bitcoiner7 nym

Freedom. Truth. Value. Happiness. Good life. This is what I'm after.

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NIP-05 Address

canyonvastness@getalby.com

NIP-57 Address

lenientguide79@walletofsatoshi.com

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2024-08-11 07:18:53

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Thanks a lot for sharing your setup.
I'm not ready to move to Graphene.
I guess I too much like the convenience of Google services.
But, inspired by your note, I guess I could, on my stock Android phone, simply add a new profile, without Google account, use Aurora to install Amethyst and a Bitcoin wallet, and, on this way, hide this identity and hide, at least from people who may look at my phone, the fact that I'm interested in Bitcoin.
Remove anything Bitcoin or Nostr related from the admin profile.
Do you think it makes sense and is a step in the right direction?
When thinking about my risk profile or op sec or privacy needs, I don't think I need a very strong setup, and I really like Google maps and fingerprint unlock and so on, but I don't want people around to know I'm interested in Bitcoin.
Thoughts?

2024-08-11 06:44:10

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Yes.
The more I think, the more I see, indeed, it is crucial to live a balanced life.
Balance between work and family.
Short term and long term goals.
Saving vs spending to enjoy things.
Strength vs cardio exercise.
Protein vs carbs.
Current moment vs future planning.
Doing things hands-on vs hiring.
Thinking about myself vs others.
Pleasure now vs pleasure later.
I could go on.
Balance.
Thanks for this note and reminder.

2024-08-10 15:25:38

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I'm afraid it's not that simple.
I have seen this type of estimate many times.
But is it true that, if an additional trillion dollars of capital gets invested in Bitcoin, then the Bitcoin market cap goes up by the same amount?
I do not think it is necessarily so.
How the price will react to an additional trillion of capital inflow, depends on liquidity, market depth, willingness of holders to sell.
It may go up a lot, or a little, but not necessary by the amount needed to increase Bitcoin market cap by a trillion.
At least that's what I think.
Happy to discuss.

2024-07-14 06:02:20

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A definition of "they" in the book "180 degrees unlearn the lies..." is The Hierarchy Exploiting You, THEY.

2024-07-13 06:36:03

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I'm wondering if he has a way to prove it.

2024-07-10 19:36:50

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Sad but probably true.
Yes we are early.
Yes we are making fast progress.
This is probably the ONLY place where THEY cannot delete your account.
I'm using Amethyst and it works very well for me.
Perhaps I have not tried tagging, although I think I have...
Anyway, have a great day everyone.

2024-07-10 19:31:52

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Bitcoin market cap is around $1 trillion.

2024-07-09 20:34:21

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Makes sense. Yes. Thanks. They could truthfully answer "I'm unable to close this account".

2024-07-09 15:12:39

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But how, I'm curious, given that Bitcoin network pays no interest on its own.

2024-07-07 14:28:11

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Would any have an incentive to do this?
Just thinking aloud.
I'd love Nostr to grow.

2024-07-07 06:06:58

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Thanks for sharing. I mostly agree. I would just add to this that even Nostr may be a bit addictive (yes, no algo but your curated feed gets you the dopamine hit just the same) and it may be risky for privacy, too ( if you share too much or use it in a way that your IP address can be mapped to you).
But yes, free speech. And you are in control of what you see. This is great.

2024-07-02 19:14:55

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I would love to see it happen. A free city state.
But, one thing is land ownership, sovereignty is another.

2024-06-29 21:56:07

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KYC
Taxes
Possible ban by the government (wrong and impossible to fully enforce but will slow the adoption down)

2024-06-29 11:17:16

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Very helpful
Bookmarked
Thank you

2024-06-25 10:54:43

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Very helpful
Thanks

2024-06-24 18:37:06

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You can also run Windows, in case needed, in a virtual machine, using Virtual Box, on Linux Mint.

2024-06-24 18:21:48

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Dosage? 5 grams a day?
In the morning or later with food?
Creatine, I mean

2024-06-22 19:15:07

https://www.schneier.com/
Just discovered.
Looks very interesting.
Essays on privacy, security, AI, encryption.

2024-06-11 18:25:54

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Is it a good travel destination?

2024-06-11 15:13:09

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And I think, when you run ollama and oterm locally, you can use the models and have privacy.
At least I tested and it still worked with wifi turned off.
Of course it's not impossible that it is storing my prompts and sending them somewhere later once I'm back online.
But it's open source so I guess someone would find out.

2024-06-09 16:23:50

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Thank you for making me aware of this book!

2024-06-09 15:24:53

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And banning Bitcoin mining is like not allowing you to run a program on your computer

2024-06-09 06:26:42

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Average human will probably have no objections.
Governments, however, politicians, authorities, yes, I think they will object to us being able to transact freely with the money we choose.
Why? Because they don't want us to evade taxes and finance terrorists or launder the money from criminal activities.
And transacting freely, without them being able to track everything, makes it possible. Of course it is also possible with cash.
I don't approve this approach. I'd like to be able to transact freely. I'm just answering your question with my hypothesis.

2024-06-08 19:23:12

Once Bitcoin is worth $1 million, what do you think the worth of million dollars will be in today's dollars?
In other words, to what extent bitcoiners will be very wealthy vs just have stored and preserved the value?
This boils down to the question, I think, to what extent the high price of Bitcoin will be the result of inflation, resulting from money printing vs Bitcoin actual increase in value, perhaps thanks to the monetary premium.

2024-04-27 13:29:51

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Thank you

2024-04-27 13:21:14

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What book is it from?

2024-04-27 13:12:30

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Thank you for sharing this
I have not heard about Natalie Babbitt before
I have just researched her a bit
Very interesting
Death makes values possible
Gives life meaning

2024-03-23 07:58:54

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Wait, what?
I was away for a while
I'm in Europe
Is my self custodial wallet now illegal?!

2024-03-15 08:12:25

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Thank you

2024-02-14 19:24:10

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Yes

2024-02-04 11:12:07

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Climate catastrophe

2024-01-30 16:16:11

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Ayn Rand explained it well.
The root cause is the basic error in philosophy most people have.
They mistakenly think that altruism is a virtue and so communism is an ideal, if only they could make it work.
In other words, despite the track record of 100 million deaths, many people think communism is an ideal and if only human nature was different, or, if only we tried harder this time...

2024-01-19 07:16:33

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Text summary in English here
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-president-of-argentinas-rallying

2024-01-18 20:14:05

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https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-president-of-argentinas-rallying
English summary here

2024-01-18 19:46:11

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https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-president-of-argentinas-rallying

2024-01-18 19:01:13

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Could be simply to myself, to the next receiving address from the same monero wallet?

2024-01-18 16:52:52

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I guess I could also, I tested it but I don't know if it makes sense to do at scale, use fixedfloat .com to send Bitcoin lightning and get Monero
Then, after a while, reverse: send Monero to get Bitcoin again, on lightning
Then send from lightning to on chain cold wallet
But this is slowly getting expensive, fixed float 0.5 percent each way
Lightning fees and monero fees are negligible
Bitcoin one on chain fee I would need to pay for anyway, in this scenario, to exit from lightning, in base scenario to move from hot to cold wallet
I'm probably overcomplicating it

2024-01-18 15:31:53

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this means 0.1 percent of their assets under management are in Bitcoin
like 1 billion out of 9,000 billion (9 trillion)
so, if this goes up to 1 percent, it is 10x
so they will need to buy 250,000 BTC
is that right?
wonder what that will do to a price...

2024-01-17 07:10:12

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Great point
Thank you
Need to build a habit to be aware of ourselves and reality around us and the good small things
This is life
And maybe even a secret to happiness

2024-01-16 16:27:07

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Great list
Bookmarked
Thanks

2024-01-16 16:26:30

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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Outlive by Peter Attia

2024-01-16 13:02:47

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Ah
I see
Congratulations 😀👍

2024-01-16 07:49:09

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Is it really an e-mail as well?
When I look at my alby account, I have another email address entered, as my email
Was it that, as you created the Alby account, you could get the email in getalby .com domain as well?
Just curious
Thanks

2024-01-15 18:22:28

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I'm thinking about a setup like this:
Two mobile phones.
One of them, my current phone, the "official" one, the one where I'm a "part of the system": Google maps, Google photos, Gmail, my fiat bank app, etc. You know, free tools, convenience.
But nothing freedom or Bitcoin related or Monero related on that phone.
No Bitcoin newsletters in Gmail.
No wallet apps.
Another phone, get a brand new low end device, this would be my "privacy phone".
Android with play services as usual, but create a new Google account, never log in to my real/old Google account from this phone, always use VPN to hide what I'm doing from my ISP, and on this phone, have my Bitcoin wallet apps, Cake wallet, Nostr apps, etc.
With this, I think I will get the user friendlies of the standard Android, no need to deal with Graphene. Yes, Google will track me, but they will not know it is me, because I will be using a fresh new Google account.
Does it sound like a viable plan?
It is always a trade off... I'm not going for perfection on privacy front. I'm looking for a good balance.

2024-01-15 12:01:08

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Beautiful picture
You could be conscripted, by force, drafted to the Russian army and quickly or slowly die in the war in Ukraine, like 300,000 Russians already have
You could go to prison for 15 years for criticism of the government, like for calling this war a war; their propaganda calls it a "special operation"
There is more, but I will stop here
Of course, US and EU are very far from ideal, in terms of freedom, monetary policy, economic policy, etc
There is a lot to criticize there
But Russia is the order of magnitude worse
Sure they have beautiful nature, mostly friendly people and so on
But Russian Federation is an oppressive and corrupt state
I wish it was otherwise but this is the reality, at least how I see it
Check any freedom index or human development index countries ranking, easy to find online

2024-01-15 10:35:17

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I have the same question
Thanks for bringing this up
Let's see what experts say
I'd like to think and hope that the approach you describe, which I'm contemplating as well, should give us what is called a "forward looking privacy"
In other words, exchanges where you bought a KYC Bitcoin, will still know when and how much you bought
And they can tell it to the tax authorities for example, to chase you for capital gains tax
Or to the dystopian government that wants to confiscate Bitcoin
However, they cannot, I hope, trace the very utxos anymore
They cannot say "I know this utxo in this address is yours"
So I think it gives a plausible deniability
You can refer to the last transaction they see on a Blockchain, the one you moved sats to lightning or liquid, and say, yes, it was me, I sold this Bitcoin
Or , yes, it was me, I moved to my lightning wallet and then I lost my phone in a boating accident
Well, at least that's my thinking
I'm not sure if I'm correct
And I hope the dystopian scenario will never happen and I hope I will find a jurisdiction with no tax on Bitcoin sale, or find a way to never sell, but borrow against Bitcoin
I want to be legal
Ok, let's see what others think

2024-01-15 07:41:16

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Oh sh....

2024-01-15 07:35:55

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I like this meme
And a serious question
When I log in with lightning, what identity am I really using?
Is it a unique id of my, this specific, wallet?
If I recover the wallet, say it's Phoenix, on a different device, is the login with lighting going to still work?

2024-01-14 14:18:55

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That's right
I'm contemplating the idea of getting a graphene or calyx phone
Or maybe a new phone with Google where I create a fresh Google account and use it for Bitcoin only

2024-01-14 14:09:31

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Better
Yes
Thank you
I'm actually using cake wallet already (for something else, may use it a bit more now)

2024-01-14 11:18:39

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Transparent on a Blockchain is the address
Tracking can link the address to me

2024-01-14 09:48:17

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That's why I'm kind of negatively surprised to see it

2024-01-14 09:46:58

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Yes
Blue wallet
Phoenix

2024-01-14 07:38:54

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I checked a few wallets that I use
And, under "trackers", they have "Google firebase analytics"
I don't like that
I mean, I guess it's nice for the app owner to know what I clicked when
But as I think about it, could someone match my usage data with on chain data to identify me?
Or am I paranoid?
Or should we all just accept this tracking?
Because otherwise feels like I'd have to be a total outcast, running everything on my hardware, open source and do a code review
Not going to happen
I don't know enough
And even if I did, I'm unsure the time investment and usability drop is worth it
Difficult decisions on freedom tech and privacy
Difficult
Anyway
Thanks for sharing the link

2024-01-13 10:12:49

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Found on the Fountain app and added to queue...
Thank you.
Will listen.

2024-01-13 07:46:39

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I agree
And as a store of value, digital gold, I think Bitcoin clearly wins
As a payment system, like to buy a coffee, and have privacy and speed and minimal cost, I think it is yet to be seen, which solution, or solutions, will turn out to be most adopted
We will see

2024-01-13 07:21:23

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Eye opening
Thank you

2024-01-11 15:44:50

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I asked AI what is "conditional acceptance" in taxes...
it said:
In the context of taxes, conditional acceptance can be used to challenge a tax liability or demand. For example, if the IRS sends you a notice that you owe $5,000 in taxes, you can reply with a conditional acceptance that says you will pay the amount if the IRS provides proof that you are liable for the tax and that the amount is correct. This way, you are not rejecting the offer or admitting to the debt, but rather asking for more information or evidence before you agree to pay.
Conditional acceptance can also be used to request an extension or a waiver of penalties for filing or paying taxes late.

2024-01-10 17:01:36

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HERE YOU GO

2024-01-10 12:45:51

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Yes.
Governments are unlikely to give up their ability to tax people, in a stealth way, by printing money.
So currencies, as a legal tender, in most countries, I think are there to stay, at least for decades to come.
Of course, I could be wrong.
I'd like to be wrong and soon witness governments move to a Bitcoin standard.
But...

2024-01-10 10:09:02

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https://simplelogin.io/ good?
better options?

2024-01-10 10:02:06

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Thank you. I will take a look. I used KeePass for many years, synced password database file to Google drive.
But then, some time ago, for usability, I defaulted back to Google chrome password manager. It's just so easy and works on mobile, etc.
Then, more recently, I thought I'd get out of Google.
Hence Bitwarden. I will look again at KeePass, maybe KeePass DX for mobile, or your product.
Thank you.

2024-01-10 09:57:04

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But I hope they cannot read my @npub1mea…qane, right?
Because, first of all, HTTPS is used, so the traffic from my browser to Proton Mail is encrypted, and secondly, the emails are also encrypted, right?
Or can the spyes circumvent it?
I thought Switzerland was privacy friendly.
On the other hand, I understand that monitoring the internet is one of the ways for government to prevent or detect crimes.
But, as an individual, law-abiding by the way, I want to be able to receive my Bitcoin newsletters to an email account nobody is monitoring.

2024-01-10 07:56:27

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Atlas Shrugged

2024-01-10 07:52:16

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How are your running it?
I played with ollama
Worked for me

2024-01-10 07:49:45

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Clowns at best, manipulators and criminals at worst. I guess we will never know.
Anyway, doesn't matter that much for those who hold.
Thanks for the timeline summary 😀

2024-01-10 07:47:02

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And, additionally, optionally, you can use a BIP-39 passphrase.
I see it as a, kind of, equivalent of 2FA for Bitcoin.
Is this a right analogy?

2024-01-10 07:37:47

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Knowledge --> conviction level --> portfolio allocation percentage

2024-01-10 07:34:04

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When you say "we don't have the desire" (for the government to use freedom tech to communicate), who do you mean by "we"?
Because I, for example, would certainly desire it.
But of course, the government does not.
And the people, most people, they don't care I guess, unfortunately, and are mostly unaware of the problem and of the existence of Nostr.
And I guess the only way to get the government to use Nostr works be to grow Nostr... Right?

2024-01-10 07:28:19

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Yes

2024-01-10 07:26:27

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True.
How might we convince the government to start using Nostr for communication?
(while probably most of us Nostr users think that government is a criminal protection racket)
Impossible, I guess.
But I agree, they should.

2024-01-10 07:17:46

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Do you recommend any password manager?
Bitwarden?
Thank you 😀

2024-01-09 10:26:48

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There is an argument here that 12 words in enough and 24 does not add much
I don't know enough to form a strong opinion about this
Common sense tells me 24 is orders of magnitude more secure
But the author claims otherwise
Your take?
https://foundationdevices.com/2023/06/make-12-words-the-standard/

2024-01-09 10:20:31

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Thank you
Love to hear it
Let me think and get back to you directly
Which country world you ship from?
(I want to assess the risk the border customs control makes me pay VAT and a tariff to receive the package) (for example of happens here to shipments from AliExpress)

2024-01-08 17:26:12

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2024-01-08 13:32:27

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Will I be getting similar forward-looking privacy if I peg-in to Liquid, keep L-BTC for a while, and then peg-out, in a couple of transactions, back to BTC, to new addresses in a new account?
The cost is 0.1% one way.
Coins will not be tainted or tagged as conjoined.
Could it be a good option?
https://sideswap.io/peg-in-out/

2024-01-08 13:03:40

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I wanted to say "against you", not "sharing you"...

2024-01-08 13:02:52

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I agree but fiat has one big advantage over you hypothetical crypto token you could create.
And that is, people with guns, people who can and will use force and coercion sharing you, government and police, will force you to pay taxes in their fiat token and force everyone in their jurisdiction to accept their fiat token as payment.
So, there is that.
But yes, I agree with your sentiment :-)

2024-01-08 12:43:47

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You are right, only actions matter.
I get it, the user interface of a degoogled phone may be the same. That's not my concern.
But is it "easy" to make the switch?
Well, perhaps I'm missing something, I'd love to be wrong, but it seems to me that Graphene OS or Calyx OS works on Pixel phones only, and I don't have a phone like this right now, and they are unavailable where I live, at least not easily available and a cost to buy one if not trivial to me.
Is there an OS that will work on wide range of devices? I have a phone that is 3 years old, running Android 11 today.

2024-01-07 20:47:36

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I got Alby extension to work on mobile on Firefox.
I even sent some sats to Alby wallet and sent some zaps from it via Primal and Snort via Alby extension.
That worked. It's actually incredible to see how I can use the same identity in different apps.
I logged in to Listr using Alby. Another success.
But I don't know how to copy someone's list still...
I tried, I found Derek, but I don't know how to copy his list...

2024-01-07 19:45:10

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Thank you, very promising, on a first glance.
They say this is still a beta, and do fdroid release yet. I guess I'll wait a bit more.

2024-01-07 18:43:25

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2024-01-07 18:35:34

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Ultimately, yes.
But, for a long time the truth may be shadowed by a falsehood, unfortunately.
And, your point presupposes, and I agree, that the objective, absolute truth actually exists and is knowable.
I got this from Ayn Rand.

2024-01-07 18:26:17

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Great to hear
Looking forward to having Strike in Europe
I hope EU regulations will not make it impossible or unprofitable for you

2024-01-07 18:20:21

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Thank you, great, I will try when I'm at my PC.
From the phone, Listr requires a sign-in with extension and I don't have any working extension on mobile.
I'm not even sure if there is any.

2024-01-07 18:00:33

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I've just followed you
So I'm the second one 😜

2024-01-07 17:55:46

Another question... in my quest to gradually migrate to a freedom tech...
"Open board", an open source keyboard for Android, that will hopefully not spy on me and not send everything I type to Google...
https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard
What do you think?
Trustworthy?
Worth installing?
(I'm not ready to move to Graphene or Calyx)
(You could argue that as long as I use stock Android, Google anyway controls my device and may soy on me anyway)
@npub14sl…t5d6
@npub18am…p424
Your thoughts?
Thank you.

2024-01-07 17:50:30

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I see that you are following 1300 npubs 😃
Do you know if there is a way, in Amethyst or any other Nostr app, to automatically start following everyone who someone else is following?
Like, if I wanted to copy your following list...

2024-01-07 08:42:42

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Great question.
To really answer it, I think we would have to precisely define what do we mean by the "peak as species".
And for sure it can have many vectors, like number of people not in poverty globally, number of deaths due to violence, number, or percentage of, people globally living in relatively and reasonably free countries, technical innovations, philosophical innovations like in ethics... so many ways to look at this.
I struggle with this assessment myself.
Per many official statistics, we live in a better world now than 30 years ago.
On many, many other fronts, it feels worse to me, and getting worse.
But we have hope. Bitcoin and freedom tech.
At the end, at the root, I think there is what ideas and philosophy people have.

2024-01-06 09:17:36

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And it's not impossible that it is priced in
We simply don't know
I'm careful not to be overly optimistic
I don't count in getting rich overnight just because they approve the ETF
After all, indeed, there have been ways for investors to invest in Bitcoin, or at least get a price exposure, already
We will see
Of course I hope for the best, but I don't count on it

2024-01-06 08:57:34

Do you trust and recommend the "uBlock Origin" Firefox extension?
Open source
Extension signed by Mozilla
Looks safe, right?
But still, technically it can read all my data on all websites...
Thoughts?
@npub14sl…t5d6

2024-01-05 14:27:31

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Great note. Thanks. Added to bookmarks.

2024-01-05 14:23:26

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Are you saying that Google can see my nsec if I run Amethyst on Android?
Are you saying that Google can see the private key of any online wallet app I run on Android?
I mean, I guess, indeed, if they own the operating system, then technically this is not impossible...
But...

2024-01-04 23:23:51

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Thank you.
You made me think.
OK, Google has never seen my private keys.
I use a cold wallet on a device that has never been online, and never will be.
So, they cannot confiscate it "just like that".
However, I have just realized, or rather, you have made me realize, the Bitcoin I buy every week , I'm sending it, every few months, from my hot wallet, a Blue Wallet app on Android, to my cold wallet.
Is there a possibility that Google knows the addresses I'm sending my Bitcoin to? By somehow monitoring, via Android, what the Blue Wallet app is doing? Or by monitoring my traffic?
If true, what can I do? If I use a Linux PC with a Sparrow wallet on it, sign a transaction offline, to send my Bitcoin to myself, from my cold wallet to the next address in the same wallet, and send my utxos to it, perhaps in a few transactions, not to consolidate them all in one go - would that work?
Then, when they come for my Bitcoin, I can say, plausible deniability, that I sent it to someone or lost my key and someone took it. And nobody will know that the address I sent it to was my own address, right? Unless they know my private key, which they cannot know.
Right?
Damn, maybe I'm paranoid, but the wallet online app on Android knows my cold wallet xpub. I added a watch-only wallet to it.
Does that mean that theoretically Google may know all my future addresses? And so the only way is to create a new wallet with a new private key?
Overall, thanks again and, yes, I think you can add me to the list of people you convinced :-)
And scared a bit.

2024-01-04 15:08:52

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It's a difficult topic.
I keep wondering about it, too.
Probably no self hosted solution is going to be as convenient and user friendly as big tech.
But they spy on us and can delete our accounts whenever they want or give our data to a dystopian government.
On the other end of the spectrum, self hosted next cloud on your own hardware, its a significant work, not only to install, but also maintenance, backups, upgrades, troubleshooting if an upgrade breaks it.
Are there any middle ground options?
Proton drive perhaps?
Use Google drive but upload encrypted files only, so they don't know what that is, only as a backup? (of course this will not work for sharing pictures online)
What else?
Thanks.

2024-01-04 10:44:47

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I wish I waited for this.

2024-01-04 10:25:19

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Thank you

2024-01-02 08:02:05

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Thank you. Helpful point. Yes I'm by far earlier in this journey :-)

2024-01-02 08:00:05

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As you do this, one suggestion, please see if you can analyze altcoins in the context of a specific use case.
I think there are at least 3 different ones in the overall space.
1. Digital gold. A long term store of value, inflation hedge, impossible , or at least very hard, to confiscate. Bitcoin is a clear winner, at least in my view, due to decentralization, network effect, etc.
2. Daily payment rails, like, to buy a coffee. This is where speed and fees matter a lot. Enter lightning, but here we compete with fiat payment rails that work pretty good, to be honest, in my view, at least in the developed world, like paypass, Visa, revolut, cash app, I can do transactions instantly and for free... But no privacy and "they" can block me if they want.
Privacy is another dimension here. Actually also in the digital gold use case, because ideally we don't want dystopian powers to even know we have Bitcoin, right?
3. Smart contracts. Here we enter things like etherum, Solana, etc. and capabilities like DAO, decentralized exchanges, or even these digital receipts for paying for images, however they call them. This is what Bitcoin was probably never even designed or intended to be used for, but still people try.
So, not sure if it helps, but I felt like sharing.
I think that, if we compare Bitcoin with other coins, it will be good to say compare for what, what use case
Good luck with your research.

2024-01-02 07:23:50

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Can you please share a bit more about your setup for Computing and Communication?
This is an area I want to make progress this year, towards a freedom tech.
It will be a journey.
And I guess I'm looking for the right balance for me, between a convenience of a mindless use of big tech vs freedom tech, which of course comes with some usability drawbacks, and costs, and work.
Thank you.
Good luck!