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Hello, and welcome to Freedom Tech Wrap.

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It's the week ending January 13, 2024.

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My name is Marks, and this is your weekly source

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for news and project updates in the freedom

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and independent technology space.

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We are in a highly connected world,

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and Freedom Tech lets you decide when and how you want to connect

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and really where your data live.

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Freedom Tech Wrap is an independent show.

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If you want to support what we're doing,

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you can send us value through your Podcasting 2.0 app.

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And with that, let's jump right into the news.

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The Bitcoin ETF, it's here.

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We've been waiting for it for so long.

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And at the same time, we haven't been waiting for it.

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Bitcoin rolls along, tick-tock, next block.

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Every 10 minutes, we get a new block.

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But it's been-- what was it?

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Well, it's been over 10 years since the Winklevoss twins

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submitted a proposal to run a Bitcoin ETF,

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and they've been turned down.

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All the proposals have been rejected over the years.

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But we finally have it.

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On January 10, the United States SEC

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approved spot Bitcoin ETFs to be traded in the United States.

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Now, I will say this is a very US-centric view.

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There have been other Bitcoin products being

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traded in other markets.

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But this is arguably the biggest place to do it.

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So it's very interesting.

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If you want to read from the source itself,

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you can go to the SEC website and read the statement

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on the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products.

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This is where they outline their approval, why they approved it.

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Basically, they said that the judges forced

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their hand in their lawsuit with Grayscale Trust.

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And so they don't really endorse it.

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Aside from approving it, I thought

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it was kind of humorous that Chairman Gary Gensler felt

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the need to state that Bitcoin may

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be used for illegal activities and other things,

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and speculation, that kind of stuff.

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But really, you could say the same for US dollars,

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for euros, and other sovereign currencies.

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So those kind of factor themselves out.

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He also made sure to point out that Bitcoin is not

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a wise investment.

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So there you go.

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It's approved.

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Do with what you wish.

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There are 10 ETFs that began trading on January 11.

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It's very possible that more will be in the works.

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And of course, we're going to see all sorts

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of derivatives built off of those.

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But Bitcoin just keeps being Bitcoin.

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And if you're here doing freedom technology,

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you don't care about Bitcoin, you can just ignore this part.

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But I also have to imagine that if you really

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do care about freedom technology, at some point,

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you will come around to realizing

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what Bitcoin offers from a human freedom standpoint.

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Now, if you want to use a Bitcoin ETF,

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there are pros and cons.

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A huge con being that somebody else

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is going to have custody over the Bitcoin.

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It isn't really your Bitcoin.

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You're simply giving somebody money.

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They're buying it and holding onto it.

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And then for you to get it back, they sell it

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and give you the cash back.

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There might be some that allow you to withdraw the Bitcoin.

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However, you're trusting them.

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They are promising to give it back to you at some point,

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but they might not honor that in the future.

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A pro to using a Bitcoin ETF is that you

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might have money locked away in some kind of retirement

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account, like an IRA or a 401(k).

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And so you can now put that money

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into some kind of Bitcoin investment instrument,

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and it will follow the price of Bitcoin with tax savings

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along with it.

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However, if you want to do more self-custody,

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then you could look at something like what Unchained offers,

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the financial company Unchained.

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They have a Bitcoin IRA where you set up an account with them,

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and then you send your IRA retirement funds to them.

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They buy Bitcoin, and then you have effectively self-custody.

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They hold one of the keys.

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You hold two of the keys.

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Two of the three keys are needed to move any of the Bitcoin.

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So you are involved in the process.

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All right, next up, we have the big tech product

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that a lot of people are talking about coming out

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of the week of CES, and that is the Rabbit R1.

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This isn't necessarily freedom technology per se,

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but it's a super interesting thing to look at.

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It's a little hardware device, if you haven't seen it,

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that has a push-to-talk button on it where you hold it down

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and you talk to some kind of AI bot on the device.

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And then it's really like Alexa or Siri

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or one of these digital assistants,

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but it's super fast, runs on your device,

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and makes calls out to servers as well.

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But the other odd thing about it is,

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while it's a really cool demo and all this stuff,

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it really feels like it could have just been an app

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on an existing smartphone, especially if you pair it

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with something like Graphene OS on a smartphone

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that has a really good integrated GPU.

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Run everything locally if you can,

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make calls out to APIs as needed to different services.

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to look at, keep your eye on it, see what they're doing.

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just have been an app put onto some other kind

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of hardware device that already exists.

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So check that out, rabbit.tech.

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Now, speaking of building independent tech,

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we have the Sovereign Engineering Project that's happening.

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This is an organization put together by a few people

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in the space, including Gigi and Pablo,

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and they have put together what they're calling SCC1,

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which stands for Sovereign Engineering Cohort 1.

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And they are currently together

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in the Madeira Islands in Portugal,

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and they're gonna be together for something like eight weeks

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and they're building out technology.

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It's 21 people plus a few more, and they're building,

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they're collaborating, they're coming up with new ideas,

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new projects, and then they're going to have a demo day

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on March 1st.

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So keep an eye on that, see what kind of cool things

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come out of it.

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This just launched this week, the first cohort.

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They're gonna do a second one in May.

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So if you are interested in participating in that,

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go on their website, they have information there,

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you can apply and read up more about it.

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Now, when I posted last week's episode of Freedom Tech Wrap,

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a user on Noster by the name of Serenity's Forge

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told me about a #meshtastic, that's hard to say,

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and told me to check it out

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and maybe start reporting on it as well.

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So I started looking around, digging around,

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it looks really cool.

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I have heard about this before,

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but hadn't heard this phrase necessarily,

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but it is people who are building mesh networks

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for long-range communications, or LORA,

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and this allows for a distributed network

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for doing things like text messaging,

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other kinds of data communication,

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in really an independent, long-range manner.

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So I think this is super cool.

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I'm gonna start paying attention to the space more.

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And so while looking into this,

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I actually came across a pretty awesome, amazing write-up

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that was just published this week

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by a person by the name of Hydroponic Trash,

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and it's called "Building Autonomous Off-Grid,

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"Encrypted, and Solar-Powered Communications Infrastructure."

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So reading from the document,

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just the very first paragraph here,

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it says, "This will be a guide on how to use LORA,

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"or long-range, radio hardware to create mesh networks

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"that can transmit text messages miles away

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"with no cellular signal, LTE,

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"no Wi-Fi, and no infrastructure.

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"These nodes can be powered directly

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"off portable solar panels with USB chargers,

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"or used with portable battery banks.

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"This can create a resilient mesh network of devices

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"that can send text messages without the need

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"for wider infrastructure in emergencies,

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"such as natural disasters, during protests,

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"or in areas of military or state occupation."

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Now, this article is really long, like epically long.

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It's really more like a full handbook

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for how to build out an autonomous communications network.

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So check it out.

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I definitely have not read through the entire thing yet.

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I've skimmed it, poked into a few areas,

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and it's got my interest.

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a little bit more,

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looking into maybe adding myself as a node

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onto a mesh network.

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I think that's a really interesting and needed technology.

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Now, speaking of nodes on a network,

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the Lightning Network built on top of Bitcoin

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is something that has been mostly centralized up until now

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because running Lightning is much more difficult,

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like 10 times more difficult

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than running a simple Bitcoin node

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that you just turn on and let it sync

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and then let it sit there.

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So if you're looking to do self-custody Lightning,

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It's been a bit difficult.

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I opened up my first channel a while ago

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and the channel is offline, even though my node is online.

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So I'm still trying to work through that.

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on how to get going on this,

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user on Noster, anita@githalby.com,

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they have posted a 10-minute video on YouTube

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called "Use Lightning with Self-Custody in 10 Minutes."

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So I'll put that in the notes.

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and it can help you on your way

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to your Lightning self-custody.

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My last news update for today comes by way of Wavelake.

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They are a project and music projects

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will probably get mentioned here a lot

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because I am very into music.

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"We are not Bandcamp for Bitcoin."

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Now, if you are familiar with Bandcamp

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it's a site that was used for years and years

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by independent musicians

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who are trying to publish their music online.

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I think that's fine.

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Wavelake is saying we are so much more than that.

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We are not just a place to publish your music,

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but they are also an API that allows your music

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to live on all sorts of other platforms.

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built into it as well.

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So check out that blog post and check out Wavelake.

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I highly recommend it.

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Let's jump on over into the updates for projects this week.

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I only have about, let's see, one, two, three, five projects

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I'll have more in the future.

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First one is a Noster project.

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This is Nostream 2.0.0 finally released.

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This is a Noster relay written in TypeScript

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and this one has breaking changes in it

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where they remove NIP 26 delegated events support.

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So check that out if you're running Nostream.

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Be sure to read the release notes

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and look at how you're using it to see if you want to upgrade

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at this point or if you didn't make any changes

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before you upgrade.

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Graphene OS, they've had a big release.

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Release number 2024-011-300.

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And this is big because they recently realized

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that there is an auto reboot vulnerability

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that is not necessarily their fault,

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but it certainly is the problem of their users to deal with.

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This will harden security against data intruders,

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including forensic analysis,

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companies that do forensics on devices.

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They've also added night mode for the camera

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were not tampered with during the download process.

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It lets you verify APKs.

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And lastly, Firefly3 has a 6.1.6 release.

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this is an accounting software project

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that is supposed to replace QuickBooks, Quicken,

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or other accounting software using out there.

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So give them a look, version 6.1.6.

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So thank you for listening.

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That's it for this week.

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I hope that you are having an enjoyable start

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to the new year.

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And check out the Bitcoin ETF fund

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that is available online.

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There's been so many ups and downs this week

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as they were trying to release it

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and things got hacked and posted early

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and deleted and whatnot.

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It's been quite a fun rollercoaster

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and the price of Bitcoin

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has been rollercoasting along with it.

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So with that, my name is Marks.

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Thanks for listening this week.

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And as always, live independent.

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