bhavik
Bhavik

https://youtube.com/@BitcoinSat

Shiva says ‘I am Shiva, The Zero. Infinity lies within me’.

Freedom is the way, love BITCOIN & NOSTR

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npub10hcsqj6587uc5whzzuhgk274ke6g7ruh80enjm74ucln2m24hyxq2gf8fn

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bhavik@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

dappersister29@walletofsatoshi.com

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nos.lol

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2024-06-24 10:21:24

#btc Buyers are exhausted.
Buyers: https://image.nostr.build/1665184cb9754eeda95a7cfd48ca2a1bdc64d7eb199f1e72ec3d423b5f75aa0d.jpg

2024-06-23 03:56:26

Free CoinJoin for Wasabi and Btcpayserver users. Let’s go🚀
#note1wdh…mzgy

2024-06-22 12:19:19

Share it with your Hindi speaking Friends.
11th Weekly #Bitcoin show. #note15qh…357v

2024-06-16 11:39:16

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Sometimes…

2024-06-16 09:38:33

Quote from the book ‘Sovereign Individual’ https://image.nostr.build/e1aba25021801a145b1ee2696daaa88569c1d96c54314598b404a4779b9c31e3.jpg

2024-06-16 08:43:26

The reason we don’t need governments https://image.nostr.build/1d836b1944bbbae7692a7ea9abbc8bd23b30e5b6515590c524072392d5ad3402.jpg

2024-06-06 12:50:42

Do you guys know our PM Narendra Modi told everyone on TV before the national election that after the election result on 4th June, Stock Market will break the every records, and he literally advised to buy as much as one can.
Market crashed 9% on the day of the result.
People are retarded and vote him because he promises to provide safety against Muslims in the country.
Can you guys believe this is not a story but a reality????
https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/why-did-pm-and-home-minister-give-specific-investment-advice-to-5-cr-families-before-ls-polls-results-rahul-gandhi/amp_articleshow/110770210.cms

2024-06-06 10:02:27

The reason people don’t get #bitcoin yet https://image.nostr.build/1214127be6fab6f144f5c6e0a7cb770284827bae4ff000ef0b64892d6195ad17.jpg

2024-05-26 15:14:52

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waiting… 👍🫡

2024-05-26 15:13:06

👌🏻👌🏻❤️❤️
#note1pdr…f8cj

2024-05-26 15:09:43

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yes, people screaming ‘saylor saylor’ in Bitcoin Atlantis conference was scary

2024-05-26 15:01:26

Beware of Saylor friends!
what he talked on WBD about bitcoin development looks shit.

2024-05-26 07:31:11

First of all, Love yourself.
It is better to die than live in a slavery.
Be Open to new Ideas. Be open to #Bitcoin, study it. Learn how to use it, after that, teach others. Be vocal for the freedom. Ask your representatives about Bitcoin and force him to protect your fundamental rights.
Try to go on #bitcoin standard as soon as possible. Only hold dollars which you want in near future. Hold maximum of your net worth in bitcoin.
They are ready to eat you and throw your bones away whenever they get chance. Protect yourselves. #Bitcoin is the best tool we got against them.
Fight for the Freedom. https://image.nostr.build/b0bf79c8098d5b7943ad95b71e25d0e0499de968a27e737d2c4507ded77c5d12.jpg

2024-05-25 14:38:22

You want free lunch??? https://image.nostr.build/19caa05fdc1d6ea18090e3a555569c1c94c34657753651d166d1af5a78232c3e.jpg

2024-05-24 01:27:12

GOOD MORNING☀️🌅

2024-05-23 12:37:50

#love #nature #river https://image.nostr.build/781041d390db1e788051833ce873b6f8853cc1b0cee214f8a06ee59a009501df.jpg https://image.nostr.build/558ffbcfa188c348e30eb1e1c8b966ae7798f84b02dfc5367f3b93dc15f3211d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9bfdc10f994dd0efb9292af68b5138103915074d0850bcf44d7e5c83b96adac9.jpg

2024-05-22 09:35:42

Dear Yuval Harari
Bitcoin—the currency of distrust, you say? Because, clearly, trusting the same institutions that brought us the subprime mortgage crisis and have been fined billions for laundering money is the epitome of financial wisdom. Those banks and governments? Totally deserving of our faith. Who wouldn’t trust an entity that can print money at will and still manage to charge us for every little service like it’s their birthright?
You claim Bitcoin fans distrust human institutions. Well, duh! Why trust banks that treat our savings like chips in a casino, where the house always wins? At least with Bitcoin, my wealth isn't gambled away by someone who took a crash course in high-stakes finance and has a penchant for lavish bonuses.
And really, financial systems create trust? That’s adorable. My bank trusts me so much that they require a blood sample, a retina scan, and a note from my kindergarten teacher just to reset my password. But hey, it’s all in the name of security, right? Meanwhile, Bitcoin lets me send money across the globe without needing to know the colour of my first pet.
Sure, Bitcoin is like electronic gold. But unlike gold, which just sits there, Bitcoin is backed by cryptography—unlike your average bank, which is backed by...well, nothing but taxpayer bailouts and good vibes. And those “trustworthy” institutions you cherish? They’ve done a bang-up job ensuring that a small elite thrives while the rest of us are left playing financial whack-a-mole.
Speaking of trust, let’s talk about inflation over the last 50 years. Remember when a cup of coffee didn't cost an arm and a leg? Thanks to our beloved institutions printing money like it's going out of style, our savings have been evaporating exponentially. They say a little inflation is good, like a bit of sunshine. But we've been getting a financial sunburn every year since they discovered the magic of monetary printing and bailouts.
So, while you dream of a utopia where banks and governments suddenly become paragons of virtue, I’ll stick to my algorithms. At least they don’t embezzle, collude, or hold my money hostage on the weekends. Bitcoin may be a currency of distrust, but it’s built on the most trustworthy thing of all: mathematics
Best regards,
A Distrust Bitcoiner
#bitcoin #trust #inflation #distrust
https://video.nostr.build/3397482ec2148a791ea9748c1cf11267f6370b46d3191177a2439aaaf9d2543b.mp4

2024-05-21 07:52:04

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2024-05-20 13:01:58

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Check Your DM

2024-05-19 17:23:01

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2024-05-19 03:51:10

There are very few green & beautiful city in India. https://image.nostr.build/3eac2c8e51ee5ce1ce431dd4e7e0e7379d04a00861f072b1e40ba5a5fbc7b80e.jpg

2024-05-16 08:20:07

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Sadly, it is removed from the RSS feed too.

2024-05-16 08:18:08

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Maybe you got copyright on YouTube.
Will listen remaining on Fountain now😎😎 https://image.nostr.build/b754bd38a92f35bfbad982767b83f3f4355402d514a5492dba70cd5fe5c86156.jpg

2024-05-16 07:08:18

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Really amazing. Author has been so much far sighted.

2024-05-16 06:50:03

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Is it India?

2024-05-16 06:49:18

‘Sovereign Individual’ quotes https://image.nostr.build/4ad1a666e74dd46a1b6f5451b4e0c1d495a7d58249ab06fd593c7cb4343c3aca.jpg

2024-05-15 10:53:06

#nostr is growing.
#note1rr2…6ja6

2024-05-15 09:57:36

Thanks @npub1lh2…a9nk for protecting #bitcoin & us. https://image.nostr.build/0d404040492808485a3698dca2f7442055c07234f2a983f79a38d4742eb620d6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/49c2a9c0bac80758b54a4e0db930b6c825b81a287da0d370965fe677cc7df1d9.jpg

2024-05-15 04:10:48

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Even more neat👇
144 blocks get mined in 24 hours.
21 Million is the supply of Bitcoin.

2024-05-15 04:08:55

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Currently We are living in the same time.
Our currency is getting devalued by 15-20% annually and that rate is growing only.
Civilisations collapse is happening and our solution is #Bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/26a6e6d96aded1782b25f7b259ff5bdacc08a4588c94d8ac7190a9d9d332208d.jpg

2024-05-15 04:07:39

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It's said the Roman Empire fell due to apathy. By the time the 5th century barbarians came, belief in the system was gone, and invaders seen as liberators.
"The empire could no longer afford the problem of its own existence." https://image.nostr.build/77c12632fc7bd5056d7e88e17d966b1447c8b534e2468661c42bcdc4e829cf65.jpg

2024-05-15 04:06:59

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The masses slipped into serfdom and unrest, while the state grew larger and more authoritarian in response. The state was now keeping itself alive at all cost.
As Septimus Severus said: "Live in harmony; enrich the troops; ignore everyone else." https://image.nostr.build/b4e877f2487ab033223c25400f456512e27c3a61ecf22a3c163beac94b1e8e56.jpg

2024-05-15 04:06:35

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Who pays when the money system breaks?
People pay with their freedom. The currency was so worthless that the state demanded forced labor rather than accept its own coins as tax. Merchants had to provide goods directly to the state and army, and leaving their trade was outlawed. https://image.nostr.build/6dec74b7d05891d8e7f8dbd7b45dfad459c461da5993d64bc00c1433610217ee.jpg

2024-05-15 04:06:01

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Diocletian tried to stabilize matters by enforcing price caps on over 1,000 goods and services, but it failed. A modius of wheat that had cost 0.5 denarius in the second century, sold for over 10,000 in 338 AD. https://image.nostr.build/3c23dcd716adac71220b3fb1088c187f95022217a4cfe856a932619353d58ebd.jpg

2024-05-15 04:05:32

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But the state still struggled to pay troops — some abandoned the military and went about pillaging towns. And for half a century, the empire was on the brink of destruction: emperors were assassinated, barbarians sacked towns and enslaved citizens... https://image.nostr.build/37dd9d91105c52b8d1dd7b7f16865afe2bb4445827c6d0ba64a3e08414cf3a6b.jpg

2024-05-15 04:04:43

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By 268 AD, the denarius was 0.5% silver. A bag full of coins replicated the silver content of a single coin a century earlier.
By 300 AD, soldiers were paid 8x in denarius compared to a century ago, and wheat prices were up 200x. https://image.nostr.build/9c0cf7546a528bde309a5810c994a096cd370c96a9ba1767fa9c27dbd9a3690d.jpg

2024-05-15 04:04:12

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The denarius was down to 60% silver purity by the 3rd century AD. Of course, prices inflated with it.
Still, the state kept spending to maintain the illusion of prosperity, until things got really bad... https://image.nostr.build/578625aa3193d2763528bc8cf329083dcd3f9cafe08ca61887bef2d7247516f6.jpg

2024-05-15 04:03:38

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Nero had already begun clipping coins and diluting silver purity in 64 AD. The state soon got addicted to solving its problems this way — and lining the pockets of political insiders at the same time. https://image.nostr.build/18a893c6e91d9a2b36a6e71facc32941f4ffb839ec82dc539f4647288dd1785e.jpg

2024-05-15 04:02:48

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When soldiers' wages could no longer be paid, "debasing" the currency was the only option.
Emperors issued new denarius (the silver coin troops were paid in) with less and less silver content — i.e., further increasing the money supply. https://image.nostr.build/8529763b31725f2c5bde6a680a5116b252d108517cfbdc4dae0a1c8f69a2a82f.jpg

2024-05-15 04:02:16

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Frontiers across the empire came under attack in the 3rd century. Military expenses soared as entire provinces were being abandoned and their tax yields lost. Plus, the mines were drying up... https://image.nostr.build/c7d22c639a3087e12affd6df8c1f5dc46220bc7eae61400a176c0e0e90daa66b.jpg

2024-05-15 04:01:52

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But the army was an immense burden. In the mid-2nd century, it was 70% of the entire budget — half a million soldiers were on the payroll.
Then, crisis struck. https://image.nostr.build/9a34f36094d381a569e8da39283a0ad3fcaae9c25eff8276617cd1f01ade13eb.jpg

2024-05-15 04:01:28

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Whenever costs exceeded tax income, emperors minted new coins to cover it. Mining precious metals increased the supply of gold and silver coinage.
Things remained pretty stable for two centuries... https://image.nostr.build/959c993d8c182d59fa1b72d89a458648db98ba403d56f2f29fc122763be870b3.jpg

2024-05-15 04:00:58

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When Augustus slowed the expansion of the empire, wealth stopped flowing from conquered lands into the treasury. Managing expenditures (construction, armies, bureaucracy) became increasingly difficult. https://image.nostr.build/5e29c6390a7bfa716145db84816731f38db868f58e15e66128898eaa51eb75dc.jpg

2024-05-15 04:00:33

Does inflation lead to civilizational collapse?
Well, in the 3rd century, the Roman Empire began to buckle under the weight of state spending.
It frantically "printed" money until things went horribly wrong... (thread) 🧵
(Copied from Culture_Crit on X) https://image.nostr.build/2b3f16e810e961304e938be3cca8a2a21c16178fc0ffe88495275d6216691e30.jpg

2024-05-13 15:42:14

#food #indiandish https://image.nostr.build/7ebc982c3e4e9a542e4042926dc086e8c1f1ec544869645b79d4d5aa26a217e9.jpg #note1vmj…2p2g

2024-05-13 07:00:26

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I started thought upon this and now I realise we need it more than ever.
Thanks for the best advise🙏🏻💪🏻

2024-05-13 06:59:49

Small support matters.
@npub1gmm…daz2 🙏🏻 https://image.nostr.build/4f91bae517232a00948b6448c8a20b5b45fe38fcfa59d8548e24a68ac1df9a22.jpg #note1qwe…4v23

2024-05-12 17:12:19

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Absolutely, loved your idea. Will start working on this👍

2024-05-11 11:52:11

#indianthali prepared by my wife.
#food
🥰 https://image.nostr.build/e62d8c0a5c735d0cae2ae4c6257e6ad4fde131d5281b5237de0d60cda9af8b14.jpg

2024-05-10 06:46:53

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You can join the podcast, i will teach you😃😊

2024-05-10 06:46:36

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😃😃

2024-05-10 05:04:32

Excellent #podcast with @npub1q7t…2980
He shared his personal journey about how he got into #Bitcoin technical development with the help from @npub1m49…u22l in India and how you can learn and contribute to #Bitcoin ecosystem.
Enjoy the show, share it with your loved one❤️
🙏🏻
youtu.be/ErNWAa38N4w

2024-05-07 11:04:47

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This is the plant. We call ‘Chhui Mui’ in India
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_pudica

2024-05-07 01:34:19

Good Morning 🌅 https://video.nostr.build/1b80796f5d5a6f540ccd062a8104056a9d24ddceca051b3d4a77bf69c8cd6d33.mp4

2024-05-04 09:40:12

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Lots of Love❤️😊

2024-05-03 07:56:23

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That’s why we go #NOSTR only

2024-05-01 08:59:09

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Indian food are best in the world😍

2024-05-01 08:31:56

NO QUESTION PLEASE 😂
#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/472df14d0da4777f3f2b6ed7a52940dab6cc06b2582162dff5acc43500c070d7.png

2024-04-30 11:15:39

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https://image.nostr.build/bbea1ad4257b5433fe1294d02fce2964757f5ac97dd555b24a5909ff5e648d08.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b2622f142440781cd1a7bb7b684395c074603da4607f09c23c57bfed3e0e0b8b.jpg

2024-04-30 11:15:11

In the last 24 Hours, Fees have been around ~0.3 BTC per block resulting at 8-10% of the total block rewards.
Inefficient miners are going to price out soon if price doesn’t double.
Free market playing out. Search for cheap energy continues and market pushes industry to be extremely efficient and productive.
Nature at its best. #note19ak…fn7q

2024-04-29 12:39:14

Do this everybody
https://x.com/vegastarr/status/1784680827038708178?s=46

2024-04-27 14:16:46

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Fight for the Freedom
Fight for the Privacy
Fight for the Love.

2024-04-27 14:14:01

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😃🙏🏻

2024-04-27 13:09:36

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yeah I didn't notice that. Sorry man 🫡

2024-04-27 13:05:54

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sorry if I have hurt you anyway. I think we should discuss more about Human rights, Freedom, Privacy, saving our wealth. Sorry it was me who started this conversation of shitty things. 🙏🏻😊

2024-04-26 15:20:33

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It’s all unethical, so is government

2024-04-26 15:20:11

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Definitely & 100%

2024-04-26 14:58:47

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And these subjects who are valuing these ordinals will be scammed by VC money, that’s all I an saying

2024-04-26 12:04:10

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True but irrelevant here

2024-04-26 11:55:49

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Yes true zero and ones are truly fundamentally fungible

2024-04-26 11:55:11

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Still Inscription, Ordinals and Runes, all these shit has zero value

2024-04-26 11:54:25

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We cannot say same for Money.
Central database for Money is not the solution at all.
Money should be free, not in control of anyone. Free Your money from the control of these corrupt people, Utopia will come automatically

2024-04-26 11:52:50

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By all means, Monetary value of Bitcoin is by far superior and the most important things right now.
First people save their ass from the debasement of their currency, then we will live in this beautiful NFT world.
Try to identify the bigger problem around us.
All these NFTs and other things are bullshit. Bot necessary at all right now.
Do open your eyes please

2024-04-26 11:41:36

Stand Up. Stand up. Stand Up.
#note14vx…j4nt

2024-04-26 11:27:22

Philip Zimmermann
Why I Wrote PGP
Part of the Original 1991 PGP User's Guide (updated in 1999)
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
-Mahatma Gandhi
It's personal. It's private. And it's no one's business but yours. You may be planning a political campaign, discussing your taxes, or having an illicit affair. Or you may be communicating with a political dissident in a repressive country. Whatever it is, you don't want your private electronic mail (email) or confidential documents read by anyone else. There's nothing wrong with asserting your privacy. Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitution.
The right to privacy is spread implicitly throughout the Bill of Rights. But when the United States Constitution was framed, the Founding Fathers saw no need to explicitly spell out the right to a private conversation. That would have been silly. Two hundred years ago, all conversations were private. If someone else was within earshot, you could just go out behind the barn and have your conversation there. No one could listen in without your knowledge. The right to a private conversation was a natural right, not just in a philosophical sense, but in a law-of-physics sense, given the technology of the time.
But with the coming of the information age, starting with the invention of the telephone, all that has changed. Now most of our conversations are conducted electronically. This allows our most intimate conversations to be exposed without our knowledge. Cellular phone calls may be monitored by anyone with a radio. Electronic mail, sent across the Internet, is no more secure than cellular phone calls. Email is rapidly replacing postal mail, becoming the norm for everyone, not the novelty it was in the past.
Until recently, if the government wanted to violate the privacy of ordinary citizens, they had to expend a certain amount of expense and labor to intercept and steam open and read paper mail. Or they had to listen to and possibly transcribe spoken telephone conversation, at least before automatic voice recognition technology became available. This kind of labor-intensive monitoring was not practical on a large scale. It was only done in important cases when it seemed worthwhile. This is like catching one fish at a time, with a hook and line. Today, email can be routinely and automatically scanned for interesting keywords, on a vast scale, without detection. This is like driftnet fishing. And exponential growth in computer power is making the same thing possible with voice traffic.
Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut? Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their email?
What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity.
Senate Bill 266, a 1991 omnibus anticrime bill, had an unsettling measure buried in it. If this non-binding resolution had become real law, it would have forced manufacturers of secure communications equipment to insert special "trap doors" in their products, so that the government could read anyone's encrypted messages. It reads, "It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law." It was this bill that led me to publish PGP electronically for free that year, shortly before the measure was defeated after vigorous protest by civil libertarians and industry groups.
The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) mandated that phone companies install remote wiretapping ports into their central office digital switches, creating a new technology infrastructure for "point-and-click" wiretapping, so that federal agents no longer have to go out and attach alligator clips to phone lines. Now they will be able to sit in their headquarters in Washington and listen in on your phone calls. Of course, the law still requires a court order for a wiretap. But while technology infrastructures can persist for generations, laws and policies can change overnight. Once a communications infrastructure optimized for surveillance becomes entrenched, a shift in political conditions may lead to abuse of this new-found power. Political conditions may shift with the election of a new government, or perhaps more abruptly from the bombing of a federal building.
A year after the CALEA passed, the FBI disclosed plans to require the phone companies to build into their infrastructure the capacity to simultaneously wiretap 1 percent of all phone calls in all major U.S. cities. This would represent more than a thousandfold increase over previous levels in the number of phones that could be wiretapped. In previous years, there were only about a thousand court-ordered wiretaps in the United States per year, at the federal, state, and local levels combined. It's hard to see how the government could even employ enough judges to sign enough wiretap orders to wiretap 1 percent of all our phone calls, much less hire enough federal agents to sit and listen to all that traffic in real time. The only plausible way of processing that amount of traffic is a massive Orwellian application of automated voice recognition technology to sift through it all, searching for interesting keywords or searching for a particular speaker's voice. If the government doesn't find the target in the first 1 percent sample, the wiretaps can be shifted over to a different 1 percent until the target is found, or until everyone's phone line has been checked for subversive traffic. The FBI said they need this capacity to plan for the future. This plan sparked such outrage that it was defeated in Congress. But the mere fact that the FBI even asked for these broad powers is revealing of their agenda.
Advances in technology will not permit the maintenance of the status quo, as far as privacy is concerned. The status quo is unstable. If we do nothing, new technologies will give the government new automatic surveillance capabilities that Stalin could never have dreamed of. The only way to hold the line on privacy in the information age is strong cryptography.
You don't have to distrust the government to want to use cryptography. Your business can be wiretapped by business rivals, organized crime, or foreign governments. Several foreign governments, for example, admit to using their signals intelligence against companies from other countries to give their own corporations a competitive edge. Ironically, the United States government's restrictions on cryptography in the 1990's have weakened U.S. corporate defenses against foreign intelligence and organized crime.
The government knows what a pivotal role cryptography is destined to play in the power relationship with its people. In April 1993, the Clinton administration unveiled a bold new encryption policy initiative, which had been under development at the National Security Agency (NSA) since the start of the Bush administration. The centerpiece of this initiative was a government-built encryption device, called the Clipper chip, containing a new classified NSA encryption algorithm. The government tried to encourage private industry to design it into all their secure communication products, such as secure phones, secure faxes, and so on. AT&T put Clipper into its secure voice products. The catch: At the time of manufacture, each Clipper chip is loaded with its own unique key, and the government gets to keep a copy, placed in escrow. Not to worry, though–the government promises that they will use these keys to read your traffic only "when duly authorized by law." Of course, to make Clipper completely effective, the next logical step would be to outlaw other forms of cryptography.
The government initially claimed that using Clipper would be voluntary, that no one would be forced to use it instead of other types of cryptography. But the public reaction against the Clipper chip was strong, stronger than the government anticipated. The computer industry monolithically proclaimed its opposition to using Clipper. FBI director Louis Freeh responded to a question in a press conference in 1994 by saying that if Clipper failed to gain public support, and FBI wiretaps were shut out by non-government-controlled cryptography, his office would have no choice but to seek legislative relief. Later, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City tragedy, Mr. Freeh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that public availability of strong cryptography must be curtailed by the government (although no one had suggested that cryptography was used by the bombers).
The government has a track record that does not inspire confidence that they will never abuse our civil liberties. The FBI's COINTELPRO program targeted groups that opposed government policies. They spied on the antiwar movement and the civil rights movement. They wiretapped the phone of Martin Luther King. Nixon had his enemies list. Then there was the Watergate mess. More recently, Congress has either attempted to or succeeded in passing laws curtailing our civil liberties on the Internet. Some elements of the Clinton White House collected confidential FBI files on Republican civil servants, conceivably for political exploitation. And some overzealous prosecutors have shown a willingness to go to the ends of the Earth in pursuit of exposing sexual indiscretions of political enemies. At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
Throughout the 1990s, I figured that if we want to resist this unsettling trend in the government to outlaw cryptography, one measure we can apply is to use cryptography as much as we can now while it's still legal. When use of strong cryptography becomes popular, it's harder for the government to criminalize it. Therefore, using PGP is good for preserving democracy. If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
It appears that the deployment of PGP must have worked, along with years of steady public outcry and industry pressure to relax the export controls. In the closing months of 1999, the Clinton administration announced a radical shift in export policy for crypto technology. They essentially threw out the whole export control regime. Now, we are finally able to export strong cryptography, with no upper limits on strength. It has been a long struggle, but we have finally won, at least on the export control front in the US. Now we must continue our efforts to deploy strong crypto, to blunt the effects increasing surveillance efforts on the Internet by various governments. And we still need to entrench our right to use it domestically over the objections of the FBI.
PGP empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it. That's why I wrote it.
Philip R. Zimmermann
Boulder, Colorado
June 1991 (updated 1999)

2024-04-26 07:14:25

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Yes it is me. Old profile picture

2024-04-25 15:02:33

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Be aware of this fake account pretending to be Lyn Alden

2024-04-22 12:39:37

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🤭

2024-04-22 12:37:38

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What’s your opinion?

2024-04-22 12:36:47

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@npub1ucw…2xnx

2024-04-22 12:36:08

Some Indian Equity investors are not falling behind to spread irrelevant rumours about Bitcoin.
I thought to give them an honest answer.
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https://youtu.be/Gwb-9mriciU
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#education
#nostr
#orangepill

2024-04-21 14:10:41

LOVE YOU ALL BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
❤️
https://video.nostr.build/8a25c83935a79b9f3eca0350180dca29233c51c13884ea1f0d7ec7aaaf4f1d32.mp4

2024-04-21 04:43:21

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So I think there is an exception which is Bitcoin Block

2024-04-21 04:42:57

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Yes true. But you don’t need blockchain for digital ticket for a concert. It can be done via traditional database too.

2024-04-21 03:25:04

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This is one if six verses of ‘Nirvana Shatkam’

2024-04-21 03:24:28

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❤️

2024-04-20 14:29:30

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Now I know You love Shiva so much.
Did you check “Nirvana Shatkam” after our last chat? Maybe you should, You will love it.

2024-04-20 14:27:20

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😳 you caught me

2024-04-20 14:25:35

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Awesome. Loved it how you articulated your views. ❤️
After all, Life is a war and everyone has to fight it.

2024-04-20 13:43:50

To Inscription frenzy:
If something is Non-Fungible & Digital, then how can it be Non-Fungible.
Your inscriptions have zero value, Open your eyes.

2024-04-20 13:01:54

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Nice. I believe same too but slightly different.
Roots of Austrian economy lies in Vedanta and somehow leads to our Indian Ancient knowledge about self & freedom.
The reason I found it very necessary to dive into Bitcoin technical is because of the lack of spiritual or let’s say lack of Wisdom in the many developers.
Freedom & Love is the mother out which everything springs out.

2024-04-20 11:37:36

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❤️

2024-04-20 11:36:35

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👀

2024-04-20 11:36:15

Sad to see.
God bless them.
I hope Bitcoin can fix this.
#note17py…pzzv

2024-04-20 05:13:51

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Which client you are using to zap?

2024-04-20 05:10:10

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Received zaps, Thanks😊
If you are using Primal, it will show below the post. Amethyst also shows it I assume.
or you can check on https://nostr.band

2024-04-20 05:09:04

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https://nostr.band/npub10hcsqj6587uc5whzzuhgk274ke6g7ruh80enjm74ucln2m24hyxq2gf8fn?overview=zaps-received

2024-04-20 02:38:02

Credit - @npub1rkf…8huy 👌🏻👌🏻 https://video.nostr.build/fe8fdfb487d9178463357769a39938455ee82ad26eb2a9fea9b04e79c2102efb.mp4

2024-04-20 02:20:02

We celebrated Bitcoin Halving from India🥰
https://www.youtube.com/live/G_n3FZx9k9s?

2024-04-20 01:22:28

SATS ARE MORE VALUABLE NOW🎉