HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR BITCOIN PRIVACY:

Privacy is a fundamental human right. If you use bitcoin carelessly, other people (strangers, companies, governments) will know every movement you make and how much money you have.

There are 5 main ways to improve your privacy:

1) Never tell anyone how much bitcoin you have: I know this can be tempting. But as soon as someone knows how much bitcoin you have, they can simply force you to give it to them by putting a gun to your head, kidnapping your daugther or sending you to jail until you give away your money.

2) Run your own node (and use it): If you have a hardware wallet and connect to Ledger, Trezor, or any other company's node, you're basically sharing with them every move you make and how much money you have. This is absolutely crazy. Please learn how to run your own node.

Once you have your own node, you need to start fresh with a new seed, as Ledger or any other company could still have your XPUB from the old seed and know your every move forever and ever.

3) Don't buy KYC bitcoin: Stop giving your government ID to centralized exchanges or companies. This is nuts! Try to find bitcoin communities, Whatsapp groups, Telegram groups, decentralized exchanges, P2P apps, etc. If you look hard enough, you will eventually find ways to buy bitcoin (even BIG amounts) without giving your personal information to companies.

4) Keep your KYC and your no-KYC bitcoin separate from each other: If you do end up having some KYC bitcoin, please make sure to not mix those UTXOs with your no-KYC ones. If you mix them up, then the companies where you bought your bitcoin could trace you down, figure out approximately how much bitcoin you have, etc.

Use Sparrow Wallet to take care of this. Mark your UTXOs with labels. Use a block explorer (from your own node) to trace down those UTXOs you can't find. Move your KYC bitcoin to other wallet or passphrase to avoid mixing it up with your no-KYC. Etc.

If all of this is too complicated or you have way too many UTXOs you can always start fresh and have a new wallet exclusively for your future no-KYC bitcoins.

5) Use coinjoins to prevent people from tracing down your movements: The blockchain is public. If I sell you 10 BTC, I can then keep an eye on that transaction and see if you move it around, how much you move around, etc. By using coinjoins you make it difficult for others to trace your movements. Use Samourai Wallet, Sparrow Wallet, or other similar wallets.

I've heard bad things about Wasabi, so I would be personally cautious about them.

That's it.

Please take care of your privacy.

250 friends in 1 week that’s INSANE 🤪

To celebrate this i’ll zap the first 20 person to comment and share this post ⚡️⚡️⚡️ UNLEASH the zappps.

Nostr is one big family 🥲

#plebchain

#zapchain

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of course

Zaps have arrived!!! I just updated

1. In 2011 #Bitcoin    dropped below $20.

2. In 2015 #Bitcoin    went below $200.

3. In 2018 #Bitcoin    traded below $4,000.

4. In 2022 #Bitcoin    sank below $16,000.

Do you see any consistency here?

Bitcoin’s mere existence is not enough.

Adoption must increase if Bitcoin is to thrive and make difference in the world.

ENERGETIC ALGORITHM

Whatever content you consume the most of, the universe will keep sending you similar content. If you give a lot of attention to something, whether positive or negative, all the universe detects is that you care about it and will send more like it.

I think the Nostr clientAmethyst on Android auto translates everything.

Or use ChatGPT.

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Remember to write your own sovereign notes.

No just reply guy 💪🧐✏️

Choose 1

- spam in the blockchain

- value is subjective

here is a go to chart for you in case you have questions/doubts about bitcoin

Remember to write your own sovereign notes.

No just reply guy 💪🧐✏️

Are you running a node anon? Did you know you can self host your own lightning node and receive zaps right to it?

The reasons you may want to run a node vary:

You want to verify your own transactions in a self-sovereign way.

You want to coinjoin in a self-sovereign way.

You want to spend via the Lightning network.

You want to run a Lightning routing node, meaning you want to earn fees for helping others transact.

You want to run BTCPay Server.

It could be any of those things, or all of them. Depending on how much you need to do with your Bitcoin Node, there have never been more options out there.

Let's discuss.

No once really answering...

Has anyone tried creating an npub/nsec using bitcoin txid at Astral.ninja?