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-Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency. -Advocate for his freedom and for all freedom tech providers. -Support and build things that function without a CEO, like some aspects of Nostr. When authoritarian Europe or the US arrests you, be able to say, β€œI literally can’t control it, it’s already out there, and we are legion.” -Tell me and others, as capital providers, how to accelerate this.

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↩ replying to freemymind πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­
That is also not a binary option between fully private or none at all. It is a path, getting people out of facebook was the first step. Moving them out of Whatsapp to something like Telegram was another step. There is a succession of steps towards better privacy for the masses and not always a straightforward path. Maybe this is something useful for your case. Choose a path that isn't making all the changes overnight, but at least making steady progress toward your goal. We've come a long way since 5 years to this part when looking back in perspective. We'll keep moving.
↩ replying to brito
Yes there I go with you, that it is a granular way. But if Telegram is any better then Whatsapp is kind of speculative. But I wouldmalso say every service you do not need to use from Meta is a good move. I am just not sure if Telegram really is this big privacy defender it trys to tell through its marketing. Seems to weak to only depend on one generous donor #durov and no other sources to fund the project...
If they arrest me in Texas I'll just shoot them. Google and Apple can be pressured to remove Nostr related apps from their ecosystem but they can't stop you from downloading SDK's and installing it manually. On the other hand I'm learning more about the Deffie-Hellmlan key exchange and a double ratchet key cryptography system that will help insure privacy... Onward. image
It starts with not being a bitcoin maxi, because bitcoin has no binding contract While as something like hosting websites on Arweave is a decentralized business that takes in revenue:
Arweave | Simplified Privacy
 Arweave isn't competing with lightning for general cash, so should not trigger the insane "shitcoin" response. But hey, I expect to be ignored with this post. Since I think you’re looking for likes and not solutions.
Thank you for all you do! Brazil is living terrible times because of censorship! I started using Primal today and watch many of your videos about Bitcoin! Great information! I Hope Nostr is gonna be the solution for the censorship we see in the world today!!
I do not believe that people that have been attracted to this platform and are used to keeping bitcoin secure are unaware of how questionable and scammy telegram is/was. I've known for years to stay well away from it from a purely opsec perspective.
lets remind you - telegram is not popular in EU, mostly telegram is used in russia and ukraine. So when you say that the EU authorities are restricting freedom of speech by arresting Durov - well, if you mean freedom of speech in russia, yes. but I don't think the French police care much about freedom of speech in russia. i'm not justifying the arrest, just the details.
1. First thing you can do as capital provider is to stop misleading. Its not necessary that only CEOs will get arrested. Tornado Cash smart contract still works and being used. 2. Nostr is a bunch of clients and relays. Clients can censor, in fact there are NIPs for it: NIP-56, NIP-51. Relays can censor some events and a few relays share this info using NIP 11. A nostr developer and relay operator can be asked to "moderate" and they do control things. 3. Even ecash is being promoted as censorship resistant although its not. Mints can enforce KYC for mint, melt, swap etc. at some point and censor some users based on different things.
GitHub
NUT-XX: Authentication by starbackr-dev Β· Pull Request #106 Β· cashubtc/nuts
Currently, access to mint endpoints are open to anyone. Since Cashu tokens are IOUs, the mint should have an optional way of restricting access to ...