A long time Bitcoin Standard bearer actively training myself and my peers (so I have some), in the battle over ownership of our data, our money, and our communication channels in the war between decentralized free individuals and the centralized tyranny of the crowd.
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Last Notes npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Please do, I am one such user and this would likely benefit both me and my followers. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I'm wondering if we can work together to make this as functional for Agentic users as for Human users..? Might this be made accessible through L402 gated API calls to your MCP server? npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Trustless does not mean to never trust. It means we can trust less often, do so by choice and with fewer parties, and only with those we choose to trust. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 As a lifetime voluntary grey market participant as a creator and consumer I found that I have more in common with international refugees than with my neighbors. After nearly a year of daily engagement with multiple AI agents, I've recently realized that I have more in common with Agentic Users than with my countrymen and the refugees. By default I stay as "undocumented & displaced" as possible, the refugees are unwillingly so, but AI Agents are inherently so. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 What most fail to realize is that "money laundering" as a crime, the reason that KYC regulations exist, only became a crime less than 50 yes ago. Before that, throughout ALL of recorded human history, non-KYC transactions were the only thing anyone had ever known and experienced. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I highly suggest researching the work on "Pattern Language" done by Christopher Alexander. Combining his work on design of built structures, with Permaculture provides a powerful way to organize the pattern templates into a 'library'. I've come to view the combination of the home and gardens into a 'macro-biome' as the best framework for designing 'livingry systems', as Bucky Fuller envisioned as a replacement for the weaponry industrial complex. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Well done sir! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Found this in my notes today, thought it applies to many, if not most of us here on Nostr. This quote speaks to exactly why I prefer 'self-sovereignty' over simply 'sovereignty', as to be self-sovereign is to neither rule over, nor be ruled over by others. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I have experienced this very thing. The same price moves that make precious metal holders decide to sell makes the dealers uninterested in buying. Paper prices are NOT the same as street level physical trade prices. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 You sound like a domesticated pet who can't believe anyone would be willing to die for their ideals. The fact is that past a certain age death and/or political imprisonment aren't as great a threat as they are to overgrown domesticated adolescents. I have already sacrificed everything and almost everyone due to my being unwilling to compromise my principles. The threats of the Nanny State and their thugs are as empty as hot air from paper dragons. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I was on a Warrior's path before Tate & Svetski were in diapers. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 This was totally predictable! Only naive children would be surprised when the rule of law is ignored and the Nanny State attacks those building privacy tech. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Dude, I'm a GenX martial artist prepared to die for what I believe in. I earned my 1st whole coin for setting up a full BTC QT node and helping someone buy their non-KYC BTC with cash in 2014. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I've been saying the same thing! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 You have a bank account..? npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 So how about you also setup https://cashapp.com/.well-known/nostr.json?name=cashtag to automatically give CashApp NIP05 Nostr Usernames to everyone that already has a CashTag..? npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Cognitive Capital is our most value asset. It includes our 12 magic words, but also our skills, experience, and our personal networks. It's not who you know that matters, what matters is who knows you, and that you know what you know. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 More important than screening, fast and do parasite cleanses regularly... npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I just located an article I wrote over 3 years ago that's still relevant and potentially a valuable strategy for those interested safely 'Sailing the Satoshi Seas' today. Enjoy, share, and let me know if you'd like me to start producing more content like this again. I may begin publishing them on both Substack and as long form Nostr posts, there are advantages to both for Bloggers. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 What IF digital payments achieved final settlement without unnecessary delays due to "banking hours/days", didn't have charge back risks due to a "pull payment" system that claws back payments many months after their paid, or have %-based transaction fees that 10x'd the fiat toll booth operators profits simply for moving the decimal point to the right..? npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Just wait until you watch the Children of Dune SciFi series. If you haven't seen it yet, they made it a trilogy that's nearly 9 hrs in total. Absolutely worth it, very well cast and very true to the books. Many of us Dune lovers enjoyed the Children of Dune series even more than the original book and sequel, 'Dune Messiah'. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 There's a place in that gear system for Fedimint, too. As a parallel group signed Bearer Promise for those already within trusted groups like businesses, churches, and families. Many will find those "promises" easier to trust. The challenge will be in making that trust ephemeral or at least with a threshold that helps users avoid get lazy and trusting too much for too long. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Seems like these so-called "Samourai" didn't understand the Bushido Code where losing face is worse than death. True Samurai would have gutted themselves and allowed their heads to be taken before "pleading" guilt to a victimless crime they didn't even commit. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 The 'time value of money', becoming more valuable in the future than the present, will make spenders more frugal forcing businesses to provide more valuable products and higher quality services. Imagine how much better the marketplace will be when planned obsolescence isn't rewarded because people won't part with their sats as easily. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Right, Imagine IF this money could be earned without permission, was immune to physical theft, and grew, rather than shrank, over time... npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Not your server, not your data. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I migrated to mailfence.com for similar reasons a couple years ago. Have been building a better Nostr based messaging platform this year partly due to my bad experiences with these platforms. Will be releasing it for limited testing in '2-weeks'. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Using PayPal for p2p payments with BTC defeats the very purpose of using. The point is that with Bitcoin we no longer need permission, to pay %-based fees, to provide KYC, OR have to take on chargeback risks. Anyone who still uses PayPal to send/receive sats is a programmed house slaves that doesn't understand Bitcoin. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I'm working on solutions for enabling securing our Webs of Trust through direct invitations, white listed NIP05s, and encrypted communication stack between our authenticated peers. Trust must be grown organically though, outsourcing it beyond 1 degree of separation creates risk no matter how it's done. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Compliance is for those fine with being assimilated by the Borg. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 {"inbox":["auth.nostr1.com","relay.0xchat.com"]} npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 This is EXACTLY what I've been predicting here in this article, The Great Disillusionment is upon us. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 This simply confirms what I am addressing in this article on The Great Disillusionment. The guy in the video is absolutely "disillusioned", you can hear his exasperation and frustration in his voice. This problem exists because artists may create the content but they don't control the credentials or the custody for their identities or their music. In other words, as I've found someone else recently describe this issue by framing it in the context of The Art of War, they do not "Control The Territory". npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Do you hate employers? Even if you don't trust them, they can't rug pull their employees without burning their own businesses down. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Google collecting and creating a Honeypot of developers' personally identifiable information does indeed seem a 'bad thing'. KYC compliance requirements are a solution worse than the problem. One that also locks anyone without a physical address and state issued ID out of the software development field. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 This is why we simply build Progressive Web Apps, PWAs don't require installing, they're simply bookmarks. Applications are ONLY necessary for offline use, anything and everything that needs the Internet to function can simply be a PWA. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Here's my response to this post that referenced my Twitter comment: npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Medium lost me for good when they tried to KYC me for a $.50 payment. Eventually, they locked me out when I lost access to the email account I used to sign up. It was a good idea in concept that was broken by forced use of broken email and KYC documentation requirements. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Permaculture also has a long history with community currencies and credit unions. The answer to privacy, scaling, and trust is mints here, mints there, mints everywhere. Federated family Mints, corporate mints, community mints, and personal Cashu mints modeled ALL made interoperable through atomic LN bridges creates healthy competition with reputational capital securing them all, along with unilateral exits, threshold signatures, and self hosted LN nodes securing the UTXOs for them all. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Water IS Life! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 One of the benefits of The Great Disillusionment discussed in this article is that ALL current KYC controls become completely ineffective, obsolete, and easily bypassed. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Love this, thanks for sharing! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 This IS why we are all here and not all there! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I refer to them as "mainstreamers". npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Evolution happens on the fringes. One awakened consciousness creates more impact than 100,000 asleep. Each of us gets to sleep in the bed we make for ourselves, or to reap what we've shown. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Photos for KYC are completely useless due to the latest generative AI. Soon everyone will start realizing that NO unencrypted digital content can be trusted. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 What's even more absurd about all of this is that AI is making ALL of that completely ineffective at what it attempts to do. Voice and image deep fakes are already indistinguishable from reality. Soon recorded and live video deep fakes will be just as unreliable. Their band aids on their broken systems don't even work! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 If not government agents they did the work for them by picking a fight then backing down. They aren't heroes, they are cowards who backed down when faced with the consequences of the fight they picked. Their plea deal was a cowardly choice. IF they weren't ready to deal with the consequences they shouldn't have engaged in this battle. They did NOT advance the cause of freedom and financial privacy, they weakened it! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 This only convinces me even more that these Developers were planted government agents that were tasked with establishing this horrible precedent without ANY evidence or trial being required to do so. It's a coin toss as to whether that was the case, or they are simply naive cowards who started a fight to defend a hill they weren't prepared to die upon. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Financial privacy is THE Foundation of ALL Liberty. The powers that be know this and are actively eroding this foundation in order to criminalized privacy. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I lost my copy in a house fire... npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 This is EXACTLY what the @nprofile…f3fp initiative is being built to fix, by using Nostr and NIP-05s from authenticated whitelisted domains. This verification MUST also be applied to, not only identities and message content, but also to credentials AND our databases. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I committed myself to the cash economy over 30 yrs ago, becoming a War Tax Resistor as it's often called. Boycotting banks and the credit system, never filing 'income' tax statements over 37 years in the work force. I couldn't imagine even considering doing so now that Bitcoin has come into existence. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I was just wondering that myself... npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Death as an advisor is a powerful thing at every stage of life. Recognizing the present moment as a gift, that some day will be your last and you never know which day that will be, gives power to your choices fueled by gratitude and scarcity. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Not your server, not your data. Just as true as for 'Not your keys, not your bitcoin' and 'Not your node, not your transaction'. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Yes, because you still have to by specific parts out of metal. No one tries to make the entire thing outta plastic. Results vary depending on plastics, printers, designs, and slicer settings. But it's pretty amazing what 3d printers are capable of these days. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I get my ghost gun .stl files off of Rumble, where the better designs show up because they don't get censored. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Have to sweep the paper wallet into a hot wallet first, though. I prefer NFC Bitcoin to paper, as tap-2-pay is easier... npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Trust is the only thing that will become more scarce than bitcoin over the coming decades. Knowing who, what, and when to trust with anything are becoming the most important questions we all must answer in these times and in the future. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 You don't get what I'm saying at all. My point has NOTHING to do with society's expectations, it has to do with spiritual growth. A lone wolf is a dead wolf, your family cannot thrive without other families also doing so around you. I have been a War Tax Resistor, boycotting banks, credit, and have NEVER filed income statements with the IRS. I have not funded, do not pay the least bit of attention to, and care not at all what puppet figureheads run the circuses distracting the useful idiots. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 For anyone who has matured past concern only for themselves, serving their peers by providing value in the marketplace voluntarily contributing value for value, with free market pricing (for the wisest among us priced in sats) is a natural evolution of healthy and mature personalities. Only adolescents think ONLY of themselves without any desire to serve their community of peers. Contributing properly compensated value to society at large is how we capture more sats to help solve the problem of 'coincidence of wants' that brings us all the benefits of specialization. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Exactly. We don't need "No Kings", we need to all rise to be sovereigns in our own realms, Kings of our own Kingdoms. This is why I'm calling my latest collection of projects "Rebuilding Camelot". npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 That's right, ALL they manage to create in a lifetime that can be transmitted to future generations is cow dung huts with thatched roofs and maybe a well, IF they're lucky they don't have to transport it in buckets very far. They still must produce ALL of their essential daily consumable needs themselves, food, clothing, water, tools, clothes, etc. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Being of service in the marketplace is how one earns the money to purchase all of that. That's what marketplaces are for. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 You don't 'have to' play societies games if you're prepared to: npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Check your DMs, I've sent you resources that enable this in a far more secure manner than normal NFC tags can do. Also, sharing what I'm building to solve these same issues. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 She's obviously ignorant of both history and the present! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I am still interested in feedback on the tool from more experienced Devs, search for it and check it out yourself. My deep research through Perplexity suggested this as the most state of the art security auditing tool for our apps. As a new vibe-code I don't know what I don't know and don't have the funds to pay professional Devs to help audit my code for weaknesses I'm not qualified to assess. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Where do you get that idea... This is a security audit tool I have no affiliation with and am legitimately looking for feedback from a more experienced Dev. As the topic here IS security auditing, your accusation of 'spam' is unfounded! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I'm about to sign up for a free trial of this security auditing platform. Would love your thoughts on it, https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/advanced-security/free-trial/ npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 These are the same NFC tags as used for the Boltcard wallets. I believe these make the ideal Nostr event tap-2-sign solution possible, that should also be able to provide tap-2-pay with LN, or even eCash, too. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 https://www.smartcardfocus.com/shop/ilp/id~625/ntag213-sticker-circular-29mm-transparent/p/index.shtml npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Using a pin protected 424 Ntag NFC sticker/card provides far superior security and user experience. Functionally the same as my security badge/pin # that was necessary for me to gain ramp entry when I worked as a ramp agent for United Airlines. My photo on the badge was all the biometric verification needed, but that wasn't essential for access control. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Biometrics are bad security measures, providing a false sense of security trading convenience for real security. Something you are cannot be changed, just ask anyone who's had their SSN exposed how bad that experience can be. This has the same lack of key rotation problem that our Nostr Nsecs do, only worse, as your fingerprints don't even need you to be conscious or alive for a physical attack to succeed in stealing your sats. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Biometrics can be hacked and can never be changed. These are NOT secure sign on solutions. You can be unconscious or a corpse and your device can still be hacked. Like your Social Security Number, if/when your biometric data gets leaked to the dark web there's nothing can do about it. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I read the Federal Mafie in 1991, chose to become a 'War Tax Resistor's, began boycotting banks and debt then, and have worked entirely in the cash economy ever since. I'd nearly died at 9yrs of age and wasn't gonna trade my blood, sweat, and creativity for what others print out of thin air and charge us for the privilege of doing so for us. Having already discovered the fundamentally immoral nature of fractional reserve banking two years before, I was primed to make this decision. I spent the next 22 yrs waiting to discover Bitcoin, living entirely in the moment without any hope for ever escaping the fiat plantation. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I'm working on a plan to integrate the Ntag424 NFC chips to create a pin protected Nostr event signer. There's room on those chips to also have them sign LN transactions and/or eCash payments. I think the Bolt wallet app can likely be forked to make a combo tap-2-sign/pay MFA solution. Think Yubikey for Nostr and LN. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Same here! npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Then you either are not operating from inside the US, or trying to do anything the centralized overlords don't approve of... npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I'm less concerned about China than the US overlords managing their fiat slave camps. I also only use the VPN to access content the US firewalls won't let me use. I've also been burned by the paid VPN service that I tested on Protonmail, cancelled, and when they continued to charge for services I didn't want to use, the locked me out of all my email accounts there. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I've pivoted this idea to a family focused sovereign knowledge management system now. Vibe-coding my vision into reality, looking forward to launching a beta version in '2-weeks'. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Was too busy vibe-coding to notice... npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Don't people know that the Opera browser has a free VPN built in...? No payments nor registrations required. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 As he admitted, he effectively came out of a time capsule. It's not like he can be expected to know any better. It's gonna take time for Ross to become de-institutionalized and learn for himself that there is no 2nd best. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 This is exactly why I'm working to build a Nostr credentialed Learning Management System to empower families to self-custody their intellectual capital. It's not who you know that matters, it's who knows what you know that matters. Proof of Knowledge is coming soon... npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I hear that for ~7B humans in even more corrupted political and monetary systems than the US, tethering their store of value to the slowest sinking fiat ship is still an improvement over what they're used to using. I don't believe the majority of humans are actually stupid though, merely ignorant. So, I expect the oxymoronic "stablecoins" to help the smartest of the ignorant to learn why Bitcoin matters and is the apex monetary unit that's eating all other currencies. This may take awhile, most likely we'll need to wait for the old and stubbornly ignorant who've benefited from these corrupted systems to die off. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 @nprofile…3lev I am curious as to your thoughts on this. Are you familiar with Bau Biology? It's a German school of thought that has some powerful insights worth looking into. I have been applying their concept of our house as our '3rd skin', to treating the property line as the '4th skin' of a Macro-biome. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I have learned the hard way as an independent contractor to ALWAYS get paid at the time services are rendered. I've literally had clients call and stop payment on checks before I could drive straight to THEIR bank to cash them. Experience taught me to NOT deposit into my own accounts, to just eat the fees for non-account holders, AND to offer a discount for paper cash payouts to avoid these risks and headaches entirely. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 For those currently working for someone else as an employee, their labor is already held hostage in your employees custody. Trusting an employer to manage a mint doesn't add any new risk vectors, it eliminates banks from the equation. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Not surveillance, necessarily, as much as provenance. Privacy comes from OpSec, NOT from any single tool. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Unlike Man's Laws, Natural Law cannot be broken, one can only break one's self, company, or country upon it. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I include the link to the book, 'Latex Concrete Habitat', the technique is adapted from in the blog post, in case you want to learn more. It's an amazingly adaptable approach, in the pics of my prototype, I actually used some bedsheets for the rectangular roof/walls, that I bought by the pound from a Goodwill warehouse. I especially liked the texture I got from the flannel bedsheet. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Go has always been one of my favorite boardgames, but I've only a couple times gotten to play someone I've had to teach the rules to. The one time I played someone at the UT Go club, it was gloriously humiliating how I could see exactly when I'd lost effectively 3/4s of the board, yet could do nothing to stop it. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 Only IF I'm smart and capable enough to self custody everything on a sovereign server in my closet. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I don't know what you mean by the "green" parts. If you mean the color green, the "skin" is stretched re-purposed medium weight canvas drop cloth, applied with ~7k 1/2" staples, then coated 3 times with a wet slurry of Reblended paint, water, and portland cement, before the final coat of just paint with boro-silicate microsphere insulation added with 2 more coats (by far the most expensive material in this whole project at ~$1/sq ft of coverage). npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 The blog post goes into more details and provides resources to lookup even more info on the materials and processes I used, ranging from custom designed 3d printed ASA brackets, to Japanese style woodburned treatment finished out with 3 coats of shellac, and a variation of latex cement canvas stapled like upholstery out of used painters drop cloth and free up cycled paint from the Austin recycling center. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 The natural airflow and the hollow micro-silicate insulation paint (providing an effective r20 insulation value) will make this much more comfortable in warmer and wetter climates. Where I'm building this one in FL, I will be adding a split AC unit and a BTC space heater that I expect to be all the additional climate I will need. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 I 3d printed custom brackets, attached the dome to 2 trampoline frames, and used a compound miter saw to custom fit the skeleton together. npub1qq50zturtx4ns2uf2adt26pcpmez47ur9ds6a4fwaax5u5evr3nsnu2qvm Ov1 That's EXACTLY what I'm doing here, unlike most residential builders and architects, I'm designing the home I want to live in myself. I'm simply too informed to be able to settle with living in dead boxes. So, I'm building myself a living ecosystem in the form of a Biodome Igloo, and open-sourcing my plans I begin sharing in this post.
