You are an Umbrel Bitcoin node user and you want to help citizens in countries blocking Internet content? Install the Tor Snowflake add on. It's ready to help fight censorship right away.

If you have 10$ to spare each months and are a Tor user, you should definitely run a tor relay node to help speed up the network. To setup your relay on Ubuntu (Linux) I followed this blog:

Setting Up a Tor Node on Ubuntu – DFT Wiki

I just had the worst fucking experience in my life with Intuit Turbotax online. Fuck them and their lobbying.

Everyday I go through my nostr folowwer list and add them all to my follow list.

I launched a new nostr relay located in Toronto, Canada. One time fee of 10k sats to use relay. You can help by joining https://nostr.espia.ca

Nostr has a very strong bitcoin signal. All the accounts have bitcoin in their bio. Feels like family.

What's your take on Jason Lowery's book recently published?

I am benevolent: For the last 4 year, I have been running a tor relay node in the cloud to help bitcoin and LN transactions via tor. I am also runing 2 Snowflake tor bridges to help people connecting to the Internet and dark web behind firewalled countries. Peace!

With all the nostr hype and zaps, I wonder how the Amethysts's app creator (@Vitor) manages to sleep whitout always thinking about more zaps, more code, more zaps, better code, more zaps, new features, more zaps!

This is actually pretty smart and it's a good example of adversarial thinking

If you are a content creator and like nostr, everything you publish should be on nostr first.

With nostr zaps, I can see the bitcoin lightning network is going to increase in capacity and they will help spread LN usage to A LOT of people.

Why should we pay capital gain taxes to the government for the profits I made investing if I am the only one who takes all the risks? Yes, we can also claim losses but it doesn't seem fair...

Any Bitcoin lightning Android wallet app that I can zap with that does not rely on GSF (Google Services Framework)? I'm on #GrapheneOS

I launched a new nostr relay located in Toronto, Canada. One time fee of 10k sats to use relay. You can help by joining https://nostr.espia.ca

I'm currently building a paid nostr relay. Almost done, waiting for #ZBD to validate me.

I'm a GrapheneOS user on my smartphone. I run a de-googled version of Android. It's great for privacy. The Play Store replacement I use is Aurora Store. I found a few bitcoin lightning wallets that don't rely on GSF (Google Services Framework) but so far none I could use for nostr zaps. I know that Wallet of satoshi can do it but it also relies on GSF. Any suggestions? I know I could use a different profile in GrapheneOS but copy and paste between profiles is not working because of the sandboxes.