🔑 Hold your own keys. 🖥️ Run a node. 🕶️ Commit to privacy. Decentralization is not a feature you wait for others to build. Sovereignty is a responsibility you take upon yourself. The Cypherpunk Manifesto:

The Cypherpunk Manifesto

This manifesto outlines the core principles of the Cypherpunk ethos applied to Bitcoin usage. It covers self-custody, node operation, privacy, open...

🔐 The Sovereign Protocol – how to build an unconfiscatable digital identity. On platforms you’re a tenant. On protocols you’re an owner. On Nostr, identity is math: whoever holds the nsec is the identity. Rule #1: Never type your nsec into Primal, Amethyst, or any browser login. Your key belongs in a signer. Period. This guide shows the pragmatic setup: ✅ generate & store keys inside Amber ✅ use Primal via External Signer (client gets npub + signatures only) ✅ GrapheneOS hardening: disable Network permission for Amber ✅ long-term backup: steel > cloud Read it here:

The Sovereign Protocol: Architecture of an Unconfiscatable Digital Identity

This guide outlines the architecture for a truly sovereign Nostr identity. By generating keys within a dedicated signer like Amber and keeping them...

👽⚡ Trust no one. Verify everything.

🛡️ New read: NextDNS — the firewall against ISP surveillance & DNS-level censorship ISP DNS is a powerful metadata choke point. NextDNS lets you take control: tracker/malware blocking, CNAME uncloaking, IoT protection, optional logging + data residency choices. (Not a VPN.) Read here:

NextDNS: The Firewall Against ISP Surveillance

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical chokepoint for metadata and censorship, traditionally controlled by Internet Service Providers. NextDNS ...

👽⚡🌌 #privacy #dns #nextdns

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Nostr feels like the future. While other platforms are full of noise, outrage and endless emotionalization, Nostr is about building. Builders instead of complainers. Signal instead of manipulation. Community instead of algorithms. Here, people focus on tools, freedom, and real values. Open protocols. Ownership. Responsibility. Less drama. More creation. This is how the future starts. ⚡👽

New on the Alien Investor blog: Fidus Investment (FDUS) – 11% Yield vs. The Rate Cut Risk 💸🏗️ Everyone is chasing tech giants. Fidus is quietly financing the US Lower Middle Market. The reward: Double-digit yields and a fortress balance sheet. The catch: Interest rates. Fidus is asset-sensitive. If rates drop in 2026, margins will squeeze. Is buying at NAV a steal compared to expensive peers, or a yield trap waiting to happen? 👉 Read the deep dive (Article in German 🇩🇪):

📊 Fidus Investment Corp (FDUS) – 11 % Dividende im Zins-Dilemma | Alien Investor

Aktienanalyse Fidus Investment (FDUS) 2025: Hohe Dividendenrendite, stabile Bilanz und die Strategie im Lower Middle Market. Einordnung aus Eigent�...

New on the Alien Investor blog: Kenon Holdings (KEN) – Energy bunker with a hidden AI option? ⚡🤖 Everyone is chasing chips and software. But AI data centers have a massive bottleneck: reliable power 24/7. 🔌 Kenon is positioning itself right there. Through OPC Energy, they run critical infrastructure in Israel. In the US (Texas), they are building dispatchable gas power specifically to feed the energy hunger of the tech giants. 🇺🇸🏭 The financials? Fortified. Net cash at holding level, zero holding debt, and trading at a P/E of ~7. Is this just a boring utility or a deep value play on the physical reality of the digital world? 👉 Read here:

⚡🔌 Kenon Holdings (KEN) – Energie-Bunker mit KI-Fantasie? | Alien Investor

Aktienanalyse Kenon Holdings (KEN) Ende 2025: Strategische Wende zum Energie-Player, OPC Energy, KI-Rechenzentren in Texas und eine Panzer-Bilanz.

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