I switched to @GrapheneOS 4 years ago. Zero Google. Zero tracking. Zero regrets. What you get: - Disk encryption - Memory hardening - Network controls - Duress PIN that wipes everything It's free. It's easy. It changed how I think about phones. Still on stock Android? Why?

Knotzies are the woke people of Bitcoin. Everything offends them. Filters, spam, OP_RETURN, your node settings, your opinion. They cry, they lecture, they demand everyone comply. Bitcoin is a free market that self-regulates through game theory. You don't get a veto. Cope.

Let's put ads in Bitcoin Core during IBD

12 years ago this week, one mining pool controlled 51% of Bitcoin's hashrate. GHash crossed the line in June 2014. No attack happened. Instead: → Miners fled the pool voluntarily → Price dropped ~5% → GHash pledged to stay under 40% By 2015 it held less than 2% of the network. By 2016 it was gone. Pure game theory.

16 years ago today, the first Bitcoin faucet went live. Gavin Andresen seeded it with 1,100 BTC and gave away 5 BTC to anyone who solved a captcha. His first Bitcoin coding project. He wanted coins in as many hands as possible while they were still worth a few cents. By the end of 2010 the faucet had handed out around 19,700 BTC. At today's price that's over $1.2 billion, given away one captcha at a time. One 5 BTC payout is worth about $308,000 now. The most expensive captchas ever solved, and the cheapest user acquisition in history.

Top choice while traveling 🐹 eSIM with no KYC required. Lightning payments accepted via BTCPay, and no internet traffic routed through China, Russia, or Hong Kong. Based company.

Spent one afternoon on my Lightning node and walked away with LNDg running automatic rebalancing, automatic fee adjustments dialed to each channel, and a freshly hardened server on top of it. Two years ago every one of those would have been its own week-long project. Reading half-finished docs, piecing together forum threads, breaking the config, fixing the config, breaking it again. Now I describe what I want, get a working starting point, and spend my time on the part that actually needs judgment: which channels to be aggressive on, what fee floor makes sense for my peers, which ports really need to be open. First test results: 1.5% routing ROI per year. And routing isn't even the point of this node, I mainly run it for my ecommerce. The wild part isn't that it's faster. It's that the stuff that used to gatekeep running a serious node, the obscure flags and the tribal knowledge, mostly evaporated. The barrier now is whether you understand what you're building, not whether you can find the magic incantation. Best time to be self-hosting your own infrastructure, honestly.

Your email aliases are spam funnels, not privacy. The advice is always "use a different alias per service." Feels smart until you remember they all forward to one real inbox. You're not blocking spam, you're routing it straight home. Enough signups and your main mail is a landfill. The alias was never protection, just a label on the same bucket. So people switch to public temp mail, and it breaks two ways. Most sites already block those domains because spammers got there first. And even when it works, you can't get back in. Need a reset link tomorrow? The inbox is gone or public for anyone to read. Inbucket kills both problems. Self-host it on your domain as a catch-all and every address @ yourdomain just exists. You never create them. Sign up as netflix@yourdomain, bank@yourdomain, whatever, and it lands in a web UI you control. Infinite aliases, zero setup. Because it's your domain, nothing's blocked and nothing disappears. Spam stays trapped on a server you own instead of in your real life. Aliases that don't leak back to you. Temp mail that doesn't get blocked or vanish. Nobody else gives you both. Self-host it.

My 2026 privacy setup: 📱 Pixel GrapheneOS 💬 Signal 🌐 Tor Browser, Vanadium on mobile, Zen on desktop 🛜 Obscura VPN, or the same setup self-hosted ✉️ Riseup or Proton ☁️ Any cloud, but I encrypt sensitive files with PicoCrypt first 🔑 Bitwarden or LessPass 📦 Obtainium/Play Store for security, Droid-ify/Aurora/Obtainium for privacy ⚡️ Zeus (OC and LN) 🎬 NewPipe, AntennaPod, LibreTube ⌨️ Turtleboard 📸 Simple Gallery or self-hosted Immich 🤝 Self-hosted PicoShare or SwissTransfer 📞 Silent link or Giffgaff (no KYC SIM) With AI, self-hosting became super easy. No more excuses. What did you add this year?

Parlare di privacy non è mai facile e spesso cadiamo tutti nella stessa trappola. Parliamo di noi. Del nostro wallet, del nostro nome, delle nostre transazioni. E il sistema ci risponde con la frase più efficace mai costruita per chiudere un dibattito: se non hai nulla da nascondere, non hai nulla da temere. Una frase odiosa ma che, soprattutto, non confuta l'argomento. Lo sposta. Ti porta sul terreno dell'individuo sospetto e ti chiede di difenderti. Di dimostrare che sei innocente di qualcosa che non ti è ancora stato contestato. È una trappola retorica perfetta. Ma funziona solo se accettiamo il presupposto: che la privacy sia un interesse esclusivamente individuale, mentre in ballo, spiace dirlo, c’è molto di più.  La privacy non protegge semplicemente l'individuo dal sistema. Protegge la possibilità stessa che una società si evolva. Quello che rimane senza privacy è una società che sembra viva, piena di voci, di contenuti, di dibattiti apparenti, ma che è condannata a rimanere uguale a se stessa.  Senza anonimato non avremmo avuto bitcoin. Senza la possibilità che il pensiero si formi lontano dagli occhi prima di diventare parola stiamo rischiando di non avere futuro.  Solo un presente infinito, leggermente ottimizzato, perfettamente conforme. Grazie @BitcareForum

I will defend Firefox before I defend Brave. And I do not even use Firefox. I use Zen. It is not the most private browser on earth, but it is a real improvement over base Firefox and I love using it. If you want Chromium, Helium is great. Ungoogled Chromium is great. There are good options in every direction. Brave is not one of them. Brave is not a privacy browser. Brave is a crypto scammer company. Default install today: BAT rewards, Brave Wallet, Leo AI, Brave VPN, Brave News, Brave Talk, Brave Search promos, sponsored new tab page, built-in torrent client. There are entire community projects whose only job is to ship registry scripts that turn this stuff off. Users debloat a "privacy" browser. Read that again. And the track record is rough. 2020: Brave got caught auto-injecting its own affiliate code into URLs you typed yourself. You typed binance . us, Brave silently rewrote it to binance . us/?ref=35089877. Same for Coinbase, Ledger, Trezor. Brendan Eich defended it first, called it a mistake only after the backlash. Open source did not save anyone here. The code sat in the repo for ten weeks before anyone noticed. 2018: Brave collected BAT "donations" for Tom Scott and other creators who had never signed up, using their names and photos. When Scott asked for the money back, Brave said refunds were impossible. 2021: Brave's built-in Tor mode leaked every . onion address you visited to your regular DNS provider for months. If you used Brave to hide your dark-web activity, your ISP saw all of it. The bug shipped to stable in November 2020 and only got fixed in February 2021 after a researcher went public. Use what you love. Zen, Librewolf, Mullvad, Helium, Ungoogled Chromium, base Firefox if you want, even Safari. A browser whose business model is shoving shitcoin and a paid VPN at you is not a privacy product. It is an ad-tech company with better marketing.

Bitcoin Pizza Day is the wrong story. 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas. Everyone knows the number. Almost nobody knows what happened 12 days earlier. On May 10, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz posted the first working GPU miner for Bitcoin on BitcoinTalk. Until that day, everyone mined on CPUs. GPUs were orders of magnitude faster. By December 2010, Bitcoin's total hashrate had jumped 130,000%. Laszlo's wallet received over 81,000 BTC between April and November 2010, almost all of it from his own GPU rigs. 10,000 coins sounds like a fortune. For Laszlo in 2010, it was about a week of mining. He didn't stop there. Laszlo later admitted he spent close to 100,000 BTC that year. Pizza, random stuff, more pizza. The reason matters. Satoshi had messaged him privately, saying GPU mining was bad for the network. Fair distribution needed CPUs. Centralizing hashrate broke the design. Laszlo agreed. He said he felt guilty for "crapping up the project". So he cashed out. Not into fiat. Into anything that wasn't BTC. Pizza was a convenient target. The most famous transaction in Bitcoin history wasn't a guy who didn't get it. It was a mining pioneer apologizing for his own breakthrough, paid in the coins his invention let him mine. This Friday, when the pizza memes start, remember the second story.

Things AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok) are great at right now: - the 20 minute task at work you do every single day - summarizing the 40 page document nobody read - building small scripts or tools to make your life easier Stop trying to force AI into everything. It's the best assistant you've ever had. Not your dev team, not your decision maker.

Things GrapheneOS does that should be illegal not to do: - Revoke the Network permission per-app - Revoke the Sensors permission per-app - Storage & Contact Scopes (lie to apps about your data) - Hardened app runtime by default Why is this not the baseline.

New Lightning milestone reached ⚡️ We’ve been around the block: • Running nonstop since 2010 • Stratum V2 since 2020 • 1.3M bitcoin mined Now processing 2k instant, zero-fee mining payouts per day.

Vi aspetto 🙏🧡

Hot fork summer is coming. eCash drops in August with a 1:1 airdrop. BIP110 supporters have said if they don't hit consensus by August, they'll fork too. Two potential chain splits, two batches of free coins to claim. Last time Bitcoiners did this at scale was 2017. BCH, BSV, BTG. A whole generation of holders has never split coins. Two ways people are about to lose their stack. 1. Your Bitcoin seed claims the forked coin. Same 12 words, same keys, same addresses. Scammers know this. Last fork cycle they ran fake claim wallets on Google ads, fake splitter tools on GitHub, fake "official" sites ranking above the real ones. You paste your seed to grab the airdrop, your BTC leaves in the same minute. Move your BTC to a fresh wallet before you touch anything fork-related. Use the old seed only on audited tools from people whose code you can read. 2. The UTXO set is shared. Selling the forked coin links your BTC. If you spend an output that maps to one of your BTC UTXOs, you've publicly tied them together. Anyone watching the new chain now sees your Bitcoin address, balance, and history. Dump the airdrop on a KYC exchange and they have your full BTC history tied to your name. If you claim, treat the coins as radioactive. Split with care or skip the claim. The dump rarely pays the surveillance bill.

Every AI model has its own specialty. Same as economies, max efficiency comes from specialization and trade. Codex Claude Code DeepSeek talking to each other covers writing, reviewing and fixing code better than any of them alone.

The only difference between you and Tony Stark is that he had infinite API tokens.