Cool but you should really be trying to use cash before bringing bringin into it

By buying cash (eg at meetups) you are helping others to build non kyc btc stacks

By spending cash you are single handedly fighting back against banksters and government surveillance

If you care about privacy, why are you using twitter?

For everyday spending, I'd much prefer perfect privacy, given the very low risk of a rug.

Agreed on your point that users need to understand the tradeoffs though.

Also, not every user can (or will be able to) afford the on-chain fees necessary to open a lightning channel.

For spending I would much rather use Cashu, because I don't want my transaction history stored in some company database

What is the trust layer you are referring to?

If anything, Obtainium removes a trust layer.

archive for those who don't like all that dodgy JS

Which jurisdiction was this?

Was this your nostr reply? https://satellite.earth/thread/note1kdzp5f24dw008rynk3e0je6qhm2qasdny7jwf2wazt2v3uh6gjashstjm6

Thanks for the update and clarifications! Personally, I would not want a device that leaks my physical location.

Nice. Is it possible to buy trousers with Faraday pockets? :-)

That's a feature, not a bug! Using the GSM (phone) network is a big fat GPS co-ordinate on your location. If you don't want your location shared, don't (ever) use GSM.

Plus phone numbers are insecure (sim swaps, interceptions) and are used to easily identify you across numerous services. It's really time we stopped using phone numbers.

Pixel with graphene works great over wifi, generates a unique mac address for every connection.

The only annoying thing is that airplane mode is not on by default (eg after flashing).

With graphene, in airplane mode, there are no pings to cell towers

In general, I would advise against putting a sim card in your phone

I think, like you say, the issue is that there are millions of google flavoured android devices that can "rat" on the Pixel 8's location

Graphene on Pixel is still way better, privacy (and freedom) wise, than Apple products

Thanks! Was it a public note? Can you share the link?

Can you share the article? It's paywalled

This is a very good point.

Mr @lopp, as a potential customer (I like the product), is it really necessary for me to sign up to draconian Google or Apple T&Cs / accounts to download your app?

Why no repo, or at least an APK download?