Full-stack web developer living on crypto and agorist parallel economies.
Tags: #bitcoin #crypto #agorism
Bitcoin is a unique, private and censorship-resistant way to pay in online and brick-and-mortar stores. Unlike credit cards and banking, Bitcoin doesn't require corporate permission or government ID. Just download a wallet and you can send and receive money in minutes, worldwide.
Tags: #agorism #bitcoin #monero #privacy #kyc
Fair and free markets for food, jobs, housing, healthcare, mail, sim cards & more – no government ID or state permit required.
Video: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/9xvdnjBB64gXRrdES7N4se Odysee mirror: https://odysee.com/@anarkio:a/survival-outside-the-state:f Youtube mirror: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4LkKC5xqU8A
Slides and transcript: https://agorism.blog/anarkio/survival-outside-the-state
Tags: #agorism #flagtheory #micronations #kyc
As authoritarianism, state surveillance and state censorship are increasing and individuals who want to live freely are met with hostility, many people are looking for escape routes, such as Flag Theory, building sovereign micronations or living entirely outside of the state via agorism.
Tags: #twitter #privacy #bitcoin #webmonetization #kyc
Update: After this article was published, Twitter launched its Lightning tips feature, which requires government ID to use. In addition, Brave Browser, Odysee and Write.as require government ID in order to withdraw tips. This is problematic, as it excludes people who don't have government ID or who need pseudonymity (such as activists, but also writers, musicians and artists), and is a more severe invasion of privacy than regular ads.
Tags: #privacy #did #identity #inclusion #kyc
Many decentralized identity protocols are being developed, which claim to increase users’ privacy, enable interoperability and convenient single sign-ons, protect against identity theft and allow self-sovereign ownership of data.
However, many of these protocols rely on government ID as a base layer (as proof of name, age or address, referred to as “Verifiable credentials”).
Tags: #tech #privacy #anonymity #telegram #signal #whonix
This guide (Whonix + Anbox) also works for other apps, such as Signal, Samourai Wallet, Schildi Chat and more.
Smartphones are bad for privacy. They have many privacy-invading sensors such as front and back cameras, microphone, cell tower location, GPS location, fingerprint sensor, Bluetooth and NFC and an unchangeable device ID (IMEI). In addition, it’s difficult to use apps without risking IP leaks — for example, Orbot doesn’t have a kill switch. Likewise, in many countries it’s difficult to buy a prepaid sim card without government ID (https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_Policies_Per_Country), which means that people need to rely on gray markets or second hand sim cards in order to get an anonymous phone number. Even with a KYC-free sim card, your physical location is continuously sent to cell towers and your movements are saved in the operator’s database, which is accessible to the state and corporations.
Tags: #kyc #identity #inclusion #stateless #undocumented
The state’s monopoly on identity and its KYC regulations exclude millions of people from daily life necessities, such as finances, jobs, apartment rentals, healthcare, mail, sim cards, contracts and more. If the state refuses to print ID for you, there is no way to appeal or get an ID via an alternative method. It is truly a monopolized single point-of-failure that leaves people (who e.g. weren’t registered at birth) no opportunity to enter the system and regularize their situation as an adult, regardless of their skills or efforts.