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What's up everybody? Welcome to Freedom Tech Wrap for the week ending January 27th.

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My name is Marks and this is your weekly source for news and project updates in the freedom and independent technology space.

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We live in a highly connected world. Freedom Tech lets you decide how you want to connect and where your data live.

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Freedom Tech Wrap is an independent show. If you want to support what we're doing, you can send us value through your podcasting 2.0 app.

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Your support and your feedback are greatly appreciated. And now, on to the news.

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First up today, we have a project that is responding to a very large bounty put out there by Jack Dorsey.

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Now, if you aren't aware of this, about a year ago, Jack posted a bounty for 10 Bitcoin asking to have somebody build a new version of GitHub that is built on open protocols.

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Here is the original post. He says, "Still believe it's critical we have a credible, permissionless alternative to GitHub, ideally based on Nostr,

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one that Bitcoin Core and all Nostr devs would trust. Moving my bounty up from 120 million sats to 1 billion sats."

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Quick side note, what's great about this is he actually had a typo and it was "Guthub" instead of "GitHub."

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But hey, Nostr, you can't edit or remove, so it sticks there in the history books. That was on March 3rd, 2023.

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Well, a developer, there are quite a few developers working on it, but one of them has posted, initially this week, his first part of the project.

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And it's called "GitWorkshop.dev, a permissionless alternative to GitHub over Nostr." This is built by Dan Conway-Dev and is being built in response to the bounty.

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There is a debate out there right now on Nostr whether this should be one giant monolithic app like GitHub is,

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or if it should be built in many different microservices that coordinate together.

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So no matter what side of that you fall on, I recommend going and checking out the project. It's very much a work in progress, but cool to see some traction going here.

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Next news story. Reuters reports that the US is aiming to have "know your customer" cloud computing requirements.

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According to the article, the Biden administration is proposing requiring US cloud companies to determine whether foreign entities are accessing US data centers to train AI models.

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According to US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, she says, "We can't have non-state actors or China or folks who we don't want accessing our cloud to train their models.

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We use export controls on chips, and those chips are in American cloud data centers, so we also have to think about closing down that avenue for potential malicious activity."

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So if you don't need more reasons to set up your own server at home, this is a big one.

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The US government would like to have people upload their ID when signing up for cloud services.

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Regulators have a pattern where they cite dangerous use cases as justification for strengthening control over technology.

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So you read their words here, they say "non-state actors or China or folks who we don't want."

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That last part, "folks who we don't want," is really the most dangerous part. It's vague and can have an ever-changing definition to fit the current political climate.

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So set up your own server, use cloud services that aim to be more independent-oriented,

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and really, for more on this topic, you can look in the feed for this show and check out the No Strings episode called "You Need a Home Server."

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Next up, remember the Freedom Convoy from a couple years ago?

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Well, the Freedom Convoy had a court victory. The federal government in Canada acted illegally in responding to the 2022 Freedom Convoy.

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According to the article, "The Justice Center is pleased to announce that the legal and constitutional challenge against the first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act,

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filed as Jost et al. v. Canada, has been decided in favor of the citizens who participated in the peaceful 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.

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The Justice Center provided lawyers for these Canadians who launched a court action within 10 days of the Emergencies Act being invoked,

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and who sought a court declaration that the Emergencies Act was invoked without legal justification."

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Edward Cornell said his experience having his bank account seized was traumatic.

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"I broke no law, yet the government seized my accounts and froze my hard-earned money.

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I am not a criminal. I am not a terrorist. I am a retired Canadian military veteran who honorably served his country.

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I feel betrayed by my own government."

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So, it's nice to see this victory played out in the courts.

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You may remember a couple of weeks ago, I talked about an article from Ian Burrell,

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where he traveled to Africa, to Malawi, and saw a Bitcoin mining operation that was helping to build out power infrastructure in Malawi.

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Well, this is another part of that article, but this one is courtesy of Alex Gladstein.

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So, it's his take on the whole story, because they were there together.

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So, this one's called "Stranded - How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy and Expanding Financial Freedom in Africa."

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This was published in Bitcoin Magazine, and it is super long.

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So, I recommend reading it. It's great.

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I have not made it fully through, because it is very long, but I've made it most of the way through.

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Alex Gladstein is from the Human Rights Foundation, and he reports on how Bitcoin is monetizing stranded energy,

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financing electrical infrastructure, and empowering people to finally have electricity in their homes.

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I just want to read you the first few paragraphs from his essay here.

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"Hundreds of millions of Africans face two problems holding them back from progress.

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600 million lack electricity, while virtually all 1.4 billion people on the continent lack high-quality currency.

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Compare this to the U.S., Northern Europe, and Japan, where nearly everyone has access to consistent, affordable power

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and a widely accepted reserve currency like the dollar, euro, or yen.

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The longer that Africans suffer from power blackouts and high inflation, the harder it is for them to get a leg up,

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despite their best efforts.

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Worse still, legacy energy and financial providers have no incentive to alleviate this issue,

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meaning currency debasement, debt traps, and grid shutdowns persist.

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Most might look at this scenario and conclude that the next African century will be very difficult.

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Despite being blessed by abundant energy sources like mighty rivers, blazing sun, strong winds, and geothermal heat,

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Africa remains largely unable to harness these natural resources for its economic growth.

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A river might run through it, but human development in the region has been painfully reliant on charity or expensive foreign borrowing until now."

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The article goes on to talk about a hydroelectric power source that is next to a town called Bondo up in the mountains,

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in a very beautiful part of the world of Malawi, right on the border of Mozambique.

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And there's an individual there who has been trying to subsidize the cost of power so that local citizens can afford it,

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but he's obviously running out of money.

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And so in comes a new startup company called Gridless.

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If you aren't familiar with Gridless, they started a couple years ago, and these are the types of projects that they're going after.

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They showed up and they started buying the excess power that this utility company was producing,

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allowing the company to make money, and then they could build out more infrastructure to connect more homes.

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So prior to that, 2,000 households were connected, and they are trying to bring on another 3,000, and then beyond.

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So I recommend checking it out. It's pretty cool.

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What can happen when you have a buyer of last resort for electricity in these kinds of places?

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And if you're sitting there thinking that Bitcoin mining is taking power and pricing these citizens out of power,

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that's not the case, because Bitcoin mining wants to have the cheapest electricity possible.

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then the miner will go somewhere else and go find another place just like this,

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where there is stranded power that is being sent into the ground and wasted.

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They will plug in. They will pay money to the utility company,

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and that utility company will then have profits to build out more infrastructure, build out the grid, and connect more people.

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So it's really a win-win here.

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Now, along the lines of this, we come next to Peter McCormack.

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He has his video series called "Follow the Money," and he just published his fifth film called "Lebanon, Life After the State."

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His team went to Lebanon to see what a country looks like when a state has lost its ability to serve its citizens,

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so communities have to find ways to survive together.

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This also talks a lot about power that's been turned off because utility companies can't operate,

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and there's a neighborhood that is able to band together, and he's able to raise some money over lightning to help turn the lights on for a little bit on a street.

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It's an interesting video. I've only caught snippets so far, but I recommend checking it out because it looks like it's going to be a good one.

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I've watched his other ones, and they're all great as well, so I recommend checking out his series, "Follow the Money."

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You can find it on YouTube, or you can find it on whatbitcoindid.com.

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Along the Bitcoin mining front, we have Ocean Pool, and they found two blocks this week.

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Ocean found a block on January 24th and January 26th.

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If you don't know what Ocean is, I recommend that you become familiar with it.

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It's the rebirth of an old mining pool by Luke Dash Jr.

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This time, he's paired up with some big names like Jack Dorsey and Bitcoin Mechanic.

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In the words of Luke Dash Jr., he says, "We are launching as the most transparent pool and also the only non-custodial pool where miners are the recipients of new block rewards directly from Bitcoin."

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Miners are not paid a flat rate for their hash. They're actually paid directly from the Coinbase.

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There's also no know-your-customer necessary for this.

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So you literally just go into your mining software, you put in the address for Ocean's Pool, and it starts mining.

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I switched my Space Heater miner over to them, and it was super easy.

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On that note, I love my Space Heater miner. It's awesome.

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During winter, it's been great to turn it on and know that it's making me money while I'm also heating my house.

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So that also is a win-win.

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If you want to learn more about it, hit me up on nostr@marks@nostraplebs.com.

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If you are playing around with Meshtastic, I've got a YouTube playlist for you.

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I discovered it this week, courtesy of the comms channel.

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These videos are short and provide an excellent guide for someone who is starting brand new into the world of LoRa and Meshtastic.

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I've been trying to get into it and get some gear, but it's getting more popular and supplies are sold out everywhere.

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I'm interested in joining a local mesh network as well as getting my own private encrypted network going.

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Let me know if you're doing Meshtastic and how it's going for you.

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I'm in the beginning stages of learning and would love to hear how you are using it so I can understand more use cases.

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If this is interesting to you, go check out Getting Started with Meshtastic from the comms channel on YouTube.

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Our friends over at Mutiny Wallet have some new stuff to show off.

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The car man from the Mutiny team published an article called "Announcing Superposition and NoteDuel, Our First Two DLC Experiments."

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These are two new projects for Discrete Log Contracts, or DLCs.

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It's an Oracle and a Smart Contracts project on Nostr.

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Superposition is the first one. It allows an account to be an Oracle for a specific outcome.

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This person or this account would build up reputation within the community so that they would be a trusted Oracle.

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The second project is called NoteDuel. It is a Smart Contract project that uses Superposition as its Oracle.

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In the example that he writes about, there is a Superposition poll created that asks, "Will mempools clear in 2024?"

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This is referring to the Bitcoin transaction pool.

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In NoteDuel, two people pick a side and sign a note that will automatically be published on their account when the outcome is determined.

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The notes are partially signed and can be verified as authentic. Then they will be published based on the trigger from the Oracle.

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There are so many use cases for a system like this.

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Most obvious is for the betting market. Sports betting, political betting, etc.

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You could also do business contracts set up on the system, political news from elections.

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You could write versions of each outcome and have it auto-publish when the results are in.

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So many other things. If you have more ideas, let's hear them.

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How would you use a system like this? I think it's really cool.

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Two more news stories for you. This one is courtesy of Nost.social.

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If you are interested in doing usability testing on a Nostr client, they've got the opportunity for you.

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You can help Nost.social team test out new prototypes of their user experiences.

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All tests will take place over Zoom and require a Mac or iPhone or iPad.

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In the show notes, I'll have a link for you. You can click on that link if you want to participate.

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Fill out their little survey or you can just go check out Rabble on Nostr.

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In his feed, he's got a link to it as well.

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The last story for the day is a card game. It's called Age of Data, the card game.

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This is from a group called eFoundation. They've created a card game to teach children about privacy challenges related to phone usage.

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You can download a digital version of the card game and test it out.

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They are taking feedback that could be incorporated into the final game.

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This is a test of a physical card game that they're going to sell or give away or something.

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The Foundation's goal is to empower citizens with knowledge and products that are useful to protect their privacy.

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I'd like to take this moment to read the boosts that have been sent in from last week's episode and throughout the week.

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Received quite a few boosts this week, which I'm really grateful for.

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Thank you, everybody, for listening and for sending boosts and streaming those sats.

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First one is a 10,000 sat boost from Jittering Blender.

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Says, "You are an excellent source of Freedom Tech news. You remind me of the surveillance report, but you cover Bitcoin and Nostr topics.

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I love it." Thank you, Jittering Blender. You're awesome.

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Next is from Humble Pleb. This is 5,000 sats.

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"Yo, just found this. Shaka. Looking forward to diving in.

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It's challenging to keep up with all the tech and updates and what you should be using when you're not very technical."

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Thank you, Humble Pleb. Hopefully, we can help you learn what's new out there and stay up to date with it all.

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Next, received three boosts from The Wild Hustle. The Wild Hustle, you're awesome.

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Went back and listened to a few different episodes and posted 2,000 sats at three different episodes.

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Says, "Love the opening music. Fantastic pod. Let's go."

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That's right, Wild Hustle. Let's go.

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Next, I got a zap on Nostr for 2,000 sats from Sebastian.

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Sebastian or Sebastics is someone that I featured last week's episode and says, "Thanks for the highlight.

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Talking about cool stuff that people are building. Good luck with the Drupal work."

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Next up, I have a boost from OXTR, who's another account featured on last week's episode.

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1,000 sats. No message. Thank you, OXTR.

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You also sent me a zap for 21 sats on Nostr. You're awesome.

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Then we have a zap for 411 sats from Bleetube.

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No comment, but also somebody who was featured last week.

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Then lastly, we have Joel W. 333 sats with no message.

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Thank you, everybody, for zapping and posting and boosting. Really appreciate it.

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You are all awesome.

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If you would like to support the show and have your message read on next week's episode, I read all the boosts.

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I read all the zaps on every episode and really appreciate your support.

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Now on to the project updates.

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First one, SimplexChat 5.5.

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They've released a new update this week that has private notes, group history,

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better UX for connecting with a chat, reduced battery usage,

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and then this one's pretty cool, fully encrypted files and media in the local storage,

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so they have encryption at rest.

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If you're using SimplexChat, go check it out for an update 5.5.

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One of our favorite podcasting apps, Fountain, has released an update 1.0.3.

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This update contains a number of high-priority bug fixes and improvements from the autoplay queue to withdrawals.

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Here's a bulleted list. We have fixed auto-download on play next,

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fixed Android play next in queue, fixed autoplay next when screen is locked,

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fixed occasional error on playback speed change, occasional pause on seek,

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occasional deposit withdraw error, and improved player performance.

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And again, as a side note here from last week's episode,

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Fountain launched on Product Hunt this week on January 25th.

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They made it all the way up to spot number six on the top product of the day,

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so that's really cool because there are a lot of products that are launched on there every day.

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So Value for Value got more exposure in mainstream tech this week.

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People asked a lot of questions in the comments about how Value for Value works,

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and there were a lot of great comments responding to them

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and really just talking about the benefits of streaming value, sending boosts, and creating clips.

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So congratulations to Fountain. Hopefully you're pleased with how high you got.

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A lot of people showed up, so thank you if you're one of the people who showed up

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and upvoted them and made a comment and really engaged with the community there

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to help more people understand what it is, this crazy Value for Value thing,

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and why it really makes a lot of sense.

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All right, Primal. Primal has an update for Android 0.9.0.1.

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The popular Nostra client has received a big update because it has a built-in wallet.

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That's right. The Primal app on Android has a built-in wallet,

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so users can do things like zap and send wallet transactions, as well as many bug fixes.

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So if you're looking for a sweet custodial wallet in Primal, go check it out.

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Reading the comments, it is really well integrated.

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And there is a place for custodial wallets, and there's a place for sovereign wallets.

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So go give it a use.

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Next project is Nostra Ignition 0.0.4.

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This is a new project from Jeff G on Nostra.

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GitHub username is Erskine Gardner.

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And this is a drop-in library to implement an OAuth-like sign-up experience for Nostra apps.

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There is a push with multiple projects right now to bring better UX to the onboarding experience for apps with Nostra integration.

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The goal is to make it as smooth as proprietary experiences that you'd have signing in with things like Twitter, Google, Apple, etc.

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This uses nsecbunker for handling the key management.

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If you want to learn more, check out Nostra Ignition on GitHub, and also check out nsecbunker and see what they're doing.

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If you want to learn more, check out Nostra Ignition on GitHub.

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And while you're there, check out nsecbunker as well. It's an interesting project.

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All right, our boy Clark Moody has made a big 2.0 update to the dashboard.

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It's still in beta, but it's here, and I wanted to give it to you.

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Clark Moody's dashboard, for those who don't know, provides a single-page view into the metrics of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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And in this update, you can sign in with Nostra, see a new block size module, choose a theme from among 10 presets,

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and then there are two new modules for ordinal inscription stats.

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I don't know where you fall on the ordinal debate, or if you are one of the many who are just in the middle as kind of neutral,

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but it's interesting to see the ordinals are showing up on the dashboard, so you can at least track what's going on.

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Because really, we all need to know what's going on in Bitcoin.

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A quote from Clark says, "In preparation for the halving this spring, I've rewritten the back end of the dashboard in Rust

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and re-implemented a good chunk of the data from the existing dashboard."

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So go check it out.

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With Bitcoin wallets, we have Zeus, updating this week to 0.8.1.

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And they have three big things here.

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First one is Nostra contact import.

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Second is a point of sale with inventory management.

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Those are major, especially the last two.

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So go check it out if you're running Zeus, and if you want to use it for your storefront.

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This is a project that has been featured, I think, on every single one of these episodes so far.

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This is from Unleashed.

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Unleashed has 0.1.10.

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This update is called SuperCoder.

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They have been releasing like crazy, which is awesome.

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In this release, you can now import Git repos in addition to normal files.

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They generate vector embedding of all supported file types and store them for at least 24 hours.

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This means that you can use an LLM with your own code base.

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They also have improved PDF file processing in this update.

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That is awesome.

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Next project is a new one called NostraCheckAPI.ts for TypeScript.

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This is courtesy of user Quentin Terrapino.

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But Quentin Terrapino has released this project, and it is a Nostra backend server for media upload, Nostra address, lightning redirects, and more.

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So if you want to run a server that is hosting all sorts of interesting Nostra functionality, a big one being a Nostra address,

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then you can run this on your own server and be more sovereign with your Nostra usability.

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Now speaking of Nostra, we have a big update from Snort, Snort 0.2.0.

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And this is courtesy of Kieran.

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Kieran says, "This release contains a full Nostra relay in the browser, the worker relay.

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It works like any other relay on Nostra and allows us to cache content efficiently.

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This also means that all reactions, replies, and posts are cached in your browser and are always available, even when you are offline.

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Additionally, I've added Nigentropy support to allow for really efficient sync with the worker relay,

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meaning that very little data is required to stay in sync.

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This opens the door for lots of really cool things."

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Then some other smaller items, which I'm putting in quotes because they're kind of big,

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but there's Albi OAuth wallet connection, community leaders invite system, Cashew wallet support.

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You can play live streams directly in the feed.

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And then lastly, I wanted to point out that Marty, who is the developer of Iris,

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if you'll remember, they merged their code bases together.

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And so Iris is now running Snort.

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So Marty has actually made a lot of the commits in this release.

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So it's cool to see those two working together.

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We have a new project by way of user Mazin, who runs the Nostra Wine relay.

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This is called Relay Guardian, and it is a free Nostra relay uptime and performance monitor

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with DM and email notifications created by your friends over at Nostra.Wine.

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So great to see infrastructure tool sets being built and developed for Nostra.

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We have a new RSS bot for Nostra created by user Raya, R-E-Y-A.

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It's called Sentinel, and it will run as an account on Nostra

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and auto-post RSS feed content to Nostra as notes.

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It will auto-clean the content and format it for Nostra.

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The first use case for Raya is that they are going to run a bot per Nostra account

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to ingest high-quality content.

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Now, there are already other bots like this that pull in headlines from news organizations,

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for example, or tech websites.

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This might be an improvement on those, so check it out if you're interested in running one yourself

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and ingesting more quality content into Nostra.

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That's it for the project updates today and the news.

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Thank you for listening. This is Freedom Tech Rap.

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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 and send us feedback on Nostra.

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My Nostra address is marx@nostraplebs.com.

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That's Marx, N-A-R-K-S, at N-O-S-T-R-P-L-E-B-S dot com.

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And always remember to live independent.

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Later.

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