"A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. [..] If you are interested in increased anonymity, Tor is a better solution than a VPN. A VPN provider can see your device’s traffic, but because of the way Tor is designed, no single Tor server can see your browsing data."

Choosing the VPN That's Right for You

VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the ...

My book: “Understanding the Information Age: The Sovereign Individual” is inspired by the book: “The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age” by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg (1997). It was a prophetic book for its time and was little understood. In my book, I update the central idea of that book to the 21st century. I invite you to read this great book, one of my favorites.

The Sovereign Individual In my new book, 𑁋Understanding The Information Age. The Sovereign Individual𑁋 where I’m publishing each of its 10 chapters periodically, every closing section offers more than reflection: it proposes concrete actions for the Sovereign Individual. What does it mean to be sovereign as a person? It’s not a political slogan or a digital pose. It’s a daily practice of freedom with responsibility. The sovereign individual exercises freedom with awareness, critical thinking, and accountability. The sovereign individual doesn’t repeat slogans—they examine them. The sovereign individual acts with integrity, empathy, and resilience. Her/his compass isn’t fashion or approval, but ethical principles and self-knowledge. Being sovereign means not delegating judgment or destiny to external structures. Neither the State, nor corporations, nor algorithms decide for you. The sovereign individual knows that freedom without awareness becomes egoism, and awareness without action becomes passivity. Balance is key. The sovereign individual acts in two ways: collectively, spreading the ideas of freedom; and individually, creating tools and strategies to preserve it. Collectively, sharing knowledge, fostering critical thought, and supporting projects that expand human autonomy. Individually, designing strategies to protect their privacy, time, and ability to decide without coercion. The sovereign individual doesn’t wait for leaders. They build their own path, knowing that true independence is born from judgment and courage. Understanding The Information Age. The Sovereign Individual. https://medium.com/@liberlion/understanding-the-information-age-the-sovereign-individual-index-eea277fe6bef

Why Crypto Market Cap Misleads Market cap makes it seem like a cryptocurrency’s value has a solid foundation, but it’s actually a misleading metric that often distorts reality. In practice, market cap simply multiplies the last price paid by the total circulating coins; this number can be inflated with just a single transaction at a high price. It does not represent the real financial commitment from investors. If a token has a huge supply and someone buys one unit at an artificial price, the project appears valuable, when in reality, only a minuscule amount of money was ever invested. The circulating supply itself is often poorly estimated. Lost coins, long-term hoards, and illiquid assets are counted as “circulating,” further distorting the picture. This gives the illusion of liquidity and value that simply doesn’t exist in practice. Market cap variation does not mean funds are entering or leaving the market. Large shifts in “valuation” can be triggered by tiny amounts traded, making the metric highly speculative and unreliable. Comparing market caps between cryptocurrencies is fundamentally flawed. Each project has its own design, user base, utility, and risks, rendering these rankings mostly irrelevant for meaningful analysis. Many use market cap because it’s simple, familiar, and easy to headline; it is marketing, but it dangerously oversimplifies a complex ecosystem. It’s much better to analyze fundamentals, real usage, developer activity, and liquidity when assessing project value. Don’t be tricked by surface-level numbers. Dive deeper—true value calls for skepticism and research, not blind trust in manipulated statistics disguised as financial truth.

Freedom, honesty, and honorability keep me on track. If I wanted to increase exposure and the number of followers on social media, I would post other content, content that most people would applaud, but that “priority” would violate my principles. Read 👇🏻 View quoted note →

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Principles are immutable, priorities are not. Life is a constant trade-off; there is nothing perfect that can satisfy you completely all the time. That is why it is a matter of choosing priorities. But priorities are needs that change over time; principles do not. Those who confuse a principle with a need change it because their priorities change, and end up destroying their principles. Principles are immutable, priorities are not. Mine are these three: 𑁋Freedom: choice without fear or dependence. 𑁋Honesty: truth, coherence, transparency, respect. 𑁋Honorability: dignity, integrity, conduct, reputation. What are yours?

Who finances Monero, Session, and Nostr? Who finances and invests in Bitcoin, Simplex/Signal, and X? Follow the money trail to understand. If your #privacy depends on regulated money, you don’t have privacy — you have a permission slip with an expiry date. View quoted note →

Are you interested in #privacy? Do you want to combine money, private messaging, and social networking? Nothing is perfect, and you have to make trade-offs; without friction, there is no privacy. This is the best combination I've found today. It also includes the money trail, because it's important to see the flow of capital to understand the destination and intention. #SovereignIndividual View quoted note →

Session vs SimpleX — privacy, infrastructure, and the money trail I’ll start with a technical comparison — how they actually work and what they offer. Then we’ll follow the money to understand who sustains them. Because talking about privacy without tracing the funding is only half the story. Session Messenger was born from the Oxen ecosystem, a blockchain that rewards node operators for maintaining the network. Its goal: anonymity, decentralization, and messaging without phone numbers or emails. SimpleX Chat, on the other hand, takes a more radical approach: it removes identity altogether. No fixed identifiers. Every chat runs through an ephemeral channel — not even the servers know who’s talking to whom. Architecture Session uses distributed Oxen Service Nodes managed by network participants. SimpleX is built around an asymmetric peer-to-peer design, where each user can choose — or even host — their own relay server. Self-hosting Session doesn’t currently allow you to run your own private server outside the Oxen network. SimpleX does: you can deploy your own relay servers completely independent from any token or central entity. That’s the philosophical divide. Session bets on coordinated decentralization with economic incentives. SimpleX bets on user sovereignty, even if that means more friction and complexity. Both are open source, but with different priorities. Session seeks anonymity within its ecosystem. SimpleX tries to make metadata impossible in the first place. Usability Session wins in smoothness — clean interface, easy onboarding, Signal-like experience. SimpleX demands a bit more: each chat requires a link or QR exchange — more effort, but stronger privacy. Follow the money Session relies on the $OXEN token to sustain its node economy. But it’s also launching Session Pro, a paid tier now in Beta. It adds longer messages, larger groups, and premium features under a subscription model. Payments convert to SESH, rewarding node operators — no ads, no data sales. The free version remains available. SimpleX Chat is funded by Venture Capital: it raised about $1.3 million pre-seed, led by Jack Dorsey and Asymmetric Capital Partners, and also backed by Village Global VC — whose investors include Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. Ironic, perhaps: a messenger built on independence funded by the architects of corporate Internet. In the end Session offers pragmatic privacy sustained by incentives and tokenomics. SimpleX promises absolute privacy sustained by technical independence — and venture money. Both aim for freedom, but one relies on the market, while the other relies on capital. The real question is: how much privacy can survive once dirty money enters the equation? The choice is yours. Continue here to delve deeper into the money trail and regulatory compliance philosophy that Simplex openly promises: View quoted note →

Do you want regulators to protect your privacy? Invest in Zcash and communicate using Simplex. Do you want to be the guardian of your own #privacy? Use #Monero as sovereign money and communicate with Session Messenger. #SovereignIndividual

Look for signals -> patterns -> trends Analyze the 3 layers: L1 Surface information -> L2 Deep data -> L3 Hidden structure Investigate the money trail -> to understand the destination -> to see the intention

#Monero is more than Monero. Monero matters less when you understand what it represents. Monero is both mirror and shadow—far more than a currency, it becomes an ecosystem of freedom. It matters not simply for its name, but for what it embodies: the inalienable right to hold and transfer value without intermediaries or prying eyes. At that threshold—of cryptography, decentralization, and fungibility—Monero is not just money: it is sovereignty in motion.

The Argentine Experiment of the New Technocratic Order Argentina is the stage for a global experiment financed by the United States through the Treasury and the IMF. President Milei, the fraud of so-called “Rothbardian libertarianism,” is replacing democracy with technocracy. Under the seemingly valid argument of shrinking the State, he is outsourcing public management to corporations and digitizing social control under the banner of efficiency. There are even proposals for OpenAI to take part in acquiring a state-owned nuclear energy company, aiming to install data centers for ChatGPT on Argentine soil. None of this is accidental. It’s part of a global plan: in the West, it comes disguised as market freedom; in the East, as order and social harmony. Two methods, one goal — the New World Order, not political or military, but technocratic. It is not about right or left, but about freedom or technocratic subjugation. Open your mind, think critically so you don't get deceived.

Do you understand what the New World Order (NWO) is? When the state allies itself with large technology corporations and, behind the scenes, with the banks that finance these structures, what emerges is not simply a more efficient surveillance system, but a new form of government, an algorithmic model: technocracy. Representative democracy, which promised that the people would deliberate, elect, and control their rulers, becomes obsolete when the true centers of decision-making are no longer elected officials, but rather captured data, predictive models, relationships of economic dependence, and digital platforms that translate our experiences into behavioral products. The New World Order is Technocracy, or in simple terms: Surveillance Capitalism. In this scenario, the separation between public and private blurs, both in the Western democratic model and in Eastern communism or dictatorships. The state monitors through technology; corporations gain political power thanks to their control of the data infrastructure; banks sustain the monetization of these flows. And algorithms—a blend of efficiency, apparent neutrality, and financial return—replace citizen deliberation. Democracy doesn't disappear overnight, but rather is co-opted: elections, institutions, and promises remain, but they now operate under a logic that prioritizes the quantifiable, the predictable, the measurable. This logic stems from a technocracy in which expert knowledge, the algorithm, holds direct authority, and the political community is relegated to responding to what the machine has decided or anticipated. But even in this scenario of concentration, a counterforce emerges: free, open, and decentralized systems (Free and Open Source Software – FOSS) reserve a space for people to dictate the rules and participate in the infrastructure, instead of being passively governed by it. We, the Sovereign Individuals, are not the majority, perhaps we never will be, but our presence will be more numerous the more evident it becomes that “algorithmic democracy” is not a genuine democracy.

What would it take for people to finally understand that traceability in crypto is the perfect panopticon? A perfectly legal transfer was rejected because your “on-chain history” gives off bad vibes. Don’t worry, it’s not control, it’s “compliance.” With a bow on top: KYC-on-chain mandated by law. Total traceability turns tokens into almost non-fungible assets: same amount, different treatment. Blacklists, tainted wallets, smart contracts that soft-ban you, and gateways asking for a sworn biography for every “suspicious” sat/wei. That’s not money; it’s a revocable permission slip. When identity is the key, the issuer is the doorman, and the regulator decides who gets in, you’re not transacting—you’re queueing. Want people to notice? Touch their balance for “reputational risk.” They’ll call it security. You can call it censorship with marketing.

When a crypto-media outlet is financed by actors with economic interests, its coverage stops being “just news” and becomes a lobby. This article is more of a Zcash promotion than news, as the top privacy coin with a market cap of USD 6.2 billion.

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Zcash Flips Monero, Soars To 8-Year High Despite Market Downturn

Zcash rose to an 8-year high on Friday, surpassing Monero’s XMR token to become the most valuable privacy cryptocurrency, worth over $6.2 billion.

And of course, they're always looking for an opportunity to "hit hard" Monero, which has zero VC investment. The outlet declares investors like Waterdrip Capital and Consensus Lab. The crypto ecosystem is highly concentrated: firms like Pantera Capital back Zcash, and Digital Currency Group (DCG) manage investment products tied to Zcash. None of those institutional investors appear publicly linked directly to the media outlet. Even so, when the medium receives funding from actors with crypto exposure, neutrality is doubtful. It turns into a platform for assets. “Zcash is the top privacy coin” isn’t just a headline—it’s a message. It can drive attention, capital, and speculation. It benefits those who hold or expect Zcash to rise—and the medium earns traffic, sponsorships. Read crypto news with a filter. Medium + money + asset = a combination that invites questions, not uncritical consumption.

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The US government caused chaos with dollar-pegged stablecoins with the GENIUS Act, because it serves as a transition. Read ZachXBT's explanation in this post and then read my hypothesis.

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When the private system (USDT, USDC, USDPT, etc.) saturates the market with tokenized dollars, the public ends up demanding an "official," secure, and regulated version: the Digital Dollar or a CBDC camouflaged under the discourse of "stability and regulatory compliance." It's a classic strategy: let the market experiment, fail, and fragment... and then "tidy it up" with regulation that concentrates control in a single issuer or set of actors aligned with the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. In that scenario, the ultimate goal is not innovation, but total traceability of the digital dollar, under the pretext of financial security. The intermediate step—that jungle of stablecoins—is functional: it wears down, confuses, and paves the way for a state monopoly on digital money.

Session Pro Beta: Monetizing Privacy True privacy isn’t free—it costs to host servers, audit code, and resist corporate capture. To stay independent, a project like Session must fund itself without selling data. Monetization becomes a shield: it keeps the lights on without trading identity for convenience. Session is closing in on its Pro launch. All features are complete and through QA—only iOS awaits final approval. Privacy remains the compass. New Pro perks include 10,000-character messages, unlimited pins, animated avatars, and an optional badge. 300-member groups will follow later. Payments were rebuilt around anonymous certificates, not accounts—so paying and unlocking features leave no trail, no identity link. Behind that “simple upgrade” were months of work on fraud, refunds, and plan changes without breaking anonymity. Few services achieve that without KYC or central servers. The new Session Router enters beta: a faster, more stable onion routing system, paving the way for larger attachments and future encrypted calls—Lokinet’s spiritual successor. Expected launch: November 2025. If they meet it, Session will prove that true privacy can scale—and even fund itself—without permission or identity. Source:

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Session Pro Beta Development Update: Progress and Community Insights

All Session Pro Beta features are complete! Get the latest on development progress, the updated mid-Q4 launch timeline, and what Session Router mea...