Start9 says "self-sovereign computing"
But they use Gmail
What's being promoted is to buy hardware to host your own Bitcoin node, which means spending money on SSDs, to confirm OTHER PEOPLE'S transactions. But then letting corrupt third parties run YOUR email and instant messaging, which if you were to self-host these would actually dramatically improve your life.
Today, I flip the script..
Get a self-host email & XMPP/SimpleX WITH your Bitcoin node!
Start9 charges $599 for their node hardware.
For that same cost, you could get over 3 years of a VPS with a Bitcoin node, Lightning, Email, and your pick of XMPP & SimpleX.
If hosting web traffic in a residential home was any good, then Start9 wouldn't be hosting their website on Digital Ocean, the largest and most centralized provider. On top of that, residential homes can't do email, so their MX records go to Google. In 3-4 years, will start9 discs be any good? Bitcoin wears SSDs to the bone. But with a VPS, you pass that onto the provider to deal with. Plus you get great cloud services.
Email is misunderstood. Corrupt Protonmail spews propaganda from their holes about privacy. But they are weak clowns receiving the emails in plaintext, and then they claim to do encryption to hide it from themselves, which is a conflict of interest. Then to decrypt it, you enter your password into their web app, which nobody inspects the source code for each time.
Proton doesn't even fight the THOUSANDS of court cases a year. They will let you be jailed to save money. And speaking of money, these bitches don't even accept lightning. They couldn't even setup 1 BTCPay server!?
On the other hand, with the system I'm proposing to you, you would truly be in control of your life. For just $120 in circular economy btc, you'd be getting the most of your VPS, and become king of both your registered accounts that require email, and the privacy that comes from any lightning payments you do. We hand over all VPS accounts to you to change the passwords, but if you need us, you get a full YEAR of technical support from our team. AND that $120 even includes your domain name!!!
Recap:
$120 in BTC, gets you:
--BTCPay Setup, with help on Channels
--Your pick of XMPP or SimpleX relay
--A domain, which you pick
--A full YEAR of support asking questions.
--First month of VPS included.
You pay the provider after, 14 euros (or less) a month.
Are you going to let Start9 and Proton urinate on you, or seize control of your own destiny, as a self-sovereign king? Reach out.
I wish I was making this up bro
Kamala Harris in interview on Fox, was asked if she supports transgender surgery for illegal aliens, with taxpayer money, while awaiting being deported.
She replied "Trump allowed them (the surgeries) to happen also!"
Arweave can resist DDoS better than Cloudflare:
Glad to hear you're interested, here is a good starting article:
ohhhhh, nice one =)
I wonder if satoshi would have stuck around if nostr was around back then, as he could have easily stayed anon.
With emails and forums, not so much
Glad to hear you're interested, here is a good starting article:
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is now back after cyberattacks, as read-only
This is after losing the copyright lawsuit against them.
This is why Arweave is so important, to not trust a single company/organization with all of humanity's history.
Just think how corrupt and distorted Wikipedia is? Do you really want them to control your legacy in the history books?
Here's my take-away:
Nostr protects one against the censorship of TODAY.
Arweave protects against the censorship of TOMORROW.
Man, I wish you were right. Unfortunately, I have had bitcoin stolen from me by exchanges. I can’t get too deep into the details because it would doxx the situation.
You are correct that 99% of bitcoiners keep it with the exchange or custodian, which defeats the purpose. It's supposed to be a circular economy, to replace dollars. Even popular maxi-nostr users say this
How are you getting Anonymous Layer 1 for your Lightning Channels then? You'd have to mix it with drug dealers and hackers, which degrades the value.
But if you use Monero to at least get your setup going, then you can store your wealth in Bitcoin.
So it's reverse, 99% of Bitcoiners would benefit from XMR, and only 1% are insane enough to urinate on the value of their own coins such that they would get seized on the KYC exchange
My daily routine:
Debate Nostr BTC-Maxis on Monero
Debate Monero Redditors to come on Nostr
Debate Farcaster web devs to ditch IPFS, for Arweave
Debate BitcoinTalk buyers to accept my XMRBazaar Deposit
Debate ETH Forums Guys to ditch Telegram for SimpleX
Debate SimpleX mob to self-host XMPP
Debate XMPP fediverse guys to ditch socialism, for capitalism
Debate Libertarians to ditch Big Tech and voting, for Crypto-Agora.
The Libertarians then reply "ok so bitcoin only?" And then the cycle repeats.
Russia blocked Discord,
Simplified Privacy sat down to interview the lead dev of Bastyon, aka "Russian Nostr"
As it specializes in penetrating Russian and Chinese firewalls, by having all nodes host all messages, so that only the node-servers have to traverse the firewall, and never end-clients.
With end-to-end encryption, and even decentralized audio calls (using nodes), this is easy to use for n00bs.
We summarized the dev's wisdom, into an easy to comprehend and fast read:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/bastyon-works/how.html
Note: I did not recieve any compensation for this article. So go ahead curse me out bro, but think of the people behind that firewall that got nothing else.
Bitcoin is flawed on both the layer 1 and 2.
On the layer 1, it's not money. Because when someone pays you, there's a good chance that it's mixed, and you can't bring it on an exchange. Now you're saying F the exchange, but even businesses you buy from dump on exchanges. So it creates mad tension when you pay people, and then later their funds are seized.
On the layer 2, you need $500 bucks or it's a custodial bank account. It's not logical to say it's decentralized, when there's a high barrier to entry for new people. Under high taxes, it becomes a bigger deal that these custodians can see you're not paying.
Also, if the Bitcoin Core team is selling layer 2 solutions through Blockstream, that's a conflict of interest. They profit from the failure.
Bitcoin is flawed on both the layer 1 and 2.
On the layer 1, it's not money. Because when someone pays you, there's a good chance that it's mixed, and you can't bring it on an exchange. Now you're saying F the exchange, but even businesses you buy from dump on exchanges. So it creates mad tension when you pay people, and then later their funds are seized.
On the layer 2, you need $500 bucks or it's a custodial bank account. It's not logical to say it's decentralized, when there's a high barrier to entry for new people. Under high taxes, it becomes a bigger deal that these custodians can see you're not paying.
Also, if the Bitcoin Core team is selling layer 2 solutions through Blockstream, that's a conflict of interest. They profit from the failure.
When Bitcoin's tax goes to 100%, will Monero still be a shitcoin?
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/bitcoin-transparent-monero-taxes/cash-use-case.html
retroactive like post-trade? thats tough, more so for next time
The word vaccine was changed by the CDC/FDA for this.
Step 1. This isn't a vaccine, it's a treatment. Treatments don't stop spread.
Step 2. If it's a treatment, why do you care if I take it, only those who want it should.
Step 3. It's only effective against certain variants, which are always changing
Step 4. This would require constant drugs, which surrenders your privacy and freedom, to the government and drug companies
Which part of the logic are you not seeing?