
- Closing the PR in favor of pursuing MLS based messaging spec.
- MLS is more much more complicated but has huge benefits, especially for group messaging.
- Want feedback and collaborators (I'm committed to making this work but it's a BIG lift so all help is welcome).

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1206#issuecomment-2180291416


EU Council Withdraws Vote on Chat Control But Negotiations Will Continue

EU member states could not reach an agreement on chat control today. The Council Presidency removed the vote from the agenda because it lacked a sufficient majority.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/eu-council-withdraws-vote-on-chat-control/


The EU member states are unable to agree on a position on chat control today.

The Council Presidency has removed the vote from the agenda because it does not have a sufficient majority. This means that Belgium has failed and the presidency now goes to Hungary.

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https://netzpolitik.org/2024/etappensieg-belgien-scheitert-mit-abstimmung-zur-chatkontrolle/


📣 If the EU Council wants to exempt themselves from the #ChatControl client-side scanning, then they know what they are doing is wrong.

The vote is today.

Let them know we will not accept mass #surveillance! Together we can stop this dangerous law. 💪

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-politicians-industry-raise-alarm-over-eus-unprecedented-messenger-surveillance-plans/


Wikipedia can HFSP as far as I'm concerned