The Real Smuggler

Cryptoanarchist, cypherpunk, mystic. Scrit DBC, Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast, privacy tech, covert comms, security consultant

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@PopularFront_ Frankly, that detonation cord will do pretty much nothing to those rails. Without tamping the vast majority of the explosive energy will dissipate. The amount of explosive energy in that cord is barely enough to damage the rails if tamping is used.

[entropyseal @entropyseal]

We made a new explainer video with our latest design V.3.0 and updated our website https://t.co/QFU0pDhB8V ✨

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@EricSirion @terribleMirrors @theymos @scritcash @fedimint @thefrankbraun Another big difference between the current generation (@fedimint etc) and previous attempts is the awareness of the issuer risk. Doing multi-party blind signing to make hidden inflation less easy is a goal to thrive for.

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@AndreaBarisani Your work is AMAZING

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@octal I've been using a dozen glinet comet KVMs recently. IMHO a viable alternative: https://t.co/1ddIiaStdk

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

Peanut butter is humus' gay American cousin.

[Future Adam Curtis B-Roll @adamcurtisbroll]

A video edit by @charliebcurran, March 2025.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Regular people pay the price during war

[Frank Braun @thefrankbraun]

"Ultimately, the enemy is not a Russian or an American or any other person. The enemy lies in an ideology, a way of thinking, in a certain metaphysical force or spirit. The real problem, the actual enemy, is situated in a worldview that reduces the entire world and existence to a material phenomenon, in which human beings are no more than biological machines, biochemical processes devoid of Spirit or Soul. In such a context, biological survival and the pursuit of absolute dominance without any ethical or moral limits easily become the ultimate goal."

From this interesting read:

https://t.co/FnRyPfSZqZ

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@LandoCarlizzian @wilderko Little change for the vast majority of people. Judging based on having been (non-tourist) in all the places mentioned.

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@bendiken @wilderko I'm confidently awaiting the judgement of history on this topic.

[Pavol Lupták @wilderko]

It really pisses me off that in a situation where I am helping Ukrainians and their families full-time to get residency in Uruguay and Paraguay, some keyboard trolls label me as a Russophile or even a Putinophile.

I help these families to survive realistically because when their breadwinners die in a brutal fight "for the homeland," nobody will take care of their families.

I'm sick of the binary political correctness - one can criticize Russia but be afraid to criticize the Ukrainian government or Zelenskyy in any way. Those who have followed me for a long time know that I have been criticizing Putin as a dictator long before the war started.

Even before the war, Zelenskyy was accused of extensive corruption scandals, including the Pandora Papers.
But of course, after the war started, nobody addressed this anymore, and nobody cared.

Just as nobody cares that the Ukrainian government is actually using violent maneuvers against Ukrainian men and does not respect the only thing these unfortunate men have - their lives. If these men die in a war that they never volunteered to go to, the Ukrainian Government realistically has the blood of innocent people on its hands.

Arguing - but the Russians do much worse things, they are the bastards and the aggressors, and the Ukrainians just have to defend themselves - does absolutely nothing to change the fact that the Ukrainian government (as well as any other government in the world) considers its men to be meat for the grinder, ready to sacrifice themselves at any time for its interests. And without their consent.

And it is also irrelevant that compulsory mobilization is also in place in other countries that also enjoy similar means of violence, such as Switzerland or Russia. That is like arguing that slavery was okay because it was also once accepted by most of the world's states.

By the way, the uncivilized Russians have abolished compulsory mobilization. As a man, you can leave Russia peacefully at the moment without being locked in a cage as the Ukrainians still do with their men who refuse to fight.

Indeed, compulsory mobilization is barbarism and modern-day slavery, where collective interests are placed at a higher level than the life of an individual.

If you approve of this, you are a normal collectivist for whom human life comes second.

The Ukrainians for whom we provide residences in Latin America do not care anymore whether Ukraine exists or not; they often have their homes destroyed and their loved ones killed. They do not want to be there, and they do not want to participate in it anymore.

All they want is to survive. And to save their families.

Forcing these people to fight and sacrifice their lives against their will just because they were born in a bad place with a lousy passport is really immoral.

If you really care about the fate of Ukraine or the fate of Europe potentially being conquered by Russia, then go fight in their place.

And to the Ukrainians, who all they want is to live, please give it a rest.

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

An updated timeline for product delivery would be appreciated, even while doing cool new AI stuff. @immersedXR @VisorXR

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@Narcomania https://t.co/EX50mjwkHA

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@lightcoin @zooko The future has long been here, it's just not evenly distributed - or noticed...

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@octal Yes. Various organizations run blacklists of serial numbers and customs/banks/etc check against those automatically. Larger money distribution centers also check which serial numbers they give to whom. The tracking at the ATM/cash register level is what's usually missing.

[Western Exile @westernexile]

There is perhaps no music made by man that steadies more absolutely the human spirit, across ocean and earthly border, than the Serbian Orthodox chant of Psalm 136.

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@PrincFilip1 An important process is often overlooked by the proponents of monarchy: How to replace the monarch? In a representative democracy this happens by elections. In monarchies, the process is regicide or exile. The people have to be aware of that process and able to carry it out.

[The Real Smuggler @TheRealSmuggler]

@TuurDemeester An important process is often overlooked by the proponents of monarchy: How to replace the monarch? In a representative democracy this happens by elections. In monarchies, the process is regicide or exile. The people have to be aware of that process and able to carry it out.