Encrypted agorism is built to win the war against the state: one transaction at a time. Invisibility is a superpower.

For cypherpunks who love meeting IRL: thanks to the magic of social media & NOSTR, I just found this absolute gem in my replies: right in the city center of Coimbra, Portugal, there’s a spot whose owner is our cypherpunk brother: "we organize meetups, grills and larger events at zero costs for anyone visiting or wanting to stay there for a while" 🧡 cc MoneroKon ( @OrangeFren.com ), MoneroTopia ( @MoneroTalk ) in case you’re looking for venues for this or next year ;) View quoted note →

🕊️ Monero Sender │ │ 🌐───────── │ 🤡 Politicians 🖕 🏦 Banks 🖕 👁️ Corporations 🖕 🌐───────── │ │ │ 🕊️ Monero Receiver

Our Monero Agorists family is growing, we're spreading across maps & platforms: check out this great step-by-step guide (in Spanish! on Substack!!) with nice screenshots: how to get started on XmrBazaar and exchange goods/services outside legacy channels:

Economía paralela: cómo vender algo en XmrBazaar

Un recorrido paso a paso por ésta plataforma que permite comerciar de forma privada y sin intermediarios

Looks like spy-node runners got upset: MRL's Rucknium's domains (moneronet.info & moneroconsensus.info) got suspended by the registrar via Njalla (backup site: xmrnetscan.redteam.cash). https://xcancel.com/MoneroResearchL/status/2029687900539908411 I was planning to use Njalla myself, but this reminded me why I didn't: found this nice comparison

Crippled Media

Putting Privacy Focused Free Speech VPS Providers To The Test.

Which VPS provider is best for controversial content? I compare Privex, NiceVPS, BuyVM, Njalla, Flokinet, OrangeWebsite and 1984 Hosting to find out.

^^That was a big reason why I went with NiceVPS.net and @Mynymbox - Privacy friendly hosting solutions instead.

It is safe* only while it is a secret. * from kidnappings & ransomware * from searches & seizures * from audits & court orders

The End of Paralelní Polis: After a decade as a symbol of freedom, hacking and privacy tech (home to multiple MoneroKons and cypherpunk gatherings), the era of Paralelní Polis comes to an end due to financial pressures and the property owner's decision.💔 https://kryptomagazin.cz/en/paralelni-polis-end-forever-2026

rbrunner7 made a systematic review of Monero wallet apps to see whether they support Polyseed, and if so, to what degree, with special attention to encrypted Polyseeds.

GitHub

Seed encryption and plausible deniability · Issue #13 · tevador/polyseed

The seed encryption feature currently sets a bit flag in the mnemonic phrase that marks the phrase as being encrypted. This is done for UX reasons ...

Polyseed support (including encryption and seed offsets) falls into these groups: A) No Polyseed support at all. Example: official Monero GUI wallet B) Basic Polyseed support only, without encryption or seed offsets. Example: Skylight Wallet 1.0.8 C) Polyseed + seed offsets, but no encryption. Example: Feather Wallet D) Full support (Polyseed + seed offsets + encryption). Sole example so far: Cake Wallet Note: Monero’s legacy word list has 1,626 words. The new Polyseed uses the BIP-39 word list (2048 words) instead. I wrote about seed words here:

Monero vs. Bitcoin BIP 39 Seed Words

Friday Fun Facts for Monero Fans: An Answer to the XMRChat Question

💰 Use UNTRACEABLE CASH - physical or digital 🌱 Engage in the P2P parallel/circular ECONOMY 🚀 Become SOVEREIGN 🌐 DECENTRALIZE power 🕊️ Make WAR unaffordable

imo, "The first free national pager" was pinprick cipher in UK after 1840 ))) "A dot or pinprick concealment cipher is a common classical encryption method in which dot or pinprick is placed above or below certain letters in a piece of writing... ...Victorians used the pinprick trick too, not for spies but to dodge high postage fees (rates varied but often around a shilling per hundred miles or so for a letter before the 1840 Penny Post reforms). Newspapers mailed free, so they’d pinprick messages on the front page and send those instead of letters." I wrote abt it here:

Steganography 101: Hiding Wallet Seeds in Plain Sight

0.25 XMR Hidden Inside: An Improv Puzzle Response to an XMRChat Query on Watchman Privacy's Greeting Card Method

Obtainium + AppVerifier on GrapheneOS Your privacy will thank you for it 😊 Read this thread 👇 View quoted note →

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy (p. 77)

Taxes are just like weeds: you don't just 'cut' them - they grow back bigger. You have to ELIMINATE them!

Growth is not always visible

TIL: One can be shadowbanned on Nostr. Sad. View quoted note →

When I'm not sure what to read, I read a book that has been banned by some government(s) (like the ones listed here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments or similar). But digital / online books can easily be altered (I actually caught *at least* one instance and wrote about it here: aillia.substack.com/p/tolstoys-quote-censored-from-translation). So paper books matter: once printed, they're an immutable, uncensorable ledger! View quoted note →

I know I’m often seen as some Monero shill, but I’m not even really a 'crypto' person per se (unless by 'crypto' you mean cryptography :)). I find most of today’s 'crypto'… not my thing at all, outside of the OG ideas about escaping state control and separating money from the state. So, all you esteemed crypto projects, please don’t waste your precious, limited time in my DMs or under my posts as long as you’re trying to sit in two chairs with one butt, it’s not even about 'better tech.' I’ll join and fight alongside you as soon as the state cares enough to delist you/put an IRS bounty on your head/(try to) arrest your devs. And I sincerely, without sarcasm, wish you luck ♡

If you aim to disrupt the status quo, build pseudonymously, be like Satoshi. It’s lonelier, harder, and lacks podcast fame, but it’s your only chance to finish your work without imaginary entities wasting your limited lifetime on real struggles. Support those who tried openly🙏🧵 https://xcancel.com/lunarpunksquad/status/1892965716803940447