My new Lilygo T-Beam Core Supreme is happily servicing #meshtastic to all of downtown Shanghai, China. I like the T-Echo for walking around, but this T-Beam setup is perfect for a router.

MeshMap - Meshtastic Node Map

A nearly live map of Meshtastic nodes seen by the official Meshtastic MQTT server

Kicking off Shanghai Blockchain Week by watching the Vitalik movie screening

Just set up my first #meshtastic node. I have it connected now to an externally mounted antenna. Sadly, or happily, I am the first node in #Shanghai #China. I can’t see anyone else yet. Still struggling to get the MQTT to show my #lora node up on the map after enabling uplink/downlink channels… not sure why. Maybe VPN, maybe a mistake.

Even if the U.S. government sells all their seized bitcoin, the daily interest on the national debt will exceed the one time proceeds. Nothing stops this train. Looking forward to some cheaper sats.

HSBC will be exploring zero knowledge proofs for identity, privacy, and scaling programmability in e-HKD on public ledgers - Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Linea. This may show Hong Kong the benefits in considering public ledgers and self custody in addition to custodial private ledgers. Perhaps one day the HKMA may consider backing HKD in part with Bitcoin. It is a journey. I’m particularly excited about the privacy token aspects. It will be a lively discussion.

Purchasing a Lilygo T-Echo 433 to try #Meshtastic in Shanghai. Wonder if I’ll see anyone else

Enjoying a trip to Pingshanhu, Zhangye

Setting up a BitBar was the highlight of my week. Best seed phrase storage I’ve ever found. Half kilo of Swiss engineered stainless steel. It was gifted to me by a friend I orange pilled, but I highly recommend it to anyone now.

BitBar

Swiss-Engineered Seed Phrase Backup Wallet - BitBar

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Made my pitch: AI BattleBots in China. I want to see the world’s best human driven battlebots compete against fully autonomous AI battlebots in China. This is ping-pong diplomacy for a social media era. If the CCP were to invite a niche TV show to compete, the western media would lose their minds.

Watching as IBM China R&D closes, and laid off all 1000+ people. I don’t think most people understand how significant this move is, and the signal it is sending to both China and the world. https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-close-china-rd-department-affecting-over-1000-jobs-yicai-reports-2024-08-26/

Spent the day learning about zero knowledge proofs to create privacy UTXO tokens managed on Ethereum.

Working on my pizza making game #foodstr

My OSL Hong Kong account has been mysteriously shut down after only 3 months of opening, with a single BTC trade. I can’t tell if it was because one of my verified wallets gave them concerns, or perhaps because I am American (maybe they changed their policy), or perhaps because they found I am a permanent resident in China? Or maybe they don’t like that I only did 10k HKD and found their service ludicrously expensive. Who knows. It’s quite disappointing to see the state of Hong Kong these days. I also was denied a bank account at ZA due to being American and the HKMA complaint resulted in “oh well.” State of the world.

I have been thoroughly impressed with the CoinJoin plugin inside @BTCPay Server. I’m not an expert on it. It has so many configurations possible to run your own coordinator, and I’m a bit lost on knowing the full risks and costs of using other coordinators. I’ve started small, and hope to keep learning as I go.

Keybase had a great way of associating proofs of identity (dns, social media, wallets, etc) to a private key. I wish there was something like that for Nostr clients like Damus so I could start to easily filter spam accounts impersonating other users. Centralization is not always bad, as long as I can toggle the service provider and retain my data without censorship.

Monsoon activities in Pune, India

Blockchain should bring power to the people #EthCC

#Bitcoin is too complicated @River

Bitcoin is too complicated… @River amazing work

Camping along the Payette River in Idaho.