With the news that Proton is releasing a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet, fun easter egg, I've been interviewing their CEO and co-founder Andy about Bitcoin for a couple of years. In that entire time, I've asked each time about them accepting Lightning Network (lol) - but it's very fun to see them go from accepting Bitcoin and getting more actively involved in it.
I wrote about how Bangladesh spies on journalists, arrests people for freedom of expression and bans Bitcoin as part of a broader techno-surveillance state focused on control - now that nearly 200 are dead after protests and the Internet is being taken down by centralized authorities to hide videos and photos of the atrocities - we can see the real costs of these authoritarian, power-grabbing technical choices - along with real challenges to freedom money and freedom speech if we assume states are willing to take down the Internet in their borders.
nostr:npub12qxvc5evxqt3rky25mfskywugalx5vnhppfl32cu903cnwpyu0uqkmq8u9 dude man, I just read your article about businesses on a Bitcoin standard (nice!) and then read your Forbes author bio. I was about to make an account just to comment to invite you to nostr, when I read at the end “you can find me on Nostr at loki@verified-nostr.com”
F’ing right on 🤝
Zapped for a great article ⚡️
Reposting it here for other nostriches to read 🤙
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Haha yeah you found me. I've been trying to normalize people posting their Nostrs on their writings
Yeah I wanna figure out what's going on with Japanese Nostr, by far the second-most popular language on here
"The Bangladeshi leader is credited for bringing stable growth to Bangladesh, but rising inflation — thanks in part to the global upheaval sparked by the war in Ukraine — has triggered labor unrest and dissatisfaction with the government."
In Bangladesh, the Internet has been shut down - protestors are being killed and the military has been deployed. It's likely atrocities will continue to escalate.
Yeah, I suspect in this case because Nostr traffic looks like web traffic that it might be private enough. Tor is blocked/banned within China. But you can access a desktop with a VPN or multiple ways. Makes me think there's room to make this a utility.
Yes, I feel like being OPSEC 100% these days is a pager-like setup that gets you physical meets without devices.
A thought that occurs to me - should journalists encourage the use of one-time nsec/npub pairs to be sources through Nostr?
Generally speaking, any way to contact a journalist usually involves email/phone numbers and is an announced channel (meaning intelligence agencies will also be able to find those channels). In China, Signal has had a fake app placed (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/30/malicious-signal-app-planted-on-google-play-by-china-linked-cyber-spies/) to trick people and in the past, I remember that some sources went dark because they had to download Signal to communicate with journalists, and the Great Firewall does pick up if you're trying to download Signal, which can be a crime in of itself.
I want to hear as many downsides to this as possible, especially on the encryption/privacy front.
Perhaps a future guide!
Love that Nick Anthony is on Nostr - he's the one who built nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as's CBDC tracker. https://cbdctracker.hrf.org/home
Great to have him on here.
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This is great to see, nostr:npub12qxvc5evxqt3rky25mfskywugalx5vnhppfl32cu903cnwpyu0uqkmq8u9. I would love to contribute to any future follow-ups you write.
Yeah, for sure!
Also, since Forbes is typically paywalled, I don't have issues with Nostr peeps sharing the archive.is link. https://archive.is/D46ju
Added a bunch to the guide, thanks for highlighting!
Yeah, I actually edited the article to update that more - it's meant for a more general audience that might not know anything about Nostr, but would love to add Other Stuff of Nostr beyond the mentions I have! I did cherrypick some apps. If people send theirs to me, I can add to the article directly, and perhaps incorporate in future guides.
CC: nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m who has been doing a lot of onboarding work on this front - in case helpful!
I wrote a guide on Nostr, trying to refresh people's knowledge of what you can do with Nostr access with the new apps and new people/content to follow. I also linked a tutorial for getting a zapping wallet set up, and NIP-05 as I've seen the most problems with that.
I wrote about the companies getting onto the Bitcoin standard - accepting Bitcoin, and more and more, paying their employees in Bitcoin, and putting their reserves in Bitcoin while spending fiat as an operating flow. Nostr helped me put together more members of this list!
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