We seal envelopes not because the letter contains a conspiracy, but because the contents belong exclusively to the sender and the receiver.
The "nothing to hide" argument is pure corporate/state propaganda. Privacy isn't about hiding a crime; it's about deciding who gets access to your life. It’s a boundary of power, not a shield for guilt.
Quand j'étais enfant, on m'expliquait que l'URSS et l'Allemagne de l'Est étaient totalitaires parce que l'État espionnait tous les messages privés.
Il y avait des films sur la Stasi, sur l'absence de vie privée et d'état de droit.
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@AureaLibe@UnruggableGG https://t.co/Zewvqfkw6V will work well for 2-4 person video chat. Lightning for spam friction in process of being added
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It’s over. I’m quitting design.
A client of mine just created a logo with Fable 5, and the result left me speechless.
It understood the brand story, values, audience, strategy, and turned all of it into a smart, minimal symbol. A genuinely brilliant concept. The kind of idea that captures everything at once. Something I honestly don’t think I would have come up with myself.
And it didn’t just nail the idea. It executed the design pixel-perfectly.
So I raise the white flag.
My skepticism about AI’s ability to do great design is officially gone.
There, I said it:
AI beat me at design.
Now that AI finally took my job, I can peacefully quit and dedicate my life to studying the only thing it may never achieve: human consciousness and the pathways to God.
Good luck everyone.
David Bailey's post about BIP-110 contains a notable absence. The word "OP_RETURN" does not appear once. Neither does the banning of a contributor who named a conflict of interest on the thread, nor the muting of a 15-year Core contributor from the same PR. The community pushback he labels an "attack" was a response to that Core decision.
I'm not specifically a Knots advocate (though I support alternatives generally) and I've been skeptical of BIP-110's activation path. But I did run the data. Across 912,723 blocks and 1.2 billion transactions, BIP-110 is well-targeted, with 81.1% of blocked transactions classifying as spam. In the post-inscription era, transactions BIP-110 would block account for 4.93% of all block weight, versus 0.29% before inscriptions began, a 17x intensification in spam.
Bailey's closing line is worth reading twice: "economic weight shapes social consensus and Bitcoin governance isn't determined by plebs." He is stating plainly that capital determines protocol outcomes. He then proposes that industry needs to become more formally engaged with BIPs going forward. The industry already was engaged, on the OP_RETURN policy change, over documented opposition and with clear commercial stakes. He is simply proposing to institutionalize the mechanism that produced the problem.
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You can open TOR browser go to our .onion address, get your random account number and pay with Monero.
We simply do not want to know anything about you.
The KIDS Act passed the House 267-117.
It says it does not require age verification.
Then it creates compliance pressure that pushes platforms toward age verification gates anyway.
Parents should parent.
Government should stay out of building identity rails.
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I fell in love with Bitcoin when I read the white paper, because it gave the plebeians power to fight back. Against a system that became so centralized over time, that it was built to work against them. Living in a third world country and watching geopolitics, understanding how the financial system works, it gave me hope.
Recently I’ve felt a sense of disassociation, a disappointment if you may, by whom I thought had the same ideals as I imagined bitcoiners to have.
BIP-110 is a signal of hope, the plebs are revolting, and it does not matter how much money or power you have, we decide the future of the timechain and we have history on our side.
BIP-110 is not a change, it is the way Bitcoin always worked.
Core v30 removed the long-standing 83-byte OP_RETURN limit.
BIP-110 restores this limit.
BIP-110 is not the change, it is the norm.
The thing about this development is that not much has really changed.
What they've done is taken all manner of signals that are hanging around and pieced them all together.
A network built to see cars just got upgraded to recognise the people inside them. Not good.
12/12
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Apple is about to kill Sparrow Wallet on macOS. The deadline is June 30.
Since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on Apple's App Store. Users have lost their savings, in some cases their life savings, to these impersonators. Craig Raw, Sparrow's developer, holds the registered US trademarks for both the name and logo. He's been publicly warning Apple about the scam apps since early 2024. They keep showing up.
Craig created a placeholder app, never published, to warn users that Sparrow is desktop-only and the App Store copycats aren't real. Apple's response? They flagged his developer account for "dishonest activity" and scheduled it for termination.
The developer fighting scammers got flagged. The scammers who stole life savings kept operating on Apple's platform.
If Apple follows through, every new Sparrow install on macOS fails after June 30. macOS development ends entirely.
This matters because Sparrow is the best desktop Bitcoin wallet available, full stop. Multisig. Coin control. Hardware wallet integration. Tor support. UTXO management that most wallets don't even attempt. Free. Open source. Built by one developer who cares more about his users than his revenue.
And one automated decision by a trillion-dollar company could end it on an entire operating system.
This is why platform gatekeeping is a systemic risk for freedom tech. If your tools need a gatekeeper's blessing to exist, they aren't freedom tools. We have to build on open platforms.
Download Sparrow now from https://t.co/IXV1QMNKx6 before the deadline. And repost Craig's announcement to help get Apple's attention before it's too late.
Unless @Apple's decision to terminate @craigraw's Apple Developer account is reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow will fail, and development on macOS will end. If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport
@TFTC21 Depending on location, they may also be outside the jurisdiction of any particular country, and far away from crowds that are angry about AI data centers. I wonder if those two things were also part of the design.
I’m not employed by anyone.
I have no sponsors.
I’m not invested in anything else than BTC.
I don’t give a fuck about being shunned by influencers and talking heads.
I just want Bitcoin to succeed in separating money and state.
That’s why I support BIP-110
Today is the official release day for Android 17. We've already fully ported GrapheneOS to Android 17 and are in the process of pushing the code to our public repositories. We're building a final official release based on Android 16 QPR2 today and we'll do an initial Android 17 release tomorrow.
We've already tested the Android 17 port of GrapheneOS on the Pixel 6a, 7, 7a, 8, 10a, 10 and 10 Pro Fold. It will be possible for people to start building and testing it themselves later today once we finish pushing the code. We'll start the process of public testing for official releases tomorrow.