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Well dang. So much for simplex. Thought you could run your own relay? Nostr still the best hope for free speech.

That's very interesting. Would YouTube be trying to enter the adblock business? If you can't stop them, join them type of approach? Take one adblock being promoted, go on their site and try and see who owns/operates it. That can also usually be seen in the user agreement as you surely know.

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IMF and El Salvador

During all these years of self-education and search for the truth, which by the way led me to Bitcoin, one of the things I learned is that the IMF is the monetary instrument used by the US to subjugate countries and take away their national sovereignty.

The most significant case of our time was Japan, many do not know the history, and as it is somewhat long and complex I refer you to the great documentary “Princes of the Yen”.

If there is one thing that “Bitcoiners” are guilty of, it is naivety. Bukele has made a pact with the devil, Bukele is not as good as you think, he is just a politician, if he had really been smart and had thought about his people, rather than asking for a loan to the IMF he would have opted for the old tactic of save and do not spend what you do not have.

Oh yes, now he has bought 10 more bitcoins, as if he spends the 1400 million in Bitcoin, so far the IMF has already had its way with Bitcoin.

I repeat, if there is one thing Bitcoiners are guilty of, it is being very naive. There is no good politician, you understand? Neither Trump, nor Milei nor Bukele, they are all shit, and Bukele only uses Bitcoin as propaganda, nothing else.

You can argue whatever you want, but surely you don't know what it means to pact with the IMF nor how bad this institution is, before giving your opinion about how good Bukele is, study what the IMF is, study how it has subjugated countries and study what happens if you breach your agreements with the IMF.

IMF is financial colonialism.

Very disapointed with bukele on this one.

Bitcoiners should get comfortable with monero (NOT a shitcoin). Mining is CPU based, making it more decentralized and its privacy focused. Monero is BTC's little geeky cousin

Honored to meet you too norm.e

I'm sure you're aware of purism. They do a sleek little thirteen inch laptop with full management engine shutdown.

If you want it completely wiped (not disabled) you have to go with an old thinkpad x200. Those chipsets were the last ones with vulnerabilities that allowed ime to be wiped.

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Appreciate this take from nostr:npub1gaxapm9t9damh6q2lpc04ptcyeh0ysfdfzzs997agu3ae80ftrns7t985l nostr:note176muhuze2z098g74vm3n2ky2wr4ta80dfc8sdzlc8dltuz7my20s24el3r

I too am very worried about this. Seems to me bukele got attracted by the capital investment. I'm pretty sure all IMF loans come with stringent dictates on how the funds are used so I doubt bukele could just dump a big chunk in btc. Sadly that's what it would take to bring back my confidence.

Sadened that bukele caved to IMF. Yes, requiring that all taxes be paid in USD??? That's caving to IMF pressure.

Nope. They use latest gen chips, or chips that can't be disabled. Good luck on your privacy journey friend. You will have to settle for an older chip. Starlabs and others

This is indeed very disapointing. I was concerned when bukele accepted funds from the Chinese, and his the agreements with China behind a legal firewall for 25 years... And now this.

I get that he is doing what he thinks is best for his country... Likely he is disappointed with the btc uptale, the number of people who paid 1million for a passport, etc.

Maybe max and Stacy overpromised and underdwlivered.

Are all elements interconnected? E. G. Is the Bluetooth element connected to the secure storage?

The device has many attack vectors, are there any airgaps in the device to limit something from being compromised?

To clarify my comment: Canadians and indeed most other citizens of other jurisdictions are not required to file taxes to a country they are no longer resident in.

I think us citizens forgot there was a time where they too didn't have to report to a government every year.

Its ridiculous that someone would have to file taxes to a country they don't live in. I don't know why us residents aren't up in arms about that. They literally can't leave the control of the IRS.

Global income tax is a bad idea. Every US citizen is required to file income taxes for the rest of their lives, regardless where in the world they live.

No. Thank. You.

We are witnessing the centralization of internet ISPs, for the sake of convenience.

Don't sell your soul to a quasi monopoly for convenient internet access.

Starlink is the new Apple