If you ever get lost in the Milky Way galaxy, this is your map to get back to EARTH.

Yes this was for diesel engines. And to be clear we never knowingly sold emissions specific tampering equipment, exhaust systems "delete" parts and so on. We were very cautious because we knew others were going to prison for selling them. We were working on vehicles that were old enough not to have standalone emissions equipment.

I worked in automotive aftermarket, specifically in calibration firmware engineering. When our lawyers came to us and said, we can fight this, but you'll have to worry for the rest of your career that the government could decide to kick your door in whenever they want, we decided it wasn't for us. Shut the company down and walked away. They tapped peoples phones, monitored our social media, in other cases, they tapped into their security cameras and just watched them all day, footage used against them in court (including memes btw). I wish I could share more about our case but everyone involved has asked me to keep the details private (although its public knowledge)

The worst part, there is no regulation, they never told us what we did wrong, nor had to, they just needed us to prove we "didn't" do anything wrong, otherwise every component we sold was considered a "defeat device". This literally includes tires by the way. There is no legal way to sell aftermarket automotive parts. CARB can issue testing certificates under certain conditions but the EPA does not have to respect them we were told again by our lawyers.

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Eco is mostly a fed thing now. Ask me about my most recent, forced, career change :)

Imo, we have already crossed that line.

Privacy on chain

If you use electrum public servers, the server will know your ip and all your balances.

If you use electrum servers over tor, the server will know that certain addresses belong to a single entity.

If you do either of these two things you ruin your privacy and your coinjoins.

You have only two options, either you use your own Bitcoin node to check your balances via RPC or with your own electrum server connected to your Bitcoin node.

Or you use Wasabi which offers block filtering through BIP158.

If you use hardware wallets never use the manufacturer's software if it does not allow you to connect to your node, use sparrow connected to your own node, trezor suite connected to your own node, green wallet connected to your own node or wasabi (the latter can also be connected to your own node but is not necessary because of the block filters).

Be aware that three-letter agencies have public electrum servers to collect data or may even have compromised public servers of companies like blockstream.

Take care of your privacy.

Now here in the states, you can see why thats a problem between city folk who couldn't drive a pickup without wrecking it, if they even have a license, and those in the more rural parts. We shouldn't be forced to get along. We live completely different lives. There are no busses, or trains, or hell, even paved roads.

Good call, it's an option, thinking outside the box is good🙏🏻.

Thank you for that btw😊

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I hear you, i just want a hardware wallet for my travels but these fucking things look like they'd attract a lot of attention@@!!

Pretty much feel like that ^

At least the people I talk to that make their own opinions. Most of us are anti-war. Few of us understand that they use the wars to launder money.

Part of why I support #Bitcoin and would like to see the end of the US Dollar.

If I post now a sexy picture on amethyst, and I mark it as NSFW, on primal it's showing the picture unmarked.

He was clearly full of shit, it was 20 years ago. I have more pressing problems though. I'll be travelling to The Far East in The New Year for an extended stay, 6-9months, multiple countries.

They look like a fucking IED, I want to move sats on the road. What to do🤔??