AQUA Wallet
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,…
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Swiss Government Looks to Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance
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…
US Government To Bring PATRIOT Act to Digital Assets
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…
“He Had No Chance” – The Total Surveillance State That Caught Him
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…
First Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Issue with USB Drives
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…
How ‘AI Psychosis’ And Delusions Are Driving Some Users Into Psychiatric Hospitals, Suicide
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…
New CLARITY Act Draft Could Shield Bitcoin and Crypto Developers From Past Liability
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…
Anatomy of a Billion-Download NPM Supply-Chain Attack – Crypto Transaction Hijacking
(Headline article below) This is an account of how the hack was found in regards to qix’s compromised NPM account, affecting JavaScript packages. If you have a hardware wallet, make sure to check the address on your device carefully, as…
Up To 37% Of Circulating Bitcoin May Be Lost Forever In Silent Supply Shock
(Headline article at bottom) A wonderful analysis of lost Bitcoin and how this impacts the value of Bitcoin. Consequently, the captured Bitcoin Core devs trying to harm Bitcoin by blowing up OP_RETURN to 100,000 bytes, will probably set their sights…
Bitcoin Core Hitting New Lows
Update on the Bitcoin SPAM war. The tactics and illogical arguments of the Bitcoin Core folks has been pretty repugnant. And I think the node numbers are interesting as while Bitcoin Knots has jumped up, Bitcoin Core numbers don’t fully…
Bitcoin Core Developers Are Cringe
Supposedly this was a dig at Luke DashJr and other Christians opposed to the OP_RETURN change to 100,000 bytes which could lead to CP/CSAM being sent to mempools and possibly included into the Bitcoin blockchain (Bitcoin Core Dev Gloria Zhao’s…
Google Hit With $425 Million Jury Verdict in Privacy Trial
This is nothing to Google and just considered the cost of doing business, as they make much more money from violating the privacy of users, not to mention the value of better profiles on users. And when their AI agents…