Big difference w/ centralized vs decentralized #DigitalIdentity.

The 1st is dystopian: state-owned biometrics granting perfect surveillance and social credit.

The 2nd is cypherpunk: keys that prove custody of various types of identity (nyms, employees, and residents).

#Bitcoin

Consider that the defense industry and intelligent agencies exploited the war on terror to R&D and trial a #biometric government in Afghanistan.

And now that same environment, unidentified hordes of people with rampant crime and terrorism, is being engineered across the West.

Is this a setup to institute a harsh biometric regime like what we see in Beijing? I think it might be.

Any form of ID can and will be used against the populace. Disposable ID is where it’s at.

Neostore, Obtainium, Aurora Store

Bitwarden

Mullvad VPN

Proton Mail, Calendar, Drive

SimpleLogin

Standard Notes, Obsidian

Permission Pilot, usageDirect

Google Maps, Google Calendar

Ente Photos, Snapseed

River, Blockstream Green, Aqua

Zeus, Mutiny

Primal

Twilight

Antenna Pod, Newpipe

Gboard

Breezy Weather

Fox RSS

What are the must have apps on Graphene ?👀

$MSTR launching a Digital Identity solution using #Bitcoin  and @saylor’s existing patents around user location tracking and sphere of influence user identification bodes well for privacy.

I don't seek privacy.

I know that some of you do, and I want to support that, but I don't need it. I have a DNS record that ties an IP address to my legal name. Anything done by that IP address is, well, obviously me. If relays on nostr can associate my public key with my IP address, I really don't give a flying fuck. I am not engaging in illegal behavior (at least not knowingly) and I will happily comply with law enforcement should they think that I am. Trying to protect myself from all possible outcomes is I think a sign of paranoia. YES the government is wrong sometimes and oppressive sometimes and who knows what might happen. The general trends are worrying. But I address that by pushing for change, and by producing legal technology that helps push for change.

I understand some of you are fighting against evil top down systems of oppression via fiat currencies, and in doing so you are making yourselves targets, and are being anonymous so you can fight harder. That's fine, and I'll support privacy where I can. But this is not my personal battle. My battle is for free speech, a battlefield on which I don't have to be anonymous to fight with full ferocity.

So please appreciate the work I put into helping you maintain your privacy (gossip security, gossip relay privacy controls, etc) because I didn't need any of that for myself, that was 100% for you guys. And in doing so, don't mock my opsec or belittle my client just because it doesn't do things exactly the way you think it should do things.