Appreciating your time, summarising the important information, news & events, saving my time. Pay day, so here's some value for your value. I hope you & your family have a great holiday.

https://fountain.fm/episode/VFttjTwwdrQTY56jhvwT

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Thanks for the value. My fountain stash ran dry this month, so now, post pay cheque, I'm returning some value, wish I could send more. Keep up the good work, your summary keeps me in touch with the important news & events and I know I'd never manage this on my own, while also mining fiat.

https://fountain.fm/episode/GQQPWGeUc9aBucftbmn8

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Thanks for the value. My fountain stash ran dry this month, so now, post pay cheque, I'm returning some value, wish I could send more. Please keep distilling the major btc topics, threats, human rights news etc for those of us stuck (for now) in the fiat mines.

https://fountain.fm/episode/sw8r3TMivZ8wzULxAV5J

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Yum, but that sounds far too delicious to be good for you ;)

I have a feeling that paradise is described - somewhere - as, 'The land of milk and honey'. So, well played for creating a taste of utopia, here on Earth!

Oh wow, I was completely out then!

Sounds a bit like a hangover cure, how does it taste?

During the tranquility of a winter's walk, it dawned on me that I'd like closure on this... How savage were you? ;o)

Also, happy new year!

Good luck on your journey and I hope you are able to spread the skills & knowledge you pick up, far and wide! I am a big fan of the value-for-value model.

Just for info, the creator of that site (Anita Posch) is a proof-of-work grass-roots activist. She travels through African countries (& possibly wider through the world), listening, educating, sponsoring and donating equipment (eg RPis) to help local scale communities to find some financial escape routes from the oppression of both thier governments and (ultimately) the IMF etc. I'm happy to support her in whatever small ways I can. It was through her podcasts that I found Matt Odell... so I will always have a soft spot for her!

If you are interested, her podcasts are freely available, e.g. https://fountain.fm/show/GEO1bBIhUkFLCnAaqXQ5

But if you are looking specifically for info on best practices for security & preserving privacy, then you are probably better of starting with something like Jameson Lopp's section on Bitcoin Privacy within Swann's bitcoin cannon,

https://www.swanbitcoin.com/canon/bitcoin-security/ (I apologise if I'm telling you things you already know). although I don't thin he specifically addresses the topic of using p2p.

I'll come back if I remember / find anything that seems more relevant to your question.

My view (not an expert) is, 'don't let perfect become the enemy of progress'.

If you are now, or think you are likely to be in real danger then this does NOT apply to you. You need to look at something like cash exchange in a public space (but take steps to maintain your anonimty) or I've also heard of pple using amazon gift cards to obscure then linknfrom you fiat to btc)

TL;DR

using a non custdial P2P, which doesn't ask for ID, is alrleady moving the needle a long way in the right direction for your privacy. Don't sweat about which fiat to use, unless you're a human rights activist in danger or someone with a target on their back (in which case, I'm not qualified to advise you, but tools exist to help - if you have time, try lookng here https://my.cracktheorange.com/).

extended ramblings...

For everyone else, the point is to make it much harder for governments (& criminals) to track what we do with our money, particularly how much fiat we convert into hard money. Sure, they could look at my bank statements, and try to identify which transfers are to peers in (allegedly) exchange for btc. They'd have to go through these (receiving fiat bank) accounts, one by one. High volume P2P vendors will probably be known but, as time goes on, & if more peers use P2P to exchange into/out of btc, this becomes harder for agencies to work through. If you do something to justify the effort to analyse all you fiat TXs, then they will do that. BUT this is very different from being able to effortlessly inspect every spend and receive in your fiat account, and use algorithms to categorise us by whatever metrics they consider relevant for control and supervision of 'the peasants' (us).

So use whatever fiat is easy for you, and for which you can find a peer to match your exchange need (buy/sell). With challenger banks (e.g. Revolut) it's easy to switch fiat into whichever flavour of weak money you need to complete the exchange. Buy 'little' (below your banks 'fraud protection' threshold, you can find this out by trial and error - start with say < $200 - 300 & see if they call to ask 'Are you sure?', or askNostr) & often.

It's like how inoculation against polio / measles etc works, we're building up resistance of the herd until it's not practical to mass-surveil.

Hope that helps.

Basic, but really important question for the nostrverse.

I'm spending some time thinking about fund management, coin control, doxxing etc. as I start to move closer to being on a btc standard.

I'm thinking about where to store cleaned UTXOs & what happend if you have to use one for paying a bill which doxxes the change. Up to now, I've thought you should only put non-KYC'd UTXOs (e.g. from bisq) on a dedicated wallet, one which never touches KYC'd coins. But now, I'm starting to think it woud be ok to have both on one wallet, as long as I follow the basics rigorously;

- use new addresses for each deposit

- label all UTXOs, to avoid using rhe wrong one

- back up labels

- be careful not to dox a clean UTXO, by using for something that is delivered to my postal address.

- maintain the coin labels (in case I have no choice but to dox a clean UTXO, e.g. if I had to pay a large fiat bill - larger than any LN channel capacity in a hurry/under stress, with no time to go through p2p, so I'd just want to use strike to convert from sound money to fiat, so that I could put that fiat stress behind me).

- Never share my xpub (e.g. always export transactions explicitly as a csvfor tax reporting etc.), such that the unique address usage retains the privacy of the cleaned UTXOs

Am I missing something? Is this actually doxxing my clean UTXOs?

My alternative idea is to keep a wallet specifically for KYC'd UTXOs. This would be for 'trickle charge' savings, i.e. for those annual / every N-year bills. So those sats would not be a part of my strategic reserve, 'just' escsping debasement while I wait for the bill (undestanding that I must save enough to be able to cover the bill if it hits during an 80% draw down).

Any advice, particularly from people who've been living on the btc standard, greatly appreciated.

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Thanks for explaining this further with Natalie Brunell on coin stories, https://fountain.fm/episode/wqnO9286ZBhZU1GEYhW7

Just gotta get some inbound liquidity on my lightning node & then I can point my (v modest) hashing / room-heating power at Ocean