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Self-interest is the least corruptible force in the universe. Design your systems accordingly.

In times like these, I'm incredibly grateful we have: #Monero - digital cash #GrapheneOS - mobile freedom #Nostr - social freedom #NymVPN - truly private VPN #KeePassXC - open source password management #Lemmy - federated communities #SimpleX - truly private chat #NanoGPT - access to the best AI models, without needing an account (and payment with Monero) In a world where governments are doing everything they can to command and control, free software developers are building and shipping tools that offer us unparalleled freedom. If you haven't tried some of these tools, let today be the day you choose one to explore. And if you use and love some of these tools, consider making a donation to one today!

On behalf of the organisers of World Nostr Day, I'd like to thank our platinum sponsors, AWS, for their tremendous efforts to demonstrate that even a worldwide outage of the world's largest hosting provider cannot slow us down even one teeny, tiny, little bit. Thank you! #decentralized #permissionless #freedom

"The Bureau of Labor also slashed the number of jobs added in recent months. May’s jobs figure was revised down by 125,000, from 144,000 to 19,000, and June was revised down by 133,000, from 147,000 to 14,000 – a combined 258,000 fewer jobs than previously reported." Perception is not reality. Reality is reality. And the reality is that the Trump tax that Americans are being charged to do business with every other country on Earth is bad for everybody. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/01/jobs-report-july-trump-tariffs-trade-war

36 ways you can contribute to Monero, from Monero Observer: https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/#fnref:0 How many have you done? 😎 #Monero #privacy

Measuring your net worth (or income) progression in fiat terms debases the way you think about value. Fiat number-go-up doesn't mean much. Measure it in #Monero to get more useful feedback on your returns. You'll develop a better sense of how and where to allocate your energy and resources to increase real value generation over time.

"The Lightning Network (LN), the Manhattan Project of Bitcoin, was supposed to give us everything we ever wanted for Bitcoin: scalability and privacy, while still staying super decentralized and non-custodial. While being non-custodial (it just requires you to run your own lightning node with a hot wallet, what could possibly go wrong), it requires your wallet to be online in order to receive a payment. As of today there are 3,735.09 BTC locked in lightning channels (source: 1ML), a whopping 0.017786% of the circulating supply. The top 10 nodes hold ~ 64 % of the advertised channel capacity, with the single largest node (ACINQ) holding ~11 % (source also: 1ML), which is exactly the hub and spoke network topology that early critics of LN predicted." nostr:nprofile1qqsxd7rasz53jav2vjlq6twg5wj68lgvm0t4lj79skkka9jju8qfv3cpzpmhxue69uhnzdps9enrw73wd9hszxthwden5te0v9j82mr59ccnsurvw4ejuum0vd5kzmqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2uc9a2xcy https://frankbraun.org/layer1/ #privacy #monero #zcash #lightning

"The zk-nym scheme enables the creation and use of unlinkable, rerandomisable anonymous access credentials that are 'spent' with Gateways in order to anonymously prove that someone has paid for Mixnet access. [...] zk-nyms allow for users to pay for Mixnet access in a manner that is unlinkable to their payment account; even with pseudonymous cryptocurrencies or fiat. This solves one of the fundamental privacy problems with the majority of VPNs and dVPNs in production today: the linkability of a user's session with their payment information, which can in the majority of cases be easily used to deanonymise them, either at the behest of an authority or by the service operators themselves." https://nym.com/docs/network/cryptography/zk-nym #privacy #vpn #nymvpn

If anyone in the history of humanity has ever referred to it as a giant wall of digital energy, it's a #shitcoin.

If the person you sent it to can see how much change you got back, it's a #shitcoin.

Anyone interested in buying #coffee for #Monero in the #UK? #asknostr

If you’re earning interest, you’re losing money. Save in #Monero. Spend in Monero. Let inflation be the price paid by those who choose to ignore it.

If it passes through a centralised exchange, it’s a #shitcoin.

What purpose does email serve these days, other than to provide a way for spammers to contact you? #SimpleX #Signal #grownostr #privacy

What are your thoughts on #nymvpn? Have you switched to it from another provider? Why or why not? #asknostr

If you’ve never tried #nano, you should. Nano’s privacy is horrendously bad, and not fit for real-world use as-is, but its ability to achieve: - fully decentralised - permissionless - zero-fee - instantaneous - final settlement is second to absolutely none. It’s the gold standard (pun intended?) for a fantastic user experience with digital cash, and its community is highly focused on that (at the expense of privacy, sadly!) Maybe my dream currency is #cashu on top of #nano? 😎

Protonmail isn't "cryptoemail" just because it uses E2EE. It's just email. Similarly, Signal isn't a "cryptomessaging" app. It's just messaging. It's not "cryptobanking" just because your banking app uses TLS to communicate. It's just banking. And it's not #cryptocurrency just because it uses private keys, bulletproofs, and Pedersen commitments. It's just currency. "Crypto" is a misleading and alienating term to non-power users. It sounds special, complicated, foreign - even extreme(ly niche). The fact that cryptography is involved is the least interesting aspect of it to your average user. So let's stop making it sound so mysterious. It's just currency. It's (e.g. #Monero with #CakeWallet) much faster and easier to set up and use than a typical bank account. You can earn it and spend it much like any other currency. The main difference being that you don't need permission to open an account, nor to send or receive funds, as an individual or business. It allows you to do business with anyone, anywhere, with almost no fees. And it's as private as handing someone cash face-to-face. But it's still currency, just better. Welcome aboard! 😎

Two paths for adoption (of #privacy and #permissionless tech): - Try to convince normies, whose eyes tend to glaze over the minute you mention words like fiat, inflation, privacy, surveillance, etc. - Focus on those who are actually interested in the value freedom tech offers, and have consciously experienced the pain of not using it. Collaborate. Build and ship stuff that helps amplify their and your potential. Normies gonna norm. That's OK. They have different priorities. Life is agonisingly short. They accept a different set of tradeoffs. Preach to the converted. Make stuff for the converted. Sell stuff to the converted - and expand outward from there. #grownostr #Monero

Use #Monero to: - buy access to the best AI models with no account, and no personal information at nano-gpt.com - browse the web privately using Mullvad VPN - buy and sell stuff at XMRBazaar.com - convert to anonymous paper money vouchers (gift cards) accepted by your favourite shops using #CakeWallet - swap for other assets anonymously using trocador.app to explore other interesting #privacy tools like Zano, Beam, etc. - onboard a family member, friend, or local merchant by showing them how to install and use Cake or #monerujo - pay for a truly private, E2E encrypted email service with #protonmail (coming summer 2025!) Live free. 😎

A fun thought experiment for house prices: How much would this house be worth if the law required you to pay cash (not borrow) for it? Or for #Bitcoin: What would the price of Bitcoin be if it were delisted from *all* centralised exchanges worldwide? Happy Paper Bitcoin Summer to all the ETF #cypherpunks! 😎