Escape the Technocracy

Gabriel Custodiet talks to Max Tannahill about Bitcoin privacy, Monero, and phone privacy. Max is a dedicated and well respected experimenter with wallets and the practical tools that the limousine crypto class would never sully themselves with. As such, Max's views on these topics—such as Monero as the best layer 2 for Bitcoin and the damage of Taproot and Covenants—come from the thoughtful mind of a rare actual user of these digital technologies.

If you're new to Bitcoin, watch these first (in order) → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1-uiQZUUQ → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FNUKkrG_9A → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHq8YXpw9I → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OmYqq7BPSw → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSf0_To8GmE

Guest Links → https://twitter.com/maxtannahill

References → https://twitter.com/pokkst → https://twitter.com/fluffypony → https://twitter.com/reardencode → https://t.me/monerujounderground (Monero Telegram) → https://t.me/SovereignBitcoiner (Telegram group; Monero friendly) → https://foundationdevices.com/envoy/ (Envoy Wallet) → https://stackwallet.com/ (The 'if iPhone' wallet)

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Timeline

0:00 – Introduction 0:54 – Intro to Max Tannahill and traditional financial surveillance 6:30 – Privacy problems of Singapore and global cities 9:36 – Max's crypto-based privacy phone business Mamushi 13:00 – CalyxOS and microG 18:03 – Telegram a mistake for privacy/freedom communities? 21:05 – Fundamental problem of phones = NFC and GPS 26:30 – Traditional finance tools for freedom 29:50 – Other privacy coins 33:00 – Max's Monero tools 36:20 – Dubai forbids Monero 39:40 – Monero as layer 2 of Bitcoin 42:20 – Monero's big fat problem 45:05 – Monero resources 47:14 – Rapid Fire 50:45 – What value does Bitcoin have? 52:00 – What happened to SovrynBitcoin website? 52:37 – Before BIP39 how did people back up funds? 53:28 – What is Taproot? 56:21 – Core developers vs real users of Bitcoin 58:38 – What are Covenants and CTV? 1:07:00 – Wallets besides Samourai and Sparrow 1:08:38 – Atomic swaps (and Samourai Wallet) 1:13:41 – Max isn't concerned about fee rates 1:16:00 – Final thoughts

#WatchmanPrivacy #MaxTannahill #Monero #Bitcoin

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Ragnar Lifthrasir about the upcoming Bitcoin and Monero event: Finney Forum, and some other topics.

Guest Links → https://finneyforum.com/ → https://ragnarly.com/media/ → https://twitter.com/RagnarLif

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Timeline

0:00 – Introduction 0:50 – Introduction to Ragnar Lifthrasir 2:30 – How did Guns N Bitcoin differ from normie Bitcoin conferences? 4:15 – Details of Finney Forum 9:22 – Privacy registration 11:52 – Monero most used payment method 13:36 – Spending versus savings 16:06 – Final thoughts

#WatchmanPrivacy #FinneyForum #RagnarLifthrasir #GunsandBitcoin

Gabriel Custodiet talks Bitcoin mining with a major player in self-mining. This is the best introduction to the who, why, what, and how of mining. As always, with no compromise on self-sovereignty, ownership, no KYC, and privacy.

Guest Links → https://diverter.hostyourown.tools/mining-for-the-streets/ (Diverter's original article) → https://twitter.com/Diverter_NoKYC → https://paynym.is/+diverter

References → https://www.econoalchemist.com/post/home-mining-for-non-kyc-bitcoin → https://upstreamdata.com/products-services/bitcoin-mining-loadcenters/black-box/ → https://upstreamdata.com/upstreamdata-diy-blackbox/ → https://kaboomracks.com/buying-mining-equipment/ (happens via Telegram) → https://minefarmbuy.com/ → https://www.blockwaresolutions.com → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod256-bitcoin-mining-news-analysis/id1657814571 → https://t.me/HomeMiningWizards (Helpful Telegram group for amateurs) → https://twitter.com/CoinHeated (ASIC immersion) →https://twitter.com/zbomstaz (single board ASIC)

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Timeline

0:00 – Introduction 1:15 – Explanation of Bitcoin mining 6:06 – What is the power of miners in Bitcoin ecosystem? 12:00 – Examples of mining censorship 17:40 – Brief history of Bitcoin mining 24:45 – Inevitable regulation of Bitcoin mining due to blatant money transmission 31:22 – Government bans of Bitcoin mining 36:37 – Geopolitics of Bitcoin ASIC machines 41:25 – What is the Bitcoin Mining Council? 45:45 – Price of electricity differs widely around the world 50:00 – Discouraged from self mining? 56:45 – What is cloud mining and mining hosting? 1:04:00 – Are mined bitcoin untainted? 1:09:22 – Summary of self-mining 1:10:10 – Setting up electricity 1:16:20 – Limit to how many ASICs you can run in house? 1:21:21 – Sound and heat suppression 1:27:20 – Places to buy ASIC in person? 1:29:55 – Ways to buy an ASIC 1:34:34 – Best ASIC to buy 1:40:00 – Buying ASIC privately 1:44:42 – Which mining pool to join 1:49:50 – Mining altcoins 1:51:45 – Mining resources 1:56:10 – Final thoughts

#WatchmanPrivacy #BitcoinMining #DiverterNoKYC

Gabriel Custodiet appropriates (hopefully commodifies) the famous Frankfurt School essay "The Culture Industry" as a way to examine how consumerism contaminates us: and what we can do about it.

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Gabriel Custodiet shares some of the best moments of 2023 from The Watchman Privacy Podcast.

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Timeline

0:00 – Introduction 2:21 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8cDdeu50k 4:32 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hAtO8-Wzcg 7:48 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCU9f_9s120 11:58 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6_ekCO_gfc 18:32 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fByagxDetVI 27:20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x9NJ1dyYTU 33:03 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBOrmtD4ZA4 40:08 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwwPwsAnQGY 45:24 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSf0_To8GmE 49:21 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt7fP8qBoHw 52:27 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbtN6wJqK1M 56:30 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kes3oDPpNqE 58:17 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O4E6387__U 59:55 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPMqPrysoJs 1:02:26 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srqya9hrmpY 1:07:05 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHq8YXpw9I 1:12:02 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk3JeMahWx4

#WatchmanPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #CyberSecurity

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Urban Hacker about a smattering of digital privacy topics: Tor versus VPNs, Kodi and digital media servers, Bitcoin and Monero, Samourai Wallet stack, sandboxing, phone privacy, and GrapheneOS.

Previous episodes with Urban Hacker on Tor → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbtN6wJqK1M → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Vpb3xVtEA

Mentioned → https://urbanhacker.net/bitcoin-dust-horizon/ (The Dust Horizon) → https://urbanhacker.net/badass-media-center-for-your-tv/ (Media server intro)

Guest Links → https://urbanhacker.net/ → https://twitter.com/realUrbanHacker → https://t.me/Realurbanhacker (Telegram) → https://tallycoin.app/@realurbanhacker/the-orange-pill-simulator-zzjq3lmF (Urban Hacker's Bitcoin game)

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Timeline

0:00 – Beginning 0:42 – Tor versus VPNs 10:43 – What is Urban Hacker's stack 12:25 – Using bitcoin on a daily basis 14:30 – Rolling physical dice for Bitcoin private keys 18:07 – What is Samourai Wallet Sentinel? 20:18 – Luke and Ocean Mining debacle 24:58 – Bitcoin and Monero and altcoin mining 26:09 – Bitcoin transaction cost depends on byte size, not amount of sats 29:07 – The Dust Horizon 31:09 – When do you use Bitcoin versus Monero? 31:22 – Private media servers, TVs, Kodi 36:48 – What is sandboxing? Also, GrapheneOS and phone privacy. 46:25 – Final thoughts from Urban Hacker

#WatchmanPrivacy #TorVPNs #CyberSecurity #BitcoinPrivacy

Gabriel Custodiet speaks for a second time with the anarchist philosopher Doug Casey. And once again they discuss topics Doug Casey rarely comments on: how anarchy holds up to foreign empires, what Doug would refuse to sell on darknet marketplaces, whether the will to power isn't a better ethic to follow, the morality of investing in "defense" stocks, and jury nullification.

Guest Links → https://www.amazon.com/Totally-Incorrect-Conversations-Doug-Casey/dp/0988285134 → https://internationalman.com (recommend the newsletter) → https://highgroundseries.com/ → https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Investing-Rest-Douglas-Casey/dp/1559721774 → https://www.youtube.com/@DougCaseysTake

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Timeline

0:00 – Introduction 0:17 – How do you know the non-aggression principle is correct? 5:25 – Isn't the will to power more natural? 7:36 – How would anarchy hold up to ambitions of other imperial governments? 11:31 – Would Doug Casey have any limits to his darknet marketplace? 15:30 – Is it moral to invest in war stocks? 19:15 – Jury nullification 21:50 – Upcoming book 'Terrorist' 23:45 – Final thoughts

#WatchmanPrivacy #DougCasey #SilkRoad #JuryNullification

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Zelko of RoninDojo and Samourai Wallet. They unpack the crazy politics in the Bitcoin community: from the fuzzy "red lines" of Bitcoin companies, to the gradual diminishment of Bitcoin's cypherpunk origins, to FOSS gaslighting and the recent Ocean Mining censorship. Oh, and Bitcoin is not for Progressives.

If you're new to Bitcoin, watch these first (in order) → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1-uiQZUUQ → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FNUKkrG_9A → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHq8YXpw9I → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OmYqq7BPSw → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSf0_To8GmE

Zelko and RoninDojo → https://ronindojo.io/ → https://twitter.com/BTCxZelko → https://twitter.com/RoninDojoNode → https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/citadel-dispatch-e026-using/ (Node comparison)

Samourai Wallet → https://samouraiwallet.com/ → https://twitter.com/samouraiwallet → https://t.me/SamouraiWallet (Telegram group) → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPY-5SR-jPQ (Bitcoin: An Experiment in Anarchism)

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Timeline

0:00 – Introduction 0:31 – Bitcoin is like a ship 5:23 – What are your red lines as a Bitcoin company? 11:32 – Why did Bitcoin move away from being cypherpunk? 19:20 – Mass adoption is the poison pill 24:30 – Software that isn't FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) 40:00 – Bitcoin is not apolitical, nor for Progressives 45:19 – Savings versus spending 48:35 – Ocean Mining versus Whirlpool 1:03:58 – The failure of the Lightning Network 1:17:07 – Criticism of Samourai Wallet 1:25:47 – Final Thoughts

#WatchmanPrivacy #SamouraiWallet #Bitcoin #RoninDojo

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Nicholas Anthony, co-creator of CBDC Tracker. They discuss how Central Bank Digital Currencies will work practically, their myriad logistical problems, and their legality in the United States. They also cover the unrecognized economic problems of CBDCs, black box debanking, cybersecurity concerns of CBDCs, CBDCs as a PSYOP, Operation Choke Point, the Financial Tyranny Index, and more. Anthony's scholarly take on CBDCs is much appreciated.

Guest Links → https://cbdctracker.hrf.org → https://www.cato.org/people/nicholas-anthony → https://twitter.com/EconWithNick → https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/central-bank-digital-currency → https://github.com/vexl-it/fti (Financial Tyranny Index)

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Timeline

0:00 – Introduction 3:20 – Worst countries for CBDCs 4:42 – How do CBDCs work at a practical level? 7:33 – Citizen requirements to use a CBDC and how would foreigners use CBDCs? 10:55 – What stood out to you about the CBDC Tracker project? 14:10 – Should Americans be worried about their developing CBDC? 17:55 – Can US Federal Reserve create a CBDC without government approval? 21:00 – What is the real reason they want a CBDC? 26:05 – Other disruptions that CBDCs can cause with economies? 30:13 – Security concerns of CBDCs 34:50 – CBDCs as a PSYOP 39:17 – Operation Choke Point 43:22 – Debanking 47:50 – Financial Tyranny Index 51:35 – Final thoughts

#WatchmanPrivacy #CBDCs #CBDCTracker #NicholasAnthony

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