Inflation is the root cause of just about every economic problem we have today.

If you're saving as much as you can today, inflation will make you broke in 30 years.

What will that do to you as a person?

It will make you feel like you are the problem.

It will make you think your efforts were not adequate.

It will make you feel like the companies raising prices are the ones making you broke.

It will make you miserable, and it will make you hate life.

The reality is that your government is taking your money and gaslighting you into believing that they are not to blame.

They are funding wars by extracting value from everyone's savings.

Stop falling for it.

Opt out of the old system.

Study #Bitcoin


"Now is a time to stand by Mr Assange, and to do so on principle, for the sake of his freedom – and ours" #FreeAssange
https://image.nostr.build/52edfbcf88a57be23cd1125a5a789158503ed9e0d30e728f6075ddd18be6b9bc.jpg


WE STAND WITH YOU nostr:npub1xw7h0efeg5s8gla2uyu55jh4lfrlgppcjemrwkmdc7lgvhkcz3fqpvumsa 🫡

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


GM Free Assange


Most important thing happening on the planet right now

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1759858667053076970


Appreciate @anilsaidso for the rad art

😂 https://image.nostr.build/b35a4031da5090e90486c81807aca8b4216d7946fe39cdcc84998a7ee2bc410c.jpg


Learn how money works, because if you don't you'll work for it until the day you die

If you're a millennial, PLEASE do at least 20 hours of research to figure out why #Bitcoin is the best money

The info is out there

Great resources
- Books
- Podcasts
- YouTube videos
- Twitter


BitcoinPanties shill in 5.. 4.. 3..


Brian Armstrong is a complete grifter and is an enemy of bitcoin. He is a fiat-maxi and bitcoiners should avoid Coinbase at all costs. #bitcoin


Satcom 0.1 🛰
https://satcom.app/

You can now log in with NOSTR login! Sign in via nsec.app!

Replace UI with the "relative new" browser's side panel. This enabled a few features that were not possible before, such as NOSTR login.

https://image.nostr.build/bae7a6503f5bdca10c8bbe471da5ceff8d5000c2bb61d5fdfaa0e46b1ca26a3f.png

https://w3.do/sEWdKEwr

Posted via 🛰 #Satcom (https://satcom.app)


Does a solution currently exist to invoice in dollars and get paid Bitcoin?
Like bitpay but in reverse?
I currently accept Bitcoin alongside traditional Fiat methods. But I would like to not even touch Fiat.
I've been shopping around different on-ramp widgets Because I would like to find one where I can pre-populateThe amount and the destination address and send it as a link.
#bitcoin
#asknostr
nostr:npub1cwneqlnjgs3rdtk97c2ffy2df9dm5zycgj3dsg8c3z00hchxjmfqtvraju It would be sweet if something like this was just slapped onto my invoices


#FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNow
https://image.nostr.build/be1fefa59063d474b0999a0a3ff64ffa4a3ab15d61a0a869e932b4328e8b9620.jpg


How to Use Alby to Receive Zaps to your own LND Node

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The vast majority of users that utilize LN address for receiving bitcoin as tips or zaps appear to be using custodial wallets (most commonly I see Wallet of Satoshi and Alby, but there are others too such as ln.tips or stacker.news).  I'm not here to make a judgment on that usage, but there may be users out there that would prefer to cut out the middle man and reduce their counter-party risk.  Problem is, hosting a domain and setting up an ln address to receive sats to one's own node is outside of the capabilities or time allowance of most (including this writer).  And with that said, I'll present a decent compromise to this issue.

For my very first write-up, I'm going to walk you through the latest thing I've been toying around with.  Alby has this cool feature where you can update your Alby ln address to forward sats directly to your LND node.  This means any zaps or tips one receives to their Alby ln address are not sitting in your custodial Alby account and are paid directly to your LND node. Disclaimer: Receiving zaps in this fashion can come with some privacy concerns, so if that is a concern of yours then you should probably not use this tool.

 As will be the case with most write-ups I do, I am going to walk you through this setup with an LND node running in start9 OS.  So, it will likely benefit users of Start 9 OS but I think people will be able to infer where to get the appropriate info from their respective node interfaces as well.

Without further delay, here are the steps to get all set up to receive zaps directly to your node using your @getalby ln address:

1. I'm going to assume you have Alby as a web browser extension all set-up and also have an Alby ln address (xxxxx@getalby.com).  If you don't, I'm sure their website (getalby.com) has easy instructions on how to do so.  First, you will want to click the 'Manage your web account' link from the web browser extension.

https://image.nostr.build/efcb39ae4e2a3bd02088a5f5a903ee73d972a932119213feb314ece3e9d8ce0d.png

2. Then, you are going to click 'Wallet', and scroll down to 'Update your LND node settings', section looks like this:

https://image.nostr.build/c7a284c4af25ebc915a97f77eb5ee7c094b9caffcd8851f4265476ebd7df77c0.png

3.  We need to add the correct macaroon (hex).  Don't close out your Alby wallet page as we will be returning to it to input info.  As the instructions outline in the image above, we are going to want a macaroon that gives just the permissions necessary for the purposes of this ln address.  In order to create the macaroon, I am going to use the Thunderhub service via Start9 OS.  Once logged into Thunderhub, go to the 'Tools' page and click 'Bake' in the Macaroon Bakery section.

https://image.nostr.build/2b7a0b89457250082ba8419093e06a6636a36a1327a8fde06db3bbbc89761fac.png

4. Once you click 'Bake', you will be presented with many options to choose from for the macaroon that you create.  Again, we want to only grant the minimum access necessary, so just switch 'Create Invoices' to Yes.

https://image.nostr.build/619156490f07111fbeb8252427db74c85c385816c22f78170b9bb45ebaccdfaa.png

Scroll down and click 'Bake New Macaroon'.  A pop-up will appear that displays the macaroon coding.  We are going to copy the Hex encoded option for our purposes.  Once copied, paste that Hex encoded macaroon into the Macaroon (Hex) field on the getalby wallet page.

5. Next, we are going to grab our Certificate (Hex).  Using start9 OS, I am going to go to my LND service, and select 'Properties'

https://image.nostr.build/33ee83c57d51be14247c5492c0a8632950fb2f4b7901bf518abaa0be5d035755.png

In the properties section, click the eye next to LND Connect REST URL to display the relevant text string.  You will see an extremely long string on characters.  For our purposes, we need to pull out the cert from this string.  Right after the '.onion:8080' portion of the string it says 'cert='.  We want to copy the entire string starting right after this = symbol, and copy all the way to right before the Macaroon string starts (include the & symbol right before 'macaroon=...' begins).

https://image.nostr.build/e052743e993ac9bc994d2a2906265e1616d038bbf87ee79468d7d87c055dec04.png

Take this copied text and paste into the Certificate (Hex) field found on the Alby wallet page.

6.  Finally, we need to obtain the 'REST API host and port or TOR onion URL' info from the Alby wallet page.  Using start9 OS, you will return to the LND properties page.  Click the eye for the LND Connect REST URL.  Copy starting from the beginning of the string of text to '.onion:8080'

Paste the string of text into 'REST API host and port or TOR onion URL' field on the Alby wallet page.  Before saving the page, erase the 'lndconnect' portion of the string and replace with 'https'.  So the string should be 'https://xxxxxx.onion:8080.

https://image.nostr.build/eb6253a30b5283f88d5e99b573700cbd4dc46c979c34f48332848cbbfecb8a97.png

7.  Click 'Update Connection' at the bottom of the Alby wallet page.  After a few seconds, the page should update with a green bar that displays the following text: 'Successfully updated your connection details.'  You should be good to go now!

8.  Test out your new feature.  Send sats to your getalby address (cannot be from your LND node).  Once successfully sent, check your LND node and confirm that the payment was received.  You should be set now to receive zaps or sat tips form an LN address directly to your LND node :)


To fight against overregulation is to accept some regulation. How does one objectively define "overregulation?"

"No regulation" is easy. It's defined by 0. Fighting for no regulation makes sense, because there is an objective goal that can be measured by everyone with the same result, like 2+2=4.

"Overregulation" has no objective meaning. KYC may be overregulation to you, but not to someone else. And how could you even debate your position when your metric has no objective definition?

Fighting "overregulation" is to fight a battle with no concept of winning. When exactly have you won? What amount of regulation is below "overregulation?" Where is the line, and how does one know when it's been crossed?

Fighting for rights with the goal of preventing "overregulation" or "too much violation" is not a long term strategy for success, if defending rights is the goal. You're already accepting a level of rights violation, which means you're accepting that you don't actually have a right; you have only that which is being granted to you.

Only taking 50% of a slave's labor by force doesn't somehow make him free. The only moral stance is to protect 100% of a man's labor from being taken by force. Defending him from "over enslavement" (is that 25%? 50? Define it...) is to accept that he has no right to not be enslaved. The line can always be moved. Zero tolerance can't be. It is zero or a violation, which must not be tolerated.

#Bitcoin should have zero regulation. No regulation on possession, transfer, or mining. There is no acceptable level at which my right to sound money may be violated. Otherwise, I have no true right to sound money. I'm right back at fiat, whereby I'm told how much freedom I have. That's not freedom at all.


Ready to rebut the FUD! ⚡

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In 10 years, anyone with no #Bitcoin       will claim "Bitcoiners were so lucky."

But they weren't.

Anyone that owns Bitcoin did something others weren't willing to do:

1) They put in the time and effort to study something that the majority of people see as a "Ponzi scheme"
2) They bought as much as they could
3) Then they held on to it for more than a decade

That's not luck.

That's conviction.


... at the price they deserve.


I have been toying with the idea of buying some land to start a #homestead , or build a house, or something. But I’m having a lot of doubts lately.

I see how people fawn over Putin, not realizing fully what he is and what he actually represents. I see political in-fighting in America about amusingly minor issues in the grand scheme of things. I see a non-negligible part of Americans actively being against supporting the Ukrainian war effort that could stop Russia here and now. I see rest of the West finding their heating bills much more important than said support. I see truckers and farmers in Poland not seeing past their nose to what’s to come.

This area of freedom is precious and unprecedented. And it won’t last if we’re not in the mood to collectively pay for kit and munitions for people who are paying with their lives. And sure, if you’re on the other side of the pond, this might not touch you personally. I guess it’s fine to not care too much about other people’s freedom. But for me, all the #freedom that #bitcoin and #nostr provides will mean shit if my potential homestead gets bombed to phosphorus covered ashes in 4-8 years time.

So I guess I’ll just get some more of the orange coin and wait to see how things unfold. In case I happen to need to get property somewhere further away from that God damned metastasis of an empire.


Free Assange


You have my support, though your slogan doesn't fit on a baseball cap.


The road to BTC maximalism starts with research.

#bitcoin #dyor #stacksats #stackingsats #nostr #btc


Not without smartphone, but without a sim in a smartphone.
Step by step..


If the price of bitcoin keeps pumping, what will happen to the bitcoin mining industry after the next block subsidy halving?

Here are my thoughts 👇

https://tftc.io/bitcoin-mining-halving-2024/


GM Hi


I try to post mostly positive things, which can be hard these days, but here's a good one:

https://adnauseam.io/

It is a browser extension that silently clicks on all those ads, polluting the advertisers' data streams.

If used by enough people, it would mean that, to the advertiser, it'll look like they got lots of clicks buy not lots of sales.

This means the value of clicks will go down, which means less profit for people who serve up ads.

If you promote this extension, you will be hurting American companies who are just trying to make ab buck. Companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, X, and others. You wouldn't want to make life more difficult for them... would you? 😈🤣


wealth isn’t about money.

money obsession is brain rot

the real wealth is how bright your soul is, how much love is in your heart, and loving life every day to the fullest.


We are at a point where serious matters are not taken seriously enough, while trivial matters are dissected as if everyone's life would depend on it.

Society has lost wisdom and humor alike.


The SHA256 Hash function broken out.
Mind blowing.
https://video.nostr.build/cfbdeea3a2c8c68896bbeae978fb21fbb0b77c1fd902bccc08ac154caa7595b1.mp4


Perspective: In 5th grade I wrote my first program for a Tandy TRS-80 using a cassette tape player for storage. The year was 1978. I knew then technology would be my ticket to the World: 46 years later. I feel to same about #Bitcoin. I smile every single time I hear “bitcoin”.


#Bitcoin solar mining from home with a Bitaxe Ultra 👀🙌 https://video.nostr.build/0e0dd631c3f1e8cb1e908b1bc8927247dc470beb39b1c21b62f8f4276c20ead7.mp4


& 1 trillion seconds is 31,710 years.

The U.S. is currently $34 trillion in debt & adding more by the day at a faster pace…

Your move anon.

#Bitcoin nostr:note1ph6t8zsh77hpfzseggwfvky0vx726lnksl4p4u4ysmrmjhhlqssqwfnslr


It will in the minds of those who aim to seize it. Though imagine attempting to seize bitcoin results in pleb nostr accounts full of memes.


The President of the United States had to defend his mental capacity on television.


Doing my taxes from 2023. Asked the bank for statements from the whole year. They can provide Feb-Dec but not January because it was more than a year ago. Apparently I need to visit a bank branch in person, with ID and company registration documents and then pay an additional service fee for the pleasure of receiving a statement. For my own account. Unbelievable that we’re in 2024 and still have to put up with this incompetent bullshit.
This is why #Bitcoin will win.
#FuckBanks
#FuckFiat


Here's a NOSTR Setup on Android for those who want more control (requires above-average technical knowledge): a combo of Obtainium and Amber. I'll explain the 2 tips below:

(Oh, and a bonus tip for iPhone users: buy an Android. The Apple App Store has abusive practices that worsen every day, making life difficult for developers and users)

1. Use Obtainium to download app APKs.
Obtainium is an app that allows you to download and update open-source applications directly from developers, like on GitHub. This means you can get the latest versions quickly, without waiting for Google Play Store approval. It's useful for those who want the latest features or security fixes immediately.

This gives you direct and fast updates, without intermediaries. It brings the latest versions of apps to your device, ensuring you have immediate access to improvements and fixes.

Download Obtainium: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

Enable installations from unknown sources in Android settings to install.

Configure Obtainium: After installation, launch Obtainium. To add an application, copy the URL of the project of interest.

Add Applications in Obtainium: In Obtainium, tap the "+ (Add App)" button, paste the copied URL, select the necessary options, and tap on "Add". Obtainium will search for the correct version of the app for your phone and monitor the currently installed version.

2. Use Amber.
Amber is an application designed to better manage your private key. As you should know, in Nostr, we don't use a username and password. We use a public and private key. And if you enter your private key in a lot of places, there's a risk it could be compromised forever.

Amber allows you to securely store your Nostr private key in the application, which simplifies the authentication process across different Nostr clients and services without the need to repeatedly enter your private key.

Got it? The main advantage of Amber is convenience and security. It centralizes the management of your Nostr private key in one place, reducing the risk of exposure or loss of the key. With Amber, you can easily sign Nostr events using your stored private key, facilitating secure and efficient interaction with the Nostr ecosystem.

Amber Link: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber

Special thanks and Split Zap for the Nostr tip: nostr:npub1u79u7zxlz2flmwpdt59xsvv5syreavzdyu9llkg07swtf24a4ayq5g0uud - thanks Capivara!


NEW TUTORIAL: nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg full walkthrough - setup, create & interact in your feed, buy sats in-app, zap posts, send/receive via external wallets (shoutout nostr:npub13ljnkd633c7maxatymv3y2fqq8vt3qk7j3tt0vytv90eztwgha9qmfcfhw), and even migrate to other apps (shoutout nostr:npub1nz64zngcqm8vj8nhrdkcjpfwn2rcaqysnxec88tqfclp5afrpglsqm0w5y as an example).

Share this one around to your noob friends. It may be the easiest first exposure to decentralized social media & money in a single solution!

https://youtu.be/Qd4Po4i7wvc?si=Oe94qadFiTI9g-pZ

Don't forget to subscribe and help me hit 100k in 2024!
https://youtube.com/@BTCSessions?sub_confirmation=1


Looking to get in touch with an industrial scale #Bitcoin miner who is using immersion tanks.

I own a contract manufacturing business that specializes in plastics, and would like to work with someone on a custom immersion tank.

I will provide the tank at no cost, just want to better understand how to improve upon what already exists. Not just in function, but price as well.

#Mining #ImmersionCooling #Bitcoin


European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen commented on the wave of farmers' protests that have broken out in several EU countries.

 "they feel cornered" by "the effects of climate change" as well as by the Russian military operation in Ukraine.

😂 Fucking psychopaths

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


This Dick Cuckerson guy is out of control…

He calls himself a “journalist” but clearly he’s just a deep-state-sponsored propagandist. Soon I’m sure he’ll be spreading more anti-Bitcoin propaganda, too…

Please roast this clown.

He must be stopped…
http://ecommunist.org https://i.nostr.build/m8W5.jpg


What a system we have when one plonker can blag this far..


I could have stood and spoken for ten minutes listing the things I've bought with bitcoin.


Reachable..


"The era of rendering documents using Photoshop is over"
https://image.nostr.build/ba0a445ef9c040ae11446bc8703458a242ebff717c4f5efd3447a696a768ab10.jpg


I suspect the first step would be a small degree of recognised legitimacy.


Is nobody else even a little concerned that the UK court may be corrupted into a decision which could be a catalyst to destroy Bitcoin entirely. Isn't this the "then they fight you" stage?

Charlie is WEF
The government hates Bitcoin.

"The UK law comission recognizes the value of Dr. Wrights litigation"


The European Commission has an agenda other than CO2 reduction. We know this for sure based on how they treat the most green technology in existence: #Bitcoin mining, which will become carbon-negative this decade. They want to eradicate it to maintain control over the money.


Shit batteries. Also, everyone would likely be using the same software versions. *see Lopps latest post.


He also released a single once and had an amazing voice.


Websites that block #VPN users from entering are basically shouting: "We're shady as hell, we'll sell your data, we want to know everything about you and your location. So come on in with no condom!"

Fuck Reddit and any other site that does this.

#privacy #cybersecurity #opsec


With tech such as 'best take', cellphone photographs are now no longer real. Think about that..
With the seemingly furious rate of tech advancement, keep in mind that your phone is still pleb tech and your puppeteers oversee most of your values and a hefty percentage of your media consumption. .
Nostr is a step in the right direction but not immune.

Having said that, A. I. Is still not peak tech. If you know, you know.


No, just get the 'Amethyst doesn't support...' message.


I haven't posted a single gif on Amethyst since I first used Nostr over a year ago.


Unfortunately the link isn't available. .


Apparently he still hasn't found the oval office.


Wait, you guys still have money in banks?


Oh I forgot to mention,
You can add https://noogle.lol/search?q=%s to the search engines in your browser to search the Nostr from your Browser address bar.

nostr:nevent1qqsp0ncnxgmpylks3llc8tddlay0zaupukr3dvxlch6ruy55ajrmkzqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyzvmk4v3eygkvq8cg5g86v0ekk0z7lr7pxsllqpwsncag0d92l9xgqcyqqqqqqgs8nnra


I'm not sure you can go wrong.

This is set up with:

- GOS
- Mullvad VPN always-on
- Orbot
- Silent.Link eSIM
- Meshtastic
- Sideband
- Threema
- Session
- SimpleX
- Coinos installed as a PWA

Plenty of ways to communicate and pay/get paid, without all the bullshit.

I either manually (rarely) connect it to our wifi or I connect to my phone as a hotspot for web access.

The only thing I'd change is to upgrade the phone itself, and that will happen when nostr:npub1hgvtv4zn2l8l3ef34n87r4sf5s00xq3lhgr3mvwt7kn8gjxpjprqc89jnv gets a new one.

The boy's LN address is buffalogarage@coinos.io if you want to show him some love. It's rough listening to me rant about this stuff all the time, then going to school with a bunch of NPC soy children. I'll forward all these zaps to him so he sees a little reward for fighting off the tiktok tribe. Thanks for that, all of you. I hope it's helpful info.

WE STACK THE CORN.
WE ZAP THE NOTES.
WE PROTECT THE CHILDREN.
💪💪👊👊


interested in an anonymous esim service (US/UK numbers) that works worldwide that is an actual mobile number (data + inbound calls and texts only) that you can pay for with #sats without exposing your identity (no KYC)?

listen to this interview with the silent link admin and learn about why you shouldn't make non e2ee calls and texts whenever possible.

tl;dr your carrier tracks your precise location (even without a sim, can use device triangulation) ties the kyc info with your device imei number, has access to the content of your calls and texts and can drop in at will into your ongoing calls for content and voice fingerprinting etc. you should treat these kinds of legacy calls and texts as open information.

take the time to listen. don't sleep on this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gd05WJG0J4&pp=ygUQc2lsZW50IGxpbmsgZXNpbQ%3D%3D

and check it out here silent.link

#cybersecgirl #comsec #infosec #opsec #mobile


Warmongers, politicians and bankers — the greatest scourge upon mankind — modern day slave masters.

The create and execute conflict — costing human lives.  They subjugate and rule — costing human freedom.  They steal and plunder — costing human labor.

#bitcoin not war


HIGHLY RECOMMEND SILENT LINK.

NO PERSONAL INFO REQUIRED. PAY WITH BITCOIN. DOWNLOAD ESIM DIRECTLY TO YOUR PHONE.

INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL THIS SERVICE EXISTS.

https://silent.link


"YOU SHALL NOT STEAL" Forever.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1603145807607259136/pu/vid/1080x1920/z52CaKMVb96nepK7.mp4?tag=14


Bitcoiners fill the gap they see

Sometimes it takes quite a while of quietly observing to figure out where you can add value

- hodling
- writing
- memes
- building
- educating
- connecting
- organising

Scratch your own itch
Find the gap only you see

Make #Bitcoin stronger 🤝


"Now I know they're never gonna pay the bond. Or if they do, they're gonna pay it by issuing another one."

Our money is built on this ponzi scheme of bonds that requires new buyers to pay out the old buyers. It's no wonder our money is broken.

#America #USA #USD #Bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/aa09114ca2a1da4554571bc41f093d7139deafb06cebc4aecfaf7aadcfbf6221.mp4


Problem with nostr is everyone is based, no one to pick a fight with or remind they supported bio-medical totalitarianism. No schadenfreude here. Just a bunch of based people who want a free society.

Very disappointing.


Fiat is a system designed to steal our money

#Bitcoin is a system designed to protect our money

Most people are unknowingly living in a system that is stealing their money

Everyone has access to the new system that protects them

It’s only a matter of time before people find out and switch

Be patient

Stack health

Stack sats


Proof a study will say what it paid to say.

The mainstream media is now using climate change as a justification to get people to stop growing their own food.

“Study says homegrown food outputs 5 times more CO2 than conventionally grown food”

They do not want you being healthy and self-reliant.

Which means it’s more important than ever that you are.
https://image.nostr.build/2a48ab165f9a5f8af2894eead4673cf170d9b314ad2f70abd287d61edcb9d33a.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=968x1166&blurhash=_*ODk3Rjs%3AR%2BRjt7fkbEjto2WVWBoffk_4oMspWUoejbf7IVt7s%3BWBkCjZayIUj%40t6WBbHoef6tQWAofWBazoMa%7BM%7Baej%5DWUWBjua%23R%25WCaya%7CbFj%5Bjuoyj%5DjZfkj%3Fj%3Fj%5B&x=fb6389300f66b7dfe0e46e9ccfa69e734515f8367f41877679daa1523bd47cf5


Reminder: infowars does not want you to use Tor when you go to their site.

https://image.nostr.build/22f463c4f499b7ff31b4ec886e44fd5d3a2d9453a0129a8317017717c03ed446.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1816&alt=Screenshot+of+Cloudflare+not+giving+the+user+a+captcha%2C+effectively+blocking+them+from+accessing+the+site&blurhash=%5DOR%3AE9Rjt7WBt7%3FbWBbFWUj%5B4njuWBjbaf_3WUaxayax4of6f8ayay%7Epj%5BWAayWB9Faya%23aya%23%3FbWBWUayaxM%7BjuRjj%5BWB&x=140ca310ddd08f88fddf01887f77c8995b44bcad1ff80c79c2f543942ec17799

In other words, they WANT their web server logs to contain a list of people interested in fighting government overreach. Seems negligent at best and a surveilance operation at worst.

So if you are trying to get the #news about #trudeaus today, get it from somewhere else!

And no, refreshing the page does not help.


Oh, look… the Federal Reserve Cabal’s internal review found that fellow Cabal members did nothing wrong when they were caught INSIDER TRADING.

This should make you angry...

These fucking kleptocrats *literally* control our money, profit off their decisions that fuck ordinary people, and they are ABOVE THE LAW.

Fucking Disgusting.

In the words of Bastiat: “The Law perverted!”

Fuck these fucking criminals. https://i.nostr.build/wPvO.png


Happy to give some choice privacy advice to someone who clearly understands what I'm doing.

1) Get an anonymous Internet connection (if you can). In the US you can get an unlimited, unthrottled 5G hotspot for $500/year from The Calyx Institute, which is both a good deal and helps support digital freedom. You can register anonymously, pay with Bitcoin, and have the hotspot shipped to a FedEx pickup point so you don't have to give up your address. It will still reveal your rough geographic location by IP, but nobody is socially engineering your name from the carrier. Outside of the US you can often buy data SIMs with cash, which have similar advantages. The upper-tier 5G hotspot from Calyx has an Ethernet port and built-in OpenVPN capabilities, so you have some serious options with the right equipment.

2) Use a VPN whenever you can. Not just an app on your device, consider getting a router that supports VPN client mode (or just install OpenWRT), and use a VPN like Mullvad to route your whole home network through a tunnel. Stop using Google and Apple VPNs, who do you think you're protecting yourself from! Use different VPNs/Exits for different purposes.

2a) Stack privacy. You can route a VPN over a VPN. You can connect to Tor over that too. Performance takes a hit, but that's a small cost for multi-tiered anonymity.

3) Separate sensitive tasks between your devices. Some things in life are more private than others, so make sure you know what to trust. Your Facebook app shouldn't be on the same device as a Bitcoin wallet, or at least not on the same user profile. Keep multiple phone and PC logins for different purposes. Keep multiple networks for your devices, and route them through different VPNs. Have a laptop just for Bitcoin. Have a laptop just for porn. Laptops and android devices are cheap, compartmentalize your digital life for privacy and safety.

4) Avoid corporations wherever you can. Use ProtonMail instead of Gmail. Use Linux instead of Windows or Mac. De-Google your phone with LineageOS or CalyxOS, and start taking app hygiene seriously. Use FOSS alternatives whenever you can, even if you like the proprietary version better.

5) Never self-host at home unless you have a dedicated ISP and network for it. It's a ton of fun as a hobbyist, but it's not good for privacy. Never let your home become an attack surface. Find a smaller cloud provider that accepts Bitcoin and rent resources pseudonymously where you need them, or go hardcore and host your own ASN out of a small rack somewhere.

5a) Furthermore, know your rights when registering domains. For example, you may feel patriotic buying a .US domain, but it is trivial to retrieve your full whois contact info from .US domains, and they will more aggressively enforce a real address requirement.

6) Never trust bleeding-edge tech. New technology is exciting, but it's full of bugs and mistakes. The newest version of something is often the worst version of it. When the web3 hype machine tells you that Nostr is the future of private social media, don't take their word for it, look for the evidence. If there isn't any, proceed with caution.

7) Embrace a zero-trust philosophy. Every actor is a potential bad actor, so build a moat. Don't get mad if you get pwn'd, black hats and gray hats (howdy) will target you, so be prepared for it, and learn everything you can from your mistakes and the mistakes of others.


How to improve your social skills:

1 say 'thank you' and 'please'
2 do not respond to negativity
3 remember people's names
4 smile more
5 be gracefully honest
6 hold doors open
7 be kind and humble
8 talk less, but say more
9 listen without interrupting
10 do not brag or nitpick


#privacytechpro tip: you can connect orbot to tor on android #GrapheneOS without it taking up a vpn slot.

connect to your always-on vpn ex: #mullvad or #proton as usual. use splittunneling to exclude apps that don't play nicely with a vpn from vpn traffic for best usability.

open orbot, make sure 'start orbot on boot' and 'allow background starts', and 'power user mode'  are ticked in settings. then manually connect via your notification or in the app

now #orbot will auto-start and connect to tor while your always-on vpn stays connected

#cybersecgirl #tor #vpn #guardianproject

https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot


🙌 #entrepreneurship #bitcoin ⚡ #nostr 💯🎯 https://image.nostr.build/ea1408105d56afb1e3301e98c4d32b2242c4b53b7942dc1f6070016b0f14558c.jpg


On my flight home from the Bitcoin Energy & Mining Summit at @bitcoinpark. It was my favorite event of 2023 and this year did not disappoint.

It is becoming very clear that many in the energy sector fully grok bitcoin now and are eager to incorporate mining into their systems.


PrivacyTechPro tip: Using an always-on VPN is recommended good privacy practice. However, there are other ways of tracking your specific device on the internet.

For example, if you forget you logged into Google Chrome with your real account and real name or you forgot to log out of Gmail and you visit a website with Google tracking, the site (and Google) may still be able to identify it is you browsing their site based on your device and browser fingerprints (screen resolution, installed fonts etc) and your Google login, even though you are using a VPN to obscure your IP address.

Here are a few ways this could happen:

Websites using Google sign-in - Some sites offer "Sign in with Google" as an option. If you use this to log into a site in Chrome, the site will know your Google account and can associate your activity with that account.

Cookies from Google services - As you browse the web logged into your Google account, Google may place cookies on sites you visit that could identify you to those sites. For example, if a site has integration with Google AdSense or Analytics.

Browser fingerprinting - Through techniques like collecting information about your browser, plugins, system fonts and other details, sites may be able to uniquely "fingerprint" you and track you across browsing sessions. Being logged into Google could be one detail contributing to a fingerprint.

Using a paid always-on VPN (#IVPN, #Mullvad VPN, #Proton VPN) while using Tor helps mitigate this risk when you need extra privacy by going beyond just obscuring your IP. It has anti-fingerprinting technology that makes you look the same as other users on the network.

Do a side by side test with VPN + privacy browser (#Mullvad, #Librewolf) only, VPN + regular bowser, and VPN while using Tor to see the difference with what can be known about your device here:

https://www.deviceinfo.me/

#cybersecgirl #privacytechpro #tor #vpn #privacy


Real estate is one of the worst investments you can make because it can be taken by the state at any time, either through higher taxes, new environmental regulations or simply expropriated directly.

#Bitcoin  fixes this.


Remember that you probably fuck your future self up when you buy #KYC #Bitcoin via Kraken, Relai, Pocket, Coinfinity, Bitstamp or Coinbase.

They are going to come for you, tax you for every satoshi, follow up on where you spent it and punish you for every satoshi you can not explain or pay taxes for.

Use #Bisq, #HodlHodl, #Azteco, #Robosats, #Peachbitcoin, #Vexl or #Agoradesk.

Coinjoin everything with #Joinmarket, #Wabisabi or #Whirpool.

Coincontroll/UTXO management is key and most important. Label all your transactions.


An awesome #Bitcoin price history compilation since 2010...

When did you jump in?

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


A simple, clear explanation of #Bitcoin and money.
Show it to your kids. Show it to your parents!
https://m.primal.net/HYGs.mp4


5. Don't consolidate UTXO's after mixing.


Don't sleep on this.

EFF Unveils Its New Street Level Surveillance Hub

"The Updated and Expanded Hub Sheds New Light on the Digital Surveillance Dragnet that Law Enforcement Deploys Against Everyone...

The hub has new or updated pages on automated license plate readers, biometric surveillance, body-worn cameras, camera networks, cell-site simulators, drones and robots, face recognition, electronic monitoring, gunshot detection, forensic extraction tools, police access to the Internet of Things, predictive policing, community surveillance apps, real-time location tracking, social media monitoring, and police databases."

#cybersecgirl #eff #surveillance

https://sls.eff.org/


Taste test of course


Plebs.

Coinbase are bad actors. Don't use, don't trust.


When salary depends on not understanding.


Fascinating insight into what happened with the #bitcoin etf this week, drawing from gold’s history from the 1970’s. https://fountain.fm/clip/GqHOlLJL0NUiDAOMAQm2


Joe Biden just single-handedly guaranteed that every oil and gas company is incentivized to mine #Bitcoin

Thanks, Joe Biden! https://i.nostr.build/ordW.jpg


I have a sinking feeling that there is going to be a big problem with these new ETFs:

-To create additional shares of an bitcoin ETF, an authorized participant (AP) will purchase bitcoin and then exchange that bitcoin with the ETF issuer in exchange for new shares and then sell those shares on the stock market

-To delete (redeem) shares the issuer will buy shares on the market and deliver them to the ETF issue who gives them bitcoin in exchange.
           Then the AP sells the bitcoin and gets cash

The APs make money by arbitraging the difference between the price of the shares and the bitcoin (or vice versa)

If they are attempting to create shares (buying bitcoin) but there is not bitcoin on the market then no shares can be created and the share price will dislocate wildly (trade above the number of bitcoin held in the ETF)

If they are deleting shares and the price has dislocated then they will be buying back bitcoin from the issue using shares that are above NAV. (meaning they are losing money buying less bitcoin back with expensive priced shares)

This works fine for stocks where there is always enough shares on the market at the clearing house.

This might not work so well when there are UTXOs that are not interested in being brought into exchanges participating with the ETF and there is a fixed and inelastic supply.

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


Yes, a stand out show.


JUST IN: Coinbase did $7B in #Bitcoin transfers OTC today! https://image.nostr.build/b9e697fbbc1f943be71c5245dc7e5ee2b17d2dd53c1189a83892ce3c13ade551.jpg


Civilisations become successful b/c of small government

But success grows government, causing civilisations to falter

The only way to stop this natural process is #Bitcoin


Overall a little too chill of a person at this stage in my life but then I remember all the times I was broke wearing $2 thrift shirts and eating spaghettios for dinner working and going to school full time each and the banks liked to punch me with those $75 overdraft fees even when it was errors on their part. $75 was like 3 weeks’ savings for me. Nothing like going full speed from 8am to 12am knowing you’re just treading water at best.

STAY MAD
KEEP STACKING

#plebchain


This post is deep af
https://m.primal.net/HXMW.jpg


Ok so here is something else I can post about that makes me happy. Bitcoin shit!

https://cdn.satellite.earth/0ae89c53a341735521f4b9416a97eea130df766cb436e81d5b9ca8f7e01c5225.png
This took me an embarrassingly long time to work out all the kinks, but I got it all working at last. I took this on mainly to improve on my Bash scripting.

This first script will install Bitcoin Core, Tor, and I2P on a fresh box on a Debian based system (Ubuntu and the like), then configure Core based on your install choices. (I.E. if you install only TOR it will ask you if you want to only use TOR or let your node run in a hybrid mode that allows IPv4 connections.) It compiles core from scratch. I don't really have a reason why I chose to compile from scratch vs grabbing and moving a precompiled binary, but that's what it does.

Next I'll put out a script that installs LND or CLN (and some front end like RTL) and configures it based on your networking options available. The plan is to make a thing for Fulcrum and maybe other node tools if people want them. I want to make running your own node as easy as I can, and the more tools we have out there the better.

So anyway, I hope this helps at least one person and let me know if there are install scripts I should focus on after LN. Let me know if I need to improve on anything or if you encounter issues, Happy to help. #bitcoin #noderunner

https://git.sovbit.dev/enki/Sovran-Scripts


Every month for the whole year i wanna give a random npub that is following me, 21000 sats.

21 shares and 21 likes on this note to make it happen.


interested in an anonymous esim service (US/UK) that works worldwide that is an actual mobile number (data + outbound calls and texts only) that you can pay for with #sats without exposing your identity (no KYC)?

listen to this interview with the silent link admin and learn about why you shouldn't make non e2ee calls and texts whenever possible.

tl;dr your carrier tracks your precise location (even without a sim) ties the kyc info with your device imei number, can use device triangulation and has access to the content of your calls and texts and drop-in to your ongoing calls for content and voice fingerprinting etc. you should treat these calls and texts as open information.

take the time to listen

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gd05WJG0J4&pp=ygUQc2lsZW50IGxpbmsgZXNpbQ%3D%3D

and check it out here silent.link

#cybersecgirl #comsec #infosec #opsec #mobile


#QubesOS tip: If you're not daily driving the Whonix integration, you're not using it right

"The main way Qubes OS provides privacy is via its integration with #Whonix. Qubes does not claim to provide special privacy (as opposed to security) properties in non-Whonix qubes. This includes disposables."

#cybersecgirl #privacy #security #opsec #infosec

https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#what-about-privacy-in-non-whonix-qubes


Probably stating the obvious here but feel like UTXO Management is going to be the next “challenge” with the onboarding process of new Bitcoiners - kind of like getting off exchanges to cold storage was (and still is) a big push for those entering the space.

It’s become so much easier now to do this, even with air-gapped cold storage, with so much support here, on Youtube, and elsewhere. And the work of so many awesome Bitcoin companies and their cold storage solutions.

Thankfully a lot of us stacked when 1 million sats may have been 100-200 USD or cheaper…so by default a lot of our UTXOs are actually a good size already.

As USD continues to fall against #Bitcoin, and with the expectation that fees and demand for block space increases, folks entering with a daily or weekly small DCAs, without understanding even what a UTXO is yet, will run into a lot of frustration moving their funds on chain, to cold storage or otherwise, unless they consolidate early or are smart with sizing their buys.

Will take some intentional work on our end to support these newer folks so that their first touch points with Bitcoin don’t turn them off to all that it really is. ⚡


Kinda sucks that awareness of bitcoin often comes before awareness of the importance of privacy. By the time you find out, you are already on some agency list. #bitcoin #nostr #privacy #noKYC


The growing frustrations with trying to fit self custody LN into their applications or use cases is only getting started. Lightning has not failed, it's only failed to be the thing for everyone.


Everything up until now will be looked back on as “The good old days” by the Bitcoiners that are in right now.

The ETF approval is going to bring in an entire mass of people that don’t care to understand how #Bitcoin  works, and will have no incentive whatsoever to learn about it either. They will buy and hold the ETF product and benefit from price appreciation just like the rest of us.

The beautiful thing about Bitcoin is that everyone who truly understands what they own right now had to come to an understanding of Bitcoin through truth. No shortcuts or handholding. If you didn’t properly custody or learn how bitcoin works then you most likely either lost it or sold it by now.

If I had to assume, I would guess that these current holders are much more moral people than the ones that are about to enter the market.

My fellow Bitcoiners, do your best to hold onto what you have. Those of us that hold this precious asset into the face of mass adoption will have immense power to shape the world in our image. Let’s go and make the world better than how we found it. 🧡


“If you take away the state’s monopoly over the means of economic interaction, then you take away one of the three principal ingredients of the state. In the model of the state as a mafia, where the state is a protection racket, the state shakes people down for money in every possible way. Controlling currency flows is important for revenue-raising by the state, but it is also important for simply controlling what people do...”

— Julian Assange (Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet)


so, you're a new nostrich that's graduated out of #introductions and now you're looking to learn a bit more about relays. did you know that you can run your own relay? this mediumly simple task allows you to harness the true power of nostr by putting you in charge of your social graph.

what exactly does that mean? it just means that you'll be able to control your social data - your notes, your contacts, your events, all of it. this prevents you from being rugged or censored. this puts you in control. pretty cool, eh?

you have several options and i'll list a few of them here for you:

if you're a bitcoiner, you may be running a "node" at home. if this is the case, then you already have some of the tools available to you. umbrel, mynode, and start9 all offer one click to install solutions for nostr relays.

umbrel: https://w3.do/ScRzQT2U
mynode: https://w3.do/1yPlc3RX
start9: https://w3.do/-GL2ifVz

if you don't have a node or aren't running one of the above platforms, you can get started by installing these operating systems on existing hardware - from used computers, to used laptops, to newly built machines or even raspberry pis.

if you have dedicated hardware and you're a bit on the tech savvy side, you can go a tiny bit deeper and manually install your nostr relay. you can choose between several relay implementations here, such as nostream or strfry.

nostream: https://w3.do/1E07DCyf
strfry: https://w3.do/7kKoYwtl

if you don't have dedicated hardware at home and you're a bit tech savvy, then you'll surely know that you can also buy a virtual server on a cloud provider's infrastructure. the options of providers here are nearly endless.

if all of this seems like a different language for you and seems over your head, but you still want to run a personal relay for yourself, your family, or your local community, have no fear, a solution still exists for you. you can visit a dedicated relay provider and purchase a relay with just a few clicks of a mouse button.

Relaying: https://w3.do/FqvChHmV

do you have to run a relay? no! you do not! this is a task that isn't for everyone. this is only for those that want to be sovereign over their own social data.

if you have any questions, feel free to ask here and either myself or another knowledgeable nostrich will help out.


Cup of tea and some bisqits required.


US National Debt is about to hit $34 TRILLION…

“Everything is fine.” https://v.nostr.build/LDMD.mp4


✋ STOP EVERYTHING AND HOLD ON :

We may truly be on the brink of an unprecedented #Bitcoin supercycle :

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗕𝗨𝗟𝗟𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗦 🐂📈

Here are 8 reasons why this time, it's set to go full banana 🧵👇
https://image.nostr.build/753c7cb927ebe2d1888b47cdcd8c5043a525560bc2886995e9cbc1567630ebf0.png

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1⃣ The Bitcoin ETF arc

As you already know, BlackRock, Valkyrie, and other Wall Street giants await approval for their Bitcoin spot ETF applications

These entities can only start to accumulate once they have SEC clearance

High demand coming : potential 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸?
https://image.nostr.build/9e4b689134d2159c4e68482cf470b7d34f8ba2a48f32364a9d3233508188d3b5.jpg

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2⃣ The halving

The halving of mining subsidies will take place this year, estimated to be on April 17

This will reinforce scarcity, impacting supply dynamics, thus amplifying the perception of Bitcoin as a desirable, scarce asset : 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗿𝘂𝗻 🦾
https://image.nostr.build/7eebcd12dc2a76505471c1151b3c3634214560f82165456a76cf192e0636be84.jpg

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3⃣ US Elections & QE

Economic & employment indicators need to look great before the elections. That could lead the FED to pivot & engage in Quantitative Easing to sustain the metrics

Plus, some candidates have a pro-bitcoin slant
Printer ON + public awareness = 𝗕𝗨𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛🚀
https://image.nostr.build/c33060820ce710d2450887d9cfa8932f66a14a1a7037fa37a611e90833d9aa25.png

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4⃣ Gold new ATH

Arguably the current safe-haven leader, sat a new all-time high at the end of 2023

Past data tends to show that when there's a bullish move in gold, it could lead a surge in Bitcoin 6 to 12 months later

If history rhymes, Bitcoin 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 👨🎤
https://media1.tenor.com/images/b78d9069e38892e56f8f15d3642fe88a/tenor.gif?itemid=10195304

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5⃣ Matching cycles

Every 4 years, punctuated by halvings and macro events, Bitcoin graces us with a season of euphoria followed by a bear market, to the point of becoming boring

We're at the end of one cycle and the dawn of a new one : 𝘄𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳!
https://media1.tenor.com/images/89f8c1e3d2fa4d0081e6af67ff5a78d4/tenor.gif?itemid=11174641

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6⃣ They will die on this hill

70% of hodling wallets have not moved their funds for >12 month, not selling

The public is aggressively accumulating, vying for a slice of the scarcest cake, reducing the available supply

Enough for everyone, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲? 💸
https://media.giphy.com/media/He4wudo59enf2/giphy.gif

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7⃣ The mastodons keep on buying

MicroStrategy, Tether, and several other prominent billionaires are making substantial purchases of Bitcoin, indicating a notable increase in their commitment :
At this point, it's a Bitcoin rush

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁
https://image.nostr.build/5b173d6797f1d24f80d3a393201561f80dba7b2263cee8798e2483dfed4af025.jpg

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8⃣ The hashrate race

Bitcoin's hashrate increased by 102% during 2023

Companies are actively engaged in a fight with mining arsenals, competing for the jackpot in the upcoming cycle, undeterred by the looming subsidy halving

How could it be any more bullish than this?
🔥🔥🔥
https://image.nostr.build/7335750f178e7d346a7ebb3d1fd5198669824f023acd9de93cd654f572a76902.jpg

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What do YOU think about Bitcoin's 2024 season? 🫵

#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebchain


This is the way.


WE ARE WITNESSING BITCOIN SHORT SQUEEZE THE ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM.

BILLIONS ARE SHORT HARD MONEY. FEW REALIZE IT.


🧡💜 #life #bitcoin ⚡ #nostr 💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/d2c8e822fe50382fe853bb346f6d6029af7897745ca225ea449ada39da98462c.jpg


THE BEST TIMELINE IS IF THE SUITS DELAY THE ETFS AGAIN AND WE JUST KEEP STACKING.


It was thoroughly unremarkable.


HNY fam. 24 will be a win for the plebs.

Never selling.


I listened to nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv on the Thriller podcast on the topic of privacy. Absolutely horrifying. I need to start wearing protection when I do anything online. I'm going to fade out of facebook in the new year. #nostr #plebchain #bitcoin #privacy

https://share.transistor.fm/s/8eded9ef


Bit of a ramble, bit of a rant ... I was messing around with midjourney and made this image and somehow all of this then came to mind for me (LOL!).  Posted on Twitter but with Nostr's improvements wanted to try sharing here as well:

My parents came to Canada as young adults.  One on a plane, one on a boat.

They met here and had two kids, myself and my brother Nick.

I don't exist without this country, so being grateful for this place, at that moment in time, is an understatement.

Canada offered a lot, no doubt, that's why our parent's came.

They worked hard, payed taxes, payed off debt and managed to save some.

Their savings represented the efforts of their time and their labour.

But those savings were not respected by the monetary system.

The Canadian government, the Bank of Canada and the Canadian commercial banks actively stole their purchasing power by debasing the value of the Canadian dollar.

These entities worked in tandem to create more and more and more dollars ... as a result my parent's savings have constantly been debased and lost value.

More dollars created = decreased value of existing dollars.

This continues to this day.  And it's done in the name of an "elastic currency supply" that is required for "economic growth".

It's actually pure theft of my parent's labour, their time and their saved purchasing power.

It's theft of my savings and of my purchasing power.

It's theft of my family's savings.

This theft is masked with talk of productivity gains and building roads and hospitals.  Sometimes it's even applauded with misguided cheers of "it's the right thing to do for society".

You're told to "invest" to protect your savings.  First you work, then you work again to protect what you worked for.

The system has gotten so out of control very few remember a time when a "savings account" at the bank actually meant anything.

Why does a "savings" button even exist on bank machines any more?

The button might as well read "income property" or "S&P 500" or "any asset other than fiat dollars".

We don't need an expanding, elastic money supply ... this actually prevents the vast majority of productivity gains from reaching the population.

Any talk of the government "saving" for important things is quickly dismissed.  Why save when you can debase?  It's easier.  "Print baby, print."

The Bank of Canada is sometimes hailed as "saving the economy during recessions".

The second order effects of their actions or what these actions facilitate are rarely, if ever, discussed by politicians, in academia, or in the media.

When you point this out critics will call out the Canadian commercial banks as the ones created the problem when they create dollars out of thin air (signing for a new mortgage, car loan, credit line ... heck, making a credit card purchase ... and you're creating new fiat dollars out of thin air).

The government and Bank of Canada get a free pass.

It's an impressive display of misdirection ... missing the forest for the trees.

Inflation is theft, pure and simple.  it's not only debasing the currency it's debasing the quality of life, it's silently ripping apart the fabric of Canadian society.

It's destroying the middle class.  People work more and more and manage to save less and less.

The Bank of Canada refers to inflation as "decline in the value of money" directly on their website.

Instead of discussing this specific point, politicians and the media instead are surprised (act surprised?) when property prices go up, when grocery prices go up and when the standard of living goes down.

The Bank of Canada is literally telling everyone it is actively decreasing the value of the dollars.  To repeat ... it's literally their stated goal.

Real estate and food and rent is not going up in value ... it's the same ... it's the value of our fiat dollars that are changing so you need more of them to buy the same things.

Unfortunately the masses will vote for more of the same, they'll vote for UBI, they'll vote for lower interest rates, they'll vote for more spending via more debasement and more theft.  Academia will mostly concur.

But now, by some miracle, if some of us choose to exit this silent, never-ending robbery we can.

#Bitcoin is like a super hero who arrived on the scene for those ready to see it.

A finite supply.  An open, honest ledger.  Permissionless participation, a global monetary network.

No one can debase it.  It's the purest saving technology we've ever seen.  The banks can't create more of it out of thin air.  It's here to protect and serve.

Now our time and our labour can be stored, it can be respected and it can "go up" in value relative to goods and services instead of going down.

The productively gains that we all have worked for can be reflected in our chosen money.

Thank goodness for #Bitcoin .

My time and my family's time ... my labour and my family's labour ... can finally be stored and saved in a simple manner.

We can create financial peace of mind.

We can save for the future without gambling or speculating.

We can focus on making the world great instead of worrying about navigating retirement and higher prices.

We can free ourselves from the madness of debasement, the theft of inflation and focus on what matters: family, relationships, finding a purpose, having a mission, helping our community, deep learning, good food, great health, enjoying hobbies and having good laughs.

We can plan and play for the long term.

Personally, I believe we may be at humanity's inflection point.

It's beautiful.

Great change may be ahead.

The future is bright.  #Bitcoin for the win.

I'm a #Bitcoin maxi for life.

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


Kind reminder:

Progressive income tax is communist, as is inheritance tax, as is a Central Bank.

Don’t take my word for it, Marx said it himself.

Reject communism and ridicule communists.

If you find yourself drawn to communist ideas, consider studying history and using your brain.

Have a nice evening. https://i.nostr.build/rPow.jpg


Some culty people make magical fairy statements about the attributes of bitcoin, and then put all of their ego and will behind their statements to try to force them into being true.
Its like there was a Scientology conference held next to a bitcoin conference and their event listings got swapped.

Bitcoin is a cryptograpic currency with a number of novel technological innovations which solve a number of problems inherent in fiat currency. The result being a decentralized currency which eliminates inflation, diminishes censorship, and excludes central banks and the State.
If that isn’t brilliant enough on its face, excluding the need to add magical fairy attributes, nothing will be.


Sir I'm sure we tried sending those who 'think shit is free' to Australia before.
I don't want the Israelis also beating us at cricket.


😂🤣
https://image.nostr.build/4667512efd8f7744276a42f70a68447dc2881faf020372a163ee94d871301dbd.jpg
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebs


Accounting is the mechanism by which the story of the transference of Surety is told.
Money is accounting, there are many who need to be held accountable.

#bitcoin is the only ledger they can't fuck with.
#siamstr
#nostr
https://image.nostr.build/5aa3211d3351769b89d73dfb8e49d2aade0f08f261563aec164852eb65ae8215.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1074&blurhash=%7CDJHme030c-Ey4-U-VteVu%24-wRa3MzOFa%23s8xtRk0Y-z%7DIS%5DVHJBIoa4f%24x.x.%25fxr%24%24n%23NHI%3Dobm%5Ej1MyR%2CJ6nhoIs%3Axto%7CNYxHs9fAR%3AS4VtaLoYkEXNxaR*ovxao%7CogM%7CRPt6X9t5kSfSxpt7ROxaNaM%7BsEa%24aiV%5BWC&x=cf5cb50b5af97ed5455f54e017c67c886037a987a18af94f303abc5d8ea977e1


People’s first perception of #bitcoin is often that it’s some sort of digital token. But if you are feeling the effects of inflation enough to want to get past this and take a closer look at bitcoin you first need to understand what money is. This leads to discovering that the dollar is not money, it’s currency. With this realization the door to understanding bitcoin begins to open. https://image.nostr.build/7a3c9b7f26da7c06e57576089f245df262be652a4cfaaeb07c63c4b497cc6d9f.jpg


After years of the news and tradfi saying #Bitcoin is only used by terrorists and is boiling the oceans, friends and family continually saying it’s going to “zero”, investment “professionals” on record that its a scam or similar to MySpace, not one of us plebs ever got “lucky”

We thought for ourselves, did the work to understand something new and made the decision to allocate capital in a specific, anti-fragile way that we were explicitly told was wrong. Major respect to everyone who was able to trust their own convictions over continual FUD from “the experts” and the establishment™

The best is yet to come…. Idk about y’all but my dancing shoes are prepared for many, many graves.


Lawrence is all over it.
Learn #bitcoin!  nostr:npub1tftc33ttam85wraffce62cgtvvjrmttquqlv6a0agtfm5nl4vues82xar5 https://video.nostr.build/2ecaf8c097bd28b90412bfb82fd870819ce5571a475ea7c6f82f0a05a0566966.mp4


Evolutionary tree

This tree of life shows how all life on earth is related. Each leaf represents a different species.

You can explore the relationships between 2,235,076 species and wonder at 105,458 images on a single zoomable page.

Tip: use it search features to explore.
https://www.onezoom.org/life


Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉

Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree 🤗

Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like.

Check it out at https://www.flare.pub/ 🔥
https://v.nostr.build/VygA.mp4


Understanding #Bitcoin    means you have woken up to the reality that the fiat currency financial system is designed to steal from anyone who doesn't understand it. It means you have taken the "orange pill."

Fiat currencies are a zero-sum game - when one person wins, another loses. Wealth is transferred from the financially illiterate to the financially literate.

Real estate investors can't see how they're hurting people who want to buy homes.

Stock investors can't see how the companies they buy are exploiting labor from employees.

Bitcoin opens your eyes to how unfair the system truly is. Once you see it, there's no going back.


COLDCARD Mk4 Firmware v5.2.1 Released

"Lots of goodies: screen info about transaction level “relative lock-times” (RTL [nLockTime, nSequence]) when signing. Temp Seed import from COLDCARD encrypted backup. Export seed as SeedQR (on screen). Better Passphrase UX & more," said nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/coldcard-mk4-firmware-v5-2-1/


New report from the World Bank finds #bitcoin  mining can help reduce emissions https://image.nostr.build/1fb657191dbf8d133e0d7a1ca13f0c924f310dba6bcc931d510d43a083c86f93.jpg https://image.nostr.build/538138c92f55fb03a61ac060ccc6aa837b222c89c8faa4f439f9eecad37d7ab4.jpg


Imagine owning a chair.


Manager here. We're confident the tx fee's will return to our 2 sat/byte target during 2025.


Mean #Bitcoin machine.

💻 thinkpad x230 w/ #coreboot
💿 Zorin OS Lite installed w/ LUKS
🛡 firewall on, opensnitch enabled

🟠 #StartOS via virt-manager
  ↳ #Bitcoin Core
  ↳ electrs
  ↳ Mempool

🟠 #Sparrow setup on host

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


nostr:note1ur93f6kadpmev47r4wvnhq5cx23jtse8f7868nr78xt6sks9teysswds5y

I used this project: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

There is a great downloader built in for pulling in different models. Installation was a single command on Ubuntu 22.04.


Plebs out there at all depths of the rabbit hole. Love to see it.


I'm running gpt4all on Ubuntu after hearing about it on The Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast. I need to read more of the documentation to really utilize this thing, but it's neat.

https://i.nostr.build/Po77.png


Which one of y'all made this?

https://static.noagendasocial.com/media_attachments/files/111/540/770/127/174/902/original/e3e8f86f21fea5a7.mp4


https://molly.im/

https://image.nostr.build/21b917fcc6d0c38450f35bdb942ca2c1ed4a03d559cbd2ee11f8e6f84a69c3af.jpg


The best selling android phone in 2023 was the samsung galaxy a14, its only $147 on amazon right now, but many times you can get it even cheaper or even for free on many phone plans. This is incredible!

Going to optimize damus android for the cheapest phones and the lowest bandwidth conditions. We need to be optimizing for people with limited data plans. negentropy v1 is going to be vital for this, which is why I’m so excited for it. Many of these same optimizations will be in damus iOS and notedeck as well thanks to #nostrdb.

Billions of people have yet to be onboarded onto freedom tech. 2024 is going to be an exciting year for nostr: More clients, more use cases, more algorithms, more choice, more freedom. Lets get to work 🫡


#Bitcoin
https://i.postimg.cc/RFS1sZ0s/IMG-3751.jpg


FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.
You don't want easy.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.
Easy is not putting on your running shoes.
Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.
Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.
Easy is compliance.
Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.
Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.
Easy is starting up the money printer.
Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."
Easy is not educating yourself.
Easy is not taking responsibility.
Easy is trusting a third party.
Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.
Easy is not having to think.
Easy is not having to understand.
Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.


How to deal with smart people that don't know about Bitcoin

It can be intimidating to talk to someone that's smart that spouts nonsense about Bitcoin. Arguing with them is going to be difficult because they likely have flawed economic thinking that is at the core of their beliefs.

If you're arguing with a socialist, for example, they're likely to have some form of class struggle or oppressor/oppressed paradigms that guide all their thinking. If you're arguing with a mainstream economist, they're likely to view centralized monetary control as a good thing. If you're arguing with a gold bug, they're likely to deny the value of digital things.

It's a pretty heavy lift to argue with these people, because, most likely, they haven't studied Bitcoin in any depth. But if you want engagement, start with their assumptions about the current system. Do they know how it works? Do they understand that all money comes from loans? Do they get that inflation destroys savings and that it's a stealth taxation? At the very least, this should get them on a field that's a little more neutral and fact based. But it's also possible that they may understand all these things and still be against Bitcoin. What then?

You can move from there to whether freedom, particularly property rights are a good thing. Even the most ardent socialists don't like having property taken away from them. And really, this is a moral issue that's very intuitive. Usually, you can make headway that property rights, especially over savings is a good thing.

Finally, you can move to Bitcoin. Do they understand that it's decentralized? That it's digital and that digital things can have value? This is where you need to avoid the stupid economics of the mainstream, who like talking about velocity and unemployment and so on. Those are all irrelevant to the fact that Bitcoin is good money.


They tell you that inflation is slowing down but you must understand what it means. Prices will never return to their previous state unless the production process improves and makes the cost of production cheaper.

The only way you have to counteract inflation is for your salary to grow in line with it or your profits to grow in line with it.

If you look at salaries, they never grow according to real inflation, they always rise according to the CPI which is clearly manipulated downwards. This is the great swindle of the system.

The mercantilism of the XXI century based on FIAT money is a vertical extractive system from bottom to top.

That is what it is all about, if salaries and goods were fixed in hard money, they would not be able to carry out this swindle, there would be no inflation as such and no CPI. Your purchasing power would not decrease every year, even if they didn't raise your salary, goods would go down in price because of the improvement in the production processes. But why don't they do this? Because then governments cannot finance themselves for free at the expense of your wealth.

#Bitcoin


Capital gains taxes don’t just steal your wealth, they change the way you make bets

If you have a 70% chance of doubling your money or losing everything, a full Kelly bet is 40% of your portfolio

But if you are taxed 50% on your winnings, your true upside if win is only +50%, not a double (+100%). Based on these odds, you’d only bet 10% of your portfolio for what is otherwise the exact same bet

And if your taxes are 60%, you shouldn’t take the bet at all

This is such an important concept to understand
1) for yourself so you size correctly
2) so you understand how damaging raising taxes is to entrepreneurs and funding investments that have the chance to make the world a better place.

Source: https://twitter.com/tbr90/status/1733202123100201173


So nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z wrote a detailed takedown of FinCEN's recent anti-privacy proposals.

It's a masterpiece, imo:

https://egodeath.capital/blog/fincen-may-be-violating-your-rights-bitcoin


If you want to create a simple personal website and don't understand coding much, you can still do it with this website.

Just describe the kind of website you want, and it will be created for you.
https://v0.dev/


✨ Henry Ford predicting the invention of #Bitcoin , exactly 102 years ago. An idea whose time has come 💫 nostr:npub1x685uqp8l53rlkmfkmkxu8qx68cz0fs3k8kn3m4nyjf7k2rchv6slr3g2v https://image.nostr.build/f665c84c79cba96fcca51ede01266a3de6e9ffdd1a5a4d725df8b7e2c17357a2.jpg


“The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate #Bitcoin in any way” - Janet Yellen https://image.nostr.build/efecd30678104c6d28768e91ec84d5191baca4f1dbd7ece07576301466adfb1e.jpg


Mutiny is releasing Nostr Wallet Auth (NWA) today!

NWA provides a better and more secure way to connect using Nostr Wallet Connect. To showcase this it has also been implemented in Zapple Pay for you to try it out.

Checkout our demo here or our blog to learn more:

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/nostr-wallet-auth/

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


Is it too wintry to sun your balls?.


If you are on Android this is an amazing app for downloading online video. It allows you to automatically trim videos with Sponsorblock, as well as embedding subtitles, chapters, and other metadata in the file. It can queue for later downloads, or wait for when wifi is available.

Even with so many features, it is still simple to use. Access it through the share menu of any app and it pops up a download card where you can change settings, then download.

Despite the name it works with way more than YouTube too, it can download from hundreds of sites.

https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis

#android #appstr


Heeeeey 💜 Just wanted to drop in and say how much I appreciate you #nostriches. There’s been a lot going on since I uploaded a few songs to nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg at the end of August ☀ Nearly 4M - make that Million 🙌  HellYa! - SATs received from all corners of the globe 🧡 Over 5 years on Spotify I’ve only made $700 total and at todays 40k 🚀 BTC price it’s about $1700 🤯

I feel damn lucky to be a part of helping to shake up the very broken music business.

I don’t always know where the SATs come from so thank you to all the #anonymous supporters out there. It truly is an honor to be a small part of showing the world how #lightningpayments & #bitcoin can change lives and disrupt industry.

So much more to come! 🫶🏻Ainsley

#⚡Is💛 https://image.nostr.build/10a4a3958983cd46e446d0995cf605bcb1529c2d77e0f272980d960ef018cbed.jpg


Stack Holder wisdom: Important reminder as #Bitcoin  starts to teleport your net worth higher: Attaching your happiness or self-worth to something that is completely outside of your control (like the BTC price) is always a recipe for a bad time.

Life has a way of matching every euphoric high to a depressive low. Yin & Yang. Light and dark.

So whether they're green or red, don't let the numbers on the screen control your mood.

Remain even-keeled and rational.
Remember what you own.
Expect volatility both ways.

And give your focus to things that are in your control while you wait for the world to slowly understand what you already figured out about Bitcoin.

Your time is more scarce than BTC. So make it count!


When people ask me what the next #bitcoin top will be: https://v.nostr.build/zyeZ.mp4


When capital gains are relegated to the wealthy/investors, it’s easy for the public to ignore it or casually support it.

But in the coming years the overwhelming majority of people will be forced to pay for capital gains on their homes, their cars, their bitcoin, their stocks, everything will be driving higher in dollar terms. And despite all those “gains,” people will feel poorer than ever.

It’ll probably be capital gains tax that triggers the revolt when plummeting purchasing power hits normal people with additional 20% tax on stuff that only went up in price because of inflation. 🤔


https://image.nostr.build/7f622177288cafd3782c564d76e9c9ab845918a91078a1b9ae34dffb860d8371.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 819,659 🤙💜


Freedom go up is always more important than number go up. There are so many ways to make fiat gains, but few that can compete with #bitcoin on improving human rights and helping the oppressed worldwide


The red dildo of consequences has arrived https://i.nostr.build/0koX.jpg


Welcome 🤙


NEW: 🇺🇸 Major Jason Lowery writes an open letter to the Defense Innovation Board on the "National Strategic Importance of #Bitcoin " 👀 https://image.nostr.build/87ab2892aeaca4661834317ff474cfba69bb1883d9387261bb29ad6ac34b9b5e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1ff2158fecabc76158857572fd8cf2c4251a279982dca57aea61293129e2140a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bd50d847cefb48493f67ca1d8564f614c5482741a69da0e4f532f6d6b73398b5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/eb291faf607504c77174fc04e78341807b29b431f5470e5428065b1f3cebc895.jpg


Calling all #Bitcoin -ers for a top-secret mission! 🕵♂🚀
Google insists on a 'test before you invest' approach for SEEDLE39.

So, I need your sharp minds and BIP39 know-how to give it a whirl in a closed test.  Shoot me a DM with your email please - if you're on Android. 🙏 https://image.nostr.build/b1710a6373eba86a3b2a7e08207f3297b6800bbd3fa89030adedc725f2a232a3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/591c29ab6450ceabbf814f4cb9f8f995fc9a0109d2e6996a42f10304b728a28c.jpg


“Economics” only seems complicated when viewing it through the same system designed to steal from you.

#Bitcoin


🚀🚀🚀🚀 #Nostr https://image.nostr.build/cb8d9632ec6a07c33667341d7fef23994b0b53edcb0b525f57e95bb9c3511edf.jpg


and tanks for all the fish..


If you run Jellyfin, update it to 10.8.13 ASAP.
There’s a critical vulnerability affecting versions <10.8.12.


If your thingy really works shouldn't you plead with your god?

https://image.nostr.build/4eeb09e1e1f395bd2b085068bb4a1261916f7c173f28cf572798c33a1b41b472.jpg


this is why physical media and torrent backup sharing are essential and will never go away. streaming is one thing, but i refuse to license the music and movies i buy. drm is a shitcoin. break it. resist

nostr:nevent1qqs8ze35xfl4em3ggv9qxmw82j3ca4guncexjm3an8yujw86yvx63mqpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33vcm82emc09uxk6mwddjhgvmtddjxwaf5dvcxvafhx3mx6umgv9mk2unddd4rsepsxeeh5dn2w3enjap5ddekcct6vd4kz0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2q3q504jj42t6flu5l6n7e389e9mt8gxduhnzuyv7dq4gr95w20mmpqsxpqqqqqqzzlr564


NOKYC, don't allow yourself to be Bullshat At.


Become ungovernable

https://image.nostr.build/fa855a6d936d97ecb0e0b739df8e484a2d898f9c8c52e85342053aba57fcbb07.jpg


Congrats on your progress.


Printing money is immoral.
Shitcoin creation is money printing.
NFTs are a subset of shitcoins.
Ordinals are a subset of NFTs.


Choose a wallet which can use fake icons.


We see plenty of rich people who handle their wealth along with old age peevishly, and who seem as unhappy as those who grumble and whine about being poor. The latter class of person would not know how to be free and generous with money if they had it, any more than the former could manage without.

Character makes all the difference: whoever can make use of great resources wisely can likewise cope with few.

—Teles of Megara, c. 235 BC
https://image.nostr.build/b5890537cc15af40aa4c5585c8fb5ab275772403c6401d4c7d29451584da64cf.jpg


#Blenders


Here is a demo of a new onboarding flow for nostr applications. I started working on this after watching nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240's keynote "Nostr for normies" at nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l; which I highly recommend watching.

My goal here was to create a way to onboard new users without requiring them to:
* install a browser extension
* copy/paste a secret
* explain npub/nsec stuff
* without losing interoperability with other nostr applications

This flow resembles a lot an OAuth style (e.g. "Login with twitter") flow:
* You create an account in one site (e.g. Twitter)
* You can "login" to another site with that account
* You can revoke access from using your account

Behind the scenes this is using NIP-89 to find nsecBunkers that allow people to register an account in their domain.

This means that any nostr application can offer a signup/login flow on any nsecBunker domain. The application itself doesn't take custody nor ever see the generated key.

And what's cool is that any nsecBunker provider can create their own flow; they can use passwords, or not, they can require a payment or proof-of-work to create an account. They can brand their "signup/login" popup page in whatever way they want.

Here is a demo video of this new building block that is now available to nostr applications.

https://cdn.satellite.earth/2e2e353ac5f69caffdc73da81c4e735c19579432967323564924c585819e6ef9.mp4


This is cool. Encode text data into audio. 170 characters, 2800 bps. You could send lightning invoices over ham radio! This is the app on my phone reading the audio from the YouTube video.

https://v.nostr.build/6gQO.mp4

https://github.com/aicodix/rattlegram


By bending over and asking for regulatory clarity you are failing to  meet your obligation as a US citizen to disobey the unjust laws enacted  by a vile class.

https://tftc.io/were-at-the-loot-the-treasury-stage-of-empire-collapse/


Founder and CEO of Vailshire Capital, Dr. Jeff Ross, explains how fiat currency destroys our health and why #Bitcoin is the key to fixing it.
#wisdom

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


Keep stacking...it won't be long.
#Bitcoin

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

here's the whole interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hiABf6NR60


I don't know if it is worse to be a leftist with all his wrong economic theories or a right-winger who defends the monarchy.

Both are clearly dangerous stupid people.


Member of European Parliament on WHO: „It would be healthier and safer for humanity to sign an agreement with the columbian drug cartel.“ https://nostr.build/av/56532096eabb524eaaa4f10ad44ac621bf2304ae413919d0bdd5370c266be25c.mov


confirm, they do work.


wen onlygrans ?

I’d sub https://i.nostr.build/GnZG.jpg


https://mostr.pub/ new landing page for Mostr bridge with an input box. You can type a Fediverse name to find them on Nostr.

https://media.gleasonator.com/89157a3e0c71e7f56b0c8359d01bb1095e9efd5097c7bd70bd2523bc075c9e0f.png


The PlebDevs Backend course is here!

In this comprehensive and beginner-friendly 13-lesson course, we'll transform you from a JavaScript n00b into a proficient backend developer, with a special focus on Lightning App Development.

We’ll pick up from the simple frontend custodial lightning wallet that we built in the first PlebDevs course and make it fullstack and self custodial by creating/hosting our own server, API, Database, and Lightning node!

Purchase with Bitcoin on Emeralize: https://emeralize.app/course/purchase_detail/47/

Purchase with fiat on Udemy: https://udemy.com/course/plebdevs-backend

If you don’t want to pay all of the code/slides are available for free here: https://github.com/pleb-devs/plebdevs-course-2

Checkout the Plebdevs community on discord: https://discord.gg/t4NkDKRCK8

Also check out https://plebdevs.com for links to everything

Let’s level up together 🤝


Many people have broken homes, and failed marriages, funerals with 6ft distance and 30 ft away from the burial plot behind this pandemic....I saw it all.

Never forget how this shit fucked everyone up.


If ... In order to help authorities catch criminals ... We must give up our fundamental right to privacy in all of our affairs, including financial - Then we have given up more than Criminals could ever take from us.


If you need any more proof how much these people hate you here you go #bitcoin #memes #memestr #grownostr #zapathon

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


#bitcoin in 2015. Glad I was listening. 🧡 https://video.nostr.build/fb02c51a8f267c8f8bce9ef9b750d37419cba98c2df0a67fdeebcf308a897b21.mp4


These days there are some great self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning wallets to choose from. Some even integrate an LSP so you don't have to manage your own channel liquidity.

Here is a simplified overview of the major players and how their fee arrangements differ.

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

As Bitcoin on-chain fees rise, you should have a basic understanding of where LSP costs are incurred so you can plan accordingly.

For example, funding your wallet will allow you to send, but if you are receiving lightning payments you will require inbound liquidity.

If you want to receive a payment on a new wallet, an on-chain transaction may be required on behalf of the user by the LSP in order to provide the necessary capacity.

In high Bitcoin fee environments this can sometimes result in unforeseen transaction fees. Be aware.

The devs are working hard and shipping improvements and new features all the time.

As these products develop I'll attempt to publish any  relevant updates.

⚡


Desktop:
1.) Use Mullvad Browser with no extensions and don't login to any service.
2.) Use FireFox with Multi Container Extension, ublock and sandbox your sessions with separate containers where a cookie is needed. (Otherwise use Mullvad Browser, see 1.)
3.) Use a VPN with a DNS that blocks all ad and tracking domains
4.) use Torbrowser when possible.

All of the above +:
5.) Use a clean VM with no browsing history, snapshot it. After your're done, restore to clean the snapshot to wipe all browsing history.  Or just use Tails OS or Whonix.

On Mobile:

de-google and use grapheneOS.


How google spies on you:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/googles-surveillance-the-shocking-truth/

1) Saving all your Google searches, tied to your identity across devices [1] [2] [30]

2) Reading all your emails.  Even if you don’t use Gmail directly, but you’re sending email to someone who does.  [5] [6]

3) Saving all your web traffic if the website uses Google Ads, Captchas, or Analytics (and over 85% of all websites use some of their services).  Even if you aren’t signed in to a Google account, and you’re using a VPN, they can still use past cookies and browser fingerprinting to identify you.  [35] [1] [25] [26]

Google’s reCaptcha fingerprinting includes mouse movements, response time, timezone, screen dimensions, IP address, and any cookies.  ReCAPTCHA uses the google.com domain instead of one specific to ReCAPTCHA, which allows Google to receive any cookies you have directly, instead of the website you’re visiting. [35] This concentrates the vast majority of all traffic data in the hands of a single company, which can then be used to de-anonymize users.

4)  Everything you do in Google’s Chrome Browser is recorded, including even how long you are idle on a page.  [7] [8]

5) Tracking and Saving your physical location, via Android’s GPS and Wifi triangulation. [12] [13]

Even if you turn location features off or set the phone to airplane mode, it still saves your location via Wifi triangulation, which is the process of pinging nearby Wifi hotspots to identify where you are.  [9] [10] [11] Wifi triangulation can figure out your real location, even if you have a fake IP address from a VPN. [14]

As intelligence expert and ex-law enforcement Michael Bazzell says, Google is one of the first places law enforcement goes to for information because Androids track everyone’s location so accurately. Bazzell points out that even if you’re not directly involved in something, just owning an Android that was near it, can get you involved in answering police questions.  Bazzell’s experience serving in law enforcement and intelligence motivated him to completely cut Google out of his life even though he’s doing “nothing wrong”.  [11]

6) Keeping track of who you know to identify new phones or email accounts as you.

Rob Braxman
Privacy expert and phone operating system designer Rob Braxman points out that, by synching everyone’s phones’ contact lists and who they are physically standing near, Google (and therefore governments) can identify unknown devices or email accounts as you.  [30] [31] [32a]  Braxman further points to publicly available websites made by Google’s Jigsaw division and their partner Moonshot CVE, which openly sells services to governments to track and manipulate search results for targeted users.  These users targeted by Jigsaw & Moonshot CVE’s government clients have their search history, location, and identifying fingerprint stored in a database. [32b]

7) Recording and saving audio of your private conversations [16] [17] [18]

Google’s Android has the microphone constantly recording and saving your intimate personal conversations against your wishes for their profit and power.  As an extensive academic study of tech patents by Consumer Watch Dog points out, Google will claim this is only to find out if you said the words “Google Assistant,” but yet they have publicly filed patents to scan audio conversations and any available visuals on a variety of home smart devices to identify who is speaking, what you’re interested in, and what you’re doing for the purpose of targeted advertising.  [15]

Tracking what you say, what you like, when you sleep, and even when you go the bathroom, goes well beyond Google Assistant helping you do a quick search and would instead be considered an all-inclusive surveillance. [15]

In addition, they’ll allow 3rd party apps to record you without your knowledge because of poor permissions control. As University of California Santa Barbara cybersecurity researchers presented at a BlackHat European conference, 3rd party apps like Silverpush can play high frequency audio, which is invisible to the human ear, on another device like a television ad or mall kiosk.  Then your phone’s mic picks up the frequency, to rat out your real identity or location. [34]

Silverpush’s advertising system is embedded into many “free” apps on the Google Play Store.  These doctoral researchers warned of the dangers this presents by being connected to wide-spread platforms like Google Ads.  To demonstrate this, they played video of their lab experiment, which de-anonymatized a laptop through Tor Browser, because of an Android’s mic next to the laptop’s speakers, which was signed in to a Google account. [34]

Is the Data Sold?

Google has marketing propaganda which claims that they are merely selling advertising space on your devices and not selling the data itself.  However, this claim is misleading in a number of ways.

First, not only is advertising sold by demographics or interests, but in addition, Google also allows its advertising customers to target users by name, email, or device ID and reach them almost anywhere. [1] So advertisers can target you specifically and then serve you anything on your specific device by name.

Second, while it’s true that Google technically doesn’t  sell your actual name to the advertiser, when your device interacts with an ad, the third party advertiser can easily use your IP address, cross-site cookies, and/or browser fingerprinting to identify you.   For example, suppose an advertiser runs an ad for an ebook on how to get out of debt.  The advertiser could collect the IP addresses of anyone who clicks it, and so they’d know whose indebted.

“I think the big problem is that we give much more data to Google than it needs,” said Guillaume Chaslot, former Google engineer who worked on YouTube’s recommendations algorithm. [4a] Chaslot’s first-hand experience with Google’s spyware and manipulation inspired him to create the non-group AlgoTransparency.org, which openly says in it’s manifesto, “algorithms don’t have your best interests at mind”. [4b]

Play Store and Chrome Extensions Leak Data

Third, the Google Play Store and their Chrome Browser Extension Store leak application and user data directly to the app’s developers.  This is sensitive private information, and these third party app developers are NOT carefully vetted, as almost anyone can put an app in the Google Play or Chrome Extension Store with minimal screening.  Examples: [21] [23] [24]

Mental Outlaw
“Mental Outlaw” is a cybersecurity Youtube video influencer who is constantly having his videos about torrents flagged by Google as “dangerous content”.  He points out how ridiculous this is because Google does so little to stop real dangerous content.  One of the numerous examples he’s given is the Chrome webstore featuring extensions that are malicious hacking malware, which does URL injections to force online shoppers, without their knowledge, to use the malware creator’s affiliate links when they shop online. [22b] These 5 popular extensions got over 1.3 million downloads, which got the attention of McAfee Labs, the research department of the respected anti-virus company.

From McAfee Labs’ articulate research, this is huge security risk because not only is your personal data, like name and location, sent to malicious actors, but the attacker can forward the URL to any site they want.  So you might think you’re going BestBuy.com, but it’s really the attacker’s bullshit site to get your credit card info.  [22b]

Youtuber Mental Outlaw points out how ludicrous it is that not only did Google allow 1.3 million people to download these extensions, but they have featured status on the Google Chrome store. [22a] And not only does Mental Outlaw find similar malware in the Android Play Store, but Google has changed how apps disclose permissions to remove themselves of liability.  Starting in mid-2022, Google has the app developers themselves disclose what permissions the app uses, so Google does not have to do any research.  This is a conflict of interest, since app developers are self-reporting what information they get access to, and the end user may not properly be able to evaluate it. [19] [20a]

Sell it via Cookies

Google’s defense to these types of criticisms has always been that they don’t “sell your data” directly.  But as laid out in research from the tech-savvy lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google allows advertisers to connect their cookies with Google’s in order to process data on the customer.  This process is called “cookie matching” and essentially allows Google to sell the advertiser your information through a cookie. [1]

In the European Union, if Google were caught selling this data directly, it would be illegal.  [27] [28] [29] So instead Google finds sneaky work-arounds such as the cookie matching, which allows them to appease the regulators and make statements like “we don’t sell data, we just use the data.” [1]

Conclusion

The more influence that Google has in our society, the more difficult it becomes to avoid their fingerprinting.  If every website has a Google Captcha and everyone you talk to demands you talk to them on Gmail, then Google has become the gatekeeper for overseeing all human behavior.  They can use this power to influence who sees your messages and what information you are able to find.

By using Gmail or Google Docs, you’re forcing and enabling Google to fingerprint your loved ones or friends.  Even if you think you’re doing nothing illegal, you assume that Google will give you and those you care about an equal opportunity for your business to thrive.  They can reduce Google’s search traffic to your website, or bounce your emails to potential employers or customers.  They can buckle your business at the knees if they think it fits its agenda and by giving them so much information you’ve completely surrendered your freedom.

Well what is their agenda?

In our next article, we’ll discuss Google’s censorship ability to shape society and how affects you.

The Sources for this article can be found here.

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It’s a mashup of a few technologies to make it all work. The embedded Zeus node is similar in concept to other node-in-phone wallets like Phoenix/Breez/Blixt. Zeus uses LND whereas Phoenix I think uses Eclair. Those are different lightning node implementations, each with pros/cons, but are all compatible with the lightning network. One thing about lightning nodes is that they need to be online to send and receive payments. And lightning addresses require an online LNURL server. This all poses a challenge for mobile node-in-phone apps, which is why none of them have offered things like lightning addresses. Zeus is working around those limitations my providing the LNURL service for you, and by using hodl invoices to temporarily lock up your incoming payments until you open the app and accept them. Zeus calls it your zap locker, and the whole service together is called Zeus Pay. When you fund the node and select to use Olympus (Zeus’s LSP) then Zeus will automatically open a channel for you to use for sending and receiving. Zeus will also automatically open additional channels as needed. Keep in mind that each channel open carries a fee because they have to make an on chain transaction to open it. Self-custody in a mobile package is what you receive. Additional fees is the cost. Tradeoffs. Not sure if that answers everything you were asking, but if not let me know and I’ll answer whatever I can.


Pixel 8 Pro flashed w/ #GrapheneOS ✅

Here's how I'm going to set it up.

User Profile 1 (named "Owner"):
- Sandboxed Google Play installed.
- SIM card and eSIM enabled for dual number.
- All KYC/true name use.
- All content potentially accessible by the State via cable hacking (e.g. cellebrite.com).
- Google Maps in incognito.
- Banking apps.
- Sharing economy apps.
- All normie usage.
- Biometrics for convenience.

User Profile 2 (named "Guest"):
- No Google Play.
- Logged out when out of the house.
- Disk-encrypted ensures content is secure.
- "I forgot the password to that user."
- All Laser/NoKYC/nym usage.
- #Bitcoin watch only wallets.
- "Political" content (freetube/banned.video/etc).
- Anything against the "current thing".
- No biometrics; strong pin/pw only.

This basic setup allows for a secondary user profile which is logged out by default, providing full disk encryption and good plausible deniability / ability to say No.

The first profile can be yieled up if necesaary. This should provide a balanced setup to travel through NPC zones like airports, or deal with an increasingly technological police stops/searches.

If for some reason I have an urgent nym/nokyc need for google play, I can install into a work profile off of the secondary user profile. Note that each different user profile and work profile multiplies the maintainence cost (running fdroid, aurora, obtainium, etc for each isolated app space).

What's in your #SovereignStack?


Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted


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#UTXO stands for Unspent Transaction Output. It is a fundamental concept in #Bitcoin, representing the remaining amount of #Bitcoin after a transaction has been spent. Is the "change" that is returned to the sender after they have spent some of their #Bitcoin.

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Today someone on the TV said something and then people in the real world repeated that thing to their friends as if it was news. Everyone felt so involved.


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