#hola

#HOLA amigos I am not yet a 100% Spanish speaker, but this initiative launched by @La Crypta is something that can soon positively change the situation. The idea of having nostr in Spanish needs to be realized. It is not enough to just have English as lingua franca, Spanish speakers need to express themselves in their language to eliminate existing barriers. Now it is Spanish's turn, "poco a poco" others will come. The world is diverse, and other languages will follow, perhaps eventually mine will come too. But for now, it is Spanish's turn. #HOLA! 🚀

One of the best places a bitcoiner can reach in Buenos Aires - LaCrypta in Belgrano. @La Crypta

A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions against the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash were unlawful, overturning a lower court ruling. #Privacy

Tornado Cash Sanctions Overturned by U.S. Appeals Court

The decision answers the controversial debate over whether the crypto-mixing service, which anonymizes transactions, can be banned for its use by c...

Hans-Hermann Hoppe‘s remarks on Javier Milei, an excerpt from the 18th Annual (2024) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, finally someone who speaks my language! That’s exactly, and I mean EXACTLY, what I think too about Milei. The Argentinians, like most of Milei's fans, are blind and can’t see the situation clearly. Hans-Hermann Hoppe calls things by their name! I really like the last part too, when he talks about Milei's geopolitical position, everything is perfectly analyzed and expressed. Don't fall in love with politicians, they remain what they are. They are not an extension of you and never will be. Their primary focus is on power and control, and their agenda will never fully align with yours. #Freedom #Argentina

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

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The text from "Cypherpunk's Manifesto" compared to "Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse," where EU bureaucrats are trying to control our private messages under the guise of protecting us... The difference between the two writings is the difference between freedom and tyranny, which comes disguised as the need to protect our children from the dangers they face. #Freedom

I just deactivated my #Twitter account. I gave up on over 2500 users for #nostr, without announcements or warnings. No strings attached. Wish me luck. 🤗

Trilema No platforms! Saturday, 17 August, Year 11 d.Tr. | Author: Mircea Popescu 2019 I. What are platforms ? A platform is a shitty website providing shitty services for the poor and the dumb. II. Why do platforms exist ? Platforms are born when a scammer runs into a herd of idiots, so there's always two parts to that question. On the idiots' end, platforms exist because they figure their only hope to relevancy is ganging together. Because they full know that on their own power they're scarcely worth the trouble of individual names, the "people" that aren't actually people will always be found in herds, wherein they might almost pass muster, from a distance and if superficially examined. On the scammer's end, platforms exist because the scammer figures he can extract value thereby. This universally reduces to the risibly dysfunctionali process known as "UGC", on occasion augmented by lulzy buck passings. III. Why don't you use platforms ? Do you really have to ask ? Of course I use them, I just don't use them straight. I don't use them like they want to be used, I don't "use" them in the sense sheep "use" shears. I don't let them use me then turn around and try to pretend I use them -- that's what you do. After all, I'm not "a really nice guy"ii with no sense of humour. Are you ? IV. Why this article then ? Because noob girlies keep getting excited at finding "me" on whatever platform they frequent. It should be obvious by now, of course, but here it is plain and simple and writ large : no, it's not me. Of course it isn't. It's just some dork wanna-be me-ing all over himself. Careful you don't get hurt by his pretense, like has happened before. ——— I. Recall when MySpace sold for a trillion ? How about when Tumblr was worth 1.1 bn ? Or when slashdot sold on the open market for about the same coupla million ? There is no money in platforms ; nor ever will there be. Bathing in "consensus" as to the contrary is just another facet of being very fucking stupid. [↩] II. The in-universe etnonym for unmitigable idiocy. [↩]

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First time when I bought Bitcoin, I did it through Virwox. I bought Second Life Linden Dollars with PayPal, and then I used those to buy Bitcoin. And I didn't buy it to hold it, I was funding a faucet site. Imagine how idiot I was! 😂 🤷‍♂️ Yeah, and I was one of those people who gifted those who came to the site. They hoped to get Bitcoin, while I was just hoping to get views on my ads. It took me over a year to understand what #Bitcoin really is and to buy it for myself through LocalBitcoins website.