nostr:nprofile1qqsqa6p85dhghvx0cjpu7xrj0qgc939pd3v2ew36uttmz40qxu8f8wq8vdeta is this true ?

⚡️🚨 NEW - HSBC blocked a customer from using its mobile app after detecting the Bitwarden password manager, installed via F-Droid, on the user’s phone.

Reminder: apps can see what else is installed on your phone. Your bank app knows which Bitcoin tools you use.

⚡️🚨 NEW - HSBC blocked a customer from using its mobile app after detecting the Bitwarden password manager, installed via F-Droid, on the user’s phone.

Reminder: apps can see what else is installed on your phone. Your bank app knows which Bitcoin tools you use.

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - The digital euro is ready... The ECB says it has completed all the technical work to launch the digital euro.

It now depends on political approval from European lawmakers.

"We have done our job."

"Our ambition is to ensure that in the digital age, there is a currency that is the anchor of financial system stability."

- Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB.

Quantum computing is bitcoins y2k bug moment

Dates are one of the oldest cultivated fruits in civilization, dating back 6,000 years.

Fun fact: Oshi #hodlbar ‘s consist of a blend of two different kinds of dates making them unique.

Can you identify which types these are? 🧐

"It just works" on most devices and doesn't feel different or scary to new users.

Not a coincidence.

Fresh batch from nostr:npub1jt5l9v9yrn3nxmjhgcq0hw9llym6ucvn9vknflwrn87u5gah09uqftzwrd came in today. One of my favorite aromas.

You use cloud hosted providers and say you're a sovereign individual. We use servers sitting in nostr:nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhgprdmhxue69uhkwmr9v9ek7mnpw3hhytnyv4mz7un9d3shjqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hhxarj9ec82c30hyvdwq's living room. We are not the same.