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I'm so lucky to have awesome friends, here's a video never before seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A568M2E4PDs A coffee shop purchase with bitcoin, no intermediaries (bitcoin pizza), a real bitcoin purchase on video with timestamps.

Hardcore bitcoiner friend arguing all day on the internet about sovereignty, they're flying into the U.S. this week and they use a Gmail email address... 2nd last international trip I made I paid +300k sats to connect through Turkey instead of the U.S., this week I paid +100k sats to avoid connecting through the U.S. on an international trip. If you're not running your own email server, you can't argue you understand sovereignty and privacy (best attempts we can make with the protocols we're given).

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Hello to everyone at #fedicon! A few of us on bitchat (cc nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qrxnfk) and I've also announced our nostr client & relays at 21eyes.com which is using consentkeys.com OIDC

Satoshi wanted to be anonymous, and so any attempts to dox them is declaring publicly that you don't believe in consent. Privacy is consent. Anyone who intentionally violates consent should be treated as such.

Cypherpunks don't have to write code, but they have to be active in making systematic change.

*idea*: Someone should create a simple app where a user can login with Twitter, and once logged in, confirm that they did not consent to having a Twitter "Blue check" put beside their name. Once they do that, they are put on a public list on the main page of all users that have confirmed the same. Then we can all publicly see how many people this happened to. Once logged in and confirmed a victim of a non-consenual blue check, the user can login with nostr, and beside their Twitter username on the main/public page, it will also show their npub, so users can follow them on nostr. *rational*: There are many popular people on Twitter with a blue check that did not pay for the service. Twitter has given them a blue check mark, but that is "fake news" to look like Twitter is making money. Such a website would be embarrassing to Twitter, and attract new users to nostr, including many influencers. If someone wants to pay me the ~150k sats/month for a Twitter developer account I can have it built, but I'm not motivated enough to do so otherwise. Let me know if you build it otherwise, I can share with several of my influencer friends who are blue check victims.

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians! Announcing: True Anonymity Meets Legitimate Bitcoin Exchange! Imagine buying Bitcoin without a trace. No name. No identity. Just you and your sats. It's not a dark web fantasy. It's real, and you can be among the first to experience it. We've partnered with a major, publicly-traded Bitcoin exchange to offer something unprecedented: KYC-free Bitcoin purchases where even the exchange doesn't know your name. For our pioneering first 20 users: Be part of bitcoin history Shape the future of financial privacy Share your insights in an exclusive interview Why you should jump on this: You're not just buying Bitcoin - you're redefining financial freedom Your feedback will help perfect a service that could revolutionize bitcoin acquisition You'll join an elite group at the bleeding edge of blockchain innovation This isn't just about anonymous trades. It's about reclaiming your financial sovereignty. Ready to experience true financial privacy in a regulated environment? Sign up now. Be one of the twenty trailblazers who will help usher in a new era of bitcoin freedom. You will be doxxing yourself to me and my team for an interview, but we will never provide the bitcoin exchange your personal information and work with you to buy bitcoin from CAD. To be eligible, you must be Canadian. Sign up for the waiting list at https://scramblesolutions.com and DM me or email kris@scramblesolutions.com to get you onboarded!

American friends at #BTCPrague, the scramblesolutions.com x cloakedwireless.com collab begins tomorrow. What does this mean? A completely anonymous U.S. data plan, where you can't be SIM swamped or SIM jacked. DM me or find me for more info, otherwise: 1) Show me you a) have an account on scramblesolutions.com, b) follow me on nostr or c) follow our new npub1hacker* account (npub1hackerg38aqdgewqcusrz9z5y4wwy4p69z5wdgsk6pu9u4ylcsxs2cs8ak) 2) Tell me you have a U.S. zip code (I need the 5 digits) 3) Pick a Cloakedwireless. com data plan you want 4) Send me the sats for 3 months of your new plan, and I'll give you 10% off your 4th month. Pick one of the random SIM cards from my bag and away you go! (Roaming fees apply when not in the U.S!). LFG!

https://awesomeshitclub.com live from nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h on May 29th! This will be the first ASC that we accept sats, and will pay out in sats! If you're not here in #NYC we'll also be streaming the event live on the internets!

You're picking your ideal metric for best country in the world, do you use something like the World Happiness Index (https://worldhappiness.report/) or Human Freedom Index (https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index/2023), a combination thereof, or do you have a better overall index of measurement?

One year ago today we stopped at Crocodile bridge on the way to #nostrica

Testing the ability to share nostr links on Facebook, to avoid Facebook's Canadian News sharing censorship...

An important precedent in Canada as of two Fridays ago, IP addresses should now be considered private, and police will need a warrant to obtain them! Andrei Bykovets v. His Majesty the King (Alta.) (40269) Constitutional law — Charter of Rights — Search and seizure — Investigation related to purchase of virtual gift cards with fraudulent credit card information — Police obtaining internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to locate residences — Whether reasonable expectation of privacy attaches to IP address — Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 8. In September 2017, the police commenced an investigation related to the purchase of virtual gift cards with fraudulent credit card information. The police was told that the fraudulent online transactions used two IP addresses. The police obtained warrants to search the two residences associated with the IP addresses. The appellant was arrested and charged with 33 offences relating to the possession and use of third parties’ credit cards and personal identification documents, and firearms. The appellant filed a notice alleging the breach of his rights under s. 8 of the Charter as well as other rights. The trial judge found that it was not objectively reasonable to recognize a subjective expectation of privacy in an IP address used by an individual. She concluded that there was no breach of s. 8. The appellant was eventually convicted of 13 of the original 33 counts, which he appealed. The majority of the Court of Appeal of Alberta dismissed the appeal. It found that the trial judge correctly interpreted the scope of the law that governed her s. 8 analysis. The majority concluded that she applied the correct interpretation to her factual findings, which reveal no palpable or overriding error. Veldhuis J.A., dissenting, would have allowed the appeal and ordered a new trial. She found that the appellant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the IP addresses and that his s. 8 rights were violated. Further reading: https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/techlex/supreme-court-canada-rules-ip-addresses-attract-reasonable-expectation-privacy https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-privacy-ipaddress-1.7130727 #privacy #cdnpoli

From my friend Christopher Parsons, Canada's national policing breaking pretty much every Canadian privacy law, as well as their own internal policies and procedures, collecting personal data on Canadians from dodgy and maybe even illegal sources: The recent report from Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada/Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada, about the RCMP’s use of private tools to aggregate open source intelligence, is an important read for those interested in the restrictions that apply to federal government agencies’ collection of this information. The OPC found that the RCMP: * had sought to outsource its own legal accountabilities to a third-party vendor that aggregated information, * was unable to demonstrate that their vendor was lawfully collecting Canadian residents’ personal information, * operated in contravention to prior guarantees or agreements between the OPC and the RCMP, * was relying on a deficient privacy impact assessment, and * failed to adequately disclose to Canadian residents how information was being collected, with the effect of preventing them from understanding the activities that the RCMP was undertaking. It is a breathtaking condemnation of the method by which the RCMP collected open source intelligence, and includes assertions that the agency is involved in activities that stand in contravention of PIPEDA and the Privacy Act, as well as its own internal processes and procedures. https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/ar_index/202324/sr_pa_20240215_rcmp-pwa/ #cdnpoli #privacy

As of Signal 7, you will be able to use a username instead of your phone number on Signal. You can be an early beta tester by installing Signal Beta and getting your username early: https://support.signal.org/.../360007318471-Signal-Beta

Which VPS providers do you trust from a privacy & security perspective, and why? GDPR because of their strong privacy laws? I would suggest Canada is best out of the 5 eyes countries, as our spies aren't allowed the corporate / government collusion like the USA (US ClLOUD Act, US PATRIOT Act, MLATs) or the even scarier Australian AA bill. In Canada, lunanode and cacloud are the only two providers I know of that are Canadian owned and hosted on Canadian soil, are there any others? https://privasectech.com/time-to-consider-which-jurisdiction-your-data-is-stored-in/ https://krisconstable.com/removing-australia-and-australians-from-the-online-world/

#Vancouver folks If you are working on decentralization technologies, such as #bitcoin/#lightning, #blockchain, #nostr, #identity, or #IPFS, join our casual coffee chat to share your projects, or look for opportunities to join another founder on their decentralized project! https://www.meetup.com/bcfounders/events/298411520/