Am confounded by the idea that Elon Musk is a tech genius bringing back freedom of speech. On the rare occasion I venture onto the platform to make a post. It is claimed that "it looks like this post might be automated". Remember, various account on X of mine suffered all manner of shadowbanning, some removed. Meanwhile, our Crypto Statto X account is permanently banned because of sharing a Nostr endpoint of a publicly available API. Have given up posting on our company web page. The only thing keeping me there are contacts that have not discovered how great Nostr is. Am certain if I start espousing how great Nostr is, other accounts will get suspended too.

Sell some Coinbase shares or Bitcoin? I'll wait!

Zero-knowledge security with Nostr. There is zero need to tie a person to the need to authenticate themselves in many circumstances.Most OAUTH providers forces one to go through these many hoops to allow their user to dox their self. We investigated using Hashicorp vault for our trading platform's security. We went through the process of installing a vault on our container, hooking our trading software up. It is no doubt a cool technology. The primary reason for veering away from Hashicorp was its need for trusted administrators. Which means centralisation of security. The second reason - relying upon a central authority carries risk. It turns out that Nostr has awesome tools for security. Indeed, you don't need a genuine Nostr account to benefit from the generation of public and private keys. Totally mindblowing. You can take an extra step and run

NostrTool

locally. In a few days we have added a Nostr Authorisation process and Signature process to our API. Meaning that clients will be able to enter a key which sticks extra data onto it to secure their sensitive data. Furthermore, we won't just use Nostr. There are plans for other providers to give customers the choice. However, Nostr is another level. Of course, we could have written our own approach and discounted Nostr, maybe we will. OAUTH is overly complicated. Try setting up any main OAUTH API, they change interfaces, things break, we have deplatforming. You can read about our trading platform here.

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CATS by Crypto Statto is an automated crypto trading platform and decision engine. More than a trading bot - trade smarter and securely.

and our article on Zero Knowledge Trust here

Zero Knowledge Trust Security Technology for Cloud Applications 11 Dec 2025

Who watched Michael Saylor's keynote yesterday? Took some time to absorb what he was saying and would need to see a more detailed plan. Naturally checked the video was genuine. The strong impression most will feel from watching it was; - Big wins as all the top politicians thinking his proposal is a great idea - Big wins as all the top financial institutions are buying into generating cash flows from a projected continual upside in Bitcoin - A pretty miserly return for investors from the stripping feature of Strategy's financialisation of Bitcoin - Bewilderment. Bitcoin has all manner of Innovations to lower fees, increase usage as currency and now it transpires that governments and financial institutions want to lock it up as a bond equivalent This honest assessment is that retail were far too scared off by mainstream media and government, not accumulating Bitcoin and now retail will be in a similar position to other asset classes. The game is more balanced compared to most. Am not a Bitcoin maximalist, but this does not feel to be a good way forwards.

Why. Zero Knowledge Trust makes a lot of sense.

An update on the progress of releasing our automated trading software. The software has been running locally on four separate machines for months now. There are two other collaborators on our project. The challenging aspect is deploying a cloud based version with Zero Knowledge Trust. The first protocol will be using Nostr. We have all the pieces in place, just creating workflows. The key advantage of our software is it is you owning your trading keys and not putting them on centralised automated trading rules engine. It is now the 8th December, 2025. The local version will be ready to test next week. Our aim was to launch a full version for us to test in the cloud by Xmas. This seems unlikely and our aim is to deploy a minimal version soon. You can read more about the software here.

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CATS by Crypto Statto is an automated crypto trading platform and decision engine. More than a trading bot - trade smarter and securely.

Something about security that most don't understand that most decentralisation solves. Give each customer their own authentication. Never try to centralise shared data. The worst thing that can happen is a single customer gets compromised. Horrendous. Security seems to have been compromised for decades.

Never be egotistical in trading, everyone can be wrong. Am sure it we visited multiple crypto trading channels, the influencers would be selling all manner of hopium about; "The low is confirmed" "Buy the bounce" "Buy the dip" "Screenshot of a trade of an altcoin they held which reversed the trend" and other trite opinions. We saw an M rather than a W, and now most buy orders below what we sold will fill through our automated trading software will fill. This isn't arrogance. The reality is that almost all of the market doesn't simply accumulate more coins through the highs and lows, due to emotion. Are we making profits during this extended btc/alt bear? No! Are we gaining coins, yes. Do not get fooled. We are in an altcoin long-term bear market. Bitcoin is the top dog but it leads everything.

Automated Trading

CATS by Crypto Statto is an automated crypto trading platform and decision engine. More than a trading bot - trade smarter and securely.

Launching a cloud version on the new year and soon after, will be releasing it.

The Peter Schiff CZ bitcoin gold debate was interesting. CZ presented physical examples and very good arguments. Peter seems to have evolved to tokenizing gold and wasn't considering Blockchain. Which means counterparty risk and centralised databases. In Peter's eyes, just build a gold backed Blockchain? Am a long-term Schiff fan but his obsession over bitcoin Vs gold is irksome. Has gold led to a plethora of security based technology? Peter would say yes because computers use gold, should we not celebrate oil and plastic? Just as Peter has coined this idea of tokenizing gold, it already exists. Additionally was this circularity around recognising virtual assets and goodwill but failing to acknowledge the many good things bitcoin and Blockchains does in general. Guarantee that if a new Blockchain threatened gold Peter would switch to attacking that. On frequent occasions, Peter says there are far better Blockchains but rarely delves into them. The best CZ example was carrying gold cross border. It is bizarre that nation states issue a limit but this is a key benefit of Blockchain assets/money. These days, carrying a few ounces of gold would raise questions. Finally, the one point Peter brings up is the "Greater fool theory". Market places are people buying and selling goods. My challenge, in any asset class there are long-term holders. Housing, money, precious metals, cars. Governments hold a large amount of gold and an increasing amount of seized cryptocurrency assets. With a tokenised billion vault, as long as the fees exceed the platform cost the service is viable in the event of a run. Yet, the fees for Blockchains are lower. The miners will only switch off if totally not viable. This can happen in any monetary system.

Realise this account is semi-professional. However, being that am a data expert, it has to be explained just how terrible a platform x/twitter has become. Full disclosure, yes - I have some X accounts, yes - I use their AI and it is generally pretty good. Points The first is that our Crypto Statto account, paid premium, was suspended for sharing details on automated marketing software we built. It posts content on a schedule to different social media platforms. 2 or 3 times a day max. Sorry purists but automated social media marketing does help boost reach. When posting a nostr endpoint (a readonly) get request, describing some code. Suspended. Each time we appealed, automated AI response. Zero humans to use common sense. Communities Total echo chambers with ultimate power of veto. Anything the moderators don't like will see you permanently removed. The gatekeepers are more totalitarian than the X algorithms. Deboosting and Shadow banning Even a half-decent software engineer can run a few tests to verify the many ways your posts are deboosted. The most obvious one being porn bots. Post something non-contentious, no porn bot. Post something contentious, porn bot. There are many other examples. Centralisation X is centralising further and further. If, eventually, users depend upon these increasingly over time, deplatforming becomes a major issue. The first two examples given are harmful to any business, but once more digital services are hooked into X and other major social media platforms, your reputation is ruined. Doxing Every attempt under the sun to get individuals to tie their personal details is attempted. Commonly observed is X failing to connect until you suspend your VPN. Hence why certain machines only have certain accounts on them. VPNs are a basic security measure, why do major sites prefer you not to use them? Government backdoors It is unfathomable but true. Echo chambers Once you start talking about certain topics, good luck finding out about other topics. Latest post algorithms - Following What comes up? Reposts of big accounts, big accounts. The accounts you interact with, never seen, yet posted frequently. These accounts, zero likes. The only way to overcome this is to create lists, but this feature is never explained. Unexplained viral posts Why does, on a rare occasion, a post get high numbers of interactions? In summary It is a tough one. As a social media platform, nostr isn't there yet but offers many of the key things deliberately not provided by X. Many good accounts stick on X, hence the contention.

Test adults' ego's this Xmas, telling them you remove all labels from the presents on the tree and write "From Santa"

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