I like Fluent Reader on Linux, personally, but there’s a lot of options!

Updated!

Ah, had forgotten about that!

Will update, thanks.

I have made a start on what I think is an excellent set of RSS feeds and will keep them up to date here as I add more:

https://sethforprivacy.com/about/#my-favorite-rss-feeds

Have some good feeds I missed? Drop them below and I’ll add those I like!

Huh? Already have many, including the e-CNY in China.

Slowly but surely 😎

Still unbelievable how clearly the original cypherpunks saw into the future, even around money.

Here’s David Chaum talking about the crossroads between private digital cash and CBDC-esque alternatives:

Damn, should have known you'd be on Nostr 👀

Could you get any more based?!?

🔥

1. They have to cooperate with governments, they're a public company. The key thing is their claims of E2EE have held up in all court cases so far, and the most they can ever provide are access logs and IPs.

2. Yes, I've had private conversations with them about this and sadly have not seen any motivation on their part to accept Monero yet. But they also have very poor/simple Bitcoin support so it's just not a priority for them, sadly. I would be hesitant to attribute it to ulterior motives.

Yes, awareness of that has pushed me to use Zeus Alpha once I test it more, and I need to test Mutiny more as well!

Will add that and split testing between Zeus and Mutiny. Thanks for the strong reminders 🙂

Really excited for this, and would love to see more company FOSS projects giving back to testers using the power of Bitcoin's P2P nature.

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All good, finally getting back into things!

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Finally getting back at it!

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Phew, it's been a while since I've been active here but I'm slowly getting back in the saddle!

Welcomed our second For Privacy child into the world recently and things have been joyfully turned upside down as a result 😁

Quick thread of random updates 🧵

I... spent all my Monero 😅

Didn't expect it to happen so soon, but between onboarding locals to Monero, donating to FOSS projects, funding CCS proposals, and using Cake Pay and CoinCards it went quickly.

Thankfully the options for restocking are getting better by the day!

Shoutout to LocalMonero and Trocador for being amazing tools for onboarding people (and myself) to Monero directly.

I shut down my public Lightning node 🥲

After months of frustration dealing with downed channels and failed payments, I finally gave up on running my own 24/7 node (for now).

I'll circle back eventually, but for now have migrated to using PhoenixWallet w/ splicing via Tor.

I'm also testing out nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 new LSP and in-wallet node, and will hopefully be using it full time moving forward:

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My hot take for Lightning moving forward is that only LSP models will be viable for 99.9% of people, and we need to figure out good ways to do the LSP model without sacrificing transactional privacy.

I got invited (again, surprisingly!) to speak at this years Hacker's Congress at Paralelni Polis in Prague!

While my presentation isn't ironed out, my aim is to speak on the options for scaling Bitcoin outside of Lighting, i.e. drivechains, trustless zk-rollups, covenants.

I discovered an amazing FOSS weather app, Breezy Weather 🌧️

https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather

I've been living entirely without a weather app as I couldn't find any good options, but love that this is FOSS and has strong pro-privacy weather providers and options.

I've started using Obtanium to install/update almost all of my Android apps 🔽

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

Obtainium is an absolutely fantastic app that lets you add app sources from all over (Github, F-Droid, websites, you name it) and track updates and install them.

I tried out Proton Pass 🔐

While I think I'll stick with Bitwarden for now as I'm pretty firmly entrenched and like to keep all my eggs out of a single basket, I'm really impressed with the UI and UX of Proton Pass, especially it's integration with email aliasing.

I started using Proton for all of my hosted service emails ✉️

While it's only available for Visionary/Business accounts, having a reliable and privacy-preserving way to send outbound emails from services like Nextcloud is a huge step forward:

https://proton.me/support/smtp-submission

I discovered an amazing Photoprism Android app, 100% FOSS 🖼️

https://github.com/Radiokot/photoprism-android-client

I've long-since switched my wife and I off of Google Photos and to self-hosted Nextcloud + Photoprism, but haven't had a proper Android client (which my wife hated!)

Finally that changed.

Photoprism Gallery is fantastic, loads quickly, and provides great, simple options.

With two kids it's really important to me to have strong backups *without sacrificing privacy* for family photos and videos, and now I can also easily browse those on the go.

Want to know what's even cooler? The author, Oleg, loves Bitcoin + Monero and accepts both for donations, including via Lightning!

https://radiokot.com.ua/tip

Please please please take a moment and send the devs of FOSS projects you love some sats or piconeros whenever possible.

Donate to what you love 🧡

I *think* that sums up the bigger changes while I've been mostly AFK.

What did I miss out there while I was gone? Anything huge in the Bitcoin, Monero, or Privacy spaces that you think I'd like to catch up on?

Love it, sounds like a solid setup overall!

And no need at all to switch seed lengths, that was never the goal of the article.

If you've got a solid setup with 24 you're set, more for new entrants and defaults to use 12 words 🙂

I generally wouldn't recommend seed splitting schemes as they're very easy to brute force in most common configurations.

Finding the remaining 8 words of your seed wouldn't be very difficult at all (remember difficulty goes up exponentially per additional seed word).

Splitting into 12 word shards would at least be resistant to brute forcing but has other issues. Could do 12 word seed + passphrase, perhaps? Or an encrypted microSD backup?

This article was a passion project of mine as it's something I've long wanted to answer, and surprisingly seems to have no one-stop resource out there.

Let's make 12 word seed phrases the standard across the Bitcoin ecosystem!

Would love to hear y'all's thoughts on this one as it's a pretty divisive topic sometimes, but hopefully this can put things to rest and help simplify people's Bitcoin journey a bit by reducing the size of the secret they have to store.

Steel stampers everywhere will be happy 😅

A huge shoutout to my friend Luke Parker, a brilliant developer and cryptographer, for providing amazing cryptography feedback for me throughout.

Couldn't have done it nearly as well without him, and he always keeps me humble and makes me want to keep learning!

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Thanks for sharing!

We'd shut down Foundation if it came to that, not worth the profit to compromise on morals.