Ov1
Taoist Bitcoiner

A long time Bitcoin Standard bearer actively training myself and my peers (so I have some), in the battle over ownership of our data, our money, and our communication channels in the war between decentralized free individuals and the centralized tyranny of the crowd.

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npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm

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ov1@bitcoiner.chat

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ov1@npub.cash

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2026-02-16 17:24:07

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I highly suggest researching the work on "Pattern Language" done by Christopher Alexander. Combining his work on design of built structures, with Permaculture provides a powerful way to organize the pattern templates into a 'library'. I've come to view the combination of the home and gardens into a 'macro-biome' as the best framework for designing 'livingry systems', as Bucky Fuller envisioned as a replacement for the weaponry industrial complex.
These frameworks and ideas from our predecessors may make what you're building even more useful and easier to transmit to others.
Myself, I'm been called to work more on the home, than our gardens, but, have learned to integrate the two as much as possible. Here's my blog post on the section of the residential construction field that I've been contributing to, what I refer to as 'Bio-dome Igloos'. Decentralizing manufacturing and vocational tech training helps us achieve sovereignty over our shelters, avoiding the need for mortgages and often 'permission.
https://njump.me/naddr1qq2nz4662dmhgk2xtac4g42jt9qnxc6tgdckuq3qqq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsxpqqqp65wzxq8xw
These Biodomes make great agricultural buildings, short/mid/long term ADUs, and/or green houses. This pattern has near infinite variations and allows us to 'grow' our built infrastructure over time, quite literally 'printing' customized joints as need calls for it. I'm about to enclose my 5th iteration on these patterns and will have more pics and details to share soon.
As you are, I will be operating on a strict 'Satoshi Standard', accepting only sats for payment, as savings, and preferring vendors/labor that does the same. I will link from my resources to yours, as I make them live, and look forward to seeing how yours develops. Reach out anytime to collaborate and sync up our operations, as we build out the Livingry Industrial Complex that Bucky and Bill Mollison planted seeds for half a century ago.

2026-01-29 16:02:41

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Well done sir!
I was wishing for this integration, thanks for building it for us, so I don't have to attempt to do so myself. This seems an obvious integration of complementary technologies.
Now we just need to integrate this offline app distribution with what you just built. Then, we may be finally removing some difficult security threats making us all more uncensorable.
https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore/issues/259#issue-3795860706

2026-01-26 19:52:26

Found this in my notes today, thought it applies to many, if not most of us here on Nostr. This quote speaks to exactly why I prefer 'self-sovereignty' over simply 'sovereignty', as to be self-sovereign is to neither rule over, nor be ruled over by others.
Ancient Order Of The Hermetics
James William Kaler
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"He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.” — Goethe
True greatness does not scream for titles, nor does it depend on subordinates or masters. It is not found in the power to rule over others or in the comfort of being ruled. It is found in the still, sovereign soul who answers only to the divine compass within.
To neither command nor obey—this is not the absence of discipline, but the presence of inner mastery. It is the awakened realization that the highest authority we can ever serve is the divine spark of consciousness within ourselves. This is what the ancients called gnosis—self-knowledge, self-governance, and the freedom born of understanding one’s place in the greater whole.
The world teaches you to strive—to rise up the ranks, to be above others, to take orders until you’re giving them. But this is the illusion of power, not power itself. It is a game of shadows where the puppets mistake their strings for strength.
Independence of spirit is the true seat of happiness. To live by principle, not pressure. To walk your path, not chase applause. To choose silence when others shout, to act when others stall, to think when others obey.
The one who fills their station of independence knows that life is not about climbing ladders—it is about standing firm where one is planted, fully rooted in purpose, unmoved by the winds of external approval or fear. This is the Hermetic path. This is the warrior’s way. Not to rule, not to be ruled, but to be.
For those with ears to hear—this is the quiet revolution. No flags, no followers, no thrones. Just the rise of the individual, sovereign and sacred, ruled by no one and in need of nothing.
Fill your station. Walk your path. Bow to none but the truth within.
https://blossom.primal.net/b4a453a6701839a65f215552aaaf803874c4489547301ab851b4555ada1f49c8.jpg
That is greatness.
That is freedom.
That is peace.

2025-12-30 06:06:00

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I have experienced this very thing. The same price moves that make precious metal holders decide to sell makes the dealers uninterested in buying. Paper prices are NOT the same as street level physical trade prices.
The lack of places to spend or sell self custodied metals eventually dries up all the liquidity driving paper prices higher.
Shiny rock mania dies down once a shortage of greater fools occurs.

2025-11-22 23:01:27

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You sound like a domesticated pet who can't believe anyone would be willing to die for their ideals. The fact is that past a certain age death and/or political imprisonment aren't as great a threat as they are to overgrown domesticated adolescents. I have already sacrificed everything and almost everyone due to my being unwilling to compromise my principles. The threats of the Nanny State and their thugs are as empty as hot air from paper dragons.
I AM building privacy tools, for identity, communication, and payments. I fully recognize I may be 'black bagged', disappeared for what I'm doing & there's no wayinn hell I would "plea bargain' with them. You seem new to the realm of Bitcoin, we kill our heroes, those Devs are NOT heroes, they are cowards who picked a fight with a bully and then backed down rather than get their as beat.
You assume I'm young and naive because you were born into a generation of weak men. So, can't believe anyone is truly committed to live free of die.
I've been a War Tax Resistor for my whole life. I'm very used to threats of Imprisonment and judgement from Sheople. But, I can't prove that either, as you cannot prove a negative, so you'll probably assume that's a lie too. Which I'm also used to...

2025-11-22 21:15:19

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I was on a Warrior's path before Tate & Svetski were in diapers.
I have nothing to prove to you or anyone, I merely called as I see them.
IF you knew ANYTHING about the Code of the Samurai, (living in modern day Japan obviously taught you nothing of it), you would find the idea of a True Samurai "pleading" to the court for mercy truly laughable.
Truth doesn't need defending, I couldn't care less what you think. I'm merely countering your bullshit narrative with some facts based on actual history. Not those role playing at being a warriors unprepares prepared to 'Live Free OR Die', preferring 'Death Before Dishonor'.
For some of us, those sayings aren't just bumper stickers, it's a Way of Life.

2025-11-20 19:55:19

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This was totally predictable! Only naive children would be surprised when the rule of law is ignored and the Nanny State attacks those building privacy tech.
No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Yourself included, IF you have a government ID, file taxes, and/or use a bank account.
Those who've left the plantation don't fund their enslavement by filing taxes, use debt note slave currencies, or let the Nanny State tell them who they are. IF you do ANY of these things you ARE a free range slave! As the LARPing Samurai devs ALL likely do too...

2025-11-20 19:48:40

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Dude, I'm a GenX martial artist prepared to die for what I believe in. I earned my 1st whole coin for setting up a full BTC QT node and helping someone buy their non-KYC BTC with cash in 2014.
I'm not 'role-playing' nor 'wet behind the ears'. I'm a battle scarred veteran calling out the cowards who pick fights with bullies and then bend the knee when push comes to shove.
Sounds to me like you are describing yourself, and the so-called 'Samourai' devs who have probably never heard of the Bushido Code.

2025-11-20 15:05:09

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I've been saying the same thing!
Had these devs understood what it meant to be a true Samurai, not LARPing as warriors for freedom, they would NEVER "plea" for mercy. Rather than xompromise their honor by pleading to a victimless crime they didn't even commit they would've fell own their own sword. Death before dishonor is part of the Way of the Samurai.
Family or not, they should've recognized that death was a possible, even likely, outcome for having built tools that undermine the Nanny State's power. A real Samurai, not a LARP, would commit seppuku before pleading before the crown!

2025-11-19 05:04:21

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You have a bank account..?

2025-11-13 21:21:59

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So how about you also setup https://cashapp.com/.well-known/nostr.json?name=cashtag to automatically give CashApp NIP05 Nostr Usernames to everyone that already has a CashTag..?
These will obviously be doxxed KYC'd Nostr accounts (at least within your database) but it seems like providing Merchants a means of communicating with their Consumers (perhaps thru NIP17 protocols as Bitchat does) could be a powerful add-on feature for your existing userbase!
This would then enable us all to find and send Zaps to anyone/everyone that has a CashTag.

2025-10-17 23:58:55

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Cognitive Capital is our most value asset. It includes our 12 magic words, but also our skills, experience, and our personal networks. It's not who you know that matters, what matters is who knows you, and that you know what you know.
Nostr & Bitcoin, it's where peers can find,communicate, and engage in trade with each other without arbitrary lines in the sand and self appointed gatekeepers getting in between consensual financial intercourse between adults.

2025-10-07 20:36:57

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Our Nsecs are the equivalent of Social Security Numbers we create for ourselves, with similar issues that there's no way to change or update them if they're ever exposed. Likewise, there's no means of safely establishing group identities due to this same issue. We solve this by using our NIP05s as our Unique Identifiers, ideally connected to self-hosted domain names that we control. The added benefit of a matching payment identifier becomes possible by creating LN Addresses, and eventually on-chain Bitcoin Silent Payments, that ALL use the same re-usable, human readable, identifiers.
These issues can be solved by establishing Fedimint Nostr signing of group accounts and by careful Nsec handling and upgraded 'tooling'. This can and will someday enable self-sovereign self-credentialed self-custodied decentralized IDs. Many of us are working on these solutions right now.

2025-10-02 22:05:45

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More important than screening, fast and do parasite cleanses regularly...

2025-09-29 20:41:04

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Our skin is our largest organ for detoxification. Skin 'issues' are almost always due to toxic overload. The best way to address this is to fast, giving the body the opportunity to 'clean house', and it's usually advised to assist in this detoxification process by taking either bentonite clay or activated charcoal tablets to help absorb the toxins being broken down. These can also be taken when not fasting, too. It's a common practice to keep a dedicated water glass with bentonite clay that's mixed up, made 'colloidal', drinking at least one glass of that clay/water mix every day.
I started with the 'Master Cleanse', (lemon/lime juice, grade B maple syrup, and 1/8th teaspoon of cayenne) as the only thing consumed other than water, along with bentonite/charcoal and often some psillium husks to act as a 'broom' helping to sweep the intestinal walls during the cleanse. My first Master Cleanse I went on lasted 21 days, and I added to these practices what's called a 'sea salt wash'. This is simply drinking 1 liter of water + 1 Tablespoon of sea salt quickly first thing in the morning, passing this digestive wash of the entire 'alimentary canal' helping to rinse the 'pipes' unobtrusively. You'll want to stay close to a toilet for a couple hours to give this digestive rinse a chance to pass through and cleanse your digestive tract. The first Master Cleanse I went on I was passing solid waste every day for 3 weeks even though I'd not eaten solid food at all the whole time. I was sold on these disciplines for life, kept doing them for 10-14 days 2x a year, and have not been 'sick', seen a doctor, or taken ANY over the counter or prescription medications for 35 yrs now.
I can almost guarantee that IF you can make it at least 1-2 weeks on this liquid diet your skin 'issues' will clear up and likely never return if you continue this discipline annually for decades to come. Once you experience the difference these cleansing practices make you'll not need to take my word, or anyone else's, on how beneficial this is for your health.
Good luck, enjoy the process, and celebrate the development of Will that this discipline will solidify in your character. Your mind and your will taking the helm controlling your body's desires will make all other acts of discipline and exercising of your Will easier. You'll also begin to notice how much of our social lives, and advertising media, revolve around food and to realize that overconsumption is the root cause of almost all dis-ease.
https://archive.org/details/mastercleanserwi00burr
https://www.scribd.com/document/737556612/The-Master-Cleanse-Movement-with-Tom-Woloshyn-Getting-Started-Guide

2025-09-23 18:21:29

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This feature is one of the many reasons that Breez is one of my favorite LN wallets. The built in POS, Podcasting 2.0, and the Breez SDK are the other reasons it tops my list. Just make certain to store your recovery credentials!

2025-09-22 21:10:50

I just located an article I wrote over 3 years ago that's still relevant and potentially a valuable strategy for those interested safely 'Sailing the Satoshi Seas' today. Enjoy, share, and let me know if you'd like me to start producing more content like this again. I may begin publishing them on both Substack and as long form Nostr posts, there are advantages to both for Bloggers.
https://thewayofbitcoin.substack.com/p/sailing-the-satoshi-seas-on-a-personal

2025-09-22 15:01:40

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What IF digital payments achieved final settlement without unnecessary delays due to "banking hours/days", didn't have charge back risks due to a "pull payment" system that claws back payments many months after their paid, or have %-based transaction fees that 10x'd the fiat toll booth operators profits simply for moving the decimal point to the right..?
How much faster, more effective, and more efficient will merchant trade be when business owners get their money sooner, don't have to account for identity theft causing fraud taking back payments (or oxymoron "capital gains" taxes), and their profit margins increase because the transport rails are permissionless and borderless..?
Imagine IF the creators of wealth got to keep more of their wealth, to receive it and redistribute it in minutes instead of days, and their marketable audience is larger because their client base is not limited by lines drawn in the sand or Nanny-State issues credentials!!!

2025-09-22 02:58:37

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Just wait until you watch the Children of Dune SciFi series. If you haven't seen it yet, they made it a trilogy that's nearly 9 hrs in total. Absolutely worth it, very well cast and very true to the books. Many of us Dune lovers enjoyed the Children of Dune series even more than the original book and sequel, 'Dune Messiah'.
I may just get an audio book version of them all and enjoy them again while I work. Will be interesting to see how much of those philosophical ideas have made me who I am today, without my even realizing I'd absorbed the lessons from them.

2025-09-21 23:42:32

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There's a place in that gear system for Fedimint, too. As a parallel group signed Bearer Promise for those already within trusted groups like businesses, churches, and families. Many will find those "promises" easier to trust. The challenge will be in making that trust ephemeral or at least with a threshold that helps users avoid get lazy and trusting too much for too long.

2025-09-21 14:58:23

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Seems like these so-called "Samourai" didn't understand the Bushido Code where losing face is worse than death. True Samurai would have gutted themselves and allowed their heads to be taken before "pleading" guilt to a victimless crime they didn't even commit.
A Samurai doesn't "plead" with anyone!
They certainly wouldn't have handed over their private keys either, these Deb's were role playing at being Samurai, LARPing armchair warriors who buckled, bending the knee when it came time to die in a battle the invited upon themselves.

2025-09-20 11:57:53

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The 'time value of money', becoming more valuable in the future than the present, will make spenders more frugal forcing businesses to provide more valuable products and higher quality services. Imagine how much better the marketplace will be when planned obsolescence isn't rewarded because people won't part with their sats as easily.
Every expenditure, no matter the form factor of the exchange, has an opportunity cost in sats forgone. Imagine how much business efficiency will improve when charge back risk, bankers' hours, and %-based fees are removed from the equation.

2025-09-19 23:50:03

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Right, Imagine IF this money could be earned without permission, was immune to physical theft, and grew, rather than shrank, over time...
What might we be able to build, protect, and transmit to our descendants with a form of money that has ALL of these traits..?
What might the creators of wealth create for us all when they're able to keep what they've earned..?
What if brains could finally defeat brawn and those with merit were rewarded properly for it?
How different a world might our children inherit now that they have these advantages..?

2025-09-19 17:07:27

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Not your server, not your data.
Controlling the 'territory', both the server AND the building housing it is essential for true control over our digital selves; our identities, credentials, and content. Mitigation of being placed under siege though, also requires cont rol over the transport rails and the verification of our allies identities and credentials, too.
https://image.nostr.build/ade0eeb4da994b7797645d1e55eac0010b48612a2021d128b795a747ea042e3
The First Person Project understands these facts.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6834ee7c55c6376908871a6d/t/68cc3a8c99a9e21f398ea782/1758214796847/The+First+Person+Project+White+Paper+V1.0.pdf

2025-09-16 03:00:35

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I migrated to mailfence.com for similar reasons a couple years ago. Have been building a better Nostr based messaging platform this year partly due to my bad experiences with these platforms. Will be releasing it for limited testing in '2-weeks'.

2025-09-15 13:38:48

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Using PayPal for p2p payments with BTC defeats the very purpose of using. The point is that with Bitcoin we no longer need permission, to pay %-based fees, to provide KYC, OR have to take on chargeback risks. Anyone who still uses PayPal to send/receive sats is a programmed house slaves that doesn't understand Bitcoin.
I've had PayPal claw back payments made to me as far back as 11 months! With no means of contesting the client's bank that simply took the fiat back from PayPal, leaving me with the bill. Fiat payment rails like PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, etc. and Bitcoin are like oil and water, they do NOT mix.
Leave these rent seeking parasitic agents of the Bankster cartels out of the equation. Use Bitcoin the way it was intended directly Peer to Peer to achieve final settlement. Even using custodial LN wallets is FAR superior to these antiquated unnecessary monetary parasites!
Don't give PayPal the opportunity to stack sats, provide that value to those who offer the goods and services you choose to spend your sats to purchase!

2025-09-15 02:25:36

I'm working on solutions for enabling securing our Webs of Trust through direct invitations, white listed NIP05s, and encrypted communication stack between our authenticated peers. Trust must be grown organically though, outsourcing it beyond 1 degree of separation creates risk no matter how it's done.
I believe the answer is to begin by onboarding those we already know and trust in real life, our immediate and extended family, as well as reliable business associates we maintain ongoing exchange with.
Trust, but collateralize, preferentially with reputation. Be careful who you let in to your inner circles, it's not just who you know that matters, in many ways it's who knows you, and that you know what you know, that matters most. Proof of Work done over time cannot be faked, or replaced.
THIS is how we safely make our way through THe Great Disillusionment that AI generation has already brought to us all. Most just haven't realized that NO digital content can be considered authentic any longer. Those beautiful women, and fit men, you see in social media are mostly FAKE. Every photo, video, or audio out out by government and corporate officials and mainstream media, also FAKE.
Only our own eyes and ears can be trusted, but even our memories cannot, so those are unreliable in the long run too. As spiritual traditions have long taught, ALL reality is subjective, just like 'value', there is no objective Truth except that all things change and are illusions, not the fundamental Truth.
#nevent1q…wx72

2025-09-15 02:08:47

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Compliance is for those fine with being assimilated by the Borg.
KYC regulations are a crime against humanity. I would never trust ANY family, or any products/services they offer, with my money or my identification documents.
The ONLY way to practice safe KYC is for that to stand for Know-Your-Custodian! This one seems less than trustworthy, for our sats or our transaction history.

2025-09-15 02:01:49

{"inbox":["auth.nostr1.com","relay.0xchat.com"]}

2025-09-11 17:11:44

This is EXACTLY what I've been predicting here in this article, The Great Disillusionment is upon us.
https://yakihonne.com/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqztmfp37zagz89wvlsletcn9xahxk5zdscrmt7dxn2a8fze6ae6kqq25ck2kxfmh2j6l2pgnqjrztfyj67zldfx52v9mz7d
But this information is NOT evenly distributed yet.
The FACT is, "No video or photo can be trusted now that generative AI can make any digital audio, video, or graphic present any reality that anyone can imagine!"
Be Skeptical, Question Everything.
Only our physical senses and cryptographically verified content and messages can be believed. Even then it's best to apply Don Miguel Ruiz's "5th Agreement", listen but be skeptical!
In the modern world Trust is even more scarce than time or bitcoin. Peer to Peer networks require knowing with confidence, not certainty, who your peers truly are!
#nevent1q…vqth

2025-09-09 14:26:34

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This simply confirms what I am addressing in this article on The Great Disillusionment. The guy in the video is absolutely "disillusioned", you can hear his exasperation and frustration in his voice. This problem exists because artists may create the content but they don't control the credentials or the custody for their identities or their music. In other words, as I've found someone else recently describe this issue by framing it in the context of The Art of War, they do not "Control The Territory".
Nostr, combined with LN & eCash, 'fixes this'. As is being demonstrated already by @nprofile…nrls and @nprofile…7vmd.
Now imagine how Great Disillusionment becomes when the entire digital realm realizes this problem also applies to even LIVE video & audio..?
When businesses and families can no longer trust any cryptographically unverified communication to be valid, what are they to do...
My suggestion is we Rebuild Camelot by taking control of our identities, credentials, and custodyied digital assets.
https://yakihonne.com/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqztmfp37zagz89wvlsletcn9xahxk5zdscrmt7dxn2a8fze6ae6kqq25ck2kxfmh2j6l2pgnqjrztfyj67zldfx52v9mz7d

2025-09-06 21:14:10

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Do you hate employers? Even if you don't trust them, they can't rug pull their employees without burning their own businesses down.
How about family banking? Leveraging trust within families activates privacy and empowers them to establish dynastic family wealth collateralized on their self-custodied Bitcoin treasuries.
Not every can or need be a business, family elder, or mint. Payroll mints between employers and employees simply bring off chain privacy to existing trusted relationships. Family Trusts can use mints for private settlement between Trustees and Beneficiaries. Effectively these mints provide private bitcoin 'money orders' to be cashed in if/when desired to LN sats allowing users to avoid LN channel liquidity challenges.
Family mints, as well as business mints, will also enable existing trusted relationships to deliver the privacy and liquidity necessary for scaling Bitcoin. Full self custody for all is neither realistic or desirable in practice.

2025-09-04 23:45:09

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Google collecting and creating a Honeypot of developers' personally identifiable information does indeed seem a 'bad thing'. KYC compliance requirements are a solution worse than the problem. One that also locks anyone without a physical address and state issued ID out of the software development field.
The good news is this will likely inspire more options to be developed that remove them from their privileged position in the ecosystem. My de-googling of phones, more development of Graphene OS, and more PWA options becoming available WILL be a 'good thing'.

2025-08-31 04:22:49

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This is why we simply build Progressive Web Apps, PWAs don't require installing, they're simply bookmarks. Applications are ONLY necessary for offline use, anything and everything that needs the Internet to function can simply be a PWA.
Ultimately, this will drive more development of both hardware and software outside of Google's silos, which will be a good thing. Use of Graphene OS on de-googled phones loading apps from Obtainium will get better and better. Necessity is the Mother of Invention, sovereignty demands we control of territory we own and stop building sandcastles on others' beaches and stop using permissioned rental units.

2025-08-24 01:22:42

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Here's my response to this post that referenced my Twitter comment:
My comment on earning my rent in 3 days 30 yrs ago wasn't based on somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Many of you may be familiar with the cost of housing these days in the Austin area. For those not around in the 90s, let me give you a glimpse of what life was like there and then, that no doubt contributed to "Keeping Austin Weird", as we had more time, attention, and resources to devote towards being creative.
The rent for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house with a 1/2 backyard that went down to the Colorado river, located 2 miles from the Capital Building was only $695. My girlfriend bought the place my friends and I had been renting for only $80k. I didn't want anyone else to rent the 2/1 house next door I rented it for only $500/month so we could have adjoining patios in the back all to ourselves. I was earning $25/hour (in cash with no taxes taken out) working for myself as an independent green building contractor working on cob/super adobe houses, ferro-cement cisterns/ponds, and biodynamic tea fertilized wicking beds. So my rent for my half of the house at that time literally took only 10 hrs of work each month!
How different can you imagine your current life would be IF you could cover your housing costs in less than 1 1/2 days of labor, doing fulfilling work for good people while owning my own schedule and being challenged mentally, creatively, and physically..?
This IS the lifestyle that the money printing over the last 30 yrs has stolen from ALL of us. What I did NOT have back then, was hope for escaping the rigged game I knew I had been born into, OR a means of saving my surplus savings, energy, and time with protection against it all being stolen by the Government/Bankster Cartels. For those of you in your 20s and 30s today, it seems foolish to overpay for your homes that have been inflated in fiat prices due to the monetization of real estate. What you DO have today is hope, hard money, and an intellectual advantage over your peers who do not yet understand that the fiat Emperors Are Naked, with the fiat cloaks exposed as the illusion of wealth they are by Bitcoin!
So work hard, live simply, stay humble, and stack sats my friends. Because 20 years from now you will be FAR better off than your Boomer parents and grandparents with their overpriced dog houses are now. Their over-sized and under-built houses, fixed fiat incomes, and permissioned retirement accounts provide an illusion of wealth, while your self-custodied UTXOs provide the real thing. They are "house slaves" living in gilded cages falsely believing they are smart and free, while you are still early in the untelevised revolution of the entire monetary systems able to front run the money masters leaving the fiat plantations behind to build your Bitcoin Citadels where proof of work reigns.

2025-08-22 01:13:20

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Medium lost me for good when they tried to KYC me for a $.50 payment. Eventually, they locked me out when I lost access to the email account I used to sign up. It was a good idea in concept that was broken by forced use of broken email and KYC documentation requirements.
Both of those broken systems have become unnecessary for those of us using Nostr for permission-less identity and bitcoin/LN/eCash payment protocols.

2025-08-15 21:22:09

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Permaculture also has a long history with community currencies and credit unions. The answer to privacy, scaling, and trust is mints here, mints there, mints everywhere. Federated family Mints, corporate mints, community mints, and personal Cashu mints modeled ALL made interoperable through atomic LN bridges creates healthy competition with reputational capital securing them all, along with unilateral exits, threshold signatures, and self hosted LN nodes securing the UTXOs for them all.
The 100% reserved Permaculture Credit Union out of Santa Fe, the Ithaca Hour out of Ithaca NY, and the time-based barter exchanges ALL laid the groundwork for us to build this in the 90s. Now with the Bitcoin, LN, Nostr, and eCash protocols we can deploy privately minted banking solutions at scale, but ONLY if we have courage and discipline enough to refuse to comply with regulatory attacks by exercising civil disobedience.
Sovereignty means not asking, not for permission, for forgiveness, or for regulatory clarity. Compliance is for the Borg, assimilation is the result of obedience. They cannot play a game of whack-a-mole against a large enough user set. It's up to us to refuse to obey unjust attacks on financial privacy and freedom to contract, communicate, and transact with our peers.

2025-08-15 17:22:42

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Water IS Life!

2025-08-15 17:21:54

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One of the benefits of The Great Disillusionment discussed in this article is that ALL current KYC controls become completely ineffective, obsolete, and easily bypassed.
https://yakihonne.com/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqztmfp37zagz89wvlsletcn9xahxk5zdscrmt7dxn2a8fze6ae6kqq25ck2kxfmh2j6l2pgnqjrztfyj67zldfx52v9mz7d

2025-08-15 17:18:30

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Love this, thanks for sharing!

2025-08-15 17:12:43

This IS why we are all here and not all there!
Nostr is inherently the enemy of all tyrants.
This rebellion is built on more than just Hope, it's being built on Nostr
https://image.nostr.build/72ada9bd9afebb7dfa747d5405bdfc7aadddb46b5ccd710d9f89338f753d791f.jpg

2025-08-13 04:28:14

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I refer to them as "mainstreamers".

2025-08-10 02:13:52

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Evolution happens on the fringes. One awakened consciousness creates more impact than 100,000 asleep. Each of us gets to sleep in the bed we make for ourselves, or to reap what we've shown.
Energy is the currency of the universe, it cannot be created nor destroyed, merely transformed. Historically, transformation of energy is easier than storing or transferring it across time and space. Until Bitcoin changed that equation, creating opportunities for intellectual arbitrage that allows brains to beat brawn.
Lazy bullies and the tyranny of the majority have lost their advantages and incentives to abuse their superior physical power. Individuals now are able to use our compute and electrical power to overcome both political and physical force, IF they do the work!

2025-08-10 01:40:31

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Photos for KYC are completely useless due to the latest generative AI. Soon everyone will start realizing that NO unencrypted digital content can be trusted.

2025-08-06 00:30:14

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What's even more absurd about all of this is that AI is making ALL of that completely ineffective at what it attempts to do. Voice and image deep fakes are already indistinguishable from reality. Soon recorded and live video deep fakes will be just as unreliable. Their band aids on their broken systems don't even work!
Soon ALL of the KYC docs they require will be recognized as easily faked and completely useless. The Great Disillusionment' IS coming, sooner than most realize no digital communication without encryption from known and trusted parties will be valid.
The good news is this is all gonna drive even more adoption of encryption, Webs of Trust, and tools like Nostr.

2025-08-03 22:47:47

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If not government agents they did the work for them by picking a fight then backing down. They aren't heroes, they are cowards who backed down when faced with the consequences of the fight they picked. Their plea deal was a cowardly choice. IF they weren't ready to deal with the consequences they shouldn't have engaged in this battle. They did NOT advance the cause of freedom and financial privacy, they weakened it!

2025-08-02 21:45:33

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This only convinces me even more that these Developers were planted government agents that were tasked with establishing this horrible precedent without ANY evidence or trial being required to do so. It's a coin toss as to whether that was the case, or they are simply naive cowards who started a fight to defend a hill they weren't prepared to die upon.
Either way, it doesn't matter, the result is that they have weakened privacy tools builders' defense against government over-reach and legal attack upon us all. They are NOT heroes, they are cowardly turncoats who helped the enemies of financial freedom more than they provided ANY assistance to the relatively few users of their software.

2025-07-31 20:53:41

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Financial privacy is THE Foundation of ALL Liberty. The powers that be know this and are actively eroding this foundation in order to criminalized privacy.
Compliance leads to assimilation into the Matrix, becoming a cog in the Borg machine. Civil disobedience is the ONLY appropriate response! We MUST level up our privacy tools and accelerate our use of them. Our children's future depends upon the choices we make today.
Freedom is never free, every generation must pay for freedom with fresh blood spilled by those who recognize these facts. Broken, obsolete, and parasitical systems must be starved of our resources, our time, our money, and our creative faculties. This is the ONLY way to remove these deeply embed parasites from our societies without killing the hosts.
Nostr, LN, Bitcoin, and eCash protocols are our best weapons in this war on privacy, cash, and personal liberty. We must build better tooling for using these protocols and become more disciplined in using them. I'm about to launch a new tool set to help us all do just that. But it's going to take an army of freedom fighters to win this revolution.

2025-07-23 17:36:10

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I lost my copy in a house fire...
Books don't often survive the test of time, or the lifestyle of a nomad very well. This one was a worthwhile read, though.
That was the book that initiated my becoming a War Tax Resistor back in 1991, boycotting digital banking, credit systems, and income tax filing and paying. A commitment to avoid these immoral corrupted systems that has had immeasurable impact on my relationships, social status, creature comforts, and earning potential. Yet, it was totally worth these sacrifices, as being considered sane and successful in an insane and corrupt world is NOT a good thing.
That also led to my seeing Bitcoin as humanity's last and greatest hope to get the Banksters' boots off our necks, the very first time I encountered it over 11 yrs ago.

2025-07-23 17:28:38

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This is EXACTLY what the @nprofile…f3fp initiative is being built to fix, by using Nostr and NIP-05s from authenticated whitelisted domains. This verification MUST also be applied to, not only identities and message content, but also to credentials AND our databases.
There is one fundamental rule ALL must come to realize, 'He Who Creates, Credentials, and Custodies Anything, Controls That Thing!' This applies to who you are, what you know, and what you can do or say.
Nostr fixes this, BUT only IF we build the systems that enable it to do so.
What he is describing here is the beginning of 'The Great Disillusionment', where no digital transmission can be trusted UNLESS its source has been cryptographically verified!

2025-07-21 14:41:15

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I committed myself to the cash economy over 30 yrs ago, becoming a War Tax Resistor as it's often called. Boycotting banks and the credit system, never filing 'income' tax statements over 37 years in the work force. I couldn't imagine even considering doing so now that Bitcoin has come into existence.
Slavery is binary, not a sliding scale. Those who work 3-4 months out of the year to pay others for the privilege of working are slaves. They live in overpriced overbuilt dog houses funded with their own promisery notes by those who didn't even have the 'money' that was 'loaned'. This my phrase for those living the American Nightmare is 'house slave's because they live in gilded cages falsely believing themselves free and successful.

2025-07-20 17:48:27

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I was just wondering that myself...
Can't believe I did myself for as long as I did. So many holes in that story it looks like Swiss cheese and smells worse.

2025-07-20 04:27:47

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Death as an advisor is a powerful thing at every stage of life. Recognizing the present moment as a gift, that some day will be your last and you never know which day that will be, gives power to your choices fueled by gratitude and scarcity.

2025-07-20 04:24:29

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Not your server, not your data. Just as true as for 'Not your keys, not your bitcoin' and 'Not your node, not your transaction'.
Sovereignty requires control of the full vertical of identity, credentials, and custody.
If someone else verifies who you are, who is authorized to access it, and who can delete it, then whatever 'it' is, it's NOT 'yours'!

2025-07-20 04:17:57

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Yes, because you still have to by specific parts out of metal. No one tries to make the entire thing outta plastic. Results vary depending on plastics, printers, designs, and slicer settings. But it's pretty amazing what 3d printers are capable of these days.

2025-07-20 02:36:18

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I get my ghost gun .stl files off of Rumble, where the better designs show up because they don't get censored.

2025-07-20 02:32:53

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Have to sweep the paper wallet into a hot wallet first, though. I prefer NFC Bitcoin to paper, as tap-2-pay is easier...
Corporate IOUs aren't worth the paper they're not printed on, once you run out of greater fools to pass them off to... The entire point of bitcoin's existence is to enable elimination of 3rd party custodians that must be trusted.
Yet, like my domesticated and neutered cats who won't eat food that doesn't come out of a can or box, many sheeple are afraid to leave the fiat farms imagining their shepherds are there to protect, rather than to fleece and slaughter them. They don't know how to kill their dinner or to eat live kills, they only consume processed foods, e.g. 'paper bitcoin' their corporate shepherds feed them.

2025-07-13 01:21:19

Trust is the only thing that will become more scarce than bitcoin over the coming decades. Knowing who, what, and when to trust with anything are becoming the most important questions we all must answer in these times and in the future.
Establishing our trusted identities, our credentials others can trust, and our Webs of Trust is going to require tactically crafted, coordinated, and used tools.
That's exactly what this project is designed to do.
#naddr1qq…ewtr

2025-07-02 05:04:42

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You don't get what I'm saying at all. My point has NOTHING to do with society's expectations, it has to do with spiritual growth. A lone wolf is a dead wolf, your family cannot thrive without other families also doing so around you. I have been a War Tax Resistor, boycotting banks, credit, and have NEVER filed income statements with the IRS. I have not funded, do not pay the least bit of attention to, and care not at all what puppet figureheads run the circuses distracting the useful idiots.
I can and have built my own shelter from scratch myself, grown my own food, and healed myself with my own medicine many times over the last three decades. I have many times lived off grid with zero bills, work and live in the cash grey markets as a lifetime solopreneur without having a 'job' for over 15 years now.
I speak from experience, hard won with blood, sweat, and creativity, not wishful thinking or programmed propaganda. The fact is, if you wish to go slow short distances go alone with only your physical efforts serving only yourself. IF you wish to go far quickly, use mechanical advantage and coordinate with others and find a way to serve your peers value.
Broken corrupted money is responsible for the ills you complain about, We say fix the money, fix the world because building the foundations for society on fiat sand can only lead to collapse of the house of cards. Proof of Work matters not just for Bitcoin, it matters for people, and for communities as well.
My advice, grow the fuck up, quit your whining, and do some work creating value for more than just yourself.

2025-07-01 20:13:51

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For anyone who has matured past concern only for themselves, serving their peers by providing value in the marketplace voluntarily contributing value for value, with free market pricing (for the wisest among us priced in sats) is a natural evolution of healthy and mature personalities. Only adolescents think ONLY of themselves without any desire to serve their community of peers. Contributing properly compensated value to society at large is how we capture more sats to help solve the problem of 'coincidence of wants' that brings us all the benefits of specialization.
No man, nor family, is an island. As Bill Mollison put it "True security comes only when you look out your window and see your food growing and your neighbors working." Once that need has been met, serving your community by delivering goods and services that empower them to do achieve the same is a natural consequence for all but self absorbed narcissists.

2025-07-01 15:44:32

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Exactly. We don't need "No Kings", we need to all rise to be sovereigns in our own realms, Kings of our own Kingdoms. This is why I'm calling my latest collection of projects "Rebuilding Camelot".
Only Strong Families, ruled by strong self-sovereign leaders who themselves 'bend the knee' only to higher power, will rebuild goods times for us all.

2025-07-01 15:38:34

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That's right, ALL they manage to create in a lifetime that can be transmitted to future generations is cow dung huts with thatched roofs and maybe a well, IF they're lucky they don't have to transport it in buckets very far. They still must produce ALL of their essential daily consumable needs themselves, food, clothing, water, tools, clothes, etc.
They knowledge only passes on in limited capacity, they don't accumulate much wealth to pass on, and their entire neighborhood is pigeonholed into multi-generational poverty. You are literally wishing to devolve society.
I'm not saying society as it stands is healthy. It is obviously corrupted, broken, and needing an upgrade. Life is hard. None of us deserve anything we don't earn for ourselves. No one is coming to save anyone. Being a Man, not a man-boy, means accepting this burden as a challenge to be risen to, not to be whined about.
Save yourself. Make yourself useful to your peers. Contribute value and be grateful for the opportunity to do so. This is how mature men behave.

2025-07-01 15:29:13

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Being of service in the marketplace is how one earns the money to purchase all of that. That's what marketplaces are for.

2025-07-01 14:06:46

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You don't 'have to' play societies games if you're prepared to:
-grow, harvest, preserve, and prepare your own food
-build your own shelter out of raw materials with tools made yourself out of raw materials
-craft your own clothes out of raw materials with hand crafted tools
-teach yourself how to do all these things
How exhausted would you be then..?
Society does all this for us so everyone doesn't have to start from scratch in every generation.
Perhaps, what you need is some gratitude and to realize that service to others is the highest of callings. You might not be so sick of society, instead happily contributing to it...

2025-06-25 18:09:54

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Check your DMs, I've sent you resources that enable this in a far more secure manner than normal NFC tags can do. Also, sharing what I'm building to solve these same issues.

2025-06-24 21:46:29

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She's obviously ignorant of both history and the present!
Hawaii actually had its sovereign government overthrown in large part by businesses like Dole, who didn't want to pay tariffs on bananas and pineapples. They are currently doing exactly that right now and are not being hit with these current tariffs.

2025-06-23 23:54:17

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I am still interested in feedback on the tool from more experienced Devs, search for it and check it out yourself. My deep research through Perplexity suggested this as the most state of the art security auditing tool for our apps. As a new vibe-code I don't know what I don't know and don't have the funds to pay professional Devs to help audit my code for weaknesses I'm not qualified to assess.
I do know enough to not trust myself, any AI coding agent, or platforms like that one, without multiple experiences Devs also confirming the coding is secure. I'm building something that manges both identity and LN/eCash credentials, so am waiting to use it with actual private keys/Nsecs until it's been more thoroughly assessed.
I have implemented a privacy-first protocol that creates unique user IDs rather than storing anyone's Npubs or NIP05 IDs. For initial deployment I'm using Supabase I don't want to trust them with anything that may Dox anyone. I believe my handling of Nostr credentials is rock solid, but am far less certain about LN and eCash integrations in my codebase.
As a rule I think we should all assume at all times that IF it can be hacked, it eventually will be.

2025-06-23 23:22:39

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Where do you get that idea... This is a security audit tool I have no affiliation with and am legitimately looking for feedback from a more experienced Dev. As the topic here IS security auditing, your accusation of 'spam' is unfounded!

2025-06-23 22:40:29

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I'm about to sign up for a free trial of this security auditing platform. Would love your thoughts on it, https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/advanced-security/free-trial/
Also, check your DMs for the links to my GitHub repo and AI vibe-coding hack entry, as well as some info on using 424 Ntag NFCs. I look forward to getting your feedback, few others see what we see and your perspective on what I'm building I expect to be more informed and useful than almost anyone else.

2025-06-22 13:53:27

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These are the same NFC tags as used for the Boltcard wallets. I believe these make the ideal Nostr event tap-2-sign solution possible, that should also be able to provide tap-2-pay with LN, or even eCash, too.

2025-06-22 13:50:54

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https://www.smartcardfocus.com/shop/ilp/id~625/ntag213-sticker-circular-29mm-transparent/p/index.shtml

2025-06-22 13:48:13

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Using a pin protected 424 Ntag NFC sticker/card provides far superior security and user experience. Functionally the same as my security badge/pin # that was necessary for me to gain ramp entry when I worked as a ramp agent for United Airlines. My photo on the badge was all the biometric verification needed, but that wasn't essential for access control.

2025-06-22 13:40:09

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Biometrics are bad security measures, providing a false sense of security trading convenience for real security. Something you are cannot be changed, just ask anyone who's had their SSN exposed how bad that experience can be. This has the same lack of key rotation problem that our Nostr Nsecs do, only worse, as your fingerprints don't even need you to be conscious or alive for a physical attack to succeed in stealing your sats.

2025-06-22 13:32:56

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Biometrics can be hacked and can never be changed. These are NOT secure sign on solutions. You can be unconscious or a corpse and your device can still be hacked. Like your Social Security Number, if/when your biometric data gets leaked to the dark web there's nothing can do about it.
It's FAR more secure to simply use MFA that requires both something you know AND something you have. The something you have prevents online hacks and the something you know prevents physical hacking of your accounts.

2025-06-17 03:21:57

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I read the Federal Mafie in 1991, chose to become a 'War Tax Resistor's, began boycotting banks and debt then, and have worked entirely in the cash economy ever since. I'd nearly died at 9yrs of age and wasn't gonna trade my blood, sweat, and creativity for what others print out of thin air and charge us for the privilege of doing so for us. Having already discovered the fundamentally immoral nature of fractional reserve banking two years before, I was primed to make this decision. I spent the next 22 yrs waiting to discover Bitcoin, living entirely in the moment without any hope for ever escaping the fiat plantation.
This personal history now drives me to spend every waking moment to create lasting value in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Only this year have I finally found a way to build what I see we all need. Vibe-coding has finally allowed me to become a true CypherPunk, I'm now writing code daily and can't wait to share what I'm building with the world.
No matter how much I may ever earn, or the sacrifices it may cost me, I will never pay taxes, take out a mortgage, finance a car, or use credit cards. Thanks to Bitcoin those sacrifices are less of an issue than they've ever been. I am more free, control more of my time, and have more hope than anyone I know. Few will ever climb the mountaintops I now reside on, but I don't need the company of serfs, only my Bitcoiner tribe distributed all around the world.
These true peers are who I'm called to serve. If you're seeing this message, you are likely one of them...

2025-06-15 03:51:04

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I'm working on a plan to integrate the Ntag424 NFC chips to create a pin protected Nostr event signer. There's room on those chips to also have them sign LN transactions and/or eCash payments. I think the Bolt wallet app can likely be forked to make a combo tap-2-sign/pay MFA solution. Think Yubikey for Nostr and LN.
This enables brings us something we have/something we know levels of state of the art security. I know all this is possible, just need to work it out.

2025-06-09 19:37:22

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Same here!
Moving fast often breaks things. Not really knowing what we're doing has risks, and often consequences.

2025-06-09 19:17:12

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Then you either are not operating from inside the US, or trying to do anything the centralized overlords don't approve of...
I rarely bother, but, the fact is US persons are undesirable peers in many international playgrounds. Because they don't want to have to deal with our overbearing Nanny-State.
For instance, lnmarkets.com
Not that I'm suggesting anyone gamble there, but it can also be used with 'covered short' hedge positions using leverage carefully to minimize the sats trusted to their custody.

2025-06-07 17:07:35

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I'm less concerned about China than the US overlords managing their fiat slave camps. I also only use the VPN to access content the US firewalls won't let me use. I've also been burned by the paid VPN service that I tested on Protonmail, cancelled, and when they continued to charge for services I didn't want to use, the locked me out of all my email accounts there.
So, yes I am VERY aware of all the risks we face when trying to freely navigate online services beyond government data firewalls.
Are YOU using fiat rails to pay for your VPN?
If using LN payment rails are you routing payments through your node directly, without using a prophylactic node to protect your IP address and identity?
Can you confirm they don't log and won't share your activity through them? Does anyone even care if they're just trying to access porn sites as those captive Frenchmen are?
Can you be certain they will cancel billing you for access to their sandbox?
Or be sure they won't someday decide to deplatform you for whatever reason they choose?

2025-06-07 14:56:35

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I've pivoted this idea to a family focused sovereign knowledge management system now. Vibe-coding my vision into reality, looking forward to launching a beta version in '2-weeks'.
I'm combining a fork of Amethyst with the Breez SDK, adding Fedimint signing/transacting, Zap streamed video (w/Zapped boosts and zap-streamed pay-as-consumed content), and Vida.io voice AI tutors. Am so focused and excited I'm now promoting AI agents in my dream state! This Dynastic.me client is gonna be so powerful, I can't wait to launch it into the wild...

2025-06-06 03:37:27

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Was too busy vibe-coding to notice...
No talk, all work, this is The Way.

2025-06-05 04:57:48

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Don't people know that the Opera browser has a free VPN built in...? No payments nor registrations required.

2025-05-31 03:57:43

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As he admitted, he effectively came out of a time capsule. It's not like he can be expected to know any better. It's gonna take time for Ross to become de-institutionalized and learn for himself that there is no 2nd best.
Many of us once thought there was a place for at least a few of the alt-coins. Experience teaches hard lessons that must be acquired oneself.

2025-05-25 03:54:32

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This is exactly why I'm working to build a Nostr credentialed Learning Management System to empower families to self-custody their intellectual capital. It's not who you know that matters, it's who knows what you know that matters. Proof of Knowledge is coming soon...

2025-05-20 05:00:38

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I hear that for ~7B humans in even more corrupted political and monetary systems than the US, tethering their store of value to the slowest sinking fiat ship is still an improvement over what they're used to using. I don't believe the majority of humans are actually stupid though, merely ignorant. So, I expect the oxymoronic "stablecoins" to help the smartest of the ignorant to learn why Bitcoin matters and is the apex monetary unit that's eating all other currencies. This may take awhile, most likely we'll need to wait for the old and stubbornly ignorant who've benefited from these corrupted systems to die off.

2025-05-02 20:33:48

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@nprofile…3lev I am curious as to your thoughts on this. Are you familiar with Bau Biology? It's a German school of thought that has some powerful insights worth looking into. I have been applying their concept of our house as our '3rd skin', to treating the property line as the '4th skin' of a Macro-biome.
Also, I'm applying 'Pattern Language Design' from Christopy Alexander to scale down Bucky Fuller's idea of a 'World Game' to more of a 'Dynastic Family Wealth Game'. One that stacks an entire vertical of essential daily needs for our families in order to create a resilient enduring legacy. i.e. Private Family Citadels. Our homes can only become living centers by treating them as growing ecosystems, not merely dead boxes we reside in.
This design is the basic cellular unit of a scalable pattern with infinite variations. Laying out these patterns on a Pentagonal grid will also take advantage of the Phi ratio, Fibonacci ratio, mirroring the pattern layout nature uses.

2025-04-08 18:48:12

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I have learned the hard way as an independent contractor to ALWAYS get paid at the time services are rendered. I've literally had clients call and stop payment on checks before I could drive straight to THEIR bank to cash them. Experience taught me to NOT deposit into my own accounts, to just eat the fees for non-account holders, AND to offer a discount for paper cash payouts to avoid these risks and headaches entirely.
I foresee LN redeemable NFC 'payroll' Nutstashes evolving as reusable expense, stipend, and payroll payment keychain doggles.

2025-04-08 17:32:40

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For those currently working for someone else as an employee, their labor is already held hostage in your employees custody. Trusting an employer to manage a mint doesn't add any new risk vectors, it eliminates banks from the equation.
'Payroll Mints' seem a potential product/market fit, hopefully shortening pay periods once the toll booths operators are gone. i.e. hourly/daily, rather than weekly/bi-weekly payouts.
'Redeeming' earned eCash through LN, topping off LN spending wallets on its way into on-chain savings. Obfuscating our public earnings thru eCash & LN, before privately allocating savings into the public on-chain ledger.
This IS The Way!

2025-04-08 17:14:49

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Not surveillance, necessarily, as much as provenance. Privacy comes from OpSec, NOT from any single tool.
Properly handled, even on-chain transactions are don't reveal personally identifiable information. While, improperly handled thru KYCd devices, phone numbers, IP addresses, etc., make surveillance easy and privacy an illusion.
I hate to break it to you, but IF you don't also use VPN/TOR, have an anonymous burner phone, and a de-Googled phone you're simply Larping when it comes to privacy. While you may be one of the small minority willing to, or having to sacrifice convenience for privacy, by far the majority will not make the same trade offs. I guarantee that more than 95% of privacy coin users don't have any of these OpSec disciplines in place.
For public entities like corporations and governments verifiable audits of balances and transaction history is a HUGE upgrade over current systems. For most people, their everyday pocket change for spending the privacy vs. convenience trade offs when using LN and eCash are a reasonable tradeoff.

2025-04-08 17:03:02

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Unlike Man's Laws, Natural Law cannot be broken, one can only break one's self, company, or country upon it.
Fiat = value by Man's decree & might making 'right'
vs.
Bitcoin = value by math & Conservation of Energy

2025-04-07 04:54:48

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I include the link to the book, 'Latex Concrete Habitat', the technique is adapted from in the blog post, in case you want to learn more. It's an amazingly adaptable approach, in the pics of my prototype, I actually used some bedsheets for the rectangular roof/walls, that I bought by the pound from a Goodwill warehouse. I especially liked the texture I got from the flannel bedsheet.

2025-04-07 04:48:57

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Go has always been one of my favorite boardgames, but I've only a couple times gotten to play someone I've had to teach the rules to. The one time I played someone at the UT Go club, it was gloriously humiliating how I could see exactly when I'd lost effectively 3/4s of the board, yet could do nothing to stop it.
There are worlds of difference between even medium level players and beginners.
Nowadays, I bet there are great AI agents to play and learn from. Would love to know if anyone has any leads on that...
I find both the etiquette and the rules very interesting as well. As courtesy calls for notifying the opponent when they have only one 'Liberty' left. That the whole point is to maintain liberty for ourselves by aligning with our neighbors and we all lose if we get completely surrounded, a useful framing for Citadel Building, too.

2025-04-07 04:34:31

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Only IF I'm smart and capable enough to self custody everything on a sovereign server in my closet.

2025-04-06 15:15:37

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I don't know what you mean by the "green" parts. If you mean the color green, the "skin" is stretched re-purposed medium weight canvas drop cloth, applied with ~7k 1/2" staples, then coated 3 times with a wet slurry of Reblended paint, water, and portland cement, before the final coat of just paint with boro-silicate microsphere insulation added with 2 more coats (by far the most expensive material in this whole project at ~$1/sq ft of coverage).
IF, you are referring to "green" as in environmentally friendly, that comes from the majority of the paint, canvas, steel, and wood having come from free and salvaged sources. The two 14' trampoline frames took less than 2 weeks to find for free locally in Austin, but even new ones from Walmart are only $179 each, and is far superior than wood framing for the circular vertical walls.
Eventually, I intend to set up a styro-foam re-pelletizer so I can embed more diverted "waste" products into the vertical walls as insulation.

2025-04-04 22:42:37

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The blog post goes into more details and provides resources to lookup even more info on the materials and processes I used, ranging from custom designed 3d printed ASA brackets, to Japanese style woodburned treatment finished out with 3 coats of shellac, and a variation of latex cement canvas stapled like upholstery out of used painters drop cloth and free up cycled paint from the Austin recycling center.

2025-04-04 22:35:07

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The natural airflow and the hollow micro-silicate insulation paint (providing an effective r20 insulation value) will make this much more comfortable in warmer and wetter climates. Where I'm building this one in FL, I will be adding a split AC unit and a BTC space heater that I expect to be all the additional climate I will need.
For colder climates, the steel provides a curtain wall that can be filled in with whatever you have available, hempcrete, cordwood, cob, or super adobe will all perform better than drywall and siding. The dome is essentially just 5 large pentagons, that can be prefabricated with aircrete. I've found foam-crete (w/re-pelletized styrofoam as aggregate) to be easier to work with. I can easily use the latex cement canvas on both sides, making the framing as thick as I choose, to prefab custom pentagonal structural insulation panels, or square/rectangular, as needed.

2025-04-04 22:24:39

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I 3d printed custom brackets, attached the dome to 2 trampoline frames, and used a compound miter saw to custom fit the skeleton together.

2025-04-03 14:53:34

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That's EXACTLY what I'm doing here, unlike most residential builders and architects, I'm designing the home I want to live in myself. I'm simply too informed to be able to settle with living in dead boxes. So, I'm building myself a living ecosystem in the form of a Biodome Igloo, and open-sourcing my plans I begin sharing in this post.
https://primal.net/e/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqqpg7yhcxkdt8q4cj466k45rsrhj9tacx2mp4m2jam6dfefjc8r8qq2nz4662dmhgk2xtac4g42jt9qnxc6tgdckuyu4x32
Decentralizing food, shelter, and energy, producing them for ourselves onsite means we have to part with fewer sats to buy these things from centralized providers who's supply chains and inputs we have no control over.

2025-04-03 04:30:10

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This reminds me of Sidhartha's 3 skills, Knowing how to:
1. Think
2. Fast
3. Wait
Comparing them suggests that right thought is gentle, frugality's ultimate expression is fasting, and waiting requires humility enough to surrender to divine timing.

2025-04-01 01:09:27

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By far, the majority of capital held worldwide is in public entities, not private individuals accounts. As they are all highly regulated, surveilled, and controlled by current KYC/AML regulations, they cannot send and/or receive funds without documentable provenance as to the source of, and the identity of the receiver of funds without risking everything they own in their existing accounts, their titled physical assets, and their personal freedoms.
Until the Banking Secrecy Act is repealed, then public entities (i.e. corporations & governments) can ONLY engage in commerce on public ledgers. Using smaller "anonymity sets" for herd camouflage in the much smaller "privacy coin" markets is also completely unneccessary, when more privacy can be captured by simply funneling satoshis through LN channels and thru eCash mints as a means of breaking chain analysis. By far, the most private UTXOs are acquired through mining or through in-person paper cash => BTC (for larger amounts) & LN/eCash(for smaller amounts). Earned sats expose oftentimes only partially identifiable personal information to only those paying for our goods and services, if/when providing our goods and services directly to the market, rather to an employer.
By far, the easiest way to acquire 'privacy coins' is to buy them with bitcoin, as there's almost zero liquidity in local physical cash OTC into any of those anonymous spending coins. Smart money won't bother with those added risks and will always choose to clean their transaction history within the Bitcoin ecosystem. There's simply no need for them for almost everyone, with almost no way to acquire them without going thru BTC 1st, and the risk/reward tradeoffs for public entities will never entice them to place their entire existence at risk by raising red flags for using privacy coins.