You should welcome disagreement and train yourself to be comfortable with dissent against your most deeply held views. Disagreement is an opportunity for you to test whether you truly believe what you think it is you believe. Whether or not you’re justified in believing it, based on evidence and reason. If you start hurling insults the second someone critiques your views, you’re actually doing yourself a disservice.

The only reason states can wage endless war is because they can endlessly print fiat currencies. #Bitcoin makes war unaffordable.

#Linux for Bitcoiners. 🐧🐧🐧

1. Enable the firewall. This limits all incoming connections, forcing you to explicitly allow connections (ex: incoming Bitcoin core peers) as they're needed.

2. Install and enable Opensnitch, an application firewall that limits all outgoing connections, forcing you to explicilty audit every binary's attempt to communicate out to the internet. This will make visible all the network traffic on your machine and snitch on programs

3. Install and periodically scan for malware usijf clamav, rkhunter, and chkrootkit. This will give you a sense of whether your machine has been pwned by a known exploit.

4. Use a minimal Linux distro like Zorin Lite. Remove all unused apps. Install needed apps through Snap/Flatpak (built in). Install OS with full disk encryption enabled.

5. Neuter hardware backdoors in your BIOS by flashing your machine with Libreboot or Coreboot. For extra bonus points, install HEADS to cryptographically detect evil maids.

6. Dump Firefox LibreWolf. Use Tor when anonymitiy is needed. Use LibreWolf + Mullvad/iVPN when a whitelisted IP is needed.

7. Isolate your #Bitcoin usage (savings) to a dedicated machine away from your daily driver. Consider running your entire Bitcoin stack (node+coordinator) enclosed on one machine. If leaving machine on to sync blocks, use Sparrow to keep your wallet encrypted at rest.

What’s one of the cringiest lines you can say at a wine tasting?

The $100 router has a built in VPN?

OFFICIAL: The United States has no intention to ban #Bitcoin - Treasury Secretary 🇺🇸

Probably because the Lightning Torch got a lot of attention and made me a good target at the time

Unpopular opinion: “in the space” are empty filler words, no different than “uhm” or “ahh”. Drop them.

FREEDOM OR CONTROL - YOUR SUPPORT SHOWS YOUR CHOICE

I saw a long thread discussing another spam attack on Nostr last night. That's not going to stop for free relays. Spammers will always use free services with large audiences to spam. Stopping them is a game of whack-a-mole that even the big Social Media companies have failed to win despite their deep pockets and teams of engineers.

The solution is value-for-value: pay for what you use and find valuable. If Nostr benefits you in some way, be willing to pay for the tools you use that provide it to you (relays, clients, etc). If you can't pay but you can build or support it in some other way, that's great, too.

I had a person (jokingly I assume) say they were sad I didn't ⚡ them. The first thing that jumped into my mind when I read the note was "What benefit are you providing?" I had never seen any other post from them before.

If you want to live in a free world, you need to ask that question often, both of yourself and of others: what benefit are you providing? Because any time you're getting something "free", it's not free. Somebody is paying for it. If that person isn't you, then someone else is setting the agenda for what you consume. Is that what you want?

For many, the idea of freedom is like the idea of owning a boat. They daydream about how great it would be to have a boat, take it out on the water, fish, swim and enjoy it all. But they never buy a boat. Why? Because boats cost money and take work to maintain. All that pleasure has a price. Either you're willing to pay it, or you're not.

Freedom is no different. I hear a lot of talk about freedom today, and that's good. Freedom of speech is a big one. But what are you doing to support those that are building the tools that give you that freedom? Are you content to daydream about that freedom and how nice it would be while never taking any action, or are you willing to put some skin in the game to turn that dream into a reality both for yourself and others you care about?

We've been conditioned to get things for "free", but it's a lie and a trick that's resulted in us selling ourselves and our choices to the highest bidder. For me, Nostr is the path to freedom, but Nostr is not free. It costs money to run the relays, servers and services, and it costs time (which results in lost earning power) to code clients that provide the experience you want and create great content on an ad-free platform.

So if you believe in freedom, and I know you do (that's why you're here) then support the builders that are providing value to you. Show that freedom is not just a daydream. Governments and nefarious actors have long taken advantage of the masses just daydreaming about freedom. Let's wake the world up from that dream and make it a reality. This is our shot. Let's not miss the target.

My deepest thanks to all of those that are supporting the builders already. You are true heroes. 🙏

What is better for an HTTP server? Clojure or Clojurescript + Node.js?

Kurt Cobain would’ve been a Bitcoiner

You cannot wash kyc no matter how hard you try.

Yourtotal amount that acquired from centralized exchange is forever known by government 3rd party entity.

I thought the first reference was “time chain”.

Correct. It was chain of blocks.

Hal Finney coined the term Blockchain