Oh, I'm not making any judgments. I know it's very difficult to build a software company 100% open source.

Just curious the business strategy there, because Fedi is targeting similar markets and users as Galoy, which is using an open source model to spread the tools where needed without restrictions.

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Has Fedi ever given a reason for their decision not to open source their wallet app?

I am curious what the business rationale is.

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So now users that want to use their nostr keys in two apps on Android mobile (one of the major value adds of nostr) must download a third app to sign in?

You can post these on a nostr-native issue and bounty board here: https://fundsolvr.com

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This jeweler is building explosive drones to safeguard her brothers and father on the frontlines.

Technology is decentralizing devastating deadly force into the hands of everyday people.

https://youtu.be/WipqeFgzdTc

And privacy is a prerequisite for free speech :

“If a man's privacy can be invaded at will, who can say he is free? If his every word is taken down and evaluated, or if he is afraid every word may be, who can say he enjoys freedom of speech? If his every association is known and recorded, if the conversations with his associates are purloined, who can say he enjoys freedom of association? When such conditions obtain, our citizens will be afraid to utter any but the safest and most orthodox thoughts; afraid to associate with any but the most acceptable people. Freedom as the Constitution envisages it will have vanished.”

- Justice Douglas

“Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart. Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government. And one need only briefly to have dwelt and worked among a people possessed of many admirable qualities but deprived of these rights to know that the human personality deteriorates and dignity and self-reliance disappear where homes, persons and possessions are subject at any hour to unheralded search and seizure by the police.”

- Justice Robert Jackson

Let me know how to help. I've been exploring a developer defense fund through nostr:npub1rmhkv82w0khu0uv4egegkrtkjnlggdhrns0qxdhcp0r7wplhfkts94ya4n, as well as an Open Source Defense Network of attorneys, firms, and experts.

Also a 12-year appellate attorney capable of leading amicus work.

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OSJF.org

Van Valkenburgh has balanced perspectives, usually.

Dutch law seems far looser on criminal intent than US.

Respect for the First Amendment and freedom of speech is still strong.

But the chilling effect is real. Which is why nostr:npub1rmhkv82w0khu0uv4egegkrtkjnlggdhrns0qxdhcp0r7wplhfkts94ya4n is starting a Developer Defense Fund.

"In other words: the defendant, [co-defendant 1], and [co-defendant 2] are the designers, creators, and executors of [crypto-system]. As such, they are also responsible for the (consequences of the) functioning of this tool. The autonomous, immutable, and unstoppable nature of the smart contracts does not work in a way that exculpates them. After all, this is not a coincidental circumstance. These characteristics are the result of conscious choices by the designers. [Crypto-system] functions as it was conceived. In the opinion of the court, the defendant can therefore be regarded as the perpetrator of the money laundering operations carried out by [crypto-system]."

The Dutch judgment concluded that open source developers can be convicted of money laundering because they knew the potential of their software to be used to launder money and accepted that risk when they released the software.

(From casetext AI assistant)

Anyone that want to protect open-source developers from prosecutorial overreach should consider donating to nostr:npub1rmhkv82w0khu0uv4egegkrtkjnlggdhrns0qxdhcp0r7wplhfkts94ya4n (OSJF.org).

Help grow the Developer Defense Fund.

I'm here, too. 💪

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Dutch prosectors in Alexey Pertsev's trial consider deploying open source code actionable if it subsequently is used to commit crimes, despite the developers' inability to control its use after release.

https://www.wired.com/story/tornado-cash-money-laundering-case-crypto-privacy/

Tailscale and ProtonVPN don't play nicely on android, either.

Daniel Bernstein's attorneys (EFF's Cindy Cohn) advanced a secondary argument to the famous "Code is Speech":

Speech that enables private, anonymous speech is "inherently imbued with First Amendment significance."

This is a coinjoin post.

#FreeSamourai

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kfvBmD32jr-60xMgGz1Ucku8zE2GCRl6haMR4OgXr5Q/edit

The Diffie-Hellman Exchange sounds like a badass progrock band.

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IIRC, Sterlingov's counsel at some point during the case listed him as someone related to the case that was in the book "Tracers in the Dark", which discussed the Bitcoin fog investigation and which Sterlingov sought to introduce as evidence (or use as a basis for being able to speak publicly about the case).

But perhaps he was never directly involved in Bitcoin fog, as I cannot find anything stating as much.

Same, they were super open to feedback from users. And they had recently brought in a digital media veteran from barstool, I believe, to take it to the next level.

Hopefully they are retrenching and going self-custodial (nostr wallet connect, Bitcoin connect) or some ecash route (like mutiny's fedimint integration).

Although, maybe nostr just eats that use case? Pretty easy to monetize content here. 💜

Mash.com is shutting down.

Mash provided an easy way to engage in #Value4Value content on the web through its custodial lightning wallet and integrations with many major web publishing platforms like Ghost.

I used Mash on bitcoinbrief.io (BEFORE TFTC and nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy, I might add!).

Another casualty of the current regulatory overreach?

Investigator of Bitcoin Fog case and Roman Sterlingov. The Nigerian state is acting reprehensibly, but I'm not interested in an international incident to save this guy, who only has his binance position by hunting Bitcoin users and privacy advocates on behalf of another state.

He didn't sell.

It a "constructive" (legalese for imaginary) sale that happens by law when one renounces citizenship, triggering capital gains taxes on the value of assets held at that time.

It's a wealth tax designed to deter citizens of means from renouncing citizenship (the US taxes citizens earning abroad).

Civil disobedience is a separate tool from protest. It's also speech, but by definition unlawful. First Amendment precedent has long allowed reasonable time/place restrictions on speech.

Leaders of change movements should use civil disobedience strategically, because it comes with consequences and often creates a negative image of the movement in the public eye (i.e., the majority inclined to status quo).

Whether any particular instance of civil disobedience is morally correct depends on one's own values and beliefs. So commentators voicing preference for protest, not civil disobedience, are usually expressing their view of the change movement's goals.

This is what seizure through coercion looks like.

Governments can't seize your Bitcoin, but they can seize YOU if you fail to surrender it.

I've been predicting that such coercion will be one way courts and governments overcome Bit okn's seizure resistance: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-civil-justice-reacts-to-bitcoin-custody

The US is only one of a few countries in the world that penalize you for renouncing citizenship:

We've just launched nostr:npub1rmhkv82w0khu0uv4egegkrtkjnlggdhrns0qxdhcp0r7wplhfkts94ya4n this week. 501(c)(3) approved public charity dedicated to supporting and defending FOSS devs developing alternative systems (legal, financial, etc).

We're exploring starting a legal defense fund to counteract the chilling effects of these absurd prosecutions.

We'd welcome your support and advice. Happy to answer any questions and provide references. (aaron@opensourcejustice.org)

Maybe I signed up while using a VPN...

Same same. Emailed support...crickets. Even after totally doxxing myself, nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg not interested in granting me access to wallet. #permissionless nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr

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You can post bounty nostr events through the nostr:npub1fmunwy3lljfyzlgyuyman79lxwm4efz6pzlgqjwc400pr9l708qquvje8w web or desktop client, and easily keep track/direct developers to apply for your bounties.

E.g. https://bounties.resolvr.io/u/npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm

My lightning node connect also seems to stop working after a few weeks. I set it up from scratch and it works for another few weeks, then fails. Not sure what it is, but probably my horrible RPi.

James, this is great! Is there a way you can integrate Keystache by nostr:npub1fmunwy3lljfyzlgyuyman79lxwm4efz6pzlgqjwc400pr9l708qquvje8w devs nostr:npub1ygzj9skr9val9yqxkf67yf9jshtyhvvl0x76jp5er09nsc0p3j6qr260k2 and nostr:npub1jgnwmgfxcch992rkaqm5sk740vzsnpnmkrrnrm3pxu3uv6smmc8qhkqcgk so I don't need to paste my nsec?

https://stacker.news/items/436792