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Privacy Is Dignity
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I don't think he's bright enough to be playing 5D chess. He's just a soppy liberal. Hardline Muslims will hold their nose and vote for him to grow their base and interests, then replace him with a fundamentalist.

I'd ask him what about those people who don't wish to be collectivist, will you respect their wishes and leave them alone?

Silver looks like the next FOMO phenomenon. And like Bitcoin but in different ways, it's considered money. So if the masses including institutions move their money out of the underperforming BTC and into the latest fad of silver over the next several years, what will happen to the price of BTC? Not promising. I've been skeptical of BTC's price for a long time now, for many reasons.

Even CoinBureau and‌ their followers are reluctantly noticing the wind changing:

https://x.com/coinbureau/status/2005141534388490522#m

Would you say a large part of Bitcoin's decline is due to its lack of privacy?

Based on their cult mentality.

True but the reality is the sheep have adopted KYC-bitcoin en mass. Therefore bitcoin is being blocked and seized at will.

It's only 1 year but crypto has been the worst performing asset in 2025. Interesting. Crypto has had other underperforming years though.

Why is the protocol level the trumpcard when governments have bypassed the protocol level with KYC? Now, many coins are being blocked and seized.

Bitcoin isn't private, anyone can view the blockchain and nailing it down to the individual for confiscation, is a trivial matter now.

We also need to push back against being shamed for wanting privacy. Yes I DO have something to hide: My privacy. This is all the reason I need to withhold my information from the government.

Replying to Avatar Gigi

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

I feel that pain. Being on a VPN triggers KYC requests too, in my experience, because VPNs are "suspicious activity".

But thanks to government KYC data grabs, is does.

The problem is being unable to reach the normies and debate with them. I won't use those platforms either but we're not destroying their arguments sitting in our separate pens.

And Gen-Xers, and Zoomers. Hence _"The true perpetrators are not the generations, but groups across generations."_

BlueSky users are exactly the compliant sheep who will cooperate with this without resistance.

The UKSSR is about to introduce facial recognition in EVERY town & village. Help us Donald Trump, we need regime change.

So it's not about network effect any more now that it's been pointed out that cash had network effect until it didn't?

As for Nakamoto Consensus ... Bitcoin isn't even private, the government can trace your BTC and blacklist it from being spent. Or maybe they'll confiscate it. This is one possible example of future use-cases making Bitcoin antiquated.

All technology gets antiquated as time change. Bitcoin is not shielded from technological advancements.

"Network effect makes it impossible to catch now. " - That is a completely arbitrary assertion. Cash had network effect, now it doesn't.

All it takes is for something new to come along. And in digital technology's case, that can come quickly.

Replying to Avatar FLASH

⚡️👀 WATCH - If you still say “I have nothing to hide” in 2025, this 4-minute clip will ruin that sentence for you forever.

Glenn Beck grilled Whitney Webb and she dropped pure dynamite:

➥ Larry Ellison (the billionaire now personally advising Trump on ALL tech/AI policy) openly bragged to Oracle shareholders:

“We’re recording & surveilling EVERYTHING — citizens will finally be on their best behavior.”

➥ Predictive-policing algorithms (PredPol etc.) proven less accurate than a coin toss are still putting innocent people on house arrest for crimes they haven’t committed yet.

➥ UK keeps using facial recognition that fails 91% of the time and refuses to change vendors — because the goal isn’t catching criminals, it’s creating permanent obedience.

➥ Many of the “America First libertarian” tech voices now inside Trump’s circle sit on the Bilderberg steering committee and have called free markets “for losers” while building monopolies.

Whitney’s ice-cold warning:

“After the Left failed to sell the digital control grid, the same people are now rebranding it as right-wing common sense.

”Watch these 4:06 and try — just try — to keep saying “I have nothing to hide” with a straight face ever again.

If this doesn’t wake you up, nothing will.

Do you STILL think “nothing to hide = nothing to fear” when the richest men on earth are openly scripting your future behavior?

https://blossom.primal.net/3c11a97479910ddc580ccad56ebc8ae9c478aa09f070a6926b8f56c2ef6be151.mp4

We also shouldn't be ashamed to say "I have lots to hide". That's what privacy is. They're trying to shame us into giving our privacy away.

Well I don't think I have derangement syndrome, but I am very cautious about it. Maybe another digital currency is the future, but I don't see how BTC itself has legs in the long term. Technology quickly gets antiquated.

Same, it's frustrating as hell. When I say I'm on Signal and to catch me there, they're like "Oh...don't worry, I'll just SMS you". 🤦

I'm having to install WhatsApp soon because the sheep are too stupid. I'm trying to keep it private -- GrapheneOS, use a VPN, use a fake name, and deny all permissions except to receive messages & calls.

They have no idea how much trouble I'm having to go to, all because they won't use a private messaging app.

The sheep have no excuse to be using WhatsApp and not Signal.

I despair. Of course, this is only happening because obedient sheep allow it. If the people stand up in numbers, the tyrants can't pull this off. People really need to stand against things more.

I wouldn't say Bitcoin is a hard asset though. Its strongest asset is network effect. But Nokia once had a dominant network effect, as did Blackberry after it. But they each got superseded by newer technologies that were well marketed.

This cannot happen to gold or real estate, because their value is intrinsic. They are not susceptible to technological innovations like Bitcoin or Nokia are. If Bitcoin meets its iPhone-equivalent successor, there is no value inside a Bitcoin that can retain its worth.

Replying to Avatar Susie Violet

Energy bills are climbing again in the UK while billions are being paid out in curtailment costs. Flexible load solutions that could help stabilise the grid are being ignored.

According to the Financial Times, in the 2024–25 financial year. NESO spent £2.7 billion in total balancing costs in 2024–25, with wind curtailment a major contributor.

This curtailment happened because the grid could not handle the excess electricity.

https://ft.com/content/221d5b5d-ae51-4a6c-8516-b3b906d3ff89

Recent coverage paints a clear picture.

YahooFinance and CoinDesk report on Hut 8’s efforts to monetise energy assets, showing how miners are aligning with the energy sector to provide stability and unlock new revenue streams.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hut-8-maps-path-monetization-131011324.html

https://coindesk.com/markets/2025/08/27/hut-8-maps-path-to-monetization-of-energy-assets-as-bitcoin-mining-carve-out-nears-benchmark

Our UK briefing paper at nostr:nprofile1qqsp02kerjznyqgla3gujxw33dhr80lm7pvhp9vn8p2f2095afggdcgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz2r55r shows exactly how Bitcoin mining could do the same here.

Flexible load can absorb excess renewable generation, reduce curtailment costs, and lower bills for households and businesses.

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/aea8e937-fd18-400f-afd9-c3513112c757/downloads/d3850229-208c-4385-9b86-2e82fd55cc6c/UK%20Power%20Grid%20Bitcoin%20Mining%20as%20a%20Demand%20Side%20.pdf

The UK energy crisis is not going away. It is time to stop ignoring solutions that are already working elsewhere.

H/t to Progressive Bitcoin UK for today’s newspaper headlines.

The UK socialist dictatorship really doesn't have the slightest clue what it's doing.

Guess who dropped by the Bitcoin Beef Bits Kitchen? 👀🥩

Cooking up a surprise for the next conference... Don't miss it!

https://video.nostr.build/deedacad21c9ac9ea58722bec75cd62c10b2878f96e2e74136cc42f54f1ccf26.mp4

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Lean, quality cuts. You've made me hungry.

LocalCoinSwap, you have turned evil. Not evil just for adopting KYC which is evil enough, but fully evil with the "trustworthy" or "assurance" doublespeak evil people like you and the KYC regime engage in.

Bisq and Haveno are live proof that your KYC is not about safety or security, but about tracking the masses on behalf of the regime.

May whatever maker you believe in have mercy on your soul.

The UK is in desperate need of regime change.

BTC isn't even the best crypto technologically, it was just the first. If people move onto the next shiny thing, they'll take their money out of BTC to buy the other. Then what happens to the already inflated BTC price?