I’ll be speaking at several Bitcoin conferences this year attempting to explain my book Cryptosovereignty and how that fits into my larger metaphysical approach to bitcoin.

What topics would you like me to dive deeper into, or you think could provide value in a way that is unique and different from most other presentations you see?

If you had the chance to create your perfect newsletter around Bitcoin, privacy, and self-sovereignty:

1) What would you be sure to include?

2) What would you definitely avoid?

3) What would you do differently than other newsletters?

Nice, we are at the point where discussion always ends, with Monero heads making up stuff.

No, range proofs insure you not against an inflation bug.

And a layer 2 in this case is the opposite of compromise. You don’t compromise the main layer, thus using a layer 2.

And no, the supply is not twindling. Lost coins are dormant, this doesn’t hurt monetary function at all. It would only be the case if coins were actively taken out of wallets or added in.

Thinking about degoogleing my pixel with grapheneOS.

Anyone done this? What are the drawbacks?

Why do some #Bisq accounts not require signing although the were created a few days ago?

I stacked my sats this morning and yesterday helped a friend to buy non-kyc btc from an atm. This wasn’t easy! Took 3 atms to find one that didn’t require kyc ($900 limit), had to get a different wallet (Muun) because it wouldn’t work with WoS, and the premium was high ($31,300). She was thrilled to do it though and I helped her transfer it into cold storage. PV!!

Elon open-sourced the Twitter algo.

Crypto open-sourced money and finance.

Wikipedia and YouTube open-sourced learning.

Wait until we open-source government! 🤯

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government under which he lives."

Henry Louis Mencken

Then we’ll go with dVPN… 😜

Ever heard of VPN?

The lack of interest from Bitcoin Core developers in privacy has always bothered me or why no efforts are made to implement Mimblewimble.

IMHO it's deeply worrying to see the glorification of censor-resistant technologies, while privacy (anonymity) is an afterthought at best.

BTC, lightning network and Nostr are all very dangerous to use. It's hard to not shoot yourself in the foot w.r.t. privacy.

What's censorship resistance if you still need to obey the rules? You'll be identified and brought to 'justice'.

Memes will get you 10 years in jail. With the RESTRICT act, using VPN or Nostr will. Better step up your game.

This is said to be the last photo of Julian Assange, one of the original Cypherpunks, a person of integrity and a person I have always admired.

Maybe some of you only know Julian from Wikileaks, but he was a computer genius, a true Cypherpunk. He was co-author of Rubberhorse, the precursor of TrueCrypt, developer of FreeBSD and PostgreSQL, he also wrote one of the first port scanners, Strobe, if not the first, and hacked the MILNET network (secret data network used by the US military), among many other things, surely one of the best hackers in history.

Why do you think he founded Wikileaks? Because he knew all the miseries of governments.

Julian has given his life for freedom, truth and justice, he does not deserve to end up like this.

What can we do? I don't know, but it seems that without violence nothing is achieved.

#FreeJulianAssange

Nostr privacy

If you use forwarder/aggregator relays like blastr or filter.nostr.wine you will avoid showing your ip to the relays, since it will be the ip of the forwarders that will be shown in the relays.

Note that I only use forwarders, relay.nostrich.land is also a forwarder although in this case it is also a conventional relay so my ip will be reflected in the notes stored in relay.nostrich.land.

I explain my relays:

nostr.mutinywallet.com (Writing in several relays, does not save ip)

relay.nostrich.land (Write to multiple relays)

filter.nostr.wine (Writes to multiple relays, does not save ip/Reading to multiple relays)

relay.nostr.band (Reading multiple relays)

universe.nostrich.land (Reading multiple relays)

I mean a single UTXO sent from one address to another. Just wondering if they can be used in any way to infer something about the person transacting (even if just as a very subtle fingerprint that can connect transactions or addresses).