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- OnTheRun to accept bitcoin payments in Australia

- Overton window shifting to include bitcoin, inflation, and the debt crisis

- Why upgrade your email privacy?

- Google is monitoring you, censoring content, and feeding/teaching their artificial intelligence systems with your data

- What to look for in a private email provider?

- End-to-end and zero-knowledge encryption, free and open source, and good reputation

- What's the easiest way to make the move to a private email account?

- Having a Password Manager can make transitioning to private email easier

- Keep your old email account open and gradually transfer data and subscriptions across to your newer private email service - this makes the process easier and reduces the chance of forgetting to transfer something across

- Step 1: Sign-up to a private email provider, eg, ProtonMail, Tutanota, or CTemplar

- ProtonMail is a good all-round choice (easy to sign-up privately, more features than others, long-term reputation, and continuing to build a privacy-focused ecosystem including calendar, cloud storage, VPN service, etc)

- Try to sign-up without linking the new email address to an email, phone number, or IP address already associated with you - this is probably unnecessary, but good for privacy practice!

- How to choose a username for your new private email address (full name, first name, pseudonym or otherwise)?

- Step 2: Sign-up to an email alias forwarding service, eg, AnonAddy or SimpleLogin

- How do email alias forwarding services work?

- What username to choose for email alias forwarding services?

- Step 3: Provide an email alias for every website you sign-up to in future

- How else can you use email alias forwarding service (eg, replying from the alias and disabling aliases)?

- Checking yourself out on www.haveibeenpwned.com to see if any of your emails or passwords have been compromised in known data breaches

- Good privacy can result in better security, eg, protecting against credential stuffing attacks based on data breaches

- Recent MailChimp and HubSpot data breaches

- Social engineering attacks are harder to employ against someone who uses a private email, email alias forwarding service, and a password manager

- Which password manager should you use? BitWarden - although there'll be a separate podcast and article released about that soon

- If you're missing Google Meets audio and video calling, then look into Jitsi, Signal, or Impervious.ai's upcoming browser

- Don't let perfect be the enemy of good! Start today and make gradual steps over time