Wow, this is a damn PIECE OF HISTORY!
Very cool and feels like a great analogy to the state of Nostr now
Mullvad changed...
For those of you who don’t know, we’re waging a war against involuntary Big Tech. Thanks to you sharing our article criticizing Mullvad’s use of Gmail, they just started self-hosting emails:
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/we-now-self-host-our-support-email
Huge win for freedom, because it shows that it’s possible to get someone to give a shit. But unfortunately, there’s still a lot of work to be done. The overwhelming majority of privacy/political freedom/crypto sites all use it and do not give one diddly squat.
However, despite the odds against us, I believe change is possible. And here is the plan. We need another 2 or 3 wins to give this idea some momentum. Then I will do serious outreach, and convince “privacy” sites to reduce big tech hopefully without it coming to public shame. And I start with THE most egregious abuse case AnonShop. Anonshop.app offers supposedly “anonymous” Amazon packages for Monero, to hide your info...
But where does Anonshop.app host this? On Amazon’s AWS! They charge 20% above cost, to have packages forwarded to people’s homes, to hide their address from Amazon, only to have them submit their address in a text box literally on Amazon’s servers?! You’re going to say “oh but there’s a PGP key”. Yeah a public key that this CIA contractor can swap! You don’t think they see what you’re doing as money laundering?
If you’re a Bitcoin Maxi, I call upon you to talk shit. The crusade I fight has the potential to spread across all privacy sites. Purse.io WAS the Bitcoin version of AnonShop, but they got bought out and ended. Let’s get these types of shops back up with public support, but open in the right way.
If you’re a Monero head, now is your chance to get better service. If AnonShop will change to a privacy-respecting host, one that keeps the crypto economy circular… Then I pledge to give them free advertising on my nostr and session feeds. Give them the Session name “AnonShop” to use. Write an article about their service, and most importantly recommend them when people ask.
But my words will fall on deaf ears without you. For if I am ignored, it’s your freedom that’s ignored.
But if you embrace this and share it, we can someday make invasive spyware an option and not a requirement. And most importantly, a circular economy. A world where you don’t even need sites like AnonShop or Purse, because the vendors accept it direct. Mullvad just showed us change is possible, and two is trend.
I’m an optimist. Are you?
A W for privacy! Lets go in fellas, for a better, more secure, more respecting world
Anyone have a link or can copy the article behind the paywall? too cheap, lol
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/bitcoin-arkansas-noise-pollution.html
Well, yes, look at those pictures... Imagine living there and suddenly they build the mining farm there that makes noise 24/7/365
Difficult to find a good solution for everybody especially after the operation has started
The problem is that even by staking to a single address you still have multiple UTXOs... Which means high fees
If instead you can pay using only one of the many addresses to make a single payment without "commingleing" staks you gains in privacy and fees
It's just sickening that that's allowed to happen
Of course it's a difficult topic, but when it's so clear he's lying and just trying to (and unfortunately succeeded in some instances) suppress voices that expose him thanks to just having a lot of $$$$ at his disposal
Now that he's been caught multiple times lying to a court and falsified documents he courts should just shut him down as fast as possible and make him pay increasingly higher fines and damages
Like you see, no mercy, if he tries again he and his bakers should just get bankrupted and jailed
What was ypur set up and will you do differently next time?!
There's definitely a lot of human rights/power abuse going on in those mass arrests...
On the other side, wtf can you do onece it's as bad as it was in El Salvador before all those arrests?!
Just ask the gangs to chill out and get more civil?
Tell the people who try not to have anything to do with them to just his at home and don't "provoke" them? "If you ignore them they'll go avay"?!
Now that the order has been restored (at least for the most part) we'll see if they're able to weed out the real dangerous/crazy people and re integrate the not completely lost ones
Yust a couple years back I was thinking i could make some $$$$ with BTC and buy a Flat/House (with mortgagee), even if the prices are super high, "because it give's cashflow and they'll go up forever"
Over time that changed from "Yes of course I'll buy a house/flat" to "Why would I buy realestate (or anything else as investment) instead of Bitcoin if the later will suck out the monetary premium of the former and everything else?!!! It'll go up forever Laura!"
I understand if you can buy a house/Flat with a loan so that you pay less monthly for your mortgage then rent would be, then it might make sense in some situations, but you'll probably own less Sats then otherwise
That they try is out of question, France is going down a really dark path... Let's hope people fight back before the only way out is a 1793 stile uprising... Although I'm not sure it isn't already to late
Good but old... So no zap as it tried to make it look like it's new/it didn't mention it's old
Good start, if well doen it prevent's a central authority to mingle with the results...
But the counting and timeatamping has to be done right otherwise it's forever in the Blockchain but wrong, so what's known as "the oracle problem"
NFC enabled keychain
https://v.nostr.build/J8dl.mp4
Use your favorite NFC tool to write your lnurl and share your address with a simple tap of the phone!
Maybe as a unlock wallet app yes, but not as a unprotected NFC payment metod
Mmmaaaaaan.... This litterally reppresents me... No kidding, I know it, but still think "but everything will blow up anyway" :|





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