Supposedly HSBC is blocking people who downloaded Bitwarden from F-Droid instead of the “official” play store

It's a tradition to watch this in Italy, and is actually broadcasted on the major TV channels on Christmas Eve 😂😂

In Italian it's called Una Poltrona Per Due, which means An Armchair For Two

G’day, my name is Hano and I’m new here. 54 years going around the sun, allegedly, and I bump into Bitcoin. Orange pilled by @87 to whom I’ll be eternally grateful. He walked into our little bakery and asked if I accepted Bitcoin. I said no. He asked, “Do you want to”? I said yes. He bought a bottle of wine in Sats and I watched that Wallet for months. For over a year. Read deeply, listened to podcasts, pondered the finance tested and popped out a lunatic, full tilt Bitcoiner. Twelve months in, stacking solidly, our bakery and winery heading into a Bitcoin standard. Full of hope. Life is good.

Proton is awesome. This kind of notice only happens when your email is tied in with "serious crime". If you a suspected of breaking Swiss law, no business is going to jail over a $13 a month user if the the gov gives them a legally binding order to freeze the account.

It's not just Proton...even the most liberal of domain hosts will not go to jail for their users. They can provide a safe harbor for freedom of speech, free press and whistle-blower projects, but when served a legal mandate to shut down a site, they must comply. If you signed up over Tor and paid with an untraceable coin like Monero, your site may be taken down, but they will still not know who the owner is.

This is not a Proton issue. This is a government law issue.

Proton has said time and time again, when forced, they must comply with Swiss law. They have repeatedly stated publicly recovery emails and recovery phone numbers are not e2ee and can be used to identify you. They recommend setting a recovery phrase instead so they will not be able to hand over any identifying information if forced to under Swiss law.

If the OP has truly don't nothing wrong, and practiced good OPSEC, they should be fine. They should be using a free burner account (signed up and accessed only over Tor) for anything that could potentially get an account frozen.

The content of their frozen account is e2ee. If they are suspected of doing illegal stuff under Swiss law and they opted to give a backup email or phone number, paid with their debit card, or enabled the dark web monitoring service, that volunteered information can be used to associate their identify, then that's bad OPSEC.

Proton has been very vocal about this, saying they will comply with government law when forced. Don't give them any data and they will have nothing to hand over.

I agree that all-in-one services can be risky. I also know it depends on your threat model and how they are signed up for and used.

No tool can replace good OPSEC or ultimately save you from bad OPSEC, or a situation like what happened with Skiff.

I use Proton in a compartmentalized way and I recommend it to most of my clients. I use it and recommend it for business domain email as well for most people.

IMO Proton is the best service of its kind out there for most people.

Proton Drive helps people ditch Google drive. That's a huge win for privacy for most people.

Yes, you can run your own server and email but if you don't do and sustain it just right, it can make you far less secure from attack.

Extreme cases call for extreme measures. In those cases, I wouldn't advise putting any data on anyone else's servers, only communicating through SimpleX or Signal, not using any kind of social media at all, wiping the web of any trace of identity, only connecting to the internet from outside the house, never using clearnet, only using Tor, etc etc.

Without sharing my client guide here, the gist is that I recommend Proton be used in a compartmentalized way, with your "official" main front-facing account using your real name and/or personal domain "business" email for official purposes. This is a huge win over using Google for most people.

There are 15 @protonmail.com etc addresses that can be used for forwarding old email (to a pseudonym email) another for purchases, another for banking, an anonymous email with just random numbers for other purposes etc.

One can then use the unlimited simplelogin aliases (they have the ability to send mail from the alias, not just receive...unlike the current built-in proton aliases) to avoid spam/breaches.

It is best in class for these purposes.

You can then sign up with another account for just VPN, another account for your Bitcoin wallet, another account for anonymous email not associated with your identity etc.

Just make sure you sign up for the other free accounts separate from your main account OVER TOR using their onion site and make sure it's a free account.

If you try to pay for an account at sign up you will have to use a debit card initially. If you upgrade from a free account, you can use cash or Bitcoin!

Sign up over Tor on the PROTON PASS page and you don't have to give an emal.

There is an option when doing it this way (on the Proton Pass page to create a free account and they will automatically create an email for you.

Then, upgrade using Bitcoin or cash and there is no worry of "having all your eggs in one basket".

GM

I have nothing to hide, but I don't have anything to show you either.

Peach is on zap store

What's the coolest thing you did with Bitcoin last week?

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Prepping my old Pixel 6 Pro for selling, so I needed to remove GrapheneOS and re-flash it with Google Android OS (getting my data off Graphene was an unnecessarily cumbersome chore, but that's a story for another time).

I spent two days messing around trying to get flash.android.com to work on Linux, and nothing worked. Every time it rebooted into fastboot, it would disconnect.

I tried to do it in a VM running Windows, then from a live OS, and got nothing but connection errors.

Finally, I just used android-tools and downloaded the OS from Google's dev page and flashed it through the terminal with only a few commands.

I should have done this to begin with—so much wasted time trying to get the browser flasher to work.

Flashing via terminal literally took 3 minutes.

Oh well. It was a learning experience. Hopefully this will help out other Linux users who find themselves in the same boat.

#IKITAO #Tech

Friesland the Netherlands 🇳🇱📍🗺️📸 #Photography #friesland #netherlands #Europe #travel #photostr #summer

All possibly true but all that doesn't define "the best" with regards to the country and especially the people!

There is no doubt that the US has seen prosperity and has been instrumental to many good things in the last 200 years, but I don't see your country 's financial situation (neither ours for that matter) well the last year's.

And we all know exactly why as Bitcoiners.

And as for defining the average American "the best".... I would be interested in knowing what are the bases of your statement.

Defining the best you imply that other are not, I find this interesting coming from an American, but not surprising.

Only a European could say this.

I get that you don't get it. That's fine. You like what you have and that's good. But we've gone 250 years without a tyrant goose stepping across our continent and massacring everybody. We have had tyrants, we have had massacres, but we haven't had our whole damn place conquered and dominated by one. In that time, Europe has had this happen 3 times. Literally the only thing that has stopped a 4th time over the last 70 years was US occupation.

America is still the best country in the world, with the best people. We just need to opt out of the Hegemony as our forefathers did.

No way! How come?

Been waiting 8 days for this transfer out of #Coinbase, is this typical?

I should be heading out to Madeira pretty soon

What would you like to know?

Bitcoin or non bitcoin or course!!

🫂🫂

Buangiorno 🤜🏻🤛🏽

Well. There is not much to elaborate.

You left a prison and chose the freedom route.

This is as based as it gets.

Very based

We know this.

But do we live it?

I just sold a gorgeous home a short walk to quiet, pristine beaches in a blue chip hood 🏡

so that I can exit the debt system & retire my man from full time work at 50.

I have large balls ( in my mind. )

Freedom.

The Govt will make an ass grab through your loans.

Can you think outside the box and truly go for it?

Set yourself apart from your friends and family and walk a different road?

Not just in stacking sats but in

L I F E S T Y L E

Can you downsize to upsize?

This is the way & fvck yes I’m flexing. I deserve to. 💪🏽💥💯

Profound thank you to all of those who built the bridge to help me believe these changes are possible.

Most of you on here in fact. TY 🙏

#downsize

#upsize

#freedom

#lifestyle

#pivot

#roadlesstravelled

#individual

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