Esquerdista: "Ainnnn a extrema direita quer privatizar as praias".

O pessoal da direita: "Isso é mentira, jamais seríamos a favor disso."

Essa história só prova o quanto a turma da direita é tão socialista quanto os lacradores.

Usually, it is an allusion to people buying bitcoin solely in order to get profit. Sort of when a measure becomes a target, and not a tool for achieving something novel.

Zeus (self-custody, privacy), Phoenix (self-custody), Liquid (federated, but high privacy), Ecash (privacy), Robosats (on the way to self-custody, federated), Bisq (self-custody), and so on and so forth.

I think that’s normal. A more progressive minority pushes the whole field forward. Only commies live in a world where everyone is equal and equally stupid.

The questions I would ask myself are: Is this bad for bitcoin? I don’t think it cares. Same way the internet doesn’t care about Google. Can the ETF/NGU people manipulate bitcoin price? Yes, either by a small percentage or for a short period of time. Long-term it’s impossible. Can they control it? No, it’s a game of three: miners, users, node runners. Is it bad that some people want only NGU? No, it’s probably the best way for a random normie to get orange pilled.

Can one eat to many eggs?

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Telegram to Introduce Fact-Checking Feature

The source code of Telegram for Android has revealed lines indicating the development of a new feature called "Fact Check." It appears that this feature will be implemented in partnership with government-assigned fact checking agencies.

- The "Fact Check" feature will allow additional clarifying information to be attached to messages. However, it will function differently from Twitter's Community Notes, which might seem similar at first glance.

- The government in your country will be able to appoint an agency to conduct fact-checking on public Telegram channel posts. This agency will have full control over the content of these fact check blocks, while regular users will not be able to influence or have a say in the notes. By clicking on the "What is this?" tool-tip, details about the agency providing the fact-check will be shown.

- Unlike Telegram's "Fact Check" feature, Twitter's Community Notes are created and evaluated by regular users, and the most useful notes are selected by an algorithm based on votes from readers with diverse political views.

I feel sad for all the people who recommend Bitcoin wallets and Nostr clients to friends and family very enthusiastically over the years only to have these things blow up in their faces every single time.

If you take your phone between even just your home and work —doxxed locations— it is trivial to associate it with your true-name identity even if all of the hardware and services are perfectly anonymous. Even journalists have managed these kind of investigations. "Anonymized" location data is unfortunely not anonymous — it *can never* be anonymous. And yet it is sold like any other product.

Your phone's movements through physical space are unique. Even if you live in a building of 400 people, the movements of 399 of them are not going to match the tower records of your phone's movements. Even if you work in the same office. People's geographic movements are unique—and identifying.