I’m getting sick of governments using child protection and anti-money laundering as excuses to take away everyone’s privacy. Lets be clear, this is about spying on citizens so they can identify people resisting the state to manipulate or punish as…
I remember exploring bike trails along the American River in the Sacramento, California region and stumbling across a Waldorf School technically located in Fair Oaks where a lot of expensive housing on the north side of the river was located.…
When Signal was originally being pushed in tech circles, I saw that they first identified you by phone number which struck me as odd for a privacy messenger. Was it always a honeypot? Sam Bent’s investigation into the guy responsible…
As Bitcoin is in a major fight for control with compromised Bitcoin Core Devs trying to trash the protocol with SPAM and data to damage and endanger node runners while not fixing the bug they introduced with Taproot which is…
I’ve been hearing people on the ham bands ignorantly talking about cryptocurrencies, so I thought I’d offer the case for the one that has real value, Bitcoin. In essence Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency protocol for trustless financial transactions using public/private…
If you don’t run your own Bitcoin and Lightning node, you might want an easy way to use Lightning payments as well as Bitcoin. And to make it even more interesting, AQUA Wallet also gives you access to Liquid Bitcoin,…
A couple interesting tidbits is disabling encryption and keeping detailed records of IP address and ports used. If you use default ports, that can tell you a lot about what people are doing. My ISP can look at my connection…
This goes along with the BIS report for self KYC reporting, as they’re going to want to identify UTXOs (owned coins) and put identity with cryptocurrency transactions and addresses. And it sounds like they want to make self-custody suspicious, and…
A couple interesting observations, cities or states banning facial recognition is a misnomer. They’re tracking much more than faces with systems in use with accelerated development. And the company named Babel Street with their product Babel X is a callback…
This bug got me yesterday, and what’s funny is that I had solved this years ago when I got one of the early Raspberry Pi 4B’s to use with my Bitcoin Node. I recently converted a Raspberry Pi 5 to…
You won’t see it covered, as our current “trust the science” society rejects the activity of demons who run this world under the guidelines set by God. So demonic influence and possession are rejected as people are institutionalized and placed…
And we wait to see what they do, which will shed light on what their handlers have in mind. And we know they don’t want us having financial privacy, so I’d be surprised if this passes as is. In…
