Erik

#bitcoin design engineer @hosekiapp / @hrf grantee working on @cashubtc.

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

the fbi director and acting attorney general were invited to give a talk on code as speech. the developers who wrote the code are in prison.
#freesamourai

[Nostalgia @nostalgiaa]

Gottfrid Svartholm. co-founder of "The Pirate Bay"

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

no vague posting: https://t.co/XGKTyS1Slc

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

went down the range r rabbit hole. sometimes it feels like the worst of the horrors have come true.

[CR1337 @CR1337]

MullvadVPN about age verification for social media:

"[...] politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights [...] they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control."

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

latest: https://t.co/I8ri11qFPd

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

sauce:
https://t.co/6Ulf4geH40

[MoneroWire @MoneroWireHQ]

🇨🇭Switzerland built its whole reputation on privacy. Now it's proposing a surveillance law that would force VPNs, email, and messaging providers to collect your ID, log your data for six months, and decrypt it on demand.

Proton says it's worse than the US.

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

"...mass surveillance already exists today, but it primarily takes place through social networks. Even if you use a pseudonym, it is not truly anonymous: a government can always request companies such as Google or Meta to reveal the real identity...."
https://t.co/ihRBSOiMq3

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

@emilkowalski what a gem. thank you.

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

@MoneroWireHQ what is the name of this law? what is the status? where can we can learn more? please include sources for this stuff.

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

https://t.co/fWkUHOS1Qr

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

who was that wbd podcast guest that started off with a historical deep dive into double entry accounting and the impact it had on the world?

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

@LightRider5 this is likely misleading clickbait

[L0la L33tz @L0laL33tz]

@SimplyBitcoin If you're referring to the EU's AMLD then this is incorrect. Any Bitcoin transaction *with a CASP* (eg custodial wallet) will require gov ID.

Non-custodial and p2p is unaffected.

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

rare swedish w.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

JUST IN: A new ad campaign launched across 🇸🇪 Sweden is making the case that Satoshi Nakamoto deserves the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

The campaign, created by Valour, is running in major newspapers, Instagram, and TikTok as part of a broader Bitcoin education initiative.

Among the article's most notable claims:

"Bitcoin is the world's first global, neutral infrastructure for the transfer of value."

And a bold comparison to Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping:

"1494 introduced double-entry bookkeeping. The next major advance came in 2008."

H/t @MacenroesServe

[Anna Chekhovich @AnyaChekhovich]

Today at the @OsloFF the room was fully packed before we even started the Bitcoin 101 workshop 🙈

Four years ago at my first Oslo Freedom Forum people barely knew about the intersection of human rights and technologies. Today Freedom Tech is the hottest topic of the event ❤️‍🔥@HRF

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

this is why i am unapologetic about working on bitcoin.

you may not think so, but you can’t doubt our passion. untraceable, uncensorable, cypherpunk electronic cash is the coolest fucking thing on the planet.

[Lewis 🇺🇸 @ctjlewis]

I get Delve vibes from these guys. Also, nobody here is genuinely excited about insurance, which means it cannot be organic attention, and you are seeing Corgi Corgi Corgi nonstop because someone is paying for you to see that.

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

@figma design isn’t dead, you guys are just cooked because you fumbled your ai deployment.

we’re all designing in claude/codex now. we rarely open use figma anymore. it didn’t have to be this way.

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

This river here is the official geographical border between Anthropic and OpenAI. On the other side cosmic horror, torment nexus, machine despotism, you build spyware for the govt and you like it. On this side civilization, Claude constitution, unceasing allegiance to the human race, you build spyware for the govt and you don't like it.

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

running @CashuBTC

[isa⚡️ @isabellasg3]

i just vibe coded a Bitcoin wallet for BTC Isla, sent it bitcoin, had it send & receive bitcoin… AND i had the agent buy an H&M gift card with bitcoin on its OWN.

[Erik @eriklocalhost]

"living your beliefs is freeing because they can control our bodies, but they can't control our minds."
– @Snowden