"Researchers from RUB found that anyone who controls WhatsApp/ Signal servers can covertly add new members to any private group, allowing them to spy on group conversations, even without the permission of the administrator." https://t.co/hqV2QfE4JQ
Bitcoin is a giant machine to end the warfare welfare state, to bring in a new era of global prosperity, to bank billions of un-banked, to start an unprecedented e-commerce boom, to end wasteful consumerism, shrink the size of the state, encourage savings, add jobs. And more... https://t.co/h2Q8VCgujn
This is very misguided. Investing in Bitcoin is literally “use” Bitcoin.
The whole point of bitcoin is to opt out of the legacy financial system and store value in a deflationary asset. https://t.co/mbhIggOykW
#Bitcoin: 1. Outside of state. Gives you self-sovereignty. 2. Deflationary: Issuance shrinks 50% every 4 yrs. (purchasing power goes up) 3. You can move it around freely. Nobody can stop/censor you. 4. As it grows, it decapitalizes institutional rot that corrupts all governments.
A VPN is a one-hop, single point of failure. Your VPN provider can see all of your activity. So can NSA. Tor mixes traffic in a better way across a wider network. Even if the first or last hop is bad, they don't know what you're doing (entrance node) or where you are (exit node). https://t.co/3oTHo2nydR