'Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact, Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth' Marcus Aurelius
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Last Notes npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Being testing Primal and Amethyst for a while and the user experience in Primal is not better than with Amethyst, in fact Primal fails in three areas that need work: 1. Follower count, Amethyst is slow to show them, it query them every time and the user can observe the number adding up, in Primal the algorithm is broken, shows less followers, it is innacurate, probably due to relayer "filtering", not good 2. The badges may be useless but they are cool, Primal fails to depict them 3. Zapping using other wallets than the native to the app Primal is slow and often fails Is Primal your default Nostr front end to go? If so, Why? Seems quite deficient in comparison with the alternative, Maybe I am missing something... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Oh, and last but not least, not my idea, would like to know who was the first that share the idea, simple, brilliant and obvious, yet, nobody added that feature during the design phase since for sure monetizing the relays was always considered. X. The connection of the clients to the relays should be distributed using a torrent like tech (swarms)... That way you won't have a handful of relays taking all the traffic since most people will keep selecting only the relays with the most connected users, thus, without knowing it, supporting further the centralization of #Nostr. (***No censorship for real, freedom of speech, raw and organic as it should be, any filtering done by the user in the client***) npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod As for making illegal any form of messaging app not control or regulated, that is up to each government, those that are openly totalitarian will most probably try to enforce it, which is almost impossible, but they can legislate and make the life of those using it difficult and even incarcerate them if caught... EU is going that way for the surprise of many, USA is not much different, what can't control with back doors normally is legally banned and their devs incarcerated (tornado, Samourai wallet, etc)... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod On the anonymous front, no, Nostr does not protect your digital identity by default, again, no app built with privacy in mind as it should be, your IP address is exposed by the clients logs and relayers if you are not using TOR Browser or a VPN. Amethyst app at least has in the settings the option of using TOR but you need to combine it with Orbot used as a VPN client on your mobile, so not for the non tech savvy. Nostr is not fully decentralized in the sense that is not fully p2p, but relays in servers which act as relayers, some public, some private/paid (absurd IMO, since their selling point is censoring content considered spam or hateful etc so basically ironic and non sense considering the ethos of Nostr). But there are so many public relayers at the moment across the world that you can say is decentralized, but there is no current strong solution for true decentralization (no money incentive) nor for how it will scale further, currently is a tiny follow, we get to a serious usage/follow and the relayers will need a major upgrade npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod I have the same opinion, voicing it for some time now. I believe that IPFS is a decent solution, and if any issues with IPFS, working to solve it would make tons of sense. This will make the client side 100% decentralized. Currently, all web based are centralized and therefore subject to closure. For the relays, IPFS won't do, but an easy solution will be a pruned relay for Umbrel. While building any NOSTR or Bitcoin related application, security, privacy and decentralization should be the prime directive above all in the design phase, yet, most applications fail miserably npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Breaking News: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France! The illusion many countries sold us about freedom of speech, freedom of movement and other human rights starts to fall. Those that spoke louder about those freedoms are the worst. Decentralization is key, be uncensorable, no YouTube, no google services, no apple services, no Telegram, no FB, no Insta, no Tiktok, no WhatsApp. Use Nostr, use Odysee, Peertube, SimpleX Chat, use grapheneOS, use DEXs, use cash Last but not list, What was doing Pavel in France? Hard to believe considering his resources he didnt know there was an order from US for his arrest that no subordinate (in this case sadly France once an empire today a joke) will refuse to execute. #Nostr #Bitcoin npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Reminds me of this sentence from 1984: “He loved Big Brother.” npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod I believe most cypher punks and Bitcoiners recognize the value of Monero, not doing so is simply irrational. Bitcoin maxis or any other Crypto maxis are, IMO, cults, part of a problem not adding value but creating more division. npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Few days ago posted that it was disappointing to observe influencers broadcasting mainly in tbe totalitarian garbage of YouTube instead of Odysee or Peertube. Today SB (Simply Bitcoin), being one of the most watched Bitcoin channels got suspended and they are so upset... Unreal, seriously, how they could not see this coming... The irony... https://image.nostr.build/1a5dd126fa56c5c188962ec7e278e28b710fdd93b701d673432c18dc2ab1b15c.jpg #Bitcoin #BTC #Odysee #Peertube #decentralization npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Bitcoin scaling proposal Ark is getting closer to reality https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tim-draper-invests-in-ark-labs-to-make-bitcoin-payments-easier originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/658487 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod That sounds amazing npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod #surveillance #chatcontrol #EU Take action! Meanwhile, #SimpleXChat helps with this https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/ npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Tiktok next block... #Bitcoin #BTC https://video.nostr.build/9217eb6231f0c18055329679f582b41b60e4e74359ba0d86b040f45ffaa480ae.mp4 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Are Bitcoin Mining Pools a Threat? https://stacker.news/items/227810/r/rod So relevant these days, the issue is getting more obvious every year... #Bitcoin #BTC #hashrate #miningpools #Mining npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod “Choice is an illusion, created between those with power and those without.” The Merovingian (The Matrix) Extrapolate choice to "democracy" or any other form ot political form or definition that exist... #nostr #politics #choice #democracy npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod ### Buying a new car? ### Care about privacy? Watch... https://video.nostr.build/900698d029ed639b3a6ff090f48c1e9e21a548f7ce6c56c5540d7c6767602958.mp4 Learn how to stay private, in Europe it will be almost impossible soon due to laws that are being worked on to make the car surveillance including biometrics and speed monitoring and geolocation mandatory... In USA it seems all new cars are already there... Unreal You have wealth, moving to a free country may be your only option, many are doing it already... #privacy #car #tracking npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod #UK is going full 1984... The mask is off, sad times for the British people. https://image.nostr.build/3d935f4d7788a0ffb94ef5430f949229f2765e05e0c1f49285251de9876477b0.jpg #NOSTR fixes this... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod "The world fears a mind that thinks more accurately than its own... To think is to be persecuted, to have vision is to be hated by the visionless. To be wise is to be reviled by fools" Marianne Williamson #quote #MarianneWilliamson npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Wait for it... 🤣 https://video.nostr.build/94d3194150e88c8cb6131981125b0d7623f8de8259ba0eef997999d54d7ebfff.mp4 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Are you in Europe looking to buy non KYC Bitcoin? https://stacker.news/items/637898/r/rod #Bitcoin #BTC npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Are you in Europe looking to buy non KYC Bitcoin? Buy bitcoin with Pocket. It's quick and easy and if you use my code "C8UZS5" there are free SATS for you 🚀. Get the app: https://pck.et/app via @PocketBitcoin The app rocks and it supports Bitbox02 seed signer which is a plus, looking forward for them to support Seedsigner in the future as well for more adoption... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod President Bukele from El Salvador has the cojones to speak truth to power, very few do it. Yet, nowadays, it is an inconvenient truth that most educated people knows well, but keep quite about it... Fear of censoring and cancelation... #Bitcoin #BTC #USDPonzi https://video.nostr.build/5406d282953c6b061469e530d016b663ed5fada32aa3899753876a8ccbd3278d.mp4 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod NP, followed back! npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod $2 trillion+ wiped out from the US stock market in the first hour of trading. Stack sats, ignore the noise. #Bitcoin #BTC https://image.nostr.build/988bd7345f40f5bd7cb99408b3f3eefff812ecf95ffc9a689c61e3e25659c7c7.jpg npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Company producer of wine of the north of Spain. npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod My top 3 list of the most influential actors that could harm Bitcoin https://stacker.news/items/615153/r/rod #BTC #Bitcoin npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Bitcoin Conference - Snowden warnings, improve privacy in Bitcoin ASAP https://stacker.news/items/624817/r/rod npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Proton Bitcoin Wallet, what is known so far https://stacker.news/items/621005/r/rod npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Do you want to have a blast with plenty of engaments, as many or more than in X, NOSTR is great but STACKER NEWS is truly the King of the land. Categories like #Bitcoin, #News, #ConspiracyTheories, #Crypto, and many more! Give ut a try, you can sign in with your NOSTR account https://stacker.news/r/rod npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod What would a black swan event do to the price of Bitcoin? My two sats in my most recent article in stacker news, read on and let the community know your thoughts ... https://stacker.news/items/617089/r/rod npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod #NPC definition, priceless LOL https://video.nostr.build/755410a73773b52014c855706b1d229febe16e4e6ac2ac2530b0f68809a3f80f.mp4 Between AI, bots and trolls, social networks have become a challenge for most... My suggestion: ignore and mute, never engage unless you observe there are grounds to engage in a civic debate which could open a door to expand both sides views and knowledge base npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod This is getting weird, the total number of reachable nodes is shrinking rapidly, the onion ones mainly but not only... Any clues? #BTC #Bitcoin #nodes https://image.nostr.build/5d3efdcc188c93c84ed3b2361ee01455c14c8da3cb6485ac2d3d9426f6661cb1.jpg npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Interesting argument, I will say that the reason could be related to the fact that this is a Bitcoin niche, thus, the currency of the land is BTC using LN, spending time and money on bots and algos to sell us crap is very hard, here is the toughest crowd for them, monetizing from us would be quite hard, most here are technically and financially savvy... But, in the future, they may understand they need to join us to sell their ideologies, propaganda and crap, it would be an interesting batlle if that happen, but I agree with @nprofile…q9l0 , I choose freedom as well, if I wanted censorship I stay in X or any other centralized social network. Filters work well, muting works well. That is enough to filter out spam npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Impressive! Between this and the ZK txs for Bitcoincooking, what a month! #nevent1q…uuju npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Bitcoin idioms - Explaining the tech to new comers #Bitcoin https://stacker.news/items/312327/r/rod npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod I read this in the past and I thought to myself, some things never change for good,.but keep getting worst... "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.". Socrates (470 BC-399 BC) #wisdom #socrates #quotes https://image.nostr.build/4f6592b7f8d6fb571cba8c8df9bc378eaeddd7bd3c888f3c9bda7e92154df50e.jpg npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Try mega.io npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Unpopular known fact: Governments 3 letter agencies have access to all "free" email services, they can read your emails whenever they want. This have been the case for a long time, people in general started being more aware after Snowden shed some light on that and other issues... Be wise, don't be short minded thinking that you have nothing to hide. Why? You may not be at the moment a person of interest for any given reason for the government, however, consider that some incompetent and corrupt people work in those agencies , meaning, if they have the tools to access your email accounts, cloud account, etc, so do the cybercriminals that bought it or stole it from those incompetent people,. The most dangerous ones are those belonging to criminal syndicates, organized and with massive resources ... Solution: Use a paid service, even those services have free accounts Protonmail, proton cloud. 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So,.10 to 15 years until we get one at home doing all chores, taking care of the children and elders... and... all high end factories full of them doing the current low paid jobs.... Sometimes I wonder how long time the system has left before it implodes. .. A change like this implies that new sources of job and income are required to mantain the population living standards... All factories will want to reduce costs and remove their workers for droids that will do it cheaper and better in most cases, The irony? If you let go all factory employees you will have less clients with money across the board and therefore less sells, many of those factories will go bankrupt. ..The money flow is a complicated matter. Government oversight is required to create a plan and regulate usage in order to avoid the collapse of the system, if only we had competent government officials... Nowadays , it is my opinion, we have the most incompetent politicians and government officials across the board (in western countries) in the known history of "democracy" (which is nothing but an illusion of choice for the weak minded majority, but that is another complicated subject....) #AI #Android #Robot #NVDIA npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Bad actors against #Bitcoin, #Monero and #Ethereum will show in one way or another their truth colors My list of the most dangerous bad actors in the #Bitcoin community based on the harm they have done or will be capable to do to the ecosystem due to their resources and influence in the space: 1. Elon Musk. Supporting a meme coin and trolling the ecosystem. Trying to create the american wechat and portraying himself and a protector of freedom of speech... While having Tesla as a cash cow pushing for the BS of clima change (harming the planet with electrical vehicules, which batteries don't last many years and are no recyclable, and when buried cause huge damage to the land and water around). Admired and loved by millions, nobody is perfect but I judge by actions not words. Potential impact: High, he may support a shitcoin as solana or worst, create his own with the support of deep pockets and the government 2. Jack Dorsey. Known for his history as Twitter CEO during the crusade against freedom of speech, cancelation of critical thinkers and even a president of USA, the behavior of Twitter was disgusting while Jack was the CEO, I never thought that a company could behave that way and survive and yet, there it is... Unreal and zero accountability, nothing happen here, twitter basically gaslighted a large amount of the population, supported political propaganda to one party with no neutrality, supported an experimental drug that is still harming people and didnt let experts and doctors to debate and discuss and not one of those thugs blocking accounts and censoring critical thinkers was made accountable, it is still disgusting to me. Currently supporting a mining pool that censors whirlpool from Samourai wallet, old habits die hard I guess... And the cherry of the pie, now funding FiatJaf whom was looking for funding to spam Ethereum and Monero networks to make unusable so more funds will move to Bitcoin and LN... This project and idea from the getgo is a no no, you may not like another project but to spam it intentionally should be illegal... Potential impact: very high, already inside the community, a record of bad actions, pro censorship, vast resources, head of Cash App, admired by most in the community and hence able to stir the community that is less educated and prone to critical thinking into a path that would eventually make Bitcoin a failure of a project in the future with a hard fork or the introduction of KYC into Bitcoin or additional censorship in one way or another. Critical Thinkers in the space are needed, #Bitcoin for many years have been a space with many of them, but little by little a see a change, produced by time+age+money, those libertarians are now most of them millionaires, enterpreuners absorbed by the system and therefore have changed their tune. Stay humble says someone, never more truth But hey, green candles good, celebration and euphoria, let's not forget the idea of why Satoshi created #Bitcoin. If that was only possible now that the institutions are in.... And one thing is certain the best tech always will be used by the darknet the most, and currently is not #Bitcoin, let that sync jn npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod How insane that it was not already the norm... This should be extrapolated to all companies that hold customer information in servers (their or third party) .... #nevent1q…29me npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Always following and learning of all things crypto currencies, watching the rise and fall of many non sense projects, the rise and fall of some interesting projects misguided by greed and lack of transparency but the Monero case is one of its own. The more I learn about the XMR technology the more impressed I am, I wish we could add some of it to Bitcoin so BTC could ve used as money suppose to be, private, anonymous and secure. A layer 2 solution with the features of Monero is a must for BTC, meanwhile, a very nice gold 2.0, holding and when required to spend online with your private wallets , you need to perform a coinjoin for spend or an atomic swap into a brand new wallet to spend it...Not ideal as money unless you are in a CEX and you just don't care about your privacy and you just care about price appreciation and nothing else, IMO most non tech savvy people, which is the majority. Monero will be prosecuted, demonized and attacked to exhaustion, yet, it will survive everything for it is designed for that and better at it than any other token. Now, the price appreciation of Monero is a very interesting development to watch, a free market once all CEXs drop it will decide the price, meanwhile watching the price moves while is dumped by others like Kraken will be interesting, the utility of the token as a payment token is clear and widely used by the tech savvy... Time will say npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod EU blackmailed Hungary.... What is new? This disgusting behavior is one of the many reasons the "united" west is failing and falling, the status quo is shifting and there is no turning back, you can't have allies if you bully them every time they do not agree with you. They are your prisoners not your allies and as soon as they find a way to free themselves from your chains they will go away or turn against you. https://image.nostr.build/b502614bf20d4aa3c320246cf71064100fae92274d61b135b7aa998b67425323.jpg npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Thanks for sharing! npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Well done, excellent npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod IMO, the gatekeeping will continue as much as possible, once the cost of it hurts their business they will change direction, the smart money will always find the path of less friction... we need to have patience, it is not a fast process, few quarters may be required for full realization and change, time will say npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod https://image.nostr.build/1ace204eb97e0ae2699839cf8217a71c8250047e56d16dcee8c92c8e461cf6ea.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1600x900&blurhash=iBHT%3FQPC0i%7EA039t%2368_0KIo%5EOX95RoIkCtRS%25s%2C01E1%2C.%24i%5Ej-po%7Dx%5Dx%5D0%239%5E-Tnj-TjEIU%24ft60zxCt7I%3Bw%5DaeR*xas%3A&x=a502b98892720633ab6a6b54483be2e8d7089644a9b6a4143e3886d416fa5e67 The market show its cards the day before, the strategy was a dump, cypher punks were ready, IMO, countermeasures were deployed, the planned dump failed, money will start flowing into the ETFs gradually, tik tok until next move... #Bitcoin npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod The irony... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod This is cool, thanks for sharing Looking for one with liquidations mobile friendly now npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod An excellent explanation on SEs (Secure Elements) in "Seed Signers" (known as Hardware Wallets) https://nitter.cz/FOUNDATIONdvcs/status/1744056433648300331 #Bitcoin npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod 100% Agree Culture wars used as a distraction https://x.com/TheBTCTherapist/status/1743648913800696260?s=20 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst, Eric Balchunas, on spot Bitcoin ETF approvals: “Yeah it’s basically done. Latest I’m hearing (from multiple sources) that final S-1s are due 8am on Monday as SEC is trying to line everyone up for January 11th launch..” Interesting weekend ahead npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Recommended, tune in and improve your knowledge base in terms of telecom and your privacy https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/SilentLink:4 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Matrixport & Cointelegragh.... Same day FUD..... Coincidence? The same day that Blackrock is seeding their ETF... aha.... If you have been around for some time you already know that Cointelegragh OS not to be trusted, neither Matrixport... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod The cancel culture is, IMO, one of the most disgusting "new social behavior" of our times, abused by companies and politicians and supported by a weak minded minority of the population in the west brainwashed, lied too and manipulated constantly Problem is, the presumption of inocemce until proven guilty should be the norm, it is, in most countries the law, yet, this disgusting behavior of politicians and the media keeps canceling people for ideological and political reasons and gas lighting the people while they do it. Can't wait for this apprehensive and disgusting behavior to end https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-tv-to-scrap-films-featuring-controversial-french-star/49094970 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod well, glad works for you! npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod I believe you are correct, more over, the Blackrocks of the world and many whales buy directly from miner companies npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Interesting, every person is different, some people are immune to the coffee effect, in my case, I can drink a black coffee at night and sleep 8 hours perfectly. I assume that for some it create addiction since it has a strong effect in their body, I know people that can't function in the morning until they have a coffee. I have to admit that I always thought about it as interesting, they can take a coffee and stay alert, I would fall sleep the same. npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod If the fees are high enough, the miners will have a healthier business, and be able to growth their business securely. And will hold more BTC as reserve. Still, they will sell BTC to pay for their OPEX, that will not change until the OPEX can be paid in BTC. Bear in mind that miners are Bitcoin sellers by default, that is the business model... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Are you observing tangible benefits? npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Don't pay attention to the noise and the words, but the actions, what is being done, not looking good at the moment. Hopefully we will see some tangible changes that are in line with the ethos of Bitcoin. Either way, the management of the situation has been quite disappointing creating more division in the community, I only observe a zero sum gain scenario for Ocean and a negative PR that will be difficult to recover from. npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod That is correct, you install it in your mobile and PCs and in Umbrel using the same account, once configured you can access unbrel node and other services behind TOR using https npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Got it, by the way, I use Umbrel with https using tailscale, works well. But, I like your setup, more robust and reliable for sure. Umbrel OS is a fun toy to play with, at least for me, the main HW for nodes and sovereign cloud services needs to be more robust 👍 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Agree, Star9 is quite superior if you need more than simply a node, electrum and dojo. I do not feel is a good practice to mix anything with a Bitcon node that is not related, therefore, star9 is a setting I use only for self sovereign server with cloud services, but no Bitcoin, I try to remove any possible additional attack vector to the device. Umbrel OS works without stability issues if not mixed with anything else but Node, electrum and dojo,. I think both are awesome, but each one for a different use case. Did you buy the star9 HW solution or install it in a server of your own? npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod That is odd, to me it works fine that way... Hopefully you will find what works for you. I just wish they finish with the TOR native implementation, it is quite inconvenient, but either way, I rather prefer Samourai for any transaction from mobile or Sparrow using the Desktop, spending without best in class privacy settings for the transactions is a no no for me. Blue is fine to me as a backup in case is needed due to a dojo issue, which never have happened , dojo just works npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod The TOR side needs to be enabled, that is not built in yet (work in progress) You need to install ORBOT, enable it as a VPN or just use it for selected apps, of the first, once running, it will connect. if the second, you will have orbit running the same but it will tunnel via TOR only the selected apps Until Bluewallet is not connected to the TOR network it won't reach your electrum server, inconvenient, but works. npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Yep, not for me either Wonder what issues you are getting with Blue, never had one, pretty solid for me. I mean, you stated is crashing, just wonder why does that to you, quite odd. Did you find online other people having a similar issue as you do? npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Curious on why you gave up dojo? Green... Be mindful of your recovery protocol, specially if you create new seeds npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod A must watch to understand the #oceanpool mining censoring discussion, impact and issues developing currently. I do not like ordinals, IMO,, they are clogging the blockchain with non sense garbage, but, empowering censoring can't be the solution and Knots (fork of Bitcoin Core) has filtering built in by default, I, while having the choice, will avoid Ocean as a bad rash and any pool that uses Knots. Time will say what users will do with their miners, current there are great alternatives with stratumV2 Keeping an eye on the core devs is Paramount, no one is perfect and some of them may take really bad decisions and be able to sell them as great decisions, more over, some of them may become bad actors. #BTC #Mining #Whirpool #Oceanpool https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=x4IuFegSoqHfIiLR&v=NogUpCEAyoY&feature=youtu.be npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Android: Samourai Wallet connected to your dojo server installed in your Umbrel OS for best in class privacy transactions and coin control. FOSS and the team is unapologetic hard core libertarians Bluewallet connected to electrum server for on chain transactions, some decent features and FOSS. Phoenix for LN does the job very well, FOSS as well and IMO beat in class for lightning network, just open a big channel the first time, so you don't have to pay high fees for channel capacity every time you do a bit higher transactions, most people don't do their research and wrongly state the fees are high, not true, they just don't know what they are doing and therefore use Phoenix as if it was any other non custodial wallet like WOT npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Hopefully not! But Japan, oh well, it depends, every time I go I see quite similar behavior, in the metro most people down in their mobiles or manga magazines, no talking ever, only "emails" (funny, no texting , emailing, now changing a bit), night life vibrant, in Tokio, Ropongi always alive, bars full , restaurants full, the more they drink the more they share :) Then, there is karaoke, the culture is built for sharing but tech is slowly pushing them towards isolation, I don't think is taking strongly though In the EU, this last summer had the luck to visit a couple Mediterranean countries and the social life is very busy, it was refreshing to observe young people still having fun out as thr old still keep doing. And eastern Europe even more, the slavics are incredibly social and South America , well ... Hard to believe that Brazilians or Venezuelans or Puerto Ricans or Cubans will stop partying every weekend like there is no tomorrow... LOL such a happy people! npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Not the case in all countries... But in USA is systemic npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Bitcoin idioms - Explaining the tech to the new comers https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qq2kw4t323yhganr2e3nwuph2dhrvkjldejn2q3qxhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcsxpqqqp65wdslvf7 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qq2kw4t323yhganr2e3nwuph2dhrvkjldejn2q3qxhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcsxpqqqp65wdslvf7 npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod New version of Brave now has the Language Model (AI) code name "LEO"... In a nutshell a cupcake in a box, sensitive, annoying with no built in sense of humor.... :) pass, next... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Amusing asnwers playing contrarian, IMO, this was to be expected, it is a soace of people behind Bitcoin, LN, decentralization and Privacy oriented , a tribe, therefore, it is only natural most people would be quite often in the same page. Additionally, most hard core bitcoiners are well known for not holding back and saying it like it is, some of them quite hardly, therefore, I would assume some fragile egos out there will think twice before attacking the tribe... npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Bitcoin is 110% up this year and still some YT influenceer are bearish or very negative on the Bitcoin future and the ETFs potential impact, it is already hard to watch, Those influencers have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, paid subscriptions to newsletters, private paid channels, and, despite all the evidence against them, they are still in business, there is a market for all narratives even the most unsubstantiated ones... Amusing npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Jack, Do you have in the road map Zelle transfers planned? IBTC LN or BTC On Chain to Zelle account of a friend, quite convenient, no need to withdraw from Strike to make a Zelle payment npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Today, I was listening to the podcast of a known influencer in the Bitcoin arena, he interviewed a VC, yep, most VCs do not have a good track record of being altruistic, but on the contrary, focused on profit above all. During the interview the VC mentioned the term 996, implying that this was very appealing to some investors, they would rather put their money in startups that implement it. The moderator asked what is 996.... I though to myself, nice, I too want to know.... 9 am to 9 pm 6 days per week... Seriously, basically hard core modern exploitation, disgusting and part of the problem with our world, those with vast resources have not understand that those models are temporary, burn the weak minded that buys into the "cultural ethos bullshit" and keep breaking and dividing our society. And those "profit above all" VCs are not a minority, most have put their money to work in countries where some form of human exploitation is not a crime....Sad npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod The BTC Sport ETF is around the corner, I wrote this article a couple of months ago, I go on to explain how a Spot ETFs could be a threat to Bitcoin Long Term and extremely bullish short term, read on and let me know your thoughts https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qqxnzd3exyurxvpkxuerzd3cqgsrtuazdng7waddzmdd3nyw36w5sfvler95vgcte9nreqf8jtwlyvgrqsqqqa28peu8nh npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod How is it going with your PiHole experience? I read you asked about Umbrel best config, I play with it for a while and have two of them installed in different locations running smooth with almost no maintenance required. But only after I removed all apps and left exclusively the Bitcoin Node Core, Electrum Server, Dojo Server and Tailscale. npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Sharing my new article in Stacker News ARK, The innovative Protocol for Enhancing Bitcoin Privacy and Scalability https://stacker.news/items/283362/r/rod npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod It hangs and causes serious problems , I had it for about a year, had to restart my nodes quite often, every three weeks approx... Once I remove it never a problem again. A router with AdGuard built in is the ideal condiguration. But give it a try, your HW setup may be able to manage it without intermitent issues npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Did you try tailscale support? I know other people had problems as well with it hanging and not restarting. You can SSL to UmbrelOS and stop it via command line, you can restart it or uninstall it npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod WOW, that is odd.. I do not see how, but switching off the system and testing your network will shed some light on the matter. I would assume your home smart devices are self hosted, if you are using amazon or google devices , well, they come pre hacked , it is a door open, not only for Amazon and google but to cyber criminals, thus , you can expect a security breach at any time npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Your Bitcoin node may say is sync but check the blocks, you may be still few hours behind, happens, Electrum will only state that is fully sync once the node catch up with the latest blocks npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Looking at your config and the apps (good choices), you are good to go! npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Suggestion, do not install any app you don't need, the less apps you install the more stable the Umbrel OS will be. npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod Not that I know off, AFAIK, Amethyst and Primal are different teams npub1xhe6ymx3ua6669k6mrxgar5afqjeljxtgc3shjtx8jqj0yka7gcspt896x Rod The relays is no surprise but as you well stated, the front end is already crossing the line, I for one will never use Primal again, they are censoring and that is for me enough to know the team behind is part of the problem the same one we left behind in X We always can choose additional relays and avoid the nauseating ones, even better, host our own relays...