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After reading Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous, the following book is a book that has not had enough exposure and debunks many questions such as:
Bitcoin is a bubble? Is it a ponzi scheme?

I leave you the link to this book about bitcoin that I thought was great. (see below)

Using wormhole to encrypt and send files.  The file is deleted within 24 hours or after 100 downloads. 

https://wormhole.app/WPNZN#LDELKHn4N-hMbcR8hVIEfQ
 
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Best Bitcoin Books

**Best Privacy Practices for Withdrawals from an Exchange**

OK, story time:
osmowallet.com is an exchange app that allows you to buy, sell, receive and send Bitcoin and lightning with very low purchase and sale fees (like many other apps) they started in Guatemala and moved to El Salvador, their partners are IBEX, Strike so you can receive your remittance with them and they have currently expanded to Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States...
According to Osmo, to "strengthen compliance and protect users" they made an alliance with https://www.blockpliance.com
I leave the tweet (X) https://x.com/osmowallet/status/1819089931823706449
Until now we can only assume that all partners use blockpliance if they want to operate in El Salvador such as strike and ibex.
It doesn't hurt to know how to send satoshis safely to our wallet.

I bought a bitaxe to learn about mining, at first I connected it with public-Pool, obviously I don't expect to earn Bitcoin by mining with a bitaxe.

I found out that Braiins Pool now has Lightning payments so I decided to create a Braiins account and connect my bitaxe.

Guess who is earning 30 sats a day 🙃😎 

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I created this tutorial for my children, they like bluewallet, it is simple for them, I know that there are Zeus and other apps with better functions that use Tor.

Since Bluewallet stopped using Tor, this is a good option to use our sats at any time.

**Pre requirements**
-bluewallet 
-tailscale
-static address for the node 

**Procedure.**
1) install the Bluewallet app on your node and your smart device.
2) install Tailscale on your node, it will ask you to create an account using email.
 Install the application on your smart device and use the same email that you used on your node.
3) on your smart device open the Tailscale application and log in, you will see two devices connected with their own IP (your node and your cell phone, in my case), press the name of your node and your addresses will appear, IPV4, magicdns, IPV6, in addition to the expiration of your access key.

**Test**
We are going to copy and paste the IPV4 address into your browser, the log in of your node should appear, in my case it is umbrel.
With this we know that there is a connection with our node.

**Connect tailscale to bluewallet**
-on our device we open the Bluewallet application and select the 3 dots “…” in the upper right corner (settings) > Network> Lightning settings > paste the IPV4 address and add at the end: 3008 is the port that Bluewallet uses on our node.
You can also use magicdns and add the port :30008 at the end.
e.g.    
http://200.200.100.81:3008

**Create accounts**
We can now create accounts connected to our node using tailscale.
In bluewallet >press the “+” sign> lightning>create
A QR image will appear with an address at the bottom, we will use it later to create the same account but with a local network.
E.g. 
lndhub://user:password@http://host:port
lndhub://numbers and letters:number and letters@http://IPV4:3008

**Create the same account but on a local network**
Once the account with tailscale connection is created, we can recreate the same account.
In our new Lightning account we press “…”> export/backup> copy the account 
We import the existing account but we will change the host to the local umbrel host, for that we go to the “+” sign in bluewallet > lightning > import Wallet > we paste the backup of the tailscale account and modify the end with our local umbrel ip .
E.g.
lndhub://user:password@http://host:port
lndhub://numbers and letters:number and letters@http://umbrel.local:3008
lndhub://numbers and letters:number and letters@http://10.90.87.191:3008

You already have the same account on the local network and with tailscale.

**Important considerations**
-Accounts with IPv4 only work and are updated when tailscale is activated.
-tailscale keys expire, so it is good to create the same account on the local network and then modify it with the new IPv4 that is generated after the previous one expires.
-The account may cease to exist and with it your sats if the node ceases to exist, an account for personal use is recommended. https://image.nostr.build/5ef960e8b503f1470d7488dd404ef8f650c6a35f75d4076d3979d478b5664fc3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4952aac246d9ae0db7ca9103084b892ea3b9fbbbcf79463531f8c0311b23c72b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2067862c814619327ff5f3a43682d8a642cf5123a89b7763b8e96f7fb83fc2d6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/15ac1a4ba69a337a8f1f1fa585b92c4a84fa823dc252d6657294c58dc4f22e8a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a2f2231a49cb34532686cc4f024f0d0555e6482aa36db6bba27d06d5bd030cc9.jpg 

remember **not your keys not your coins**

How to create a Ln account connected to your node using Bluewallet and Tailscale


Bluewallet no longer has the Tor function, therefore it can no longer connect to our node through this means.
Our existing accounts will not be able to sync and we will not be able to use our sats.

Zeus has the Tor function and we can import the existing account by connecting it to our node and you can continue using it.

Procedure
In the Zeus app in settings press the "+" sign select LNDhub, select Tor and select existing account, (we are going to import the existing Bluewallet wallet) with this we will import all the existing funds that we had.

-In bluewallet copy the account address

In the account press "..."> export/backup
The address will look like this.
E.g.
lndhub://123abc:456defg@http://toraddress.onion
lndhub://user:password@http://toraddress.onion


see image, (1) in username put the numbers and letters before ":"
(2) The password is the numbers and letters after ":" and before @
(3) host is the tor address after @ https://image.nostr.build/63e74315fd15ce0e777b38eefaadbc8a353ec62b0712a709950fcd15c90f45a3.jpg 

How to import your Lightning account from bluewallet to Zeus


Exchanges where you buy Bitcoin hold your information, which they may share with third parties. These third parties can use technology to track all your transactions, as Bitcoin addresses can be verified on the blockchain. This includes both addresses you receive from and send to, creating a profile of usage and addresses related to that profile (https://www.blockpliance.com). Exchanges can refuse your sats transfers for any reason (like coinbase), and if they believe you are making too many transactions, they may consider you a risky individual.

For better anonymity and to make it more difficult for both the exchange and the third-party company to which they send your information, advanced Bitcoin users recommend:

**Using Small Amounts via Lightning to Transfer to Onchain (see atomic swaps below), less than $300.**

**Running Your Own Node:**
With your own node, you can receive small transactions that are difficult to trace. Invoices created can be decoded but will only show information like the amount and the invoice’s timestamp. They will not reveal other important information since it is encrypted. Additionally, sats jump from node to node until they reach their final destination (your node). Most nodes are on an Onion network, which provides greater anonymity.

**Example of Invoice:**
Lnbc2m1pnrjd6epp5xg37tadmcc479dt8c3rqk9mu4p08y8a5uvdd4repy4r8zzs40y4qdqqcqzzsxqrrs0fppqhsrcf2xszcp9nu4xgxzjwx6m3qnvlvrtsp5nft6epu8wxaxytyadq95ygyqvewuhuqh4zw6wevwvufxjr0zc0qq9qyyssqtafnv4cz4uuccg8xfw0ec2lgmr9u23rg85ac86zdnkn4mkq93krn283prlthqky5ujpv8x4cecs4634uu4gcw4f57l3haur8vg6myggp7z6erh

[Decode Invoice](https://lndecode.com/)

**Using Atomic Swaps:**
If you want to transfer your sats from the exchange to your BTC address, which could be another wallet of our custodian (with our seed phrase, 12 or 24 words) as a Coldwallet, and you don’t want the exchange to have your final receiving address (since they can create profiles and sending addresses that can be tracked on the blockchain), you can use atomic swaps. You send sats via Lightning and receive sats via Onchain, though there is a fee for the swaps.

**Recognized and Trusted Websites for These Transactions:**
- [Boltz Exchange](https://boltz.exchange/)
- [Robosats](https://learn.robosats.com/)

For example, see Boltz Exchange:
![Example Image 1](https://image.nostr.build/f95ab850a6d9255fb3ad1184833708a8fdb020cd8b7d5cf2ac2055b82216553f.jpg)
![Example Image 2](https://image.nostr.build/5144c3b2fef6292426275aadb305d1e96e2f1c47e8e952a898bbb0cce50b6e94.jpg)

Comment below if you find a best practice or suggestion and remember **not your keys not your coins**