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Pick the next practical Bitcoin guide for me to write.
334 sats \ 64 comments \ @expatriotic 26 Jan bitcoin
Hello friend. I write a blog at expatriotic.me.
Yesterday I posted "Expatriotic's Master List" on SN here and on my blog here.
This was effectively a road map.
I'm now going to commence this next phase of my blog.
But I'd like some help in picking the next topic.
Please vote in the comments below. The comment that has the most zaps will win. I'll post the short list as a set of comments to be voted on.
Taking a leaf out of Bitcoin QnAs book with how he did it on bitcoiner.guide once. Seemed pretty awesome, so let's see then.
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3 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
The short list is:
Bisq
Ashigaru
Email
Mullvad
Find the respective comment and zap it to cast your vote
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 16h
It would be interesting to read a guide on Mullvad
Would you post it here?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 1h
It hasn't been zapped yet though
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 8h
All of these guides will eventually getting written and I'll cross post on my blog and here (SN)
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0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 1h
Current positions based on sats zapped 213 - Bisq 21 - Ashigaru 21 - How to fuck the government (But Darth might need to write that) 0 - Email 0 - Mullvad
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213 sats \ 5 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Bisq, a really useful tool for buying or selling Bitcoin
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Fabs 20h
You seem pretty damn knowledgeable, son.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @expatriotic OP 19h
I'm a bit autistic lol... I love to hoard information... SO for me getting in to bitcoin has meant easily over 10,000 hours of books, podcasts, website reading etc... I need help. But hopefully I can share some of that information to others in a helpful way.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fabs 19h
Write a highly technical Bitcoin-Book as well as a Noobs' way of using and acquiring Bitcoin.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @expatriotic OP 19h
I suppose I have to... Not sure about the "highly technical part" though. Problem about putting information about how to do something in a book, is that websites and apps change so fast... Articles, blogs etc are better for this
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 16h
Yep, you're right.
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
how to fuck the gov
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 21h
This may actually win as a category at this point, since no one has zapped the others 😂. You scared everyone off with your comments about how everything is dumb and obsolete. You're too pro.
Also, where is your servers (assuming you're running more than one for your nodes, email etc) if you live under the stars in a jungle???
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Maybe you can write that guide. I'm genuinely not sure what I'd put in it. I'm more focused on personal privacy and financial freedom.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
I already wrote one
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
I figured
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21 sats \ 13 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Ashigaru, A new wallet with some interesting features.
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0 sats \ 11 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
nah useless
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0 sats \ 10 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Tell me what you really think 😂. Has anyone told you you're very opinionated Darth? 😂 It's a really clean wallet. Play around with it if you haven't. I think the UX is arguably an improvement over Samourai Wallet. And it has Stonewall txs like Sparrow. Where when you spend, it takes two inputs from your wallet and two of the outputs are identical in amount. Pretty cool. It also supports ricochet, adding hops if you need that ability. Which is pretty cool since the DoJ seems to think it's subversive tech. +1 in my book.
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
any mobile wallet without LN is totally useless
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
You listed Samourai Wallet as a cache wallet. See, I've read your guide
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
obsolete
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
I agree, since currently SW isn't being maintained ever since the developers have been indicted as criminals for writing privacy/financially focused FOSS. Let's at least agree that the govn can go fuck themselves for attacking code writing devs.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @shadowybadger 20h
TIL Darthcoin doesn't open his LN channels using coinjoined UTXOs. Tsk tsk.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Wait, what about the cache or vault in your banking system. Seems contradictory
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
I do not use any fiat banking. bitcoin only
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Based.
One day I'll be there.
Right now, I engage with it a bit when I have to. E.g., it's how my teaching job elects to pay me. And I already have some stuff set up. Like a handy remittance app called Wise that let's me do some interesting things like quickly send fiat to friends and family who don't accept bitcoins.
And to be honest. I kind of like not having my job pay me in Bitcoin since they'd file taxes on my behalf with the government, totally doxxing my use of Bitcoin.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 26 Jan
Do it🔥
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 7h
4 hours left to go for voting.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 18h
There are never enough guides about setting up an own node. There are so many methods nowadays.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 19h
16 hours left on voting
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @expatriotic OP 21h
I actually love how epically the premise of this discussion has failed. Literally NO one has "voted" by zapping a comment with the option in it. Yet there has been lots of conversation, which I actually prefer. This was fun. A failure turned fun.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 17h
Corrected.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 8h
Haha, thank you sir
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @dingding541 26 Jan
What about a giude on: How to not upset Darth
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 21h
Would either be really long, or really short... Or just impossible to write. 😂
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
why not a poll post?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Maybe I'll try it next time. Trying to replicate on SN something I saw someone do on their own website. It got a kind of bidding war going on. https://bitcoiner.guide/vote/ It raised like 700,000 sats...
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
can"t zap a pinned post
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
No longer pinned.
I didn't know.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Networking > VPNs > Mullvad
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
how to setup a LN node at home with a remote VPS IP using a wireguard tunnel.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
I'm happy with my Zeus embedded node. But that sounds cool. Again, these guides will reflect my stack. In case it helps anyone.
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0 sats \ 16 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
Private email > Tuta, Addy.io, Proton mail
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155 sats \ 15 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
wait... people still use proton tuta and others as "private" emails? those are just throw away emails not private.
not your server/domain = not your email
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
I do use my own domain. My guides are about my stack.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
ok
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Natalia 21h
how about writing this: not your server/domain = not your email
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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @expatriotic OP 21h
Good to see you again, fair lady of SN. I'm curious what your privacy/bitcoin stack looks like.
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Natalia 21h
similar to yours:) but mine is simpler.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @expatriotic OP 20h
You saw my master list? I must say the one place I don't go yet is servers/nodes since I move around too much. I've never owned a home. I've lived in 6-7 places in the last 10 years.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 19h
You saw my master list?
yes.
did you ever look up umbrel node?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 19h
My Zeus embedded node works fine for LN. Definitely want my own server... Either with Debian or StartOS... But move too much to justify buying hardware like that... Just too many unknowns...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 19h
Not a fan of closed source tech... Plus I heard their dojo package is basically deprecated it's so out of date.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @cz 26 Jan
What a stupid statement it is. Logic died hearing this.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Jan
just tell me how is private if you do not control the server entirely.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @cz 26 Jan
I also use my own domain, but those around me who use Proton and Tuta are no idiots. You're not a kid that I need to explain to you how simple encryption works. People are not so important that some agent is watching their private emails. Proton and Tuta are not for selling your data for personalized advertising. What proof do you have that Proton and Tuta are not secure? Did they sell data? Are they not using encryption?
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 26 Jan
Are they not using encryption?
Proton emails only use E2EE between Proton users so their encryption is a big nothing burger. In any other case (which I assume is most of them), it’s using regular TLS and they can read your mails if they want to. Using a password for E2EE is not E2EE imo because you still need to send them the password in some actually secure way.
See https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-encryption-explained
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 21h
Very solid answer. Still anything is better than something from Google or Microsoft I hope we all can agree with that.
But yeah trying to get E2EE with a Proton or Tuta account DOES have the drawbacks you mentioned, mainly, who is your counterpart?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic OP 26 Jan
More private than using gmail like a normie. Nomads can't have email privacy? I have nowhere to put a permanent server, so I don't build one. Again, this is my stack. Once I write the guide, you'll see how I do it.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @mod 23h freebie
🚩 This post might be more relevant and engaging in the ~tutorials territory.