The Casanovas where the names gives to Cold War Russia spies whose job it was to seduce the secretaries of Senior Military Intelligence, marry and have children with them and gather intelligenceā¦ History has all we need, ignore it and it will repeat.
Yesterday, I called on the @BBC to explore Nostr, a platform I consider will become core infrastructure for any free society.
The BBC Media Action kindly invited me to their NY offices to discuss safeguarding the integrity of truth media and its reliable distribution, something I feel strongly about.
I shared with their CEO that truth in reporting rests on two foundations in my view:
1. Did the thing actually happen
2. Is the person reporting it who they say they are, with no modifications (think, Trump deepfakes).
With the rise of AI and deepfakes, protecting both is more urgent than ever. I was glad to see the BBC engaging with these challenges with their C2PA program.
I shared the unique and pivotal role that Nostr plays, a decentralised platform where every message is cryptographically signed, enabling us to know the true identity of the reporter and whether the message has been modified or not.
Here is how Nostr safeguards BBCās integrity in truth reporting:
1. Decentralisation of publishing.
No gatekeeper. Elon can never offboard, shadow ban or pressure the voice of their journalists if his political tastes shifted.
2. Verifiable identity and authenticity
No more Trump deepfakes. This reduces the risk of tampering and increases trust in the source - critical for truth-seeking media. In an AI world we need to know who is who. No platform delivers this as confidently as Nostr.
3. Honest incentives
Funding from the people, not governments. Journalists can be supported directly by readers (micro-tipping, subscriptions, crowdfunded investigations) without reliance on ads or corporate sponsors, which often bias coverage.
Thank you to nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyvhwumn8ghj7um9dejxjapwdehhxenvv9ex2tnrdaksepv2a6 who enlightened me on this, and revitalised my appreciation for it.
This is how our future looks like - Bitcoin is the source of money, and Nostr is the source of truth.
Our democracy and freedoms will thrive to the extent we take the ideas embedded in these two technologies seriously.
https://blossom.primal.net/230419befc943fa46f06a2d83a7386f055a02cc4b4426c24754c5eee2abb6415.mov
Journalism is dead, need a new adjective for a new more enlightened world view where integrity isnāt viewed as an anomaly. All state sponsored media needs to go away, no one cares about bureaucratic spin ( for those who escaped indoctrination anyway)
Dendera lights https://youtu.be/g507G2Ei2To?si=Bhxxck3qIGkVT7-u
#COLDCARD Firmware Release 1.3.4Q & 5.4.4Mk4 šā«
Read the complete release and upgrade here š https://blog.coinkite.com/spending-policy
š Single-Sig Spending Policies & š±2FA!
You can now reconfigure your existing COLDCARD with a policyš, so it will refuse to sign transactions that are too large, too frequent, or sent to an address not on your whitelist
We have also found a way to support **2FA authentication** using the usual phone apps (RFC 6238). If that's enabled, you will not be able to spend using your #COLDCARD unless you also have your phone and provide the correct #GoogleAuthenticator 6-digit numeric code.
Added file rename, Explorer is now offered for transactions of all sizes, NFC improvement, Added @BullBitcoin_, and many other fixes and improvements!
Watch the full video ā¶ļø
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8ymRwrokg
Think twice about recommending google for authentication ( weakest link.. ) April 2023 brought cloud backup where auth codes can be compromised. Google has never had privacy protection foremostā¦
Shit I stopped talking over a decade ago, Australianās are aliens in their values and politics, left wing and trump hating, pro Palestine ( funding Gazza) and Ukraine. Where did the likes of Paul Hogan and Steve Erwin go? Bring back Tony Abbot and his buggy smugglers all is forgiven! Digital ID is a hairs breath from flipping mandatory here and it seems the majority welcome it. Most Alarming.
Australian government closely aligned to China have wet dreams about this scenario. WW3 seems to have already begun with the push for removal of freedom almost everywhere
Too many bot friends to leave.. Nostr feels like Twitter before the bots ( aside from Centralized control of course )
No concern over bitcoin core developments on non-transaction data acceptance? What pushes knots adoption to dominance? Should node runners care?