The Netherlands just passed a 36% unrealized capital gains tax. We walked through the full worked example on the latest Bitcoin Brief and the numbers are staggering. You start with 500 shares worth 50,000 euros. They double to 100,000. You owe 16,700 in tax on gains you never took. The market drops. You are forced to sell. You end up 6,700 euros below where you started and you have permanently lost 28% of your holdings. If one EU country does it, the rest will follow. Full episode:

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This week's Freedom Tech Friday was a good one. @npub1vxp3...ffjm joined the show to walk us through the PhoenixD Dashboard -- contacts, recurring payments, analytics, Tor, multiple themes -- all self-hosted, all open source. But the real gold was his take on Lightning itself. A developer who's tried everything from running his own channels in 2018 to building on top of PhoenixD, being brutally honest about why Lightning centralizes by design and what we actually need going forward. If you care about self-custody Lightning or just want to see one of the cleanest Bitcoin UIs around, this one's worth your time.

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New Bitcoin Brief just dropped. This one hit different. We walked through the Netherlands new 36% unrealized capital gains tax step by step, and the maths is genuinely horrifying. Someone who never sold a single share ends up below their starting value after being forced to sell to pay the tax bill. If you are holding Bitcoin in Europe, you need to hear this. Also covered: hacktivists exposing Discord age verification surveillance software on a US government server (Discord has since dropped the provider), Lightning Network crossing $1B in monthly volume, a Passport Prime shipping update, and a stack of wallet releases including a promising new one called Ibis. Listen here: https://fountain.fm/episode/lIkdKKe0fJoSD4yb00k3 @MaxUM

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Max Tannahill weighs in on BIP47 vs Silent Payments last week on #FREEDOMTECHFRIDAY Full episode:

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This week on Freedom Tech Friday we've got a guest — Miguel Medeiros, a Brazilian Bitcoin developer and creator of the Phoenixd dashboard. If you're not familiar with Phoenixd, it's ACINQ's server-side Lightning node. Same software as Phoenix wallet, but designed to run on your own hardware with an HTTP API. Self-custodial, zero config, automated liquidity. Miguel built a full web dashboard on top of it: contacts, recurring payments, BOLT12 support, analytics, remote access via Tor or Tailscale. There's even a native desktop app now. We'll be LIVE at 9AM EST / 2PM UK on the UGMF feed. Drop your questions or comments for Miguel below. @MaxUM @Seth For Privacy @Ungovernable Misfits #FREEDOMTECHFRIDAY

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Max Tannahill explains how he used BIP 47 PayNyms for payroll and merchant payments when running Mimushi. No fresh address requests, no address reuse, and no VPS operator seeing your payment addresses. BTC Pay Server puts addresses on a server you might not control. BIP 47 keeps the resolution between sender and receiver only. For privacy-conscious buyers, it meant they could pay with a pseudonym and a PayNym, with nothing else visible. Full episode:

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Freedom Tech Friday #30 is live on the Ungovernable Misfits feed. This week, @jordan joins @MaxUM and Max Tannahill for a full deep dive into BIP 47, PayNyms, and Auth 47. Jordan has built a brand new BIP 47 & PayNyms Hub - a single destination for documentation, interactive tools, Auth 47 demos, a PayNym explorer, and a guest book you can sign with your wallet. He's also been working on adding PayNym support to @Bluewallet. Max Tannahill covers real-world use cases (payroll, merchant payments, mining payouts), explains why BIP 47 is more like PGP than people think, and gives an honest comparison of BIP 47 vs Silent Payments. They also touch on the state of multisig, why FROST threshold signing is promising, and why scattered documentation is holding back adoption. Listen/Watch here:

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