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[Free_Ross @Free_Ross]

ROSS IS COMING HOME IN JANUARY!!

We are so so grateful to @realDonaldTrump for his pledge to #FreeRoss and to all those who have supported us.

Here's to this 12th Thanksgiving in prison being the last one!

- The Ulbricht family

[Navio @navio_official]

A cashless society is truly progressive only if transactions can remain fully anonymous and untraceable.

Anything else is surveillance on steroids 💬

[Navio @navio_official]

As promised, we're excited to announce our transition to Proof-of-Private-Stake (PoPS), with the testnet going live today.

Along with this shift, we’re officially rebranding:

Goodbye Navcoin, hello Navio.

Navio is all about privacy. Think of it as a Network of Anonymous Validators (NAV), picking up the torch from pioneering crypto projects and building on the principles of self-regulation and freedom from censorship and surveillance.

The key changes are:

Network name: Navio
Currency: NAVIO
Ticker: $NAV

And this rebrand comes with another big change: a new Discord server.
Join us here as this new journey begins: https://t.co/7vJlgH6hJN

Please note that the testnet launch won't impact the mainnet. There is no need for $NAV, $XNAV, or $WNAV swaps at this stage.

Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you to everyone who has been along for this ride!

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]

[Jake Chervinsky @jchervinsky]

If you're following all the news about SBF today, take one moment to reflect on Ross Ulbricht.

SBF got 25 years. That's a long time, but he'll get out and have a life left afterward.

@RealRossU got two life sentences, plus 40 years.

This is not justice.
https://t.co/nOnKQFkctx

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

The CIA plan to murder Julian Assange #FreeAssange

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

To date Julian Assange has spent 1771 days in a UK prison for publishing which revealed war crimes and human rights abuses

Assange has spent more than 13 years detained in one form or another

If extradited to the US he faces a 175 year sentence in conditions the UN's torture expert this month said would amount to torture @DrAliceJEdwards

Earlier this week the publishers' wife, @Stella_Assange told assembled journalists that if Julian were extradited, "he will die"

During the first day of the two day hearing on Tuesday the court was told of 'compelling evidence' of a CIA plot to kidnap or assassinate Mr. Assange, meaning that should extradition be allowed he would be sent to the very country that plotted to assassinate him

Major media, free speech and human rights organisations have urged the immediate release of the WikiLeaks publisher including Amnesty, Reporters Without Borders, ACLU, PEN, HRW, The International Federation of Journalists, NUJ, The New York Times, The Guardian, El Pais, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, as well as politicians and leaders across the globe

Amnesty: "Extraditing Julian Assange would set a dangerous precedent, threaten press freedom and undermine our right to know" #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW #JournalismIsNotACrime

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

To every political leader and journalist making and writing speeches: You can't save Navalny. You *can* still save Assange. If you're silent here, when and where you can actually influence the outcome, you were never standing up for principles—you were just hoping for applause.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Julian Assange should be freed. Here’s why: #FreeAssange

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

Yes it is terrible news and I feel for Navalny’s family.

But let’s be clear: If you were sincere you would #FreeAssange. The CIA plotted to murder Julian Assange. And your government has signed off on extraditing Assange to the US to stand trial and 175 years for publishing evidence of US war crimes.

Navalny was a political prisoner, and so is Assange.

#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

After sitting with our legal team to parse through the fine print of Apple's DMA announcement (that took a while), which is, at best vague and misleading, I wanted to share my thoughts. 

While Apple has behaved badly for years, what they did yesterday represents a new low, even for them. See more info here: https://t.co/2lznqwYujY

[Lefteris Karapetsas @LefterisJP]

✍️Now that the worse is behind us but while everyone's attention is still on the mattter I am writing a bit of a longer post on this industry's architecture and security practises.

@Ledger messed up badly. Having practically no opsec, no proper credential management, and not revoking former employees access and credentials. Amateur hour, and extremely embarassing for a company their size whose entire focus is supposed to be on security. Really bad.

But surprisingly they are the least to blame for this failure.

This industry has a serious problem. It preaches one thing and does another. Preaches decentralization, and nobody runs their own node. Preaches user being in control and don't trust verify, but everyone uses SaaS and centralized frontends.

What you people call "dapps" is a joke. A farce. Centralized SaaS frontends that can monitor you or worse. Apps that are hosted by someone else and can change at any point under your feet. That's not what a decentralized app is. It's a travesty to even use this terms for the apps this industry has available right now.

🐦 I have devoted the last 5 years of my career trying to bring local apps and local-first software back into play. I am a strong believer in self-sovereignty, data ownership and decentralization and this is embodied in @rotkiapp.

I want us all to start becoming more aware of what we use and how we interact with web3, otherwirse before you know it web3 will vanish, and this dream of self-sovereignty and the user being back in control will go away with it.

To the users: Question every single tool you use. See what it does with your data, where it stores it, how it manages its dependencies, what its security practises are etc. Check the track record of its team. Do your due dilligence. If the tool is anywhere close to your funds, addresses or any private info be extra dilligent. You may not be able to do your due dilligence. Find someone who can! This is not something to just brush off in the name of convenience. Today you see what happens when you do so.

To the devs:
- Whatever you do, pin all your dependencies. Never ever just yolo pull the latest dependency. Freeze all of them all the way up to the smallest transient dependencies. If you are in JS and are pulling from a CDN then pin the hash too in case the CDN itself is compromised. Otherwise just serve/bundle your dependencies. Today's tragedy was preventable by this simple thing.
- Build local-first. Respect your users, give them choices on how to consume your app. This is web3 damn it. Let them save their data locally, let them use their own node, let them self-host the app, let them inspect the code, be opensource!
- Avoid centralized points of failure. Using a common library's latest version unpinned from a CDN is one such point of failure. But there is a lot more. Using only infura and/or alchemy. Using centralized indexers (especially if their number == 1). Hosting your app in a single server without any self-hosting capabilities. And so many more ways to fail ...

This can probaly get a lot longer but I will stop here. Again I want to re-iterate. Ledger is definitely to blame here but the lion's share of the blame is on our industry and its software engineering practises.

Let's stop regressing back to web2 and build the true vision of web3. A world where the user is self-sovereign, owns their data and is free. Freedom is what all this is about.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

A lot of people are caught up with bullishness on a potential bitcoin ETF, meanwhile FinCEN is proposing to apply section 311 of the Patriot Act against basically all types of crypto privacy, including on noncustodial methods.
https://t.co/puqHvfXymO

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

*whispers* the industry will split in two

[AtomicDEX ➡️ Komodo Wallet 🦎 @AtomicDEX]

#Privacy coins are always welcome on DEXs tho😉

The next steps:
1. Visit https://t.co/lOrI95DElQ and create a new wallet.
2. Find your new receiving addresses.
3. Move your #crypto off of centralized exchanges!

We support @Dashpay, @zcash, @Navcoin, and @firoorg natively.

[Navio @navio_official]

Looking to build a wallet?

@anquii_ just released a new iOS UI library called `BIP39UserFlow` which is a customizable BIP39 user flow for anyone to integrate in their app

Check it out ➡️ https://t.co/MexxM4zfnv

[CR1337 @CR1337]

2023 will be the year in which @Navcoin will go fully private, introducing the first ever Privacy-enhanced PoS protocol (PePoS) in the industry! 🥷

We expect to have a working implementation by the end of Q2 2023, read more in our announcement:

https://t.co/lzWjTiBYr3

[anquii @anquii_]

@ApeDurden https://t.co/UrTthF7Kt5

[anquii @anquii_]

@gainzy222 Same. It’s pretty much impossible to change using the official app. Exploring unofficial apps now – they at least get this right, but lack a bit in other areas imo.

[Navio @navio_official]

And this is why #privacy is the only fundamental that counts.