Dating a man with a flip phone and zero social media has been eye opening.

If i was rich i’d invest heavily in nostr devs

😂

One of the downsides of defending your #privacy is being persecuted by safety and fraud checks within the fiat world.

I find it very difficult to conduct regular purchases from #GrapheneOS simply because modern heuristics depend on being able to violate your privacy in order to ensure so-called "safety".

I was threatened a couple of weeks ago by a guy that said he would make life a living hell for me because I never approved him for one of my rentals.. and every day for the past 10 days I’ve gotten 1 star reviews and it’s brought my ratings from a 4.5 star to under 4

Google seems impossible to reach..and I’ve asked before and they dont do much about it

Not sure what to do…

It's all fucking dev speak here and I'm beginning to hate it.

It's like NOSTR was designed for code speak and that's it.

I have to ask what people are talking about all the time.

It's exhausting. I feel small and left out all the time. I'm a wall flower.

And then there's the purity degens that I can't stand. They will keep me on me on their list but will write me and call me a whore at the same time.

Y'all think this isn't Twitter.

For an adult worker it can be worse.

How does one do it all..

Homeschool .. businesses.. taxes..growth.. proper sleep.. rentals..managing your house..

I have always so much to do but still believe in timeouts..

How does one do it..

I hope I meet a bff farther along than me one day..

soooo, did i miss anything?

I’ll never understand

How do I delete this app

I think an all-of-the-above strategy is important.

The 1990s encryption wars were won by a combination of 1) building things they can’t stop and 2) using their own constitution against them.

The same is true for open source money and privacy. Build privacy tools they can’t stop, and also challenge all major overreach attempts legally.

One day, it would be nice to see a well-capitalized challenge to the Bank Secrecy Act on 4th amendment grounds.

The Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they saw that people need a license to transmit money, or that the government thinks it has the right to surveil and censor everyone’s money and transactions.

The default is privacy. To infringe on someone’s privacy should require probable cause and come with checks and balances. Ubiquitous surveillance shouldn’t be the default, since it enables tyranny.

Many bitcoiners think establishment powers are now in the "and then they join you" phase of the struggle.

I don't. I think they're more entering the earlier "and then they fight you" phase.

Or more specifically, they are happy to join in on the price exposure side (i.e. ETFs), but they are fighting against privacy (especially) and self-custody (to some extent). The struggle for financial privacy, custody, and overall self-autonomy is just heating up.

The gradual shift of critics from "bitcoin is a useless speculative asset with no intrinsic value" to "bitcoin is so powerful that direct usage of it must be curtailed" can be dangerous.

Hard waking up this morning.. I usually am pretty pumped

Canada is falling apart

Will bitcoin holders soon be robbed by Ottawa? Looks like it..

Oh really