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What's up everybody?

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For the week ending March 16th, my name is Marks.

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This is Freedom Tech Wrap.

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Freedom Tech Rap is a weekly source for news and project updates in the freedom and independent technology space.

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Now, this is going to be a bit of a shorter episode because we had spring break. Woo!

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So I was a bit checked out.

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But I got some great stuff for you, especially some major news this week that I wanted to deliver,

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even though you've probably already heard it, but let's get into it anyways.

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First up, Craig Wright is not Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, judge declares.

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That's right. If you have been connected at all to the Bitcoin world,

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you will know that there was a major ruling coming out of the UK

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where it was determined that Craig Wright, proven legally that Craig Wright is not Satoshi.

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So I'm going to bring you the article from Wired, even though there were plenty of write-ups about it.

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There was an alliance of people called COPA, which is Crypto Open Patent Alliance,

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funded by Jack Dorsey as well as many others, including companies that are in the Bitcoin space.

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They took a lawsuit against Craig Wright, and I'm going to read a bit from the article here.

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"The evidence is overwhelming," says Justice James Millar,

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delivering a surprise ruling at the close of the trial.

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First, that Dr. Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin white paper.

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Second, Dr. Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in the period 2008 to 2011.

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Third, Dr. Wright is not the person who created the Bitcoin system.

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And fourth, he is not the author of the initial versions of the Bitcoin software, he said.

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The ruling brings to a close a six-week trial in which the Crypto Open Patent Alliance,

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a non-profit consortium of crypto companies,

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asked the court to declare that Wright is not Satoshi on the basis that he had allegedly fabricated his evidence

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and contorted his story repeatedly as new inconsistencies came to light.

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"After all the evidence in this remarkable trial, it is clear beyond doubt that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto,"

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claimed Jonathan Huff, legal counsel for COPPA, as he began his closing submissions on Tuesday.

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He went on to say, "Wright has lied and lied and lied."

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Alright, so this news is important for many reasons, not just to prove that a person was wrong.

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There are plenty of people wrong on the internet all the time.

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It's kind of like that ex-KCD comic where it's like, "Honey, come to bed," and it's like,

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"No, someone's wrong on the internet." That's not what this is about.

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Craig and others that were participating with Craig or kind of in spirit with Craig,

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they were targeting Bitcoin developers, Bitcoin companies, and others with litigation,

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claiming that they were violating his IP.

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Well, now it has been proven in court that he is not the creator of Bitcoin,

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and he has no legal standing moving forward.

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So this not only brings a huge sense of peace and relief to the lives of many developers

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who were just trying to contribute to an open-source project,

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but it also removes a large risk factor that potentially held back investment dollars

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from coming into Bitcoin startups.

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So, really massive, huge thank you to Jack.

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Thank you to all the other backers of COPPA, the people that were involved in this,

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put in all this hard work and countless hours.

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Thank you to all the Bitcoin developers, past and present, for the great work that you do.

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Next step, we have Top Builder 2024.

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So we first talked about Top Builder when it launched,

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and the competition came to a close this week on March 14th,

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and they announced their winner at the Austin BitDevs in Austin, Texas.

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Now the winner this year is Yopaki.com.

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It is a Bitcoin wallet and marketplace that has additional finance tools.

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From the website, it says, "With Yopaki, you can easily buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin

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alongside a diverse portfolio of financial instruments, such as ETFs, stocks, commodities, and CETES,

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all within a single, seamless platform."

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So congratulations to them. That is awesome.

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They won $15,000 and just a lot of exposure.

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But shout out to Pleb Lab for hosting this.

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Shout out to Car. He's awesome. You rock for putting this on and all the great work that you're doing.

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And then Wolf from New York City for sponsoring this.

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Y'all put on a great event and great competition.

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I'm really excited to see Yopaki grow from here,

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and also really excited for all the other great projects that came out of Top Builder.

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We've talked about some of them on here. One of them is Cascader that has a lot of potential as well.

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Sorry for the other ones that I didn't mention. There's a ton of great stuff.

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Next item up is a really long article that has lots of chapters to it,

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but it is called PIX, P-I-X, PIX in Brazil, a field study for the Bitcoin community.

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So this comes way of user Paulo Sacramento.

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Paulo decided to do a deep dive study into PIX, which is a financial app being used in Brazil,

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and wanted to see what can we learn from it in the Bitcoin community.

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So I'm going to read just like the quick intro paragraph here.

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It says, "In November 2020, the Brazilian central bank introduced PIX, a digital payment system.

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As of this writing, 32 months have passed since its launch, and more than 140 million Brazilians have embraced it

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and have used it at least once. In this remarkably short time,

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PIX has become the second most popular instant payment system in the world."

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And so what Paulo goes on to do over the course of 10 chapters, including introduction and a final thought chapter,

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so that would be 12 total, I guess.

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He goes in and talks about kind of like, why did they introduce this? What's the big picture here?

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Talks about some of the politics involved, looks at it from an entrepreneurial lens.

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Then he tries to go into some of the data privacy and the leaks and the vulnerabilities,

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scams that were going on, so many things.

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I would recommend checking it out. I have not read through the whole thing myself,

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so I'm recommending something that I haven't read the entire thing of, so I apologize.

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Normally, I like to go through all the content before I share it.

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This one just looks like it is chock full with awesome stuff.

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I recommend giving it a read, and then you can let me know that it's garbage and that I shouldn't have recommended it.

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Just kidding. I'm sure it's great.

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Okay. Last news item is the Bitcoin takeover that happened at South by Southwest in Austin as well.

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On Friday, to cap off a week of a lot of really great Bitcoin content that was here locally,

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there was a full day of presentations from Freedom Tech founders and builders.

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Then it was capped off by a live recording of Rabbit Hole Recap with Odell and Marty Bent,

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with guests Parker Lewis and Will Cole.

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Just to give you an idea of some of the people that spoke at the event,

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you had Marty Bent, founder of TFTC Media.

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You had Nifty Nae, Lisa, from Base58, also a contributor to Lightning and Bitcoin.

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Then Spiral, Steve Lee spoke from Spiral, talked a lot about getting grants to work in the Bitcoin space.

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I thought it was really notable that he talked about how Block, which used to be called Square,

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started by Jack Dorsey and many others, that Spiral was set up to effectively help Bitcoin.

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That's its mission. That's what Jack told them.

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Here's your funding, give out grants to people, and just move forward the progress of Bitcoin.

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What a really cool mission to have.

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Then we heard from Grant Gilliam from 1031 Venture, Venture Platform.

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They also do grants as well, but they talked a lot about how they aren't a typical VC

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and what you picture in your mind of VCs.

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They do a lot of Freedom Tech investing and building of companies in this space.

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Then we heard from Joe Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Unchained.

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After that, Joe McGill from Zaprite spoke about Zaprite.

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They're doing a lot of cool stuff as well. So was Unchained.

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Then after lunch, we heard from Justin Moon, who's co-founder and head of engineering of Fetty,

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one of the Layer 2 Fetty Mint type businesses.

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Then we heard from Tony, who is co-founder and CEO of Mutiny Lightning Wallet,

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that is also integrating with Fetty.

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To round out the day, the last third of it was Bitcoin mining.

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We heard from Giga Energy, Matt Lostro.

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Then from Coromant, we heard from Jamie McAvity.

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Then to end it off, we had that live rabbit hole recap with Marty Bent, Matt O'Dell, and others.

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So a really great event, lots of wonderful people.

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I know that videos have been posted on places like Twitter and Noster, possibly on YouTube.

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So look around if you want to watch some of those.

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If I find the treasure trove that has all the videos in one spot, I will share it out on my socials.

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You can find me on Noster at marks@nosterplebs.com or on Twitter.

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My name is Markskram.

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All right, let's go into boosts and zaps.

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We had a couple of boosts from the last episode.

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First was the wild hustle, boosted 2,500 sats, and said "Kendrick vibes" at the end,

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referring to that sweet song that we had from Bri360.

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And then Joel W., 333 sats.

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Now on to zaps from Noster.

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These are people who zapped the note where I published the episode.

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And there were no zaps.

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That's right, no zaps for Gretchen Wiener.

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Okay, so let's move on to project updates.

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A big one, actually there are a couple big ones, but first one is Bisk 2.

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That is awesome.

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Bisk is a decentralized exchange for trading Bitcoin in and out of fiat.

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So I'm just going to read directly from the announcement.

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"We're thrilled to announce the long-awaited launch of Bisk 2.

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The latest version of our decentralized exchange platform is now live and available for download.

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Bisk 2 brings a host of new features, improvements, and enhancements

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to make your trading experience even better."

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From the website, talking about Bisk 2, it goes on to say,

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"Similar to Bisk v1, Bisk 2 will be a decentralized Bitcoin exchange

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that allows anyone to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies or other cryptocurrencies.

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Bisk 2 is a desktop application that works across platforms."

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There's a lot of really cool stuff about it.

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It's peer-to-peer. It's open source.

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It's very privacy-focused, no verified accounts or KYC.

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And you can also run it over the Tor network.

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So if you've not heard of Bisk before, go check it out.

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Next up, your own LLM.

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So we have FreeGPT.

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Well, they've launched version 2 on StartOS.

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If you're running StartOS, if you have a Start9 server, or you're running on your own hardware, go update.

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This replaces the FreeGPT service that was there.

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It's not running there anymore. You have to get version 2.

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But this gives you your own local GPT LLM service.

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You have full privacy. You can run your own prompts and queries and things on your own box

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so that big tech companies aren't looking at what you're doing

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and also aren't affecting the results that you are receiving.

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Next, we have an update from Ghost.

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Ghost 5.80.3.

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Ghost is that famous blog and CMS software platform.

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It's open source.

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They put out an update that has a lot of fixes in it.

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They reduced requests and 403 responses for comments auth check.

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They fixed /p redirects not being indexed by search engines.

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Fixed adding recommendations when oembed fails.

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And then they fixed a ton of issues with HTTP 500 responses.

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So if you're using Ghost, go update, or you probably already have updated.

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But check it out.

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Last one is BlowWater.

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BlowWater is a Noster app, and it is focused completely on direct messages.

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So it's like a Noster messaging application.

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BlowWater just released its newest update, they said in their launch.

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And it says, "The biggest update since its creation. Still raw, still rough edges, still growing."

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I tried it out, and I had a little bit of exchange back and forth with the developer.

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And it doesn't immediately recognize the relays that you were connected to.

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So you have to add more relays so that you can see your profile and things like that.

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So I've played with it a little bit, but I'm going to play with it more.

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Because I like the idea of having a really good Noster DM application.

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That's it for the news and updates this week.

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This is Freedom Tech Wrap.

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If you find this weekly source useful, please share it with your people.

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You can also support us through Value for Value in your podcast app or on Noster.

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If you have any feedback, send it our way on Noster to marks@nosterplebs.com.

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To close it out, we have the Song of the Week, where your stats directly support that artist.

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So stick around and boost.

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For the rest of you, thanks for listening to Freedom Tech Wrap.

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And remember to live independent.

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Later!

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[Freedom Tech Wrap theme song]

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This week's artist has that rustic, bluegrass, farming, cowboy feel to it.

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I picked their song that talks about the fifth horse of the apocalypse.

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Because in many ways, I feel like it describes the human spirit, especially those crazy ones embracing freedom tech.

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Plus, it's just really fun to listen to.

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So, here are the No Good Redwood Ramblers with "The Fifth Horse of the Apocalypse."

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[The Fifth Horse of the Apocalypse theme song]

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[The Fifth Horse of the Apocalypse theme song]

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A black horse with red eyes always comes as a surprise when he's watching you.

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So count your lucky stars and hide your PBR 'cause he's watching you.

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You can't put a bridle on him, he'll put a bridle on you.

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Then you know you're through. Better watch your back.

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[The Fifth Horse of the Apocalypse theme song]

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[The Fifth Horse of the Apocalypse theme song]

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When you see his nostrils flare, you'd better beware 'cause he's watching you.

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And when he opens up his stride, you know you're gonna die 'cause he's watching you.

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You can't put a horseshoe on him, he'll put a nail in you.

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It won't be in your shoe, it'll be straight in your heart.

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[The Fifth Horse of the Apocalypse theme song]

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