The Custody Trap
How E-Cash Risks Bitcoiners’ Sovereignty.
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On Zcash
Zcash: jack of all trades, master of none.
Daylight DC1: Magical imperfection
I’ve been a tech enthusiast since I was a child, and it’s been a very long time since I’ve been this enamored with a piece of technology.
Setting up a Bitcoin username
BIP 353: Making payments social, one DNS entry at a time.
Dispelling CTV FUD
I’ve taken the time to collect, rebut, and give resources for each of the most common FUD points against covenants using CTV.
Taproot Didn't Cause Inscriptions or Tokens on Bitcoin
tl;dr - Focus on how we can make Bitcoin better via covenants.
Run your own Bitcoin pool
In this guide I will lay out the detailed steps for how you can get started running your own Bitcoin mining pool.
Why I Focus on Bitcoin
I’m not a Bitcoin maximalist. I’m not a Monero maximalist. I’m a freedom maximalist.
Building Monero's Circular Economy via Privacy Tools
In this blog post form of a presentation, we dive into what circular and parallel economies are, why they’re important, and what tools are being paired with Monero to enable them.
Donations
If you’ve enjoyed my work and would like to give me a little more time to dedicate to it, I’ll happily accept any Monero or Bitcoin you’d like to throw my way. Info
Proposed Bitcoin Privacy Improvements
A list of Bitcoin proposals and ideas to improve privacy that are still a work in progress, were abandoned or never implemented, or failed to make a noticeable impact.
Accepting Monero via BTCPay Server
I’ve spun up a BTCPay Server instance for my own use and built a guide out of the process, so hopefully this will aid others wanting to accept Monero at their stores, for donations, or any other use-case get up and rolling with BTCPay Server!
Privacy-preserving Statistics Using Plausible
In this post I’ll dive into the key features of Plausible’s self-hosted statistics tool, the key datapoints you should be aware of, and how to disable or block it if desired.
Verifying and installing CalyxOS from Linux
Dive into a more privacy-preserving mobile OS with CalyxOS, and get there using this guide for installing CalyxOS from Linux
Privacy first steps
An extensive post detailing a recommendation of the order of steps I would take if starting from scratch in my privacy journey today.
Dispelling Monero FUD
In this post I’ll attempt to walk through the most common FUD around Monero (both valid and invalid) and help to clarify many of these points.
Run and mine on a p2pool Node
This guide will aim to make it very simple and straightforward for you to start and run your own Monero node and p2pool instance for decentralized and fee-less mining of Monero.
Run an atomic swap provider (Advanced)
This guide will walk you through how to act as a provider (also known as a seller or “automatic swap backend” (ASB)).
Performing Bitcoin <> Monero Atomic Swaps
It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. You can, today , swap Bitcoin <> Monero directly peer-to-peer, over Tor, with no custodian or trusted 3rd-party, no KYC (Know Your Customer) info, nothing.
Announcing my new podcast - Opt Out!
Welcome to Opt Out, where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.
Mining Monero
This will be a simple guide to get you started with a few more advanced options/recommendations at the end, but hopefully will help to simplify the process for those of you wanting to get started mining Monero!
This Year in Monero - 2021
As a way to celebrate and show the growth that has happened for Monero across the past year on this, the 7th anniversary of the Monero project, I wanted to take a snapshot of statistics and social media posts to highlight this growth.
Donating to FOSS Projects and Pro-Privacy Organizations
This post gives some projects and organizations that I personally love and that accept donations in Monero.
Bitcoin's Fungibility Graveyard
Where the pipe-dream of Bitcoin’s real-world fungibility goes to die.
Switching to CalyxOS
How and why I made the jump to CalyxOS for my mobile operating system.
Community Drama and My Search for a Privacy-Preserving Mobile OS
Community drama, legal battles, slandering, and harassment takes away from the important mission of any OS like this: privacy and security.
Contributing to Monero
This post is an attempt to help clarify and highlight ways that people from all backgrounds and walks of life who love Monero can jump in and help out using their unique skill-sets.
Run a Monero Node (Advanced)
In this short post I’ll detail how to run a Monero node using systemd scripts on a Linux server, the most common OS for virtual private servers (VPS).
Run a Monero Node
In this short post I’ll detail how to easily run a Monero node using Docker on a Linux server, the most common OS for virtual private servers (VPS).
A Brief Breakdown of Monero's Ongoing Network Attacks
In this blog post I’ll break down a rough timeline of events, a short list of the known attacks that have happened or are still occurring, and what users can do to mitigate these attacks and others like them in the future.
Building this blog
In this post I’ll detail how I spun up my blog specifically and how you can do the same easily.
About
About Me My name is Seth, and I’ve started this blog to give me a space for longer-form analysis, thought, and content. My aim overall is to educate and learn more myself about where technology and privacy meet, and am deeply enthusiastic about the ability these technologies grant people to take back control of their data, and more broadly, their digital lives. How To Contact Me Signal -…
Comparing Reasonably Private Spends in Bitcoin, Monero, and Zcash
I take a look at how each of the three most recognized privacy approaches in cryptocurrency stack up in size, cost (in both money and time!), and throughput.