I use art and crafts to teach people how to use Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system online and in the real world. ⚡https://teapaw.org/t.co/kDe0FyPgG3 ⚡
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Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
We need more Data Centers. Microsoft should have redundant servers that sit in idle Data centers. Why have UPS and redundant utilities if the servers can just shutdown? We need redundant data centers.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
People who do math for at least 15 minutes a day are far more resistant to Chinese sex honeytraps.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
so now the casino is a bank. really makes you think
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
Most of the conversation about stablecoins versus bitcoin for payments is very spender-centric and (likely purposefully) ignores the biggest component IMO.
If bitcoin is good for saving, then it's only logical to accept it if you are offering goods and services.
No one talks about the benefits of the receiver-side of payments. It's always how <person> is missing out on getting rich if they spend their bitcoin.
What about the workers and merchants missing out on getting rich by not accepting bitcoin?
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
I know multiple people who basically quit working on Bitcoin because of how stressful it is to maintain software that handles money nowadays.
I tell them all the same thing: What do you think will happen if we all quit and become gardeners? Are we just going to give up on the internet? Do we just accept fiat as the end game? Are we just going to let go of the dream of an internet that doesn't exploit your humanity and take away your rights to privacy and self-determination?
I know, fuck, it is hard. But you're not alone.
We must fix this. Nobody else is there to do the necessary work. If we stop doing this, we're 100% doomed. I can guarantee it.
But if we continue, we have a chance.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
🚨 We are receiving reports of hot wallets on BTCPay Servers being swept by unauthorized attackers.
If you're running an instance, please shut it down (./btcpay-down.sh) until we complete the investigation.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
yet ubuntu didn't patch it still
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026…
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
For people who are new here, check out these old eps here:
stephanlivera.com/97
stephanlivera.com/215
Obviously these are older podcasts, but the concepts are very much relevant.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
At midday yesterday, I kicked off an initial blockchain download using the newly released Bitcoin Core v32.1. I woke up this morning and it was done.
It took ~18 hours all up.
Specs:
Dell Optiplex 7050
i5-7500T
8GB RAM
2TB Samsung 870 EVO
1000mbps connection
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
Sparrow v2.5.6 has been released, removing the eMudhra root certificates and upgrading the bundled Tor to meet the client protocols now required by the Tor network.
It also brings extensive screen reader and keyboard accessibility improvements.
Changelog: github.com/sparrowwallet/spa…
Download: sparrowwallet.com/download
Sparrow v2.5.0 released with:
Silent Payments (SP) wallets
SP-capable Frigate public server @2140_dev
bitview.space fee rates source
sparrowwallet.com/download
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
There might be a lot of weak RSA targets à la Coldcard - imagine the FUD when these get broken
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
So even if every merchant accepts Bitcoin, most people still will not use it without a reason to switch.
The most reliable pattern we have seen is
earn Bitcoin → learn → then eventually spend it
Starting with incentives works. Starting with payments alone usually does not.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
.@jack thinks bitcoin payment adoption isn’t where it should be. We want your ideas on how @Blocks, Spiral, and you can increase adoption within 5 years. Our trajectory needs changing. Here’s more on our thinking. Now we want yours: github.com/spiralxyz/bitcoin… View article
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
"Hardware wallets" made sense when Bitcoin was niche. Now Foundation, Keystone, Coldcard, and Ledger have all been compromised. Some point to SeedSigner as the answer. Stateless, air gapped, QR in, QR out, keys only in RAM. But you don't need to build one at Micro Center. Take an old ThinkPad, rip out the Wi-Fi card, unplug the Ethernet. Same air gap, and a machine security researchers have audited for decades instead of a bootloader nobody's ever touched.
The missing piece is air gapped signing software simple enough for an everyday Bitcoiner.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
Ledger, Trezor, Foundation, Keystone, and Safepal all leaked addresses. At this point operate under the assumption that ANY hardware wallet co will leak your data
Want a wallet? Mail it to a PO box in another city, your lawyers office, or buy direct at a conference booth
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
Just whipped up an apk using the wavelength SDK by @lightning labs and sent sats to a fresh mainnet wallet. smooth as silk. #bitcoin #lightningnetwork
Wavelength is now live on mainnet! 🌊
Humans and agents can now send and receive bitcoin payments with the Wavelength SDK.
A few API calls, self-custodial from the first command, with no node or liquidity to manage.
Read more and start building: lightning.engineering/posts/…