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Public Key

npub1gunkavtrl32txueexz44el2l49rg0gv48pc6suadf7hwj852tuuqj3nudq

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsywfmwk93lc49nwvunp26ul406j3585x2nsudgwwk5lthfr6997wqppemhxue69uhhqunv9ecxcatnqy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnwvyh8xmmrd9skcqg6waehxw309anhymm4wpejuumpw3ekg6tnvdhjucm0d5q3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummn9eek7cmfv9kqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqf94cvx

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Last Notes

2026-08-05 14:44:33 CEST

It do be like that
https://blossom.primal.net/23b90f8cd34663fb30911cb727a6c43d3ce275fda7a6dd3680f4f48fef5b854b.jpg

2026-06-30 15:04:30 CEST

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Hey Martin I sent you a nostr DM.
Please check it out.
The bitcoin canon is almost done

2026-06-26 09:44:23 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/ddf3ee9412e2225d9a5a5fadf750ca33f204e3130bcbd2746de1de86c7a09ebf.jpg

2026-06-25 10:50:02 CEST

Hello 911
https://blossom.primal.net/579ab88dd7481e1fd0517d9097cd33dca69c3ec1d9e477140d262d4354bceccd.png

2026-06-24 13:31:18 CEST

I’m a meme account now I guess 😂
https://blossom.primal.net/5a8e33ae08461fe2111ef33965e99877be7b7335643fefd051e553933cde2ccb.jpg

2026-06-23 22:53:46 CEST

I just beat the NORMIE DUEL challenge on @npub1kd3…sdth and got 21 sats ⚡
Can you beat it?
https://game.chainduel.net/
Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

2026-06-23 15:37:28 CEST

#markedsafewithAircon
https://blossom.primal.net/40cd05f402ae4715b366c1de226f267a421325f65e84d57a214162fac756bd03.jpg

2026-06-16 11:14:11 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/cf980930c82d5a127ac2e0e5a7147e8589f64bdf6ce4d93cc2588fff501ec5d5.jpg

2026-06-15 14:41:32 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/6177de7c72cd75b18e29cf80cade24a50b7f8a225cfb24d92b13d041465c7ced.jpg

2026-06-15 12:35:16 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/3c2df7e1d24826491794e166ddba8d3a57da7b239353ee8ae0f9390ef4eea08b.jpg

2026-06-13 21:48:31 CEST

This is fine
https://blossom.primal.net/5a3a3936f17ec9f8e93785aae8d596a6bbedd0bb4222ec330d6601fb9aaa6069.png

2026-06-03 13:19:58 CEST

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I raise you the cube in Prague. An office building for the modern commie.
https://blossom.primal.net/97576f8f228d8b1b10e2d2ee5688b95ac79d3978dbec3c15e5ebaa44e3c1c7a8.jpg

2026-06-03 12:40:42 CEST

The seagulls in Oslo are massive.
https://blossom.primal.net/a91595118116bee244378ca3c25390cae4701741656cfd95a018c580f74c5da4.jpg

2026-05-03 19:09:30 CEST

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Exactly how it works. :)
The number is the key to building out your trusted network.
It doesn’t get shared with anyone.

2026-04-13 12:21:40 CEST

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What scares me is that we all fuckin know it’s coming.

2026-04-10 14:38:36 CEST

I absolutely love where we are when it comes to the tinkering and software development
I got a new MacBook yesterday.
It’s the first time I’ve had my own laptop in years.
So while setting it up installing apps I realized there want an app that did what I wanted for free.
So last night me and Claude built
Built MenuClock because I wanted a Mac menu bar clock that’s actually useful instead of just decorative. It gives you multiple world clocks for teammates and friends across different time zones, makes it way easier to figure out meeting times, quickly see who’s likely awake/available, and check the weather without digging through apps and tabs. Basically: one clean little menu bar app for staying in sync with people scattered all over the world. If that sounds useful, grab it here and
check it out: https://github.com/satsdisco/MenuClock/releases/latest
And if there’s something you’d like for me to add, just open an issue or tag me here

2026-04-08 14:08:48 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/e71e85c34a5718b54e3709bf1f21d23addd2141fa47651dbc1bc8de0174c3d7e.jpg

2026-04-05 13:27:29 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/ecb4408ba83b956123cee3aee26736c2c4c4bd7f9d1ddab26b7229b5150dfd8b.jpg

2026-04-05 13:25:26 CEST

What kinda slop do you produce?
https://blossom.primal.net/a72435a7d09781e73c3d7ce9667a28005a5eb524573f45e46fdd583607603e64.jpg

2026-03-25 18:46:29 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/5ceed12521edcd67dc88a4a31a827e223246ed25543edb50ac9ddff8576ef5f4.jpg

2026-03-17 21:05:31 CET

I promise this is not a meme account now
https://blossom.primal.net/76e209d255ff30b85c3495c5740ae911729d6f57b18fbc4f23399f8f7c9f5d09.jpg

2026-03-16 15:13:00 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/0e6c6d68897de8a6990afde27abfd922f28b7fd73ee56710aa1cd32227e0297f.jpg

2026-03-16 11:39:56 CET

I can’t stop making stuff no one asked for.

2026-03-14 19:49:29 CET

Where would we be without the New York Times helping us figure out this image is AI
https://blossom.primal.net/0772d9a14ed888a099b46f25ccc6ac32a71d1590f085d80bb08058b41da96039.png

2026-03-14 18:24:13 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/26c345ea488efe4c9500a5d555b0106143e733014db7ef98a4334d7b20f81240.jpg

2026-03-12 18:47:26 CET

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Haha thank you!

2026-03-11 16:33:38 CET

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Which browser extension are you using on iOS?

2026-03-11 13:29:24 CET

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Me too, and I hated it and that’s why I started playing around and made meshngr it’s Alpha currently and this is my first release so please check it out. Would love to hear what you think and how we can keep making it better.

2026-03-11 12:17:03 CET

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That’s exactly what they want

2026-03-11 12:16:32 CET

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Seems to work now

2026-03-11 11:16:00 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/d5bc3415ad897783e6ee16e2a4a5e63f1b374dd5036fc9927c0b435cedda19dd.png

2026-03-11 11:15:31 CET

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Doesn’t work it says it can’t complete

2026-03-10 13:23:53 CET

Anybody here got some experience with developing for logging into nostr with signers like amber or aegis. I’m finding it difficult to get it to work with primal remote login or others.
Just can’t seem to solve it gracefully. Anybody can help or connect me someone I’d like to chat.

2026-03-10 11:11:02 CET

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I asked the same… the tree cutters also just threw it down n the street for the city to pick up and haul away. There has got to be some good use for it

2026-03-10 11:10:06 CET

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That would take forever

2026-03-10 01:00:47 CET

My parents just cut down an old oak tree. What should they do with all this wood? Best answer gets 1000 sats 😂
https://blossom.primal.net/9f9fc9bff1cf46e281603406fe5aac402c7edf9c610e8459f5fa4db3a3bcf7e7.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/e14acb29121b5c937082ea8706e4e2e0c220562d2c1504489c4e0bfb856b807e.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/b42f8e55ad7f97c87a7e1efef6c73f779198902fb22cf3c13fce6df1a1d0ce11.jpg

2026-03-10 00:55:42 CET

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I just enjoy driving

2026-03-10 00:53:48 CET

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I should probably update my GitHub image😂😂🐕

2026-03-10 00:22:56 CET

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Yeah, thanks a lot for this. This is great will integrate it. Thanks for the feedback.

2026-03-09 21:15:59 CET

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I honestly had so much fun making it and learned so much about nostr.
Would love to hear any feedback 🙏
#nevent1q…q3yz

2026-03-09 20:55:56 CET

I wrote another article on why I think we’re so back. Why I’m optimistic and freedom in all forms rules.
I also built and developed a new way to write articles and publish on nostr.
I’ve never had so much fun playing with my bitcoins.
Do you remember the first thing you ever saw on the internet?
I do. It was an image of a1995 Honda CR 125cc dirtbike.
https://samizdat.press/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq3e8d6ck8lz5kdenjv9ttn74l22xs7se2wr34pe66naway0g5hecqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqq8rxwfjk2er0d5kkjuedvykkyetpw46xjen4dskhg6rfdens0h6szt

2026-03-09 20:32:40 CET

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Sup dog!
https://blossom.primal.net/33df22442872012b12b28664cf2b7abd9bdd0334b83ff807160957736a8fb910.jpg

2026-03-09 20:27:33 CET

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I mean that’s fair 😂

2026-03-09 20:10:49 CET

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Then that’s not better because?

2026-03-09 19:50:18 CET

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I wish I could zap this post! 😂😂 that’s amazing!

2026-03-09 19:37:04 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/a4987022d94e0c3116caea7f589953fc301488b5c4974032bf8d2d2de9c15c02.jpg

2026-03-09 10:19:06 CET

Do you think this is what makes them so delicious?
https://blossom.primal.net/fc8d8d0fb4856c50f489425c3a93f742dcbf807c518fb0269f8d4b45f2f773b4.mp4

2026-03-08 19:23:05 CET

You will eat the slop
https://blossom.primal.net/c4f02a707314156a3451b57630bd1577948a4c500cbc821406298a1728e44f6e.jpg

2026-03-08 11:39:59 CET

I feel you Lisa
https://blossom.primal.net/91f68fa18d00f66180e0101c2e6ebeb4141d974ba4a1e809879409570121f785.jpg

2026-03-07 20:14:47 CET

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Oh boy just for example, well I’m an early user of open claw and my workflows has completely changed.
I just built a personal CRM self hosted allowed it to pull in npubs and made quick import for x and YouTube Apple Podcasts rss feeds to automatically scrape their podcasts for stuff I find interesting and let me know if anything new or interesting was said.
Which gives me a daily breakdown of the most interesting moments, clipable or quotable, also helps remind me how we are connected and what to touch base about next time we chat.
https://blossom.primal.net/e8f9cd6035b67c2762b81e9c5c2e81c5d9d7fd109d5307cd617bc238b87c69ab.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/d018d4a385bb375a52b75c8680aedf0712cf124f4f1a8bc9863409ccb5f41fe6.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/d52f871ecc5a353728caa6459385309b6f7c9bd822c4075605d7cc1704bda979.jpg

2026-03-07 20:05:12 CET

What’s the best private web of trust in existence?
Public Keys are very public it exposes your web of trust how do you solve that I don’t want people to know everyone that I know?

2026-03-07 18:20:10 CET

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There’s too many, ai made them easy to summarize, same topics over and over

2026-03-07 12:59:16 CET

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Yeah, I mean I want it to work so bad. But running into some issues and there isn’t really much knowledge base for it I can find

2026-03-07 12:07:51 CET

I’m playing around with flotilla it’s pretty cool I set up my own server and relay.
But having some issues with UI anyone else using flotilla?

2026-03-06 15:10:53 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/4036946fb72785457c5f4451426d705b2dbae49eb473060b3b52d75a0da51eac.jpg

2026-03-05 15:25:05 CET

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So cool

2026-03-05 15:22:25 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/b4d50f4bd100b4f73b39331b3f2bc037dedd0b7fe7463f54405b1354f187bec1.jpg

2026-03-05 15:21:09 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/b4d50f4bd100b4f73b39331b3f2bc037dedd0b7fe7463f54405b1354f187bec1.jpg

2026-03-05 14:22:35 CET

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Well, they’ve been preparing us for that for a long time with the whole Mandela effect viral bullshit.
I still can’t believe 1984 was a playbook.

2026-03-05 14:21:36 CET

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Yeah, I mean it totally makes sense and I understand the digital. It’s just that I crave it. Polaroid film is so expensive but there isn’t a single Polaroid picture. I have that I don’t like somehow.

2026-03-05 14:20:58 CET

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Yeah, I actually bought one in the airport recently on my way to Thailand. It made our trip so much more fun and I will cherish those pictures forever.

2026-03-05 14:15:09 CET

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I’m gonna need to see the negative 😂
Seeing is no longer believing
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0395/9714/6279/files/negative_480x480.jpg?v=1620195939

2026-03-05 14:12:24 CET

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1000 percent. Relics of the old world save everything you can.
don’t throw your old hardware away. As the replacements for it will all be iot bullshit.
Welcome to the dawn of the age of slop.

2026-03-05 14:02:36 CET

We should bring back film cameras.
All these AI images are getting too good.
I crave physical analog things.
Made with ai ❌
Taken with Kodak ✅

2026-03-04 22:27:29 CET

So be honest who you riding with?
https://blossom.primal.net/3d771f3aa826735dbe853ba942571e6bb76c55da2ce46548d9f7962bd1cb8a32.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/499baf6f263f61f558f492648ef6995d69a62c30c9825fa4e25374fc0dcc6fd1.jpg

2026-03-04 20:59:36 CET

Is your MacBook acting up having a difficult Claude code session?
Someone made corporal punishment possible
https://github.com/taigrr/spank

2026-03-03 19:02:42 CET

Check this out there’s a company making accessible hardware to stop unwanted recording of you
Heck out their site https://www.deveillance.com/
https://blossom.primal.net/c29f6baefdc58a80938f36a146456cc9b6e057e84c4f8740b920a73a381d164f.mov

2026-03-03 17:36:29 CET

The best part of the day are evening walks in the sunshine with this guy
https://blossom.primal.net/7bae8298a291af19d355c8eda6631eb989439ad691918445a7cfd527de43e32c.jpg

2026-03-03 14:14:35 CET

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True.
I just want to be able to buy a phone with no os, and build one for fun.

2026-03-03 13:45:16 CET

So now that anyone can write software…. The real game is making freedom tech hardware.
The age of iPhones and android wont matter much longer. Just give me hardware and let me build my own OS.

2026-03-03 13:42:29 CET

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Well that depends now doesn’t it

2026-03-03 13:41:19 CET

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Every single time. And when I’m in car I expect it

2026-03-03 12:59:56 CET

💯
https://blossom.primal.net/d4ff58a55a645592cef264797f7f52ecac1b17374af7168509bbfa8e1bcfd026.jpg

2026-03-01 12:28:14 CET

Look how convenient they’re making it for us now
https://blossom.primal.net/2934be9d8670ab0abd4dbbfdeb12698fcad17c91b28cec82875208448d4cb46f.jpg

2026-03-01 12:04:33 CET

🥸
https://blossom.primal.net/0d21a08a0c7fdfb38f14bee927756aaed32b34e5a2c3a9c9bba20b81d46efbc4.jpg

2026-02-28 14:07:25 CET

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Everyone needs to read this please share it
#naddr1qp…vw59

2026-02-28 12:59:08 CET

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Using the fiat banking system… I laid it out right there in the post.
Check it out.
Dánské Bank
HSbC
Wachovia
The list goes on and on.
KYC doesn’t prevent crime it literally helps facilitate it

2026-02-28 11:21:32 CET

😂
https://blossom.primal.net/56b8fbcac23b79af729f7cdfe5f36a97bb7fdc9cb4aef282415a824213e88f2e.jpg

2026-02-27 23:36:22 CET

Looking towards St. Vitus cathedral. Prague, February 26, 2026.
https://blossom.primal.net/603db78e9c66879ad03d10bb10a946d13caa94f714784530f4455f4cb35849b0.jpg

2026-02-27 21:40:50 CET

What a year!
https://blossom.primal.net/9ad6f0388e13cf47c6bb945b6fd6fe256f37ad6bd108cbfb40995dd0655cbac5.png

2026-02-27 16:38:19 CET

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aha i think i got it https://njump.me/naddr1qp2hjmm494jxjerwwskkxmmwwdjkuapdw3hj6argd9ej6erfva5hgctv945kgtteda6hyttyv96xzttpdejz6amgv96z67t0w5khx6r0w4kxgttzv5kkxmmwvdjhymn9vskkzcn0w46qygz8yahtzclu2jehxwfs4dw06hafg6r6r9fcwx588t204m53azjl8qpsgqqqw4rs79vw59

2026-02-27 16:37:06 CET

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well i wound up using inkwell I could get habla to work. Maybe it just needs time to reach the relays or something

2026-02-27 16:13:16 CET

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Well, shit I wrote the article tracked it all out but now it says I can’t publish it because I’m not connected to any relays 😂

2026-02-27 15:36:04 CET

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Habla looks nice will try to do it with that

2026-02-27 14:49:55 CET

So how do I write an article on nostr? Do I just publish it as a note, I don’t see any special option

2026-02-27 11:21:21 CET

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Excuse me, sir do you have a moment to talk about our savior Satoshi Nakamoto?

2026-02-27 11:13:58 CET

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This guy gets it

2026-02-27 11:09:53 CET

Eat more beef
https://blossom.primal.net/3e39905bf23defb45dc9b95d3a8b1c6b33b0235bb8847a78eced77a98cac41a3.jpg

2026-02-26 13:30:29 CET

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No, I prefer to be Mennonite

2026-02-26 13:23:27 CET

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Huh?

2026-02-26 12:20:32 CET

I usually hate getting stuck behind vans like this
https://blossom.primal.net/caee4b9d63d8b42e6435f202a173451ff36dd10f1b9d974608bc5315682a8a47.jpg

2026-02-24 20:27:18 CET

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I believe in the freedom trans act because without it you’ve got no other rights.
Vexl enables that freedom for many.
But the best thing about vexl and why we call it Tinder for Bitcoiners it’s because you don’t need Vexl every time you wanna buy and sell bitcoin you can meet the person who becomes your friend who you can depend on every time you need Bitcoin forever
But I understand anyone’s hesitations to using it. In fact, I appreciate you doubting and arguing with me, Weare Bitcoiners.
That’s what we live in breathe.
Be skeptical be curious.
That’s the beauty of open source is if somebody finds a better more graceful way than mission fuckin accomplished

2026-02-24 18:21:03 CET

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Because people you trust, not just bitcoiners use phone numbers.
So my dog walker she’s not a Bitcoiner, but she is someone that I trust and we have each other’s number she might have a friend who is a bitcoiner that I can trade with. I don’t have to know her friend.
I just have to know that my dog walker trusts her.
Currently, there is just not a better web of trust in existence.
Nostr is a public key. It’s not a private web of trust.
What other private web of trust exists?
I hope people are building these.
But right now, when it comes to the ability for people to easily peer to peer they’re just isn’t a better option and phone numbers that everyone has!
We’re not trying to build a new social network we’re trying to take the oldest one we have and enable it now for private trading.
The thing about Vexl is that I only have to tell my dog walker about one app when she finally wants to learn how to buy bitcoin Vexl, and she can immediately post an offer privately and trade with the people in my network, but also in the people in hers.
Local peer to peer we encourage cash only.
Bitcoin starts local, not trading with strangers on the Internet
If you’re a plumber or an electrician or let’s say a dog walker or a hairdresser doesn’t matter you can post an ad on Vexl offering your services for Bitcoin and you’re sharing that privately with a network of people that you can trust.
Vexl is a tool. If it works for you, use it if it doesn’t that’s fine as well.
But I don’t know any other tools that are easier to onboard someone to be able to buy bitcoin p2p how it was intended.
With no KYC.

2026-02-24 15:42:29 CET

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https://vexl.it/post/understanding-vexl-security-privacy-and-building-a-web-of-trust
Start here.
You have to verify your human and that you are the owner.
Vexl is made so that you can trade with your friends and friends and friends privately.
All of the phone numbers are hashed locally
the hashes do leave the device. The hashes are what build out your web of trust. Your social graph.
But if you want to keep trading with your passport and bank account on exchanges, that’s fine.
Of course, with anything there can always be trade-offs.
You can also use any burner number you want, but then you wouldn’t be able to trade with your friends and friends and friends unless you share that number with them as they won’t have the Hash.

2026-02-24 14:18:58 CET

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I can’t zap you, but I approve this message
It’s exactly the same kind of psychosis people get when vibecoding one more prompt will fix it all!
One more regulation will fix it all!

2026-02-24 14:17:24 CET

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We’re fully open source you don’t have to trust us. You don’t share your phone number with us. It never leaves your device.
We’re also a nonprofit supported through grants from @nprofile…nc0f
and @nprofile…fyer
Before just dismissing it actually do some due diligence

2026-02-24 10:22:55 CET

ah shit, here we go again
4 days ago a company called IDMerit left their database with 1 billion personal records open on the internet with no password. What is IDMerit? A KYC verification company. One designed and promised to keep your data safe.
Welcome to the dawn of AI powered identity verification. Cybernews researchers found a totally unprotected MongoDB database in November last year. With.. get this.. 1 terabyte. 3 billion records with 1 billion containing sensitive personal info across 26 countries.
So what sensitive information? Pretty much exactly what you would want to protect. Full legal names, home addresses and postal codes, dates of birth, national identification numbers, phone numbers, email addresses and telecom metadata.
The USA had 204 million records exposed. Mexico 120+ million. Philippines 72 million. Germany 61 million. Italy and France 53 million each. So is it any wonder kidnappings are on the rise in France? Hell the French tax office is implicated in exposing private data.
This wasn't some sophisticated hack. Not some zero day exploit. It was literally a database being left open on the internet with no password. The companies that are supposed to protect your identity can't even protect their own database.
So yeah, what we get here is not another isolated case. This is a pattern. Let's look at what happened in just the last couple years alone.
Coinbase May 2025: employees in India bribed to steal KYC data. 69,461 users. Government IDs, social security numbers, bank details, transaction histories. Cost: $180-400 million.
Transak 2024: 92,554 users' government IDs and selfies stolen from one phished employee. Signzy 2024: major KYC provider breached, customer data from banks appeared on the dark web. NCX Exchange 2025: 2 million records leaked including KYC documents.
Indian Financial Institutions 2025: 500GB of KYC data exposed through a bad storage bucket. UK 2025: a GB of selfies, IDs, passports, and driver's licenses dumped on dark web forums. Just sitting there for the taking.
Then like just a few days ago completely separate from the IDMerit leak, at Abu Dhabi Finance Week more than 700 passport scans and government ID cards were found unprotected on a cloud server. These were world leaders, politicians, and major business figures.
So yeah, you're talking about billions of records in the last year alone that have been leaked. These are just the ones that have been reported so far. It's really not if your KYC data gets leaked. It's when.
Like every company out there that collects your passport is making a bet. Of course they don't WANT your data to get leaked. But they are just betting. Betting an employee won't be bribed. Their database won't get hacked. But the odds are against them. Every. Single. Time.
But you know what? You can't change your passport number. You can't change your face. You can't change your date of birth. When a password leaks you can change it, but when your ID leaks you're compromised for the rest of your life.
In 2024 finance overtook healthcare as the most hacked industry. 30% of breaches now involve third-party vendors. What did Satoshi say about trusted third parties? Well yeah... here we are. Now owning bitcoin can be dangerous if your data falls into the wrong hands.
Last week I shared that KYC catches less than 0.1% of criminal money and costs 100x more than it
recovers. I showed you how it can be used as a weapon against protesters, political opponents, and legal businesses. Well look at this. It couldn't be more clear.
The data isn't safe and it was never going to be safe. 1 billion records sitting on the internet with no password just again proves that. But this is what I just don't understand. We have the evidence. We have years of it. Breach after breach after breach.
For a lot of you it starts with your inbox full of phishing emails. Your passport on the dark web. But for some it starts with being dragged into the back of someone's kidnapper van with your pinkie finger removed.
What's even more bonkers is that today as I'm writing this, PayPal has disclosed that for more than six months a code error exposed customers' Social Security numbers, names, addresses, dates of birth. How did they respond? Sorry, here is some free credit monitoring.
In 2023 the Swedish police raided Mullvad VPN with a search warrant. They wanted user data. They left with nothing because there was nothing to give. The answer is never better security. It's never stronger passwords. The answer is to never collect data in the first place.
So yeah, if you're reading this and you're thinking like well what can we do at this point? Is it too late? No, it's not too late. Stop using services that require a passport to buy bitcoin. It's that simple.
Use something like @nprofile…c5wz its totally free, completely open source, lets you buy and sell bitcoin peer to peer with no KYC, no ID, no database, no freaking honeypot. Using Vexl and trading with cash means your transaction history and ID won't end up in the next open database. Download it at vex.it
Genuinely if you think this was useful help me scream it. I think people just don't know this is happening. They hand over their data and they don't hear about this before it's too late. Protect yourself. No one else will.
Sources:
IDMerit breach: https://cybernews.com/security/global-data-leak-exposes-billion-records/
Coinbase breach: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/protecting-our-customers-standing-up-to-extortionists
Abu Dhabi leak: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/data-leak-abu-dhabi-finance-summit-exposes-global-figures-ft-reports-2026-02-17/
PayPal breach: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/paypal-discloses-data-breach-exposing-users-personal-information/
KYC breach tracker: https://github.com/etheralpha/kycisbad
Vexl: https://vexl.it/
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2026-02-23 11:22:57 CET

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That’s bullshit it works just fine

2026-02-21 12:53:00 CET

So KYC is kidnap your customer..
That means AML just
Another Meaningless Law that is
Actively Making you Locatable
to kidnappers that is….

2026-02-21 12:01:44 CET

So I don't know why more people don't scream about this but KYC does not prevent crime.
I'm gonna lay out the numbers here because people need to see this. The cost of pretending it works is measured in actual human lives now.
There was a peer reviewed study by researcher Ronald Pol where he found that AML regulations have less than a 0.1% impact on criminal finances. You read that correctly. Less than 0.1%. That means it catches basically nothing. What a joke.
But how much does this cost? The financial industry spends over $200 billion a year on KYC/AML compliance. Europol itself says they confiscate less than 2% in the EU, and in the USA it's even worse, its less than 0.2%.
That means the cost of compliance is over 100x what they recover.
You know what does happen through all of this compliance?
The biggest money laundering operations in human history.
So what do the numbers show for the fully KYC compliant banks?
Danske Bank: $230 billion laundered
HSBC: billions for the Sinaloa cartel
Wachovia: $378 billion in cartel wire transfers
HSBC was laundering money for one of the most violent drug cartels on earth. They got hit with a $1.9 billion fine. Nobody went to jail, then according to the ICIJ investigation they kept moving money even after the fine.
That's not a system that prevents crime. That enables it.
At the same time, the system generates 4.6 million suspicious activity reports in the US alone. 95% of them are false positives. Millions of people's accounts flagged, frozen, and their lives disrupted. For what? To catch 0.1%. But it's not just about the inconvenience of having your account frozen. It's your life on the line. KYC links your identity to your money. Every exchange that collects your passport, your address, your biometrics and all that data sits in a database waiting to be breached.
Coinbase in 2025 employees were BRIBED to steal data. "We're sorry." 70,000 users. Government IDs, SSN, bank details, transaction history, addresses. Yet people still willingly turn this information over because they believe they have to.
And we learned that Persona, a KYC provider used by Kraken and many others, has code that pipes your passport data directly to FinCEN tagged with intelligence program codenames.
Furthermore, while all this happens, 1.7 billion people still don't have access to a bank account. The World Bank says 75% of unbanked people are locked out because of costs and requirements. 100 million in Africa without IDs at all. KYC makes financial access impossible for them.
So help me understand. A system that catches less than 0.1% of criminal activity. Costs 100x more than it recovers. Enables the largest laundering operations in history. Creates target lists that get people kidnapped and mutilated. Yet we're told it's protecting us.
Jameson Lopp tracks physical bitcoin attacks. Wrench attacks up 169% in 2025, and France is a hotbed of activity these days. These people aren't being targeted because of Bitcoin. They're being targeted because their identity was linked to their holdings.
That is KYC.
I know I scream this every day and the people who follow me are probably tired of hearing me talk about it. But I don't know how to say it louder. We need your voice as well.
KYC is not a safety measure. KYC is surveillance infrastructure marketed as consumer protection.
If you actually care about safety, you should care about people being able to transact without painting a target on themselves.
Peer to peer. No KYC. That's not radical it's the only thing that makes sense.