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Replying to Avatar Seth For Privacy

Phew, it's been a while since I've been active here but I'm slowly getting back in the saddle!

Welcomed our second For Privacy child into the world recently and things have been joyfully turned upside down as a result 😁

Quick thread of random updates 🧵

I... spent all my Monero 😅

Didn't expect it to happen so soon, but between onboarding locals to Monero, donating to FOSS projects, funding CCS proposals, and using Cake Pay and CoinCards it went quickly.

Thankfully the options for restocking are getting better by the day!

Shoutout to LocalMonero and Trocador for being amazing tools for onboarding people (and myself) to Monero directly.

I shut down my public Lightning node 🥲

After months of frustration dealing with downed channels and failed payments, I finally gave up on running my own 24/7 node (for now).

I'll circle back eventually, but for now have migrated to using PhoenixWallet w/ splicing via Tor.

I'm also testing out nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 new LSP and in-wallet node, and will hopefully be using it full time moving forward:

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My hot take for Lightning moving forward is that only LSP models will be viable for 99.9% of people, and we need to figure out good ways to do the LSP model without sacrificing transactional privacy.

I got invited (again, surprisingly!) to speak at this years Hacker's Congress at Paralelni Polis in Prague!

While my presentation isn't ironed out, my aim is to speak on the options for scaling Bitcoin outside of Lighting, i.e. drivechains, trustless zk-rollups, covenants.

I discovered an amazing FOSS weather app, Breezy Weather 🌧️

https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather

I've been living entirely without a weather app as I couldn't find any good options, but love that this is FOSS and has strong pro-privacy weather providers and options.

I've started using Obtanium to install/update almost all of my Android apps 🔽

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

Obtainium is an absolutely fantastic app that lets you add app sources from all over (Github, F-Droid, websites, you name it) and track updates and install them.

I tried out Proton Pass 🔐

While I think I'll stick with Bitwarden for now as I'm pretty firmly entrenched and like to keep all my eggs out of a single basket, I'm really impressed with the UI and UX of Proton Pass, especially it's integration with email aliasing.

I started using Proton for all of my hosted service emails ✉️

While it's only available for Visionary/Business accounts, having a reliable and privacy-preserving way to send outbound emails from services like Nextcloud is a huge step forward:

https://proton.me/support/smtp-submission

I discovered an amazing Photoprism Android app, 100% FOSS 🖼️

https://github.com/Radiokot/photoprism-android-client

I've long-since switched my wife and I off of Google Photos and to self-hosted Nextcloud + Photoprism, but haven't had a proper Android client (which my wife hated!)

Finally that changed.

Photoprism Gallery is fantastic, loads quickly, and provides great, simple options.

With two kids it's really important to me to have strong backups *without sacrificing privacy* for family photos and videos, and now I can also easily browse those on the go.

Want to know what's even cooler? The author, Oleg, loves Bitcoin + Monero and accepts both for donations, including via Lightning!

https://radiokot.com.ua/tip

Please please please take a moment and send the devs of FOSS projects you love some sats or piconeros whenever possible.

Donate to what you love 🧡

I *think* that sums up the bigger changes while I've been mostly AFK.

What did I miss out there while I was gone? Anything huge in the Bitcoin, Monero, or Privacy spaces that you think I'd like to catch up on?

Welcome back, Seth.

You might want to look into Proton again. They are actively cooperating with government agencies and not accepting Monero, despite being requested by many is a huge red flag.

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I like how both GM and GN are acronyms for #Monero. What I like even more is how often Bitcoiners are using those subconsciously.

GM = Get Monero

GM = Get Nero

I like your take. It definitely made me realize the value of Bitcoin early on.

Shadow work made me realize the importance of Monero.

So if my path of spiritual awakening is in anyway reflected by others, brace yourself for the awakening of the "dark side".

Replying to Avatar Waklaf ∞/21M

Running nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct

What apps would you suggest to install/use? Obviously apart from #bitcoin & #nostr apps. And also already set up NextCloud

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_6395858188320451391691741401.webp

#asknostr #grownostr #fullnode #umbrel

A Monero node is missing in your beautiful collection.

Manufactured crisis is the only play governments have had left for decades to demonstrate power and excercise control over the population.

9/11, like most other terror attacks in the west, Covid, climate crisis are all big manufactured narratives sold to you by mainstream propaganda outlets.

It's a hard pill to swallow. But they say: The truth shall you free.

In the end it doesn't matter who does what as long as you are creating the solutions for a better life of yourself and your community. Build P2P private infrastructure for everything and the majority of today's manufactured problems will go away.

Monero means home mining.

Bitcoin means industrial mining.

Appreciate what is. There are trade-offs and each project needs to decide what to emphasise. One can not become everything for all that's why there is beauty in this movement as former trade-offs become trade-fors.

Both Bitcoin and Monero are important in their own ways.

The willingness of Bitcoiners to ignore other projects that follow the same ideals, but with different trade-offs is beyond belief. Monero's P2P pool works today and miners won't KYC- ever, thanks to CPU mining. Which of course has some other downsides. But that's the nature of trade-offs.

If we want to build systems that create a stable foundation for future generations we need to understand that everything in this world is polarity that needs to be "managed" in order to not become one-sided. Nature is a perfect example in that regard.

Now let them try to KYC Monero miners.

Already see and understand why Monero is as important as Bitcoin?

Better to buy some Monero and if you have some need for a store of value atomic swap some of it into Bitcoin and back if you want to spend it as digital cash.

I guess most Bitcoiners still have a hard time to accept that Bitcoin as is, is part of the problem and not the solution.

Without privacy by default, it will lead a supermajority of Bitcoin users into total surveillance.

Covid will be a recurring theme for those who got the gene-therapy.

Replying to Avatar Bitcoin Apex

First of all, an interesting detail, especially as a Bitcoiner: The word 'era', which stands for an age or for a period of time, comes from the Latin 'aera', actually 'duration of a currency', originally 'ore' as the basic material for coins. A very telling fact in my opinion.

My drawing is divided into three segments, each symbolic of a monumental period in human history - an era - beginning with the post-medieval period.

First, at the very bottom, I wanted to depict an inventive, explorative, but also power-hungry man - especially from the early modern period to the Industrial Revolution (IR): the heyday of modern man.

In the middle I'd like to show the effects of the IR and the beginning of money supply expansion, starting in the 2nd half of the 18th century, which was characterized by exploitation, slavery and child labor, as greed for profit abolished morality altogether.

Lastly, the upper part is dedicated to a real, sustainable solution to numerous, profound problems built up over centuries, as well as grievances in many facets of human existence and coexistence. It is called Bitcoin.

The history of the early modern period covers the time from ~1500 to ~1800. This period is delimited by events and processes that are considered significant for our own present. Let the modern era begin with the invention of book printing by movable type around 1440.

The conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the so-called ‘discovery’ of America in 1492, the reaching of India by sea in 1498 and the beginning of the Reformation in 1517. All of this was of far-reaching historical significance and in some ways continue to shape our lives today.

Among other things, it is these topics that are of particular importance in the study of early modern history. The growth of state power, European expansion to other continents, the increasing separation of church and state,

the media revolution triggered by the printing press, the so-called ‘scientific revolution’ since the 17th century, the juridification of European societies, the emergence of the world economic system, and intellectual/philosophical movements such as the Enlightenment.

Since history is always conducted with the questions of the present in mind, the early modern period thus has much to tell us:

Globalization, the growth of capitalism, the emergence of the modern state system or conflicts between different religious faith groups - the foundations of numerous developments that still concern us today are laid here.

The transition from the early to the later modern era is marked around 1800 by processes such as the Enlightenment, the beginning of the bourgeois era and, of course, the French Revolution and the onset of industrialization.

I once read the following sentences: ‘Without the possibility of money creation by banks, there would have been no industrial revolution. The investments could not have been financed.’ This made me curious and so I looked more closely at this socio-economic change.

In addition to changes in the world of work, the IR also brought a number of social consequences that changed the way people lived together in the long term.

These include rural exodus and urbanization, population growth, advances in medicine, the shift from a demand economy to an outsourcing economy, and growing prosperity but with imbalances.

Even if the IR has brought numerous benefits, the critical aspects must not be overlooked. Not only should the consequences for the environment be considered but also the fact that technical progress has made people increasingly dispensable in production, leading to unemployment.

In the course of the restructuring, many people were forced to give up their own businesses due to complete competitive disadvantages and were forced to work for their fate-bringers - at absolutely inadequate wages and working conditions.

Workers were seen and used exclusively as a means to an end. Time was the core element of any industrial entrepreneur and time was money. Morals had faded in the wake of profit, so much so that children were hired as well, with virtually no pay.

Industrial mass production fundamentally changed the world in the 20th century. In the beginning, it was mainly coal that helped the labor factor an unprecedented level of productivity. Later, oil created the essential conditions for traffic, production and consumption.

But the once cheap fuel continues to exact its price: water shortages and increasing soil pollution from industry and agriculture now threaten the livelihoods of billions upon billions of people. Not to mention geopolitical tensions and wars over oil.

The Industrial Revolution was a matter of time, not an option, but a natural discovery of the evolving and developing human being. Unfortunately, also with the dark sides of being human.

I believe it has been instrumental in shaping our current debt money system, which is characterized by more and more, faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper, all increasingly financed on credit and not real money.

It is my conviction that with Bitcoin not just a next, but the last great era of human socio-economic, social and spiritual thinking as well as acting has dawned. With all the advantages of the Industrial Revolution over 200 years ago, but without its disadvantages.

Our mundane space-time structure has been so perfidiously distorted by the fiat system over generations that it is hardly recognizable to man. So distorted that man loses sight of the reason for his existence and unlearns to be a human being. Trusting a matrix.

Even if Bitcoin will certainly not solve all individual problems, it fundamentally - through energy(E) and time(t) - ensures that people ground themselves again, find their way to themselves, recognize reality worth living with an open eye and no longer just trust it, but can also verify it independently.

The drawing measures 29.7 x 42cm / 11.6 x 16.5". Made with many pencils varying in hardness on thick, 290/m² rough drawing cardboard.

I like your summary of human history.

Also I like the aspect of light (Bitcoin) and dark (Monero) showing up at the same time in this 'era'.

The last thing we need is more taxes.

Tell me you don't understand how tail emission works and secures the future of Monero without telling me, that you don't know.

Monero supply is know at any time in the future. You can plan ahead accordingly today for year 2140, 2420 or 2969. And as many of you know the supply of Monero will be smaller than Bitcoin's until 2040.