Pro-tip on fighting illegal immigration: - Make all immigration legal - Do not hand out welfare to any immigrants ever Problem solved. Fiscally positive. For more political hints, follow, like, boost, subscribe and zap. In this order 😉

I was always annoyed by the non-existence of a wallet that can simply pay any QR code. Someone wants Monero, Litecoin, Zcash and I don't have it. But I have a lightning wallet, which has instant finality, so we can use a swap service for payment. Instructions: go (on mobile, or desktop) to the page:

AnyPay: Pay any sane QR code

If you want, you can add to home screen and it will install as an app (PWA) on mobile. But for now use it from the browser, there will be changes, so you don't have to clear cache. Click Scan QR Code and scan the payment code (I haven't tried Ethereum tokens yet, BTC, LTC and XMR work, ZEC should too). If there's no amount in the QR code, the app will ask for it (in target currency), but the point is rather to pay QR codes on various terminals that already include the amount. After creating a trade (note: the amount must be around $10 or more, otherwise Trocador API can't find the relevant trade route, as most exchanges have minimum amounts that they can swap, so it won't work for one flat white) a payment option will appear in your installed wallet (you can also copy the invoice or display a QR code). The list of recent trades is saved (locally in your browser). The server doesn't log anything - although Trocador might log, see privacy policy. So the process: Scan (or paste) payment code, pay with lightning wallet, deal done. All support is handled by Trocador, in the trades list you'll find all info needed for the trade. The algorithm for searching the exchange - rule out all D level KYC exchanges first (per trocador definition, but currently they don't have any anyway), cut out anything more expensive than 101% of the cheapest and then pick the one that is the fastest to complete the trade. Don't be reckless, small amounts only, it might not work.

I only do work that sounds like fun at first before I realize it was work all along

Money isn't wealth—it's just a claim ticket for wealth. Like a clothespin isn't clothes. People living paycheck to paycheck immediately cash in their tickets, consuming scarce resources as fast as they earn them. They are the most wasteful, they spend as much as they produce, leaving no surplus for others. The wealthy? They're sitting on stacks of uncashed tickets. By NOT spending, they leave actual resources—food, fuel, materials—available for others to use. When they invest those tickets in productive assets, they're choosing to expand the economy's ability to create MORE resources instead of consuming what exists today. The billionaire with $10B in stock isn't hoarding 10 billion loaves of bread in a vault. They're holding IOUs while the bread stays on shelves for others. Saying "billionaires hoard resources" is like saying someone with a library card hoards all the books. The card gives access, but until they check out a book, it's available for everyone else. Economic flat earthism at its finest.

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What the governments of the west do really well is creating these microdosed dystopias. For most people most of the time, they don't give you trouble. Then you do something or say something and with still low probability, you get into total shit, courts, fines, jailtime, frozen wealth, cancellation, ... No one is immune, not even people who are politically aligned with them. This has the effect of silent censorship, background fear and preemptive compliance with even unwritten rules. If you can get two years jailtime for criticizing politicians using the wrong phrase, you'll just tone it down. Of course, it has side effects. One of them is that if you want to break the rules, it is often better to break them big and in a safer way. Another example: people think that SEPA or other bank payments just work. Most people never experienced account or transaction freezing. Yet the banks have reporting and freezing quotas, so sometimes an account is frozen when you send 250€ to a family member. And it can easily take weeks until you can use your bank account again. Most people never experienced it, so they think it just works. But then you start hearing about it and change your behavior. With CBDCs we'll get much more of it. The banks at least try to be pro customer, but with CBDCs, you can get in some catch 22 loop, unable to function in the society. Again, most people won't experience it, but when they do, it can literally mean losing your home, etc. I can continue - people think healthcare works, we have good doctors (yes, we do!), but they are unavailable for months. Solving this is easy - get in international insurance and fly to wherever healthcare works. But you need to get it before you need it. But as most people believe healthcare works until they really need it, most won't. So we're stuck with low probability high negative impact events. The problem is that both the probability and downside impact is getting worse. And when many low probability events can happen, the probability of one of them happening is very high. I don't have a solution for the whole society, but individually you can rely on state captured "services" as little as possible. The parallel services might cause small constant friction, but high impact events are usually handled much better. As for the society, the vector is clear. This is how I know western world is declining. As opposed to many who have identified the pattern, my prediction is not some brutal crash that will reset everything, but decades of enshitification. Enjoy the decline!

Tinkering, vibe coding and the long tail of open-source People often praise big open-source projects. The number of users is pareto-distributed, most projects have very few users, if at all. But do they make sense? Is it worth creating projects with few users? Should you release software that you write for yourself? I have written quite a lot of projects that have very few users if at all. But building in public and sharing my work has many benefits – for me and sometimes for others. Something that has been tried, even if not successful provides the dark data. And of course, the new trend of vibe coding enables many more people to contribute to the Free and Open Source code. Listen here:

Tinkering, vibe coding and the long tail of open-source – Hack Yourself!

(of course OptionPlus podcast is also on @Fountain and supports v4v)

The VIP sofas at @BTC Prague were mispriced, they are packed and there's much more demand. The price signal was miscalculated. The church of NgU sermon starts soon, let us pray and hope!

Omg omg the institutions are here!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quick, hide!

Gm to everyone and @Simon

The main point is that having a single identity can exclude you forever and requirement for the identity in this way is evil - not a norm today, but once states get involved, it is a digital dystopia. Social credit score linked to biometrics, etc. It is not particularly good at sibyl resistance (get a bunch of homeless people to verify), yet quite an overreach in building and empowering control structures (see above). For sibyl resistance, we have quite nice tools. For example (drumroll)... payments :). If you just pay for services, sibyl attacking is not a problem. When you pay by watching ads, you are in a complicated territory which ends up in using dystopian tech. Yes, the tech itself is nice zkp, the design is quite impressive actually. The problem is not how they are doing it, the problem is what they are doing is evil by itself. https://www.youtube.com/live/_Y872j8loqY?si=AYf7F8V42DWTdquy Talk starts at 4:58:00 of this video by DrNicka

My talk "going to the digital hills" will take us through the ancient 2000 year old strategy of being ungovernable with cool cypherpunk tech. At Cypherpunk meetup. I will talk about Reticulum mesh networking, but also how it relates to cypherpunk tech and cryptoanarchy strategy. And I promise I won't talk long. Cypherpunk meetup in Prague before BTCPrague as an official side event. And we have many more things than me speaking prepared for you. Tickets and more info here:

Cypherpunk meetup

Lákam vás na super akciu. V Tallinne som pokecal s Dušanom Plichtom, momentálne sa venuje organizácii pražského Biohacking summitu. Už len prvotný line-up spíkrov jasne hovorí, že tam musím byť. Ale ešte dôležitejšie je že tam spoznáte ďalších biohackerov zo stredoeurópskeho priestoru. 8. novembra, Praha.

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Just came from Tallinn, Estonia. A few things that are very interesting to me: - ex-soviet republic, less economically developed during communism than (Czecho)Slovakia, but now way more developed - digital transformation - nice that you can apply for the eID remotely, but otherwise the systems are not too ahead to Slovakia's e-government. - The accounting practices and principles for running a company are basically EU-standard, if you have run a company in EU, you know how it works (VAT, etc.) - On the other hand, no bullshit - no transaction taxes, micromanagement of social / health insurance, VAT rates changing year to year. Very stable, easy, no bullshit - file invoices, tax return, you're good to go, no one bothers you - no tax on reinvested income - basically, you only tax what you pay out as dividend on company level too. This promotes investment and development. The only other country in EU that has this is Poland, but with much stricter conditions (not for digital nomad projects). - attracts immigrants (both people and companies) from Finland and abroad - proximity, huge tax benefits, you can basically be ~22% income taxed, many athletes or other companies (Hololife center) moving from Finland to Estonia. Cheap and high quality access to EU markets - High quality - Tallinn has several Michelin-rated restaurants (Bratislava none), hipster specialty coffee shops (at least as good as Bratislava), sauna culture (although Bratislava is getting better) - people are friendly, they speak many languages (common for an Estonian to speak Estonian, Russian, Finnish and English - at the same time!) Downsides: - weather especially in winter (no sunlight) Meanwhile in Slovakia - entrepreneurs fed up, moving abroad, too much bullshit

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