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[Chez FX🐀🐀🐀 @Rodent51]

@TaraBull Big Labowski

[Alex 👽 @AlexesNakamoto]

The goal is freedom.

[Books @Booksey]

I’ll leave it at this, in the crypto space we should not chase false prophets

We need to research and speak up

I have probably missed on so many points but I’m willing to learn more

If anyone has anything to add, feel free

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[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

🇺🇸 Those that control America took its values long ago.

☑️ In 1913, it gave up on American values when the Federal Reserve took control of its money.

☑️ In 1947, it gave up on democracy when the CIA took lobby control of its foreign policies.

☑️ And it gave up on the Constitution when Mossad assassinated JFK, paving the way for LBJ to deliver Congress and the Senate to Israel.

Presidents don’t serve the people.

They serve the ones who pay for them.

#Trump was no exception:

His top backer?

☑️ Elon Musk—who wants your data to win the AI arms race and build a social credit system on top of a new dollar-backed stablecoin.

Second?

☑️ The Mellon family—who are dead set on keeping yields from flowing to the people through stablecoins, to protect the existing fractional reserve system.

Third?
☑️ Adelson camp—pushing Trump to deliver more land to Israel as part of Netanyahu’s unfinished plan before transferring influence to the GCC.

It’s not personal.

It’s business.

He’s not fighting for you—he’s executing the agenda of those who bought him.

The sooner you understand this, the sooner you can prepare—and protect yourself.

That’s why we #Bitcoin.

Don’t shoot the messenger.

💰 Follow the money.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

My latest podcast with @_InThisTogether is now publicly available on all podcast platforms.
https://t.co/uDb22z74dK

[Rizo @Ovid369]

Ron Paul has likely been saying this for more than fifty years. Audit the Fed and bring the troops home!

https://t.co/3Tbf3O0cH5

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

When the people making the cuts don't have to divest from the companies they run or have a stake in, or declare conflicts of interests, it is more likely than not that they will use that power to "king-make" and benefit their own companies, several of which in the case of DOGE are already government contractors.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

New w/ @maxyyjones - We discuss the influence of the PayPal Mafia's Peter Thiel on Trump's HHS, the likely policies of a RFK-led HHS, & what the expansion of contracts between HHS & Thiel-founded Palantir portend for the expansion of the surveillance state
https://t.co/mvpPH5O6Tn

[Amir Taaki ⛛ @lunardragon420]

DarkFi App alpha release! Our app platform featuring its first addon: chat.

The world's strongest anon chat. Fully unlinkable. Tor integration. Full free speech.

Cross-platform mobile and laptop for Linux/Android/Mac/Windows.

This is just the start. Next we add more addons like: anon payments, anon DAO, anon trading, ...

We could've taken the easy route which every other project is doing. Most projects do this:

1. Use centralized hosted web frontends for the "apps". Devs then have legal risk and are often targeted by hostile governments. When the website goes down, users are left scrambling to access their funds forced to rely on poor workarounds.
2. An insecure and buggy centralized browser wallet to interact with the apps, often spying on users. Browser plugins are second class citizens, and have poor UI/UX. They rely on centralized web RPC backends rather than native P2P. They are distributed on centralized app stores requiring ecosystem devs to be doxxed and go through Google or Apple's certification.
3. Make separate phone wallets for Android and iPhone lacking smart contract ability, just transacting coins. Often the Android and iPhone apps are different and inconsistent, both in how they look and work. Certain features may be available in one app and not the other. Or they are in different places. Have Android users ever tried to show iPhone users how to scan their contact in Signal?
4. Laptop/desktop is an afterthought or maybe not at all. Productive users are forced to use poor quality web apps. Often if they exist, they are just the webapp repackaged as an app. There is no true P2P light client sync or meaningful platform integration.
5. Zero commandline support or APIs, which means there is no organic community ecosystem or modding. Users are unable to build third party tools. The ecosystem is nonorganic and forced.

DarkFi wanted to create the futurist experience. We did not want to take shortcuts. We realized we needed to be radical in our thinking, and strike out a bold path. People called us crazy but we did it.

What we did is:

1. Ditched the browser completely.
2. Make a single unified app platform.
3. The SAME app for ALL platforms.
4. Extensible and customizable UI and themes by users.
5. Addon infra so apps can be run on all platforms, distributed fully p2p without hosting centralized website frontends.

This is what crypto was supposed to be ☝️

It's still early. We've reached the first milestone: alpha. We released the prealpha 4 months ago, and it was buggy as hell. But anyone comparing now with then can see we've easily done a 10x.

The next release will be another 10x, and so will the next one after that.

MacOS emojis

All of this means:

* Devs do not host anything. They just write code but the addon is hosted fully P2P and anon.
* Devs do not have to sign up to Google or Apple app stores either for the browser or the phone.
* Nobody is required to host an RPC just so users can access their app.
* There are no more privacy violations from spying either in the addon store, the browser plugin to access the app, the RPC used to communicate on the backend or the dev hosting the frontend. Software runs locally on your device.
* One single consistent experience. Write once, deploy everywhere.
* Full support for third party ecosystem of devs through APIs and CLI.
* App is fully customizable with themes and plugins to suit your desired look and feel.

# Tech

DarkFi has built an extremely solid technical foundation over the last few years. We are now polishing that infra, and giving our main focus to product.

Our tech means we can build the greatest product known in all of crypto. Crypto was meant to change the logic of violence and alter our relations with governments. But instead it got captured by institutions. Why? Because we lacked the real power of anonymity. Anonymity tips the balance in favour of the small guy taking 👏 back 👏 their 👏 freedom 👏.

What tech does DarkFi have?

· ZK infra: compiler, visualization, debugger and VM
· WASM engine and a developer SDK.
· Our own P2P network based off @evoskuil's work. On top of this we made a DAG sync tech called event graph, and have a prototype DHT for sharing static data.
· PoW based blockchain
· Native smart contracts (all anonymous): payments, swaps, issue tokens, world's first anon DAO
· Anon org infra: fully anonymous chat and tasks. Full free speech - no limits.
· drk command line tool to interact with the wallet and call smart contracts.
· P2P network visualizer, blockchain explorer and DAG viewer.

True power. With this we will build the next gen of anon tools. As Satoshi said, we will expand the space of freedom outwards, and claim a decisive victory using crypto.

Stage 1: complete ✅

Activate stage 2: ship product and iterate.

# UI/UX

Everyone has got it wrong. Flat minimal UI/UX is ugly and bland. Software should look good. Software should have SOVL.

Scifi promised us the future. We got slop instead. Remember skins and themes? Bring that back. Software should look & feel cool.

We need a fresh start. We decided there will be one app for all platforms. A seamless experience across mobile and laptop.

So we coded our own UI toolkit by hand. Full control the way we want. It is hardware accelerated. It is async parallelized.

We can even live edit the UI while it's running. The entire app is a tree of nodes and properties, which can be edited using a dev network protocol. Editing these properties updates the app realtime to display changes.

This means users can fully customize the UI. We will have themes and skins to do this.

The UI has fractional scaling which is realtime - no restart required. This is supported in the app now.

Mozilla changed the web forever because it was more than a browser. It was a generic UI toolkit called XUL. Mozilla could be fully customized or even used to make entirely new apps like Thunderbird. This is our vision.

DarkFi's app will be a unified seamless cross-platform app. Devs will distribute software as addons over anonymous p2p.

We aim for a complete out of the box experience too. But users can customize everything. Full power.

And if you don't like UI - then our CLI experience will be first class too.

# Next Release

The next release will focus on fixing bugs, performance tweaks and making the software stable. It will be the beta release.

We will improve initial sync on load. You open the app and it will sync very quickly.

Our next big feature will be private DMs and secret channels.

We also plan a settings manager like "about:config" in web browsers and a node explorer to visualize the p2p network.

Let there be dark.

[L0la L33tz @L0laL33tz]

DARPA has announced plans to launch a pre-crime AML program that attempts to stop money laundering before it happens, and it’s just as bad as it sounds.

After “we have closed your account because we suspect you have committed a crime,” here comes “we have closed your account because we suspect you may commit a crime in the future.”

This is the stuff that nightmares are made of.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

The part of the government that's never passed an audit and is part of the massive black budget blob is launching a program to "stop money laundering before it happens."

If history is any indication, this will just be another tool to clamp down on the informal economy and surveil the public, while enabling business as usual at the national security agencies that commit this crime at a scale that would boggle the minds of most.

Kudos to @L0laL33tz for covering this story

[Rizo @Ovid369]

I thought this was pretty cool!

https://t.co/a5ETwR02cZ

[Rizo @Ovid369]

How Central Banks plan to control https://t.co/esVTHiQxql

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

To be fair, Trump also left the WHO in mid-2020 and then just redirected what was once WHO funding to the Gates-funded GAVI vaccine alliance. While leaving the WHO is positive, it is not the slam dunk some are advertising, especially considering Gates' recent comments on Trump's enthusiasm for his "vaccine innovation" proposals.

I get called a lot of names for pointing things like this out, but remembering what happened last time is important and often instructive about the present, especially when few people in media are inclined to point these kinds of things out.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

Solana meme coins and Tether are just a digital version of BCCI, honestly. Some day this will be common knowledge.

[Rizo @Ovid369]

Just spent my Friday night falling down the Ren rabbit hole

https://t.co/0BhBex8g8h

[Just.A.Thought 💭 @e_galv]

The Joe Rogan Experience is a present-day example of Operation Mockingbird. It is a tool of the state/intelligence, presented to the masses as the podcast of a “down to earth dude” just asking some questions.

Its purpose is to manage the image of characters on the world stage, release disclosures/controlled narratives and counter-narratives, and manipulate the minds of millions.

The MSM went under a controlled demolition years ago, to herd its viewers into other forms of media- which can be further surveilled/tracked. But the owners never changed and the goal remained the same as always: control the population.

We are only allowed to see what those owners want us to see, so that we think what they want us to think.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

How about instead of putting all our hope in people and hoping they return to prior pro-freedom stances they have recently abandoned out of political inconvenience, people focus on building resilient, local communities that are more likely to withstand as much of the incoming fuckery as possible, because the government isn't coming to save you.

Can't believe I'm tweeting this at the head of the Libertarian Party.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

I have never trusted oligarchs that have provably collaborated with the U.S. national security state apparatus to illegally surveil the public, reduce their freedoms and/or steal their wealth.

In the past year, I've been maligned as a blackpiller, doomer, etc. for that view. I will never be a sycophant for such figures and if it makes me those things to push against the narrative that they are our saviors and best chance at having supposedly "benevolent overlords" so be it.

Amazing how the people lobbying for their favorite "overlord" candidate avoided the smears and have been so heavily algo-boosted. Fuck overlords and fuck the top-down control and crony capitalism they bring.