novospes / Simon is on Nostr

What's the work worth doing?

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2026-08-06 07:31:19 UTC

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It's more the total picture. Authoritarianism/surveillance on the rise, costs are up, wages depressed, AI uncertainty, Bitcoin meh
Can we catch a break?

2026-07-28 08:59:22 UTC

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2026-07-24 09:01:21 UTC

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"It can be used to evade lawful surveillance"
No, it means your population doesn't consent to your surveillance. Have fun enforcing this.

2026-07-23 13:11:46 UTC

resistance room
https://blossom.primal.net/a5ae2ba319dd700ddb0dcd2b82e09e5143d3db63d52f10172e6d6b128e3c913b.jpg

2026-07-22 12:31:39 UTC

every problem that can be solved with software will be solved - and government can be solved with software

2026-07-21 14:08:01 UTC

I don't follow politics and I didn't vote in the last 2 elections. I used to, but I don't believe anymore it makes any difference.
This year alone in the EU I've watched private messages cleared for scanning (chat-control), passport-gated government-backed social-media (wsocial), introduction of the Digital Euro, more financial surveillance (DAC8/Mica), unrealized capital gain taxes (NL) and more ALPR/face recognition camera's being deployed (IPolice).
The reason given is usually protecting children or catching criminals - But I think this is just marketing.
Most european governments are financially indebted and want more visibility and control over what people do, say and spend beyond the consent of their citizens.
I don't agree with this direction and I do not consent to it. I don't consent to my location being tracked, my money being controlled, my opinion being censored, my private messages being read, nor the tax rate I pay for my government services. And increasingly I hear this from all my peers as well.
What the world needs are smaller, local and more transparent governments with more accountabillity to their citizens. But we will not get there anymore by voting for it. Governments these days primarily work for their own interests as opposed to serving the public.
If not voting, what still makes a difference in this?
The answer I keep coming to is: Don't fight the rain; get busy building and boarding the ark. Instead of fighting the system you simply leave it.
Here's how:
**Messaging:** Signal, SimpleX, Matrix, Session, White noise, Briar
**Social media**: Nostr (Primal, Damus, Amethyst)
**Money:** Vexl, Peach BTC, HodlHodl, Robotsats, Trocador, Peer.xyz, Bisq
**Wallets**: Sparrow, Electrum, BlueWallet, Cake Wallet
**Email**: Proton Mail, Tuta Mail, StartMail
**VPN:** Mullvad, Proton
**Browser:** Brave
**Others:** kycnot.me, thenewoil.org, privacyguides.org, prism-break.org, techlore.tech
Use, build and spread freedom tools. Resist surveillance.

2026-07-18 09:28:22 UTC

A friend recently asked me for a simple way to track Bitcoin transactions for accounting purposes, so I decided to build this.
It's a watch-only, local, privacy-first desktop app that allows companies, accountants and individuals to:
- Track balances of multiple self-hosted wallets (Support for Ledger, Trezor, Bitcoin public key and multisig wallets)
- Anonymously get all transactions (no account, no trackers, uses tor)
- Graph your portfolio value over time
- Calculate total and per-transaction profit/loss
- Export everything to CSV or XLSX for your accountant
- Support for Dollar, Pound and Euro
All data is stored encrypted on your device. Open source and 100% transparent, so you can verify it yourself (or ask Claude!).
Not sure if more people have a use for this, but thought to share it here anyway :).
You can try it out with:
Single:
zpub6rFR7y4Q2AijBEqTUquhVz398htDFrtymD9xYYfG1m4wAcvPhXNfE3EfH1r1ADqtfSdVCToUG868RvUUkgDKf31mGDtKsAYz2oz2AGutZYs
Multisig:
wsh(sortedmulti(2,[c11316a7/48h/0h/0h/2h]xpub6FQugx6w2qbE7NZVWA5CesqfzgSH5sMC1J2sWRoaDs7fQfVH9Q2XPt7o2Sy4Xy766LqX7WfK6Ha4kq8HPfmrMX7PjSs5RgFzSPoZNzEdr5J/<0;1>/*,[fe609b68/48h/0h/0h/2h]xpub6EtrtSnZJoAT3U6rExLoqvUAM7bjAWZP9RYK6Z7kMW6E6JPDe7Ji6QpzvitLLChrjL2LiKLFJSvseZ9N7XqTJE6m3gnBSeBYHBRfd3mKUXA/<0;1>/*))#uc6npw4d
Feedback welcome!
https://github.com/SimonSomlai/bittracker

2026-07-04 09:10:45 UTC

Complain less about rain, build the ark.

2026-07-02 08:35:51 UTC

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What's the best place to learn about the Paraguay residency?

2026-06-22 08:16:19 UTC

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avoiding lifestyle creep is the ultimate freedom

2026-06-17 08:52:06 UTC

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Locked in!
https://blossom.primal.net/04074ecda273813b798145317c181e89dde53346ca2656368d9cad3113ef52d2.png

2026-06-16 16:45:19 UTC

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peptides

2026-06-15 20:21:33 UTC

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You missed this one; https://cryptobriefing.com/ecb-conference-digital-payments-tokenised-markets/ :p

2026-06-15 20:18:52 UTC

Find me at: wss://relay.novospes.com/

2026-04-24 10:46:08 UTC

Understand any abstract concept with this AI prompt:
Explain X to me, by answering the following questions about this topic:
- Feynman start (What's it like? What does it solve?)
- What are good analogies I could use to explain this topic to someone else? Find these online! "analogy for.."/ "x..explained simply"
- Why does this exist? What does it try to solve/prevent? (What's the problem it solves/prevent?)
- What analogies, metaphors, flowcharts, diagrams, drawings, loci, anagrams, anchoring canyou give me to capture this?

2025-06-22 18:50:29 UTC

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In a monetary transition it's smart to sell the weak currency and buy the hard currency - It's using the system against them.
It's working smarter, not working fucking hard. Leverage is a great tool for the dedicated and financially healthy that can afford the drawdown and debt servicing.
Lend fiat against your house/stocks, lever up 2/3x, buy btc, make sure you can finance it and for once in history let the stupid banks hold the bag.
Not sure a default would even be a bad thing tbh
it's all those things

2025-06-20 14:21:32 UTC

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Found my people! ❤

2025-02-19 18:41:50 UTC

Just trying out NOSTR