"#Bitcoin has to the potential to undermine the US dollar as reserve currency" - printer ink isn't a reserve Mam.

We're excited to share what we've been working on - the TrueVote app in action!

TrueVote is not just an app; it's a commitment to transparency. Built on Bitcoin, Opentimestamps, and Nostr, our open-source platform ensures tamper-proof ballot data. No smoke and mirrors, just verifiable election integrity of every ballot, every vote.

TrueVote solves two fundamental problems in elections:

1. Ballot verification: With TrueVote, you can verify your vote was counted, eliminating the uncertainty that plagues traditional voting methods.

2. Convenience: TrueVote brings voting to your fingertips, eliminating the inconvenience of polling places and mail-in ballots. Voting should be as convenient as the rest of our digital lives.

We believe in openness, which is why our tech stack is entirely open-source. Transparency isn't just a feature; it's a virtue. We're empowering voters with unprecedented visibility into the voting process.

Ballot data is validated using Opentimestamps hashing on Bitcoin. No "token" needed. No "new crypto coin" needed. Bitcoin and Bitcoin only.

And now, TrueVote uses Nostr, an innovative decentralized and open-source communications protocol, for secure authentication.

Technology (bitcoin) has made it possible to separate money and state, and it is time to decouple the state from the election process to ensure election integrity.

It's time we vote on our phones!

#TrueVote #ElectionIntegrity #ElectionTransparency

I am reading this cover to back to figure out how to make 'custom resources' in k8s. Mainly, making my own controllers and being able to automatically act upon updates. For instance, imagine if you could deploy a #strfry relay as a DaemonSet and then equip several DVMs with their own private/public keys injected through either the env or filesystem. When the DVMs load, they auto-connect to the node-local #strfry instance, which in return sncs upstream to a bunch of relays (and back, with a shortened retention) to allow DVMs to focus on functions and processing events rather than faffing around with things like handling connections to other relays and stuff; just leave that to the central local relay and use it as an ingress and egress. And, I would love to have this stuff for eepsites too ;) Would be neat to bring up a webapp, attach an OnionService and an I2PService and a regular Service to handle exposing the same app to all three networks without having to worry about the configuration behind it.

Yep... I certainly dream a lot.

Anyone up for the challenge of updating this site to integrate more #nostr and other stuff?

GM Monday ☀️☕️ What are you building this week?

NoGood Radio is 24/7 radio station running on bitcoin, V4V & NOSTR integrated and broadcasting from a basement somewhere. Playing lofi, synthwave and electronica to help you focus / work / study 🎧 For builders in #bitcoin & #nostr ⚡️

Pro/Con of Search Engines

Brave Search

Type: Engine

Pro: Good independent results that aren’t dependent on Google or Microsoft. Brave also has less of an authoritative pro-centralized power bias than “Bigger Tech”

Con: With Tor browser, Brave has issues with Web Assembly and requires JavaScript

Solutions: Brave’s Tor Onion Service actually doesn’t need JavaScript, you can find that here:

search.brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion

Mojeek.com

Type: Engine

Pro: No JavaScript is required with this completely independent engine. Mojeek gives unique results.

Con: It’s not as good at doing conceptual searches on educational topics.

Solutions: Use Mojeek when you know what you want

Duckduckgo

Type: Front end

Pro: Tor browser’s default search engine, so using it with Tor makes you blend in.

Con: Microsoft datacenters and it pulls results from Bing, which pushes pro-government propaganda. Also when I click a search result, the browser extension uBlock Origin shows me the new website is making 3rd party JavaScript calls to “improving.duckduckgo” which doesn’t seem like such a privacy friendly thing going on.

Opinion: The image download is smooth, maybe only use it for that

SearXNG

Type: Software

Pro: Self-hosted open source search that pulls results from Brave, Duckduckgo, Qwant, Google, ect. This way you know it’s not browser fingerprinting you or logging.

Con: Many of these search engines will block SearX instances

Solutions: One great work-around is to use farside.link. This service will automatically serve you up a SearXNG instance when using the URL: farside.link/searxng

Set that to your homepage and you’re set

LibreX

Type: Software

Pro: LibreX is a great No-JavaScript Tor-friendly torrent searcher, so you can get magnet links without ads across a few different torrent sites. It’s similar to SearXNG as it’s self hosted, and also has a front end for Google, but is often less blocked than SearXNG.

Con: It’s not as popular as SearXNG, so the selection on farside is slimmer. Auto-serve Link: farside.link/librex

Qwant

Type: Front-end

Pro: They are in France and supposedly bound by GDPR

Con: Another Bing Front end that’s less honest about being a Bing front end, with annoying captchas for Tor. Qwant also for years sent data to Microsoft Ads. Source: