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Master this skill and you will have mastered life, GM 🌞
https://blossom.primal.net/7f4e4e0f9ba7ce2551a6997a8683176f6cddda6ccac46ebdc0e75d7bf0841aa2.jpg

2026-07-22 12:25:49 UTC

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Reminds me that it's very easy to capitulate to the grim reality we find ourselves in – who cares, everything i do is being watched anyway, might as well give up, etc.
Instead, we should be building a culture of doing the best we can – use the tools where there are real alternatives, help build the ones that are still too hard to use.
You're not going to do everything perfectly, anon – that doesn't mean it makes no sense to try 💘
#nevent1q…esyg

2026-07-16 10:16:59 UTC

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oh yeah ive seen this lol

2026-07-13 18:30:20 UTC

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I truly wish you the best of luck with your new money my guy

2026-07-13 17:56:54 UTC

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eat shit cat eater
#nevent1q…fu2c

2026-07-13 17:55:33 UTC

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Luke is preparing to blame Bitcoin Core for the inevitable chainsplit he will have caused by claiming that everyone else is responsible for not upgrading to his non-supported delusional fantasies, forking him and the poor people that have been intentionally misled by him off the network – but I don't think anyone who has been following his very public meltdown is going to be surprised by this complete lack of an ability to take responsibility for his own actions 👍

2026-07-08 09:55:13 UTC

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not what I am looking for but this is also interesting?

2026-07-08 09:31:36 UTC

anyone have a facial recognition camera i can borrow or knows where i can get one asking for a friend

2026-06-25 21:59:10 UTC

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please get a mental health check

2026-06-16 22:44:42 UTC

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Roman Storm's retrial is getting almost no attention so I want to make sure that we are all on the same page as to what this means.
If his conviction on unlicensed money transmission stands, and the charges on conspiracy to commit money laundering and sanctions evasion are won, it will end non-custodial no-KYC wallets in the US.
#nevent1q…3fyk

2026-06-16 22:36:29 UTC

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dw war on crypto is over fam
#nevent1q…3fyk

2026-06-15 16:00:09 UTC

“Sanctions are not about security, they’re about silencing those who bear witness.”
Francesca Albanese is back on the OFAC list after a US appeals court reinstated the sanctions against her for documenting Israeli war crimes.
Sign the petition for the EU to push back: https://petition.qomon.org/0b54a0b8-demand-justice-defend-the-defenders/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdKD1KDVrI0

2026-06-12 18:06:05 UTC

GM GN 🌞 🌝
https://blossom.primal.net/ea22d632199b18c6bda4720e51ffdb2cb8d22501b2750b9652d2f92207b28591.mp4

2026-06-09 08:27:32 UTC

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you can use a different caching service and add your own relays as well

2026-06-09 00:13:43 UTC

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I dont understand the question. As you say, "you can use a different client to see a censored user’s notes." That is the entire point.
I do think that good alternatives to primal are very important, but again, imo what they're doing is far from stupid from a liability perspective and changes nothing about whether you can still access the content.

2026-06-08 22:44:47 UTC

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actually a smart choice by primal actually if you ask me. changes nothing about the protocol.

2026-06-08 14:40:30 UTC

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Really important point made here: relay operators should be prepared for getting take-down orders. The more nostr matures, the worse this is going to get.
The point of nostr is not that you can ignore these takedown orders while fooling yourself into thinking that you somehow operate outside of the law because you run a nostr relay (or worse, put the people contacting you into actual danger while probably violating even more laws as you're at it).
Nostr does not prevent you from getting these orders or complying with them, unless you want to make yourself liable.
What Nostr *does* do is decentralize the content, so that it shouldn't matter if Will takes something down or Primal takes something down, bc other relays will still host the content.
If the only solution we see to dealing with these issues is being a child about it – instead of, idk, further decentralizing nostr hosting/broadcasting and treating it as a real problem we all need to deal with – we're in for a wild ride.
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2026-06-08 14:31:08 UTC

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I will email who i want you fucking loser lmfao

2026-06-08 12:15:12 UTC

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First of all, all you wannabe libertarian snowflakes need to make up your minds whether words are violence or not. If someone insulting you on social media isn't, then getting sent an email isn't either.
Second, and I find it very concerning that this seems to be news to you, *publicly posting someones name on the internet* that *wasn't known before* – esp someone who *is public about his interests in bitcoin* – puts this person at serious risk of *actual violence* –> e.g. someone coming to your house and cutting your fingers off or kidnapping your family.
Honestly appalling to even attempt to be making a comparison here between sending someone *an email* and putting that person's life in *actual danger* and then going on to call that "a grey area."

2026-06-08 11:15:57 UTC

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So anyone who knows my legal name is free to post it on the internet and that wouldnt be doxxing bc i told them my name? Yea that makes a lot of sense.
I get that the idea here was to scould the person for sending "a threat," but that could have easily been done by redacting his clear name and just letting his npub / handle be public. Literally zero point in doxxing the guy besides being an asshole.

2026-06-08 11:10:07 UTC

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Wow what about of whataboutist nonsense. In no scenario whatsoever did he need to post this guys clear name on the internet

2026-06-08 11:08:39 UTC

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is publishing someones legal name on the internet doxxing? lmfao, wow

2026-06-08 09:00:34 UTC

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I always liked Damus and thought it was great that there was an alternative client to primal, but today I'm deleting Damus off my phone and removing any relays operated by JB.
I don't care about anyone's petty posting fights, but i will not be using any technology operated by someone who will "happily doxx" people. I suggest you do the same.
#nevent1q…2h3t

2026-06-07 21:53:20 UTC

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Go take a mental health day bro looks like you seriously need it

2026-06-07 17:38:13 UTC

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oh yeah bc i dont have enough problems in my life as it is great idea thanks

2026-06-07 17:37:20 UTC

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A really big move by CashApp would have been to work on implementing Bitcoin native stablecoins (stablesats, etc) and move the world away from predatory USDT USDC nonsense explicitly built to exploit the global south but here we are
#nevent1q…4wlz

2026-06-07 17:31:16 UTC

MacOS Tahoe has broken pretty much every application that i use on this computer but at least my notifications are in glass screen now ty Tim Apple 👍

2026-05-31 13:38:26 UTC

GM
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https://image.nostr.build/4ad0fcc035fb04457c48504081d5206f201969ff0cd033abdfa87f6d888292d3.jpg

2026-05-29 08:06:27 UTC

Anyone know a good collaborative end-to-end encrypted file editing software for docs & excel?
Must have the ability to track changes and create comments!

2026-05-28 20:00:15 UTC

Shaved the dog and now he looks like he got chemo therapy can devs do something

2026-05-28 17:05:21 UTC

GM
https://image.nostr.build/9eba6c784d936f841be07d426be848b5403baa517a6a26e6dcf03cebcb7f512c.jpg

2026-05-27 20:20:26 UTC

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Oh, idk if you‘re not a native English speaker, but retarded is not inclusive. Its an insult. The correct term would be disabled.

2026-05-27 17:31:18 UTC

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In my defense I say retarded all the time so sorry in advance

2026-05-27 17:11:41 UTC

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What an arrogant and privileged take.

2026-05-27 16:19:40 UTC

Banks have frozen the accounts of German journalist Hüseyin Dogru‘s retired mother.
This comes after banks froze his wife‘s accounts in March.
Dogru was sanctioned last year by the EU for his reporting on anti-zionism and German pro-Palestine movements.
https://free-dogru.com
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2026-05-27 11:59:12 UTC

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Lol
Im going to try this

2026-05-27 11:21:48 UTC

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Whats this? Nostr stats?

2026-05-27 11:21:02 UTC

350,000+ followers
2900 views
Algos are working as intended in case anyone is wondering 👍
https://image.nostr.build/d6abbb5cf471b98de2602ade11e91602a498ef4df9b1699143322d6d9d8ddef0.jpg
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2026-05-27 11:09:37 UTC

Shadowbanning has been insane on X the last few weeks
Can someone do something about Nostr adoption so I can finally delete this shit app

2026-05-26 20:14:14 UTC

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Theyre literally giving away free money - this is the friendly jurisdiction

2026-05-26 19:26:26 UTC

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Oh, that definitely comes from trump lol

2026-05-26 19:11:56 UTC

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I really dont think thats the goal of the policy people.
I can see this as the goal of the administration, but I feel like this bill is the result of not thinking through the consequences for the network of what theyre proposing.
Or they did and dont care. Which would be very bad.

2026-05-26 18:53:41 UTC

Someone please check on the policy people. I don‘t think they know what they are doing.
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2026-05-25 20:08:01 UTC

Someone should make a nostr app but its a tumblr where I can customize what my site looks like thank you for your attention to this matter

2026-05-23 23:36:05 UTC

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2026-05-23 22:49:53 UTC

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bro 💀

2026-05-22 18:16:07 UTC

👍
https://image.nostr.build/11cd4cb09c6a37c7cb57cc650d135da3d235463658c6af4c7156e3e683d741a2.jpg

2026-05-21 16:29:09 UTC

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Hahaha its meee!

2026-05-21 16:27:35 UTC

The „modernization“ of the BSA is going to be the implementation of „privacy preserving“ digital IDs and mandating banks to slap palantir ontop of SARs you heard it here first

2026-05-21 15:29:18 UTC

Atlantic Council Carole "we need to censor bitcoin transactions at the miner level" House getting DESTROYED by Chairman Davidson for advocating in support of the BSA
"Is that what the constitution says?" "That's not what it says."
https://blossom.primal.net/fb46461c95c7c19ad2c2036d9ea65846ec451ddb7b8e4f9541de043899993af7.mp4

2026-05-21 14:27:17 UTC

If you‘re having a bad day tune in here to listen to literally everyone shitting on the Bank Secrecy Act, including the banking lobby lol
https://www.youtube.com/live/5niANg9phSA

2026-05-20 10:33:32 UTC

Love that so many people have been interested in how my money (once again) got frozen by an exchange.
Also love that so many people on nostr celebrate the people building privacy tools in hopes that we can find a way to escape this system built on undemocratic censorship.
But the real heroes are the people standing up to governments to change the laws that are causing these problems for people around the world in the first place.
One of them is Nick Anthony, who is singlehandedly doing more to fight these unjust laws than anyone I know - and not enough people know about his work.
Give Nick a follow and tune in to his testimony on how these laws have failed us before Congress tomorrow ⬇️
#nevent1q…qtlv

2026-05-19 14:34:06 UTC

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What I great idea. I cant wait to explain this to my landlord. Thanks for the tip.

2026-05-19 13:53:41 UTC

There‘s a lot of questions people have when this happens, so I want to address them one by one.
First, people ask why I still use an exchange.
The answer to this is simple: because I need money in my bank account to pay my bills, just like any other normal person.
Second, people recommend just using P2P services.
But P2P services are even worse. Small frequent amounts from random people paid into your bank account will get you banned from any bank immediately as it throws an instant AML flag.
Third, people blame the exchanges.
Every exchange this has happened to me on (apart from one) has been exceptionally helpful and constructive. This is not the exchanges fault.
So lets blame the banks!
Also wrong. This is not the banks fault - it is the fault of laws that have turned banks into undemocratic policing vehicles. The banks hate these laws as much as we do - because it causes them to spend billions of $ on braindead compliance bros.
I think its important to direct our anger where it matters:
against the system that has been built to make this happen, and not against those enforcing it, as they mostly have no other choice ✌️
#nevent1q…mmhp

2026-05-19 13:14:58 UTC

My money has once again been frozen by an exchange.
As always, I try to explain that I am a journalist and make my money through donations. I send them my donations page – and of course that's not enough.
"Please show us receipts of when you purchased the bitcoin," they say. Because the concept of using bitcoin as money simply does not exist in the mind of a compliance bro.
Its not illegal to receive anonymous donations – in theory. In practice, the bank will freeze your accounts until you KYC every donation you receive. This is the problem with AML:
You can obey the law as it is written, and the bank will still penalize you without any chance at due process.
All this, of course, while Jeffrey Epstein and friends move hundreds of millions through the banks for human trafficking.
1$ left in the bank account. Let's see how long this process takes this time.

2026-05-18 16:47:57 UTC

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Lightning has never failed for me on cashu, and I use it multiple times per week.
Im sure @npub12rv…85vg is happy to help answer any questions.

2026-05-18 15:40:05 UTC

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I think the „people can use any wallet they want“ part is actually the problem - it gives people decision overwhelm and then they dont know what to do. it also assumes that people already know how to use bitcoin.
Honestly i would just integrate cashu, its extremely easy to use and has failed maybe once for me in the past 12 months bc a mint i was on was doing some key rotations.
And before you cry about KYC and regulation: much like nostr relays, cashu mints are decentralized around the world.
If you argue for cashu to fail bc of regulation you are essentially arguing for nostr to fail bc of regulation, bc im not sure if you noticed, but theres no more non-kyc internet pretty soon, making non-censorship a federal crime.
If a network of decentralized mints cant navigate this, neither can a network of decentralized relayers.

2026-05-18 15:24:46 UTC

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The problem is made up bc it only exists by not integrating existing wallets. And it is you and your „solution“ that is going to KYC everyone.

2026-05-18 15:19:29 UTC

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You are operating from the assumption of a problem you have completely made up in your head to offer a solution that will hurt everyone who uses it and those who interact with them.
Mental illness. Check your ego.

2026-05-18 15:13:50 UTC

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Which is why youre integrating one that makes it easy
You just really cant admit that you are wrong can you

2026-05-18 15:10:27 UTC

Instead of nostr clients building their own zap wallets just integrate one that already does zaps well like ZEUS is working on here there you go UX problem solved youre welcome @npub1q3s…d26p @npub1gcx…nj5z 👍
#nevent1q…0s90

2026-05-18 15:01:45 UTC

I dont think the ministry of silly zaps are aware of the problem they are creating for nostr.
No serious developer that knows anything about bitcoin is going to implement this proposal.
Instead of focusing on making zaps easier for everyone, normies will be even more confused as to why zap this way and not another way.
This makes getting into zapping even harder: just like when SW and WW were constantly battling over who is better, people just stayed away from coinjoins all together bc they didnt know who was right.
Lose lose lose situation.
#nevent1q…zsnu

2026-05-18 12:43:39 UTC

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Given how many people have explained to you now that this is not what this is about i will be going with you are disingenuous going forward and would rather risk the privacy of your users than admit what you proposed is not a good idea (and thats not a good look my guy, at all)

2026-05-18 11:32:31 UTC

Someone added the Strait of Hormuz to 21's bitcoin meetups and i can't lmao
https://blossom.primal.net/8684c71ef67508953332d48095759d4cd23a4ee355577a7aafc13051d7a56a01.png

2026-05-18 09:06:26 UTC

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Respectfully I think you guys would fare a lot better if you stopped insulting people who dont use your currency and instead constructively explained it to them - bitcoin people used to do the same, take it from experience its not going to convince anyone

2026-05-18 09:04:29 UTC

Early bitcoin feels 🧡🫂
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2026-05-18 08:57:10 UTC

The off the bench monero keyboard warriors in my replies are always funny to me - The Rage has been taking monero donations since the beginning and the XMR community are by far the best donators we‘ve had feel free to send us some here GM
https://www.therage.co/donate/
#nevent1q…nu39

2026-05-18 08:50:35 UTC

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Mh yeah thats not how it works unfortunately unless youre not logged into any personal accounts with your vpn Chainalysis can simply buy your vpn address from a data broker

2026-05-18 07:22:55 UTC

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😭😭😭

2026-05-17 21:30:51 UTC

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My concern is the same concern that everyone has. I explained it in my replies to you. Unfortunately I cant understand it for you.

2026-05-17 21:28:52 UTC

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😭

2026-05-17 21:28:06 UTC

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How does doxxing yourself tell you anything about chainalysis heuristics??? Lmfao

2026-05-17 21:27:32 UTC

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You have about 500 very articulate responses in your replies explaining to you exactly what the concern is, including from me. I suggest you start there.

2026-05-17 21:20:39 UTC

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You just said you understand. Now you dont understand?

2026-05-17 21:16:49 UTC

Somewhere at Chainalysis HQ, probably
https://image.nostr.build/bf8c38a83fe13fc9124d23a79476424b4eba1a1e82dc39e5de60bb5d38819619.jpg
#nevent1q…ft0w

2026-05-17 21:11:57 UTC

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Ive read a whole range of your replies today so I respectfully disagree.
Unless youre saying you understand it but dont care that people get rekt - which honestly would be even worse.

2026-05-17 21:10:34 UTC

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The problem which Vitor here is conveniently oblivious to is that when I cash out my zaps, nobody knows where that money went to.
Its clear that regular zaps arent private - but they dont dox you and everyone else you interact with for the rest of eternity.
The risk here is that people who dont understand this will likely just send the zaps they make directly to their cold storage and will not go through the absolute pain of doing it privately, eg by mixing or swapping into XMR or LN.
Chainalysis would have an absolute field day with this. Like genuinely, biggest gift you could make them 10/10.

2026-05-17 21:03:59 UTC

The extent to which these people dont understand what the problem is is genuinely terrifying.
#nevent1q…s9cr

2026-05-17 21:01:05 UTC

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Get out of my replies retard

2026-05-17 20:50:40 UTC

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KYC, but voluntary
https://blossom.primal.net/a112c4dfbf5fd9e5b7e6e950d584d55f9dcdce9f927a9ef9d68d9f196f35f244.jpg
#nevent1q…lzxq

2026-05-17 20:44:48 UTC

Publicly tying your social media profile to one address forever is genuinely the biggest gift you could make to AML companies, ever.
To get that money out without hurting the privacy of people you interact with you‘d need to jump through so many hoops that it defies the entire purpose of this legendary „ux upgrade“ in the first place.
Onchain zaps, not even once.
#nevent1q…0weu

2026-05-17 06:04:38 UTC

There‘s a coordinated campaign to flood Nostr with regime change freedom astroturf propaganda, and I am tired of it.
#nevent1q…sfq9

2026-05-17 06:04:17 UTC

Leopoldo Lopez calls for real elections. He says Venezuela needs real democracy. Not a new connected elite.
These are admirable things. Lets see what he means by this.
In 2014, Leopoldo Lopez was arrested for leading violent protests in Venezuela. This fact is disputed, especially by those who advocated for his innocence.
What is undisputable is that a 2013 memo crafted under USAID supervision called exactly for what Lopez had been charged with: telling opposition members to „create crisis situations in the streets that facilitate U.S. and NATO intervention.“
„Whenever possible, the violence should result in deaths or injuries,“ the memo says.
And dozens of people did die in the protests Lopez led, with hundreds more being injured. This, too, is undisputed.
A few years later, in 2019, Juan Guaido led an uprising and declared himself President of Venezuela with support of the first Trump administration. No election, no democracy.
Guaido freed Lopez from house arrest, who is widely cited as his mentor.
During the time of Guaido‘s acknowledgment as the legitimate - though unelected - President of Venezuela by the international community, he robbed the country of an estimated 30B Dollars.
This included reserves at the New York Fed, which had been frozen due to sanctions - under guaido, the 400M Dollars belonging to the country dwindled to 30M. Over 350M dollars, gone.
It also included handing US vulture funds control of Venezuelan infrastructure - including funds led by American investor Paul Singer - and ballooned Venezuelas debt with international creditors from ~1B Dollars to more than 20B Dollars.
Due to his actions, Guaido quickly lost support even from his own party, and was eventually ousted.
As one opposition member stated: „Maduro, Guaido, Chavista […] They‘re all just thieves.“
So when Leopoldo Lopez speaks of „real elections,“ „democracy,“ and „a free venezuela for everyone,“ ask him if he means like the last times he attempted to take over the country with the help of the US.
Very long but worthwhile investigation into the financial coup Lopez‘ mentee staged here: https://prospect.org/2025/11/26/30-billion-dollar-identity-theft-of-venezuela/
#nevent1q…e9ax

2026-05-16 11:41:38 UTC

GM
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2026-05-15 10:52:34 UTC

GM
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2026-05-15 09:01:45 UTC

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This is a good question and this article is actually a very interesting example of how something can be misleading without necessarily being untrue - sry in advance for this being a very long post.
First, anyone deserves the right to a fair trial and not be shot in the street, and the Iranian government itself has acknowledged that several thousand people died in the January protests (though significantly less than masih claims).
Whatever the real number is we will probably never find out, but at least for analyzing this article it is beside the point, and ill explain why.
The dominant western narrative, which masih alludes to, is that people went on the street to protest against the economic oppression of the Iranian regime.
It started with protests from shop keepers, then average consumers and activists joined due to rising prices and out of control inflation. This is not disputed.
What is left out of the western narrative is that this situation was directly and deliberately caused by the US, for which US Treasury Sec Bessent has openly and publicly taken credit several times: that it was the US that directly caused the uprising by tightening US sanctions.
So first, the uprising wasnt organic - it was manufactured by a foreign entity.
Second, as many anti-regime and anti-intervention activists from within the country have reported, the protests started peacefully and the Iranian regime was ready to negotiate with the protesters. Then, predominantly described as „suddenly“, the protests turned violent.
Following and during the protests, several leaders and institutions, again openly and publicly, acknowledged - or should I rather say bragged about - the violence being driven by Israeli agents. This includes former CIA director Mike Pompeo, reports by the Israeli conservative pro-Likud Channel 14, netanyahu himself, as well as studies done by Kings College in London.
This ties back to the original narrative: that the regime was „killing its own people“ for „protesting“.
This is a very hard thing to wrap our heads around I think as, again, all killing is bad, so we must put it into perspective: for example by seeing how the US has indiscriminately killed civilians like Alex Pretti and Renee Good justified by there being a „foreign invasion“ of immigrants.
Does this killing of protestors justify calling for another country to bomb your country? I dont have an answer to that.
But if we read her article close enough, it quickly becomes clear that while decrying the deaths of civilians on one side, more civilian deaths are acceptable to her so long as they occur at the hand of the government she favors.
How do we know this? By way of the examples she uses, such as NATO intervention in serbia and Kosovo (yugoslawia), which she says „prevented humanitarian catastrophe“.
NATO intervention in yugoslawia has been described as an absolute travesty by all human rights groups that I am aware of.
Conservative estimates place civilian deaths at 500, inofficial numbers rise to over 5000. NATO deployed cluster munitions and depleted uranium, and destroyed the majority of its civilian infrastructure, from power plants to schools and hospitals.
The aftermath of NATOs intervention is an area that to this day has been struggling to rebuild, where extreme poverty and as a result addiction and human trafficking reigned.
So what masih names as „positive“ examples for potential intervention in Iran are, quite literally, war crimes that have devastated the lives of millions of people.
Second, masih compares the IRGCs killings of protestors with genocide - again, a tactic that is highly misleading.
Leaving aside whether the regime killed its own people or foreign agents (again we dont know and Im sure there were a good number legitimate protestors killed even if we do believe the foreign agent narrative), a genocide by definition is the deliberate targeting of a *national*, *ethnic*, *religious*, or *racial* group of people.
This is true for several of the examples she names, sa for the muslim minority in sebrenicq or for the situation in sudan.
But it is *not* true for what the Iranian regime did to protestors in January. Even if we believe that all of it is true and we leave out the foreign orchestration, these people were not targeted for their nationality, race, religion, or other belonging to a certain group. It is awful, but it is not genocidal by definition.
Lastly, let us look at where masih stands on actual genocide.
If youve been following her work, youll know that she is a stark supporter of the Israeli government.
Actions that by both the ICC and the ICJ have been qualified as genocide. Actions that have killed over 100,000 people, that have displaced almost the entire gazan population, that leave thousands and thousands of children without parents, scarred for life - actions that currently continue to expand into lebanon.
Im not saying this to be whataboutist btw - i dont believe you need to speak out on every conflict in the world to be taken seriously when you speak on one - but i do think that speaking about genocide while literally supporting another is at the very least some fairly incredible cognitive dissonance.
So the TLDR is, masih isnt necessarily lying - she is deliberately reframing a situation to mislead her readers into supporting war crimes on her own people, while exemplifying that she has no tear to shed for the deaths of civilians so long as it furthers her political agenda.
Its not lying. Its manipulation. And that is exactly how propaganda works to manufacture consent.

2026-05-14 19:25:59 UTC

Someone has to say it: You cannot support Oslo Freedom Forum while supporting human rights.
Today I checked my spam folder and saw that the HRF has announced that Venezuelan opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado will be speaking at this year's OFF.
In December, Julian Assange filed a criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation for awarding last years peace prize to Machado, arguing – with substantial legal basis – that the payout of the 1M$ prize money would amount to complicity in war crimes.
Machado has repeatedly called for US bombing of her own country, has endorsed the US' extrajudicial killings of fishermen at sea – classified as war crimes by countless legal scholars around the world –, and has told Netanyahu that she "greatly appreciates his decisions and resolute actions in the course of war, as well as Israel's achievements," according to the Israeli government.
In case you are wondering, that is the same Netanyahu who currently has an outstanding arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and whose government has been found to plausibly be infringing on the UN Genocide Convention by the International Court of Justice.
Go to OFF for all I care and tell yourself that you are doing something good for bitcoin. But know that if you do, you are, quite literally, taking a stand against humanity.
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2026-05-14 12:35:47 UTC

https://petition.qomon.org/0b54a0b8-demand-justice-defend-the-defenders/

2026-05-14 11:39:00 UTC

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2026-05-13 10:51:28 UTC

Do you use a VPN? You may be send to prison for a crime someone else committed with that same IP address.
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A lot of people ask why Roman Sterlingov’s prosecution may be as important as the prosecutions of Roman Storm and the Samourai devs, when one allegedly operated a custodial mixer and the others built a non-custodial software protocol.
The answer lies in how Sterlingov was identified as Bitcoin Fog’s operator – and it could happen to anyone.
At yesterday’s hearing, judges pushed back against the idea that Sterlingov “likely” operated BF.
Why? Because the main piece of evidence tying Sterlingov to BF is an IP address that was used to log into a Liberty Reserve account tied to BF.
A few minutes before, Sterlingov had used that same IP address to log into a Liberty Reserve account under his own name.
The prosecution argued that it is therefore “likely” that Sterlingov operated BF. But how “likely” is it really?
“Likely” is a comparative term, the judges argued yesterday. Could the prosecution present any framework for what constitutes “likely” in this case?
It could not: An IP address can be used by tens or thousands of people at the same time when using a public WiFi or a VPN. By how many on average? The prosecution didn't know.
Without the IP address tying Sterlingov to the Liberty Reserve account tied to BF, the entire case falls apart:
Because the cryptocurrency tracing is also tied to that same IP address – all it shows otherwise is funds from Sterlingov’s KYCed MtGox account flowing to a wallet outside of MtGox, exemplified by the Government with a literal black piggy bank with a question mark.
No one knows who that wallet belongs to.
From there, the funds flowed back into MtGox, and *numerous* hops later, through several other exchanges, wallets and addresses, test payments had been made to BF.
Again: the only evidence tying Sterlingov to BF is that someone with the same IP address logged into an account tied to BF in that chain of payments.
That could have been anyone on the same VPN or public WiFi – and it could have been you.
According to the Government, ofc there were other "indications" making it "likely" that it was him - such as an email showing that Sterlingov used Liberty Reserve and AurumXchange.
If you've been around long enough, you'll know that everyone used AurumXchange. And that everyone used Liberty Reserve. Bc bitcoin was early, and not many services existed.
The moral of this story is that if you happen to use the same VPN as a criminal, and you also use the most popular services a criminal uses, the government may send you to prison for over a decade for a crime it finds “likely” you committed with no framework of what “likely” even means.
This is the bar for factual evidence this case sets that can be used to send people to prison.

2026-05-12 14:17:33 UTC

Circuit judges appear to be arguing that mixers are legal in theory, but not in practice: any money sent to them is part of a criminal conspiracy to launder money.
Pay fucking attention.
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2026-05-11 21:12:41 UTC

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I think you missed the part where i clarified that the shade toward „human rights activists“ wasnt directed at paul.
As for my criticisms of Alinejad, those are all verifiable facts stemming from USG spending and Congressional records.
I wouldnt call that throwing shade - Id call that giving people more factual context on a person who openly and consistently justifies US & Israeli bombing of civilians.

2026-05-11 20:58:41 UTC

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I appreciate engaging with people with different perspectives too, a lot actually - might be good if you try not to resort to whataboutism and misrepresent what the person you are talking to is saying next time you want to have a real conversation :)

2026-05-11 20:38:36 UTC

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I appreciate your support for SW but if you keep having your nervous breakdown in my replies Im gonna have to mute you buddy
Im not going to agree with you and you‘ll just keep making yourself look mentally unstable

2026-05-11 20:23:45 UTC

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Yeah like I said, immune to whataboutisms and false equivalents unfortunately. Better luck next time cutiepie

2026-05-11 19:56:33 UTC

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You have no idea who i am
You have no idea where i come from
And your entire perspective seems to be sourced from two accounts on nostr that have a very specifically narrow view on the situation that center around not speaking out on the actual impact of US actions
First and foremost, this tells me that you make a lot of assumptions based on very little information
Which is not a perspective I find intellectually stimulating

2026-05-11 19:34:10 UTC

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The same Pegah who has done nothing but complain that her internet isnt working as the US rained burning fuel on civilians and blew up 150+ school children in a single day?
Mh yeah, I think I‘ll pass on what she has to say, thanks tho

2026-05-11 13:48:30 UTC

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Very unpopular opinion probably but the only thing I still agree with Luke Dashjr with is that we should have smaller blocks so we can mine bitcoin over radio and have the only money that survives a nuclear holocaust
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2026-05-11 11:30:36 UTC

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Hi Rachel, I‘m not sure what part of „Alinejad has been paid 1M$ by the USG“ you dont understand, put please do lmk when you find out