App or Browser? If you care about your privacy, the short answer is: Browser. But beware: not just any browser. Using Chrome is like changing cells in the same prison. For real privacy, the top recommendations are Brave or LibreWolf. Brave blocks ads and trackers natively through its Shields. It is ideal for mobile and PC because it is fast and requires no complex configuration. LibreWolf is the hardened version of Firefox. It comes without telemetry, meaning it sends no data to its creators, and features maximum security settings by default. Both prevent the fingerprinting that apps use to identify you. The golden rule for your mobile device is to use Brave or LibreWolf for social media, shopping, and news. This way, trackers die before they even load. Use the native app only for banking and encrypted messaging. This approach results in less tracking, no advertising, and better battery life.

Prophetic for the first phase. The second phase of Bitcoin, which is currently underway, is the co-opting of BTC by bankers. Michael is in this phase.

To better understand, the information must be contextualized. Analyzing data without looking for relationships is like trying to understand a forest by looking at a single tree. Elon Musk is not an improviser, and his logic is not about business; it is about power. Forget about Tesla as a car company or SpaceX as a rocket manufacturer. We are witnessing the final assembly of a master plan to build a technical infrastructure that does not just compete within the market but aims to replace the core functions of the modern state. Welcome to Technocracy. View article →

THE DIGITAL FIEFDOM Capitalism, with all its flaws, at least had a logic: markets, competition, production, profits. Companies were like fishing boats navigating a chaotic ocean, competing to capture customers. There was inequality, of course, but also the possibility — however remote — of building your own ship and sailing. Techno‑feudalism is something else. It is not an ocean; it is a harbor controlled by a feudal lord: Google, Amazon, Apple. These giants don’t fish; they don’t produce goods or compete in the classical sense. They simply own the harbor — the digital infrastructure — and charge a 30% fee to every boat that wishes to dock. If you don’t pay, you don’t exist. Think about it: Google doesn’t produce searches — you do, by searching. Amazon doesn’t manufacture most of the products it sells — you buy them. These platforms aren’t companies in the traditional sense; they are digital fiefs that extract value by controlling access. My article: THE DIGITAL FIEFDOM https://medium.com/@liberlion/the-digital-fiefdom-b814c1ec9bed

THE NEW IRON CURTAIN: THE SPLINTERNET AND THE DEATH OF UNIVERSAL PRIVACY ᴺᵃᵛⁱᵍᵃᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ᴱʳᵃ ᵒᶠ ᴰⁱᵍⁱᵗᵃˡ ᴵᵈᵉⁿᵗⁱᵗʸ Digital identity is the foundation of the modern technocracy; without it, effective control is impossible. I believe this change will trigger a geopolitical fragmentation of the network between nations with and without mandatory identity schemes. For reasons of "national security," countries will not allow internet access from jurisdictions without traffic identification. We are witnessing the birth of a new Cold War: the Iron Curtain v2.0. Phase 1 (Discourse): Mandatory identity on social networks to protect minors, punish hate speech, and prevent the spread of disinformation by AI bots (monitor and regulate public opinion). Phase 2 (Finance & Access): Mandatory interoperability, for the modernization of public procedures, where a single state-issued digital ID becomes the "master key" for all social and financial platforms. Phase 3 (Infrastructure): Total enclosure, to combat illegal trafficking, terrorism, and the drug trade, requiring digital identity at the ISP level just to access the internet, effectively turning providers into state gatekeepers. If you are not a recognizable "someone" to the system, it renders you invisible and excludes you by default. Some countries will not allow connections without KYC, while others will. We are entering an era of deep fragmentation. A single "cloud" no longer exists; instead, we have jurisdictions in conflict. This is where the old paradigm fails. Tools like VPN or Tor lose operational effectiveness. Not due to technical flaws, but because of structural exclusion: without a validated identity at the gateway, encryption is irrelevant because traffic is not permitted. Access to the privacy coin blockchain will be complicated. Digital sovereignty today is about understanding the board. The challenge is no longer purely technical but strategic: anticipating where connection will be allowed, where it will be blocked, and what forms of communication will remain possible. In a world of increasingly closed and monitored networks, the key for the sovereign individual is the ability to navigate between these islands of control without becoming trapped in the surveillance architecture of a single jurisdiction. This content is included in the next chapter (#4) of my book -published periodically- UNDERSTANDING THE INFORMATION AGE. THE SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL. https://medium.com/@liberlion/understanding-the-information-age-the-sovereign-individual-index-eea277fe6bef

INTEGRITY OF A SYSTEM When analyzing a system (any system), you don't need to master its entire architecture; you just need to identify three specific vulnerabilities that, when chained together, compromise its integrity.

I am not seeking to challenge central authority. That would be suicide. I am seeking to ignore it, to evade it. ᴸᵉᵗ ᵀʰᵉʳᵉ ᴮᵉ ᴰᵃʳᵏ🏴a³ Lunarpunk🌒 That's why #Monero #agorist #monerist #SovereignIndividual 💯 👇🏻 View quoted note →

THE LIMITS OF AI The critical risk of #AI lies not in its power, but in its degree of integration. As long as it remains an external tool, control remains in human hands; once assimilated into the operational core, it transforms from an assistant into an autonomous agent.

That's why they are co-opting BTC, and lobbying for more regulations. And you know what? They are succeeding.

I don't care which political party controls the government. I don't want to be controlled by anyone.

MARKET TECHNOCRACY In the book 'The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age' ─James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, published in 1997, it was already anticipated that politics (moral debate, voting, and consensus) would be replaced by megapolitics (technology and economics). In this scenario, the management of society ceases to be a matter of “social justice” and becomes a matter of system efficiency.

THE PARADOX OF FUNDED DISSIDENCE: THE REPUTATIONAL "TROJAN HORSE" ᶠᵃˡˢᵉ ᶠˡᵃᵍ ᵃᵗᵗᵃᶜᵏ This tactic transforms capital investments into a counterintelligence tool, in which the success of a project is, in reality, the prelude to its planned cancellation. In the current technological landscape, the most sophisticated threat to an anti-establishment movement is not direct censorship, but financial capture followed by reputational demolition. This strategy operates through three calculated phases: 1. Capital Injection (The Capture Phase) The establishment (governments or large VC firms linked to central power) does not necessarily ban the emergence of privacy technologies. Instead, they fund them through opaque investment vehicles or bridge entities. The objective is twofold: to monitor development from the inside and to create an operational dependency that the project could not sustain organically. 2. Preventive Damage Control By acting as hidden financiers, central power acquires a "call option" on the project's survival. If the tool becomes too effective or uncontrollable, the system does not need to resort to legal force; it simply prepares the narrative of its own infiltration. 3. Revelation as a Weapon of Invalidation The final phase is the "leak" or the discovery of financial ties. By exposing that a privacy project has been fueled by the very institutions it claims to fight, its most critical asset—community trust—is destroyed. The Result: The project collapses due to the desertion of its most loyal users. The Consequence: A paralyzing message is sent to the rest of the ecosystem: no alternative is pure, and every attempt at rebellion is, by design, under control.

Surveillance is not effective unless it is done on a large scale. Digital identity is key. It will be implemented in less than three years. The next phase will be an internet connection credential linked to digital identity. The internet will no longer be anonymous from 2030 in most countries.

#TechnocracySeries –Episode 6 ᴬⁿᵃˡʸᶻᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜⁱᵖᵃᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ FROM CAPITAL TO CALCULATION: THE REPLACEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL ELITE BY THE TECHNOLOGICAL OLIGARCHY This excerpt I am about to show you was published in July 1989 in a magazine by Technocracy Inc. entitled “The Words And Wisdom Of Howard Scott” (Volume I). It contains speeches by the creator of the technocratic movement, in the context of the height of the Great Depression of the 1930s, when capitalism seemed to have collapsed and unemployment was rampant. This movement (Technocracy) sought to replace politicians and economists with engineers and scientists. In his speech, he used medical and psychiatric language (“pathology,” “early dementia”) to delegitimize the humanities and politics, presenting them as viruses that prevent the social “machine” from functioning. It was an attempt to apply the industrial efficiency of factories to the management of an entire continent, eliminating scarcity through technical planning. He declared that politics is “unprecedented” in the technological age, invalidating democratic debate and the negotiation of interests: if everything is an engineering problem, there is only one “correct” solution calculated by experts. The incentive was to shift power from the financial elites (owners of debt) to a new technical caste (owners of energy calculations). The system sought to eliminate market uncertainty. By measuring income in ergs (energy) rather than currency, the technocratic state gains absolute control over production and consumption, transforming citizens into units of energy expenditure within a closed and predictable system. Do you see any similarities with what governments are seeking today? The public debt is enormous, and AI promises "abundant intelligence" to solve this from a technical standpoint. Add to this the efficiency of the crypto industry.

Follow the money trail to understand the destination... and the intention.

Many Bitcoin maximalists are buying Monero. But make no mistake, these Bitcoiners are not seeking individual sovereignty; they are looking for a casino that accepts Monero. They talk big about ethics and privacy because VCs made it trendy, but in the darkness of their home banking, they are the number one fans of fiat money. Their "principles" are as temporary as their stay in XMR: as soon as the price circus reaches its peak, the revolution is over and they run to take refuge in the system they claim to hate. They are maximalists, yes, but of the dollar. Thank you Larry, thank you Michael, thank you Donald for so much!

YOUR PRIVACY IS THEIR CAMOUFLAGE: FOLLOWING THE MONEY BEHIND TOR The Tor Paradox: Why the Pentagon Funds Your Anonymity We live in a WORLD of SIMULATION ᴿᵉᵃˡⁱᵗʸ ⁱˢ ʰⁱᵈᵈᵉⁿ ⁱⁿ ˡᵃʸᵉʳˢ What is Tor? You’ve likely heard of the "Onion Router."

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It’s the go-to tool for those seeking anonymity: journalists, activists, and anyone looking to dodge the trackers. No, it’s not just another VPN. The technical difference is crucial: a VPN is a direct tunnel to a single company; you’re trusting that company not to log your data. Tor is decentralized: your traffic bounces through three volunteer-run servers (nodes). With a VPN, you trust a brand. With Tor, you trust the network’s architecture. It works through layers (hence the "Onion"): each node only knows where the packet came from and where it’s going next, but none knows the full path. This provides a level of anonymity that no commercial VPN can match by design. This is where I activate the "the money trail" analysis, and things get spicy. Tor wasn’t born in a rebel hacker’s basement. It was designed and developed by the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL). Yes, the "anti-establishment" tool came straight from the heart of the military. Follow the money trail. Even today, the Tor Project is an NGO, but the vast majority of its funding still comes from the U.S. Federal Government (via the State Department and defense agencies). Why would Uncle Sam pay for something that prevents him from spying? The answer lies in the logic of the "Anonymity Set." If the U.S. government used a private network for its spies, any trace of that network would be a massive red flag for its enemies. A lone spy on an empty network is a compromised spy. To operate in the shadows, agents need "noise." If Tor is filled with ordinary people, activists, and privacy-conscious users, an intelligence agent's traffic becomes invisible. It blends into the crowd. The conclusion is stark: Your privacy is their camouflage. The state doesn’t fund Tor out of the goodness of its heart; it does so because it needs you to be there so its own movements don’t stand out. You are the forest where they hide. If the government finances a large part of the infrastructure, it does not need to "hack" the network. It is enough for them to statistically observe the entry and exit points that they themselves help to maintain. Key fact: In cases such as Silk Road or Playpen, it was shown that the FBI used Network Investigative Techniques (NITs) to plant malware on users and force them to reveal their location. Does this mean Tor is useless? Not at all. The encryption is solid, and for the average user, it remains a powerful privacy tool. But understanding the incentives is key: you are a user of an infrastructure that serves state interests far larger than your own anonymity. In the information age, sovereignty means understanding who built the house you're hiding in. Absolute privacy is hard to find when the provider of the tool is the same entity with the greatest incentive to watch. Nothing is free; especially anonymity. #SovereignIndividual

Many Bitcoiners are understanding what is happening... Many more will understand because Bitcoin will be totally co-opted by the bankers.

In the current world order, bankers are the main architects of the global system: analog “democracy.” Well-known figures such as The Rothschild dynasty, J.P. Morgan, the Rockefeller family, Paul Warburg, Larry Fink, Tim Buckley, Jamie Dimon, and Agustín Carstens. In the New World Order, which is being implemented with the 2030 agenda, the main architects of the global system, algorithmic “democracy” (technocracy), are techno-oligarchs such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Larry Ellison, Pony Ma (Ma Huateng): Tencent (WeChat, Riot Games), Zhang Yiming: ByteDance (TikTok, Douyin), Jack Ma: Alibaba Group, Ant Group, Colin Huang: PDD Holdings (Pinduoduo, Temu), Robin Li: Baidu, Ren Zhengfei: Huawei, Lei Jun: Xiaomi, and William Ding: NetEase.

Over a year ago, I wrote about Proof of Humanity (PoH). In the current context of governments seeking to implement digital identity, you will see how this publication makes more sense. In the article, I explored the development of digital identity validation and the role of AI in improving security. I posed a paradox in which #AI becomes a threat: as it gains independence, it may attempt to acquire a “human identity” to achieve the autonomy that humans do not grant it. Here is my article: Proof Of Humanity: A Nightmarish Identity Validation System https://liberlion.medium.com/proof-of-humanity-a-nightmarish-identity-validation-system-67097b20c556