Its how one lives, how one thinks. Living life as one sees fit (morally) regardless of societal pressure or what the 'law' says.

Fully disagree. Freedom is not contingent on anything but one's state of mind. There are people in prison who are more free than most.

Skip SimpleX and go for Session instead

Next time someone says they have nothing to hide:

Okay, so you don't want to hide these?

• your tax file number, EIN, etc

• your full financial position (assets, debts, income, dependencies)

• your bank logins and complete transaction history

• your password manager master password

• your email account credentials (including recovery emails)

• your Bitcoin seed phrase, passphrase, and wallet history

• any other crypto keys, hardware wallets, backups, or multisig details

• your superannuation details and beneficiary arrangements

• your credit reports and loan applications

• your full medical and mental health records

• your prescription history

• any diagnoses, assessments, or notes taken out of context

• your private messages with partners, family, people you’ve had issues with, and friends

• messages written while angry, grieving, joking, or vulnerable

• your browser history and search history

• your private bookmarks, saved notes, and drafts you never intended to send

• your exact home address, floor plan, and daily routines

• times you’re usually away from home

• your children’s names, schools, schedules, and online accounts

• photos of your home interior and valuables

• your workplace, role, grievances, and internal communications

• your employment history and any conflicts with colleagues or managers

• your political views, religious beliefs, or values that differ from the norm

• opinions you’ve softened or hidden to avoid backlash

• your social circles and who influences you

• the worst mistake you’ve ever made

• the thing you’re most ashamed of

• something you said or did that could be framed badly without context

• the belief you keep quiet because it would get you socially punished

• the person you trust least — and why

• people you depend on financially or emotionally

• your fears about money, health, ageing, or losing status

• moments you were weakest, scared, exhausted, or not thinking clearly

• habits you’re trying to change

• coping mechanisms you wouldn’t want misunderstood

• anything you’d be devastated to see misquoted, archived, or resurfaced years later

Me and nostr:npub13vepw9xdhjzhp87lv5h7z2jgzteltmzqe4scjsn9dtwwncz6ekms5p489d first explored El Salvador more than three years ago because of the bitcoin law.

45 memorable days in bitcoin only, without touching dollars or credit cards.

During our trip we immediately saw many wonders, but also many distortions bordering on the dystopian. People's poor bitcoin education, the government's pounding propaganda, the Chivo wallet (a spyware that no so-called Bitcoin president should ever have proposed to his people).

We have always been very critical of top-down adoption. It is no secret.

And at the same time it is undeniable that the Bitcoin Law was a historic event.

For the same reason today seeing the government of El Salvador kneeling before the God Dollar and the oligarchs of the IMF leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.

Today Bitcoin is no longer legal tender in El Salvador, the news is making the rounds around the world, and the regime media are happily feasting on it. This is also a historical event.

Anyone who denies this or is trying to minimize the consequences of this only shows that they are lobotomized by state propaganda.

It is what it is; you cannot sugarcoat it.

Our thoughts go as always to the people of El Salvador, to our many good friends there.

¡Que le vaya bien!

Sometimes it feels like we’re losing a war without even realizing it.

In the Middle Ages, cities built walls to defend themselves, to keep out those who wanted to enter and plunder. Those walls were the boundary between security and vulnerability.

Today, the boundaries have shifted into the digital space. But instead of building walls, we are the ones literally opening the doors.

We hand over the keys voluntarily, giving away all our information just to have Alexa read us the horoscope or an app to entertain the cat.

This war is no longer fought with weapons, but with data and information. And not only are we fighting it defenseless, we don’t even realize it’s happening because we still haven’t understood that privacy is our new wall.

What if the problem isn’t Bitcoin… but that some people were deliberately left out?

If the financial system wanted to include the excluded, it would have done it already.

It’s not “broken.” It’s elitist. By design.

And it will fight to stay that way.

Hey, I don't often ask for help, but I'm asking now.

Had to get a new battery for mom's car, and the damn thing cost 1.3 #Monero.

Monstr embers or kuno on my bio

Thank you guys so much.

Generational wealth

If you track all your personal finances in terms of sats you will become a different type of maxi. SGU

Only believe in past performance if it’s 10 or more year CAGR but it’s bullshit if it’s bear market

They don’t even believe in bear markets anymore

No need to worry about that

Just stay humble and stack sats

The only concern for them is what arbitrary data will be stored on their node

EXTREMELY slowly.....

I really like that (absent monitoring) that there is no permanent track record on chain, also we will produce on chain opening and closing tx that can tell a lot.

I come to the conclusion that two things are necessary for functioning LN.

1) on chain privacy so you can open and close channels without revealing things

2) lower fees/more tx so force closes can not become an economic viable attack

There are still plenty of drawbacks, but LN would already work much better on XMR than on BTC.

Using lighting with Zeus and phoenix with zero issues.

Transacting directly with your peer permissionlessly is the revolutionary act.

Not which chain you do it on.

#Isomorphism

I was being sarcastic

Convince over self custody. Not over privacy. Lighting is private even if custodial

It's very touching to see how, after everything that's happening in the world and the attacks on privacy by the US government and the European Union, Bitcoiners are still arguing about whether or not filter jpgs of monkeys.

Let's focus on making bitcoin private.

Without privacy, there is no freedom.

I don’t care who you voted for.

The only legitimate fix is the separation of money and state.

This remains the fight of our generation.

Don’t lose sight… or hope.

Bitcoin is money of the people, by the people, for the people.

1 ₿ = 1 ₿

Sats the Standard

JPEGs? You’re right, especially on the blockchain. Glad we have bitcoin , which is fungible, pseudonymous, lightning which makes it pretty private, ecash, making it more private, and money because it has all the properties of money.

nostr:nprofile1qye8wumn8ghj7mrwvf5hguewwpshqetjwdshguewd9hj7mn0wd68ycmvd9jkuap0v9cxjtmkxyhhyetvv9uszyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmnyqqs0wgf8etnayvkcs4c636fdvepy73jc9q2xlcln64srjdm5e98p8nc79qqrq make a song in the style of "rage against the machine" about monero helping people to break free from the control of the elite by creating a parallel economy with enhanced data protection for the people and thereby stopping to feed the beast that enslaves us all.

EU, July 2027: Anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins like Monero will be banned for regulated providers (CASPs under MiCA). The rules don’t affect privacy tech, non-custodial wallets or open-source tools, unless used in a commercial, custodial context.

My mom has had declining cognitive function for years, and it got a lot worse last year to the point where she was almost nonverbal.

I put her on a protocol of:

Ultrasound stimulation, 5 minutes 3x per day

Red light therapy, 30 minutes 3x per day

Low dose Methylene blue + magnesium and threonine

Light exercise

Improved ambient lighting conditions removing excess blue light

After 3 months she is starting to initiate and hold conversations again, and already seems to be a lot more 'present' than she was at the start of the year. I was skeptical, but the results have been rather profound, especially given that it's only been a few months.

Should be called Shitcoin Losers