Bitcoin = halal money

The moderation staff of every platform except our beloved poa.st.

i expect them to remain the leader for at least a decade. the momentum is too large. i have thousands of orders on Amazon without a single truly horrible experience and there are many other sites on which i only ever had one order and it went truly horrible, like having to do credit card charge back. add to this Amazon's free same day delivery and 24/7 support that always picks up the phone and i rarely even bother checking other sites.

it would be an interesting thought experiment of what it would take to beat Amazon but honestly if i was an entrepreneur i would pick almost any other battle instead.

At this pace, they can arrest faster than we can code

most cyberpunk is like detective story noir, if you don't like cheese, mysteries and antiheroes it might not be your thing

but i wouldn't describe William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy as poorly plotted, you should try starting with Neuromancer if you are curious... it is, in most cyberpunk fans, the most iconic representation of the genre... and it was composed on an old school typewriter

i noticed that but naively thought it was a coincidence. very sneaky of them.

what is a mystery to me is how bad Amazon is with search and reviews still yet somehow able to remain the leader ...

First they came for Tornado cash

and I said nothing

because they were shitcoiners

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i was an avid reader as a kid, and into my teens, and at some point in my mid teens, maybe 16-17, i encountered William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson and John Shirley (of course, yes Phillip K Dick)

Bruce Sterling, in particular, wrote one notable book about data havens, Islands in the Net, but many of the books by the other authors sometimes touched on it, the famously cheesy Johnny Mnemonic is a whole short story themed around the subject of leaks, and the extraordinary effort that the corporations would go to to suppress the release of incriminating information.

Data havens are jurisdictions where there is some degree of privacy around information in general, it's usually the case that any place that respects the privacy of bank client information, so-called "tax havens" are often data havens, and sometimes this protection is general and sometimes it is reserved primarily for foreign nationals.

Switzerland, many of the carribean islands, including the dutch ones, the netherlands itself used to be more but since EU not so much... even Australia is more of a data haven than much of europe anymore. It seems to me like Portugal is also something of a data haven, at least especially the islands.

If you care about your privacy, and you want to be involved in building systems that protect people's privacy, you should probably seriously consider being in a data haven.

And in your work, you should try to avoid being directly involved in deploying privacy protection systems for other people, this should be a strict isolation because that also adds to the buffer zone you have that lets you know you might need to disappear to tajikistan or something.

I think you need to know the other person from elsewhere, and get them to share their address with you out-of-band. Like, in person (best), or over another messaging app

It's a desktop or PWA. Nice on tablets, as well. It has a lot of functionality that some of the native apps don't have, so devs and power-users love it.

I prefer #Freerse on mobile, but it's still beta.

Yes

I was not recommending it, just making an observation.

Monero devs should definitely be afraid now...

Could a Twitter conversation be evidence of a crime? What if it's just gibberish 😂

nostr:note17a3vv5puv4tg5enduwd9z0ghuxlm3dvyclvn0rlvpf53f9afgtfs7rvt6g

Yes, I'd say you're correct. I never used it on mobile, I don't even have a phone myself 😅

Let's think about the fact that Ethereum's TornadoCash is more censorship resistant than Bitcoin's Whirlpool. TornadoCash is smarts contract based, and still running today despite the devs being arrested 1 year ago.

If you say joinmarket 1 more time... Joinmarket does not even compare. What we need is an alternative ZeroLink coinjoin implementation that is decentralized from the start.

GM Nostr. I'm in a dark mood this morning.

In the US, we're staring down an presidential election where, on one hand, we have a deranged old man who can't even read a teleprompter and, on the other, a totally spoiled psychopath who thinks he's entitled to whatever he wants. The thing is, the actually agree on 99% of things behind closed doors. Keep the status quo going, keep their friends in power, take more freedom from the people.

In Europe, a union born from the horrors of two great world wars, they've been shockingly quick to forget that oppression and war always comes after you try and control speech, control flows of people and money, and force conformity. You're not "looking after the downtrodden", you're destroying the human spirit.

I never thought it could or would get to this level of state psychosis in my lifetime. I thought maybe the covid shit show might have been a turning point. A gaze into a dark abyss from which we'd recoil and start making the necessary changes. But it's clear that isn't the case. The political class continues to double down on limiting freedom, destroying livelihoods, and crushing dreams.

I really truly hope, for my kids generation, that we manage to unfuck this situation without another world war.

I'm unfortunately getting less and less optimistic about that.

There are already two free relays on Tor:

ws://bitcoinr6de5lkvx4tpwdmzrdfdpla5sya2afwpcabjup2xpi5dulbad.onion

ws://oxtrdevav64z64yb7x6rjg4ntzqjhedm5b5zjqulugknhzr46ny2qbad.onion

The missing link was, at least for us noStrudel users, the client. Now we are able to have a fully private Tor experience - client + relays.