Was even lower earlier $112. Load up while it lasts. 💯

I've stopped posting comments on yt. I tell creators if they want interaction with me, start posting on nostr. Annoyingly, if I mention nostr in the comment on YouTube, the algo removes my comment.

Madness! savings at risk too. I remember hearing a few months about ecb Christine lagarde going after European savers. We in uk aren't immune either. I know it doesn't matter who is in power but I'd rather have Nigel Farage any day. I have a feeling he won't be as bad. Maybe even half good. Early election some how needs to be triggered 🙏

Bloody hell, I didn't know banks will be given this power after 7th oct to freeze transactions above £800 for 4 days! You know why they are doing it, to slow down / restrict money leaving the current failing financial system. Eventually they won't allow money to leave at all like in a bail in, they will just take it. How are we so lucky that we have Bitcoin? Bitcoin's existence is clearly a sign we are winning. 🧡

I'm guilty of almost all these things! Haven't bought a Faraday cage and FBI hasn't bust my door down yet. 🤣

That's terrible. I need to clarify something. If I run my own nostr relay, how can an authority find me? Through ip address? Can using a vpn hide my location? How about tor, can that hide my identity?

Yes I am struggling to follow the point you are making. Gap in my knowledge about how the Internet/ nostr works behinds the scenes isn't helping. Are nostr relays anonymous? Can authorities identify a nostr relay and fine them for sharing certain messages / content?

I was amazed to see a covid protest in the US. Cops stood against protesters armed with semi automatic rifles. https://everytownresearch.org/report/covid-armed-protests/ I know this was rare in the US and most parts of US u doryiantely fell into line just like rest of the world. Here in the UK we've have had anti immigration protests, cops brutally took down peaceful protesters using the most cruel violence I've ever seen, disgusting. UK police have been responsible for inciting violence at peaceful protests Last year peaceful protestors given 2 year prison sentences. Judge actually admitted you've done nothing wrong but because you were present you will be given a prison sentence. I can't find the videos, seems like the videos have now been taken down. These were official videos which were streamed live by the courts to make example of protesters. Makes me think we need US style rights to bear arms in the UK to protect ourselves from Stalin Starmers UK government and their brutal UK police force.

Yeah, that's the strength of nostr. They can try censor us, but its impossible really. As for vpn not hiding location, I'm not entirely sure why vpn are not effective in hiding location. Practically the vpn I use works. Ive been on sites since the UK Online Safety Act came into operation. With a vpn outside of UK, UK websites work fine. Without vpn, the website is requesting I complete age verification. You can test this for yourself. Joe's post on how vpn does not hide location or hide location on nostr. I dont understand the technical jargon and content of the message. Or the limitations of vpns and how they actually are not good at hiding location. If nostr relays can see our true ip address (even with the use of a vpn), how can an authority get access to this information? Is it public? Do they have to contact the relays? Do they need to run their own relay to get this info. I admit my technical understanding of nostr isn't as good as it should be. When we say we want to hide our location, what we really saying is we dont want to be censored. Which nostr is succeeding at. Maybe we could invite a nostr dev to answer some of our questions.

Will the UK Online Safety Act force content providers on nostr to censor those from the UK if they don't provide age verification? Ultimately that's what its all about. If I post something from the UK on nostr that the UK government don't like can they force the relays to censor me?

I'm in the UK. I use a vpn. So its an easy work around for me. For those providing websites that falls under UK Online Safety Act, then yes you have to force those from uk visiting your website to do an age verification. Its ridiculous. I'm not providing any data for this purpose. Its just another way to collect people's data which will eventually be misused and leaked and in the end its the individuals that give over their personal data that will suffer, by having their privacy invaded, and security compromised. 😱