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Stallion 2y ago

Do I have here anybody who has been in El Salvador 🇸🇻? Can you share your experience?

Hay alguien que haya estado en El Salvador 🇸🇻? Puede compartir su experiencia?

I am thinking to make a trip and stay for some time there and check on things.

Estoy pensando en hacer un viaje y quedarme algún tiempo y comprobar las cosas con mis propios ojos.

#elsalvador #bitcoin

Replying to

Anton Isidore

You cannot validate that code that's on GitHub is also run on their servers.

Stallion 2y ago

I wouldn’t trust that for anything important. But for 90% of cases it should be sufficient. And this service saves tons of time… I am happy with it.

Stallion 2y ago

GM, just a reminder!

Don’t half ass the security setup of your BTC.

Do:

- don’t use sw wallets for bigger amount, NO Exchanges to store 🌽 !

- HW wallet yes, don’t invent own “better” complicated measures. Use standard recommendation - shamir, passphrase, multisig. Keep it simple and durable. Don’t half ass it.

- earn or get 🧀 P2P (cash).

-KYC is not good, will bite you in the ass.

- for spending have separately smaller amount in your sw wallet (on-chain, off-chain)

- use Tor

- use own node (verify)

Simple - don’t half ass it!

#bitcoin

Replying to

Mark Harvey

Ethereum is the mother asshole from which shitcoins are sprung

Stallion 2y ago

Always has been.

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BTCapsule 🏴

Remember when you had to use the nos2x extension and visit 20 clients to edit different parts of your profile?

Stallion 2y ago

😁 yeah. While executing couple of new notes that re-written previous ones.

Replying to

Anton Isidore

11) depends on your thread model.

Simple login can be quite honeypot. Thay can cluster you.

Stallion 2y ago

- simplelogin is opensource

- with strong password and 2FA it seems ok for most cases.

Replying to

Anton Isidore

10) It's tricky. It's a social engineering problem I think and if you want to travel with family it gets even more complicated.

Not sure about some lest tyrannical countries but I think most hotels will require ID or Passport. Maybe if you can have some fake Uganda ID, that can work.

But then, they will report you to the police. If police thinks it's suspicious they can come and then the hide-and-seek game is over, they won.

Stallion 2y ago

Depends what is your threat model. I can tell you it is doable and you can protect your privacy.

Replying to

Anton Isidore

8) I think I have banana phone mentioned there. Will it serve as hotspot for my modern device? Will it be up to speed?

I need anonymous phone but also encrypted communication and luxury of modern huge phone.

Stallion 2y ago

Ok, in that case you need to get anon sim and buy anon phone (new or used) with cash or crypto. Delivered to pick-up place.

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Anton Isidore

5) Here it's about scaling what I already have.

I have Trezor, backuped with great care and not-small investment (Shamir, stamped on stainless steel, very carefully distributed to match my threat model)

It is ideal device to use as the universal key.

I can do some other solution, I can buy Ubikey or something. But it just adds complexity and cost to achieve what I already have with Trezor.

Trezor is perfect match for this usecase.

Stallion 2y ago

Agree! Trezor ia great, especially shamir secret sharing in combination with passphrase

Replying to

Anton Isidore

3) Appflowy is on my list, but last time when I tried it was not working and crashing. I thinks its still under heavy development, but true it's promising.

Stallion 2y ago

Its working for me, just still clunky.

Replying to

Anton Isidore

2) If I loose the phone, can I recover my Signal account by using different number? I expect no. Then I loose that account and I have to create new one.

This is usable for some use cases, but not for those when I need identity and build network & reputation.

Stallion 2y ago

Not sure, but i guess you are right. High probaboyiu need to have the number to recover.

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Dennis Parker

Inflation is Theft

Stallion 2y ago

and taxation is theft too.

Replying to

pam

Oh wow, 64% of remote workers get paid in crypto, and out of that 64% in Bitcoin (~total 41%). Bitwage payment platform has an increase of 250%. Interesting too that 25% prefers USDC. But good to know that only 7% are for eth.

Would have loved for Bitcoin to be 100% but what a remarkable start and stats!

Stallion 2y ago

For example in Argentina it is totally understandable. you dont want to have savings in Argentinian peso with their inflation.

USD cash is playing a big part in Argentina economy.

Even with BTC volatility it is much safer bet even for "normies". And probably those who are more conservative choose USD pegged token. There are other risk factors but that is another discussion...

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Anton Isidore

Virtual Credit cards (prepaid) never actually worked for me. Many vendors simply reject them.

I always ended up with $25 sucked at some prepaid card that did not bought me what I wanting. Then I had to figure out how to spend it.

Once I tried to dump it on some charity and the payment processor rejected that.

I wrote a short note about it here:

https://github.com/anton-isidore/articles/blob/main/articles/big-sadnesses-in-my-life/big-sadnesses-in-my-life.md#sadness-9-there-are-no-reliable-nokyc-credit-cards-providers

Stallion 2y ago

Some thoughts on your list from my side:

2) Signal - can be registered to anon sim a later you don't have to use it, it's just first reg. I think they use twillio. It is workable.

Another option is Sessions app. No number required. Only downside is network effect.

3)There's AppFlowy. You can run it locally. Problem is that UI is not good.

5) Passwords: What about to use something like open source password manager + TOTP 2FA on second device? You don't rely only on Master password.

7) Number: Try keepgo.com or silent.link . Hushed is ok, but sometimes it might not work. Those sms4sats work pretty good for sms verifications.

8) Phone: Banana phone with wallace toolbox can change IMEI and with anon SIM it is a solution.

9) That is true, works for some time and than it discontinued. Unfortunately that is the truth.

10) Paying cash and smaller accommodation solve this problem. Or to have another ID card. (more various residencies)

11) That is pain and cancer, agree. But simplelogin is solving it.

Replying to

Anton Isidore

Virtual Credit cards (prepaid) never actually worked for me. Many vendors simply reject them.

I always ended up with $25 sucked at some prepaid card that did not bought me what I wanting. Then I had to figure out how to spend it.

Once I tried to dump it on some charity and the payment processor rejected that.

I wrote a short note about it here:

https://github.com/anton-isidore/articles/blob/main/articles/big-sadnesses-in-my-life/big-sadnesses-in-my-life.md#sadness-9-there-are-no-reliable-nokyc-credit-cards-providers

Stallion 2y ago

great list. You are solving same issues like me. I will drop some comments on your list here later on. We got similar conclusions. I will share some data i have experience with on each point. 👍🏽

Stallion 2y ago

LATAM employees choosing to be paid in crypto.

Especially in Argentina it makes all the sense with their 97% inflation y/y

64% choose BTC

25% wants USD pegged token

The rest probably other shitcoins (7% ETH....)

https://cryptonews.com/news/increase-number-of-latam-workers-choosing-get-paid-crypto.htm

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Anton Isidore

In reality I had to turn over a quite a lot of cash.

Instead lliving on Bitcoin I would call it - living without bank account and credit card.

But it was not entirely true either in my case. I always have them as backup, and sad to say, they saved my ass couple of times (abroad).

I would say if you want to live on Bitcoin locally, you find your dealers for p2p and you know shops around that accepts Bitcoin (or better you orange pill them) then it works.

To travel on Bitcoin, that's completely different story and I think it's possible but unreasonably expensive.

Services that sells flights and acomodation for Bitcoin have really hight premium.

Stallion 2y ago

I agree that many services don't offer bitcoin payments. It is doable but it requires more time and energy from our side. For example it is possible to charge virtual credit card with BTC, the service will convert it in FIAT and pay with FIAT. But I agree it is not one click purchase.

Stallion 2y ago

Wyoming protects citizens against disclosing their private keys.

"No person shall be compelled to produce a private key or make a private key known to any other person in any civil, criminal, administrative, legislative or other proceeding in this state"

https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2023/HB0086

Stallion 2y ago

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Replying to

Anton Isidore

How do you define it? I used to, if you count p2p vexing for cash.

Also buying flight tickets and hotels abroad is hard (or expensive) with cash/bitcoin.

Stallion 2y ago

Yes i count p2p into that. I agree it is still challenging in some cases but doable.