Sparrow is a modern Bitcoin desktop wallet with a clean split‑pane interface: the left panel manages accounts and UTXOs while the right panel shows transaction details, fee estimates and an integrated blockchain explorer for easy history lookup. Its security relies on full‑node validation; even when syncing via remote Electrum servers the downloaded block headers are fully verified locally, and users can configure a self‑hosted Electrum node or enable Tor hidden services to further isolate network traffic, with private keys kept only in RAM and cleared on exit. Key features include granular coin control for selecting specific UTXOs and setting custom fees or timelocks, a built‑in PSBT editor for offline and multisignature workflows, and optional Lightning Network support through plugins, allowing seamless management of both on‑chain and off‑chain funds.
Electrum, one of the earliest lightweight Bitcoin wallets, presents a minimalist yet well‑organized UI: addresses and tags appear on the left, while the right side displays balance, transaction history and visual fee estimations, all accessible through simple menus for advanced options. Security is achieved via SPV (Simplified Payment Verification), downloading only block headers and verifying them locally, which dramatically reduces storage needs while still ensuring blockchain integrity; private keys are user‑managed, encrypted on disk, and purged from memory when the wallet closes, and network queries can be routed through Tor or a self‑hosted server to prevent data leakage. Its standout capabilities include built‑in coin control that lets users pick exact UTXOs and customize fees or locktimes, and native Lightning Network integration through Electrum Lightning, providing instant payments, channel management and automatic fee adjustment without requiring external plugins.
Wasabi Wallet focuses on privacy with a single‑page layout that consolidates the wallet overview, CoinJoin control panel and transaction history, making all anonymity‑related actions—starting a CoinJoin, choosing mix amounts, setting rounds—available in one place to minimize user error. Security is enforced by routing all traffic through the Tor network, using a self‑hosted Electrs server for blockchain queries to avoid third‑party exposure, and keeping private keys only in encrypted RAM, which is cleared when the application exits; the CoinJoin process runs in a trusted execution environment to ensure no external party can observe the mixing. While its primary feature is the Wasabi CoinJoin for strong transaction unlinkability, it also offers coin control so users can select which UTXOs to mix, and through external plugins can enable Lightning Network functionality, allowing mixed coins to fund Lightning channels for fast, private off‑chain payments.
Aurelius
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LeoDex (https://leodex.io/zh-Hans/), THORChain (https://thorchain.org/; it is a cross-chain liquidity protocol, so don’t confuse it with THORSwap, which is built on it), Rango Exchange (https://rango.exchange/; a cross-chain swap aggregator), Jumper (
aggregates cross-chain swap and bridge routes), and 1inch (https://1inch.com/; offers cross-chain swaps and lists support for more than 18 networks on its official site).
Jumper
Jumper | Smart App for the Universal Market
Move, deploy and manage your capital with Jumper. Fast swaps, capital deployment, and portfolio management in one smart app.
When a business requires customers in order to survive, they treat them well. When a business can get bailed out or be the recipient of all the free money being created by the bureaucrats, then it doesn’t give a shit about its customers. It can censor them, force them to breathe through face diapers and much more.
Anyway, I digress.
The world we live in today is split into feudal-like castes or classes that are extraordinarily difficult for individuals to move between.
If you’re at the bottom, you cannot climb because the product of your labor (the money you earn) is being debased faster than you can earn it. You barely have enough to feed yourself and you’re completely disincentivized to save.
Savings are the cornerstone of civilization. One cannot climb without having a foundation upon which to build. It’s like building a house made of sand, on ground made of quicksand.
The result? You’re stuck at the bottom, and relatively speaking, you get poorer as time passes.
It gets worse. If you’re at the top, and parasitic enough to stay there, you not only have access to more, but what really decays the system is that you can privatize any gains you make and socialize your fuck ups. You can stay at the top fraudulently and this is just as bad for the “system” as being stuck at the bottom. This is how the system rots (to quote Nassim Taleb, the “IYI”).
And who foots the bill for this entire thing? Me, you, your friends and your family. The productive engine of society. The middle class (whether lower, mid- or upper) who produce most of everything, we pay for it all.
We support the poor, and we simultaneously pay the jailers to keep us enslaved. It’s pretty messed up.
This concept right here, the transformation from static inequality to dynamic inequality, is what I believe Bitcoin’s greatest impact on the world will be.
The right-hand side of the diagram above is what Bitcoin enables. A playing field in which classes of people will still exist, but that are separated by a permeable membrane.
Yes, if you’re broke, poor and young, you’re going to have to work to climb, but the product of your labor cannot be debased, and your time, effort and energy can be better valued. You have a solid foundation upon which to build your wealth.
If you’re at the top, and you got there through competence and merit, you must either keep producing to stay there, or invest in other up and coming entrepreneurs/producers who are climbing and building value for everyone in the stack. At the same time, if you’re at the top through luck, or you were early and you’re either a parasite, a moron, you make bad decisions or you just want to blow your wealth on hookers and coke, you will fall down the social hierarchy. You can no longer stay there at someone else’s expense.
This means each individual is not only free to do what they want, but each individual bears the cost of their decisions and the fruits of their labor.
This has profound implications on society, moral behavior, meaning, time preference, the environment, generational wealth, art and so much more which will require a book. I’ll save that for later 🙂 
The central banking, statist and government model today is the bastion of moral hazard. You have the “public” officials with zero skin in the game making decisions on behalf of us and our future generations, with no regard to the cost or the consequences of such decisions.
In a similar vein, central banks, banks, Wall Street, tech oligopolies and anyone else who is close to the monetary spigot can privatize any gains they make, and then socialize any losses they’ve incurred.
Boeing is a great example from 2020. You and I paid for it to stay in business. It stayed at the top of the hierarchy and us idiots in the middle funded it. Today’s tech giants are similar. They are major beneficiaries of the ridiculous amount of money being created, borrowed and subsequently handed to Wall Street, who then ploughs it into their stock. They become unnaturally strong and any upstart with a better product or service has no chance of competing.
You wonder why censorship is such a problem? It’s not a lack of some “decentralized alternative” that nobody is ever going to use. It’s a lack of viable competition.
Break the corrupt game of fraudulently concentrating wealth through direct and indirect confiscation (taxation, inflation, regulation) and you re-introduce competition into the system. With competition, you begin to get quality.
When a business requires customers in order to survive, they treat them well. When a business can get bailed out or be the recipient of all the free money being created by the bureaucrats, then it doesn’t give a shit about its customers. It can censor them, force them to breathe through face diapers and much more.
Strategy、過去最高となる210億ドルの第3四半期営業利益を発表、848,517 BTCを保有
• Strategyは純利益195億ドル、1株当たり利益44.75ドルを計上。主な押し上げ要因は、ビットコイン保有による209億ドルの利益でした。
• 年初来、同社は212億ドルを調達し、143億ドル相当のビットコインを購入。保有量は26％増加し、848,517 BTCに達しました。
• Strategyはさらに、STRC株を20億ドル相当買い戻し、51億ドルの米ドル準備金を確保したほか、最高財務責任者（CFO）のAndrew Kang氏が11月5日付で退任すると発表しました。
Despite Bitcoin’s selloff after the Binance hack, BTC is still trading comfortably above its 200-day moving average.
• Bitcoin remains between the 50-day and 200-day moving averages, with roughly 5–6% of downside cushion before it tests the longer-term trend line.
• Short-term weakness is evident, but the broader recovery structure remains intact.
SimpleX - the first messaging platform that has no user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design!
You can find the groups created by users in SimpleX Directory. It is also available as SimpleX bot that allows to add your own groups and communities to the directory. We are not responsible for the content shared in these groups.
Please note: The groups below are created for the users to be able to ask questions, make suggestions and ask questions about SimpleX Chat only.
You can join an English-speaking users group if you want to ask any questions: #SimpleX users group
There is also a group #simplex-devs for developers who build on SimpleX platform:
chat bots and automations
integrations with other apps
social apps and services
etc.
You can join these and other groups by opening these links in the app or by opening them in a desktop browser and scanning the QR code.
You need to share a link with your friend or scan a QR code from their phone, in person or during a video call, to make a connection and start messaging.
The channel through which you share the link does not have to be secure - it is enough that you can confirm who sent you the message and that your SimpleX connection is established.
GitHub
GitHub - simplex-chat/simplex-chat: SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!
SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱! ...
In the world of cryptocurrency, especially within the Bitcoin ecosystem, understanding how transactions work is important. One of the fundamental concepts that power Bitcoin and other similar cryptocurrencies is the UTXO or Unspent Transaction Output.
UTXO stands for Unspent Transaction Output. UTXO encompasses:
Transaction: A transfer of Bitcoin value from one address to another.
Output: The result of a transaction, representing a specific amount of Bitcoin.
Unspent: An output that hasn't been used as an input in a new transaction.
A UTXO is a record of unspent cryptocurrency that remains after a transaction is executed. UTXOs serve as the digital equivalent of change you receive after making a cash purchase. Each UTXO is unique and represents a specific amount of cryptocurrency that can be used as an input for future transactions. UTXOs are the fundamental units that collectively make up your Bitcoin wallet balance, forming the building blocks of the Bitcoin transaction system.
NodeCryptは、完全なゼロ知識アーキテクチャを採用した、真のエンドツーエンド暗号化チャットシステムです。システム全体の設計により、サーバー、ネットワーク上の仲介者、さらにはシステム管理者であっても、メッセージの内容を平文で閲覧することはできません。暗号化と復号はすべてクライアント側で行われ、サーバーは暗号化されたデータを中継するだけです。
ぜひチェックしてみてください。
NodeCrypt - End-to-End Encrypted Chat System
NodeCrypt is a zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted open source chat system where all encryption and decryption is done locally on the client side,...
NodeCrypt is a truly end-to-end encrypted chat system that implements a complete zero-knowledge architecture. The entire system design ensures that servers, network intermediaries, and even system administrators cannot access any plaintext message content. All encryption and decryption operations are performed locally on the client side, with the server serving only as a blind relay for encrypted data.
Check it out.
NodeCrypt - End-to-End Encrypted Chat System
NodeCrypt is a zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted open source chat system where all encryption and decryption is done locally on the client side,...
Mt Gox
1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF
This is the address of the Mt Gox Hacker.
This address has transacted 697 times on the Bitcoin blockchain. It has received a total of 79957.26873107 BTC $6,413,848,270 and has sent a total of 0.00000000 BTC $0.00 The current value of this address is 79957.26873107 BTC $6,413,848,270.
Binance Pool
bc1qx9t2l3pyny2spqpqlye8svce70nppwtaxwdrp4
This address has transacted 4,832 times on the Bitcoin blockchain. It has received a total of 31650.60097098 BTC $2,537,916,415 and has sent a total of 7.19867738 BTC $577,228 The current value of this address is 31643.40229360 BTC $2,537,339,186.
Binance 2
3LYJfcfHPXYJreMsASk2jkn69LWEYKzexb
This address is owned by the FBI, it confiscated approximately 69,000 bitcoin from Individual X who stole them from the Silk Road.
bc1qa5wkgaew2dkv56kfvj49j0av5nml45x9ek9hz6
This address has transacted 197 times on the Bitcoin blockchain. It has received a total of 69370.18464502 BTC $5,562,476,697 and has sent a total of 0.00000000 BTC $0.00 The current value of this address is 69370.18464502 BTC $5,562,476,697.
Electrum Multi-Signature Wallet Creation Process
1. Each participant separately creates a wallet in Electrum and generates their own 24-word mnemonic phrase. You can also run the following code separately to generate a mnemonic phrase:
make_seed(nbits=256, language="english", seed_type="segwit")
Please save the mnemonic phrase carefully and do not share it with anyone. Then separately export each wallet's master public key xpub and exchange them with each other. Only share the xpub, do not share the mnemonic phrase or private keys.
2. After collecting the xpub from all three participants, create a multi-signature wallet in Electrum, for example set it as 2-of-3. Add your own private key and add the other two participants' xpub (extended public keys).
3. After creation is complete, properly back up the multi-signature wallet file and use the addresses generated by this wallet to receive funds.
4. When spending funds, at least two participants need to use their respective private keys to sign the transaction before it can be broadcast to the blockchain network.
Public keys can be made public, private keys and mnemonic phrases cannot be made public.
Electrum
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Cake Wallet
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Electrum
Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
Electrum is one of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, in continuous development since 2011. Fast, secure and open source, for Windows, macOS, Linux ...
GitHub
GitHub - spesmilo/electrum: Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
Electrum Bitcoin Wallet. Contribute to spesmilo/electrum development by creating an account on GitHub.
Sparrow Wallet
Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet
Sparrow is a modern desktop Bitcoin wallet application supporting most hardware wallets and built on common standards such as PSBT, with an emphasi...
GitHub
GitHub - sparrowwallet/sparrow: Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source.
Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source. - sparrowwallet/sparrow
Wasabi Wallet: The Privacy focused Bitcoin Wallet
Wasabi is an open-source, non-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet for desktop, that implements trustless multi-party transactions over the To...
GitHub
GitHub - WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi: Open-source, non-custodial, privacy preserving Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Open-source, non-custodial, privacy preserving Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac. - WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi
Cake Wallet
Cake Wallet: Payments Made Easy
Since 2018, Cake Wallet has provided a secure, seamless, and reliable way to store, send, and exchange cryptocurrency with confidence.
GitHub
GitHub - cake-tech/cake_wallet: The open source repository for Cake Wallet, a noncustodial multi-currency wallet, and Monero.com, a noncustodial Monero-only wallet. Need help? Check out https://docs.cakewallet.com
The open source repository for Cake Wallet, a noncustodial multi-currency wallet, and Monero.com, a noncustodial Monero-only wallet. Need help? Che...
Avoid Depletion: Stay away from negative circles, speculative environments, and things that make you lose control. Preserve your energy for people and matters that truly matter.
Save First, Spend Later: Control consumption and debt, let savings create optionality, then use long-term accumulation to enjoy compound returns.
Prioritize Family: Set aside time to spend with loved ones. A stable family provides emotional support and the strength to start anew.
Cherish Time: Before doing something, ask yourself "Will this still matter in five years?" Invest your time in learning, skills, and long-term relationships.
Avoid fatal mistakes; keep building your capital. Acknowledge the limits of your abilities, and set aside savings and emergency funds. Having a financial cushion gives you more choices when opportunities arise.
Emails between Proton users are encrypted end to end by default. When emailing other email providers, you can use password-protected messages.
I recommend switching to Proton Mail.
This is the export tool. You can use it to export all your emails, including your inbox and other folders, to your local device.
https://proton.me/download/export-tool/proton-mail-export-cli-windows_x86_64.zip
Privacy is priceless, encryption is non-negotiable; my data is mine, no compromise on leaks.
プライバシーは無価です。暗号化は譲歩の余地がありません。私のデータは私のものです。漏洩には一切の妥協はありません。
La vie privée est inestimable, le chiffrement est non négociable ; mes données sont à moi, aucun compromis sur les fuites.
Datenschutz ist unbezahlbar, Verschlüsselung ist nicht verhandelbar; meine Daten gehören mir, keine Kompromisse bei Datenlecks.
La privacidad es invaluable, el cifrado es innegociable; mis datos son míos, sin compromiso sobre filtraciones.
Say no with encryption, declare war on data breaches.
Privacy is priceless, encryption is non-negotiable; my data is mine, no compromise on leaks.
最小権の原則はセキュリティ分野の中核概念であり、ユーザー、プログラム、またはシステムはその作業を完了するのに必要な最小限の権限のみを付与されるべきであることを指しています。日常生活では、この原則は個人データ、仕事のファイル、通信内容などの機密情報が誰もが見えるべきではないことを強調しています。多くの人々が利便性のために権限を過度に許容的にしていますが、これは重大なリスクをもたらします。例えば、ファイルを共有する際に全員に読み書き権限を付与したり、ソーシャルメディアでプライバシーを公開に設定したりすることで、あなたの情報が誰もが知ることになります。このような行為は最小権の原則に違反し、情報が誤用されるリスクを高めます。
ソフトウェアとテクノロジーではこれが特に重要です。プライバシーに関わるアプリケーションやサービスの場合、エンドツーエンド暗号化を採用するツールを優先的に選択すべきです。エンドツーエンド暗号化とは、データが最初から暗号化されることを意味し、送受信者のみがコンテンツを見ることができます。サービスプロバイダーさえも実際のデータにアクセスできません。逆に、暗号化を提供しないテクノロジー製品は避けるべきです。なぜなら、あなたのデータは平文で保存または送信される可能性があり、漏洩のリスクが大幅に増加するからです。
具体的には、通信ツールを選択する際はエンドツーエンド暗号化を備えたアプリケーションを優先し、重要なファイルを保存する際は暗号化されたクラウドストレージを選択し、アカウント権限を設定する際は必要なアクセス権のみを付与します。
このようにすることで、自分のプライバシーを保護し、攻撃を受けたり情報が誤用される可能性を減らすことができます。