Keonne Rodriguez's seventh letter from the inside covers what he calls the worst thirty days of his life, in transit between facilities. As soon as the guards leave, inmates spray rat poison or cockroach spray onto paper, light it and inhale the fumes. Then the fentanyl hunch, no control over their body for a few minutes. After three searches, somehow they got the poison and a lighter in, and that's what they escape to. The audio version is coming to the feed. Rick's Free Samourai prize draw is running now too.

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Did Bitcoin Just Go Dark?

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The line from Blockstream's own post-mortem that matters: the 11-of-15 multisig worked exactly as designed. The failure was in the software that decides whether a transaction is valid. When you design these systems you focus on the main shield. Eleven signers, very unlikely to collude, so it should be safe. Meanwhile there's a kink in the armour somewhere else that makes all of it irrelevant.

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Did Bitcoin Just Go Dark?

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Write 12 next to 3. Write 1 next to 23. Both read 123. That is bug B in Blockstream's Liquid post-mortem. Cache entries were built by joining fields together without recording how long each one was, so two different range proofs could produce the same entry. It was introduced by the August patch for bug A, a flaw dating back to 2018. The attacker used it to mint about 4,000 L-BTC backed by nothing and pegged out 3,996 of them.

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Did Bitcoin Just Go Dark?

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Bitcoin has a very bad privacy problem. There are ways around it with swaps and Lightning, but the base layer is an open ledger. We also know changing Bitcoin at the protocol level is nigh on impossible these days, and that isn't always a bad thing. Shielded Bitcoin is interesting because in theory it could be live and opt in on Bitcoin as it is. The normal wallet experience, with Zcash-level privacy on top for whoever wants it. Still holes in it. Worth watching.

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Did Bitcoin Just Go Dark?

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Gun to each of your heads. Which three signing devices are you picking for a 2 of 3 today? Max opens with "three cold cards, only the old firmware though" and gets it out of his system, then answers properly: SeedSigner and two Passports. His reason for the short list is worth more than the list. "I've not tested any other bits out, and I only wanna say what I'm comfortable with using myself." Q goes Passport Prime, a Trezor Safe 7 and a Blockstream Jade Plus, with the same caveat on the two he has not handled in person. The part that actually matters is the same from both. Sparrow as the coordinator, and never all three from one manufacturer. @QnA @Foundation @SeedSigner

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Answering your questions

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"Honestly, I've just been so bored with Bitcoin and crypto for, like, a year now. Not building on it. I freaking love Cake Wallet and all the things we're getting to do. But actually engaging with and learning about the space, it's boring." Q had just said the local AI scene feels like 2017 Bitcoin to him. Everyone out of the woodwork, tokens per second doubling, the excitement back. Seth's answer was "oh my god, yes", followed by an admission most people in his position would keep to themselves. Max,s pushback: the last eight or ten weeks have not been boring. Maybe not exciting in the right ways, but not boring. @Seth For Privacy @QnA @npub1j9qy...s2yg

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Answering your questions

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The actual prep that matters Lasting local friendships. People you can count on — and who can count on you. Small town > big city. Food and energy sovereignty @Jon

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RESILIENCE IS A VERB

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March 1967, Charles Manson walks out of prison. August 1969, the Tate LaBianca murders. In between: an illiterate two bit criminal with no training in pharmacology, psychology or persuasion builds a cult that will kill on command, with unlimited LSD, guns and a parole officer who drops every other parolee to look after him. Police come onto the ranch, get told there are guns trained on them, and let him go. Nobody claims they can prove a link but the odds of all of it being coincidence have better entropy than a ColdCard.

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MK Ungovernable | What Do You Reckon?

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The Clarity Act failed 49-50 on 15 September, eleven votes short of the sixty needed to end debate. Lummis had already warned that failure leaves no realistic chance this decade. Max is not mourning it, and the argument is worth hearing in full. Whatever passes, whatever they say, if they want to put someone in prison they'll find a way. A new act, a new emergency, or they plant evidence. Two days after the vote the CFTC sent its own crypto market rulemaking to the White House for review. It was sitting ready and waiting. This stuff is never going to be accepted by the powers that be, because it gives the individual more freedom. All of it is theater.

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Breach Season Continues

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"They're not gonna do crypto, it seems, at all. Not Bitcoin, not Monero, nothing. I don't understand how they could fumble that." Signal is looking at replacing the phone number requirement with a one time payment of around five dollars. Seth's point is that the people most likely to want an account with no phone number attached are the exact people who will not hand over a card for it. Even if Signal cannot link the payment, the card company still knows. Q's read is that it is still a step forward. Signal knows you paid them, but not which account is yours, and they cannot see your messages either. Not perfect. Better than a phone number. Both of them land in the same place. Just take Lightning. It is low hanging fruit. @Seth For Privacy

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Answering your questions

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Right about covid. Wrong about how to discus it. People stopped listening. Brother in law is on medication for the rest of his life. Being right is not the same as being heard. "I could have done and should have done a better job of explaining my case, and I didn't." Make the next thing you say the thing they can hear.

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MK Ungovernable | What Do You Reckon?

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"You get something you can run twenty four seven and not have to care about limits, not a five hour limit." The benefit of local AI that never shows up in a benchmark. "You don't have to do this stupid bursty work where you do a little burst work, you hit your five hour limit in one hour, and then you have to wait because everything that you're doing depends on that." Seth's point is that the shift is as much habit as hardware. Stop working in bursts. Leave it running while you sleep. @Seth For Privacy

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Is AI Freedom Tech? Part II

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The part of covid that broke something permanently was not the fear. It was being told things that made no sense and watching people you respect accept them anyway. Wear it to your seat, take it off to eat. A piece of cloth will do it, you don't need a proper mask. There was no logic there. There was no sense outside control. Max is honest about what it left him with. He now treats most things as a threat until he can verify they are not. It is a decent stance and it is a miserable way to live.

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MK Ungovernable | What Do You Reckon?

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Operation Midnight Climax was a real CIA sub-project, run out of safe houses in New York and San Francisco. George Hunter White had prostitutes bring men up to the apartment and dose them with LSD without telling them. He sat in the next room behind a two way mirror and watched. He had a portable toilet installed in that room so he would not have to get up and stop drinking. That is not the speculative part of the episode. That is the documented part.

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MK Ungovernable | What Do You Reckon?

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1954. Lackland Air Force Base. A girl is taken from a car and killed. An airman named Jimmy Shaver is found nearby, dazed and covered in blood, insisting he remembers nothing. Then Louis Jolyon West, a psychiatrist tied to MK Ultra, is left alone with him in his cell. Shaver comes out with a full confession and a motive nobody ever corroborated. As soon as he is inside, he goes back to saying he did not do it, and he says that until the day he is executed. It is not "tell me what you remember". It is inserting memories.

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MK Ungovernable | What Do You Reckon?

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Swiss Bitcoin Pay took its servers offline on 14 September after a malicious user likely got into its internal systems. Customer email addresses, Bitcoin addresses, IBANs, transaction histories and hashed passwords may all have been accessed. As of today the servers are still down with no restoration date. The non-custodial design did its job. Merchant funds settle straight to user wallets, so nothing was there to steal. Every bit of the damage here is privacy damage. Which is the whole point. If you can't look after your customer's data, don't have it in the first place. KYC is the dragon that man must slay.

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Breach Season Continues

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The oldest and most effective form of mind control was never a drug or a machine. It was the priest class. Own the calendar. Own the rituals. Decide what the omens mean and which stories get told about how the world began. Once people accept that only you can speak for the gods, you never need to hold the sword. They police themselves on your behalf. Every later version is a variation on that architecture. The priests just put on a lab coat and got a security clearance.

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MK Ungovernable | What Do You Reckon?

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The line that stuck: “I don’t want to find myself without any chairs when the music stops.” That’s the whole game. @Jon

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RESILIENCE IS A VERB

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The revised Clarity Act text landed on 10 September with the 126 changes the Democrats asked for. The one that matters here: the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, the part that stops non-custodial software developers being treated as money transmitters, now only covers civil enforcement. The language protecting developers from criminal prosecution for unlicensed money transmission was removed after pressure from prosecutors. That is one of the charges brought against the Samourai developers. So writing non-custodial software should be shielded from regulators, but not from a criminal case. The cloture vote needs 60. Republicans hold 53. Prediction markets had it around 25 percent.

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KYC: KILL YOUR CUSTOMER

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The Revolut leak is not a random dump, and the attackers were happy to explain why. A hacked email account on a real Italian government domain, a fake law enforcement request, and Revolut's Lithuanian bank handed over identity documents, KYC selfies, bank statements and transaction histories for at least 680 customers. Then they ran blockchain analysis and picked the accounts with significant crypto holdings. 6,000 XMR demanded, roughly three million dollars, inside twenty four hours. The deadline passed on 17 September and samples are already circulating on Telegram. You cannot warn anybody, because nobody gets told they are on the list.

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Breach Season Continues

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB Q: short weekend t...