This is wild:

- make an account at coinos.io

- get some ecash from their mint.coinos.io with cashu.me

- on coinos, press receive > ecash

- what you see is a cashu payment request

- scan it with your cashu.me wallet, send ecash, watch it arrive *instantly*

What are some good ways to purchase Bitcoin without any of that KYC bullshit? Maybe a private transaction exchange coin for fiat in the form of Zelle, Cash App, Venmo, PayPal?

$MSTR Quadbilliling down, by announcing they plan on issuing $42 billion in convertible debt over the next 3 years. 🫨🫡👀

Why you shouldn't pay with credit card or PayPal for a VPN service

Payment methods that support anonymity can help keep your service account (e.g., your randomly generated IVPN Account ID) separate from your personal information tied to CC/Paypal. When paying with cash, Lightning, or XMR a trustworthy VPN provider only sees your IP address, with no ability to link it to revealing payment details. If the provider has no identifying data, they can't misuse it, leak it or share it with third parties.

Paying with a credit card or PayPal exposes personally identifiable information to the service provider. Further, the payment gateway and each participants in the payment processing chain can learn you are using that specific provider. In the event of a leak, official request, or compromise, your use of the VPN service could be tied to you personally, and in the worst case your activities could be directly correlated to you as well.

The above also highlights why you should use providers that don't require an email or other personal information to sign up and accept anonymity-friendly payment methods without an third-party.

Should all of this matter to you?

As we often remark, it all comes down to your personal threat model. What information you want to protect? Who are the adversaries?

If you occasionally use a VPN to watch BBC iPlayer and you trust your provider, the risks are minimal. If you are concerned about potential compromise, or you might be at threat if your personal information is correlated to your activities, it's better to minimize the amount of information you (are required to) share.

Next we need LoRa-based routers that do this so we can accept users from further away than simple 2.4G hz distances.

Yes, LoRa is bandwidth-limited, but they are very cheap. Couldn't these devices be stacked, so you'd connect to a thousand of them instead of just 1?

And some people still complain about it.

We support version 4 cashu tokens now

Few people know that the original web was designed a decentralized space where everyone could browse and edit thei own pages. The original browser, called worldwideweb, was a browser/editor, where anyone could make edits to the web as well as browse the web. What happened next was that VCs removed the editing functionality and created web based silos which locked in the users. We now have a chance to add back the decentralized functionality to the web, returning it to its decentralized roots.

World's best cities for food, 2023.

1. 🇪🇸 San Sebastian

2. 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv

3. 🇮🇹 Naples

4. 🇲🇽 Mexico City

5. 🇪🇸 Malaga

6. 🇨🇦 Quebec City

7. 🇦🇺 Melbourne

8. 🇨🇦 Victoria

9. 🇮🇹 Rome

10. 🇰🇷 Seoul

(Conde Nast Traveller)