That's exactly the point! The vast majority of people do not care about privacy-related things, and the inference is that this attitude will make things way worse for privacy-conscious people interested in BTC.

P2P services are ok for some BTC users, but most of the privacy-conscious people who may be interested in BTC will not have the strength to manage two completely separated stashes of BTC.

Robosats and P2P are something I plan to understand, but they don't address the issues mentioned here.

Given the current trend about enforcing KYC and other form of controls on BTC, one should be careful to not mix KYC BTC with non-KYC BTC to avoid potential future "headaches". This additional level of complexity will drive more and more people far from BTC environment.

Of course, if you plan to live on BTC only, and, most importantly, have to possibility to do so, you may be untouched by KYC measures and tax-related nightmares, but this is not the average person.

I completely agree with you. The fact that people are not interested in understanding how to better take care of their savings is a symptom of a terrible disease that has to do with indifference and lack of engagement with serious matters.

Accordingly, there's a lot of room for imposing stronger and stronger KYC policies that will make harder and harder to enter/navigate the BTC ecosystem without a sufficiently strong push back.

The consequences of all this for my little stack are potentially quite bad, and I don't know what I can practically do to make a difference. I hope it will not become one of those global systemic problems that can be solved only by complex simultaneous collective actions too fast, otherwise I conjecture it will be a shit show.

Good morning people.

I really like the idea behind your book, and I appreciet a lot you open-sourcing it [I'll make sure to get a physical copy nonetheless ;-) ]

I constantly struggle with organising and reorganising my backup procedure, and I imagine how difficult and hopeless may seem to people starting with it. It's true that the internet contains all the information you need (and even more), but a distillate of said information in the form of a book with exercises is sometimes the best way to start approaching something complex.

That would be very unfortunate, and I guess quite hard to confirm/check.

The problem I have with smartphones is security updates for Android and the somehow high price of used Google pixels to go the graphene route (I can't spend more than ~€250 for a smartphone because I physically treat them like shit).

I get your point. However, there are different types of added values that are kind of necessary. For instance, mobile wallets. Then, the very fact of having alternative desktop wallets is an added value to the ecosystem imho.

Therefore, it seems to me it's already necessary to have more of these UI wrappers.

Thank you for replying. I have been quite sloppy and did not do my research correctly, otherwise, I would have found your post #944967 and this other one #573439 from which I could have gathered the TLDR you mention.

It's unfortunate that there's still no solid way to sustain these projects except donations. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of donations, but it also has it's downsides because it leaves the user with an unclear situation (how much do I contribute? How often? If it's still going, it means others are already contributing so I can spare it until I really understand if this service has all the things I need) that may very likely end up in an unsustainable flow of donations.

Of course it can, and sometimes it definitely does (that's a gut feeling induced by simple inference from standard behaviour on tech space).

However, VPNs are also used for work reasons, so I believe ISPs can not discriminate between the case of someone wanting to hide and someone who use VPNs for work, and thus don't pay much attention to whoever use it. Actually, I don't even know how the ISP can know you are using a VPN, so I realize I am writing almost meaningless words.

An argument toward VPN is that their whole business is related to how much people trust them, while ISP do not need this because their business rests on basic internet availability.

However, this line of reasoning is based on rational behaviour and good faith, which means it will likely not be a good model of reality.

Thanks for the reference, I'll try to push it on the top of my reading list ;-)

Concerning the baby and the bath water, I was actually referring to the physical infrastructure more than anything else. I would like to know if there's even just a remote possibility to have a different way to "do internet".

I remember some time ago there was a sort of thing that tried to make an internet with computer connected through a sort of mesh network, but I don't remember neither the name nor of it actually was tested in real life.

However, I fear the subject is more complex than I can digest with my background and time. Let's hope more prepared and efficient people get interested in this.

I'm not very well versed in this type of things, but I got the same feeling by reading the GitHub readme.

In any case, I am curious about the issue in itself. Would it really be possible to have a new decentralised version of the internet which does not rely on the already established infrastructure? That would be very cool.

This is in my to-read list since forever.

I think there is also a lot lazyness in programming websites. Perhaps, the idea of having sufficient horsepower made (most/some of) the developer become sloppy and rely on it instead of optimizing the code.

I guess we'll reach a point were it will be necessary to kill all websites and start from scratch.

I understand. I basically don't tweak anything beyond bookmarks and at most 5 extensions precisely because of the time sink that maintenance is.

We decided higher computing power in laptops, desktops, and smartphones means we can bloat and shitcode everything, and now websites really make little sense.

I have a similar opinion, but I ended up using multiple profiles in Firefox and Chrome for work related things.

Do you have a preferred situation-browser list?

I understand and agree wih the underlying feeling, it's very close to what may happen in physics and mathematics when reading the original works of the founders of some fields (e.g., Einstein's/Dirac's/Von Neumann's/Grothendiek's/Ehresmann's papers).

However, the step from this toidolization, idolatry, brainless adherence, and bigotry is dangerously easy to take. I guess one should always go back to the roots with an open mind, and a will to critically examine the foundations through the lens of modern knowledge.

To be clear, I'm not accusing you to of havin took the step I mentioned ;-)

Good morning space cowboys.

I almost forgot about this one! It was impossible not to hear it everywhere, but it was really nice.

Good morning people. Don't forget to have a muffin for breakfast.