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Joe Milliken
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Living life and doing work.

I don’t follow any paid relays, but I have taken the position of “follow all the relays”, I look at profiles and add all of the interesting users relays.

See my other post stating I think 1sat is all it takes as an entrance fee to produce a spam free relay. I might do this just to test…

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Shout out to #photomosh for bringing my profile pic into year 2069

https://photomosh.com/

Haha hardly, I fully agree with you, we need to support the other providers, and continue to grow.

In that spirit, is it the same as a repost or what? Am I not normally posting to all of my relays? Thanks!!

#repost are desperately under utilized at present.

Help me out #damus people, what does the broadcast button in the long press on note context menu do?

😢 time of move on from #WoS??? Naa, I'll givem till the #damus update to get it straightened out. then I'll jump ship if they are still having problems.

#Noster is making me finally learn how to internet again. Testing my personal media upload. It’s super dirty and the process is gross until I find, and learn how to use, the tools to automate it…. But damn it, I own it.

In the trail upload I’m working on installing some French Cleats in my garage, without a table saw.

http://technicallyagile.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/img_3523.mp4

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Should have said Join all the unpaid relays.

Hello followers and otherwise, I’m not on any #paid #relays, let me know if you are paying or not in the comments. No polling built in yet, so:

👍 paying

👎 not paying

I’ve been weighing this in my mind all day, I’ve come to conclude they don’t matter, and that this is not new. Let’s consider legacy fiat money. There are rare mint runs, coins with deformations, and currency produced in specific buildings, all of which causes people who care about such things to value them beyond their defined value. A penny with 100 bucks.

In the end, if someone likes it, let them pay for it, I don’t care about their collectibles anymore than I do your Pokémon cards. No impact on fungibility. Lebron James could sign a 1$ bill but not impact the value of all 1$bills.

💯⚡️it was a big day tho, so bed time was not a chore, still have a sat!

Absolutely true, especially in the world of corporate engineering. The worst of the worst, in my humble opinion, are the #sixsigma #blackbelts.

Also, I would like to clarify what I consider prominent display as large, colorful, images in the email signature. No #Gary I don’t need to be reminded of your “Scrum Master MasterClass” every time you show up in my inbox.

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KYC Bitcoin: Individuals are on Lists

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What is KYC/AML?

• The acronym stands for Know Your Customer / Anti Money Laundering.

• In practice it stands for the surveillance measures companies are often compelled to take against their customers by financial regulators.

• Methods differ but often include: Passport Scans, Driver License Uploads, Social Security Numbers, Home Address, Phone Number, Face Scans.

• Bitcoin companies will also store all withdrawal and deposit addresses which can then be used to track bitcoin transactions on the bitcoin block chain.

• This data is then stored and shared. Regulations often require companies to hold this information for a set number of years but in practice users should assume this data will be held indefinitely. Data is often stored insecurely, which results in frequent hacks and leaks.

• KYC/AML data collection puts all honest users at risk of theft, extortion, and persecution while being ineffective at stopping crime. Criminals often use counterfeit, bought, or stolen credentials to get around the requirements. Criminals can buy "verified" accounts for as little as $200.

During the early days of bitcoin most services did not require this sensitive user data, but as adoption increased so did the surveillance measures. At this point, most large bitcoin companies are collecting and storing massive lists of bitcoiners, our sensitive personal information, and our transaction history.

Lists of Bitcoiners

KYC/AML policies are a direct attack on bitcoiners. Lists of bitcoiners and our transaction history will inevitably be used against us.

Once you are on a list with your bitcoin transaction history that record will always exist. Generally speaking, tracking bitcoin is based on probability analysis of ownership change. Surveillance firms use various heuristics to determine if you are sending bitcoin to yourself or if ownership is actually changing hands.  You can obtain better privacy going forward by using collaborative transactions such as coinjoin to break this probability analysis.

Fortunately, you can buy bitcoin without providing intimate personal information. Tools such as peach, hodlhodl, robosats, and bisq help; mining is also a solid option: anyone can plug a miner into power and internet and earn bitcoin by mining privately.

You can also earn bitcoin by providing goods and/or services that can be purchased with bitcoin. Long term, circular economies will mitigate this threat: most people will not buy bitcoin - they will earn bitcoin - most people will not sell bitcoin - they will spend bitcoin.

There is no such thing as KYC or No KYC bitcoin, there are bitcoiners on lists and those that are not on lists. 🤙

https://www.discreetlog.com/kyc/

Huge, I never even heard of that hack till now, how many times have I given my information to companies like that just waiting for a hack…

This is why in app browsing is dumb, the link went to my default (#Firefox) and I’m continuing to jam while browsing #nostr