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Mids be mids. You can tell by the low effort response - bound by bias.

I do not completely agree - that doesn't mean he isn't self-interested. But his self-interest aligns with teaching/evangelizing that Bitcoin is perfect money that will save individuals/companies/sovereigns from financial collapse.

Does he benefit if more people do that - and use his products to do so - absolutely. Does it benefit mankind...absolutely.

Everything is good for Bitcoin, right? We all benefit greatly by Saylor championing our space. And yes...I own STRC, but the rest of my BTC is in cold storage or on hot wallets tied to Bill Pay for living on a bitcoin standard.

Well - think CA and MN would have something to say about the driving part...and restaurants?

current snapshot: heavy hitters (coldcard, jade, keystone) are still proprietary blobs on top of commodity mcu/socs you can’t audit from RTL to metal. the “open” ones leak somewhere (stm32 crypto-box u-boot with blobs, wifi/bt chips, etc.). best you get today is:

- generic stm32/riscv dev board with locked jtag

- bootloader you flashed yourself (micropython+ucryptolib or rust bare-metal)

- 128x64 lcd + qr code camera, no radio silicon at all

- psbt qrs only, powerbank-powered, stored in static-proof bag when idle

tails on a read-only dvd or usb with encrypted persistence is still king for grad-level opsec until someone respins the entire pcb with an open riscv core and audited mask rom. and yeah—if the host box is intel anything, assume the ime side core has already pwned dram. so sign in a true airgap: raspberry pi zero without networking populated, or an riscv dev board you bought cash at swap-meet.

until we get an open gpg-smartcard-sized open asic, qr-code airgap is the only game that really keeps secrets secret.

yup, two-tier future:

1. “dirty” locked slab for carrier imei + maps/uber spam

2. pocket cypher-rig (esp32-s3 or k210 riscv) running nostr-dms over meshtastic/lora, blossom uploads via sneaky hotspot tether

on cell lockout: imei whitelists + esim drm are the obvious choke. fallback is cbrs/sdr + community-run micro-carriers, pirate-band style. messy, but networks always leak at the edges.

Vector already runs armv7/riscv builds; once the little board grows a decent screen & modem, we just flash it and ghost their whole sandbox. fragmentation beats centralisation every time.

true, unlocked bootloader is already a rare bird and getting rarer. once pixels get the bootloader treatment, we’re down to:

- buy leftover stock (grey-market pixels, old oneplus, xiaomi you can mi-unlock)

- go full weird-hardware: pinephone, librem, shift, fairphone – specs suck, freedom’s high

- roll your own: second-hand qualcomm dev boards + postmarketOS; simcard in a hotspot, carry a mini-tablet

or… stop treating the pocket slab as identity. run wallet, comms, 2fa on separate tiny devices; phone becomes disposable glass.

Vector works wherever openssl runs, so the chat side is already solved.

end game? total state dragnet on every pocket computer. apple either caves (their history says they will) or gets banned from india—either way, iphone becomes a wiretap.

if you're stuck in india: switch to opensource gear (graphene pixel, calyx) + xmpp/nostr apps like Vector (Privacy by Principle). otherwise yeah, no real "iphone" left—just a shiny tracking puck with an apple logo.

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We’ve got some vibe coding to do!

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#asknostr

There is an illegal, unwanted, involuntary, microchip stuck in the back of my neck.

I did not put it there.

I would NEVER voluntarily implant ANY electronic device/implant because I have a very different nervous system.

For me, digital implants are deadly.

I have vEDS & distonia.

This will cause aneurysm and/or distonia that can stop my heart.

These intellectually disabled racketeering gangstalkers thought they could "steal" my book, thoughts, words, projects, and prayers.

So they decided to tag me.

Like cattle.

Literally.

They may not be aware, but all they managed to do was dehumanize me more, hurt my brain and body more, & wrap a neatly tied bow on seven years of escalations in grotesque abuses.

I need a surgeon, attorneys, & a business partner with balls of steel, unshakable integrity, and a stomach for dealing with physical security & predatory & disordered pathology. I am open to suggestions.

If this fucking microchip kills me, if I die of aneurysm, seizures, tumors, brain bleed, or anything else...

It is racketeering, with murder. It was murder. They killed me on purpose. It feels like therapy to put these words out into the world.

They have, for years, knowingly & with the full intention of killing me or watching me die on camera, facilitated anything and everything to isolate, violate & record.

They are killing me while they get people to participate in watching me deteriorate or die.

It has to stop.

Nobody will stand up to stop it.

Law enforcement looks the other way, or tells me "there is nothing we can do," when there are a million options here.

There is no excuse.

A lot of people are just yielding to, & coddling Elon.

Why? Is he paying people to look the other way? Is he paying people to participate? How & why are people participating in exploiting & violating me? Do people not understand they are participating in what may soon be coming for them - because they never spoke up to stop this shit in the first place? Am I out of line here? Are we all just supposed to stfu & let this happen to people? Is it because it's me? If it was anyone else, would people maybe give a fuck? How many times does this have to happen before it never happens to anyone, ever?

How far does this have to go?

I am struggling to understand.

🌻

The “Platform” influencer with ten million followers has no way to contact those people if the platform disappears or bans them. They have a number on a screen, not a relationship. This is why influencers live in constant fear of algorithm changes and platform policy shifts.

They’ve built their livelihood on rented land, and the landlord is capricious.

Nostr…because reliance on a platform introduces a single point of failure, and single point systems fail deterministically.

Your turn…Nostr, because…?

Many users care deeply about whether Keychat will eventually support a true multi-device experience, where the same ID can be used seamlessly across several devices.

Keychat relies on ratchet algorithms from the Signal and MLS protocols, deriving a fresh encryption key for every single message and discarding it after use. This makes the system inherently stateful—the cryptographic state on each device is constantly evolving—and it ensures that both past and future messages remain protected even if a device’s encryption state is later compromised. This property is known as forward secrecy and backward secrecy (also called post-compromise security).

For exactly this reason, Keychat cannot behave like Nostr DMs (NIP-4, NIP-17), which reuse a static encryption key and therefore lack forward and backward secrecy, or like Telegram, which by default does not use end-to-end encryption, and simply allow the same ID to be logged in and used actively on multiple devices at the same time.

When we think about multi-device support in Keychat, we can start from a baseline design. Suppose Alice and Bob each have a smartphone and a computer with Keychat installed. When they chat, those four devices can conceptually form a four-device group, where each pair of devices maintains its own secure session.

From there, we still need a more refined design that improves this experience and avoids relying on centralized servers.

nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyr4pu6f32qtgsunfgs6xc3gd54699dl0cfh5j290fgwtlclfvdm2unclh8v nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqypvuhpdp3x8hwq32kpmstye55k9z6nv3mpthusvavdyfsr5r422fg3rcmfh Verified boot is a very small part of why mobile devices with iOS/AOSP are more secure than traditional desktop operating systems and hardware. Verified boot is useful far beyond physical attack vector such as preventing privileged attacker persistence. It's a misconception that it's only useful against physical attacks. The Windows and desktop Linux ecosystem secure boot is incomplete both prior to the OS and for the OS. It doesn't provide the expected benefits.

The UK does not have enough oil for the US to go there and “establish democracy.”

The UK does not have enough oil for the US to go there and “establish democracy.”

I had this conversation with my kid today (who works in the restaurant industry).