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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:
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!
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.
Unfortunately Bitcoin has passed on the freedom movement torch to #Monero.
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".
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.
No it didn't stop. Bitcoin moved on to other important things. It still lives on in Monero.
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?
That's why Monero CPU mining with all its shortcomings matters.
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.
It's super challenging to acquire conventional HWWs in places like Russia, China & parts of the Middle East. But what DO bitcoiners in these places have access to? Raspberry Pi Zero and the other basic components you need to build a SeedSigner.
Our project is grossly under-funded when it comes to grants. We immensely appreciate all of the everyday bitcoiners who have told others about SeedSigner, pitched in to contribute their time & talent, or donated some sats to our development fund. 🙏
https://donate.seedsigner.com/ nostr:note1n797qkhhk8t0mhssh27l3gezdkafaaud69gjlf62qhuxh2latf2qrl5nsp
Can't find your XMR address
That's why we do default privacy with viewkeys on #Monero.
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.