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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” - Hunter S. Thompson #bitcoin #privacy #freedom Paid relay (8000⚡️): wss://relay.orange-crush.com

Learning about risc-v, came across this substack by Dylan Patel from Sep22. Didn’t realize there was this much momentum behind the scenes with RISC-V adoption. Open source wins.

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/sifive-powers-google-tpu-nasa-tenstorrent

> It seems clear that RISC-V will eat the world of non-user-facing cores. We will leave you with this slide that Jim Keller presented.

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>> RISC-V will win the next round. RISC-V works. RISC-V is open. RISC-V is where innovation is happening. RISC-V will out pace other architectures.

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1. Mullvad is a superior VPN for multiple reasons, and is worth switching from another provider like Proton or Nord

-- i don't recommend nord, but i do also recommend proton vpn. if you only want a vpn, mullvad is where it's at.

2. Running Tor - for any viable usage - through a VPN is fine, because you’re really just evaluating whether your VPN provider or your ISP knows you’re using Tor, and while neither can see the activity, you’d rather a quality VPN service be aware of Tor usage than a “definitely captured” ISP like Verizon or Spectrum

-- basically yes. tor over vpn (tor through vpn). there is more to evaluate, but it is riskier to turn off your vpn, then connect to tor, forget to reenable then expose your ip or trust your isp over a respected no log vpn provider.

also, if you don't have a vpn enabled, surfing http (unsecured sites) on tor can be used to deanonymise you by a malicious tor exit node etc (same with clearnet). this was a rebuttal to the argument made in the video.

3. If you’re aiming to cover the lowest-hanging fruit, but aren’t ready (or feel it’s currently necessary) to make the full shift to a de-googled Graphene phone and TailsOS, then simply running an always-on VPN like Mullvad for benign web activity should gain a significant amount of privacy with minimal inconvenience.

yes i recommend using an always-on vpn as i outlined. it's a basic first step re: the post, and yes to grapheneos, but with qubesos with whonix for a daily driver os. tails is awesome for what it is but it is not a daily driver per se, it's more for one and done stuff (this depends on your threat model).

tl;dr: use tor over (through) vpn. keep your vpn always-on (except for banking and other sites/apps that don't play nicely with it...you can use splittunneling to bypass vpn traffic for those). also, fyi amethyst allows you to connect through a tor proxy via orbot.

This is why QubesOS rocks. Breaking applications, different sites, and different activities apart from each other with app specific qubes will increase your focus by removing highly personalized and well designed attacks on your attention. I could care less about hiding, I want the freedom to drive my own experience.

I would try an IRL class/club/volunteer org. Maybe something you'll be bad at. A willingness to be genuine and vulnerable (like your orginal post) can be an attractive trait. Cooking, book club, whatever, just put yourself out there and be your true self. You'll meet people or they'll know other people and they'll set you up. Worst case: you learn something or make new friends, best case you find someone to navigate the crazy road ahead with.

Exercise is hard 🫠

Really good post. I suppose eCash is non-custodial in the framework you propose as long one considers it completely separate from bitcoin and not a promise for Bitcoin. I think what interests me most is the extensible framework the Fedi team is building which allows teams build solutions which serve a community’s needs across different facets including technical, legal/regulatory, and counterparty risk.

https://stacker.news/items/395461/r/orangecrush

The most important distinction between Fedimint vs Cashu mint seems to be skirting regulations rather than reducing counterparty risk.

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-10 years to hyperbitcoinization

All these candidates run on the +$4T/yr national debt plan…

Regardless of momentary societal definitions of right, wrong, importance, or indifference; power projection will never die. Groups will organize for self interest.

Currently, race based assemblies are discouraged allowing class-based assemblies to silently divide the masses from the masters.

Find your battlefield, project your power. My battlefield is the economy. My weapon is Bitcoin.

Such a great line though 🤣. Shows how memes disarm savagery. We must continue to win the coming meme war

This isn’t quite what I meant. I am referring to the force close fees. I know from experience that you can run a lightning node at a loss. If a mint operator doesn’t charge sufficient fees on lightning transactions, then a force close could cause them to run at a loss (because of on-chain force close fees), which would mean that the mints liabilities over time (ecash) could exceed total liquidity (on-chain + lightning channel) if the mint operator doesn’t provide some liquidity coverage. This is why public auditing may be important.

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I unfortunately do not have the audience to bring attention to this post, but I've seen a lot of people not fully understanding the situation entirely. If you could critique, comment, or like this if you found this informative or learned something new, I would be very appreciative if you can repost this. If you know profiles who may also enjoy please tag them. If you do, I thank you so much for trying to bring more awareness to this issue 🙃

I agree with others, this is likely an image/media/link issue. I don't think nostream TS relay collects IPs, but you could easily set up your server to do so. Opening a DM with a tracked image would make this easiest to correlate, and is probably the most immediate thing to address. Or interacting with a thread with an image link that is being tracked could leak information via data correlation from the reply note time stamp. This information is leaked constantly, but that this person decided to dox people is a concern.

Being a bitcoin/nostr public figure has risks from many counterparties (governments, scammers, armed thieves). Pseudonymity is probably best practice where possible.

The time it takes to understand how the bitcoin network of miners contributes to bitcoin transaction security is a low time preference intellectual investment that rewards the individual with the ultimate low time preference investment vehicle.

You get the bitcoin price that you deserve.

https://nitter.net/CathieDWood/status/1748207073257501009

Passive diffusion + geometric design + gravity beats high pressure reverse osmosis membranes. Who would have guessed...

Highly encourage folks to check out https://emojito.meme

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