Do you use Nostr Wallet Connect? If so - which wallet?

We are adding NWC support to Fountain - and I want to test as many wallets as possible - what do people use?

Trump reiterates his plan to introduce 50-year mortgages.

lol

Two years ago, I warned in City

AM that the UK's Online Safety Bill risked undermining privacy and paving the way for government overreach into our digital lives.

Today, that concern feels more urgent than ever.

Last month, the EU Commission released its ProtectEU roadmap, outlining plans to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted data by 2030.

This is not about targeting specific suspects. It is about building the legal and technical infrastructure for mass surveillance.

Big Brother Watch have revealed that live facial recognition systems deployed in UK cities are wrong nearly 9 out of 10 times, scanning innocent people without their knowledge or consent. This is already happening in our streets, at stations, even at protests.

Now imagine that biometric surveillance linked to a centralised digital currency.

Imagine every payment, location, contact and movement tracked, stored and correlated.

This is not theoretical.

We risk building a society where privacy is gone, autonomy is restricted, and control is centralised in the name of convenience and safety.

The combination of decrypted messaging, facial recognition, CBDCs, and mandatory ID checks and full KYC creates a full spectrum surveillance regime. A system where dissent is not crushed by force, but quietly discouraged through constant surveillance.

What’s at stake is freedom of thought, movement and expression. We should be defending them, not trading them for the illusion of safety.

Once this infrastructure is in place, it is rarely rolled back.

Two years ago, I warned in City

AM that the UK's Online Safety Bill risked undermining privacy and paving the way for government overreach into our digital lives.

Today, that concern feels more urgent than ever.

Last month, the EU Commission released its ProtectEU roadmap, outlining plans to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted data by 2030.

This is not about targeting specific suspects. It is about building the legal and technical infrastructure for mass surveillance.

Big Brother Watch have revealed that live facial recognition systems deployed in UK cities are wrong nearly 9 out of 10 times, scanning innocent people without their knowledge or consent. This is already happening in our streets, at stations, even at protests.

Now imagine that biometric surveillance linked to a centralised digital currency.

Imagine every payment, location, contact and movement tracked, stored and correlated.

This is not theoretical.

We risk building a society where privacy is gone, autonomy is restricted, and control is centralised in the name of convenience and safety.

The combination of decrypted messaging, facial recognition, CBDCs, and mandatory ID checks and full KYC creates a full spectrum surveillance regime. A system where dissent is not crushed by force, but quietly discouraged through constant surveillance.

What’s at stake is freedom of thought, movement and expression. We should be defending them, not trading them for the illusion of safety.

Once this infrastructure is in place, it is rarely rolled back.

Microsoft released an opensource tool to convert anything, even pdf, PowerPoint, and excel files into Markdown. MarkItDown prioritizes preserving essential document structures like headings, lists, tables, and links, making the output highly suitable for text analysis pipelines and LLM ingestion.

Nostash is a Safari browser extension I created that stores your Nostr private key and signs Nostr events with it per the NIP-07 specification. It’s a fork of Nostore, which is no longer supported by the original developer, nostr:npub19pw5egjuhcsfsv42zkjtjs6nhpm69lnv8w2dacdyez7rvacrqnds6xjtwk , and no longer on the Apple App Store. Nostash is currently in beta on Apple TestFlight and I’ll release it to the Apple App Store soon. Please try it with your favorite Nostr web apps and let me know if you have any feedback. I’m only maintaining Nostash as the sole NIP-07 solution on Apple platforms and do not plan to add new features. I will be putting most of my energy into Yeti, a better native iOS signer app, which will hopefully supersede Nostash once it’s ready.