What is your favourite way of buying non-KYC bitcoin? I've used HodlHodl in tge past but paying with Revolut in europe doesn't make it strcitcly non KYC. Cash is not an option for bigger amounts imho.

Privacy is power. Without privacy, we have no power to enforce any right. This is what I take back from yet another great @npub1sn0w...jdv9 interview. Most of humanity has been under the thumb of one power or another before, such as in the middle ages. We have freed ourselves somehow and we can free ourselves again after the current totalitarian shift, as long as we remain aware. Never, in the history of mankind, have so many owed so much to a single man. Thank you Ed!

Many of us feel we live in a period of pivot, maybe this is what 4th turnings are like. One thing I find intriguing is the ease with which society adopts marxist ideology seemingly being taught accross the west, in american colleges and in political science schools in europe like #SciencePo. Somehow 20th century experiences with communism and a large litterature on the subject weren't enough to deter a self proclaimed "ellite" to experiment with it again in the 21st century. Sure, Fiat shapes mentalities, but I know educated socialists who have all read Orwell, Huxley, Hannah Arendt, who keep cheering for the centralisation of power. Appart from ideology rendering blind, I'm struggling to understand how we got to this. Propaganda and group think are the mechanisms. But what happened to the notion of critical thinking I remember growing up with ?

Did #Israel trigger the war against #Iran to developp alternative routes for oil and gas ?

From the Mises institute : " The correction is fundamentally about restoring property rights in a market that quietly abandoned them. New regulators, committees, and Basel frameworks are not the answer. Western bullion markets can fix themselves by admitting that a bar of gold is not a credit instrument, that a customer’s deposit is not a bank’s asset, and that the price of the oldest store of value on earth should reflect the metal itself, not the paper claims stacked on top of it." How long before Bitcoin starts having the same issue at scale regarding rehypothecation in the tradfi world it's moving towards ? https://mises.org/mises-wire/precious-paper-problem-divergence-western-bullion-markets

I'm just reading about knots grabbing 20%of the network. I don't think supporters all know that #Bitaxe really took off last year. In order to mine to datum, to your own node, you have to be running Knots, it won't work with Core. A good number of #Knots node have liquely sprung up just for that reason.

@rafael_xmr @npub1hlty...j4k2 @XMR @Cyph3rp9nk Could you please help me figure out how anonymous atomic swaps can be ? If I exchange BTC for XMR using it, my utxo goes to a regular seller of xmr doesn't it ? Thanks guys for helping me figure this out.

I've decided to run a m#Monero node now next to my Bitcoin node. How many years will it be relevant if I make it 500Gb SSD compared with 1Tb ?

Very good warning by Charles Hoskinson on the power grab by western governments over our individual rights. Twisting Churchill's famous quote, "never in the history of human kind has so much power been given by so many to so few". https://www.youtube.com/live/mFiLJasSNmM