Ungovernable

An Ungovernable Bitcoin & Privacy Movement

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2026-09-17 16:04:00 UTC

Survive or die?
@npub1luw…9cqr lays out three different types of scenario.
Scenario one: We continue on in our cushy western life where everything is good, the supply chains are long and cheap, but you should still be prepared for a storm. a little generator, a gas stove, extra food and a First aid kit.
https://video.nostr.build/333e8ed451f9b7c7ac6f627981d358f837edb776b79e9a071ab7a7c65361f731.mp4

2026-09-17 13:53:40 UTC

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My pleasure, if you aren’t already then tune in to The Bitcoin Brief @nprofile…ra3m and @npub1lqv…fx0r cover exactly this type of thing each week.
https://ungovernable.network/listen/

2026-09-17 13:50:04 UTC

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My preference is @nprofile…kfqt
https://foundation.xyz/?ref=ungovernable
Outside of that @nprofile…8gvj is another solid option.
My main recommendation is don’t keep all of your eggs in one basket. Also I suggest using a strong passphrase.

2026-09-17 13:00:00 UTC

Max, on why he started caring about any of this.
"Tying your identity to Bitcoin is very dangerous in the physical world. You can be attacked by all sorts of different entities. You could pay your plumber to go and do some work for you, and then they can suddenly see, if you haven't managed your UTXOs properly, how much money you have, and they might come back and crack your skull to take the rest."
Privacy on Bitcoin can be life or death.
@npub1lqv…fx0r
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/ashigaru-desktop-with-jordan/
https://video.nostr.build/939c74b2af3be636a1f87bc9bc4933708c1b8a0efb9dcfac68bcd3ecc4315556.mp4

2026-09-16 22:28:49 UTC

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Maybe 🤔

2026-09-16 21:06:00 UTC

The reason it feels like every week now is that it is every week now.
If you run a software project or a hardware project or anything that handles Bitcoin, people are attacking your shit right now. Not eventually. Right now.
Think about it from their side. Steal personal information and you still have to find a buyer. Steal from the software that holds the money and you are done. It is a no brainer.
Bitcoin is taking that pain first, and it comes out the other side harder for it. Expect at least another six months of this. @npub15c8…ssvx
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/the-ai-pocalypse-continues/
https://video.nostr.build/4c2fbfc3344b9153a6444b9a918a61959800abf407dc5778d6a5b7f224c75f27.mp4

2026-09-16 20:27:00 UTC

The reason it feels like every week now is that it is every week now.
If you run a software project or a hardware project or anything that handles Bitcoin, people are attacking your shit right now. Not eventually. Right now.
Think about it from their side. Steal personal information and you still have to find a buyer. Steal from the software that holds the money and you are done. It is a no brainer.
Bitcoin is taking that pain first, and it comes out the other side harder for it. Expect at least another six months of this. @npub15c8…ssvx
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/the-ai-pocalypse-continues/
https://video.nostr.build/ece900d5441ac704206a7ed8d1c0d69a28973639745f37b20be7e6757a87cd36.mp4

2026-09-16 16:16:53 UTC

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Il try wisp. Got a link?

2026-09-16 16:06:00 UTC

On 9 September, customers of Trezor, BitBox and CoinTracking received emails warning of an STM32 entropy vulnerability and asking them to take action on their hardware wallet.
The emails came from those companies' real domains. SPF passed. DKIM passed. Every check your mail provider runs to prove a message came from where it claims to have come from, passed, because it genuinely had.
Attackers had access to Brevo, the email marketing platform those companies send through, and created API keys inside their accounts.
The weak point was never the wallet maker. It was the vendor they trusted to send their post.
No wallet company will ever email you asking for your seed words, telling you to connect your device urgently, or asking you to verify your wallet. Ever.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/kyc-kill-your-customer/
https://video.nostr.build/b5429a74952da1f7e61e2cac77b8b1bebb5eaae2964ce5596f2d627127f6474a.mp4

2026-09-16 14:38:40 UTC

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It’s extremely dangerous. What a mess people find themselves in with all this KYC.

2026-09-16 13:05:00 UTC

KYC: kill your customer.
This is where the name of the episode came from.
An attacker now holds your personal information and your Bitcoin withdrawal history in the same file. They do not have to guess whether you are worth robbing, and they do not have to guess where you live.
He lives down the road from me. I am going to go and get a very big wrench.
None of this was a choice anybody made. The data existed because a regulator required it to be collected, from people who had no way to opt out, in the name of protecting them.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/kyc-kill-your-customer/
https://video.nostr.build/302b6f4398301d806e3e768e63a7954445ce76585280913da92d9ab50613f8bb.mp4

2026-09-16 12:26:02 UTC

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Of the three you mentioned which is the least shitty and annoying one to use?

2026-09-16 12:25:16 UTC

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So I need another nostril app to do it then?

2026-09-16 12:24:44 UTC

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That might be a useful feature.

2026-09-16 12:23:35 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/fbf86758a7d23a853f9f9a50661b28f2032bea51bd37e23f61774eea016b1a41.gif

2026-09-15 23:48:51 UTC

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Hmmmm ok so enter Nip05 into someher in cake?

2026-09-15 23:47:59 UTC

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Ok I’m ashamed. Show do I set it up? Il do it.

2026-09-15 23:45:47 UTC

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Why would it only work on Amethyst’s?

2026-09-15 22:11:28 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/cb161bd78625496ef17200fb7f9252dc5169642f189be8e7065a867a755c6e61.gif

2026-09-15 22:10:23 UTC

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Kind of.

2026-09-15 21:12:00 UTC

"So what I actually like about this application: there's no spend functionality in the wallet. You can only receive in here, and you can't spend."
That is a design decision, not a missing feature. Ashigaru Desktop receives and it mixes. Spending is done on Ashigaru mobile, or you open the same wallet file in Sparrow, which reads it and the labels without complaint.
Stay in your lane and there is less of you to attack.
@npub16dj…khtp
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/ashigaru-desktop-with-jordan/
https://video.nostr.build/00e8d4fbe5bb04a6449d573bb84e56a6462dbfa96437d2ec493d63f90bb2f509.mp4

2026-09-15 20:26:29 UTC

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My guess is this is a fountain issue but il ask @npub16dj…khtp and @nprofile…9nyd to see if anything we can do to make it load for you without loosing animation and images for everyone else. In the meantime please don’t feel you need to stream sats you’ve supported us plenty over the years. I’d suggest download and listen to save glitch.

2026-09-15 19:15:00 UTC

Max, on the Revolut leak: I guarantee you, people will die from this.
Q's answer was that it sounds hyperbolic, and he is not wrong.
Nobody gets a list. Revolut is not going to write to an individual customer and tell them that a file saying they own this much Bitcoin is now sitting with criminals. You cannot even warn a friend, because you have no way of knowing whether they are on it.
What you get instead is people outside on the security camera with knives. Or a phone that rings every day. Or nothing at all, for years, until it is not nothing.
We are treated like criminals for trying to protect ourselves and our families. We are not wrong.
@npub1lqv…fx0r
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/kyc-kill-your-customer/
https://video.nostr.build/0898e0fe1964ed6b8e3f572aa7bd6c365a518701bf880411df9981e2ae6f4a52.mp4

2026-09-15 18:31:05 UTC

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Why can’t I zap you… 👀

2026-09-15 18:30:33 UTC

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lol just seen. That’s very good of you. Thanks for all of the support. Luv u long time

2026-09-15 18:28:28 UTC

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How do I do that? I have it on our website

2026-09-15 18:28:08 UTC

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What a cunt hey 🏴‍☠️

2026-09-15 17:07:25 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/d8d07293470706a6c3713665f97101e01d77e2039739187d1e474ba6c9b1a135.gif

2026-09-15 15:00:00 UTC

Mix To is the feature more people should know about.
You add a watch only wallet to Ashigaru Desktop with an xpub or an output descriptor, in this case a Passport Prime, and set a minimum number of mixes. Say five.
Once a coin has been through that many, the coinjoin output goes straight to a fresh address on the hardware wallet instead of landing back in your post mix account.
No manual send, no address copied by hand, no remembering to do it later.
@npub1s0v…pq6j
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/ashigaru-desktop-with-jordan/
https://video.nostr.build/b19dd029e3c06130e102d609f3a9760ad0001693af1d9b253670e52f69afeb0f.mp4

2026-09-15 14:55:26 UTC

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Can confirm.

2026-09-15 14:54:55 UTC

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Certainly not FUD. It’s wrong and it’s disgusting we are subjected to these KYC regs but it is fact not FUD.

2026-09-15 13:00:00 UTC

"Anything that I've used to try and gain privacy will get flagged, will get seized, and getting it back is a fucking nightmare because you've gotta show provenance."
Break the links with tools that actually work, then try to walk back into the regulated side, and you are the one proving where every coin came from. Where did you get them, proof of income, source of funds.
@npub1lqv…fx0r
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/ashigaru-desktop-with-jordan/
https://video.nostr.build/674b29f30344a6a4851d89dd0a722d37b145bcb2cfddd44d4b070520ccad1171.mp4

2026-09-15 11:58:35 UTC

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Nice one. No idea how…. I think it sensed @nprofile…egux was going to look at it and it sorted its life out.

2026-09-15 11:30:25 UTC

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I can’t see anything obvious. How about now?

2026-09-15 00:47:44 UTC

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Hmm looking into it. Thanks for heads up.

2026-09-14 23:50:31 UTC

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Unfortunately many more people will suffer and regulators will continue to regulate and hurt people. Use the tools.

2026-09-14 23:48:58 UTC

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Hmmmm Il check, from website?

2026-09-14 21:06:00 UTC

The advice, after all the war stories.
"You have two different ways of interacting with Bitcoin. You have proper Bitcoin that's more private, and you use that peer to peer. And then you have the whitelisted, KYC version if you're gonna interact with KYC services."
"Keep these two things separate."
Not because the regulation is right. Max is clear that it is not, and that it gets people kidnapped and worse. It is still the reality you have to route around.
@npub1lqv…fx0r
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/ashigaru-desktop-with-jordan/
https://video.nostr.build/b8da0cbd19feead2c48a7ce162888d8b0060990745985a5d82e2bbece3139090.mp4

2026-09-14 19:08:00 UTC

KYC - Kill Your customer.
The full list of what Revolut handed over: a copy of your passport or driving licence, a verification selfie of you holding said document, your full name, your date of birth, your occupation, your home address, your email, your phone number, your IBAN account details, your account statements, your withdrawal records, and your full transaction history including Bitcoin.
It went to someone using an email account on a real government agency domain. Revolut treated the request as genuine and sent the files.
Let that sink in.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/kyc-kill-your-customer/
https://video.nostr.build/577e5e10e67a0637471db72f30cfb440368c5b857b4ce6c4137c4a7357ffb5df.mp4

2026-09-14 16:10:00 UTC

"I think in today's AI economy, there's no excuse to come out with a new product now without a proper graphical user interface." @npub15c8…ssvx
There is really one game in town for privacy on Bitcoin, and until recently the way in was a terminal. Plenty of people will tell you that if you cannot be bothered to learn it, you do not deserve the tools.
Max put the counter better than I did. This should not just be for the big brains. It should be there for the crayon eaters who want privacy too.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/ashigaru-desktop-with-jordan/
https://video.nostr.build/a843122caa621cbabcf3f2b236db8704f75e321c306d4d7138e871c8abd855ab.mp4

2026-09-13 16:00:00 UTC

Max, on why he started caring about any of this.
"Tying your identity to Bitcoin is very dangerous in the physical world. You can be attacked by all sorts of different entities. You could pay your plumber to go and do some work for you, and then they can suddenly see, if you haven't managed your UTXOs properly, how much money you have, and they might come back and crack your skull to take the rest."
Privacy on Bitcoin can be life or death.
@npub1lqv…fx0r
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/ashigaru-desktop-with-jordan/
https://video.nostr.build/d5ed3056e0dac654b8c898cea0cdd2f7355c90b1b83cfc7052aed272b38b4d8d.mp4

2026-09-13 00:03:05 UTC

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Monero is an excellent tool.

2026-09-13 00:02:23 UTC

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And that it’s done in cash or for goods/services.

2026-09-12 23:59:52 UTC

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I’ve writen mine down now il share results tomorrow

2026-09-12 23:59:09 UTC

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It’s not a bad daily reminder. What you reckon @npub15c8…ssvx

2026-09-11 19:06:00 UTC

Your weekly reminder to get your funds off an exchange has got a lot harder to give.
Get them on chain. Don't use Lightning, you might get hacked. I would not use Liquid, it is probably not safe. Don't use a sidechain. Don't use a second layer.
Bring them into self custody, but make sure your entropy is good, and think very carefully about who you trust as your hardware provider.
Have self custody. Don't have all your eggs in one basket. Ask the questions. And don't trust any cunt.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/4000-bitcoin-hacked/
https://video.nostr.build/579d1cc162406b49029894b4ce00901bf91a031d7ca55f9dcf2d2544076a7693.mp4

2026-09-10 20:58:00 UTC

Orange Surf pointed at something uncomfortable in his analysis.
The fix for the bug that drained Liquid had a commit dated the 3rd of August. The pull request carrying it was still open on the 1st of September.
Which means the patch was public while the hole it closed was still live on the network. Anyone reading that repo could see exactly what to look for.
If you are sitting on 4,000 Bitcoin of other people's money, an open pull request is a map for anyone who bothers to read it.
@npub18h0…ws8m
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/4000-bitcoin-hacked/
https://video.nostr.build/eadd87914b5bbd75509ea72fcbd7c073635e1cc77c690f596584e9afe8bb5b7c.mp4

2026-09-10 16:00:00 UTC

"He went ahead and just deleted everything and then fucked off of the comms channels, taking a load of code with him, which pissed me off no end."
So Dojo Bay has a button on it that downloads the whole source. Anyone can take it, run the installer on any Ubuntu box that already has a Dojo, and have their own directory up in a couple of minutes.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/the-dojo-bay-with-max-tannahill/
https://video.nostr.build/9cbf5a7de71e57a5f0493aaff46a78f5e00fa7e9bb8786a9aac51f224ff0bacc.mp4

2026-09-10 13:00:00 UTC

"Why do you need a VPN? My traffic is all encrypted with TLS."
Carl Dong: that is half right, which is the most frustrating type of right.
TLS does encrypt your traffic. But when the connection starts, the client hello carries a field called SNI, and SNI shows the hostname you are visiting in plain text, to everybody on the path.
WikiLeaks, your bank, whatever it is. Encrypted contents, fully legible destination.
@npub1dd9…xe7p
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/obscura-vpn-with-carl-dong/
https://video.nostr.build/23214ae2351cd2d4e9589de8cffae7f936517be7bcbcf20b144770328225e8e8.mp4

2026-09-09 23:02:00 UTC

Pocket Bitcoin leaked compliance records for 291 customers, tying identity information and documents to Bitcoin addresses. Another 5,120 had names, IBANs and payment amounts exposed. No private keys were touched, and it barely matters.
An address on its own doesn't identify anybody. A leaked compliance file does exactly that, permanently, against a public ledger.
Max put it better than I could. The safest way to use Bitcoin is the way that causes you the most trouble. Buy peer to peer, hold your own funds, jump through hoops to keep it away from your identity, manage your UTXOs, and then you cannot spend it in normie world because you cannot prove where it came from.
That is the cost of KYC. This information gets leaked because it had to be collected in the first place, by people making decisions for your safety who do not understand what they are regulating.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/4000-bitcoin-hacked/
https://video.nostr.build/059919a0f06a08b7f9d80a056b94175860e9136e7ed87a4a9607473983db8310.mp4

2026-09-09 21:06:00 UTC

On the surface, an 11 of 15 multisig to peg out Bitcoin sounds unbreakable. How are you going to compromise 11 geographically distributed companies?
You don't have to.
The federation keys were never touched. The withdrawal had valid authorisation because it went through the normal service. The failure happened earlier, when the network accepted liquid Bitcoin that should never have existed.
Every signer was reading the same faulty software, so every signer agreed.
The number of keys does not fix a shared code failure.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/4000-bitcoin-hacked/
https://video.nostr.build/cb0c500e8caa4210144aa4746ce519e12fae8beabe1b9872ad6f7f560a4ce379.mp4

2026-09-08 13:00:00 UTC

The VPN industry is built on horrible YouTube sponsorships, scare tactics, fake top 10 lists and ownership structures you would need a private investigator to untangle.
And underneath all of it sits one fact the influencers skip over. Your provider can see who you are and everything you do.
Every single one of them.
"No logs" is a pinky promise that nobody can truly verify, because you have no way to check it. @npub1dd9…xe7p
https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/obscura-vpn-with-carl-dong/
https://video.nostr.build/4c56d7a68a5e8b75df9f668899e2c5558346590afe99b14011b4b15c444d3cc1.mp4

2026-09-06 16:51:15 UTC

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Thanks for keeping it Ungovernable 🏴‍☠️❤️

2026-09-06 16:50:06 UTC

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👀

2026-09-06 13:00:00 UTC

GG wanted miniscript on @npub17ty…3mgl. Rob Hamilton opened an issue about it three years ago and it sat there.
So GG put the clankers to work and built the fork himself, plus a standalone bridge so it talks to the live Liana desktop without patching Liana at all.
Twelve months ago that was an insurmountable challenge for most junior developers, let alone someone who is not a developer.
Nobody is claiming these forks are safe to hold funds on. But getting 95% of the way there, so an actual engineer can pick it up and review it properly, is completely fucking wild.
This is the other side of the AI story, and it does not get the headlines the hacks do.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/the-ai-pocalypse-continues/
https://video.nostr.build/34cec9bc862af33291ed93e6799ba2a35f202d87c11de0cf35f64f6118d8764c.mp4

2026-09-06 01:19:26 UTC

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It’s hidden away in an obscure location so I understand the confusion. You have to click on the episode and it will be in front of your face.

2026-09-05 15:00:00 UTC

Peach has paused its escrow.
Sell offers are KYC or whitelist only and non KYC sellers get one trade at a time.
The escrow was the safety.
If you use it, be very careful now. HODL HODL, Bisq and RoboSats are still there.
@npub1536…pswl
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/the-ai-pocalypse-continues/
https://video.nostr.build/d7d044a4a91a22a13d8e56e2ff991bfe84331e22383695150afc242c64cc5b14.mp4

2026-09-05 14:29:04 UTC

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Hope you enjoy it and thanks for keeping it Ungovernable 🏴‍☠️❤️

2026-09-05 14:27:51 UTC

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Likely both.

2026-09-04 00:20:13 UTC

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On this we agree. A lazy man will produce pointless slop but someone with discipline and purpose can do incredible things.

2026-09-04 00:17:47 UTC

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Yes Monero is a completely different beast. If you would like to listen to Monero content I do a show with @nprofile…47zl covering news and updates.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/monero-monthly/monero-monthly-ish-15/

2026-09-03 16:01:14 UTC

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As Q said this stuff gives us superpowers. Really cool project.

2026-09-03 15:00:00 UTC

Between the 17th and the 24th of August, wallets tied to sanctioned exchange HTX sent roughly 12,000 dust transfers into Kraken user addresses.
The deposits tripped Kraken's AML controls and froze the accounts. Access has been restored, but Kraken still holds 4.2 million it considers tainted, and restored access is not the same as getting your money back.
HTX denies all involvement.
Look at the asymmetry. Sending dust from an address you know is sanctioned costs an attacker close to nothing, even at current mempool rates. It can cost the victim their entire account.
This is what coin control is for, and it is what leaving coins on an exchange can cost you.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/the-ai-pocalypse-continues/
https://video.nostr.build/a011c6dad6eab86ba7a11643a9d04c05e9eed6de5a851c3b465e66ad9dd99900.mp4

2026-09-01 13:10:10 UTC

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LFG!

2026-08-31 20:27:55 UTC

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❤️🏴‍☠️

2026-08-31 20:26:46 UTC

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Done. @nprofile…ne85 has been on and always welcome. As is your shit talking 🏴‍☠️❤️

2026-08-28 14:07:00 UTC

Thank you for joining us for #FREEDOMTECHFRIDAY! Don't forget to help spread the word and share the show!
See you at the same time next week.
https://image.nostr.build/7259effbbcf67424c14cca1e40662e050cd4f6c4fbad3aff8a14bcefe17b21c0.jpg

2026-08-28 09:30:00 UTC

The Brief is going weekly.
Every two weeks meant half the news was cold by the time we got to it. So from here it is every week, and we would rather work the format out with you than announce it finished.
This one covers the new Passport Prime beta, the breach that tells people where you live, and why Bitcoin only was never the whole answer.
Tell us what you want the weekly show to be.
https://ungovernable.network/shows/bitcoin-brief/the-brief-goes-weekly/

2026-08-27 03:17:37 UTC

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Please remind me which one it was you asked about. There are a few options.

2026-08-26 18:17:49 UTC

I’m proud to announce the Meshconomy is growing.
Coffee ☕️ @nprofile…394d
Soap 🧼 @nprofile…x9ga
Jerky @nprofile…nkzm
A big thank you to @nprofile…3kl4 and it’s clanker for getting it live.
ungovernable.network/meshconomy/
https://blossom.primal.net/b1f6ea849d3a31cab166b24f5cb76230a9cdd271992b07e27978fe5a3171fb26.png

2026-08-26 13:28:56 UTC

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Hey let us know if you have any specific questions and we can answer them on our next show. Thanks for all you have built over the years.

2026-08-26 13:26:56 UTC

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Get the questions in.

2026-08-20 23:09:46 UTC

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Hahah I would take that too.

2026-08-18 17:10:20 UTC

Our Ungovernable crew member @sethforprivacy
went from 2 → 4 NVIDIA DGX boxes on his desk.
Open-weight models now running private, on-prem, matching the big labs. Nothing leaves his room.
We’re diving into the full setup this Friday.
#FreedomTechFriday LIVE 9am EST / 2pm UK
Last week’s teaser attached
https://fountain.fm/episode/dRxD0pxWg0Lq5bPhzYcV
https://blossom.primal.net/d1cc096b199b550ca57350cb0b57ad2a9a804eea664972b60576bfe740fb6467.mp4

2026-07-17 12:34:12 UTC

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Have you got any ideas cooking?