The first time the US government spoke to the Samourai devs was through the scope of a rifle. Max on what that tells you: this was never about justice or danger. It's a message to anyone who builds tools that sidestep their control. Drown them in lawyers and data, put them in a cage, right or wrong.

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A Lottery to Free Samourai | The Confab 31: Rick Messitt

In this Confab, Max sat down with Rick (@rmessitt on Twitter) to talk about the fight for financial privacy, why the Samourai case matters, and how...

All the fiat value in the world doesn't help when someone turns up at your door and breaks your kneecaps. Max: "You'd be much better off having a tenth of that amount, and no one's turning up at your door."

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A Lottery to Free Samourai | The Confab 31: Rick Messitt

In this Confab, Max sat down with Rick (@rmessitt on Twitter) to talk about the fight for financial privacy, why the Samourai case matters, and how...

People pick collaborative custody so they don't have a single point of failure. Rick Messitt surveyed thousands of them. If the provider vanished tomorrow, only about half said they could recover. Then he asked whether they'd secured their wallet config file. About 80% picked the answer "what the fuck is that?" Without it you can't rebuild the wallet anywhere else.

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A Lottery to Free Samourai | The Confab 31: Rick Messitt

In this Confab, Max sat down with Rick (@rmessitt on Twitter) to talk about the fight for financial privacy, why the Samourai case matters, and how...

Pavol Lupták doesn't sell Bitcoin to live. He posts it as collateral on DeFi and borrows stablecoins at around 1%. No sale, no tax event, no income. If a bank asks where the money comes from, he has his AI agent turn the loan contract into a document he can hand over. "All rich people in the world, they basically live from the loans. You can do it just now, just thanks to DeFi." @Wilder

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Flag Theory with Pavol Lupták

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we

Pavol Lupták's advice for EU and UK citizens who can't up and leave: give up your residency. As a citizen you can still live in your own country without one. In Slovakia, conscription is tied to permanent residency, so deregistering ends that duty too. Mandatory health and social insurance hang off residency as well. Pair that with no official income and, in his setup, those obligations go away. @Wilder

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Flag Theory with Pavol Lupták

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we

Ten years of holding. A first class father and son trip to El Salvador to finally enjoy some of it. Last night of the conference, back at the Airbnb, his dad opens the laptop. "I think I've been hacked. The Bitcoin's gone." Rick Messitt on the adrenaline, the bargaining, and the mempool.space search that confirmed it.

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A Lottery to Free Samourai | The Confab 31: Rick Messitt

In this Confab, Max sat down with Rick (@rmessitt on Twitter) to talk about the fight for financial privacy, why the Samourai case matters, and how...

Rick Messitt and his dad put their seed in a KeePass file and backed it up to the cloud. The passwords on the cloud account and the KeePass file were both laughably low entropy. Their Mt. Gox KYC data had leaked, so the attacker likely knew who they were, where they lived and roughly what they held. Rick reckons it took fifteen minutes to get in. 25 BTC, gone.

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A Lottery to Free Samourai | The Confab 31: Rick Messitt

In this Confab, Max sat down with Rick (@rmessitt on Twitter) to talk about the fight for financial privacy, why the Samourai case matters, and how...

Keonne Rodriguez was facing trial, millions of dollars in legal debt, and a state doing everything it could to bury him. A Bitcoiner he'd never met got drained by a fake podcast invite. Rick Messitt messaged Keonne to ask if he knew anyone who could help. Sixteen minutes later Keonne replied with a full dossier tracing the stolen funds across the chain. No questions asked.

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A Lottery to Free Samourai | The Confab 31: Rick Messitt

In this Confab, Max sat down with Rick (@rmessitt on Twitter) to talk about the fight for financial privacy, why the Samourai case matters, and how...

SF's end goal for Node Runners Radio is real radio waves, as well as internet stream. If a solar storm ever takes out the electronics we rely on, he points out that a receiver and a sender come down to copper wire, an antenna and a speaker. A block is about four megabytes every ten minutes on average. "It will be possible to silently append new blocks as they come in and have that transmit next to the music." @Le Pleb Royale - SF

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Pirate Radio with SF

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we

11PM. Keonne asks his cellmate what time they turn the lights off. They don't. He covers his head with a sheet that smells of motor oil and sawdust, lies with half his body on bare metal, and asks himself if a year off his sentence was worth leaving Morgantown. All he wants is to call his wife, Lauren.

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Letter #7: Notes From The Inside

In these episodes, we read Keonne’s recent letters written from prison. The aim in sharing this is simple: amplify Keonne’s story, support him ...

An AI-assisted search across local news in multiple languages just doubled Jameson Lopp's wrench attack archive. It now passes 700 recorded physical attacks on Bitcoin and crypto holders. France alone has 77 this year. Stay pseudonymous. Avoid KYC. A leaked database with your home address is a target on your front door.

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More Compromised Hardware!?

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB bitcoiner.guide do...

Chainalysis found a scam operator moved around 60 BTC of victims' money onto Ledger devices in September. Those devices came through a reseller. They got swept up in the implant drain along with everyone else. Small silver lining. But if you bought a Ledger through a reseller, anywhere, migrate your funds.

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More Compromised Hardware!?

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB bitcoiner.guide do...

Hardware hacker found two Trezors with the main chip replaced. Neither generated a random recovery phrase. Each picked one of about a dozen the attacker already knew, and one had a micro SD card soldered inside holding genuine firmware to pass the authenticity check. Both came from unauthorised sellers. One was on Facebook Marketplace.

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More Compromised Hardware!?

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB bitcoiner.guide do...

How to buy a hardware wallet without getting done: Buy directly from the manufacturer. Pay in sats on Lightning. Give as little detail as you can, ship it somewhere that isn't your home, or buy it in person at a conference stand. And as @MaxUM puts it, don't go on eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Grindr, wherever you're spending your time.

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More Compromised Hardware!?

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB bitcoiner.guide do...

Citizen Lab just published the first public technical confirmation that mercenary spyware can reach a phone through targeted ads alone. No click needed. Attacker scripts turned up in 75,000 apps and 128,000 websites. The ad network is now an attack service. You only need to be targetable. Block ads and trackers, and think hard about what secrets live on your phone.

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More Compromised Hardware!?

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB bitcoiner.guide do...

Bank of America wilfully broke the Bank Secrecy Act. it pays a fine its shareholders will cover, and nobody who runs it is charged. Two developers who wrote privacy software are serving five and four years. The level of double speak here is staggering.

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More Compromised Hardware!?

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB bitcoiner.guide do...

The first Node Runners Radio jukebox bot let people hold sats in Telegram and sponsor each other's song requests with a /DJ command. SF moved away from it. "Within the increasingly stringent rules of the European machine, it's hard for anything that transmits and holds value." Every request now comes from your own Lightning wallet, and guest DJs set their own Lightning address. @Le Pleb Royale - SF @Noderunners Radio

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Pirate Radio with SF

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we

If your hardware wallet can’t do a kick flip. NGMI.

11PM. Keonne asks his cellmate what time they turn the lights off. They don't. He covers his head with a sheet that smells of motor oil and sawdust, lies with half his body on bare metal, and asks himself if a year off his sentence was worth leaving Morgantown. All he wants is to call his wife, Lauren.

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Letter #7: Notes From The Inside

In these episodes, we read Keonne’s recent letters written from prison. The aim in sharing this is simple: amplify Keonne’s story, support him ...

Q paid for a song request live on the show, and SF walked through where the sats went. "A 100% of the 210 sats paid will go straight to Wavlake, and they will give 90% to the original artist." The radio gets a 5% kickback. Library tracks cost 21 sats, priced up for longer tracks, purely as an anti-spam measure. @QnA @Noderunners Radio

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Pirate Radio with SF

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we