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Looking to switch away from Umbrel. It’s fine for node running, but doesn’t allow HTTPS and can’t use it with VPN. If I’m going to run a lighting wallet, then I need more privacy. Anyone have OS recommendations for Raspberry Pi?

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Actual footage of IRS gang members collecting magic internet money. The IRS gang tax pays for the privilege of living in a “free” country. And for protection from the IRS gang.

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Happy New Year to all.

2024 has been a good year as far as Bitcoin price is concerned, but a bad year in terms of regulations.

The Travel Rule has come into operation, all 39 FATF member countries (including major ones such as the United States, Canada, Japan and most of Europe) are obliged to implement the Travel Rule in their local legislation.

For those who do not know, the Travel Rule requires the identification of beneficiaries and recipients of transactions over $1000 USD or equivalent.

On the other hand we have the European MiCA legislation that obliges cryptoasset service providers to give a lot of information about their clients to the corresponding tax collection offices.

It is more important than ever that you unsubscribe from all KYC services and start using decentralized and uncensorable services like Robosats or Bisq.

It is also important to create local communities that accept Bitcoin as payment for their services.

The regulators are winning the battle and the circle is closing, don't give me that nonsense about Bitcoin being uncensurable blah blah blah blah, they are making it 100% KYC and if you don't know how to get out of that vicious circle you are just another tax paying moron.

Look at the order book of Bisq or Robosats and you will understand why we are losing the battle, but you can remedy it, these platforms are safe and the more we are the lower the premium and above all accept payment in Bitcoin, avoid having to negotiate for Fiat.

Happy 2025 and take courage to life.

Also, bring your Opendimes to local meetups! Just need 3 or more people with equal amount of sats on their usb sticks and everyone passes it to the person on their left. 🤌🏽

I’m with you brother. I guess you don’t live in California/Little North Korea. No 2A out here. Trump if you’re reading this, please hang newscum!

The IRS is incentivizing people to sell their Bitcoin so that they will need to rebuy under stricter KYC requirements. Do not.

“Never sell your Bitcoin.”

- Donald J. Trump

You just need to download the Bitcoin software at www.bitcoincore.org. It’s a large file almost 1TB. Once you download it the Bitcoin ghosts will pretty much come alive and start verifying transactions for everyone on the network all on their own. That’s all there is to node running.

If you don’t have at least 1TB of memory available, then you won’t be able to run a full node (meaning the entire Bitcoin Blockchain), but you can still run a pruned node which only stores the most recent 300GB worth of Bitcoin transactions.

The part where it gets interesting is that people don’t want to leave their laptops or some energy-intensive desktop computer running 24/7 so they opt to buy a miniature single-board computer like a Raspberry Pi or something similar. Lots of choices here. These you can leave running 24/7 with minimal power usage. There are some great operating systems designed for this like Umbrel or any of the other hundreds of free Linux distributions that offer their own App Store with a bunch of cool applications that you can interact with from your mobile device.

People like to refer to these little single board computers as nodes.

Anyone have experience with this decentralized cell phone service?

https://hellohelium.com/