Yael
Yaël

consumer advocate and writer \ deputy director consumer choice center \ fellow Bitcoin Policy Institute \ innocent abroad in Wien⚡yael@yael.at

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2024-11-14 19:42:58

I’m sorry to say that I may be now leaning toward Team Stainless Steel pans the last few weeks…

2024-11-06 19:23:57

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it's beautiful to see
https://m.primal.net/LurS.png

2024-11-06 19:16:58

I'm now up to 130 discovered nodes on my meshtastic device (now have a Lilygo t-echo).
Made a point to drive around with it for a few days and it's been wild to see where people pop up!
Have chatted back and forth with a few folks in the area, but nothing more than your general "73s" from ham radio and their location

2024-11-06 16:44:44

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Yes indeed. How do we zap him

2024-11-06 15:38:07

I love this British guy's videos on meshtastic stuff. He's so passionate, so nerdy, and you know he's got a gang of like 10 other British dudes just like him in his mesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05I7vtwsSjQ

2024-11-06 06:36:19

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I want exploding heads

2024-11-06 06:32:12

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Unfortunately can’t find a pirate stream

2024-11-05 19:35:36

MINT. THE. COIN.
https://m.primal.net/LtlR.jpg

2024-11-05 17:07:29

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Is your range good with the stock antenna?

2024-11-05 16:48:24

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yeah but these are chatbots

2024-11-05 16:36:47

I know many people on nostr are passionate about open-source. Whether you're into Bitcoin or not, many of us have grown to appreciate developers and their projects, fork as we wish, and have contributed code or sats where possible.
In normie world, though, there is a concerted campaign to demonize open-source code in the field of AI. This is dangerous.
There are people now making "national security" arguments about the availability of open-source LLMs like LLaMA, arguing that spooks, spies, and soldiers in the Chinese military are using these models to do bad and nefarious things.
There are active bills in the US House to outlaw any "foreign" access to open-source code, which I fear will only get worse.
We have to take stand against it, and protect and defend open-source for all.
Wrote a long-form nostr post about it here:
https://highlighter.com/yael/Open-source-is-for-everyone-even-your-enemies-52rdga

2024-11-05 16:08:27

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tapping into the power or using a small handheld solar panel would be even cooler

2024-11-05 16:04:27

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most underrated and awesome european country

2024-11-04 16:21:29

stellar work by the Bitcoin Policy Institute on the future prospects for a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve!
Very much a worthwhile topic to explore, debate, and envision.
Thanks to BPI, we have a blueprint.
https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/digital-gold-evaluating-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-for-the-united-states

2024-11-01 07:55:20

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UAP transparency 👀??

2024-10-31 12:46:04

I have seen the future
https://m.primal.net/LoDl.png

2024-10-30 18:42:14

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je vois que t'es francophone ;)
start here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40llxjrIG3w

2024-10-30 16:57:00

Is Bitcoin a Bubble?
https://www.bitcoinbubblemyth.com/

2024-10-30 14:23:50

Boys, we’re in business
On my Lilygo T-Echo in Vienna, Austria, #meshtastic picked up dozens of nodes I’ve never seen before
https://m.primal.net/LnCY.mov

2024-10-30 09:40:00

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have traveled there about a dozen times and have friends there, yes
great video by John Stossel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vXJzkvr8Y

2024-10-29 07:31:56

Sad to see what’s happening in the Republic of #Georgia (Sakartvelo 🇬🇪💪).
I see many large bird app accounts talk about a US-imposed “color revolution” and other kinds of insanity who know nothing about the country but want to simp for Russian interests.
It was obviously a sham election.
Anyone who’s been to Georgia understands what’s at stake and just how different it is. Its young people are some of the most libertarian and capitalistic because it’s burned in their anti-Soviet mentality. Freedom is the counterculture.
In the late 1990s and through the early 2000s, the country was a libertarian paradise: low taxes, fast innovation, no corruption, and the ability to open businesses and trade within minutes. Most of the government ministers were Hayekians who quoted Milton Friedman and even Murray Rothbard. Free market reforms were quickly imposed and raised the standard of living lightning fast.
Bitcoin mining was already a big industry by 2014-2015, and they had a huge entrepreneurial class building crypto tools.
In the last decade, Russian money and influence has streamed in and slowly eroded all these market reforms to make it a client state of Putin.
A lot of the young people I know there want to tie their fate to the EU not because Europe is some promise land, but because it’s better than being a conduit for Russian bankers and mobsters. https://image.nostr.build/a6bad87c9d94754744ead8165e6ea96d2615ab49656aaa9608401cab22ee99ce.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b81928bd6824a9266a908ea9d70321636d9138bcba0906ad056962fbd754e7dc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b602056b990d858e0d4f49f0deb8740190ced180a42f8927dbd46cd837e5b4a4.jpg

2024-10-28 12:04:07

"But though this technique of creating an order is indispensable for organizing the institutions of government and all the enterprises and households which form the elements of the order of society as a whole, it is wholly inadequate for bringing about the infinitely more complex overall order.
We have it in our power to assure that such an overall order will form itself and will possess certain desirable general characteristics, but only if we do not attempt to control the detail of that order.
But we jettison that power and deprive ourselves of the possibility of achieving that abstract order of the whole, if we insist on placing particular pieces into the place we wish them to occupy.
It is the condition of the formation of this abstract order that we leave the concrete and particular details to the separate individuals and bind them only by general and abstract rules.
If we do not provide this condition but restrict the capacity of the individuals to adjust themselves to the particular circumstances known only to them, we destroy the forces making for a spontaneous overall order and are forced to replace them by deliberate arrangement which, though it gives us greater control over detail, restricts the range over which we can hope to achieve a coherent order."
–F.A. Hayek, Kinds of Order in Society
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2024-10-26 18:38:02

Einen schönen #Nationalfeiertag! 🇦🇹

2024-10-26 16:47:23

Of course we all dream of this https://image.nostr.build/268c664db6085d653e10a61aa6d2ca2ac4671a3570bd22deecb23723a8bbc1c4.jpg

2024-10-25 16:58:24

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James Corbett
https://m.primal.net/LhxO.jpg

2024-10-25 08:58:25

Are there any Meshtastic specific relays/follow lists to subscribe to?
It seems a lot of the community are in fbook groups (wut) or discord, but surely there’s a better nostr way

2024-10-24 17:21:54

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I’m but a humble pleb

2024-10-24 17:20:58

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We wrote these model policies in 2021-2022 for state legislators to adopt. I’ve worked with many state legislators on these issues and have gotten great feedback. They champion these bills and do a great job.
I can’t speak to any other org and how they communicate on how bills get passed

2024-10-24 16:57:30

Now at *4* state-level Bitcoin-friendly bills signed into law via open-source model policy while 3 more await votes.
Both the “Reject CBDCs Act” and “Smart Cryptocurrency Rules Act” remain open on GitHub for adaptation and forking for state legislators.
Happy to chat to anyone on ways to improve or you can directly make a pull request.
These model policies are “negative rights” bills. The goal is to restrain government’s ability to implement bad policies for Bitcoin.
https://github.com/yaeloss/Bitcoin-Model-Policies https://image.nostr.build/cea8a3a18d08d4ee2c6c8ae448784fcabe243c0ad313d0b1a16a61c4983377fd.jpg

2024-10-23 18:27:05

All charges against Binance employee + former IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan have been dropped after months of pretty awful detainment by Nigeria.
Binance was accused of "money laundering" by authorities and they arrested him because he was an employee
https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-fg-drops-all-charges-against-binance-executive-gambaryan/

2024-10-22 01:23:46

The social graph be damned

2024-10-21 08:59:46

The simplest and best hack to take back your time and your life is an alias email service with disposable addresses.

2024-10-21 08:11:25

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Staying in the EU band, so I’ll be fine there, but pretty sure my antenna wouldn’t be strong enough

2024-10-18 21:13:17

No thanks bro
https://www.wired.com/story/worldcoin-sam-altman-orb/

2024-10-18 17:53:59

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great breakdown by Pirate Wires
https://www.piratewires.com/p/what-happens-when-your-city-is-deemed-illegal

2024-10-18 17:53:28

I had no idea they raided Próspera
What a sad turn of events for a project that had such potential for human flourishing without coercion
https://m.primal.net/LaEj.png

2024-10-18 08:34:26

Running Meshtastic https://image.nostr.build/fee2c1098fa65c06b0aaad3ba7ecef3296ee49224a2ce450357dbe848df8492b.jpg

2024-10-16 18:29:35

most vital Q: Why #bitcoin + why should consumer advocates, innovators, and citizens care about decentralized cryptocurrency protocols?
Because, for the first time ever, individuals have uncensorable sovereign money representing separation of money and state
http://oss.yael.at/intro-why-bitcoin.mp4

2024-10-16 18:28:45

If you hold your own keys, you are never at risk if a bitcoin or crypto exchange goes bust.
Self-custody is the killer innovation that has enabled individuals, for the first time ever, to actually possess sovereign money that no one else can access
from European Blockchain Convention
http://oss.yael.at/your%20keys%20your%20coins.mp4

2024-10-16 18:13:32

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#freesamourai

2024-10-14 10:57:29

Where are all you beautiful Czechs buying your LoRa gear?

2024-10-07 15:37:27

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what's your best source for getting them? Ebay ones all look smashed

2024-10-07 15:34:39

It's like Darknet Diaries but with the full tea
https://m.primal.net/LNtX.png

2024-10-07 12:45:24

I have no idea what I'm doing
https://m.primal.net/LNmQ.png

2024-10-04 20:06:28

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"The bill would amend the Bank Secrecy Act, repealing the need for transactions to be reported to government authorities in “suspicious activity reports”. The bill would also ban a Central Bank Digital Currency, repeal the Corporate Transparency Act, require warrants for government acquiring personal financial information, require congressional authorization for major financial regulations, create a private right of action for those harmed by illicit government activity, and much more."

2024-10-04 16:32:45

Along with upping SAR limit, it also repeals the Corporate Transparency Act (hell yeah), strengthens 4th Amendment $ protections, prohibits a CBDC (go bitcoin!), recenters financial authority, and creates private right of action for illicit gov't action!
Based Mike Lee!
https://www.lee.senate.gov/2024/9/lee-introduces-the-saving-privacy-act-to-protect-americans-financial-data
#note1muh…8juc

2024-10-04 12:14:35

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1 small step for man

2024-10-04 12:03:15

We must reform the Bank Secrecy Act to better protect consumer financial privacy.
Sens. Mike Lee (UT) and Rick Scott (FL) have a bill to start the work by removing the arbitrary 1972-level $10K Suspicious Activity Reporting threshold and indexing it more appropriately to inflation ($75K today).
An inflation-indexed SAR limit removes the KYC compliance nightmare too many have to face.
Very happy to support this bill to finally rein in the Bank Secrecy Act!
https://consumerchoicecenter.org/reform-the-bank-secrecy-act-to-better-protect-consumer-financial-privacy/

2024-10-03 13:24:25

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link?

2024-10-02 15:51:01

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to stay safe from the spooks!

2024-10-02 13:35:42

"CoinDesk identified more than a dozen crypto companies that unknowingly hired IT workers from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), including such well-established blockchain projects as Injective, ZeroLend, Fantom, Sushi, Yearn Finance and Cosmos Hub."
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/02/how-north-korea-infiltrated-the-crypto-industry/

2024-10-01 14:48:58

For any Indians here, what are your opinions on UPI?
I've heard from so many that the payment system is great for merchants and consumers alike, and it may be a reason why bitcoin adoption is slower than other regions (apart from the question about the value of rupee)

2024-10-01 07:46:09

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actually, most of the "Big Tech" in AI want open-source (apart from OpenAI), so they were happy to see this bill die. Safeytism is pushed by a few who want consolidated control

2024-10-01 07:27:20

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Reading your piece, I understand your analysis. Bitcoin forces honesty, and it will increasingly become embraced among private and public institutions because of necessity more than virtue.
I somewhat agree with that.
My own intuition, however, is that many people are using significant time and resources to try to "orange pill" the state or its various representatives in what will end up mostly a symbolic measure.
The network improves as more nodes come on line, more transactions are processed, and more creativity is applied to the structuring of everything above (lightning, ark, etc.).
Fundamentally, though, the "honesty" of money argument (as Zechariah's flying Scroll) is more readily applied in the developing world and will take time to root elsewhere. In this sense, I accept the Schumpeter cycle that it will take some sort of demise or deep depression to restart the engine and move large institutions onto honest money (though the smart ones will have already pivoted).
As long as our focus, as users of bitcoin, developers, educators, and activists, remains on individuals empowering themselves independent of the "bitcoin strategy" of the state, we are better off.

2024-09-30 21:08:09

The point was never to get the state to accept, acquire, or even buy bitcoin. It was to leave us alone to be free with sovereign money.

2024-09-27 19:43:22

Bitcoin and crypto users deserve good UX, but innovators and policy professionals must continue to educate on, protect, and defend self-custody as our universal directive.
Let people build innovative products and provide legal clarity to custodial solutions, but let's allow consumers, first and foremost, to embrace monetary sovereignty and keep cryptocurrency tech-neutral and free.
That was my message at the European Blockchain Convention in Barcelona this week.
https://m.primal.net/LDtm.jpg
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2024-09-25 11:18:09

I had sats on Nicehash from when I mined on my CPU a few years ago
They informed me if I don't log in, they'll take the money ("we'll charge for inactive accounts), so I was luckily able to send to a lightning address.
Imagine all the trapped bitcoin sitting on all these various services we've used over the years

2024-09-25 10:10:11

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It was disheartening, but I got some cheers. Like none of these people have ever done a “crypto” payment (let alone Bitcoin) in person before.

2024-09-25 08:10:46

I’m next up on the Visionary stage at European Blockchain Convention in Barcelona to talk about consumer adoption of Bitcoin and its crypto offspring, and what we need in our public policies, our innovation, and our cultures to empower ordinary people to use them
#EBC10
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2024-09-25 07:26:34

Apologies to my Spanish friends, but I will never be able to conjugate “vosotros”
I’m an Usted kinda guy. Blame my high school Colombian Spanish teacher.

2024-09-24 21:48:13

Barcelona at night is an shitshow.
Thousands of people, construction blocking all major streets, cops blaring sirens, people pissing everywhere, throwing bottles
https://m.primal.net/LAyX.mov

2024-09-24 20:10:01

Heard at this crypto conference: yeah they just launched this new layer one, it’s revolutionary
Yeah, okay pal

2024-09-24 20:05:07

Barcelona beach at nighttime https://image.nostr.build/8b8cb14017be0e229feeb6e747f811d0a7c3f7a4223c7c7b65250e7dfdf0e68f.jpg

2024-09-24 20:04:32

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I zap any and all de Tocqueville

2024-09-24 18:51:58

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It seems the local Austrian Post doesn’t accept this for me

2024-09-24 18:51:26

Oh my, are @npub1hcf…8dsc @npub1563…c9n6 sponsoring this blockchain event??
COMPLY HARDER, FASTER, STRONGER https://image.nostr.build/64df46892bfa89fec71d9acf42300b1edc32fca315ca6cd4f28eefc0763a82e3.jpg

2024-09-24 17:22:05

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Mr Tobo, I just can’t escape the American empire

2024-09-24 17:21:33

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oooh good one

2024-09-24 16:50:58

never gave these folks my number yet here they are
https://m.primal.net/LAie.png

2024-09-24 16:45:38

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I, for one, do not want "eco-friendly" racing.
I want burnt rubber, fuel fumes, and trashed cars

2024-09-24 15:51:38

Barcelona: the city of innovation that forces you to wait 15 minutes before booking a rideshare in lieu of a taxi
https://m.primal.net/LAfK.jpg

2024-09-24 12:13:02

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I was a young ham at that point and felt intimidated. I also lived in an apartment so that was a no-go

2024-09-24 11:26:02

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mate i've got many other devices, worry not

2024-09-24 11:02:37

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but will Ikea be cheaper, is the real question

2024-09-24 10:54:29

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The worse part is that most of the Apple experience is very geoblocked. Finance apps only available in the US or EU. Certain bitcoin apps only available in certain stores.
All to try to follow some strange regulatory regimes around the world

2024-09-24 09:47:14

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this is for the MacBook, but you’re correct

2024-09-23 22:24:50

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The EU curse. Easy to fix by switching stores (as I have to do for finance apps) but yet another result of geofencing regulation

2024-09-23 22:01:52

wow these new MacOS updated features are baller
https://m.primal.net/KzgM.png

2024-09-23 21:17:32

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most political philosophical groups have said this for a long time (ie. libertarians), but it hasn't advanced much

2024-09-23 19:18:36

speaking this week at the European Blockchain Conference about my favorite bitcoin projects and how consumers should be using them much more (not crypto gambling).
What else should I tell them?
https://m.primal.net/KzYG.jpg

2024-09-23 14:56:31

My brother on the wall at the NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen before the next pit stop
https://m.primal.net/KzLV.png

2024-09-23 11:45:25

Giving voltage dot cloud a shot for a lightning node. So far, the interface has been create.
Is there a way to update the thunderhub app? as far as I know, I can't SSH into the server

2024-09-21 06:47:25

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thank you @npub1ygz…60k2

2024-09-21 06:43:20

Personal relay secured ✅

2024-09-20 08:15:46

once again on the prowl for the simplest deploy code for a nostr relay

2024-09-19 07:51:43

one should be bullish that @npub1ath…4k6d is increasingly using nostr for his global base money updates

2024-09-17 18:39:54

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nice!

2024-09-17 17:47:28

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Turn it over, slave!

2024-09-17 17:43:46

MySudo just expired. Hushed has been interesting and cloaked has so far been great. Tough to balance all of these. Privacy has a price

2024-09-14 10:39:19

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Every place of lodging is required by the Italian law (likely terrorism law) to fully KYC all passport data and “tax number”

2024-09-14 07:34:21

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“send your passport to this random Gmail”

2024-09-14 07:27:08

Italian hotel registration laws and KYC are a disgrace

2024-09-12 08:43:52

This “ishowspeed” fellow is everywhere. I see his clips, and articles about his antics, but literally have no clue what social platform he’s on or even using. Everything I see are recycled clips from his channels.
I know nothing about him, but he seems to be the motif for streaming and zoomer social media challenges for views

2024-09-11 23:26:37

From a random Autogrill off the Italian autostrada, I zap notes

2024-09-11 23:21:49

As a non-dev who’s more a writer and a policy guy, I use @npub1qdc…zclt to stay up to date on all the great bitcoin and nostr innovations (and soon ham radio!) happening that usually don’t make it to the top of feeds.
Excellent convos and explainers always!

2024-09-11 05:03:22

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He’s mostly a political media operator, so I sense he sees advantage in changing it up, too, maybe

2024-09-11 04:51:07

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Drudge drank the blue kool-aid many months ago. Not sure what changed with him.

2024-09-10 17:27:55

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Never commie

2024-09-10 15:56:57

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yeah, I'm synced up

2024-09-10 11:14:12

what are the best one-click-to-relay hosting solutions?