After all the discussions we had about on-chain privacy and the negative effects on the privacy of ALL users when identities are tied to a BTC address you have to put it on the front of the profile? I want to be able to at least opt out of this!!

“This case is the ultimate irony of Europe’s spyware crisis. Someone on the very committee tasked with investigating Pegasus gets infected by it. And what has happened since? The parliament looks the other way when new European spyware abuses emerge" @npub1vz03...ttwj

the Guardian

Spyware used against MEP investigating Pegasus abuses, report finds

Researchers say Stelios Kouloglou’s device was compromised after he joined European parliamentary committee

A good and needed step. Usernames for WhatsApp. For real privacy and censorship resistance use @SimpleX Chat (no phone number needed) or at least get off Meta and use @Signal

WhatsApp to let people chat with usernames - how to reserve one

The app's new usernames feature will be rolled out globally over the next few months.

Dangerous open-source, runs locally 👀

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Fantastic idea, sadly there are many authoritarian countries on the African continent. View quoted note →

I am not reading / using Nostr DMs as long as they are not encrypted. Correct me if that has changed.

Summer.

Hodlers are rent-seeking. Earners and spenders do the work. They pay for the security of the network. Be an earner.

This generational wealth idea will die together with bitcoin if no one spends their on-chain bitcoin or is only holding financial products built on Bitcoin. Who shall pay the tx fees for security? Earn, spend and save (for your future or your children‘s) and learn to deal with volatility and self-custody. View quoted note →

That’s fantastic! Thanks! @BTC Sessions View quoted note →

Unchecked power and closed systems allow a few people to ruthlessly extract value from their population. In my talk I demonstrate how the fiat system is being rigged and the social cohesion gets lost on the example of Zimbabwe, where I lived for some time. Why Open Systems Matter for Human Freedom | Talk at Bitcoin++ Vienna 2026

Google Wallet checking your government ID across Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Estonia, and soon Britain is an infrastructure play, dressed as child protection, that ends with a single advertising company sitting between you and the things you want to do online.

Reclaim The Net: Free Speech, Privacy, Digital Rights

Google Wants to Be the ID Checkpoint for Europe's Internet

Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online.

At the Oslo Freedom Forum #OFF26 at the moment.

Next time I show you how to receive zaps @cosa

Telegram is not a secure messenger! It’s false marketing and a lie. View quoted note →

#OFF26