Freedom is both liberation and burden
Max pain theory 🫡
I really enjoyed my conversation with Eva Vlaardingerbroek about the freedom of speech crisis in the EU, Bitcoin as the solution to inflation and a tool to defund wars, feminism’s evolving role, and political polarization. I hope you check it out!
Your zapper is broken 🧐
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IF YOU NEED A REMINDER WHY NOSTR MATTERS:
https://cdn.satellite.earth/4d0dd467851cf681e6b410d9e2cfd916aa6eb92d8377b664d56018d04e68c70e.mp4
Germany NGMI 😑
The centralized social media stove is hot ain’t it 🔥
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This note will cost HODL 6.15 bitcoin
HODL is just a guy with 6.15 bitcoin
Bitcoin-cli node
Beauty will save the world 🌎
Today is the day: Obscura VPN is NOW AVAILABLE!
Obscura is the first VPN that:
- CAN'T log your activity by design
- Outsmarts network filters
We believe Obscura sets the standard for a new generation of VPNs, and hope you’ll check it out!
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Contrary to popular belief, traditional VPNs (even “no-log” ones) can track you – they see both who you are and what you do, just like your ISP.
Your ISP is no better. Since 2017, they've been able to legally sell your sensitive data.
Obscura is different – we never see your decrypted internet packets in the first place.
It’s simply impossible for us to log your internet activity, even if we were compelled to, or if our servers were compromised.
We achieve this by using a fully-independent exit hop run by @mullvadvpn. Ensuring that our servers never see your traffic, and the exit hop never sees your identity.
In fact, you can check your connected server’s public key against those listed on Mullvad’s server page!
But that’s not all…
You may have had the frustrating experience of trying to use your VPN on a restrictive WiFi: in an airport, a hotel, or certain jurisdictions.
Other VPNs will often fail to connect, as their off-the-shelf protocol is easily detected and blocked.
With Obscura, we built our own custom stealth protocol that is much harder to block.
Our protocol blends in with regular internet traffic using the same technology that powers HTTP/3 – QUIC – making it much harder for censors or network filters to detect or block.
To celebrate our launch, Obscura is just $6/month.
Our team has put in the hours to make this all a seamless experience, and I hope you’ll take Obscura for a spin.
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you on the free and open internet. 🏄
P.S. For those looking for an exploration of our technical choices, here's our blog post! https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/
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today marks my official 2 years on #nostr
here are my 2 year stats
i started my npub completely ignorant to bitcoin. i just turned 22 years old, i had zero care for self sovereignty. bitcoin was at 22k on the day i joined.
originally i joined to see if this was an avenue for people in iran to be able to freely express themselves without fear of persecution from the regime. today, we have numerous of beautiful iranians here proving their freedom, despite the threat.
through the community i was taught bitcoin. regular people, just like me, took time to teach me about self sovereignty, not because they were getting anything out of it, but because they genuinely believe in its value to the world.
seeing the enthusiasm of these kind people made me enthusiastic. that first week, i decided to buy my first bitcoin on nostr:npub1cashappn03s3cl2ljsdntv0v28e2um5lgx4vjctqjt23pcwzjhsqmtdg5l.
Now, my life has changed for the better because of it. Because of nostr, because of the PEOPLE of nostr.
thank you to everyone on here who has showed me the kindness i never felt or seen on the internet , despite being raised online. there are far too many people to count.
thank you nostr, i got to grow up here. 
Very cool 🫡