This past week was a nightmare and forced me to reexamine a lot of my assumptions and threat models. Two topics bubbled to the top alot that I thought warranted videos... so I got to work. How do you use dice to generate your own entropy when creating keys? This video uses dice and the @npub17tyk...3mgl to accomplish just that, while verifying using an external tool. Putting trust in a single hardware vendor means having all your eggs in one basket. One tactic may be to keep some of your corn in different devices. Another may be to combine them into a multi-vendor multisig. This video goes through doing the latter - on Sparrow with Trezor, Jade and @BitBox , then on mobile with @npub1cvql...yjt3 @npub17tyk...3mgl and @Blockstream Jade. There's no perfect answer for EVERYONE, but it's worth exploring your options and seeing what works for you. BTW if you are finding these videos helpful, ALL of my tutorials will now be uploaded to Sovereign Sessions. Join me there: https://www.youtube.com/@SovereignSessions?sub_confirmation=1

Today I launched Sovereign Sessions with 3 new freedom tech tutorials. LM Studio: How do you start with the basics of running AI locally on your laptop? What do all the fancy terms mean? What is your hardware capable of running and where does it fall short? Find out here. GrapheneOS: The looming threat of OS level age verification, paired with the always-on tracking of Apple and Google are enough to make a lot of people look for an alternative. Graphene is one of the most private OS options for mobile out there. Here's how to install and use it. Umbrel Pro: When people refer to sovereign computing, it can include a lot of things. Hosting your own files, photos, media, passwords, AI agents, Bitcoin node, etc. The Umbrel Pro is an accessible plug and play way to start setting foot in that world. Here's how to set up and navigate one as you start your journey. This channel will also be the new home for my Bitcoin tutorials - of which I have a dice roll/Seedsigner video and a multi-vendor multisig video both coming out on Tuesday. Of course, if you find this stuff useful then please do subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@SovereignSessions?sub_confirmation=1

Today is the official 10 year anniversary of BTC Sessions. Hard to believe I uploaded my first tutorial back in 2016. Thanks for an amazing decade. Join me for the next chapter as I move ALL tutorial content over to @npub146zh...22de . Bitcoin, privacy, AI and sovereign computing. See you there. Subcribe 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@SovereignSessions?sub_confirmation=1

Today will be our 7th Sat Market here in Calgary. Since bootstrapping this local Bitcoin market a couple years ago it has grown into an awesome community that I now feel is becoming self sustaining. Tonight we're expecting between 40-50 vendors and a few hundred people in attendance. Community members now regularly volunteer to help organize, others step up to help with funding (which was out of my own pocket for most of them), and we're beginning to expand into additional community events so it becomes more of an experience. I can't wait to see what's next, and I encourage people to build their own local communities that use Bitcoin as money. It's incredibly rewarding and brings everyone together. Will post pics after the event!

Had a great time at @BTC Prague - especially giving my keynote. Shoutout @M A D E X for the photo on this slide. Catch the full talk here!

Hey everyone! I'm doing a webinar for the @npub17xvf...c9as today teaching human rights activists from around the globe about nostr! We've got 50 people in the room and I want to show them what zaps are! Shoot some over if you're able! I'll forward them onto the HRF afterwards. Thanks all!

This Friday we're hosting our 7 local Bitcoin market in Calgary! We're expecting just shy of 40 merchants, all accepting BTC. We've got tradesmen, farmers, artisans, real estate agents, barbers, masseuses, hypnotherapists, and plenty more! Love seeing the local Bitcoin circular economy grow.

I'm testing out @Obscura VPN right now. No ID, no email address, paid in bitcoin. Randomly generated account number can be used across multiple devices. So far so good! I'll do a tutorial on this over on Sovereign Sessions when it launches. You can pre-emptively subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@SovereignSessions?sub_confirmation=1

UUUUUGE. Thanks all! Also shoutout to @Bitcoin Mentor for joining and massively contributing to the journey. LFG team.

As a reminder, you can get sats without ID (which are the best kind of sats!) I've been messing around with @Hodl Hodl now that they added lightning and it's pretty seamless. Definitely worth testing if anyone gets the chance. I'll have a tutorial for that when Sovereign Sessions launches this August, but it's basically the same flow as on-chain with some small differences. Feel free to check out my previous tutorial: HODLHODL website is here:

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Oh and this video is totally unrelated... but also useful.

Excited to give this a whirl.