Hmm! What do you guys think? 4 Th/s sounds like a good deal for that price

Some people say it's Amethyst. Others are wrong ;)

Did an in person interview in Vancouver about nostr!

OpenSats is like: Remember the "Other Stuff"? Yeah... we are on it.

LEAK: The Foundation Secret Master Plan 👀

We believe technology is progressing in the wrong direction. Rather than offering freedom, technology is used to surveil and control.

It’s time to help usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity with freedom tech.

🧵👇

There was a time when Apple shipped the schematics alongside the computer, a time when they encouraged us to “think different.”

There was a time when Google lived by the guiding principle of “don’t be evil.”

No longer.

Cryptocurrency companies like Ledger are collecting your data, Google wants to know everything about you, and your TV monitors what you watch and sells it all to the highest bidder.

Even our cars are black boxes that spy on us and give ultimate control to the manufacturer.

Technological progress in the physical world has slowed. An overwhelming majority of hardware and manufacturing innovations are closed source and proprietary.

Open source software propelled us to the Internet, to Bitcoin – but open source hardware is a rarity.

At Foundation we believe that technology can be used as a tool to empower the individual with freedom, with sovereignty, with privacy.

We believe that building superior open source hardware and software is the key to unlocking an era of prosperity and permissionless innovation.

As in Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, we’ve asked ourselves – what can we do to help navigate this period of chaos and usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity?

This brought us to our beginning. To Bitcoin.

It all started with Bitcoin. It is our strong belief that a transition to Bitcoin as the global monetary standard will re-align society and fix our most important problems.

In short, we believe that “Bitcoin fixes this!” So this is where we’ve chosen to begin our journey.

Foundation believes that Bitcoin itself is at a crossroads.

On one side are ETFs, exchanges, custodians, intense and crushing regulations. On the other is custody, decentralization, permissionless innovation, financial privacy, and even an end to central banking as we know it.

This is why our first product was Passport, the best-in-class Bitcoin hardware wallet.

The most fundamental aspect of Bitcoin is to hold your own keys, to control your own money and your own destiny. Passport makes that possible for more people than ever before.

But Bitcoin needs more than “just” approachable self-custody tools, so during the 2024-2028 epoch, Foundation will build a cohesive ecosystem of Bitcoin devices, tied together by our Envoy mobile app.

But we aren’t stopping at Bitcoin.

As the world achieves global Bitcoin adoption during the 2028-2032 epoch, Foundation will broaden our approach and focus on expanding our freedom tech ecosystem to more platforms.

Smartphones and computers running a next-gen, ultra-secure, privacy-preserving operating system.

Self-hosted smart home products with integrated AI.

Maybe even a car 🚗

Our master plan is straight-forward:

1. 2020-2024: Build a hardware wallet and mobile app.

2. 2024-2028: Use that money to build an ecosystem of Bitcoin devices.

3. 2028-2032: Use that money to build a freedom-tech computing ecosystem.

While doing all of the above, release everything as fully open source, vertically integrate manufacturing, and – most importantly – continue to hold true to our principles.

P.S. - Don’t tell anyone.

All the shitcoins are all excited about ancient methods of zero knowledge proofs because that sounds hot for marketing but they seem to be oblivious to the success of much newer technology of state channels.

Rollups are really just on chain state anchors, so there's zero interesting there.

Chaumian mints are old hat, I wish bitcoiners would stop hyping them because they are what Bitcoin was invented to replace.

State channels are the new thing, second newest thing is the nakamoto consensus.

I don't like Blockstream's Liquid nor do I like their "contribution" towards altcoin pegs on LN. They have just muddled up things and make it look like bitcoiners are stupid, in the same way as shitcoiners are stupid - hypnotised by old but fancy words invented by very old cryptographers such as David Chaum. Not to say the dude didn't pioneer stuff, he's just not done much since then, it's pretty rare for anyone to make more than a few inventions in their life of substance.

gm, it's time to ask more questions ☀️

BREAKING: OPENSATS TO PROVIDE LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR WILL CLARK. A CHAINCODE ALUMNUS AND BTRUST (FORMERLY QALA) MENTOR WHO HAS BEEN CONTRIBUTING TO BITCOIN CORE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. BRINGS TOTAL DEVELOPERS SUPPORTED BY OPENSATS LONG TERM SUPPORT PROGRAM TO EIGHT. 🫡

New Episode Alert! I had the pleasure of talking to filmmaker Jessica Solce about her latest film, 'Death Athletic.' 🎥