Yael 10 months ago

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and it’s the EU Commission proposal to break encryption via chat control. My critical article (somehow) makes it into EU-funded Euronews

euronews

Return of chat control: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

The Scandinavian state has been a stalwart supporter of image scanning and chat control to detect child sex abuse material. Now, they hold the keys...

Yael 10 months ago

You can just run another node in a VM and no one can stop you

Yael 10 months ago

Will they never learn

Yael 10 months ago

Does anyone know the devs of silentium? I have sats stuck in there from testing silent payments and keep getting mempool API errors when trying to withdraw to another silent payment address

Yael 10 months ago

What is the real-life version of Evil Corp’s Ecoin?

Yael 10 months ago

The best laws are based on negative rather than positive rights. It’s why i don’t believe in a “Bitcoin law” — just let people live and use tech. Restrict state action, empower individuals within reasonable frameworks, and punish those who harm others

Yael 10 months ago

Going through the StartOS on VM kick at the moment, and now it's blockchain syncing waiting time. I'm still surprised there aren't more community registries apart from the official and the community. Where am I missing all of this?

Yael 10 months ago

time to piss some people off this morning

Yael 10 months ago

AI Privacy Issues are *real* and users should be better informed. Your "inputs" can and will be used against you Consumers can use apps that encrypt convos, store and hash data locally, and leverage awesome open-source models anyone can run locally for better privacy Try them! me on @npub1qw6e...2v52 @The Bitcoin Layer talking about AI policies in the United States and abroad

Yael 11 months ago

Bitcoin Policy Summit 🔥 I’m on stage at 3:20PM for those watching the livestream

Yael 11 months ago

did a german-language interview on Was Bitcoin Bringt w/ @Niko Jilch to promote the Bitcoin Policy Summit posting shortly. I'm nowhere near perfect in spoken German, but I hope the plebs will appreciate!

Yael 11 months ago

There is still no updated Dojo package for node-in-a-box systems like StartOS and Umbrel, right, it's only x86 and the raspi? The last updates on the Umbrel app were 3 years ago

GitHub

GitHub - getumbrel/umbrel-samourai-dojo at v1.16.1-umbrel

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Yael 11 months ago

The mother of all typos

Yael 11 months ago

Can it ever be permisionless, decentralized, or even more technologically desirable if your entire stablecoin system is subject to the same financial surveillance rules as banks? The same rules inevitably weaponized against ordinary people just trying to use their money?

Yael 11 months ago

I don’t remember when things went downhill, but it had to be when we starting cutting pizza with scissors

Yael 0 years ago

These e-ink displays with open-source plugin capability seem awesome. Seem like you could put some great nostr and Bitcoin plugins

Yael 1 year ago

When people threaten to sue me for articles I write about them and their provable misdeeds, and their letter is obviously written by ChatGPT, I just chuckle and laugh. Get out of here.

Yael 1 year ago

bitcoiners should be happy to see Monero thrive

Yael 1 year ago

Any Ottawa or Montreal nostriches ?

Yael 1 year ago

Encryption is the ultimate firewall. It’s no wonder so many governments are trying to force their way in. They’ll be opposed at all costs. Part of my collab with Brussels Signal on the EU’s anti-encryption power play: