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camylopez retweeted
You hear the word “decentralization” endlessly from BTC Core, Ethereum, and every other cathedral of fashionable confusion.
But listen carefully to what they actually mean.
They do not mean Alice sends to Bob.
They do not mean direct exchange.
They do not mean cash.
They mean gatekeepers.
They mean layers. They mean routing. They mean custodians. They mean bridges. They mean channels. They mean validators. They mean committees. They mean sacred spectator machines called “nodes” that do not create blocks, do not settle transactions, and do not perform the economic function described in Bitcoin.
Their “node” is not a competitive block-producing entity. It is a theological object. A relic. A private chapel where someone runs software and announces himself a guardian of truth.
Very impressive. Very ceremonial. Economically empty.
Think about what that means.
If Alice cannot send directly to Bob without passing through some contrived maze of intermediaries, then the system has not removed the middleman. It has renamed him.
If payment requires layers, hubs, bridges, routing channels, liquidity managers, token wrappers, validators, committees, or custodial platforms, then the old problem has merely been dressed in new robes.
That is not radical.
That is banking with worse prose.
A truly radical system means any person, in any country on earth, can communicate and transact with any other person directly. Not through a priesthood. Not through a committee. Not through a fashionable bottleneck pretending to be liberation.
Direct.
IP to IP.
Alice to Bob.
The nodes are there to settle, order, timestamp, and secure. They are not there to replace the parties. They are not there to become the transaction. They are not there to turn cash into a pilgrimage.
The parties are the peers.
That is the part they forgot, or chose to bury.
Bitcoin does not need to make every user into a fake node. It does not need to turn commerce into a hobbyist ritual. It does not need to pretend that sovereignty is achieved by making ordinary people perform unpaid infrastructure theatre.
The radical idea is simpler and far more dangerous to the existing order:
Alice sends to Bob.
Bob receives.
The network settles.
No middlemen.
No sanctified layers.
No gatekeepers wearing decentralization as a mask.
That is peer-to-peer.
That is electronic cash.
That is Bitcoin.
camylopez retweeted
There is nothing you can do, it’s the direction btc is headed in general which is the problem.
I would argue that a p2p decentralized ledger doesn’t belong to anyone, therefore can’t be gifted to anyone in any will.
No one generates any addresses ever. All key pairs are part of the blockchain and are there from the beginning.
Cold storage is a fallacy, and one built up and an industry around it created to sell an agenda to people, and to market products to people.
The btc you own is nothing different to the bank balance you own. Your keypairs to sign a transaction are nothing different to you bank issuing you a secure device to authorize your transactions.
I’ll be damned of a lawyer is going to tell me any different, or invent specific legal precedents around securing btc.
While he is innocent until convicted, it’s sad to see so many people feel that because he was in a war that he shouldn’t be held accountable for his actions.
There are many wars with war hero’s, many of these hero’s were also war criminals.
I don’t think anyone should get a pass, this is the country where justice prevails not mob rule.
I’m sick of hearing so many fools blindly support an alleged war criminal, let the justice system do their thing. He is going to have 12 of you fools up there passing judgment.
The Ben Roberts Smith legend -
Come on X - do your thing 🇦🇺🫡
Ben Roberts-Smith doesn’t do push-ups.
He pushes the Earth down.
Ben Roberts-Smith counted to infinity.
Twice.
When Ben Roberts-Smith enters a room, he doesn’t turn the lights on.
He turns the dark off.
Death once had a near–Ben Roberts-Smith experience.
Keep it going……
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Your asking the wrong question.
The real question is when are authorities going to realize that whoever holds the nodes holds the coins.
When they catch onto that, then all your ledger, trezor, ellipal and non custodial exchanges will suddenly be regulated and reportable entities.
Most of the narrative around btc is a fiction. A fiction that is run with because half you all have absolutely no idea, and listen to whatever influencer provides the best story, to suit.
The reality is there is no such thing as an offline or cold storage, cause the btc network is a p2p network and is always live. Nodes are the real wallets and nodes are where all the btc is.
What you guys need to be doing is taking back the mining from the centralized mining, and the nodes from the potentially reportable companies.
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Since 2014 a whole industry on these devices has been created.
Two things to note,
1, they are not necessary. Satoshi didn’t have one and no one has stolen his coins.
Back in 2013 serious people were all using air-gapped devices to print multisig private keys. Your paper wallet can be printed in multiples and stored securely unusable without its key pair.
2, it doesn’t matter how technology advances, criminals always take advantage of cracks in the system. And the biggest crack is lack of education.
These devices touted as cold storage are NOT. They are simply there to sign your transactions. This distinction is important, because if people understood it, they would understand all the phishing attempts designed to trick them into securing their coins are irrelevant. Yet people fall for it all the time, hence lack of education.
As far as fake hardware wallets are concerned, if people went back to basics and created multisig like back in 2013, then no one could steal your coins be it using fake devices or phished access.
If everyone was educated correctly from the start, then scamming with fake ledgers would end up being non economical. Uneducated People all jumping on the bandwagon cause it’s constantly thrown in their face on social media.
A security researcher just documented a large-scale counterfeit Ledger Nano S Plus operation selling compromised devices across multiple online marketplaces.
The fake units look identical to the real thing but contain completely different hardware. Instead of Ledger's secure element chip, the counterfeits run an ESP32 microcontroller with modified firmware labeled "Nano S+ V2.1." Seeds and PINs are stored in plain text and transmitted to attacker-controlled servers. Any wallet initialized on the device is drained.
The operation goes beyond the hardware. The sellers also distribute a fake version of Ledger Live built with React Native and signed with a debug certificate. It intercepts transactions and exfiltrates sensitive data to multiple command-and-control servers. The campaign spans five attack vectors: compromised hardware, Android APKs, Windows executables, macOS installers, and iOS apps distributed through TestFlight to bypass App Store review.
This comes days after ZachXBT documented a separate fake Ledger Live app that made it through Apple's Mac App Store review process. That operation drained over $9.5 million from more than 50 victims, including musician G. Love, who lost 5.92 BTC after entering his recovery phrase into what he believed was the legitimate app.
The pattern is clear: the attack surface for hardware wallet users has shifted from firmware exploits to supply chain and distribution fraud. The devices themselves remain secure. The problem is that users are being intercepted before they ever touch a real one.
Ledger's own "genuine check" feature can be bypassed when the hardware itself is compromised at the source, which makes where you buy the device as important as how you use it.
The rules haven't changed, but they've never been more important: buy hardware wallets only from the manufacturer. Never enter your recovery phrase into any software. If a companion app asks for your 24 words on a screen, it's a scam. Every time.
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Part of the crypto industry that no one wants to talk about.
Russia raided nearly 100 suspected crypto criminals in a single day. What they found inside the apartments was not what anyone expected.
> Russian authorities were investigating an illegal crypto exchange network called Cryptex.
> Operating since 2013, Cryptex had processed over $1.4 BILLION in transactions.
> Their main clients were ransomware hackers, cybercriminals and money launderers across the world.
> In 2023 alone, the network moved over $1.1 BILLION and generated $38 MILLION in illegal income for those involved.
> On October 2, 2024, Russian federal investigators launched coordinated raids across 14 regions of the country.
> 148 locations searched. 96 people detained and transported to Moscow.
> This is what they seized:
> Robinson helicopters. Bentleys. Rolls Royces. Porsches. A Tesla Cybertruck. Boats. Snowmobiles. Bundles of cash.
> 1.5 BILLION rubles confiscated in a single day. Roughly $16 MILLION.
> Russian media called it the largest crypto crackdown in the country's history.
> The man at the top was Sergey Ivanov, known online as "Taleon."
> The US Treasury alleged he had been laundering crypto for ransomware operators, darknet vendors, and carding shops for approximately 20 years.
> The week before the Russian raids, the US had already moved.
> The Secret Service seized Cryptex's domains. The DOJ unsealed indictments against two Russian nationals.
> The State Department posted a bounty of up to $11 MILLION for information on Ivanov.
> Then Russia followed with the physical raids days later.
> Whether the two governments directly coordinated has never been confirmed.
> The suspects face up to 20 years in prison.
> One of the largest crypto laundering networks ever uncovered, hiding the proceeds in helicopters and luxury cars across 14 regions of Russia.
They laundered over a BILLION dollars for the world's most dangerous hackers. Then parked the evidence in their driveways.
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camylopez retweeted
Never jerk off at a Job Interview
Here's why...👇
They give you a long awkward pause or step out of the room for a minute.
Most people think it’s just to let you collect your thoughts or relax. It’s not.
For experienced recruiters, it’s observation.
The moment you’re left alone, the evaluation continues:
Do you beat your dick to relieve stress when you get the chance?
Do you rush to finish or goon extensively?
In reality, they expect you to already have gooned richly at least twice before arriving.
If you start masturbating, it just confirms that you're pulling rookie numbers.
So @GreenTyler27 feels his party policies doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, that he will rather block people’s criticism rather than to justify his party policies.
Or he is perfect politician material, pushing polices he is unqualified to have an opinion on, making ON just as unqualified as any other party
Stupid mistake.
The excise cuts won’t be passed into the consumer but the service stations when they hike up the price again.
One donation calling for it just shows they can make dumb judgments also.
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You realise that that’s the whole point of this thread you’re responding to?
She is complaining about not receiving what she’s paid for.
Way to play a double standard there. She gets bitchy cause I point out why.
I’m not a third worlder, and I consider posts on my timeline that I can’t respond to as spam.
Good luck when all you fools end up with the algorithm suppressing your posts when everyone else figures out to start flagging for spam.
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camylopez retweeted
We shouldn't have to beg for help from other accounts to get X's attention when we get suspended or demonetized.
We are (for the most part) paying you to provide a service. X's supposed customer service support does not exist. I know it because I've gone through it myself.
Also, the favoritism to certain accounts is really getting old.
Time to try something new.
